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I am the creative director of the Entertainment Master Class the world leading academy for executive education in entertainment television, it is a not for profit organisation. [...]
Continue Reading →Perhaps it is just the good old days syndrome but I found little to amaze me on TV over Christmas. I must also say I watched the interview Parkinson did with Morecambe and Wise during the good old days, and found little to amuse me there either.
The highlight comedically for me this year [...]
I love the flag of South Korea, it’s different to almost all other flags of the world. Format consulting is so interesting, like a social experiment. You have a scientific control, in that you are dealing with a fixed point. That’s to say you have made the programme with your own cultural references, then if [...]
Continue Reading →So you want to work in TV? Well you could do worse than take a trip to a great web site run by a brilliant producer and great professional friend Shu Richmond, follow the link here.
You will find lots of advice from people who actually do work in the industry. I got [...]
Continue Reading →From December 2nd to the 9th I am moderating the Entertainment Master Class “Managing Entertainment” module in Andermatt Switzerland. Its the last of this years 4 modules. The entertainment master class is the premier executive training programme in the world today. We have participants from just about every continent and some great speakers. The lectures [...]
Continue Reading →Challenge TV are to bring back blockbusters. I loved working on this show, I actually did the sound mix on the pilot. We used to record 10 of these a day, that was real productivity and it pre dated all the cost cutting of today. The poor pensioners in the audience were all locked into [...]
Continue Reading →Who remembers “The Chair?” to jog your memory here is the description from the Eyeworks catalogue
When contenders take on this big event game show, there’s no covering up their nerves and hiding what’s really going on inside. The human heart doesn’t lie when you’re in The Chair. Each contender is fitted with a heart [...]
Continue Reading →Tomorrow (7:30pm 28/9/11) night I shall be at Cambridge’s B bar, giving a short talk entitled “Video – Old Format New Tricks” and also talking about The End of TV! Do come along if you are interested.
More at Meetup
Read the statistics and video is the king of all social media. Sharing, it’s [...]
Continue Reading →The very first Entertainment Master Class – Summer School has just come to an end. It was a great success, predictions included the idea we are going to see the “End of TV” c/o Doug Scott from Ogilvy Entertainment. The move to soft factual formats and are they saleable? c/o Keri Lewis Brown [...]
Continue Reading →Delay is preferable to error.
— Thomas Jefferson
Fremantle Indonesia
I have just returned from a stint consulting for Fremantle in Indonesia, based in Jakarta. I do love Asia and it was good to be back in this land that really does attack the senses. Obviously being away from my family for any period of time is hard. Having spent so much of my life [...]
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