Welcome to TV Drama Forum

Welcome to the TV Drama Forum

the event that brings together the entire value chain of the genre to examine funding, commercial and creative issues.

The TV Drama Forum enables you to hear the latest content requirements and budgets from top drama commissioners and gain inspiration from the genre’s creative and business leaders. The forum is an invaluable resource in shaping your drama strategy at a time when commissioning budgets are under severe pressure.

Traditional funding models under strain, changing consumer demands, relatively high costs, intense competition – making and distributing drama has never been tougher. But there are green shoots on the horizon. Innovative funding deals have been struck, enterprising producers are delivering, high quality, lower cost drama and online represents a new way to engage with audiences.

At the Drama TV Forum you will:

• Hear the top commissioners from the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Sky outline what drama projects they are looking for and the budgets they have to play with
• Gain invaluable advice on meeting the lower cost drama requirement with case studies from the producers of 1066, City of Vice and Being Human 
• Unlock the creative secrets of delivering world class, mass appeal drama from Spooks creator Jane Featherstone and Oscar winner Julian Fellowes
• Discover how you can engage with new audiences online and extend your brand experience in a case study from the BBC
• Meet new contacts from across the field to develop meaningful business relationships