Opinion

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Opinion: How we’re fighting unconscious bias in TV recruitment

Sarah Lee, founder and creative director of UK recruitment platform The Talent Manager, explains why…

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China’s new TV frontier offers short-form opportunity

Ahead of UK trade body Pact’s UK China Creative Exchange event in London next week,…

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Opinion: tech is game for TV takeover

With analysts this week claiming sports remains the critical factor in pay TV subscriptions, Iain…

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Analysis – the next steps for the Digital Single Market reforms

Ingrid Silver from media law firm Reed Smith cast legal eye over why the European…

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Opinion: TV content – where’s the innovation?

Megan Goodwin, joint managing director of digital consultancy Interactive Rights Management, argues TV companies are running…

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Viewpoint: ignore Asia at your peril

Amanda Groom from coproduction specialist The Bridge assesses the state of the Asian market for…

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House moves are killing the basic pay bundle

Ahead of his keynote at Informa’s OTTtv World Summit tomorrow in London, former AMC Networks,…

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Analysis: why would Fox sell to Disney?

Yesterday, it emerged 21st Century Fox had held talks to sell much of its business…

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To boldly go… to MIPCOM

Danny Fenton, CEO of Zig Zag Productions, offers his thoughts on the latest MIPCOM. As…

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Australia should look to Canada for Netflix solution

Chris Hilton from Essential Media and Entertainment argues Australia could do worse than look at…

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The importance of knowing your history

Adam Jacobs of UK indie Woodcut Media argues the history programming is rediscovering its mojo,…

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Feel-good programming is needed in our crazy world

Media Ranch president Sophie Ferron explores why feel-good titles from This is Us to Pay it…

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Viewpoint: A Romper Stomper route to television

Film director Geoffrey Wright explains the process of how his cult Australian feature film Romper…

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Television can help the aged

Red Arrow International’s head of non-scripted, Harry Gamsu, discusses TV’s role in the health and…

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Viewpoint: Game of Thrones and the art of the modern opener

With the latest season of HBO’s Game of Thrones almost upon us, the first thing…

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The view from the Riviera

It’s hard to find a more beautiful and glamorous location to shoot than the Côte…

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How Loaded went from Israel to Channel 4

Hillbilly TV co-founders Kate Norrish and Polly Leys recall how their UK drama business begn,…

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Jamie, FoodTube and the changing face of MCNs

K7 Media’s Clare Thompson asks what the demise of Jamie Oliver’s FoodTube tells us about…

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Viewpoint: Discop Dubai fills a gap in the MENA market

On the eve of the inaugural Discop Dubai event, Yvonne Pilkington, senior VP of format…

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Viewpoint: Factual TV in a post-truth era

Jan Salling, CEO, Missing Link Media & co-chairman, FRAPA Donald Trump has become a leading…

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TV equality – it’s time to put women in charge

Kate Kinninmont MBE, CEO of WFTV in the UK When I started working for the…

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Writer’s block – keeping control of adaptations

Louise Berg from the entertainment and media industry group at global law firm Reed Smith…

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How popular is your content… really?

Wared Seger, CEO and co-founder, Parrot Analytics Before the advent of writing, it was storytelling…

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Viewpoint: The anthology strikes back

Dan Whitehead, head of drama and digital at UK consultancy K7 Media, on how anthology…

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A first-timer’s (re)view of MIPCOM

So Drive made its virgin trip to MIPCOM as a distributor this week; full disclosure, we have…

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Distributor to doc producer with the Royal Good Guys

As career moves go, turning documentary producer after 27 years in distribution may seem odd, even…

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Viewpoint: SVOD’s niche future

What do such disparate brands as CBS All Access, CrunchyRoll, WWE Network and Eros on…

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Rose-tinted spectacle

Jeroen Depraetere, head of television and future media at the European Broadcasting Union, outlines the…

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China formats report

Zig Zag Productions commercial director Matt Graff says China remains television’s final frontier for producers,…

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Viewpoint: Canada – the battle continues

At the end of last year I penned an opinion piece for TBI about the…

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