F***king Cats & Cracking Crime
Edinburgh TV Festival 2020
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47m
With compelling and fascinating documentaries dominating the viewing schedules of audiences during lockdown, this panel will focus on how linear Factual TV can roar loud in a world of Joe Exotics and Michael Jordans. Leading TV executives including Minnow Films’ Sophie Leonard, Head of Sky Docs’ Poppy Dixon, BBC Studios’ Tom McDonald alongside Channel 4’s Danny Horan and Rogan Productions’ Soleta Rogan will explore what UK Factual Producers can learn from documentaries such as Tiger King and The Last Dance, debate whether Channel 4 or the BBC would ever have commissioned such series themselves, and look at which stories Factual TV has to tell to attract viewers.
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