Insight TV’s CEO Rian Bester discusses the millennial and Gen-Z-focused unscripted specialist’s pivot to external production and content partnerships and why it sees FAST as key to its next growth phase.

Insight TV, the global unscripted channels operator and content producer targeting millennials and Gen Z audiences, has created a new post of commissioning editor and appointed former Red Bull exec Lisette Schlippe to the role.

Welsh pubcaster S4C’s unscripted head Iwan England is calling for perseverance and a flexible approach to international partnerships as it seeks its next crop of scalable premium documentaries aimed at local and streaming audiences.

RTL Germany’s NTV hopes to co-develop a new generation of documentaries, providing opportunities for fresh voices and producers.

Curated streaming service Walter Presents is prospecting for its next crop of non-English-language dramas with opportunities on the table for prebuys as well as acquisitions.

France’s TF1 is seeking to push boundaries with new unscripted paper formats and reality reboots as it hunts for hybrid ideas to offer linear audiences and grow its new digital streamer.

Narrative’s free-to-air channel stable The Great! Network is successfully mining the gaps in the linear TV space, bolstered by multiplatform distribution options. 

ITV’s factual entertainment team is hunting for its next ‘blow-your-doors-off’ unscripted format amid a growing appetite for international coproduction partnerships.

Tom McDonald is calling for big, bold ideas for Nat Geo’s refreshed, broader line-up that can tap the wider Disney ecosystem and become ‘brands of record.’

Spanish-language streaming service ViX is embarking on its next growth phase, with scripted melodrama, comedies and documentaries and more copro partnerships high on its wishlist.