Create Your Own TV Show Concept | July 2026

Overview

Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet and Amazon are proud to deliver Create Your Own TV Show Concept 

This is a high-energy, one-day course that unpacks the route to turning ideas into TV concepts. Are you excited by creative careers, love all things TV, and always wondered how the next hit TV ideas are born? Do you have the next ‘Traitors’ bubbling in your head, or TV ideas that just might compete with the biggest shows?

Create Your Own TV Show Concept invites storytellers, creatives and next-generation content creators to learn the skills of building new TV ideas (including lifestyle, entertainment, documentary and factual TV). This one-day immersive, in-person workshop will teach you how to identify, design, and build a compelling TV concept rapidly and effectively, unpacking the vital principles of TV ideation development.

How It Works:

Having received training in the fundamentals of TV concept development, you will then break into groups and be presented with a series of development tasks. These ‘development sprints’ will be focused on:

1.      Finding catchy show titles

2.      Identifying the story

3.      Finding great hooks

4.      Matching to trends

5.      Building memorable moments

6.      Creating compelling elevator pitches.

Throughout this highly immersive day, you will learn, through high-speed team tasks, how to turn your ‘ideas’ into actual ‘TV show concepts’.

Join industry experts Colin Pauser-Cowman of CPC Services Limited and Eilish Kent. They will share their years of experience commissioning, developing, and producing content for TV and online, to help you identify the steps to conceive, develop, and present ideas.

Participant profile/Who can apply/Eligibility

This course is essential for:

• Creative storytellers in TV, radio, digital, marketing, or animation, and new entrants to the sector.
• Ideas people unsure how to develop their own TV ideas further.
• Anyone working in an indie who would like to become a valued member of their development team, helping to bring TV ideas to life.

All enquiries should be directed to frankeaveney@furthr.ie

Tutor information

Colin Pauser-Cowman (MD of CPC Creative Services), is a seasoned industry leader with 30+ years’ experience as a show runner and executive producer, primarily in unscripted genres. A former commissioner for VMTV, head of development, and current TV consultant for Tourism Ireland (TV fund), Colin has delivered hundreds of hours of hit programming for Ireland’s top broadcasters and steered countless projects to funding success at home and globally.

As a strategic consultant, Colin mentors independent producers on creative development, funding, market matching and co-production. Previously MD of successful Irish Indie Paradise Pictures for 13 years, Colin was executive producer for many returning commissions with RTÉ, TV3 (VMTV), global channels, along with digital content for major Irish brands. A passionate educator, Colin has spent over a decade designing and delivering high-impact producer training through IADT, Griffith College, MTU, Screen Ireland, SPI and partnering skillnets — empowering the next wave of creative talent.

Eilish works with writers, producers and content creators to identify the strengths of their ideas and shape the story for maximum audience engagement. She works across several upskilling and professional training initiatives in Ireland and Europe on fiction and non-fiction projects.

She has worked with the Arts Council of Ireland, Virgin Media, Screen Ireland and many local authorities on funding applications. Prior to her freelance consultancy, for many years Eilish worked in development and commissioning of TV Drama in the BBC and RTÉ.

Venue/location

Dublin – in-person

Costs/fee

Course fee €20 per person. We are able to offer this low fee due to the support of Cultural & Creative Industries Skillnet and Amazon.

Deadline for Registrations:

Friday 26th June or earlier if places are booked

Dates and times of the course

Thursday 2nd July, 2026

Due to our funding, this course is only available to those resident in the Republic Of Ireland.
For any queries, please contact frankeaveney@furthr.ie

Please apply below and if successful, we will be in touch with a payment link.