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Get Interesting Stories onto TV – Making Documentaries with a Difference.
Making TV is all about creativity – plus someone who can organise the ideas and put the practicalities into place to get it to screen – not all creatives can do that. Those that struggle with the practical need to join forces with a business-minded friend/colleague. Anyway the marriage of creativity and business is a [...]
So You Want To Work in TV Audio or Radio?
Do you work in audio in TV or radio or interested in pursuing that line of work in the media? Then you may be interested in the work of Sound Women, a network of over 900 inspirational women working in audio. If you’re male stay tuned – there are useful tips for you too! [...]
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR WRITERS & THOSE INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING IDEAS FOR TV!
Some very important dates for your diary: Writers First off, the BBC Writers Room have opened a window of opportunity for anyone to submit unsolicited scripts. It’s called The Writers Room. They’ve changed from a rolling submissions system to one with specific windows when they will accept writers’ work so you need to get [...]
New Year – New TV Opportunities
Happy New Year – and may it bring whatever opportunities you desire in the world of TV and creative media! Talking of opportunities, I thought we should start the year by highlighting a few – for both the experienced producer and director and those looking for work placements, plus a chance to win Amazon vouchers [...]
Can Blogging Help You to Get into TV?
Are writing skills valuable if you want to work in TV? You betcha! Not only are writing skills useful in many aspects of TV work but they may help you to get TV work in the first place A badly written CV and covering email could finish your chances of even getting on the first rung. [...]
How To Get Into Wildlife TV Filming
Some time ago one of our blog or Twitter followers asked about wildlife programming and what a producer did in that type of TV production – sorry, I forget who it is was! Anyway we went in search of an answer and found Mike Linley at Wildeye – an international school of wildlife filming. Mike [...]
HOW WOULD YOU PRODUCE THE BIGGEST RIVER PAGEANT SINCE 1662?
I could rant. I could jump on the BBC-bashing bandwagon but that would be too easy. Let’s instead offer up Ten Top TV Lessons to Learn From the BBC’s Production of The Biggest River Pageant Since 1662. So much more positive and constructive! A Presenter is only as good as the Producer/Production put behind [...]
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Phillip Schofield, David Cameron and THAT List
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 [...]