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Good grief! It’s Good Friday already! Easter Greetings from Not From Concentrate HQ where public holidays don’t mean that much anymore. Still, that’s a cross we have to bear. See what I did there?
Amongst the other jobs to get done today, I wanted to write a protracted blog post that covers the [...]
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As we take the first steps into this all-new, but as-yet-undefinitively-named, decade, we’d like to be the first to officially proclaim that TV certainly isn’t dead – despite the protestations of many of its opponents in the middle of the Noughties – but continues to be the cornerstone of visual entertainment in [...]
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A fortnight or so after the official launch of Not From Concentrate, there’s a small window of opportunity – perhaps more of a porthole – to braindump and share some of the experiences that we’ve encountered during the pre-public launch phase of this humble-but-aiming-high start-up.
So, in no particular order, here go-go-goes:
GET OUT OF [...]
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Blimey, take a few days out to spend some time in the Spanish sun with the Little ‘Un and all hell breaks loose, in TV terms at least.
Seems that some of the industry’s great and good have been having a pop at various aspects of the media establishment and what it purveys. [...]
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Great opening episode of Soho Stories, a three-part series on Radio 4 fronted by ITV’s former Director of Entertainment and Comedy and current CEO of Eyeworks UK, Paul Jackson.
This episode – A Thousand Flowers – documented the creation of Channel 4 in 1982, despite the protestations of ITV and the Beeb, and [...]
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I see that El Tel hit the tabloid headlines this weekend – PR-fectly timed a few weeks before his new series returns to the box – bemoaning the “cheap” and “humiliating” state of today’s TV schedules.
“It’s not what it was like 50 years ago,” he laments. Of course it’s not and would he [...]
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Great mix of meetings last week with broadcasters, indies and emerging creatives, as the Not From Concentrate network widens, gradually getting the word out about this – increasingly apparent – unique approach to finding new content ideas from the rich seam of undiscovered talent across the globe.
From the industry side of things, I [...]
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That, my friends, is what Not From Concentrate is: we take ideas for new content, refine and tart them up, then take them to the street and pimp them out to the industry.
Many thanks to the legend that is Aegis’s Steve Taylor for this soon-to-be-copyrighted three-syllable strapline that will further confuse and [...]
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Just back from a couple of weeks on the continent – a three country jaunt to France, Spain and Italy – and absorbed as much media as possible in various houses, hotel rooms and hire cars.
Spent most of my time in France and, as much as I love the country, there’s [...]
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The May Day bank holiday has been and gone and the annual three-day migration from urban sprawls to rural retreats – or vice versa – and back again, via the frankly appalling motorway network and the full-to-bursting B-roads, is behind us.
As the temperature rises and cherry blossom appears, [...]
Friday, April 2, 2010
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