Documentary Campus Masterschool – Call for Entries 2010. Deadline: 2nd October 2009

Documentary Campus Masterschool 2010 is a ten-month long masterclass in which you can get one-to-one and group training sessions (four over the ten months) to help you develop your documentary idea so you can secure international interest and funding. The school allows all kinds of nonfiction genres, from docuseries to one-offs and cross-media projects. Past [...]

Greenlit: Flash Forward Keyword Campaign, ABC.com

Flash Forward is an ABC drama series that gives the world’s population a glimpse into their future, which forces everybody to decide whether they will fulfill or try to avoid their destinies. To promote the series  ABC.com has launched a ‘keyword campaign’ that embeds keywords in the end credits of each episode. Eventually, the words [...]

Meet the Commissioner: Matthew Littleford, UKTV

Matthew Littleford is Channel Controller for the UKTV network; he recently outlined his current channel strategy and needs (as of August 2009).

Matthew’s View on UKTV

* Factual UKTV channels include: Dave, Really, Good Food, Home, Eden, Blighty, Watch and Yesterday.
* Dave website is rebranding and are launching a new schedule in mid-September.
* Really is reality/lifestyle programming for women aged 18-34 years.

Looking For:

* Cookery shows with new (and established) talent for Good Food
* Talent – bigger names.
* Noisy lifestyle shows – with focus on talent, home and foo.

How to pitch

* Send a one-liner with a snappy title.
(Photo by torrez CC BY-SA 2.0)

Greenlit: The Ultimate Fighter: The Aftermath, Spike TV Online

The Ultimate Fighter: The Aftermath – Online discussion after the end of each episode of The Ultimate Fighter, hosted by Amir Sadollah. After the TV bout, viewers can leave questions on spike.com, which will be put to experts such as Greg Jackson, Rashad Evans and Tiki Ghosn the following Monday. Eliminated fighters talk about the [...]

Good Ideas in Storytelling

Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X, has just published his new novel, Generation A, and is at the start of a book tour across Canada, USA and the UK.  What you might not know is that he is also a visual artist, sculptor, furniture designer and screenwriter. Read his quotes, including: “Quick. Name ten dead [...]

Double Trouble Pregnancy

Julia Grovenberg from Arkansas, USA  is expecting two babies: one on 24th December 2009 and the other about three weeks later. The babies were conceived on separate occassions and Julia and her husband were given the news by an astounded ultrasound technician. They have been trying for a baby for a while but refused IVF [...]

A Tough Day at Work

If you are 62-years-old and heading towards retirement, you  might hope to freewheel through the last years of your working life. Not so for Washington D.C.’s Metro General Manager John B. Catoe Jr, who has recently had the toughest three months of his career; just before his contract renewal is due. Under pressure to modernize [...]

Greenlit: Ghost Lab, Discovery

Ghost Lab (13 x ) – Brad and Barry Klinge visit America’s most haunted places in their mobile ‘ghost lab’, to investigate the paranormal happenings with their high tech ghost-busting equipment, including video surveillance and tools to analyze photos. Channel: Discovery Producer: Go Go Lucky Entertainment TX: 6th October, 2009 Source: Cynopsis

The Brixton Pound

Brixton in south London has just launched a new currency B£ – the Brixton pound – to encourage local people and businesses to spend their money locally. 70 local cafes, pubs and shops have signed up and the scheme is backed by Lambeth Council. Brixton is the fourth community in Britian to adopt a local [...]

HBO Imagine

HBO Imagine is a new Flash-based multiplatform interactive storytelling site that tells a story from four different perspectives simultaneously. The stories play out on different walls of a video cube and you can click on arrows to turn the cube to get the full story. The are 41 bits of interrelated content including audio, news [...]