Directing and Producing Television Entertainment

Scholarships Available

2 Years Full-time

Main Campus In person

Application deadline 4 Jul 2024

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Directing and Producing Television Entertainment

COURSE OVERVIEW

Ready to create a hit format like Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice or Gogglebox?

This innovative course is designed to fast-track you into the TV entertainment industry. We run our course like a production company – we are either in pre-production, shooting or in post-production – where you will be pitching, producing and directing your own TV show in our multi-camera 4K TV studio.

In partnership with BBC Studios and BBC Children's

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Tamzin Murray directing live television show

“The course covers a range of professional TV skills and offers great opportunities to connect with and enter the TV industry.”

Ruheng Wang
2020 Graduate, Development Producer at ZigZag Productions, Creative Director at FlintWalk

"I really feel like the NFTS is preparing me for my future. It is bringing out strengths and qualities I didn't know that I had."

Tamzin Murray
Current student

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This intensely practical course focuses on major entertainment genres. You’ll be taught by top industry professionals on location and in our state-of-the-art studio, learning how to develop ideas, pitch, research, find locations, script and edit. You’ll work with, amongst others, floor managers, vision mixers, online editors, camera and lighting crew, to give you the full sense of being on a professional set.

You will begin the course developing an understanding of television history, before moving on to the future and the generation of new ideas, putting this into practice.

 

COURSE FACILITIES

You will have unparalleled access to Industry-standard facilities throughout the course. The 4K Television Studio is fully equipped with state-of-the-art UHD TV galleries with HDR monitoring, and can facilitate large-scale multi-camera, television productions. New LED-lighting has recently been installed to bring the stage to a full state-of-the-art level.

Funding Available

The NFTS awards more scholarships and bursaries to British students, relative to the size of our student body, than almost any other educational institution in the UK. If you’re successful at gaining a place on the course, you will be contacted by our funding team with details on how to apply for one of these scholarships.

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Student Showcase

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After Hours - Episode 1

2022 magazine show

Director - Karan Dhar

Producer - Tamzin Murray

The multi-camera studio magazine programme is directed and produced by 1st year students each year. After Hours aired live and was streamed online across four evenings with a mix of art, music and culture content.

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Thrifted (trailer)

2022 graduate production

Director - Marina Hofling

Producer - Adriana Steinke

Each year, second year students create their own TV pilots. These can be shot in the multi-camera 4K Television Studio, on location or a mixture of both.

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Flavours without Borders (trailer)

2021 graduate production

Director - Desi Traichevska

Producer - Dominika Lapinska

Flavours without Borders was nominated for a Royal Television Society Postgraduate Comedy and Entertainment Award.

Graduate Success

In recent years, our students have sold entertainment formats to Warner Brothers Television and ITV and graduation projects have won prestigious awards from the New York Television Festival and the Royal Television Society.

Recent credits include...

The Last Leg

Producer Meera Jade Patel

the Last Leg publicity poster

Graduate Success

In recent years, our students have sold entertainment formats to Warner Brothers Television and ITV and graduation projects have won prestigious awards from the New York Television Festival and the Royal Television Society.

Recent credits include...

Have I Got News For You (Series 66)

Director Abigail Dankwa

Have I Got News For You publicity still

Graduate Success

In recent years, our students have sold entertainment formats to Warner Brothers Television and ITV and graduation projects have won prestigious awards from the New York Television Festival and the Royal Television Society.

Recent credits include...

The Gold

Director Aneil Karia

The Gold poster

Graduate Success

In recent years, our students have sold entertainment formats to Warner Brothers Television and ITV and graduation projects have won prestigious awards from the New York Television Festival and the Royal Television Society.

Recent credits include...

The Traitors (US)

Edit Producer Jamie Minty

The Traitors US poster

Graduate Success

In recent years, our students have sold entertainment formats to Warner Brothers Television and ITV and graduation projects have won prestigious awards from the New York Television Festival and the Royal Television Society.

Recent credits include...

Gordon Ramsay's Future Food Stars

Creative Director for Development Fernando Gutierrez

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Graduate Success

In recent years, our students have sold entertainment formats to Warner Brothers Television and ITV and graduation projects have won prestigious awards from the New York Television Festival and the Royal Television Society.

Recent credits include...

Glastonbury 2022

Shooting Researcher Nelson Asare

Glastonbury music festival