Senior commissioners from the leading UK and international factual broadcasters will speak at this week’s Factual Festival at BAFTA, which takes place on Wednesday and Thursday. They will share their plans for factual on their channels and preview upcoming shows.
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ‘Times New Roman’}Top commissioners from the leading UK and international factual broadcasters will be at this week’s Factual Festival at BAFTA, sharing their plans for factual on their channels previewing upcoming shows on their channels.
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p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px ‘Times New Roman’; min-height: 15.0px}Senior commissioners from the leading UK and international factual broadcasters will be at this week’s Factual Festival at BAFTA, sharing their plans for factual on their channels previewing upcoming shows on their channels .
Sue Murphy, head of factual entertainment at ITV, has been at the broadcaster for six months and her vision for programming on the channel is beginning to come through to the screen. She will tell delegates her thoughts about how factual should look on the UK’s leading commercial channel.
At BBC Two, Patrick Holland is also new to the job of editor for the UK’s biggest factual channel and will be talking about his programming priorities. His counterpart at BBC3, channel controller Damian Kavanagh will talk about commissioning long and short form without a schedule and his journey into the new world on non-linear broadcasting.
Discovery has recently announced a reorganisation of its operation in the UK and DNI’s current president of content Marjorie Kaplan will reveal the next steps for the international broadcaster.
In addition, commissioning sessions dedicated to documentary, popular factual and specialist factual will hear from the country’s most influential commissioners.
Leading factual film-makers, producers and executives in the business will discuss where factual TV is heading and where the growth in the industry is coming from.
Fourteen sessions across the two days will cover the opportunities coming from new online broadcasters, from branded content and from the US market in 2016. Debate will take in the impact of a sea-change in the way people view, the future of new technologies, such as Virtual Reality, as well as the pros and cons of Brexit.
There will be inspiration to get your next ideas into the best shape for developing and pitching. Former Fox TV executive Simon Andreae, now heading up his own UK indie Naked Entertainment, will give a formats masterclass. World class producers and film-makers will share insight into getting the very best outcome for your project.
For the first time, the Festival joins together with Directors UK for a session featuring brilliant directors shedding light on how the role of the director in factual programming has changed in recent years.
To book to attend the Festival, to find out more and to get regular updates on speakers at the Festival, go to www.Televisual.com/festival.
Staff Reporter
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