BA Television Production Course | University for the Creative Arts

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Location

Maidstone Studios

Start date

Sept 2026, Sept 2027

Duration

3 years full-time

UCAS codes

Course: P311
Institution: C93

Foundation year

Optional extra year of study

Placement year

Optional extra year of study

Entry requirements

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Tuition fees

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Become a production assistant
a producer
a video editor
a director
a screenwriter

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Television Production at UCA

Learn television where television is made. Our BA (Hons) Television Production degree offers just that.

Real studio, real productions

Learn in real, internationally-famous facilities: Maidstone Studios, which hosts productions for the BBC, ITV, and global broadcasters. The equipment is always current because the studio's commercial clients demand it, so the tools you train on are the tools the industry is using right now.

Industry professionals on your side of the screen

Working professionals are embedded across every year of the course for extended masterclasses and hands-on workshops. You'll develop an original script and explore your directing skills with industry mentoring, as well as produce a studio show guided by specialists in a live multi-camera production.

Small groups, big opportunities

Students regularly work on commercial productions filming at the studios and build industry relationships that lead directly to graduate roles. A dedicated Work Placement and Production Coordinator supports every student in finding their route into TV.

Accredited by the industry that hires you

This course holds ScreenSkills Select accreditation – an industry-endorsed quality mark that identifies courses producing work-ready graduates. You'll also have the chance to graduate as a certified BAFTA albert Grad with sustainability training, and earn a ScreenSkills Production Safety Passport, valued across the UK production sector.

The UCA Way

UCA courses are built around the things we know matter most to creative students.
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Learn by making

Get practical and stuck in – spend most of your time in studios and workshops. Over 80% of our teaching spaces are studios, workshops, or labs.

See your place in the bigger picture

Understand history, culture and context to give your work depth. Our degrees were established by BAFTA and Oscar winners.

Find your people

Collaboration is built into the curriculum, where you’ll make friends and future creative partners. Our Shared modules link work from students from up to 15 courses. This module focuses on how you collaborate, not what you deliver. Setting you up for success in a creative community.

Gain career confidence for the long game

Build skills, resilience, and industry awareness that prepare you for a successful creative career. Our courses have been designed with industry, focussing on your professional pathway, you’ll learn about grant applications, self-employment, and how to nail creative job interviews.

Learn in a way that works for all

Responsible and inclusive innovation that positively impacts you and the planet. We’ve redesigned our entire curriculum around how creative students actually want to live and learn.

Accreditations, partners and industry connections

ScreenSkills Select

ScreenSkills Select endorses and enhances courses at colleges and universities in the film, TV, animation, VFX and games sectors which develop industry-ready students.

albert

Founded in 2011, albert supports the global Film and TV industry to reduce the environmental impacts of production and to create content that supports a vision for a sustainable future.

British Film Institute (BFI)

The BFI is a charity and the UK’s leading organisation for film and moving image. It promotes and supports British film from newcomers to established makers, and cares for the BFI National Archive, the world’s largest film and television archive.

ARRI

ARRI is a leading designer and manufacturer of camera and lighting systems for the film, broadcast, and media industries. The ARRI Certified Film School accreditation is awarded to institutions that meet rigorous standards of technical excellence, creative education, and professional development.

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What you'll study

The content of the course may be subject to change. Curriculum content is provided as a guide.

Integrated foundation year (if undertaken)

Delivered at UCA Farnham, UCA’s Integrated Foundation Year is designed to give you the skills you’ll need to start your degree in the best possible way – with confidence, solid knowledge of creative practice, study skills and more.

You’ll explore a range of creative techniques and develop your portfolio, with your chosen subject in mind. We’ll work with you throughout the year to ensure you’re on the right track and give you the tools to achieve your highest potential on your degree.

Find out more about the Integrated Foundation Year

Year one

Screen Stories: 30 credits
You begin by learning how television stories work. This module introduces the fundamentals of narrative structure, helping you understand how meaning is created for audiences. Through bite-size workshops you will develop your practical filmmaking toolkit, while analysis of existing programmes supports you to write your own screenplay and discover your creative voice.

Career Catalyst: Skills & Capability: 30 credits
Your first Career Catalyst introduces the core practical skills, workflows and professional behaviours that underpin television production. You’ll experiment with production techniques, explore how ideas move from concept to screen, and develop effective working habits that support your transition into more confident, collaborative and professionally aware practice.

Drama Production: 30 credits
You then apply your learning to collaborative drama production. Working with scripts, performers and locations, you’ll explore how dramatic narratives are realised on screen. The module emphasises teamwork, creative decision-making and an understanding of production processes within a supported environment.

Television Studies: 30 credits
Alongside practical making, this module develops your critical understanding of television as an institution, industrial medium, and socio-cultural form. You’ll analyse programmes, genres and audiences, gaining insight into how television reflects and shapes society. This critical perspective informs and strengthens your creative practice across the course.

Year two

Factual Production: 30 credits
This module focuses on researching, planning and producing factual entertainment. You’ll work collaboratively to create factual content, considering storytelling, ethics, representation and audience responsibility, as well as developing your technical and craft skills. The emphasis is on real-world production challenges and contributor-led narratives.

Career Catalyst: Communities & Influence: 30 credits
Your second Career Catalyst explores television production within its wider social, cultural and professional contexts. Through live briefs, collaborative projects and engagement with external contributors, you’ll respond to real-world production challenges that require ethical, inclusive and sustainable decision-making. The module emphasises collaboration, professional communication and audience awareness, supporting your development as a responsible and future-facing television practitioner.

Live Production: 30 credits
Live Production introduces the fast-paced realities of live and multi-camera television. Working in defined production roles such as camera operator, vision mixer or floor manager, you’ll engage in real-time workflows, developing professional skills in teamwork, communication and decision-making under live broadcast conditions.

Television Genre: 30 credits
This module explores how genre shapes television storytelling and audience expectations. Through analysis of scripted and unscripted genres, you will understand how genre influences stories, social relations, and creative practice, helping refine your creative identity and industry awareness.

Professional practice year (if undertaken)

If you opt to complete a professional practice year, this will take place in year three. You will undertake a placement within the creative industries to further develop your skills and CV.

While on your Professional Practice Year, you will be required to pay a reduced tuition fee for that year. This fee will be determined using government funding regulations. Based on current regulations, we expect this to be a maximum of 20% of the tuition fee rate that you are charged for your second year of study. You will also incur additional travel and accommodation costs during this year. The University will provide you with further advice and guidance about this as you approach your Professional Practice Year.

Please note: If you are an international applicant, you will need to enrol onto the course ‘with Professional Practice Year’. It will not be possible to transfer onto the Professional Practice Year after enrolment

Year three

Creative Research: 30 credits
Creative Research supports you in developing advanced research skills through written, practice-led or hybrid approaches. This allows you to tailor your outcome to academic and/or practice-based interests, supporting the development of advanced research skills, critical analysis, and professional communication.

Career Catalyst: Futures & Direction: 30 credits
Your final Career Catalyst supports you in planning and articulating your next steps as a graduate television practitioner. You’ll reflect on your skills, experiences and ambitions, explore a range of career pathways, and develop an original production concept that expresses a clear sense of creative identity, professional resilience and future direction. The module helps you position your practice within industry and cultural contexts, preparing you for progression beyond the course.

Major Project: 60 credits
The course culminates in the Major Project, where you realise an ambitious, self-directed piece of work. Informed by research, planning and reflection, your final project brings together creative, critical and professional skills developed across the course, showcasing your readiness for industry, further study or independent practice.

Study abroad (optional)

This course is designed to offer you (if eligible) the opportunity to study part of your degree aboard at a UCA partner university, while still earning credits towards your UCA degree.

For more information please visit the Study Abroad section

Expected learning hours

Integrated foundation year

Independent study: 72%
Scheduled teaching: 28%
Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 20%

Year one

Independent study: 72%
Scheduled teaching: 28%
Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 20%

Year two

Independent study: 74%
Scheduled teaching: 26%
Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 20%

Year three

Independent study: 76%
Scheduled teaching: 24%
Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 20%

Professional placement or International year (if undertaken)

Independent study: 98%
Scheduled teaching: 2%
Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 100%

Please note: these details are for 2026 entry and could be subject to change for other years of entry.

Course specifications

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change in line with our Student Terms and Conditions for example, as required by external professional bodies or to improve the quality of the course.

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Upcoming webinars

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Putting together your Portfolio

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2 Jul 2026

PgCert Creative Education Online Information Session

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7 Jul 2026

PgCert Creative Education Online Information Session

15 Jul 2026

Getting Ready for University

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6 Aug 2026

What is Clearing and How Does it Work?

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9 Sep 2026

Enrolment and Your First Week at UCA

Are you ready to join our creative community? Before you join UCA, you’ll need to complete online enrolment and have everything ready for your first day. We’re here to talk through everything you need to know. Book now: Enrolment and Your First Week at UCA

Fees & financial support

Tuition fees - 2026/27

Integrated Foundation Year: £9,790
BA course: £9,790

If you opt to study the Professional Practice Year, you will be required to pay a reduced tuition fee, for 2026/27 this is £1,955. You will also incur additional travel and accommodation costs during your Professional Practice year. The University will provide you with further advice and guidance about this.

Government guidance indicates that tuition‑fee caps will rise annually with inflation from 2026, subject to legislation, so tuition fees are likely to increase each year of study.

Tuition fees - 2026/27

Integrated Foundation Year: £9,790 (see fee discount information)
BA course: £9,790 (see fee discount information)

Government guidance indicates that tuition‑fee caps will rise annually with inflation from 2026, subject to legislation, so tuition fees are likely to increase each year of study.

Tuition fees - 2026/27

Integrated Foundation Year: £18,000
BA course: £18,000

If you opt to study the Professional Practice Year, for 2026 you will be required to pay a reduced tuition fee of £3,490. You will also incur additional travel and accommodation costs during your Professional Practice year. The University will provide you with further advice and guidance about this.

The fees listed here are correct for the stated academic year only, for details of previous years please see the full fee schedules.

UCA scholarships and fee discounts

At UCA we have a number of scholarships and fee discounts available to assist you with the cost of your studies.

Financial support

There are lots of ways you can access additional financial support to help you fund your studies - both from UCA and from external sources. Discover what support you might qualify for please see our financial support information.

Additional course costs

In addition to the tuition fees there may be other costs for your course. The things that you are likely to need to budget for to get the most out of a creative arts education will include books, printing costs, occasional or optional study trips and/or project materials.

These costs will vary according to the nature of your project work and the individual choices that you make. Please see the Additional Course Costs section of the Course Information Document for more details of the costs you may incur.

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Television Production facilities & equipment

You’ll be taught at Maidstone TV Studios with access to a dedicated baseroom, equipment store, specialist digital suites, green screen studio and sound recording booth. Maidstone Studios is one of the largest independent TV studios in the country, providing you with access to state-of the art facilities and hands-on experience on professional productions.

Maidstone Studios

Television Production careers

Television Production students are immersed in the professional world from the moment they walk through the doors of our course. Situated within one of leading television and media studios in the UK, our course offers you the chance to learn and work alongside some top film and television professionals on a daily basis.

Assisted by our dedicated work-placement coordinator, you'll be offered numerous hands-on work experience opportunities on the professional productions made at the studios and with external companies, which in the past have included:

Deal or No Deal (ITV)
Blankety Blank (BBC)
Genius Game (ITV)
.. With Jools Holland (BBC)
Take Me Out (ITV)
Catchphrase (ITV)
Sport Relief (BBC)
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC)
Frank Skinner's Opinionated (ITV)
Draw It! (Channel 4)
Let's Play (BBC)
Blind Date
Big Brother (Channel 5)
The Door (ITV).
This Time with Alan Partridge (Baby Cow/ BBC Studios)
I Can See your Voice (BBC)
FIFA eSports Club World Cup
The Euros (ITV)
Tour de France (ITV)

The course is taught by a number of film and television professionals with extensive industry experience, covering all genres and formats. It includes screenwriters, directors, producers, editors and camera persons, covering work for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, Discovery, Film4, Channel 5 and numerous independents.

90% of our graduates are now working in the creative media industry for a number of leading organisations, including:

Video Editor for Formula One
Junior Office Manager and Production Secretary at SpunGold TV
Junior Researcher at ITV
Runner at ITV
Runner at The Maidstone Studios
Studio Co-ordinator at QVC
Programme Co-ordinator and EA to Head of Production at Channel 4
Production Assistant at Gogglebox Entertainment
Editor at Motion Postproduction
Camera Assistant at Sound Credit TV
Digital Content Officer at Kent Fire and Rescue Service
Production Assistant at Telly Juice Ltd
Producer at Times Media Group.

Students who graduate from this course can go on to set up their own production companies, or work in roles such as:

Screenwriter
Director
Producer
Editor
Production assistant
Researcher
Digital content manager
Camera assistant
Sound assistant.

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Television Production entry requirements

For the BA (Hons) course and the Integrated Foundation Year we will need to see your portfolio, please see the portfolio requirements section for more details.

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Portfolio requirements

For the BA (Hons) course and also the Integrated Foundation Year course we will need to see a portfolio.

UK applicants: We will invite you to attend an Applicant Day so you can have your portfolio review in person.
International applicants: We will ask you to submit an online portfolio.

You don’t need to have previous experience of video making, but we do want to see evidence of creativity and original thinking. You should select no more than 10 examples of your current work, that showcases your level and range of achievements. Your portfolio should show your skills, and your ability to develop a project or idea. We would like you to include examples of creative work that you have completed individually and/or in groups.

Please see the Television Production portfolio requirements for more details.

Full portfolio requirements and advice

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What our Television Production students say

"UCA is packed full of interesting people, all ready and willing to share stories, knowledge, and creativity with you. The facilities and technology we had access to were, like a treasure trove, all well looked-after and easy to book out for any project you wanted."

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