Send us a text Buy tickets for the TellyCast Digital Content Forum 2024 As the global TV industry’s thoughts turn to Mipcom Cannes in October our guests this week’s show are Elisa Carbonell, CEO of ICEX Trade and Investment – the public institution that drives the prosperity of the Spanish economy through internationalisation and former president o…

Send us a text Buy tickets for the TellyCast Digital Content Forum 2024 In this episode of TellyCast, host Justin Crosby sits down with actress and writer Kellie Shirley, known for her roles in EastEnders and In the Long Run. Kellie discusses her career journey, starting from her early days in Croydon to landing roles in major TV shows, and her wor…

Send us a text Buy tickets for the TellyCast Digital Content Forum 2024 This week, our guest is a truly unique storyteller, someone who has carved out a distinct niche in the world of documentaries. Ben Zand's work takes us to some of the most unexpected corners of the globe, shedding light on untold stories and giving a voice to those often unhear…

Send us a text Buy tickets for the TellyCast Digital Content Forum 2024 This week we’re in Edinburgh for the TV Festival where the movers and shakers of the TV industry come together every year to debate the key issues of the moment. My guests are two senior UK producers from the worlds of scripted and unscripted entertainment. First up we have Qua…

Send us a text Buy tickets for the TellyCast Digital Content Forum 2024 Our guest this week is YouTuber turned mainstream TV celebrity, actor, author, voiceover artist and producer Joe Sugg. We’re gonna be talking about Joe’s career to date, his new dating format ‘Date Me at My Worst’ and what he’s got planned for the future. Plus we’ll get to hear…

Send us a text Buy tickets for the TellyCast Digital Content Forum 2024 Our guest on this week's show is Remy Blumenfeld. Remy is a coach specializing in sectors fuelled by innovation and creativity. His clients include leaders at Netflix, BAFTA, Channel 4, Fremantle, and the BBC, as well as the founders of many top production companies in the UK a…

Send us a text Buy tickets for the TellyCast Digital Content Forum 2024 Our guest this week is Yusuf Omar, co-founder of Seen.TV, the multi platform video publisher which aims to create a more empathetic and understanding world through storytelling. In conversation with Justin Crosby. Yusuf's Story of the Week Support the show Buy tickets for the T…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos On this week’s show we’re going back to the TellyCast Brand Funded Entertainment Summit. The Future of Digital Branded Content panel is moderated by COLabX’s Matt Ford and features Rupert Britton Head of Creative Strategy at Publicis Media, LA Ronayne, Execut…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos We have a bit of a scoop for you this week as we welcome - direct from Middle Earth - Billy Boyd and Dom Monaghan famed for playing Merry and Pippin in the epic The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Billy and Dom have been all around the world filming their new 6 pa…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos On this week’s show we’re going back to the TellyCast Brand Funded Entertainment Summit in May and playing out the first session of the day in full, where the UK’s three major broadcasters involved in the brand funded entertainment space share the projects th…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos My guest this week is Dylan Weiss, president of Cry Havoc Productions and author of a new book, ‘Factual Television Producing, A Hands On Approach from Conception to Delivery’. We discuss Dylan’s career, his thoughts on the issues currently facing the factual…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos This week we’re in Toledo, Spain for Conecta Fiction and Entertainment where over 1,000 executives from all around the world and especially Spain, Portugal and Brazil gathered for the 8th edition of the event. My guests are Renato Martinez VP, Content & Acqui…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos Many UK independent TV production companies have gone bust or are in serious trouble since the commissioning downturn hit in 2023 as a result of financial uncertainty, falling viewing figures and the drop in advertising revenue for commercial broadcasters. Th…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos Is now the time for crowdfunding to play a significant role in the world of content funding and distribution? Paul Scanlan from Hollywood crowdfunding equity business Legion M, the world’s first fan-owned entertainment company talks us through their business …

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos We’re back again with our second show from the recent TellyCast Brand Funded Entertainment Summit at Advertising Week Europe in London. Our guests are Jordan Schwarzenberger, co-founder of Arcade Media and manager of The Sidemen, Matt Campion Co-Founder & Cre…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos Should you spend money on YouTube? What is Paid Media and what can it do? And what are the synergies between content, YouTube channels and paid media? I’m here with Wayne Davison Chief Revenue Officer at Little Dot Studios as we continue the latest in our ser…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos This week's show is a special episode recorded at the first TellyCast Brand Funded Entertainment Summit in association with 53 Degrees North Media at Advertising Week Europe in London, where brands, agencies marketers and producers came together to debate the…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos What IP and genres perform best on YouTube? When’s the best time to post new content (and does it matter?!). And how do you reach your target audience with your content. Well here to answer all that and more besides we have Ally Penelope with some more strate…

Send us a text Next week sees the first TellyCast Brand Funded Entertainment Summit taking place at 180 Studios in London as part of Advertising Week Europe. On the 16th May, together with 53 Degrees North Media, we’re curating 7 panel sessions dedicated to exploring brand funded entertainment with the leaders in the sector. We discuss discuss this…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos How do you get noticed and build an audience on YouTube? How do you master optimisation and get the powerful algorithms working for you to get your content discovered on the platform? On this week's show we have Graham Swallow Head of Data and Product Strateg…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos Everyone’s talking about generative AI in the content industry, and we’ve recently dedicated a few shows to the latest tools available, but also the ethics involved in this technology that is transforming the TV and content production at lighting speed. And w…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos Over the next few weeks we’re going to be exploring the world of YouTube for TV producers with our friends at Little Dot Studios. The current commissioning slowdown has highlighted how exposed producers can become to global economic headwinds. When the networ…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos We’re in Cannes this week for once last time at MIPTV. Our guests are X-Files and Man in the High Castle screenwriter and CEO of Big Light Productions Frank Spotnitz, Virginia Mouseler from The Wit, Garrett Goodman from AI dubbing business Papercup, Gaggl’s G…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos Our guest this week is hugely experienced British film director, television producer and media executive and founder of September Films David Green. We discuss David's career, living in Hollywood, his new scripted production company plus we find out his Story…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos This week we’re heading back to SXSW in Austin where I sat down with some of the most innovative businesses at the cutting edge of content creation. First up we have Caroline Strzalka from Overplay, a company aiming to revolutionise the $574 billion digital m…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos Our guest this week is Benjamin Field, Executive Producer at Deep Fusion Films as we discuss the issues and the ethics around artificial intelligence in TV and content production. Benjamin's Story of the Week Support the show Buy tickets for the TellyCast Dig…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos We're in Austin, Texas this week for the SXSW Conference and Festivals. We're digging into what’s next in TV and content with my guests director of new documentary film Lions of Mesopotamia Lucian Reed, Marianne Carpentier from Newen Studios, Electrify Video …

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos My guest this week is Persian Comedy Powerhouse, writer and actor and now independent TV production boss Omid Djalili. Omid’s illustrious career includes The Omid Djalili Show on BBC One, countless TV appearances on shows including How I got News for You, We …

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos What are the world’s top TV markets and how much are they worth? On this week’s show we answer that question and I’m delighted to be joined by Richard Middleton, editor of Television Business International as we count down through the global TV industry top 1…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos Social media superstars The Sidemen have launched an amazing array of new products in the past few years from chicken restaurants to trading cards and from hotels to vodka brands. And now they have their own Netflix documentary. Our guest this week is Luke Hy…

Send us a text Subscribe to the TellyCast YouTube channel for exclusive TV industry videos Welcome to TellyCast Talks - the first in a new strand of interviews on TellyCast - featuring the media business leaders shaping tomorrow's content industry On TellyCast Talks, we’ll delve into the minds of only the most senior C- suite executives. These conv…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week we’re taking another look at the top 10 best AI tools on the market for TV and content producers and we’re delighted to welcome back Jason Mitchell, boss of UK indie the Connected Set to run us through an updated list of tools and their benefits. You can check them out on screen on o…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ producer Patrick Spence, MD of AC Chapter One gives us an in depth, behind the scenes overview of the making of one of the biggest UK drama hits of recent years. We discuss the detailed pre production, how it nearly never got made, the reaction and outcomes since …

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Former BBC Two controller, President of the Discovery Channel and now Nutopia boss Jane Root is our guest on this week’s show. We’re talking about her time at the networks and how that informed the shows Nutopia creates, her latest Netflix production, the ‘posh true crime’ series ‘Bad Surgeon:…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We kick off 2024 with a fascinating discussion with Leo Pearlman, managing partner of The Kardashians, The Late Late Show and Sunderland ’til I Die indie Fulwell 73. We covered the growth story of one of the UK's leading content production companies, the latest on Leo's ambition to make Sunder…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We round off the year with media commentator and cartologist Evan Shapiro as we look back at the major developments in the media industry in 2023 and look ahead to 2024 with some predictions for the year ahead. In conversation with Justin Crosby. Until next year - I hope you have a very peacef…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Our guest this week is Michael Boccacino, Senior Director of Content Partnerships at award winning TheSoul Publishing, one of the world’s most prolific and popular online media companies with huge audiences across YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snap, Pinterest, and TikTok. In conversation with …

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week we rewind to MIA in Rome where I met Raw Executive Producer Chiara Messineo and also back to MIPCOM where I had a quick chat with Danny Fenton from Zig Zag Productions. In conversation with Justin Crosby. Follow TellyCast on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/tellycast-the-tv-…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter This week our guests are Fraser Ayres, actor/writer/director as well as CEO and founder of the TriForce Creative Network and Yasmin Hai – author, broadcaster Guardian columnist and Head of Factual at Red Bicycle Productions. In conversation with Justin Crosby. Fraser's Story of the Week Yasmin…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Hot on the heels of last week’s TellyCast Digital Content Forum sponsored by BBC Studios, I catch up with Jasmine Dawson SVP, Digital and Nat Poulter VP, Digital - Commercial at BBC Studios, two of the UK’s leading digital first content executives who are responsible for working with some of t…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On this week’s show our guests is TikTok's UK Head of Entertainment Ed Lindeman as he talks us through the rise of the social media platform and previews this week’s TellyCast Digital Content Forum. In conversation with Justin Crosby. Ed's Story of the Week https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/gymsh…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On this week’s show our guests are Mel Chapman, CEO of social first publisher and channel operator Jungle Creations and Adam Jacobs, Creative Director of German international content distributor and channel owner Quintus Studios as we hear more about their businesses and preview next week’s Te…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter We’re looking back a couple of weeks to this year's MIA market in Rome where we hosted a TellyCast panel on digital-first content creation and distribution. Our guests on the panel were Bea Hegedus Executive Managing Director, Global Distribution at Vice Media Group, Holly Graham Chief Busines…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter It's time for MIPCOM 2023 and this week's bumper episode features interviews with President of Kartoon Channel Paul Robinson, Fenton Bailey of World of Wonder, producer of Ru Paul’s Drag Race, The Wit's Virginia Mouseler , Brandon Ralph from soon to launch social streamer The Nile, AndNowGloba…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On this week’s show we meet Banijay Rights’ LA-based EVP Sales, Co-Productions & Acquisitions Matt Creasey ahead of a big week at MIPCOM. And from Rome at the MIA market, we're chatting with Bea Hegedus, Executive Managing Director at VICE Distribution as we talk what's next for the next gen d…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter On this week’s show we’re chatting with Multistory Media’s creative boss Ana De Moraes on her career journey, how the business is surviving the downturn and why we’re at a turning point for the industry. Plus we catch up with RX Global’s Entertainment Division Director and Director of MIPCOM C…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter TV advertising has seen a massive decline in 2023, sending shockwaves across the content industry and hampering commissioning and new production. There are lots of reasons for this of course, but on this week’s show we’e focusing on a very specific area of TV advertising, and that's Connected …

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Unless you’ve been living under a rock these last few months you’ll know that Artificial Intelligence is set to revolutionise the way we live and work. And rather than focusing on the negative assumptions that this technology is going to take all our jobs and destroy the world in some dystopia…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Our guest this week is UK based indie producer and boss of UK indie Danny Fenton. We're chatting about how Danny is steering his company Zig Zag Productions through the stormy seas of the international TV industry. With over 25 years in the business Danny has some great insights on how to surv…

Send us a text Sign up to the free TellyCast newsletter Our guest this week is UK based indie producer Mike Benson, who’s managed that rarest of things - to find success in both unscripted and drama TV production with his shingles Chalkboard TV and Clapperboard Studios. And not only that, he’s achieved this despite coming from outside the London bu…