a joint RTS / Cardiff University School of Journalism (JOMEC) event
Contributors:
Professor Justin Lewis and Llion Iwan, Content Commissioner, Factual and Sport, S4C Consumerism, the hidden driver behind all TV production?
Professor Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Ashok Ahir, of Communications Agency, mela; former Head of Politics, BBC Cymru Wales Impartiality and representation of opinion on TV news
Dr Cindy Carter and Huw Foulkes, Broadcast Journalist, Ffeil & Newyddion 9, BBC Cymru What TV news provision does the younger teen audience want?
Dr Ross Garner and Mike Talbot, Series Editor, Wales This Week, ITV Wales Producing the ‘Mainstream’ in Wales
Professor Jenny Kitzinger and Erika Hossington, Series Producer, Casualty, BBC Cymru Wales How can TV drama represent family experiences of long term ‘coma’?
Dr Cindy Carter, Llion Iwan, Dr Ross Garner, Erika Hossington, Prof Jenny Kitzinger,
Ashok Ahir
Prof Justin Lewis, Mike Talbot, Angela Graham, Huw Foulkes
An enjoyable and thought-provoking event resulting in 3 on-going partnerships:
Prof Jenny Kitzinger and Erika Hossington: a potential new storyline involving coma next year for ‘Casualty’.
Dr Ross Garner and Mike Talbot: collaboration on producing tv in Wales for the mainstream.
Dr Cindy Carter and Huw Foulkes: collaboration on News for young teenagers.
“There are now plans to reflect adverts off the moon,” said Professor Justin Lewis as he argued that all television is ultimately driven by a hidden consumerism. That was just one of the many insights gained as the Wales Centre paired academics with television professionals for one-to-one dialogue and debate at Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen reported that the BBC is still trapped in a two major party world when it comes to political reporting, while Jenny Kitzinger told us that the portrayal of people in a coma in hospital drama is not only wrong but actually misleads the public. Other subjects discussed included news provision for the younger teen audience and an attempt to define what the ‘mainstream’ means within commercial British television.
Mike Talbot from ITV Wales said that cage fighting and cuts to council services were both current and mainstream, but that only one was really popular with audiences. So which programme offered true public service broadcasting? As the academics would say – discuss! Tim Hartley
Adjudicator: Grahame Davies: “A mature and wise piece of work that gives us what we want from our writers: in the face of failure and sense of loss, a sense of meaning, understanding and hope.”
Finalist Jerusalem Award for Best Broadcast, Easter 2011, Pause For Thought, BBC Radio 2
BBC Bursary BBC Writing for Radio Course, 2011
The Jamie Owen ShowFilm Review: Mandela, Calvary, Marvellous
Television is the British public’s main source of knowledge about science. On network television, science is an established and popular part of the viewing menu, yet in Wales, apart from ecology and nature programmes, science is seldom commissioned for the small screen.
Elis Owen, Llion Iwan, Elin Rhys, Hywel Wiliam, Wendy Sadler, Prof. Julie Williams
S4C ended a long dearth this year with science series, Dibendraw, so will English-language television follow suit? Does the scarcity of TV science in Wales affect public attitudes to the funding of research and to science education? Does it confirm that the Welsh are not a nation of scientists?
The panel debated the role of science on Welsh television and the role of television in Welsh science.
The fifty people who attended were left in no doubt of the passionate commitment in all three areas of expertise: scientists, programme makers and tv commissioners – but also of the clearly expressed appreciation of, and need for, more opportunities for science and the media to understand each other better. Continue reading Science on Television in Wales→
44 mini-documentaries, Welsh and English – Welsh history for schools 7 – 16 years; presenter, Huw Edwards. A Green Bay Media Production for Welsh Government
View More from this Provider. Interactive Timeline of Welsh History.
