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Everything you need to know about Edinburgh TV Festival 2019

For those of you who didn’t make it to Edinburgh this year, fear not – we did. Here are the highlights from Talented People’s point of view… The MacTaggart Lecture The keynote address, always given by a big industry player, like Rupert Murdoch, Jeremy Paxman or Greg...

Celebrating 2 years of Talented People

Talented People celebrates its second birthday this week - and we couldn't be prouder. What a phenomenal two years it's been. We've grown from two ambitious Talent Execs juggling it all to a trusted five strong team with far reaching contacts and even bigger ideas. We...

Fish, chips and chats – Brighton Production Hub networking event

Soho-on-Sea, some call it. You can’t argue with that, given the colour, vibrancy, and craft beer options on the seafront in Brighton. Nearly fifteen companies were keen to showcase their production wares at the Brighton Production Hub event hosted in conjunction with...

‘Don’t just shoot what you see’… how to get the best from the Sony FS7

Nine times out of ten, when a company asks us here at Talented People to find them a great PD, they need to be a strong self-shooter. Nine times out of ten, when we ask what camera they’re using, it’s an FS7. So how and why has this particular camera become the go-to...

TP Talks To: Expectation’s Head of Development, Emily Dollman

We had a cuppa (and a laugh) with skyrocketingly successful indie Expectation's Head of Development in Factual, Emily Dollman - currently on maternity leave. She rather unwisely let us pick her brain about the weird and wonderful world of TV ideas generation, crazy...

Hedging Your Bets – a TV guide to playing fair

It can be a funny old market for freelancers. At times we hear people saying how eerily quiet it has gone despite bites about work, while others have lots of meetings but still no definitive offers. But a common theme that crops up is a feeling of indecisiveness. From...

News: It’s Grierson DocLab o’clock

It's always an honour to be asked onto a industry panel. But as a company just as passionate about unearthing fresh new TV talent as placing the well-known & experienced kind, the Grierson DocLab selection day is about as exciting as it gets. And that's where...

TP Talks to: ’60 Days on the Streets’ Series Producer, Jamie Seal

The first episode of '60 Days on the Streets' was a tough watch. More people are sleeping rough today than at any time since the Second World War - an important premise for former solider Ed Stafford to take to the streets and film his experiences for two cold winter...

TV Then and Now…

Talented People and Executive Producer / MD of Kerfuffle Steven D Wright put the TV world to rights over coffee and lemon drizzle cake one wintry afternoon. We asked him to put pen to paper about how working in TV now differs to when he started his career... As a...

TP talks to: Flirty Dancing Series Director Nik Warner

Channel 4's Flirty Dancing has got team Talented People - along with the rest of the nation - hooked. We persuaded Series Director Nik Warner to let us into the secrets of those filmic first encounters, the cameras & toys, and, erm, super flossing with...