TellyCast: The TV industry news review

Episode 45 - BBC Studios' Sumi Connock, WFTV's Katie Bailiff & TBI's Richard Middleton

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Sumi Connock, Creative Director of Formats at BBC Studios and Katie Bailiff, the new CEO of Women in Film & TV discuss producing hit formats in lockdown and the membership organisation for women working in media with host Boom! PR's Justin Crosby.

And Richard Middleton, editor of Television Business International is back on the show as he updates us on the latest senior TV executive moves in Movers and Shakers. 

Sumi's links
Story of the Week - Married at First Sight Australia https://www.channel4.com/programmes/married-at-first-sight Australia

Hero of the Week/ Get in the Bin - Jackie Weaver https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55945934

Katie's links
Women in Film & TV - https://www.wftv.org.uk
Story of the Week - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55916772 
Hero of the Week - 
Get in the Bin - 

Richard's links 
NBCU - https://tbivision.com/2021/02/03/nbcus-layoffs-continue-as-susan-rovners-entertainment-team-revealed/
Disney - https://tbivision.com/2021/02/04/disney-ups-abc-unscripted-veteran-rob-mills-to-lead-alternative-division/
Bell - https://tbivision.com/2021/02/03/canadas-bell-media-cuts-another-200-jobs-in-latest-streamlining/

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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.