TellyCast: The TV industry news review

Episode 42 - Spring Films' Andre Singer, Drive's Lilla Hurst, Jason Fox & Realscreen's Barry Walsh

Listen on

Episode notes

It's a Realscreen Summit special show as Spring Films' Founder Andre Singer OBE and Drive's Joint MD Lilla Hurst discuss working with Werner Herzog, COVID's effect on feature documentary production, network and streaming buyer trends over the past year and what to expect in unscripted in 2021 with host Boom! PR's Justin Crosby.

Plus Special Forces Instructor and star of SAS Who Dares Wins Jason Fox reveals how he came to appear on the show and how he feels about working in TV after a career in the military.

And Realscreen editor & content director Barry Walsh takes us thought what to expect from next week's Summit and gives his predictions for the world of non fiction TV in 2021.

Andre's links
Story of the Week - Dawn Porter https://realscreen.com/2021/01/15/the-golden-age-of-documentary-dawn-porter-on-john-lewis-pete-souza-docs/
Hero of the Week - Michael Apted https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/08/michael-apted-director-seven-up-dies-79
Bin - https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/phil-spector-documentary-agony-182715/
TheTwo Lives of Li Ermao https://www.bilibili.com/s/video/BV1iC4y1H7XK

Lilla's links
Story of the Week - https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/viewers-baffled-as-matt-hancock-appears-to-give-interviews-from-toilet/ar-BB1cCToP
Hero of the Week - Alex Mahon https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dralexmahon_i-talked-to-channel-4s-team-today-we-activity-6753090936072470529-q1kS
Bin - https://www.itv.com/hub/the-pembrokeshire-murders/2a6732

Jason's links
Inside the Real Narcos - https://www.netflix.com/title/80240817
SAS Who Dares Wins - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4CblR-lHCc&ab_channel=All4

Use Realscreen Summit discount code TELLYCASTREAL21 for $200 delegate discount here - http://bit.ly/2LBLCQz

TellyCast is edited by Ian Chambers. Recorded in London in lockdown 3.0

Music by David Turner, lunatrax. Recorded in lockdown March 2020 by David Turner, Will Clark and Justin Crosby. Voiceover by Megan Clark.