The Intelligent Factual Televisual Festival starts tomorrow at The Arts Club in London – 2 days of televisual education with panels allowing you to hear from lots of different commissioning editors. Topics include Alternative Sources of Funding and Where Next for Factual and feature loads of big names in British telly like Peter Bazalgette, Roger Graef, and Stephen Lambert – plus some great doc filmmakers including Kim Longinotto, Brian Woods and Leo Regan.

I’m at Silverdocs till Thursday so shall be going to some panels of my own (including this frightening sounding trio: Does Public TV Have a Future? Future of Non-Fiction Storytelling, U.S. Factual Budgets Forecast). I only wish I could beam myself between the two events to take the televisual temperature on both sides of the Atlantic!