Industries · Media
Production tools that keep up with the schedule.
We built Show Starter for ITV, a production portal now used across hundreds of shows, and we have delivered for The FA. Media work moves fast and involves everyone from staff producers to weekly freelancers, so the tools have to be instant to pick up and impossible to outgrow.
Do you know these problems?
The problems we solve most often.
Productions run on email
Call sheets, approvals and assets flying around inboxes, with nobody certain which version is current.
Every show reinvents the wheel
Each production sets up its own spreadsheets and folders, so lessons and data never carry over to the next one.
A workforce that changes weekly
Freelancers need systems they can use within minutes, with access that switches off as cleanly as it switches on.
“We've had really positive comments from those that matter, business and production reps. They not only love the functionality but have commented on how fabulous and refreshing the User Interface is.”
Proof
What we have built in media.
The FA People's Cup End-to-End Competition Management Platform When the FA and BBC needed a platform to run the FA People's Cup at national scale, they came to Blacklight. We built a system that handled everything: team registration, venue management, live results, and every round of progression from first entry to the final. Read the story → 
The production portal that put hundreds of shows' worth of resources in one place When ITV formed from the merger of Carlton and Granada, thousands of production staff needed a single place to find locations, talent, facilities, resources and contacts. We built Show Starter, a SharePoint-based production portal now used across hundreds of ITV productions. Read the story → Questions we hear
Teams like yours ask these questions.
Our workflows are genuinely unusual. Can you cope?
Unusual is normal in media. We start by learning how your productions actually run, then build around that, rather than bending you to a template.
Can it handle hundreds of productions at once?
Yes. Show Starter runs across hundreds of ITV productions. Scale is a design decision we make on day one, not something bolted on later.
We need it before the next series. How fast can you move?
Discovery takes weeks, then we build in short cycles you see every week. If a date is immovable we scope to hit it and are honest about what fits.
Talk to us
Tell us how media works where you are.
We start with a short conversation about your workflows. Then we tell you what to build, what to buy, and what to leave.