DETAILED SESSIONS AGENDA
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08:00 - 09:00 Registration and continental breakfastRegistration and continental breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 State of the Unscripted Nation
Leading executives outline the current shape and future direction of the global unscripted content business. What creative and commercial pressures currently impact the sector and which models will prove successful in future?
Moderator: Mike Beale, Director International Formats, ITV Studios
09:45 - 10:30 New Models, New Formats, New Partnerships
As new production and finance models emerge that leverage brand relationships, this session explores how The Story Lab is partnering with indie producers in new ways to allow them to create formats and get them on-air around the world.
Moderator: Mark Rowland, Chair, C21 Media
10:30 - 11:00 Keynote Interview: Alison Kirkham, BBC
Alison became controller of factual commissioning for the BBC in 2015. Since then, the factual department has garnered immense critical acclaim and many awards, including Baftas for Blue Planet II, Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum & Dad and Murdered for Being Different; RTS Programme Awards for Hospital, Exodus, Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents and World War One Remembered: Passchendale – For the Fallen; and Grierson Awards for Muslims Like Us and Forces of Nature with Brian Cox.
Alison’s commissions include the the Bafta-winning documentary Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum & Dad, and she was the commissioning executive producer on the BBC’s coverage of the recent Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and secured their exclusive engagement interview.
Moderator: David Glover, Founder, 72 Films
11:00 - 11:30 NETWORKING BREAK (Hall 1 - Kings Place)NETWORKING BREAK
11:30 - 12:00 12:00 - 12:45 12:45 - 13:15 One-on-one: Marc Juris, WE tv
In conversation with Marc Juris. Marc is a uniquely talented creative executive with a proven track record of creating and developing brands and compelling original content for television and digital platforms across numerous networks. As president and general manager of WE tv, he oversees all aspects of the network’s creative and business functions, including original programme development and production, scheduling and acquisitions, all marketing, advertising and promotional efforts and long and short-term planning and strategy.
Moderator: Ian Moffitt, Agent, ICM Partners
13:15 - 14:15 NETWORKING LUNCH (Hall 1 - Kings Place)NETWORKING LUNCH
14:15 - 15:00 15:00 - 15:45 Development Slate: Transatlantic Strategies
Leading producers from the UK and the US take us inside their development slates to reveal their production pipelines and explain their strategies for future content development and international partnerships.
Moderator: Clive Whittingham, News editor, C21 Media
15:45 - 16:30 Exploring the New Finance Frontier
There are plenty of non-traditional sources of development and production finance available to unscripted producers these days, ranging from telcos to VC funds to brands and beyond. This session explores the pros and cons, in terms of creative control, rights retention and strings attached.
Moderator: Ben Barrett, Joint managing director, Drive
16:30 - 17:15 Case Study: All Together Now
With Endemol Shine Group’s hit UK format All Together Now licensed into more than 11 territories worldwide, we meet the team behind the original BBC1 series and look at its adaptation into Europe’s largest TV market and other global territories.
Moderator: Charles Lauder, CEO, Indie Club
17:15 - 18:00 One-on-One: Doug Ross, Evolution Media
In conversation with Doug Ross. Doug is the founder of the independent US production company Evolution Media (acquired by MGM in 2017), and heads up the company’s varied slate of reality programmes. Currently, he is executive producer of MTV’s reboot of The Hills, E!’s Botched and Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and its spin-off Vanderpump Rules, as well as the franchise that started it all, The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Doug is considered an innovator in the reality television genre, having created TV’s first teen docu-drama, Disney’s Bug Juice, and is also known for challenging convention with Bravo’s controversial gay dating series Boy Meets Boy and the network’s docu-series Gay Weddings.
Moderator: Mark Rowland, Chair, C21 Media
18:00 - 19:00 Closing CocktailsClosing Cocktails