The Day The Music Television Died – MGEITF 2012

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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 Toadlickers on TV

The Toadlickers video I directed gets its first television airing this week on Vintage TV. It will be broadcast as part of a programme entitled ‘Thomas Dolby – My Vintage’ in which, according to the channel, “Thomas Dolby talks us through the songs and artists that have inspired him over his remarkable music career and gives us a taste of what’s in store for us with his latest releases.”

Transmission takes place on Sky 369 and Freesat 515:

Thurs 14th July 8pm
Friday 15th July 9pm
Sunday 17th July 6pm

Sex & Docs & Rock ‘n’ Roll

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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”

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