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Phillip Schofield, David Cameron and THAT List

By ⋅ November 9, 2012 ⋅ 4 comments

Otherwise entitled, The Production, The Presenter & The Press Part 2   (part one is here!).   Was Phillip Schofield to blame for the way in which ITV’s This Morning programme handled the interview with Prime Minister David Cameron? I won’t rehash the details – they are available all over the Internet if you want to [...]

Small Piece of Cardboard makes over £155,000 on Ebay!!

By ⋅ November 6, 2012 ⋅ 6 comments

This morning I published a graphic bemoaning the time we waste on social media to the detriment of productivity. This evening I offer you an example of how social media can be far more productive than any other kind of marketing!   Following my blog post I got into a Twitter conversation with Julia McGill who told me of her [...]

Samantha Brick and a Tale of Shoddy Journalism

By ⋅ April 6, 2012 ⋅ 20 comments

Samantha Brick, TV producer and journalist, writes a feature for the Daily Mail entitled ‘Why Do Women Hate Me For Being Beautiful?’ A headline ideally suited to the Daily Mail agenda. It’s easy journalism too – write about yourself and there’s no need to do any research for the story. Some deemed it a journalistic [...]

The Highs and Lows of being a TV Press Officer

By ⋅ December 5, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

Nuala Giblin is a television press officer with many years experience on some of our most iconic TV shows, including ITV’s popular police series, ‘The Bill’.  Nuala kindly agreed to tell us her story of dealing with drama, drama queens and death:  My first job in telly was a fluke, as so many things are [...]

TV Coronation Street Goes to the Bank

By ⋅ November 4, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Well the day has finally dawned when product placement becomes OK on British TV. So many years spent being drilled on the horrors of product placement – the workshops, the endless repetition of the Ofcom rules, the scare stories of the sky-high fines for falling foul of the boundaries in daytime TV. It has been officially allowed [...]

So What does a Stills Photographer do in TV?

By ⋅ September 30, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Angus Young is a freelance photographer who started his career in Australia and is now based in London. He specialises in taking film and television publicity still images. I stumbled upon him on Twitter – as you do – and having had a few requests about photography in television  asked if would talk about what [...]

Accepting Freebies in the Workplace

By ⋅ July 19, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Sir Paul Stephenson resigned as Scotland Yard Commissioner at the weekend after finding himself embroiled in the phone hacking scandal via his professional relationship with Neil Wallis, the former News of the World executive. And one of his big mistakes was accepting generous freebies – on this occasion a lengthy stay at Champneys Health spa [...]

How to Get a Feature onto Daytime Television

By ⋅ April 19, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

So you do not necessarily want a job in television but you are keen to get a story, feature, book, product or person on the screen. The following is a guide based on my experience as an Editor on a live daytime television channel and therefore focuses specifically on placing features on similar shows. Daily [...]

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