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Sport, Archive Formats, Acquisitions & New Talent content are all central to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland’s linear schedules, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ iPlayer and online offering. This range of content is enjoyed by audiences and offers producers the opportunity to reflect Scotland in all its diversity.

Over the past few years these genres have delivered successful titles including:

• Factual:  Limbs in the Loch: Catching a Killer, Street Gangs, Lena Zavaroni: The Forgotten Child Star, Showpeople: Licensed to Thrill, Icons of Style, Our Lives, This Farming Life, Beechgrove Garden & Landward
  
• Sport Docs: Sir Alex, Icons of Football, Pitch Invasion: How the Scottish and Irish Changed Football & Walter: A Life in Football
• Feature Documentaries / Acquisitions / Pre-Sale / Co-Investment: Dogs of War, Killing Escobar, Bill Douglas: My Best Friend, Long Live My Happy Head, Last Breath and Flint.

Before submitting pitches or proposals

Please consider and outline what makes your content unique, why it is important to produce this content now, why it is particularly relevant to audiences in Scotland (see note on Audience Research below), which audiences you will be targeting, how you will connect with younger and underserved audiences and when you’d suggest we broadcast/stream. Please include this information in your commissioning pitch or acquisition proposal.

Current opportunities

 CO-COMMISSIONING OPPORTUNITY: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ DAYTIME & ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ SCOTLAND

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland is working closely with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Daytime team to co-commission content that drives audiences on iPlayer, whilst also serving network audiences across the day on linear and on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland in peak.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Daytime has a broad remit which covers a range of topics, across a large part of the linear network schedule, while the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland channel has a focus on showcasing Scottish talent and contemporary stories. We’re looking for ideas that can service both audiences, this could be in the shape of a precinct, topic or hub format. In all cases expertise and purpose should be at the heart of the proposition as should a clear sense of distinctiveness in relation to existing titles on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, and other services.

Any proposals with celebrities attached should have a driving narrative and the talent should appeal to both ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Daytime audiences.

To help underpin our shared objectives, we have ringfenced a modest funding allocation for secondary development of ideas which both ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland and ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Daytime believe warrant further investigation. This funding would not be for pilots, but instead to develop talent, initial casting, format development/testing, etc.

If you have pitches which you believe would work in this territory, please submit via ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ PiCoS marked for either Muslim Alim (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Daytime) or Tony Nellany (ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland), with ‘Co-comm’ in the title. Don't worry about submitting to both of us as we’ll share the ideas.

Please submit your pitches asap.

Tony Nellany

In his role as Channel Manager, Tony is focussed on continued development, delivery, management and success of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland television channel. He has been involved in the development of the channel since its inception and is passionate about delivering content that engages audiences in Scotland and beyond. Tony also has responsibility for acquiring scripted and non-scripted content and commissions archive formats and reversions, along with a mix of other programming.

Tony spent many years working in television production across news and current affairs, documentaries and features, including on a number of award-winning projects. He is also an experienced Executive Producer with credits across a variety of genre.

Before joining Multiplatform Commissioning, Tony worked with the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Scotland Executive Team in designing strategies to ensure the broadcaster continues to reach and serve its audiences well into the future.