Roz Laws

Birmingham

Freelance Reporter at Freelance

Freelance journalist and copywriter. Loves telly, travel, theatre and gin.

Articles

“I don’t support criminality but I do support humanity”: Ashley Cain on his new BBC doc Into the Danger Zone

1 month ago | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws

Making friends with drug dealers, gangsters and poachers for his new BBC documentary series sounds like a risky strategy for Ashley Cain.
Joe Lycett bangs the drum for Brum in United States of Birmingham

1 month ago | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws |Joe Lycett

At a time when the “special relationship” between the UK and the US is on a knife edge, one man is doing his bit to extend the hand of friendship across the Atlantic. Comedian Joe Lycett has brought together 19 places called Birmingham in both countries to make a formal alliance – which, he claims, could stand in for Nato if necessary!Coming to our defence would be the United States of Birmingham, the name of Lycett’s new Sky TV series.
Behind sun-soaked sensation Death in Paradise

2 months ago | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws |Don Gilet |Don Warrington

You are hereHome » Television Magazine » April 2025 Don Gilet, Don Warrington and Élizabeth Bourgine (credit: BBC) Roz Laws hears that shooting the BBC’s long-running drama Death in Paradise is ‘not all cocktails and sunsets’It sounds like a dream TV job, filming on an idyllic Caribbean island known for its golden beaches, waterfalls and rum distilleries.
Nottingham Trent University students win big at RTS Midlands Student Awards

2 months 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.
Car S.O.S continues driving viewers to tears

2 months ago | rts.org.uk | Roz Laws

It’s known to its loyal fans as the car show with a heart, bringing a tear to the eye of many a petrolhead. And while the presenters of Car S.O.S. manage to hold it together on screen for the emotional finale of each episode, when they return a secretly restored car to its surprised owner, they have confessed that they are also deeply moved.
Students step into 'weird and wonderful' TV industry at RTS Midlands Careers Fair

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.
Richard Armitage and Shaheen Baig on Chekhov, class and Emily in Paris

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.
Doctor Who and Wilderness creators teach RTS Wales screenwriting

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”.
Simon Armitage and Shaheen Baig on Chekhov, class and Emily in Paris

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.
Misfits in the Midlands: the creators of Phoenix Rise on the third series of their hit teen drama

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.