Peter Fincham, co-CEO of Expectation TV, and Jimmy Mulville, co-Founder Hat Trick Productions have teamed up as hosts of a new TV industry podcast.
The first episode of ‘Insiders: The TV Podcast’ will be available from today (11th of April).
Peter Fincham joined TalkBack in 1985 and became Managing Director the following year. He executive produced many of the company’s biggest shows including The Day Today (BBC Two), Brass Eye (Channel 4), I’m Alan Partridge (BBC Two), Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC Two), Smack The Pony (Channel 4), Da Ali G Show (Channel 4). TalkBack enjoyed many successes in other genres including dramas such as The Lost Prince (BBC One) and Sword of Honour (Channel 4) and factual/factual entertainment programmes including Grand Designs (Channel 4) and The Apprentice(BBC One).
In 2000 TalkBack was sold to Fremantle and two years later Fincham became CEO of TalkBack Thames, responsible for a wide range of Thames output including The X Factor and Britain’s Got Talent (ITV), and long-running drama series The Bill (ITV).
In 2005 he became Controller of BBC One and in 2008, Director of Television at ITV where he remained until 2016. While at BBC One he directly initiated The One Show and oversaw a revival of entertainment with shows such as How Do Solve A Problem Like Maria?. Successes during his time at ITV include Downton Abbey, Broadchurch, Appropriate Adult, Mrs. Biggs and Cilla, factual programmes such as Long Lost Family as well as ITV2 shows such as The Only Way Is Essex.
Since 2017, he’s been the co-CEO of Expectation (Clarkson’s Farm and Alma’s Not Normal).
Jimmy Muville was one of the founders of Hat Trick Productions in 1986. His list of hit shows includes Have I Got News For You (series 69 now airing), Father Ted, Derry Girls, Outnumbered, and Episodes.
In the US Hat Trick launched Whose Line Is It Anyway in 1997 which ran on ABC for seven years and was the first British series to be recreated for American network television by a British producer.
In 1999 he received the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Creative Contribution to Television. He is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society and recently received an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool. Before moving to television in 1982, he produced for BBC Radio, where he developed and produced the award-winning Radio Active.
Listeners can expect “personal stories, insider anecdotes, and expert analysis on the trends, triumphs, and controversies that have shaped television over the decades and today.”
Fincham says: “In our new podcast you can expect to hear all the things you won’t get to read about in Broadcast Magazine. I’m looking forward to dissecting the state of the industry each week with him as well as sharing our own experiences of working in television. In short, we’re going to get to together once a week to gossip!”
Mulville adds: “They say there are two things you don’t want to see being made – sausages and television. Well Peter Fincham and I have seen how lots of TV is made and we still love it and love to talk about it. We’ve also love sausages but we won’t be talking about them. Tune in and hear what TV is like from the inside.”
New episodes will be released weekly on Fridays and each episode will feature candid discussions exploring everything from iconic shows and legendary executives to the shifting landscape of streaming, broadcasting, and audience habits.
They will tackle “the evolution of TV, the challenges facing today’s industry, and the legacy of the medium in shaping culture.”
Jon Creamer
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