TellyCast: The content industry podcast

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Our guest on this week’s show is Aaqil Ahmed , former BBC and Channel 4 commissioner and broadcasting and diversity expert as we talk religion and diversity in TV. In conversation with Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . TellyCast is edited by Ian Chambers. Recorded in London and Cannes. Music by David Turner, lunatrax. Recorded in lockdown March 2020 by David...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Guests on this week's show are BBC Studios Director of Digital and Business Development Helen Pendlebury , LADbible’s Director of Creative Strategy Thom Gulseven and in the last of our MIPCOM interviews we catch up with Legendary TV’s Anne Thomopoulos .   We talk the BBC at 100, changes in the digital content space and Legendary TV's new drama bas...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Part Two of the TellyCast MIPCOM 2002 Special. Guests this week are Bavaria Fiction’s Marcus Ammon, Ilke Hynnenen from Ilke's Creative Studio, Ryff’s Mar Duermeier and Fotini Paraskakis from Empire of Arkadia. They're all in conversation with Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . TellyCast is edited by Ian Chambers. Recorded in Cannes. Music by David Tu...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We’re back in Cannes as over 10,000 global content industry execs gathered for MIPJUNIOR and MIPCOM. My guests this week include ITV Studios’ Ruth Berry , Banijay’s Delphine Dumont , The Wit’s Virginia Mouseler , Moe Bennani from Dreamspark and the Backstreet Boys’ AJ McClean and Mipcom’s Lucy Smith . TellyCast is edited by Ian Chambers. Recorded in Cannes....

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Ahead of next week’s return of MIPCOM and MIPjunior, this week we get to chat with kids expert Genevieve Dexter boss of Serious Kids and Eye Present about the current state of the kids content industry and what to expect in Cannes. We also chat with We Are Family’s Maurice Wheeler who talks us through some new kids market research. And we catch up with Jimm...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On this week’s show we welcome Alex Segal, Managing Director at leading talent agency Intertalent about the art of the deal and the life of the agent. Plus we get to hear Alex’s Story of the Week, his Hero of the Week and who or what he wants to Get in the Bin. In conversation Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . TellyCast insta TellyCast Twitter TellyCast YouTu...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter In a feature length episode, this week's guests are General Manager of A+E Networks UK and Chief Creative Officer EMEA Heather Jones and The Sidemen manager, Arcade Media's Jordan Schwarzenberger in conversation Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . Heather talks us through her career, her channel's strategy and what kind of shows she's lookin...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week's show features Banijay's Global Head of Content Operations Lucas Green and RX Global's Lucy Smith in conversation Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . Lucy gives us the lowdown on how this year's 'supersized' MIPCOM is shaping up whilst Lucas talks 'Survivor' on the mega format's 25th anniversary and reflec...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter In a special episode of TellyCast, Broadcast editor in chief Chris Curtis discusses the UK TV industry's reaction to the death of Queen Elizabeth II and its possible future implications with Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . BBC announcement of the death of Queen Elizabeth II TellyCast insta TellyCast Twitter TellyCast YouTube TellyCast is edited by Ian...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week's show features King of Sunshine Productions boss Sohail Shah and Rockerdale Studios' CEO Stu Richards in conversation with Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . Sohail's Story of the Week Stu's Story of the Week TellyCast insta TellyCast Twitter TellyCast YouTube TellyCast is edited by Ian Chambers. Recorded in London. Music by Davi...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week's show features Lee McMurray , commissioning editor of Factual Entertainment at Channel 4 in conversation with Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . As a series producer and exec, Lee launched successful returning series on Channel 4, such as S ecret Eaters and What Happens in Kavos. He was also responsible for a range of other popular factual show...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter   This week's Edinburgh TV Festival special show features Fatima Salaria , Executive Chair of the Edinburgh TV festival and the TV Foundation, Rick Murray Managing Director of Manchester indie Workerbee and Jackie Adedeji - columnist, presenter and podcast host. They're all in conversation with Boom! PR's Justin Crosby . Edinburgh TV Festival...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter   We're back with Season 4 of TellyCast! Hope you're all having a great Summer and ready for whatever the weather, economy and content industry can throw at us next! My guest this week is Stewart Clarke , creative director at Edinburgh TV Festival, ahead of the UK TV industry's biggest event next week. Amazingly, this is Stewart's first...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Where better to end our third season than Cannes. But this time we’re here for the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, where the world’s biggest media brands and advertising agencies have decamped on the Croisette in impressive numbers and with even more impressive stands, installations and mega yachts - to woo clients, talk strategy and drink rose in the...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We’re back in France this week for Sunnyside of the Doc, where factual TV producers, distributors and networks are coming together to pitch new projects and find co production partners for tomorrow’s documentaries. Guests are Mikael Osterby from Swedish public broadcaster SVT and Krishan Arora , consultant for SBS Australia. Sunnyside of the Doc TellyCast w...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We’re doing something slightly different for TellyCast this week - and that’s focusing on the animation sector of the content industry, from MIFA - one the industry’s showcase events, set on the shores of Lake Annecy in France. Even if you aren’t in the animation game, I’d still recommend having a listen to this week’s show, where I get to chat to some of t...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week’s show comes from Dubrovnik at NEM 2022 with telcos, producers, distributors and TV tech businesses coming together by the Adriatic to discuss and debate the future of the Central and Eastern European TV industry. Guest are Chiara McKee , VP EMEA at  Love Nature, EBU Head of Strategy Jonathan Broughton , co founder of Drugi Plan Nebojša Taraba and...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter As the TV industry events calendar hots up with markets all over the world in June, we’re previewing the return of Sunnyside of the Doc , as the international documentary community prepares to gather in La Rochelle, France from 20-23rd June. Director of strategy and development Mathieu Bejot joins Boom! PR's Justin Crosby to highlight what delegates ca...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter As the TV industry events circuit gets back into full swing, we preview NEM Dubrovnik , taking place from June 6th - 9th. Our guests are NEM, Mediatranslations and Pickbox boss Sanja Božić-Ljubičić , Telekom Srbija's Head of Production Jasmina Lakobrija and Mirela Nastase , Director of Drama at ZDF Studios.  TellyCast website TellyCast insta TellyCast...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On this week’s show we feature the final panel session from April’s TellyCast Content Funding Festival .  The Co-production Evolved panel looks at what makes a co-pro in scripted and unscripted and how AVOD is ushering in a new type of deal model. Thanks to our expert panelists Richard Tulk-Hart from Buccaneer, Lilla Hurst from Drive and Gerrit Kemming from...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On this week’s show we feature the third panel session from April’s TellyCast Content Funding Festival .  This panel looks at NFT and Blockchain - the opportunities and pitfalls to consider. It was quite the eye opener! Thanks to our expert panelists Phil McKenzie from Goldfinch, Umair Masoom from MContent and Lizzie Williams at Harbottle & Lewis. It wa...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On this week’s show, we replay the New Funding Models panel from the first TellyCast Content Funding Festival in London last week. This panel looks at three very different alternative funding models and features Rob McCrea from New World Film Finance, Eric Collins from Impact X Capital and Wayne Marc Godfrey from Pipe. It was moderated by the Bridge’s Amand...

Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On this week’s show, we replaying the Brand Funded Programming 2.0 panel that kicked off the first TellyCast Content Funding Festival in London this week. Our expert panel featured consultant and former Controller of Branded Entertainment at Channel 4 Simon Wells , ITV’s Director of Digital & Creative Partnerships Bhavit Chandrani , Head of Content at A...

TellyCast Content Funding Festival - get tickets here  (enter TELLYCAST+ at checkout for £20 off!) With just a few days to go to the first TellyCast Content Funding Festival we're previewing the event in conversation with Katie West  Head of Content for APX Content Ventures, Phil McKenzie  COO of financier Goldfinch, Gerrit Kemming from Quintus Studios and Rob McCrea, Managing Director at New...

TellyCast Content Funding Festival - get tickets here  (enter TELLYCAST+ at checkout for £20 off!) On this week’s show we catch up again with Ukrainian producer Katernya Vyshnevska as she described what’s been going on in her life since we spoke a month ago when she was in Kyiv. And I have a rooftop chat with Gregoire Polad , Director General at ACT - The Association of Commercial Television and V...