MA COURSES
Producing and Directing Television Entertainment
Entertainment shows are at the centre of our television schedules. The massive range of programmes under the entertainment umbrella – Dragon’s Den, Buzzcocks, The Apprentice, Later with Jools Holland, Deal or No Deal, Peep Show and, of course, X Factor - give us our peak time viewing, not to mention many of our celebrities.

Television entertainment is ideas-driven and a good format can be a hit all over the world. But having the idea is the easy part: developing it to the stage where it it’s ready for production takes inspiration, guts, planning and, most of all, talent.

On this Television MA course, students learn to develop, script, produce and direct their own single camera or multi-camera entertainment programmes, using the School’s own television studio or out on location. They graduate with:

  • the skills to direct TV studio multi-camera and single camera

  • the know-how to produce single items or entire entertainment shows

  • A practical working knowledge of current television production methods

  • the ability to edit on Avid Xpress and Final Cut Pro

  • the ability to generate entertainment programme ideas

  • the confidence and know-how to pitch those ideas to commissioning editors


    • Important professional contacts are made throughout the course, along with top placements and mentors.

    The unique content of the course, and the Industry contacts made throughout it, along with work placements and mentoring relationships, put students in an enviable situation on graduation.

    BBC Placement for graduates
    In association with the BBC, two graduating students are offered 3-month paid attachments in the Entertainment Department.

    Recent graduates of this course have found work in production companies as researchers, assistant producers, or in development. Others have directed comedy and documentary. In 2009, new graduate Aneil Karia was named a Broadcast Hotshot in TV industry magazine Broadcast’s annual round-up of the brightest and best new talent coming into television.