Insight on screen TBIvision.com | February/March 2021 Television Business International Life after Netflix Long-tail rights 6 Broadening horizons TBI UK Screenings Travel under lockdown 14 J13705_BANIJAY_RFDS_TBI_216x275mm_FC_AD_V1.indd 1 16/02/2021 14:25 BEYOND OUR EARTH BIG BEN: Wildbear Entertainment (6 x 60’) SAVING THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS CLOCK ITN Productions (3 x 60’) CHEF VS CORNER SHOP Mentorn Media (5 x 30’) SURVIVING THE STONE AGE Renegade Pictures, Motion Content (3 x 60’) TBI UK Screenings | This Issue UK Screenings issue February/March 2021 Editor’s note Contact us t has been a 12-months to remember – or perhaps, Editor Richard Middleton forget – since the last iteration of TBI’s UK Screenings
[email protected] Imagazine in February 2020. Back then, hundreds of buyers were packed into planes heading into the UK from Deputy editor Mark Layton around the world – a concept that now seems as otherwordly
[email protected] as it did then feel perfectly normal. That desire to travel, to explore and to experience other cultures and meet new people is a backbone of the global content business, but Contributor Helen Dugdale it is also a booming programming trend as viewers find themselves limited to their own particular patch of earth. Travelogues have arguably never been as popular as Sales manager Michael Callan audiences seek escapism, something which we explore in this issue. And as UK-based
[email protected] distributors prepare their virtual shopfronts for London Screenings and BBC Studios Direct line +44 (0) 20 7017 5295 Showcase, we delve into rights – diving into how format creators can best-protect their IP and unpacking the increasing allure of the second window.