Invitation to submit current affairs ideas via the production website
11-Mar-2010
S4C’s Content Strategy notes the need to ensure a comprehensive provision that offers an unique look at contemporary Wales and the rest of the world through Welsh eyes. It also states the requirement to deliver information, context and significance to the decisions that affect the lives of Welsh people.
We wish to reinforce our factual journalism and current affairs provision and to further strengthen our responsiveness to important issues of the day and major events.
Our intention is to commission new documentary programmes under the working title ‘Byd Pawb’ (Everybody’s World). We anticipate compiling a series of up to six hour or half hour programmes to be broadcast over a period of 12 months and we invite you to submit ideas for the programmes via the production website under the Factual genre.
We welcome ideas from different fields that will provide a context to decisions, events, new stories or current talking points. The main criteria for Byd Pawb is that the topic and the treatment are both contemporary and relevant to the audience as Welsh people and as citizens of the world. The style of production and presentation will vary depending on the subject.
Although the programmes will all come under this new umbrella title they do not need to be broadcast weekly over a set period of time and individual programmes can be broadcast as and when required – which can include programmes that result from a quick response to a major event.
Ideas for programmes to be broadcast during 2010 and the start of 2011 should be submitted by midday on Monday 10 May 2010 but ideas for programmes to be broadcast from the second quarter of 2011 onwards can continue to be submitted after this date.
The cost of the programmes will be in line with S4C’s indicative tariffs for factual programmes and will depend on the editorial content and we request that you include a guide price when submitting your idea on the website along with an indication of when the programme would be available for delivery. The ideas will be considered as part of the continuous commissioning process.
We will respond to ideas by the end of May 2010.
S4C reserves the right not to commission any idea submitted.