23: Freelance Editor Dan Ablett - Editing TV Shows From Home

In The Edit - The Film & TV Making-of Podcast - A podcast by In The Edit

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Do you want to know what it takes make it as a documentary TV editor ? Do you want to know how the TV industry is adapting to this global health crisis? Well, you'll want to stick around until the end of my interview with freelance editor Dan Ablett. Dan has been working in TV for the best part of two decades and during that time has edited a whole range of TV shows, for BBC 1, 2, 3 & 4, Discovery, Channel 4 & Netflix and has edited show such as, 999: What’s Your Emergency?, Sunderland til I Die and Race Across the World which recently won a BAFTA for best constructed factual programme In this interview we talk at length about how the global health crisis is affecting TV production and what it's like to work from home, editing TV shows. We also talk about his career, how he got started and as usual there's plenty of advice for those looking to get into the industry.