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Sport, Archive Formats, Acquisitions & New Talent content are all central to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland’s linear schedules, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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:

• Feature Documentaries/Acquisitions/Pre-Sale/Co-Investment: Killing Escobar, Long Live My Happy Head, Last Breath, Flint, The Dark Shadow of Murder & The Islands and the Whales
• Archive Documentary Formats: Billy & Us, Tuned In: 100 Years of Scottish Broadcasting, The Scandals that Shocked Scotland, The Disasters That Shocked Scotland, The Trials That Shocked ScotlandScottish Cup Classics & Rewind (80s, 90s & 00s).
• New Talent: Emerging TV Directors (Unscripted) Initiative
• Strands/Others: Food Fest Scotland, Coast to Coast Food Festival (co-pro with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Content),Beechgrove, Landward, This Farming Life (co-pro with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Content), My Kind of Town & Debate Night. 

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.

Creative Diversity

Before submitting pitches or proposals please ensure you are familiar with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s commitments to ensuring Creative Diversity. We will prioritise pitches and proposals which authentically embody Creative Diversity.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iPlayer

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iPlayer is at the heart of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s offering to audiences and is integral to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland’s approach to content commissioning. In a world where audiences are streaming much of their content, it is important for us to understand how you will make your content attractive to iPlayer audiences over a long period of time and which assets you will use to support this. How will you tell the story of your content in still images on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iPlayer? More information is available on the Production and Delivery website.

Audience Research

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Audience Research site allows independent production companies access to audience information for all the programmes made by their company, together with a growing selection of insightful research articles from the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Audiences team. Details on how to access can be found on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Audiences website.

• Submit via: Email: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland Acquisitions

Current opportunities

NATIONS BOXING - INVITATION TO PITCH

Invitation to Pitch (ITP) to produce live Boxing coverage.

The ITP has been issued jointly by ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Wales and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Northern Ireland.

The aim is to host three live boxing events as part of the pilot, with Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales hosting one event each. All three nations will broadcast all three live events, and they will all be available across the UK on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iPlayer.

 Timeline:

• 28th August - Invitation to Pitch issued.

• 10th September – signed NDAs to be submitted to raluca.albu@bbc.co.uk (submitting your signed NDA signals your intention to participate)

• 13th September at 18h00 - DEADLINE for submissions (note the templates for submission are included as appendices at the end of the document.

• End of September: Commission

• Oct-Jan: Production/Broadcast/Stream

All queries and clarifications in connection to this ITP should be submitted to raluca.albu@bbc.co.uk. Please read the document carefully, including the evaluation criteria.

Featuring a mix of Scottish, Northern Irish  and Welsh fighters at all three events - with belts on the line at every weight. Available live on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TV (headline fights), ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ iPlayer and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Sport product.

Our aim is to offer authentic and credible live championship boxing to audiences across the nations in a way that creates a sense of genuine competition, pride and excitement. Each nation will cover one event (of three) during the pilot series. Each fight night will be curated to allow all three nations to broadcast/stream all three events. With uniform branding, graphics, music and crossover in presentation teams the pilot will feel like a series of three rather than separate events.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Northern Ireland & ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Cymru Wales will each commission a production company to provide coverage of a live boxing event. To offer the required breadth of competition, live audience, and scale of event it is likely that production companies will have sought out and partnered with an appropriate promoter who can provide access to an event which offers a full bill of boxing built around one or two title fights. These titles would be for Celtic Belt (one stage above Welsh, Scottish and Irish championships but one below British title belts). The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ/Production Company will not be responsible for organising, funding, or staging each event, this will rest with the relevant promoter, with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ providing live event coverage.

Each fight night would be a single commission from each nation but one which will be simulcast across Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales.

Download the full Invitation to Pitch here.

CO-COMMISSIONING OPPORTUNITY: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ DAYTIME & ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ SCOTLAND

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland is working closely with the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Daytime team to co-commission content that drives audiences on iPlayer, whilst also serving network audiences across the day on linear and on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland in peak.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Daytime has a broad remit which covers a range of topics, across a large part of the linear network schedule, while the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, and other services.

Any proposals with celebrities attached should have a driving narrative and the talent should appeal to both ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Daytime audiences.

To help underpin our shared objectives, we have ringfenced a modest funding allocation for secondary development of ideas which both ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ PiCoS marked for either Muslim Alim (³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Daytime) or Tony Nellany (³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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.

Things to consider before submitting your acquisition proposal

• Does your content comply with ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s Editorial Values & Standards (this applies to all content, regardless of source)?
• If your content were to be acquired, will you be able to supply all information required, including a ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Compliance Form.  More details on the Production and Delivery website.
• Are you able to meet , including all deliverables such as reporting documents and PR assets?
• Before we are able to consider your proposal we also need to receive, by email, a completed .
• Are you able to provide proof of Errors & Omissions (E&O) Insurance that meets the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s minimum cover requirements (details can be found on the 

Tony Nellany

In his role as Channel Manager, Tony is focussed on continued development, delivery, management and success of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 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 ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scotland Executive Team in designing strategies to ensure the broadcaster continues to reach and serve its audiences well into the future.