Session

Moving the Needle

Thursday, October 1, 2015
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Belgrave

Just when everyone says the music is over for singing competition series, along comes a twist - in the form of a spinning red chair - to give the genre a new lease on life. And just when critics bemoan the state of ob-docs, along comes the fixed rig to capture even more of the real-life drama as it unfolds. Of course, these innovations are several years old now. So what’s next? What’s the correct ratio of technological wizardry and good, old-fashioned ideas needed to reinvigorate a factual programming genre? And what’s the balance between familiar TV tropes and outright innovation needed to create a game-changer?