How to Work the Film & TV Markets

8 Mise en Scène¹

There are books and blogs galore on the television industry (and independent film business) but before we delve specifically into the world of TV markets (and the professionals who frequent them), let’s first do a quick, armchair location/tech scout of the worldwide television landscape. Undeniably as cursory as a rock skipping across a river, hopefully this speedy viewfinding orientation will provide us with a shared base camp from which to venture.

• The only constant in life is change.

~attributed to Heraclitus c.500 BC

The UK and the US

There’s an incredible amount of programming being shown on the estimated 15,000 television channels around the world. The largest broadcasting corporation on earth is the British Broadcasting ...