TellyCast: The content industry podcast

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week’s show features a panel session moderated by TellyCast's Justin Crosby for the Sunnyside of the Doc called the Octopus Strategy which looks at how factual businesses are embracing the digital content revolution.  The panelists are Sandrine Roustan, Managing Director of Belgian public service broadcaster RTBF’s Content Division. Future Studios...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Branded content and brand funded programming is very much back on the agenda as unscripted commissions from both PSBs and commercial broadcasters are starting to look thin on the ground. This week we’re chatting to a leader in branded content and formats in Finland to find out how the market is adapting in his territory. Our guest this week is Lasse Nikkari...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Bectu - the union for 40,000 staff, contract and freelance workers in the UK media and entertainment industries recently declared an emergency as large numbers of TV professionals are facing unprecedented gaps in employment in the unscripted sector. This week I'm chatting with  Viki Carter and James Taylor, TV freelancers and co chairs of the UTVU, the...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Bectu - the union for 40,000 staff, contract and freelance workers in the UK media and entertainment industries last week declared an emergency as large numbers of TV professionals are facing unprecedented gaps in employment in the unscripted sector. We're discussing the current talent market in the UK, what to do if you’re laid off or struggling to la...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We’re just 4 weeks away from this year’s Sunny Side of the Doc in La Rochelle, France.  On the show this week,  we chat with Mathieu Bejot , Director of Strategy & Development at the international documentary industry’s premiere event to find out what delegates can expect at this years edition.  Presented by Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . TellyCast is...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On the show this week, we chat with one of TV’s best known executives specialising in the buying and selling of TV formats.  From discovering format juggernaut Dragons’ Den in 2002 to his more recent conversion of Korea’s Grandpa Over Flowers into the NBC top-rated Better Late Than Never, Small World TFI’s Tim Cresenti has been well and truly at the centre...

We’re doing something a little different this week. We recently produced and moderated a panel for PACT - the UK’s Producers Alliance for Cinema and TV.  The event was called Beyond the Box - Content 3.0 and designed to provide insights into digital content opportunities for TV producers.  It was recorded at the Everyman Cinema in London’s King’s Cross last week and we’re playing back the panel re...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week’s show features Tom Price , Content Distribution Director at Roku.  Tom discusses streaming, FAST channels, how he’s planning to help build the business in the UK and the latest deals the company has struck.   Presented by Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . TellyCast is edited by Ian Chambers. Recorded in Leeds. Music by David Turner, lunatrax. Recor...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We’re back in Cannes this week for the 60th MIPTV.  And on this week’s show we're joined by producers Adrian Woolfe from Studio 1 and Sydney Gallonde from Make it Happen Studio. We also chat with Rakuten TV boss Cedric Dufuor and Banijay’s Shaun Keeble on the buzzy FAST channel space. And we catch up with ITV Studios’ Ruth Berry and RX France’s Lucy Sm...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week's guest is James Burstall , CEO of UK-based production group Argonon and author of a new business book  ‘The Flexible Method: Prepare to Prosper in the Next Global Crisis ’. James talks us through how he got started in the TV business and shares some tips from his new book, available via Amazon, on how to prepare for - and deal with - upcomin...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week we're back in Lille for the Series Mania Forum - the co production market for the scripted content sector. Against the backdrop of a rioting city and the impending threat of a general strike on the final day of the event, we sit down with Sharon Levi , Managing Director of Israel’s yes studios, Caroline Roberts-Cherry , Founder and MD UK of d...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter It’s that time of the year for many in the TV industry to start turning their minds to Cannes as MIPTV is just over a month away. This week we’re previewing the reimagined 4 day event and reveal what TV execs can expect on la Croisette in April as RX France Entertainment's Director of Entertainment and MIPTV Director Lucy Smith sat down for a chat with...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter TV industry programme buyers from around the world gathered in London last week for the latest iteration of the London Screenings showcase event. The world’s biggest international distributors showed off their latest programming catalogues across over 20 lavish events across the week. And on this week’s show it’s all-German affair as WeltN24 buyers Ulrike B...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We have a double dose of Harry Potter magic on this week’s show as we welcome James and Oliver Phelps , famously known for portraying the mischievous Weasley twins in the film franchise together with Dash Pictures boss Daniel Sharp . They're discussing their new travel series 'Fantastic Friends' with Boom! PR's Justin Crosby. TellyCast i...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter The commercial opportunities for content creators and IP are growing relentlessly as TV networks seek to bring young audiences to their channels. Brands, too are desperate to communicate with youth audiences via the talent they follow and the platforms they understand. We chat about all this and more with this week's guest, co founder of leading digita...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week's guest is two-time Emmy winner and format creator with over 60 TV series under his belt, Dave Noll from New York-based Keller Noll. Dave reveals how he got into TV, how he develops his ideas and how he approaches those all-important pitch meetings that have led to hit shows including the Chopped franchise. In conversation with Boom! PR'...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter What are the secrets of making a social clip go viral? How do you build an audience of over 8 million followers? And what does a next-generation digital-first production business look like? This week's guest is Brandon B , one of the leading creators at the forefront of the new wave of social video entertainment. In conversation with Boom! PR's Ju...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter What are the opportunities for the content industry to work with Web3 platforms right now? What’s been the impact of recent crypto fraud scandals? And how are web3 viewers benefiting as well as platforms and producers? My guest on this week’s TellyCast is Phil McKenzie , Chief Content Officer at MyCo, the Web3 platform formerly known as MContent. Download t...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter How is 2023 shaping up for the unscripted market?  We're in Austin, Texas for the 25th anniversary Realscreen Summit where the movers and shakers in the global factual industry gathered for 3 days of pitching and panel sessions. My guests are Evan Shapiro , All3 Media International’s Rachel Job , Deadline’s TV editor Peter White and Marc Kamler Partner...

We kick off the New Year with a country focus on Austria, and I’m in Vienna for CIMIx, the industry event organised by trade promotion organisation Advantage Austria. My guests on this week’s show are Dinah Czezik-Muller Co-CEO at factual indie Terra Mater Studios, Philipp Böechheimer Managing Director at CANAL+ Austria, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu , Chairman of the Austrian professional Associ...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We’re rounding off the year with a deep dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence with Oxford University lecturer and media expert Dr Alex Connock . We’re discussing the impact AI has had so far on the content industry and what we can expect in the future, as the technology starts to land with wider audiences on a seemingly ever increasing basis. Alex&...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week we have a special show from our very own TellyCast Digital Content Forum , sponsored by BBC Studios. During a sold out day of discussion and debate with the industry’s digital-first leaders, Andy Fry caught up with ITVX’s Craig Morris , UTA’s Sam Glynne , Taf Makopa from Wall of Entertainment, The Battersea Poltergeist creator Danny Robins and Ash...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We’re in Glasgow this week at the World Congress of Science and Factual producers where programme makers, networks, distributors and streamers  gathered together with the scientific community to buy, sell, pitch and develop factual programming. Guests at the Scottish Exhibition Centre are Andrew Cohen , Head of the Science Unit at BBC Studios and J ayne Edw...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter It's all about digital-first on this week’s show as we're chatting with two of the panellists featured on the TellyCast Digital Content Forum sponsored by BBC Studios taking place on 30th November.  Guests are Head of Digital Development at BBC Studios Chris Allen and Managing Director at Cowshed Social Matt Ford in conversation with Boom! PR&apos...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week on TellyCast we’re previewing the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers with Conference Director Paul Lewis . Plus - how do you create the best TV soundtracks in the business? We find out with Peaky Blinders and SAS Rogue Heroes’ music supervisor, Banijay’s Amelia Hartley . They're both in conversation with Boom! PR's Justin Cr...