Roz Laws

Nov 11, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws

Learning to drive, making friends to build networks and checking your emails are just some of the skills needed to break into TV. That’s what a panel of experts told an engaged young audience at the RTS Midlands Careers Fair in Birmingham. More than 300 people packed into the Midlands Arts Centre to find out more from broadcasters, including ITV Central and the BBC, podcasters, independent production companies, educators and training providers such as BFI, Mission Accomplished and ScreenSkills.

Oct 9, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws |Richard Armitage

Richard Armitage likened the progress in his acting career to learning to drive, when he delivered his RTS Midlands Baird Lecture last month. He talked about the “ridiculous amounts of preparation” he put in to his one line on Boon and three lines in Casualty, but these put him in good stead for later roles. He explained: “Learning to drive a banger is not such a bad thing because when you get behind the wheel of a Ferrari, you know what to do.

Oct 9, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws

You don’t have to get a tattoo honouring your favourite production company if you want to get into TV… but it might help. An audience member at RTS Cymru Wales’s event “How to write a TV drama” revealed that he wrote his master’s dissertation on the Bad Wolf theme in Doctor Who. It was his “absolute dream” to work for the production company, also called Bad Wolf, that makes the show, he declared. And to prove it, he said he had a tattoo on his left arm showing the Tardis graffitied with “Bad Wolf”.

Oct 8, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws |Richard Armitage

Richard Armitage likened the progress in his acting career to learning to drive, when he delivered his RTS Midlands Baird Lecture last month. He talked about the “ridiculous amounts of preparation” he put in to his one line on Boon and three lines in Casualty, but these put him in good stead for later roles. He explained: “Learning to drive a banger is not such a bad thing because when you get behind the wheel of a Ferrari, you know what to do.

Jun 6, 2024 | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws

Phoenix Rise is a hit teen drama about a group of outsiders who help each other to fit in, so it’s good to hear the same thing was happening behind the scenes. Eloise Pennycott arrived in series 2 as Daisy, when the cast had already been working together for three months, but she was quickly welcomed – thanks to her new friends learning British Sign Language (BSL). The actor lost her hearing at the age of 11, and now lipreads and hears through her cochlear implant.