Inside daytime television: Ideas, reveals and hard work
Could you hack it on a daytime TV production team? Find out if you have what it takes.
Daytime television was once thought of as the nursery slopes of a TV career. Today its complex formats and production requirements are seen by many as more challenging than peak-time programming.
鈥淵ou will learn more making a daytime show than any other.鈥濃 Rachel Innes-Lumsden
Smaller teams, smaller budgets and tighter schedules mean there鈥檚 little room for error. That makes a daytime production team a well-oiled machine where everyone knows their job.
Street Auction (above) and Dom on the Spot are two 成人论坛 One daytime series that were given the green light by commissioning editor Lindsay Bradbury. Alongside Lindsay in this week鈥檚 podcast are Julia Foot, series producer of Street Auction, and Rachel Innes-Lumsden, executive producer from the independent production company TwoFour which makes Dom on the Spot
In this podcast you鈥檒l learn:
- the pros and cons of working on daytime programmes
- the daytime TV production process
- the relationship between commissioning editors and programme producers
- the schedules for daytime productions
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