Docs and lifestyle in spotlight at Broadcast Summit; early-bird tickets available until the end of today, 28 February

Trends in documentary programming and the future for lifestyle shows are among the topics up for discussion at the Broadcast Summit on 2 April.

Two full panels of commissioning editors addressing those genres have been revealed for the event, which takes place at the Royal Society of Medicine, Wimpole St, London W1.

A session called Documentaries: Access and Talent will feature speakers Adrian Padmore (Channel 5), Beejal Patel (BBC), Helen Nightingale (UKTV) and Sean Doyle (Disney+). They will reveal their spending priorities and discuss how they are responding to changing audience tastes in terms of factual programming.

Meanwhile, the lifestyle panel will assess a genre that has seen a lot of change as broadcasters’ buying habits evolve.

The speakers in that session are Clemency Green (C4), Rebecca Bayatti (Warner Bros. Discovery) and Rob Unsworth (BBC).

Delegates at the summit are also able to apply for personal meetings with commissioners from Disney+, BritBox and ITV, as well as meeting with execs from a range of distribution companies.

An early bird offer for independent production companies ends on Friday 28 February. All ticket types can be found here.

The central summit brings together producers, distributors, broadcasters, streamers and suppliers of all sizes to explore the challenges and opportunities which lie ahead for the industry.

One major session is a presentation by ITVX boss Craig Morris about how ITV thinks about the promotion and distribution of programming via its VoD platform ITVX, lifting the lid on the way the broadcaster manages content in the on-demand era.

The summit is sponsored by Audio Network and TRP Research.