All episodes: Netflix and strategy
An imperious Kevin Spacey as Francis Underwood stares down at the pedestrians in Times Square from this billboard for House of Cards. I like this poster in seve...
Tag: TV
How to pitch a TV show
How do TV production teams develop and sell hit new shows like Grand Designs, Location, Location, Location, Embarrassing Bodies and Supernanny? In another BBC C...
The only way is social: TOWIE’s production process
TV production is something that really interests me. Having brushed up against it a few times in recent years, I thought I could learn a little more by listenin...
“Gravity-defying” TV advertising in danger of a crash
Business Insider editor Henry Blodget reckons that what happened to newspapers in the last decade is about to happen to TV: an advertising collapse. Decline was...
Media needs its architects
At the Edinburgh International TV Festival last month, Google executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, told delegates to “ignore Lord Sugar” and bring more...
In pursuit of perfect imperfection on TV
David Hepworth recounts the incredible amount of effort (faff) that goes into creating a small piece of television in a post on his blog. The last paragraph tic...
TV vs. social media
Which is best: TV or social media? Effectively that was the question put to me ?morning by someone writing a paper on how social is changing the media lanscape....