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Longform ad content offers a boon to broadcasters and advertisers

Answering the call for content with 'global appeal'

Building representative teams leads to authenticity

The UK TV industry is broken – and here's why it won't change

Children’s content in a changing commissioning and distribution landscape

The Young Audiences Content Fund – evaluating the evaluation

How Apple's Vision Pro could disrupt the content space

How to go beyond whodunnit in true crime

Don't let the fire of creativity die

Are digital formats the next revolution in the TV business?

How CEE's factual producers are going global

Reinventing linear TV to reach teens

Five key takeaways from the LA Screenings

How AI will drive the entertainment business

Streamers should be allowed to take a side

Tips on getting into the FAST track

Drama can help overcome our deathly silence about mortality

London calling: New business models in the screenings spotlight

Why streamers would be smart to pick up Spanish

How SVoD services are battling to keep pace

Never let a good writers' strike go to waste

Will YouTube Shorts put digital creators in the money?

M&A spotlight turns towards Latin America

Wildflame keeps in step with BBC dance format

Finding more magic in Disney’s Animal Kingdom

What does the algorithm method mean for creativity?

Scripted TV's silver linings playbook

Will 2023 be the year of the consumer?

What does the metaverse mean for content?

Helping kids to look beyond the binge

Harvesting goose bumps at science congress

Cultivating an air of mystery with episodic drama

The unstoppable advance of AVoD

The age of anxiety

The appliance of science programming

Exploring the future for free

Scoring a World Cup success

Five things I learned about factual at Mipcom

It’s Cannes Jim, but not as we know it

That's entertainment: my tips for success in Cannes

Jackson Wild spotlights diverse voices and carbon footprints

What will an AVoD golden age mean?

Top five takeaways from Amsterdam's IBC2022

How to bridge the TV/social media gap

Key points to remember in format creation

Reboots on the other foot as risk-averseness returns

Feeding the appetite for snackable shortform content

The funding journey around John Torode's Ireland

Pursuing The Case of Marine A for Channel 4

Has the Nordic production boom peaked?

What does platform saturation mean for kids' SVoD?

Learning to navigate the coproduction minefield

KiKA at 25: endless change and challenges

The fight goes on in UK children’s media

Welcome to YouTube, the very hungry platform

Inside BBC Studios Kids & Family

How VR offers viewers and filmmakers new perspectives

Arrow's nail-biting journey to Mars mission doc

What TV can learn from social media formats

Connect the tots: forging loyalty at an early age

Time TV woke up to social change

Why old-school distribution skills still hold value

Will the metaverse replace mainstream kids' TV?

Great leap forward: taking history into the future

HiddenLight pulls back the curtain on corporate brands

Drive's Lilla Hurst sends a postcard from the Croisette

Olena Shkrobot on life during wartime

How TV can help make sense of a senseless world

Lat Am moves beyond narco drama with European copros

TV industry silence abandons Ukraine

WildEarth TV moves into the FAST lane

Raiders of the narrative arc: Marking the Tutankhamun centenary

Blueprint for taking the pain out of factual coproduction

Mystic experience: why children's TV needs to tackle tough subjects

Why NFTs are a legal grey area for the screen industry

Zeroing in on the Washington snipers' story

Why streaming means it’s a good time to be small

Learning the new language of programming

Age-appropriate content is a whole new Squid Game

Making the sustainable attainable

It's not the size of the dog in the fight

Navigating a FAST distribution strategy

When a distributor morphs into a coproducer

TV demonstrates a talent for identifying rising costs

Making the most of the new normal at Content London

Arrow Pictures docuseries looks for positive change

The art of adapting children's literature

Taking the climate message into uncharted waters

Independents' day: the advantages of going it alone

Cutting through with purpose

Fast-tracking the development of kids’ TV

Making the kind of content that matters to kids

Game development: making sitting down look exciting

NFTs will take TV to the metaverse, and beyond

Access all areas: how to grab a buyer’s attention

Will Canada finally update its media laws?

Why kids are key to the entertainment wars

Natural history embarks on a new adventure

Giving books their rightful place

Please release me: where next for movie windowing?

How the McLeod bros squared the circle

A new golden age of sport documentaries

Reasons to be cheerful

How to sell your indie

Who's laughing now?

Regional accent

Can online markets find a place?

This year's financing models

Keeping tabs on your IP

Success on paper

The digital human touch

Kiwis taking off

Fact into fiction

United we stand

Sourcing a crowd

Skin in the game

Graphic reality

The great divide

On Gaddafi's trail

Graphic expression

What’s love got to do with it?

The public domain conundrum

Making the leap from page to screen

This thing of ours

The year of literary adaptation

Full stream ahead for 2021

Keep calm and carry on

2021: A good year for distribution?

A new course of live-action

Staying in the game

Withstanding the online onslaught

Cracking YouTube Kids

Growing evergreen

Frapa 20 years on

Survival of the genre

Making formats out of a crisis

The year ahead

Better times ahead?

Reading up on book fairs

Beam me in

Untapped opportunity

Into the metaverse

Flight of the imagination

Swept along by Schitt's Creek

Time to take in a rural view

Take control of your content

Affairs of the heart

Keeping copros on track

Staying creative

Why sizzles are hot stuff

Content customs in question

Lessons from the frontline

Time to value our freelancers

Cinema's ticket to surviving Covid

Getting into the room

Family matters

Postcard from Hollywood

The mother of invention

Don't fold, reinvent

Getting on with it

Unlimited period

Better together

Classic comedies save lockdown

Getting in on the game

Welcome to the new normal

Fake news: the truth

A whole new ball game

Developing situation

Back to work?

Discovering gems

Retail therapy

The new normal

Covid-19: Restarting production

The new TV content economy

Follow your audience

Making it quick in lockdown

A new epoch?

Virtual MipTV takeaways

Turning crisis into opportunity

Welcome to the world of N&R indies

Covid-19: The legal fall-out

A purposeful future

The show must go online

Destination television

Repeat problems

An unprecedented crisis

Coronavirus: a new reality for TV?

Electric dreams

Enough about you

Busting the brilliance myth

Are the kids alright?

An academic exercise

Export strength

Auntie's dicey decade

Canada feels the need for speed

Will Quibi get short shrift?

Shallow pockets and high hopes

Screening out the jerks

What is a format?

Streaming’s year of disruption

How to plan for success in 2020

Belfast's buzzing

Tokyo takeaway

Listen for the new voices

Talent competition

LGBTQ+’s no big deal

Game on

Climate change

The Netherlands: road to innovation

There's no Z in 'team'

New dawn for SVoD

Postcard from Cannes

A grey market

Finding the sweet spot

The brainstorm delusion

Licence to bill

Bouncing back?

Reconstructing true crime

Take comfort in old classics

Streaming's big bang

New season, new era

Time to adjust TV’s settings

The write approach

Playing to the crowd

Sailing the CEE

eOne climbs into Hasbro's toy box

Sky’s European adventures

Stand out from the crowd

Agile thinking

Pitching Poland

Owning the middle ground

Lining up a silver cloud

Unmasking Korea's potential

Invest or be damned

Three tribes go to war

Getting ahead in the cloud

Credit and debit

Wheeling out format protection

Palatable partnership

The new season's harvest

Trouble in Tinseltown

Canada must find global remedies

Having a real impact

Tuning into influencer TV

A new interactive dawn

Tech lessons for the media

French factual’s new era

MipTV in the spotlight

Nostalgic feel to Cannes trip

Rebirth of reality

Battle of wordsmiths

Catching the new creatives

The Bristol buzz

Decentralised drama

Plus points for Apple

Disruption diss

Netflix et chill

Manic Monday

Better together

Age is a number, not a skillset

Keeping in the running

Location, location, location

The long and short of it

A bigger pond

Not above the law

The reinvention of TV

What's up, doc?

Making sense of Census 2020

Swept away by streamers

Make AVoD your Priority

Death of the trend

New social circles

Great adaptations

Nine for 2019

The rise of the brand

Australia’s mirror to our planet

The cons of convergence

Drama's next big challenge

Sizing up TV's social role

Eye on the prize

Serial optimism

Netflix takes gloves off in Asia

A good idea is a good idea forever

A matter of time

Class of ’97

Mipcom’s evolution

Bridging the gap

Moving with the times

The $500m question

FAANGs fight first-run battle

Surging shortform

Articles of interest

Playing it by the book

Binge benefits

Freedom to fail

Populist persuasion

Public service announcement

Crossing streams

All inclusive

Rebooting Hollywood