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Meet the UK Factual Commissioners: Jane Rogerson, Director of Commissioning, UKTV

By TV Mole ⋅ May 8, 2010 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ ⋅Post a comment

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Jane Rogerson, Director of Commissioning at UKTV recently outlined her commissioning needs to attendees of the Broadcast Factual Forum (March 2010). Jane oversees programming on a number of channels, including Home (lifestyle programmes), Good Food (lifestyle) and Yesterday (History), Blighty (UK interest), Watch (entertainment)  and Eden (natural history/anthropology/weather).

Jane's overview of UKTV:

• Each channel has its own sense of identity and branding – explore them on the UKTV website;
• On Yesterday, history concentrates on 1940s and World War II, giving a contemporary vision to history eg. John Nettles on the Channel Islands at War.
• Established onscreen talent reinvented in a lifestyle space works well for them.
• In general, UKTV bigger marketing budgets than the terrestrial channels.

Programmes that work on UKTV:

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• Scream if You Know the Answer (Watch)
• The Baby Bunch (Watch)
• Nick Knowles’ Original Features (Home)
• Ration Book Britain (Yesterday)

Looking For:

• • Jane is actively looking for fact ent formats to follow Dr Who/Torchwood in the 9pm slot on Watch.

Budget

• For lifestyle programmes on Home and Good Food – £40-50K per 60′
• For all other channels – £100K per 60′

Source: Broadcast Factual Forum 10th March, 2010

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