Siobhán Crawford

Oct 28, 2024 | c21media.net | Siobhán Crawford

By Siobhan Crawford 28-10-2024 C21 columnist and formats veteran Siobhan Crawford picks out her highlights, lowlights and key takeaways from last week’s Mipcom in Cannes. I hope you are ruined. What a weird thing to say, right? What I mean is, I hope you used your expenses in Cannes wisely to reward yourself for an incredibly tough year. I hope you slept on your flights home, or stayed an extra few days writing your follow ups in a sunny spot.

Sep 20, 2024 | c21media.net | Siobhán Crawford

By Siobhan Crawford 20-09-2024Will the current trend for coproduction become a tangible fix for the industry’s downturn? Cooperation, coproduction and co-development. Oh those sexy little words. No. Not really… but as you all want to keep shouting them out loud, let’s talk about them. Firstly, the why? Because when nothing is going right in our own corner of the world, we look outward, encouraging others to jump into our little pool with co-development, juicy tax incentives and hubs. I get it.

Sep 12, 2024 | c21media.net | Siobhán Crawford

By Siobhan Crawford 09-12-2024 Industry veteran Siobhan Crawford looks at television’s sheep-like trend for creating formats similar to recent hits, rather than just paying for the original. You may hate and detest the current surge of reboots but let me paint a (real life) scene. Why we buyYour team works for two years developing an idea.

May 16, 2024 | tbivision.com | Siobhán Crawford |Richard Middleton |Stuart Thomson

TBI’s resident format expert Siobhan Crawford wonders why distribution has a bad name in some circles and explores how the format biz is changing. We have spoken about this before but we are going in hard this time: Distribution. Specifically today – in this economic climate and mythbusting. A friend of mine believes ‘distribution’ it is a dirty word in the media world, it is said in hushed tones. Not revered, not mentioned when it comes to employment statistics and perhaps not understood.

Apr 26, 2024 | tbivision.com | Siobhán Crawford |Mark Layton |Rob Moyser |Nick Mavroidakis

Nick Mavroidakis, executive producer at UK factual indie Woodcut Media, explores how the past decade has witnessed a sea change in the way that filmmakers approach true crime programming and the way they present both victims and criminals. When I first began making the then newly commissioned series World Most Evil Killers in late 2016, it was my first venture into true crime. I decided to try to create a format that I’d enjoy watching and was easy for the viewer to follow.