Category Archives: PortfolioTelevision

The Politics of Celtic Media – Get Your Facts Straight

May 9, 2016Blog, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioTelevision, Televisionangela

During this year’s Celtic Media Festival in Dungarvan I was on a panel about factual tv. I took immediate issue with the assumption behind the session’s brief – The most prolific and successful genre in the Celtic nations is factual, both in English and in the indigenous languages. Is factual prolific and what is the measure of success? But further, I question the festival’s decision to ignore the biggest challenge to the factual genre – adequate media policy.

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Future of PSB TV Inquiry – Wales

May 3, 2016Blog, PortfolioTelevision, Televisionangela

PSB Television in a digital world – what’s the recipe for Wales?

On April 6th there was a chance to get Welsh voices on the record at the session for Wales of David Puttnam’s Future of PSB TV Inquiry. The event was hosted by Cardiff University’s School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. This independent inquiry is gathering evidence from around the UK and will report in June.

I spoke for the Institute of Welsh Affairs alongside Angharad Mair (Tinopolis, BAFTA Cymru), Huw Jones (S4C), Rhys Evans (BBC Cymru Wales) and Ian McKenzie (Nations and Regions, Channel 4).

See Future of TV Inquiry – Content and Platforms in a Digital Age

“The Inquiry has been set up to consider the nature, purpose and place of public service television today and for the future. It aims to address how public service content can be most effectively nurtured taking into consideration a range of services, platforms and funding models. Continue reading Future of PSB TV Inquiry – Wales →

Merthyr Meirionnydd – A Welsh Martyr

March 23, 2016Blog, Portfolio, PortfolioTelevision, Producerangela

“Here’s a man who plays hide and seek with the secret police and cuts his prison cell bars to escape as he faces the gallows”, says Guto Harri in this 60-minute documentary about St John Roberts (repeated on Sunday, 3rd April at 10pm on S4C with English sub-titles). “He acts more like James Bond than a saint. The issues underlying the history are echoed today, dealing as they do with someone considered to be a religious extremist, living abroad and considered a threat to the very fabric of the state.”

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Debating the BBC (and more!) in Wales

March 11, 2016Blog, Industry, Media, Portfolio, PortfolioTelevisionangela

Broadcasting in Wales: the Future of the BBC Charter, an event organised by the Wales Governance Centre. will scrutinise the future of the BBC in Wales (6pm Tuesday 15th March, Millennium Centre, Cardiff).

At a time when the future of the BBC’s Charter is being debated in public, and with politicians in Cardiff Bay and Westminster looking at the future of the media, this is a crucial time for broadcasting in Wales. This event will look at the key topics emerging from these debates and how they might influence the future of the BBC in Wales. Continue reading Debating the BBC (and more!) in Wales →

Nomination for DNA Cymru

March 11, 2016Media, Portfolio, PortfolioTelevision, Television, Uncategorizedangela

The series DNA Cymru for S4C,which I produced for Green Bay Media along with Wynford Jones, has earned a Nomination in the Best Factual Series category of the Celtic Media Festival 20 -22 April.

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Pitch Your Ideas Workshop

March 11, 2016Industry, Portfolio, PortfolioPrint, PortfolioTelevision, Uncategorizedangela

I never fail to be impressed by how well participants in this workshop grasp the pitching principles I offer. I am convinced that most people are aware of what it takes to make a good sales pitch but perhaps have not had the opportunity to pull what they know together and also to reach for the sales person hidden inside each of us. And it’s fun – as you can see in the photograph above – happy faces at the end of the workshop I delivered on 10th March! Continue reading Pitch Your Ideas Workshop →

ACS & DOCS Cardiff University

March 11, 2016Portfolio, PortfolioTelevision, Teaching, Televisionangela

Another fascinating group of people on my workshop for academics about involvement in tv documentary on 1st March.

This three-hour session for Cardiff University Graduate College covers what an academic needs to know about how tv documentary gets developed, commissioned and made and how academics can contribute successfully and enjoyably. Universities commonly offer training in how to engage with news via sound-bites but seldom on what it means to be involved in long-form output or series.

The feedback was uniformly excellent.

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Welsh Affairs Committee – Inquiry into Broadcasting in Wales

December 15, 2015Blog, Industry, Portfolio, PortfolioTelevisionangela

Western Mail report

On 14th December Hywel Wiliam and I gave evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee inquiry into broadcasting in Wales on behalf of the IWA.

Our written evidence submitted in advance.

Commissioning for Television – University of South Wales

December 10, 2015Portfolio, PortfolioTelevision, Teachingangela

On the University of South Wales BA Hons Media Culture and Journalism I led a workshop on Commissioning for Television as part of the Contemporary Popular Television module. 20th November 2015

USW — plenty of talent on Contemporary Popular Television

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The Wales Report – Broadcasting in Wales

December 10, 2015Portfolio, PortfolioTelevision, Televisionangela

On the day of the IWA’s Cardiff Media Summit I fronted an analysis of the challenges facing broadcasting in Wales shown on The Wales Report BBC One Wales ahead of Huw Edwards’s interview with BBC Director of Strategy, James Purnell.