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Six Pitching Lessons from the Dragons’ Den
Dragons’ Den: Success From Pitch to Profit, is a book that profiles the dragons and examines case studies of people who have successfully or unsuccessfully pitched in the den. If you read it with your development head on it has a number of lessons that can be applied to the development and pitching of factual TV programmes. (Photo by e-magic.)
How to Turn One Subject Area into Ten Programme Ideas
Tribes: from documentary to reality in ten steps.
Field Guide to Factual Formats that Sell
A drama series is easy to recognize and categorize, but factual programming is more difficult to define. Different producers, commissioners, channels and countries use different names to describe the same thing.
15 Steps to Writing an Impressive Non-Fiction TV Proposal
Your written proposal is possibly your first – maybe your only – shot at impressing a commissioner so it’s important to capture their attention for the right reasons. Take the time to get it right.
Seven Reasons a Commissioner Will Reject Your Idea
Your commissioning editor needs to be reassured that you have the necessary skills and experience to make the programme you are proposing or they will reject your idea, no matter how good it is.
Ten Habits That Generate Winning TV Programme Ideas
To be successful at generating commissionable new TV programme ideas you need to do two things: Understand what channels are looking for
Actively look for new ideas that fit those channel needs.
