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The Day The Music Television Died – MGEITF 2012

You don’t expect the penultimate session of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival to be the most important and far reaching of the whole event. By the final morning, many delegates are partied out, hungover and either fast asleep, or on their way home. However, at this year’s penultimate panel, ‘Meet the Controllers: Multi Channel, Entertainment’, MTV dropped a bombshell. Continue reading “The Day The Music Television Died – MGEITF 2012”

Happy Birthday to Me!

The Paul D TV blog is one year old today! To celebrate, here’s the top 20 posts from the past year: Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Me!”

The Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2011

Every year, they key players in the British broadcasting industry gather in Scotland, for the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival. The event, now in its 36th year, comprises a weekend of seminars, screenings and parties, that this year included appearances by all of the major channel controllers, Dr. Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google, Glenn Brown, Director of Business Development at Twitter, a handful of TV comedians…and Ricky Gervais… Continue reading “The Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2011”

Sex & Docs & Rock ‘n’ Roll

With a lineup boasting Albert Maysles, Nick Broomfield, Morgan Spurlock, Molly Dineen, Bruce Parry, Adam Curtis, Danfung Dennis and more commissioners, exec producers and distributors than you could shake a begging bowl at, it’s easy to see why this year’s Sheffield Documentary Festival (which took place earlier this month) attracted over 2000 delegates from across the globe. Staged at venues across Sheffield’s city centre, it was a heady mix of film festival, programme market, seminars, masterclasses, roundtable discussions, pitching sessions and educational opportunities, that offered something to everyone who is or aspires to be part of the documentary world. Continue reading “Sex & Docs & Rock ‘n’ Roll”

Sensoria Pro

Last week I appeared on the ‘What Makes a Great Music Video‘ panel at Sensoria Pro, with Martyn Ware of Heaven 17.

Sensoria is an annual film and music festival that takes place in Sheffield a (northern English) city boasting a rich musical heritage that includes Cabaret Voltaire, The Human League, Heaven 17, ABC, Pulp, The Arctic Monkeys, Def Leppard, Moloko, The Longpigs and Reverend & The Makers. Sensoria Pro is the two day music industry festival within a festival. Continue reading “Sensoria Pro”