Greenlit: Developing Factual/TV Ideas From Concept to Pitch – OUT NOW!

There are some simple principles to successfully developing and pitching your ideas, whether you are working for a global ‘super-indie’ production company, or are a documentary filmmaker pitching a passion project. The extraordinary thing is that no one will tell you what they are! Greenlit is the first book to reveal, step-by-step, how to originate, develop and pitch your factual/non-scripted TV ideas in a global market.

Get insider tips from: * 10 TV development producers – who have a combined 50+ years experience of developing and pitching ideas at all levels; * 20 senior executives who have sold some of the world’s most successful shows, to: * 16 channel executives, who between them have worked at: * 18 TV channels in: * 7 countries across 4 continents.

Greenlit is available now from Amazon and all good bookstores.

Greenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas From Concept to Pitch – Recommended Resources

Greenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch reveals how to get an idea for a documentary or non-fiction/reality television series such as Touching the Void, The Apprentice or Supernanny from concept to commission and explains why having a great idea is not enough. Candid interviews with fifty top industry insiders – including international [...]

Greenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas From Concept to Pitch – Filmography

Greenlit: Developing Factual/Reality TV Ideas from Concept to Pitch reveals how to get an idea for a documentary or non-fiction/reality television series such as Touching the Void, The Apprentice or Supernanny from concept to commission and explains why having a great idea is not enough. Candid interviews with fifty top industry insiders – including international [...]

Greenlit: Blood, Sweat and Luxuries, BBC3

Blood, Sweat and Luxuries (5×60′) – Six young British people travel to Ethiopia, Madagascar and Ghana for an eye-opening insight into the human cost of the manufacture of luxury goods. Channel: BBC3 Producer: Ricochet TX: April 2010 Source: Broadcast

International Factual TV Conferences and Festivals 2010

Roll up, roll up! It’s time to get this year’s factual TV conferences and festivals in you diary so you don’t miss out on any schmoozing and pitching opportunities. There are many film festivals every year: this list only contains festivals and conferences where you can pitch/sell your factual TV ideas and documentaries and network/get a little tipsy with TV channel execs. Can’t decide which one to go to? Visit AJ Schnack’s excellent guide to the Top 25 Documentary Festivals. Click through for more information and links.

Best of TV Mole 2009

As the year is drawing to a close and everyone winds down for the holidays, this is the last feature for 2009. TV Mole is almost one year old, so we thought we’d look back at the most popular articles and programmes of 2009 (and some you might have missed).

We’ll be back in 2010 with more TV industry news, inspiration for ideas and tips on how to get your ideas commissioned. There are also some exciting new developments that a will give YOU a better chance of winning those elusive commissions.

An exclusive handful of people are already in on the secret – and have contributed their expertise – and a global buzz is growing (from LA to Cape Town, London, Mumbai, NYC and Amsterdam). Tom Archer, Controller of Factual, BBC said “it could revolutionize the TV industry…” Sign up for the newsletter to be the first to hear the official announcement and find out how you will benefit!
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Greenlit: Sliced, History

Sliced -  Documentary series that reveals how objects work by cutting them in two. Channel: History Producer: Powderhouse Productions TX: 2010 Source: Cynopsis

Greenlit: American Pickers, History

American Pickers w/t  (10x ) – Docuseries about expert antique hunters Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz who travel the back roads of America looking for treasures. Channel: History Producer: Cineflix Productions TX: 18th Jan 2010  UPDATE: The premiere a total of 3.1m viewers – History’s highest premiere since Ice Road Truckers. Source: Cynopsis

Greenlit: The Children Who Fought Hitler, BBC4

The Children Who Fought Hitler (1×60′) – which tells the forgotten story of a heroic battle to help liberate Europe from the Nazis fought by the children of the British Memorial School. The school served a unique horticultural community of former-First World War soldiers and their families who tended the war graves in Ypres. Channel: [...]

Greenlit: Stacey Dooley’s Child Labour, BBC3

Stacey Dooley’s Child Labour w/t (2×60′) – Former shop assistant and Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts contributor, Stacey Dooley, is to get her own two-part documentary that explores the issues around child labour in Nepal and the Ivory Coast. Channel: BBC3 Producer: Ricochet TX: September 2009 Source: Broadcast