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Versailles: French TV Goes Global Brexit: Who Benefits? with K5 You Can July/August 2016 Versailles: French TV goes global Brexit: Who benefits? With K5 you can The trusted cloud service helping you serve the digital age. 3384-RTS_Television_Advert_v01.indd 3 29/06/2016 13:52:47 Journal of The Royal Television Society July/August 2016 l Volume 53/7 From the CEO It’s not often that I Huw and Graeme for all their dedica- this month. Don’t miss Tara Conlan’s can say this but, com- tion and hard work. piece on the gender pay gap in TV or pared with what’s Our energetic digital editor, Tim Raymond Snoddy’s look at how Brexit happening in politics, Dickens, is off to work in a new sector. is likely to affect the broadcasting and the television sector Good luck and thank you for a mas- production sectors. Somehow, I’ve got looks relatively calm. sive contribution to the RTS. And a feeling that this won’t be the last At the RTS, however, congratulations to Tim’s successor, word on Brexit. there have been a few changes. Pippa Shawley, who started with us Advance bookings for September’s I am very pleased to welcome Lynn two years ago as one of our talented RTS London Conference are ahead of Barlow to the Board of Trustees as the digital interns. our expectations. To secure your place new English regions representative. It may be high summer, but RTS please go to our website. She is taking over from the wonderful Futures held a truly brilliant event in Finally, I’d like to take this opportu- Graeme Thompson. Another change early July. The subject was how online nity to wish all our readers a happy sees Rob Woodward, CEO of Scottish short-form content is now a force to be and restorative summer break. Television, taking over from Huw Jones reckoned with. The evening’s chair, Pat as representative of the nations. Younge, did a peerless job. I am very I look forward to working with grateful to Pat and to all five panellists. Lynne and Rob. Jane Lighting is also Thanks, too, to a wonderful audience. standing down. A huge thanks to Jane, We have a great line-up in Television Theresa Wise Contents Tony Jordan’s TV Diary Size matters Tony Jordan moves on from Dickensian to Dubrovnik, Short-form video is booming – the challenge is getting 5 but still thinks the BBC allowed a special show to slip 18 your content noticed, says Steve Clarke through its fingers Our Friend in Brussels The price of success for French TV drama James Mates blames wilful British ignorance of the The raunchy Versailles is more than a romp through history, 21 European project for Brexit 6 finds Raymond Snoddy. It is a symptom of digital disruption The lifelong radical A vote for change Tony Garnett made some of TV’s greatest drama. Will Brexit liberate Britain’s TV sector or will international 22 Maggie Brown discovers some painful sources of inspiration 9 media giants now abandon London for mainland Europe? Raymond Snoddy gauges opinion Why working in comedy is no joke An RTS event wrung some laughs from a weighty subject Time to close the pay gap 24 – how to make it in TV comedy. Matthew Bell reports More data and transparency are needed if TV companies 12 are to stop discriminating against women. So why wait, Student Television Awards 2016 asks Tara Conlan The awards ceremony was hosted by Mark Dolan at 28 BFI Southbank on 3 June. The winners and nominees Brand power over four pages As Vice launches its first UK TV channel, Stuart Kemp 14 investigates why having a strong identity is more Breaking out of the box important than ever A new wave of innovation in set-top boxes will see 32 power shift from broadcasters to platforms, predicts Turner turns the corner Nigel Walley Steve Clarke meets polyglot Turner executive 16 Giorgio Stock, whose division is back on top Cover picture: Canal+ Editor Production, design, advertising Royal Television Society Subscription rates Printing Legal notice Steve Clarke Gordon Jamieson 3 Dorset Rise UK £115 ISSN 0308-454X © Royal Television Society 2016. [email protected] [email protected] London EC4Y 8EN Overseas (surface) £146.11 Printer: FE Burman The views expressed in Television Writer Sub-editor T: 020 7822 2810 Overseas (airmail) £172.22 20 Crimscott Street are not necessarily those of the RTS. Matthew Bell Sarah Bancroft E: [email protected] Enquiries: [email protected] London SE1 5TP Registered Charity 313 728 [email protected] [email protected] W: www.rts.org.uk Television www.rts.org.uk July/August 2016 3 Your guide to upcoming national and RTS NEWS regional events SCOTLAND Local events ■ James Wilson 07899 761167 ■ james.wilson@cityofglasgow- BRISTOL college.ac.uk ■ Belinda Biggam ■ [email protected] SOUTHERN ■ Gordon Cooper DEVON & CORNWALL ■ [email protected] ■ Kingsley Marshall ■ Kingsley.Marshall@falmouth. THAMES VALLEY co.uk Wednesday 16 November Small camera systems EAST Speakers TBC. 6:30pm for ■ Nikki O’Donnell 7:00pm ■ [email protected] Venue: Pincents Manor, Calcot, Reading RG31 4UQ Sky Sports Premier League advert LONDON ■ Daniel Cherowbrier Friday 25 November How is the emergence ■ [email protected] Thames Valley Centre Annual National events of myriad new distribution Dinner Dance platforms impacting on the MIDLANDS This year, we are holding a RTS CONFERENCE commissioning and produc- Thursday 3 November masquerade ball Tuesday 27 September tion landscape? With new, RTS Midlands Awards 2016 Venue: Kings Meadow, Napier RTS London Conference 2016 entrepreneurial approaches to Booking opens in early Road, Reading, Berks RG1 8DF Full stream ahead: production, access to global September. ■ Penny Westlake Commissioning, developing funding and emerging trends in Venue: National Motorcycle ■ [email protected] and producing TV content in consumer behaviour – what are Museum, Coventry Road, Solihull the age of on-demand the real opportunities and chal- B92 0EJ WALES Principal sponsor: NBCUniversal lenges of creating programming ■ Jayne Greene 07792 776585 Wednesday 3 August International for multiple platforms? ■ [email protected] Eisteddfod event: The Speakers include: David Abraham, Venue: Kings Place, 90 York Way, directors of the future Chief Executive, Channel 4; Sir London N1 9AG NORTH EAST & THE BORDER Our annual Eisteddfod event Peter Bazalgette, Non-Executive Thursday 28 July is a screening of three short, Chairman, ITV, and President RTS EARLY EVENING EVENT Networking evenings Welsh-language films produced of the RTS; Tina Brown CBE, Thursday 6 October The last Thursday of the month, by young people from Dyfryn Journalist, magazine editor, Anatomy of a hit: Sky Sports for anyone working in TV, film, Nantlle, and a Q&A session with talk-show host and author; Premier League football computer games or digital the film-makers. It will be held Steve Burke, Chief Executive Details TBC production. 6:00pm onwards. at Sinemaes (Cinema on the Officer, NBCUniversal; Andrew Venue: TBC Venue: Tyneside Bar Café, Tyne- Maes tent). Please note that Griffith, Group Chief Operating side Cinema, 10 Pilgrim St, New- members will have to buy an Officer and Chief Financial RTS EARLY EVENING EVENT castle upon Tyne NE1 6QG entry ticket to the Eisteddfod Officer, Sky; Dido Harding, Chief Tuesday 1 November ■ Jill Graham field. It is a Welsh-language Executive Officer, TalkTalk Tele- Virtual reality and television ■ [email protected] event but simultaneous com Group; Stephen Lambert, Details TBC translation will be available. Chief Executive, Studio Lambert; Venue: TBC NORTH WEST 2:30pm-4:30pm Kevin MacLellan, Chairman, ■ Rachel Pinkney 07966 230639 Venue: National Eisteddfod, NBCUniversal International; RTS MASTERCLASS DAY ■ [email protected] Castle Meadows Park, Merthyr Tom Mockridge, Chief Executive, Monday 14 November Road, Abergavenny NP7 5DG Virgin Media; Cathy Newman, RTS Student Programme NORTHERN IRELAND ■ Hywel Wiliam 07980 007841 Presenter, Channel 4 News; Ted Masterclasses ■ John Mitchell ■ [email protected] Sarandos, Chief Content Officer, Venue: BFI Southbank, London ■ mitch.mvbroadcast@btinter- Netflix; and Sharon White, Chief SE1 8XT net.com YORKSHIRE Executive, Ofcom. ■ Lisa Holdsworth 07790 145280 With burgeoning new models RTS MASTERCLASS DAY REPUBLIC OF IRELAND ■ lisa@allonewordproductions. of TV consumption, opportunities Tuesday 15 November ■ Charles Byrne (353) 87251 3092 co.uk for content creators and distribu- RTS Craft Skills Masterclasses ■ [email protected] tors are both incredibly exciting Venue: BFI Southbank, London and potentially hazardous. SE1 8XT 4 July/August 2016 www.rts.org.uk Television TV diary Tony Jordan moves on from Dickensian to Dubrovnik, but still thinks the BBC allowed a special show to slip through its fingers tart the week with a run, I’ve still got 83 emails about it. Siobhan Finnigan, one of our bril- meeting in Dubrovnik They are a fairly equal mix of furi- liant development execs, comes up about a new project ous teachers and professionals at on the train to talk about a new pro- we are working on. schools and colleges who had seen posal we are working on for ITV. I Although I can’t say young people being driven back to love talking about my new projects much about it yet, I can the books. with smart people. She gives me say that Dubrovnik is They also include members of the loads of ideas. incredibly beautiful, despite people public who don’t understand why it’s Sib heads off and I’m back in the Sconstantly pointing at places where not coming back and are moaning shed. I finally crawl into the house at scenes for Game of Thrones were shot. about it. I do think the BBC had the end of a very long day to watch something very special with Dicken- rushes and answer emails.
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