Roundtable: Setting standards for true crime
Koulla Anastasi, Tom Barry, Fozia Khan and Guy Davies were among a group of senior execs brought together by Ian Lamarra to share their thoughts on how best to protect and support contributors. When Alaska TV ventured into the red-hot true-crime genre via ITV’s Return To Dunblane With Lorraine Kelly and In The Footsteps Of Killers for Channel 4, […]
Woodcut Media’s Kate Beal on cutting through with fact ent
Kate Beal, founder and CEO of UK indie Woodcut Media, discusses the formation of The Association of True Crime Producers, a move to grow factual entertainment output, battling a commissioning slowdown on both sides of the Atlantic, and her company’s plans for the future. It’s been a tough summer for UK indies by most accounts. […]
Factual TV show to watch : How I Caught The Killer
Factual TV show to watch From scripted adaptations like the factual TV show to watch Pembrokeshire Murders to long-running franchises such as Forensic Files, true crime has shown it can sit equally comfortably in free to air primetime and thematic pay TV. It’s the kind of genre that can either elevate schedules – or provide endlessly […]
Realscreen’s 25th anniversary: “Where to next?” with Woodcut Media’s Kate Beal
In celebration of Realscreen’s 25th anniversary, we reached out to top executives across the non-fiction and unscripted screen content industry to get their perspectives on where the industry is now, and where it’s headed. We continue this series with Kate Beal, founder and CEO of London-headquartered Woodcut Media. What is the biggest challenge facing the unscripted/non-fiction content industry […]
