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Fri Sep 13 12:50:07 BST 2013

*Westminster** Media Forum** Keynote Seminar*

*TV production - finance, exports and talent*

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*with*

*Gina Fegan*, Sector Specialist for Digital and Screen Industries, UK Trade
& Investment and Chief Executive, D-Media Network

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*Kaye Elliot*, Head of Production Services, Creative England

*John McVay*, Chief Executive, Pact

*and*

*Samantha Perahia*, Senior Production Executive, British Film Commission

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*and presentations from: *

*Will Cohen*,* Milk;** Harry Eastwood*, *Ingenious Media*;* **Mark Hackett*,
* Pinewood Studios Group*; *Richard Johnston*, *Endemol UK*; *Maria Kyriacou
*, *ITV Studios Global Entertainment*;* **Paul Lee*,* Deloitte*; *Charles
Moore*, *Wiggin*; *Mark Oliver*,* Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates; **Nik Powell*,
*National Film and Television School*; *Justin Thomson-Glover*,* Far Moor*
and* **Anne Wood*,* Ragdoll*

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*This event is **CPD
certified*<http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/CPD.php>

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*Morning, Thursday, 14th November 2013 *

*Central London** *

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Dear Ms Devereux

I am writing to ensure you don’t miss the above seminar if you are able to
attend. Please note there is a charge for most delegates, although
concessionary and complimentary places are available (subject to terms and
conditions - see below).

This conference examines the range of policy initiatives to support
television production in the UK:  what they mean for the sector, as well as
emerging opportunities and challenges more widely.

It comes as the British Film Institute announces the first projects to
receive tax credits as part of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s
*Connectivity, Content and Consumers: Britain’s digital platform for
growth*<https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/225783/Connectivity_Content_and_Consumers_2013.pdf>strategy
to
support television production in the UK.

The agenda also reflects issues raised in the Culture, Media and Sport
Select Committee inquiry, *Support for the Creative
Industries*<http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/culture-media-and-sport-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/support-for-the-creative-economy/>
, which has been taking evidence from major UK broadcasters on the
structure of the sector, investment in original content, and options to
ensure British independent producers remain competitive.

Keynote speakers are: *Kaye Elliot*, Head of Production Services, Creative
England; *Gina Fegan*, Sector Specialist for Digital and Screen Industries,
UK Trade & Investment and Chief Executive, D-Media Network; *John McVay*,
Chief Executive, Pact and *Samantha Perahia*, Senior Production Executive,
British Film Commission.

Further confirmed speakers include: *Will Cohen*, Chief Executive and
Executive Producer, Milk; *Harry Eastwood*, Investment Director, Ingenious
Media; *Mark Hackett*, Group Sales Director - Television Studios and
Facilities, Pinewood Studios Group; *Richard Johnston*, Chief Operating
Officer, Endemol UK; *Maria Kyriacou*, Managing Director, ITV Studios
Global Entertainment; *Paul Lee*, Head, Global TMT Research, Deloitte; *Charles
Moore*, Partner, Wiggin; *Mark Oliver*, Chief Executive, Oliver & Ohlbaum
Associates; *Nik Powell*, Director, National Film and Television
School; *Justin
Thomson-Glover*, Executive Producer, Far Moor and *Anne Wood*, Founder and
Creative Director, Ragdoll.

Areas for discussion include:

   - *The export market *- emerging strategies to market UK television
   internationally, the role of Government, UKTI, BBCWW and Pact as
   representative bodies, and how British content is competing in the global
   market with European and US imports;
   - Developing and protecting the UK’s first-class *facilities* and the
   specialist *skills* necessary to remain internationally competitive and
   attract inward investment from global broadcasters; and
   - *Access to finance* and the funding challenges facing the independent
   production sector, the impact of the new* tax credits for high-end
drama*and the implications of the increasing use of co-productions on
   programme-makers’ capacity to invest in the future.

The draft agenda is copied below my signature, and a regularly updated
version is available to view online
here<http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/agenda/tv-production-agenda.pdf>.
The seminar is organised on the basis of strict impartiality by the Westminster
Media Forum.

*Networking*

Westminster Media Forum seminars present an opportunity to engage with key
policymakers and other interested parties and are *CPD *certified (more
details <http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/CPD.php>). Places have
been reserved by officials from *HMRC*; *Ofcom*; *UKTI* and the *Welsh
Government* as well as representatives from *Barcroft Productions*; *British
Film Institute*; *British Sky Broadcasting*; *Coutts*; *Devoniaroad*;
*Directors
Guild Trust*; *Elstree Studios*; *Field Fisher Waterhouse*; *Keo Films*; *
KPMG*; *Kudos Film & Television*; *Lee & Thompson*; *MacIntyre
Hudson*; *Mammoth
Screen*; *Minerva Media*; *National Film and Television School*; *
Nickelodeon*; *North One Television*; *OC&C Strategy Consultants*; *Olswang*;
*Ragdoll Productions*; *RDF Television*; *Robertson Taylor*; *Rondo Media*;
*S4C*; *Sargent-Disc*; *Sheridans Solicitors*; *Squire Sanders*; *Tantrum
Films*; *Televisual*; *The Collective*; *The Random House Group*; *Tigress
Production*; *Warner Bros International Television Production*;
*Wiggin*; *Women
in Animation UK*; *World Productions* and *Zig Zag Productions*.

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A press pass has been reserved by representatives from *Broadcast Now*; *The
Guardian*;* The Knowledge*;* OINK!*; *TBI Magazine* and* Wall Street Journal
*.

Overall we expect speakers and attendees to be a senior and informed group
numbering over 100, including Members of both Houses of Parliament, senior
Government officials involved in this area of public policy, media
businesses, their suppliers and their advisors, the technology and telecoms
industries, film and television independent producers, production
facilities, organisations and individuals representing the views of
consumers and citizens, regulators, academics and representatives of the
national and trade press.

*Output and About Us*

A key output of the seminar will be a transcript of the proceedings, sent
out within a week of the event to all attendees and a wider group of
Ministers and officials at BIS, DCMS, HM Treasury and other government
departments; officials at the IPO and UKTI and other agencies affected by
the issues; and Parliamentarians with a special interest in these areas. It
will also be made available more widely. This document will include
transcripts of all speeches and questions and answers sessions from the
day, along with access to PowerPoint presentations, speakers’ biographies,
an attendee list, an agenda and sponsor information. It is made available
subject to strict restrictions on public use, similar to those for Select
Committee Uncorrected Evidence, and is intended to provide timely
information for interested parties who are unable to attend on the day.

All delegates will receive complimentary PDF copies and are invited to
contribute to the content.

The Westminster Media Forum is strictly impartial and cross-party, and
draws on the considerable support it receives from within Parliament and
government, and amongst the wider stakeholder community. The Forum has no
policy agenda of its own. Forum events are frequently the platform for
major policy statements from senior Ministers, regulators and other
officials, opposition speakers and senior opinion-formers in industry and
interest groups. Events regularly receive prominent coverage in the
national and trade press.

*Booking arrangements*

To book places, please use our* *online booking
form<http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/book_event.php?eid=662>
.

*Once submitted, this will be taken as a confirmed booking and will be
subject to our terms and conditions below.*

Please pay in advance by credit card on 01344 864796. If advance credit
card payment is not possible, please let me know and we may be able to make
other arrangements.

Options and charges are as follows:

   - Places at* TV production - finance, exports and talent *(including
   refreshments and PDF copy of the transcripts) are *£190* plus VAT;
   - Concessionary rate places for small charities, unfunded individuals
   and those in similar circumstances are *£80* plus VAT. Please be sure to
   apply for this at the time of booking.

For those who cannot attend:

   - Copies of the briefing
document<http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/forums/order_publication.php?pid=661>,
   including full transcripts of all speeches and the questions and comments
   sessions and further articles from interested parties, will be available
   approximately *7 days* after the event for *£95 *plus VAT;
   - Concessionary rate: *£50* plus VAT.

If you find the charge for places a barrier to attending, please let me
know as concessionary and complimentary places are made available in
certain circumstances (but do be advised that this typically applies to
individual service users or carers, full-time students, people between jobs
or who are fully retired with no paid work, and representatives of small
charities - *not* businesses, individuals funded by an organisation, or
larger charities/not-for-profit companies). Please note terms and
conditions below (including *cancellation charges*).

I do hope that you will be able to join us for what promises to be a most
useful morning, and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely

Tom

Thomas Raynsford

Senior Producer, *Westminster** Media Forum*

*T: 01344 864796*

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O2.*

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The parliamentary patrons of the Westminster Media Forum are: Lord Alli, Rt
Hon Baroness Anelay of St Johns, Viscount Astor, Lord Avebury, Rt Hon the
Lord Barnett, Rt Hon Kevin Barron MP, Dame Anne Begg MP, Henry Bellingham
MP, Baroness Benjamin, Rt Hon John Bercow MP, Lord Birt, Crispin Blunt MP,
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, Rt Hon Baroness Bottomley of
Nettlestone, Lord Bragg, James Brokenshire MP, Chris Bryant MP, Richard
Burden MP, Baroness Buscombe, Rt Hon Dr Vincent Cable MP, Alun Cairns MP,
Rt Hon Alistair Carmichael MP, Christopher Chope MP, Lord Clement-Jones,
Stephen Crabb MP, Rt Hon Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, Lord Dubs, Rt
Rev the Lord Eames, Louise Ellman MP, Natascha Engel MP, The Earl of
Erroll, Lord Evans of Temple Guiting, Nigel Evans MP, Michael Fabricant MP,
Paul Farrelly MP, Rt Hon Don Foster MP, Roger Gale MP, Stephen Gilbert MP,
Lord Gordon of Strathblane, Mike Hancock MP, Nick Harvey MP, Lord Hastings
of Scarisbrick, John Hemming MP, Charles Hendry MP, Baroness Henig, Lord
Hollick, Baroness Howe of Idlicote, Lord Inglewood, Huw Irranca-Davies MP,
Rt Rev Graham James the Lord Bishop of Norwich, Rt Hon Dame Tessa Jowell
MP, Rt Hon the Lord Kilclooney, Norman Lamb MP, Rt Hon Andrew Lansley MP,
Professor the Lord Lewis of Newnham, Lord Lipsey, Tim Loughton MP, Peter
Luff MP, Lord Luke, Rt Hon the Lord Macdonald of Tradeston, Fiona
Mactaggart MP, Lord Maxton, Rt Hon the Lord McNally, Andrew Miller MP,
Baroness Miller of Hendon MBE, Rt Hon Maria Miller MP, Austin Mitchell MP,
Baroness O’Cathain, Sandra Osborne MP, Lord Patel, Lord Puttnam CBE,
Baroness Rawlings, Lord Razzall, Professor the Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn,
John Robertson MP, Andrew Rosindell MP, David Ruffley MP, Adrian Sanders
MP, Baroness Scott of Needham Market, Andrew Selous MP, Lord Shipley, Rt
Hon the Lord Smith of Finsbury, Jo Swinson MP, Rt Hon Hugo Swire MP,
Viscount Tenby, Andrew Turner MP, Rt Hon the Lord Wakeham, Robert Walter
MP, John Whittingdale MP, Rt Hon David Willetts MP and Tim Yeo MP. Note:
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*FINANCIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS:* The delegate fee includes copies of the
presentations via PDF and refreshments. Cancellation policy is as follows:
(1) cancellations 14 or more days before the event: £70+VAT cancellation
fee per delegate; (2) cancellations less than 14 days before the event: no
refunds. Cancellations must be notified in writing to the Westminster Media
Forum. No charge will be made for replacement delegates. Transfer of any
confirmed booking between events is not possible. The organisers reserve
the right to alter the programme and change the speakers without prior
notice. The Westminster Media Forum is unable to grant extended credit and
therefore must request that full payment be made within 30 days from the
date of invoice. Should payment not be received within 30 days from the
date of invoice, the Westminster Media Forum will apply an administration
charge of £40+VAT, likewise for payments made to our account in error.

*Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar: TV production - finance, exports
and talent*

*Timing: Morning, Thursday, 14th November 2013*

*Venue: Central London*

*Draft agenda subject to change*

8.30 - 9.00

Registration and coffee

9.00 - 9.05

*Chairman’s opening remarks*

Senior Parliamentarian

9.05 - 9.15

*TV production in the UK - emerging challenges*

*Analysis of the challenges facing the UK’s television production sector,
in the context of tax breaks, access to finance, the export market and the
UK’s competitiveness as a base for productions.*

*Mark Oliver*, Chief Executive, Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates

9.15 - 9.30

*After the tax breaks - the UK’s independent production sector*

*What are the emerging challenges facing the production of television in
the UK? *

*John McVay*, Chief Executive, Pact

9.30 - 10.20

*UK TV production - access to finance, co-pros and tax breaks*

*How far will the recently announced tax breaks for ‘high-end’ drama and
animation ‘level the playing field’ for UK producers? What effect will the
tax-credits have on programming outside of high-end drama and animation?
What impact are co-productions having on content and the attractiveness of
original British content for international sales? How do co-productions
impact the ability of UK producers to effectively exploit IP and secondary
rights to invest in future programming? *

*Justin Thomson-Glover*, Executive Producer, Far Moor

*Harry Eastwood*, Investment Director, Ingenious Media

*Richard Johnston*, Chief Operating Officer, Endemol UK

*Charles Moore*, Partner, Wiggin

Questions and comments from the floor with *Mark Oliver*, Chief Executive,
Oliver & Ohlbaum Associates and *John McVay*, Chief Executive, Pact

10.20 - 10.25

*Chairman’s closing remarks*

Senior Parliamentarian

10.25 - 10.50

Coffee

10.50 - 10.55

*Chairman’s opening remarks*

Senior Parliamentarian

10.55 - 11.05

*Exporting UK television - formats, programming and culture*

*As the market evolves and competition increases, what are the emerging
ways for Government to support the independent television production sector
in the international market?  *

*Gina Fegan*, Sector Specialist for Digital and Screen Industries, UK Trade
& Investment and Chief Executive, D-Media Network

11.05 - 11.50

*The export market for UK content*

*With UK format sales still high, and Downton Abbey, Mr Selfridge and
others performing well, what are the options to increase the sales of
original UK content? With co-production deals and the high end drama tax
breaks increasing production values, what are the emerging options and
challenges for British productions to compete with US imported drama in
international sales? How effectively are UKTI, BBC Worldwide and PACT
working together to promote UK productions internationally - in particular
in Europe and Asia? With increased costs from importing shows due to
dubbing, particularly in Europe, what are the emerging ways that English
productions can mitigate the financial risk for would-be buyers?   *

*Paul Lee*, Head, Global TMT Research, Deloitte

*Anne Wood*, Founder and Creative Director, Ragdoll

*Maria Kyriacou*, Managing Director, ITV Studios Global Entertainment

Questions and comments from the floor with *Gina Fegan*, Sector Specialist
for Digital and Screen Industries, UK Trade & Investment and Chief
Executive, D-Media Network

11.50 - 12.10

*Investing in the future - maintaining the UK as a production base*

*What are the next steps for the UK to capitalise on its international
competitive advantage as a location for productions? With significant
competition from Eastern Europe in locations and with Canada investing
significantly to secure US productions, what can the UK do to attract
inward investment? *

*Kaye Elliot*, Head of Production Services, Creative England

*Samantha Perahia*, Senior Production Executive, British Film Commission

12.10 - 12.55

*Talent, facilities and crew*

*With the UK’s facilities seeing significant investment - including the
£194m by Pinewood Shepperton and Northern Ireland seeing significant
benefits as a base for US productions - what are emerging options to ensure
the UK can continue to attract productions? In the context of the higher
production values, is television still seen as the stepping stone to film?
What impact is the casting of international talent as a means to sell
content internationally having on domestic talent - e.g. is there a risk of
brain drain? With the tax credits for the video games industry unlikely to
affect the VFX sector, on top of significant competition from South-East
Asia, how can the UK’s visual effects industry maintain its international
position?   *

*Will Cohen*, Chief Executive and Executive Producer, Milk

*Mark Hackett*, Group Sales Director - Television Studios and Facilities,
Pinewood Studios Group

*Nik Powell*, Director, National Film and Television School

Questions and comments from the floor with *Kaye Elliot*, Head of
Production Services, Creative England and *Samantha Perahia*, Senior
Production Executive, British Film Commission

12.55 - 13.00

*Chairman’s and Westminster Media Forum closing remarks*

Senior Parliamentarian

*Thomas Raynsford*, Senior Producer, Westminster Media Forum

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