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 – you’ll go from pitching to producing and directing your own TV show in our multi-camera 4K TV studio or on location.
Content Tabs
This intensely practical course focuses on major entertainment genres, including factual entertainment, game shows, magazine shows and music shows. 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 invaluable experience 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 multi-purpose LED lighting. It can facilitate large-scale multi-camera, television productions.
You’ll learn to develop, script, direct and produce your own entertainment programmes either in the TV studio or on location – with all production costs covered by the school.
You’ll experience the full production cycle from the conception of an idea and planning, right through to budgeting, shooting and post production, with specifically tailored modules taught by top television professionals.
You will also get to pitch your entertainment idea to broadcasters, including Sky and the BBC.
You must be able to demonstrate your passion, commitment and talent for developing a career in Entertainment Television.
While many applicants will have a degree from a British or overseas university, we will consider applicants who do not have a degree if they have an impressive portfolio, a creative track record (for instance, in theatre or other arts) or an alternative qualification.
International students Visa and English language requirements
If you have any questions, please email info@nfts.co.uk
The following items should accompany your online application:
- A short proposal for a television entertainment programme (no more than one A4 typed page)
- a critical analysis of a current entertainment television programme or series (not drama) (no more than two A4 typed pages)
- Vimeo links with samples of your work specifying your exact role in each. This work need not be in the entertainment area, as some applicants may not have a film or other programme-making background.
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.
Student Showcase
The Ratings Game (trailer)
TV Entertainment Grad Show 2024
Director - Kathrine Vintersborg
Producer - Samuel Ofori-Attah
Reality show in which contestants rate each other face-to-face, featuring pioneering use of VP wall technology in multicamera studio entertainment.
The Good, The Dad and The Ugly (trailer)
TV Entertainment Grad Show 2024
Director - Chiara Schreder
Producer - Natalia Branco
Factual entertainment format which sees fathers and sons go on a literal and metaphorical journey of self-discovery to reconnect with each other.
The Ministry of Enigmatic Affairs (trailer)
TV Entertainment Grad Show 2024
Director - Karan Dhar
Producer - Marina Fistal
Mockumentary in which paranormal investigators from a little-known government ministry meet a cast of real historians and psychics in the hope of connecting with the spirit of Henry VIII…
Bongo's Big Adventure (trailer)
TV Entertainment Grad Show 2024
Director - Matt Branston
Producer - Tamzin Murray
A scripted musical kids show about a honey badger with mental health problems.
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...
Black Magic With Trixy
Multistory Media / ITV’s Fresh Cuts for ITVX
Producer/Director Samuel Ofori-Attah
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, Season 2)
Studio Lambert for Peacock
Edit Producer Jamie Minty
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 Chase (Series 15 & 16)
Potato for ITV
Researcher Marcus Brooker
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...
Gold Rush (Series 15)
Raw TV for Discovery
Assistant Producer Adam Robinson
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)
Hat Trick Productions for BBC
Director Abigail Dankwa
