Expedition with Steve Backshall
Backshall, for Sky Nature, which was delivered in less than 18 months.
CL The truth is you need a hell of a lot of experience and track record. You need the belief that you can deliver great programmes, alongside the humility to face constant rejection and pain. It’s a very weird, schizophrenic approach.
EH If I was
setting up a new indie, I would hire a big factual name and set up in a city that is at least 200 miles in any direction from London. But it’s tough out there – you have to have some financial backing, you have to have talent that will reassure the commissioners and ideally, you’d have a series to get started with.
WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST CHANGES THAT WE WILL SEE IN THE INDUSTRY BY 2030?
SC Who knows? I hope that we’re not in a streaming bubble, a golden
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DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN REDUCTION IN QUALITY
THAT LOCALISATION DEMONSTRATED COVID HAS
age of streaming that’s created all this amazing opportunity. But I expect there’s going to be an awful lot of consolidation, as audiences realise the offer from a multititude of streamers is not that attractive and will double down on a handful. That will produce its own Darwinian outcome and in the Darwinian equation there’ll be fewer premium producers. There’s a huge challenge for linear television and quite how they compete, particularly the PSB
broadcasters. That will have
changed dramatically by 2030 and I’m hoping very much that they’ll find their voice and place.
SM We must seriously take into account the impact of climate on our production models. Covid has demonstrated that localisation does not necessarily mean reduction in quality, and with that localisation comes - hopefully - a reduction in carbon footprint….The rise of AI, AR and robotics is also going to transform our industry - not
necessarily on the consumer side but on production processes and technology. We’ve only just scratched the surface of what drones are capable of, and we will see even more innovation over the next ten years. Keeping up with it, while also knowing which tech to back, will be the challenge.
DD I don’t know how many of us content creators will survive. I think there’s lot of us starting up and I’m not sure we’ll all going to be here in the same shape and form, not with an attack on terms of trade, really big powerful players in the market and channels developing their own in- house production…..A lot of us will go
off in a slightly different direction.
WD The industry will be more global, with fewer bigger players and greater vertical integration - streamers bringing core production assets in house. Production lead times will be shorter, and we are likely to see increasingly sophisticated commercial funding models and perhaps even funding from philanthropic sources.
CL This, here is the future. It was always about the programmes. In the future the producers, who have always begin kings and queens, will be anointed as such. The content producers will hold more power.
The School that Tried to End Racism
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