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Nottingham Trent University students win big at RTS Midlands Student Awards

2 weeks ago | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws |Matthew Bell

Matthew Bell reports on the centre’s Student Awards, while, below, Roz Laws listens in at an industry roadshowA team of students from Nottingham Trent University took home the Sir Lenny Henry Award for best overall film with Chords of Conflict at the RTS Midlands Student Television Awards. Henry said: “They are all great films and I congratulate you all. You are knocking it out of the park.
Comfort Classic: The Fast Show

Dec 13, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Matthew Bell

If you can judge the success of a comedy show by the ubiquity of its catchphrases, The Fast Show was “Scorchio!”. That one was courtesy of Caroline Aherne’s weather girl on Chanel 9, the Euro telly spoof. And they kept on coming on TV’s greatest sketch show: “I freely admit I was very, very drunk” (sozzled QC Rowley Birkin, Paul Whitehouse); “Does my bum look big in this?” (Arabella Weir’s Insecure Woman); and “… which was nice” (Patrick Nice, Mark Williams).
Are we ready for next-gen sport?

Dec 13, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Matthew Bell

More than 24 million people tuned into ITV and the BBC to watch Spain beat England in the Euro 2024 final in July. A month later, Warner Bros. Discovery streamed 3,800 hours of live Olympic competition, consumed by UK and European audiences to the tune of 7 billion minutes. Clearly, sport still pulls in huge audiences, whether broadcast on linear TV or streamed on platforms such as Discovery+ and Max.
Andy Harries: the crown prince of TV drama

Dec 13, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Matthew Bell |Lorraine Heggessey |Andy Harries

It would be no exaggeration to say that British TV drama and comedy over the past 30 years would have looked very different without Andy Harries, a producer with his finger on the popular pulse, but never at the expense of quality. While working in-house at Granada and then for his own production company, Left Bank Pictures, Harries’ hits have included Cold Feet, The Deal, Quiz and, of course, The Crown. There have also been acclaimed films, most notably The Queen and The Damned United.
Until I Kill You: A unique true crime drama about a singular person

Nov 11, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Matthew Bell

Delia Balmer, the protagonist of ITV’s true-crime drama Until I Kill You, is a singular sort of person. She’s a “traveller”, not a “tourist”; a “female” never a “woman”, with the sharpest of tongues. Balmer, played by Anna Maxwell Martin, is isolated. Living alone in a run-down flat in London’s Kentish Town in 1991, she is virtually friendless at the hospital where she works as a nurse, and her family lives overseas.
Gwyneth Hughes wins RTS Yorkshire award for Post Office script

Nov 11, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Matthew Bell

Niamh Algar, starring as a hospital doctor who becomes embroiled in a medical scandal in the ITV series, was named Best Actor. ITV’s much-garlanded campaigning drama, Mr Bates vs the Post Office picked up yet another award, with Gwyneth Hughes named Best Writer. The ceremony, hosted by Bradford-born comedian, writer and actor Jessica Knappett, was held at Headingley Stadium in Leeds.
Marianna Spring on trolls, social media and the US election

Nov 11, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Matthew Bell

At an RTS event last month, BBC correspondent Marianna Spring discussed being on the receiving end of abuse from trolls supporting Elon Musk – and how she deals with it. Investigating social media, she explained, “triggers a wave of trolls and conspiracy theorists in a way that I didn’t used to experience. But I think, for me, the most positive way of dealing with that is [to think] I wouldn’t be doing my job right if...
The buzz around The Listeners, a new drama from the indie behind Normal People

Nov 11, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Matthew Bell

BBC Television’s new four-parter The Listeners is that rare thing – a drama that teases and tantalises, unwilling to offer the viewer easy answers. The series is adapted by the Canadian author Jordan Tannahill from his novel of the same name, and made by Element Pictures, the Dublin indie behind Normal People and Conversations with Friends. It revolves round Claire, an English teacher whose contented life is disrupted when she starts hearing a persistent hum that no one around her seems to hear.
Until I Kill You: A unique true crime drama about a unique person

Nov 11, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Matthew Bell

Delia Balmer, the protagonist of ITV’s true-crime drama Until I Kill You, is a singular sort of person. She’s a “traveller”, not a “tourist”; a “female” never a “woman”, with the sharpest of tongues. Balmer, played by Anna Maxwell Martin, is isolated. Living alone in a run-down flat in London’s Kentish Town in 1991, she is virtually friendless at the hospital where she works as a nurse, and her family lives overseas.
Shiers Trust to fund mountain film

Oct 9, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Matthew Bell

The adventure film-maker receives £5,000 to fund Filming the Impossible, which charts the technological advances in filming equipment that have helped bring the world’s remotest locations closer to TV and film audiences. “It’s a celebration of the people who go to these remote places, capture fantastic content and bring it back to a wide audience,” said Green, the founder and director of adventure and environmental film production company Summit Fever Media.