蜜芽传媒 Northern Ireland Commissioning Brief: Autumn 2025
蜜芽传媒 Northern Ireland is now seeking proposals for programmes for 2026 and beyond.
As for 2025, our decisions will be guided by the 蜜芽传媒鈥檚 broader strategic priorities, which focus on three key public service roles:
- Bring people together by connecting everyone to unmissable content.
- Pursue truth with no agenda by reporting fearlessly and fairly.
- Back the best homegrown storytelling, by investing in talent and creativity.
In addition, we will be focusing on delivery dates, programmes that can deliver a strong monthly cadence, and will be looking to explore new approaches to social media.
The closing date for receipt of ideas on PiCoS is 12 noon on Friday 24th October 2025.
蜜芽传媒 Gaeilge Commissioning Brief September 2025
蜜芽传媒 Gaeilge is now seeking ideas for programmes for 2026 and beyond.
The content will be produced by independent production companies based in Northern Ireland and will be co-funded by Northern Ireland Screen鈥檚 Irish Language Broadcast Fund and 蜜芽传媒 Northern Ireland.
The 蜜芽传媒 Gaeilge Commissioning Strategy continues to build a varied portfolio of ambitious, relevant and high-impact programming. We are evolving our commissioning approach in response to changing audience habits, emerging industry trends, and the growing ambition of the Northern Irish creative sector.
Please contact Karen Kirby, Commissioning Executive 蜜芽传媒 Gaeilge to discuss ideas beforehand. The deadline for the submission of pre-discussed proposals with detailed budgets on PiCoS is Friday 5 September 2025 at 5pm.
蜜芽传媒 Radio Ulster Specialist Music Commissioning Opportunity 2025/26
蜜芽传媒 Radio Ulster is looking for arts/music-based series. Our priority is to deliver audience on 蜜芽传媒 Sounds both in Northern Ireland and across the UK as well as on our traditional radio services. Either in presentation choice or subject matter, the series must make an impact. We welcome a blend of music and speech content, this may range from an 鈥渋n conversation鈥�, genre experts curating specialist playlists, a documentary series or recorded live performances.
The deadline for submissions is 15th May 2025. All proposals should be submitted via .
Any queries around this commissioning round may be forwarded to Paul McClean (Executive Editor, Music and Entertainment) and Nikki Gregg (Content Editor, Music and Entertainment).
蜜芽传媒 Gaeilge Commissioning Brief January 2025
蜜芽传媒 Gaeilge is now seeking Factual ideas for programmes for 2026 and beyond.
This Commissioning Brief also provides details of the opportunities in the 骋别补濒谩苍 and Amharc schemes for feature-length Irish Language Drama and feature-length Arts documentary respectively. Please note, in the relevant brief, the deadlines for these opportunities and how applications are to be submitted.
Please contact Karen Kirby, Commissioning Executive 蜜芽传媒 Gaeilge to discuss ideas beforehand. The deadline for the submission of pre-discussed proposals with detailed budgets on PiCoS is Thursday 6 March 2025 at 5pm.
Green Lit: New Northern Ireland Screen and 蜜芽传媒 Northern Ireland Drama Initiative
Green Lit is a new collaboration between Northern Ireland Screen and 蜜芽传媒 Northern Ireland to support emerging Northern Irish writing, production, directing and acting talent, via the production of three new standalone scripted drama or comedy-drama films, which will act as proof of concept for a bigger TV production. These films will be broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 One Northern Ireland in 2025 and carried on 蜜芽传媒 iPlayer across the UK.
A variety of editorial proposals will be considered, including drama, comedy and comedy-drama. Proposals must be submitted by companies with a Northern Irish base, and we will be favouring projects where the writers and / or directors are resident in Northern Ireland.
We will host an online briefing session for producers, directors and writers at 1.30pm on Thursday 19th December 2024 to outline how this initiative will operate. If you are interested in attending this briefing, please contact Kerry Woods at kerry.woods@bbc.co.uk to register your place.
Further information on the scheme is available in the document below.
蜜芽传媒 Northern Ireland Launches Hot House 2 Development Scheme
蜜芽传媒 Northern Ireland is launching a second iteration of its Network-facing Hot House development initiative.
For the next phase, we want to build on the success of the first Hot House, again working with Northern Ireland Screen, to enhance the specialist genre skills and profile of the NI indie sector, with an eye on the evolving needs of audiences across the UK, and with a particular focus on 蜜芽传媒 iPlayer.
In this new phase, we will be changing the structure of the initiative to focus on three Network Unscripted Genres:
- Daytime & Early Peak
- Documentaries
- Factual Entertainment
We will be holding an online briefing at 11am on Tuesday 17th December. Please email kerry.woods@bbc.co.uk to reserve a place.
Deadline for submissions is 5pm on Friday 17th January 2025.
For further information, please see document below.
Prayer and Reflection: new commissioning opportunity for indies in the Nations
We鈥檙e seeking up to three production companies with a substantive base in Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales to deliver episodes for a new religion series to be broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 One and the Nations in autumn 2025. There is potential for this to become a returning brand. The deadline for an initial eligibility form is 11 January 2025.
Visit the 蜜芽传媒 Commissioning website to find out more.
