The drama of TV production
05/20/20 • 27 min
British TV companies produce some of the most popular shows in the world. But the lockdown has put a halt to it all. Andrea Catherwood asks how the industry restarts and what post coronavirus TV might look like.
Guests: Andy Harries CEO Left Bank Pictures, Jonathan Hewes, CEO Pioneer Productions, and Manori Ravindran, International Editor of Variety
Producer: Richard Hooper
Studio engineer: Nigel Dix
Image credit: Scene from Netflix’s new series White Lines
British TV companies produce some of the most popular shows in the world. But the lockdown has put a halt to it all. Andrea Catherwood asks how the industry restarts and what post coronavirus TV might look like.
Guests: Andy Harries CEO Left Bank Pictures, Jonathan Hewes, CEO Pioneer Productions, and Manori Ravindran, International Editor of Variety
Producer: Richard Hooper
Studio engineer: Nigel Dix
Image credit: Scene from Netflix’s new series White Lines
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Guests: Beth Rigby, Sky News Political Editor, Jack Blanchard, editor Politico's London Playbook, Caelainn Barr, Editor of Data Projects at The Guardian, John Burn-Murdoch, Senior data-visualisation journalist at The Financial Times, and Tim Montgomerie, former comment editor of The Times and an advisor to the last government.
Presenter: Andrea Catherwood
Producer: Richard Hooper
Studio engineer: Emma Harth
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