Bang Goes the Doco!
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Wednesday, Dec. 2
session room: Savoy 2
Smart, entertaining formats are everywhere dispensing information in bite-sized easy-to-consume portions. Meanwhile audiences are voting with their channel changers and science and history documentaries are fighting for their lives. Has the time come to put the traditional documentary out of its misery and pronounce it dead, or is there life in the old doc yet?
Session Producer and Moderator
Richard Bradley, Managing Director, Lion TV (UK)
Panelists
David Glover, Commissioning Editor, Science, Channel 4 (UK)
Steve Hewlett, Writer, Broadcaster and Media Consultant (UK)
Michael Hoff, President and Executive Producer,Hoff Productions (USA)
Debbie Myers, General Manager - Science Channel, Discovery / Executive Vice President, Programming, Discovery Emerging Networks (USA)
Kim Shillinglaw, Commissioning Editor, Science and Natural History, BBC (UK)
Thomas von Hennet, Head of Documentaries & International Co-Production, ProSieben Television (Germany)
Sponsored by BBC