All TV Production articles
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: Anora
Semi-improvised, guerrilla-style filmmaking brings gritty realism to Sean Baker’s beleaguered love story.
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Executive Interviews
Modelling intent: How evolution of AI will turbocharge creative capabilities
Framestore’s CTO Lincoln Wallen says the creative industries should acknowledge the art of math to craft new interactive AI-driven social experiences.
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Video
Challenges facing producers can be beneficial
IBC2024: In the conference session titled Who Moved My Production?, Simon Green, CEO of Edit Cloud, explains that the constraints now facing the industry can actually stimulate creative solutions.
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Video
Industry headwinds push producers to the cloud
IBC2024: In the conference session titled Who Moved My Production?, Helen Killeen, Director of Production at ITV Studios, points to some of the key trends driving production companies to look to the cloud to deliver efficiencies.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: Sharp editing gets the best from Slow Horses
The misfits of British intelligence return for a fourth outing with Robert Frost in the editor’s chair.
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News
UK production sector revenues fall by nearly £400m
Total UK television production sector revenues fell by £392m (8.4%) to £3.61bn in 2023, according to producers alliance Pact’s annual Census.
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Video
Who Moved My Production?
Production cost per hour budget compression is not new, but with the increased stress in the broadcast business model, producers are expected to drive even more efficiency or increase deficit funding to secure commissions. Many have highlighted that we are now at a point where episodic TV production requires a ...
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News
BBC to increase creative diversity commitments
The BBC is launching new creative diversity commitments to increase diversity and inclusion within its programme making teams.
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Executive Interviews
IBC Conference: Hollywood heavyweights edge closer to seamless IP production ecosystem
MovieLabs marks the halfway point of its 2030 Vision with a panel session looking at the initiative’s achievements so far and the challenges that lie ahead. John Maxwell Hobbs reports.
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Industry Trends
Edinburgh TV Festival 2024: A challenge to the status quo
The Edinburgh TV Festival, the annual shindig of the movers, shakers, and changemakers of the British television industry, took place last week and change was very much on the schedule, reports Michael Burns.
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Industry Trends
Peak TV has been reached and UK public service broadcast is shrinking
At the Edinburgh TV Festival producers and broadcasters were urged to face up to the facts of an oversaturated market with few solutions on offer to stem the decline in work.
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News
Edgar Bronfman tables rival $6bn deal for Paramount Global
A group of investors led by veteran media executive Edgar Bronfman Jr. has lodged a last minute $6bn bid for Paramount Global.
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News
Channel 5 and My5 to relaunch as 5 in 2025
UK broadcaster Channel 5 and its free streaming service My5 are to be relaunched in 2025 under a unified parent brand of 5.
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News
Channing Dungey to head Warner Bros Discovery’s TV networks
Channing Dungey, Chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group, is to take on additional responsibility for Warner Bros. Discovery’s US Networks business.
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Daily News
Paramount Television Studios to close
Paramount Global is closing its Paramount Television Studios as part of a round of cost-cutting.
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News
University of York, dock10 and 2LE Media to develop AI tools for VP lighting
UK television facility dock10, The University of York, and TV production company 2LE Media have secured backing from Innovate UK’s BridgeAI programme to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can power lighting in live virtual productions.
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News
Paramount Global writes down value of cable networks by $6bn
Paramount Global has written down the value of its cable TV networks by nearly $6bn and is to cut 15% of its US workforce in a bid to reduce costs.
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News
Disney to invest $5bn in European film and TV production
Disney is planning to spend at least $5bn on producing films and TV shows in the UK and continental Europe over the next five years.
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News
ITV Studios acquires Hartswood Films
ITV Studios has acquired a majority stake in Hartswood Films, the production company behind scripted series such as Douglas Is Cancelled, The Devil’s Hour and the Emmy award-winning Sherlock.
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News
Study reveals under-representation of women in reality TV leadership roles
Men significantly outnumber women in reality television production, according to a new study on gender disparity in reality television.