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[email protected] (0)207 566 1441 1012-RTS ADVERTS-V1.indd 5 22/05/2019 16:24 Journal of The Royal Television Society June 2019 l Volume 56/6 From the CEO A sultry period drama Returning to the 21st century, Shilpa Recently, I was privileged to be the set in the shimmering Ganatra has written a timely feature guest of the RTS’s Isle of Man Centre. heat of 18th-century on how TV coverage of women’s sport Every year, the island welcomes India is our June cover is gaining a higher profile. I, for one, around 15,000 motor cycles and story. ITV’s new Sun- am enjoying BBC One’s coverage of 40,000 visitors for the annual TT day night treat, Bee- the Women’s World Cup and hope the Races, broadcast by ITV4. cham House, looks likely Lionesses can raise their game fol- I was told that it takes up to three to be the perfect antidote to our own lowing their hard-won victory over weeks to transport everyone and their – so far – less than scorching summer. Scotland. bikes to the Isle of Man. Two intrepid In Steve Clarke’s interview with the Elsewhere in this issue, I would like travellers made it all the way from series’s director and co-creator, to highlight a new regular column, Argentina.