The Blog

Hello! This is us. Who are you?

The team at Talented People want to get to know you better. You’re more than just a CV, after all. “Hold up”, we hear you say suspiciously. “Why do you want to find out more about me?”. There are lots of reasons but here’s a few: 1. So that we call you when the...

Edinburgh TV Festival 2022

Joint MD Kimberly was up at the Edinburgh TV Festival last week meeting with clients, freelancers and friends plus hosting (and producing) a panel on The Big Talent Crunch. Here are her highlights of the weekend... It’s 3pm and the Festival has just closed. And I’m...

F**king the Patriarchy and speaking in the House of Commons. TP Talks to… Liz Warner, CEO of The Different Kind

You may have noticed our posts about social enterprise Different Kind and wondered why we support them. Well, we fell in love with their products and producers, and are proud to have been their first ever corporate clients of this new retail social enterprise that...

LGBTQ+ inclusivity in content-making teams – are you doing enough?

1st June 2023 Happy Pride month one and all! We know that it’s not enough to simply change your company logo for a day/week/month, or churn out some supportive sentence we saw on a meme #virtuesignalling. But I hope that by now you know that TP means business on the...

Team news from Talented People

A senior strategic hire in digital and new Head of Talent jobshare, bolstering the team in answer to growing demand during this 'talent crunch'... Talented People is thrilled to announce that YouTube Originals Production Executive Emily Taylor joins us as Talent...

Entitled to a better title?

The danger is over-promoting and under-supporting in the talent crunch, says Talented People’s joint MD Kimberly Godbolt. Last night I was watching the credits of a few different programmes, as inevitably you do if you a) worked on the series #proud, b) your child /...

Broadcast Indie Summit ’22: talk of the production boom & talent crunch

The mood at the Broadcast Indie Summit ’22 was light and sunny – unlike the weather as an eerie mist shrouded our entry to the Barbican Centre. It’s the first in-person industry event that Broadcast has run for two years, so the smiles were wide and handshakes &...

Don’t do a disservice to Production Managers

TV has ignored PMs for too long but the Covid crunch has proven how vital – and scarce – they are, says joint MD of Talented People Kimberly Godbolt. **First published in Broadcast on 21st June 2021** There have never been enough production managers to...

Meet the Team – Kimberly Godbolt

Here at Talented People, we are always asking about you, so we thought it was only fair we told you a bit more about each of us! Talented People is a tight little bunch of four passionate Talent Managers, all from different backgrounds and corners of the globe, but...