It’s been a busy month for loads of The Presenter Studio clients.  There are now too many success stories to mention.  So, just so we don’t offend anyone we are just going to write a few successes down from people that have contacted us this week (fair?!).  We hope so…

OK – so here’s a few quick shout outs for news on people over the last few days…Well done to mercy who has her first job, natalie us presenting at the London marathon, Anna is presenting for top shop and has just interviewed Nicole Sherzinger (did we spell that correctly!?), Jesse has a meeting today, Rachel is off to la to present a new cooking series, Reece and Rebecca have been paired up to present a new show, Beth has her first job….I know there are more of you to mention as the success stories have been flooding in this week, caroline has done 2 Hollywood movies, so well done to everyone and thanks for the updates!

Phew – so there we did it!  The Presenter Studio is also busier than ever.  We have launched our own TV Production Company – www.thetvstudio.co.uk – go check it out!  And our training programmes are flooded with interest – usually all word of mouth from personal recommendations from people who have come to us already.

So if you want to know what all the fuss is about contact us today to see how we can help you take your presenting career to the next level, or if you are a complete novice we’d love to help you too!

Also if you want a few tips on how to make it then look at this blog our friends at tobeseen.co.uk asked us to write for them:  http://www.tobeseen.co.uk/thepresenterstudio.html

Speak soon!

Gareth and Leon

THE PRESENTER STUDIO – As unique as you are!

Ben Ebbrell, is cooking up a storm with the SORTED Crew as founder and chef for the global online cooking channel.  We worked with them a couple of years ago and since then they have gone on to achieve amazing success.

SORTEDFood is back to focusing on what really spurs him on… quick, simple, tasty grub to share with mates and the opportunity to help other novice cooks enjoy food as much as he does!

Ben is currently co-presenter for CITV/ITV’s new Saturday morning show ‘Munch Box’ which sees Ben setting challenges for young enthusiastic chefs.

Ben was winner of Good Food channel’s Market Kitchen national search for the next celebrity chef and in 2011 and was a winner of SquareMile magazine’s 30 under 30 Talent Award. In addition undertaking TV appearances on the BBC’s Young Apprentice, Jamie and Jimmy’s Food Fight Club and Perfect. Together with the young team of school friends at SORTED they are winners of the BANFF World Media Award for ‘Best Online Entertainment Program’ 2011, finalist in the food category at the 2012 Shorty Awards and Winner of Educational Website of the Year 2012. Ben recently appeared on Channel 4′s new lunchtime series ‘What’s Cooking’.

Sorted have more than 347,000 subscribers and 5000 hours of their content are watched globally every day, making them the largest YouTube channel in Europe. This puts Ben and the team at the front of the UK’s largest YouTube cooking community online. They also produce content for other channels, including Jamie Oliver’s FoodTube. Oliver describes them as ‘a truly lovely bunch of lads who are great at the business of YouTube.’ That doesn’t, however, stop them getting involved in live demos at universities up and down the country, at the Real Food Festival and at the BBC Good Food Show.

Most recently the boys have teamed up with Penguin and have recently published their second Sorted title, ‘Food with Friends’, but this time exclusively as an ebook. Ben has also recently started presenting ITV’s brand new children’s series ‘Munchbox’ in which he oversees children’s culinary skills being put to the test!

The Sorted boys are really ones to watch in 2014 as it seems they are taking over the World!

So you want to be a TV Presenter?  There are so many mixed messages out there – but we are here to help.  With over 19 years experience in TV, Producing some of the biggest shows, working with TV’s biggest presenters we can help.

So here are 3 top tips for you to think about:

DON’T BE GENERIC:  Every presenter needs to have a USP (a Unique Selling Point). So many new presenters go on these often very disappointing presenter courses you can find online, where everyone pretends to present everything from the news to childrens to entertainment shows.  You need to find a point of difference otherwise you’ll find it very hard if not impossible to get work in mainstream TV.

BE YOURSELF:  A TV Producer hires a TV Presenter to bring their show to life.  So your personality is key to your success.  Also your hobbies, interests, background can be a reason to give you a job so make sure you explain who you are and what makes you different.

FIND YOUR VOICE:  Having your own opinions and passions is great.  Twitter, blogs and other social media helps you to find your voice and helps Producers understand that you live and breathe your subject.   It’s also great practice with your script writing!

BE NICE TO WORK WITH:  TV is a fun industry.  It’s a Producers job to make you look good and there are lots of tricks we use to make you look the best you can possibly be.  There is always a choice and producers will often choose to hire the person who is going to be nicer to work with – you’ve been warned!

Good Luck!

The Presenter Studio

Presenter Training That is as Unique as You Are.

We get presenters of all levels of experience come to train with us from all over the World – from celebrities to complete beginners.

We offer full career support to everyone that trains with us, and for us it’s crucial that we see you doing well.  We are hugely passionate about what we do and truly value each and every person that takes the time to come and work with us.

Each month we like to give a special shout out to a couple of presenters that have caught our eye on one of our presenter training courses, and this month it goes to Olivia and Bryan.

Olivia flew over from Australia to work with us.  She is an incredibly warm and bright mainstream presenter.  She has an amazing work ethic and a real likeability factor.  She’s just been asked to present her own show on a new SKY channel and we think she is going to go on to bigger and better things.  Here is her Talent Taster Tape. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVUXeygx7YI

Bryan is also a very mainstream presenter.  We worked with him just a few months ago and since then he hasn’t stopped working.  He has also just been signed up to do his own Channel 4 series.  Here he is in action.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3P6rWSYyaY

So if you, like these 2, have a real passion for presenting give us a shout!

The Presenter Studio

Arazou Baker came on the award-winning fast track programme a couple of years ago.  Since then she’s gone on to be signed by a top agent, presented on Blue Peter and a couple of weeks ago make her presenting debut on ITV2.  Here she is in action.  Well done Arazou!

https://www.itv.com/itvplayer/the-hot-desk

TV Presenters are really TV personalities.  We (meaning TV Producers) hire them to help bring a show to life.  Your personality and what makes you different is key to your success as a TV Presenter.

You also need to be the right fit for a show.  If it’s a music show the chances are you need to be passionate about music.  If it’s a news show – you’ll need to be a journalist.  Your interests are also key to you getting a presenter job.

Where everyone goes wrong is that they try and be a ‘one shape fits all’ kind of model.  But our industry works in a completely different way to this.  You need to be different.  You need to be something new.  You need to be original.  But most of all you need to be clear who you are and what you are selling.

Take Jana Dowling for example.  She came to us as a blank page (albeit a very exciting one!).  But we helped bring out the things that make her marketable – her journalism skills and her unique backstory.  And this is why she is currently getting amazing feedback from channels about her expertly crafted presenter talent taster tape and the TV idea we developed with her.  Take a look for yourself and see what we mean.  I think you’ll agree she’s pretty fantastic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-PGGH9A51I

So remember – follow Jana’s example.  Be you.  Be different.  But also be marketable.

THE PRESENTER STUDIO

Proud to be as Different as You Are.

Presenter Training That Breaks the Mould.