BAFTAs 2017 BBC Sweeps the Board as Netflix Challenge Fails to Materialise

Round up report of the BAFTAs 2017. Whilst Netflix was nominated across the board - they failed to win any. http://theconversation.com/baftas-2017-bbc-sweeps-the-board-as-netflix-challenge-fails-to-materialise-7764

Creating Reality TV: Kardashian Style

Lyndsay Duthie, and Lucy Brown, ‘Creating Reality TV: Kardashian Style’. Paper presented at the Kimposium: A Symposium about all things Kardashian, 26 November 2015, Brunel University, London.This chapter explores how to create compelling reality television ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ (KUWTK) style. As authors we have both worked on reality formats and now as academics, we are able to deconstruct the format of these types of shows from an insider’s point of view. We go behind the scenes to reveal the mechanics of the format, explain the casting dynamics, as well as the key ingredients that go into a successful reality series, from a programme maker’s point of view.Peer reviewe

Assessing creativity in TV studio production

This paper will seek to gauge how media production can be taught within Higher Educational Institutions to inspire the next generation of programme makers to create original student led productions, rather than replicating content. Brown and Duthie ask how media educators and teachers of film and television production courses assess creativity and discuss innovative approaches to learning, teaching and assessment in the academy and ask how we can encourage risk taking in a risk averse environment. This paper considers whether contemporary global TV formats can be the catalyst for new ideas and content and how to encourage students to be film and TV making pioneers

Teaching TV studio production

British Film Institute (BFI) Media Conference – Teaching TV Studio Production (2016)

BBC licence fee: culture minister hints at a future in competition with Netflix for UK public broadcaster

Nicky Morgan, the culture secretary, has announced to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee that she is open to replacing the BBC license fee with a Netflix-style subscription charge. This is a significant change from previous ministers who have protected the license fee for many years and ruled out scrapping it

Oscars 2019 Review

Oscars 2019 Review – SKY News Breakfast Show (Feb 2019

Should TV reflect real life? Discussion on female lead roles in the TV series

BBC’S Bodyguard – Should TV Reflect Real Life? Discussion on Female Lead Roles in the TV Series – SKY News Sunrise Breakfast TV Show (Oct 2018)

Why Love Island is the best kept guilty secret on British television

As is so often the case these days, we didn’t have to wait for series four of Love Island to actually go to air for Fleet Street to start salivating about the prospects of spending the summer with 11 “unfathomably ripped young men and scantily clad young women” – as The Guardian rather coyly put it – tasked with doing little else other than to select their daily swimsuit and, over the course of eight weeks, choose their ideal life partner. Article appeared in: The Conversation, Metro, 100 publications, appeared on SKY News

Who's Watching The Nightly Show?

Viewers have halved in the first week for the new ITV satire show The Nightly Show. Will ITV continue with this bold piece of scheduling

More Female Execs would Stem the Sexist Rot in Hollywood

© The Author(s) 2016. This is an open access work published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/.Response to the Harvey Weinsten Scandal and the Hollywood Casting Couch.Final Published versio