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My guest this week is the master of reinvention. David Smyth's career has taken him from scheduling at the BBC, heading series acquisitions at Sky, distribution at 20th Century Fox and he has now launched a new AVOD service called YouLook. He shares his experiences of jumping into a cold bath at Sky, selling spy drama The Americans to Russia, and his attempts to get arrested in Romania with The Simpsons. Enjoy! 

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It's lockdown 3.0, where we all stay inside and communicate with the outside world via video chat. Sounds a lot like Big Brother, one of the world's most successful TV formats, so it's a good time to chat to one our leading entertainment format producers, Danny Fenton, who is CEO of UK indie powerhouse Zig Zag Productions. Danny talks formats, sports programming, producing during Covid and why he is the George Graham of the TV industry. Enjoy!

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My guest this week is documentary filmmaker Steven Leckart. After starting his career as a journalist, Steven made the move in to documentaries. He wrote the Emmy-winning HBO two-parter What's My Name: Muhammad Ali and his four part series, Challenger: The Final Flight, has been a breakout success on #Netflix. We talked documentary techniques, helping to bring the seminal The Long Tail into existence, working with the master of space, JJ Abrams, and finishing a project in a pandemic. Enjoy

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Discovering Dragons Den, going on the road with the Fonz and Captain Kirk and checking on Burt Reynolds - such is the life of the international TV formats professional. In this week's episode, Tim Crescenti shares his experiences and insights and talks about the innovation we are seeing in response to the pandemic and lockdown.

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Here Comes Pod...again! With lockdowns, travel bans and new restrictive tiers in place, it felt like the perfect time to bring back the podcast, and to look at the world of sports broadcasting. My guest this week is Caj Sohal, head of sport at UK broadcaster Channel 5 and a man with a fascinating history in sports broadcasting. I hope you enjoy the chat.

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My guest this week is documentary filmmaker Steven Leckart. After starting his career as a journalist, Steven made the move in to documentaries. He wrote the Emmy-winning HBO two-parter What's My Name: Muhammad Ali and his four part series, Challenger: The Final Flight, has been a breakout success on Netflix. We talked documentary techniques, helping to bring the seminal The Long Tail into existence, working with the master of space, JJ Abrams, and finishing a project in a pandemic. Enjoy!

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He's the TV executive who grew up without a TV in the house, but that only inspired A+E's Dan Korn to become a documentary director and producer, before becoming a senior programming executive. In this week's pod, Dan shares his experiences of building an indy programming portfolio, a slate of shows for broadcast, the challenges of lockdown and the value of channels in a fragmenting media landscape. Enjoy!  

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Who's Calling Christian? It's high profile media executive Rob Atkinson, although we were calling him for this week's pod. Rob shares his experiences from 30 years in the media industry, with highly successful stints at national newspapers, out of home media owners and radio in the UK and abroad; signing up Christian O'Connell for radio in Melbourne; and developing new audio distribution channels. We also get thoughts on the launch of Times Radio and how his current clients are responding to the lockdown. 

Music: Si Oldhams  

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