How can networks and filmmakers respond to the changing viewing habits of audiences? As funding shrinks, and time slots for long form one-off for documentaries get squeezed, is producing shorter programmes, quickly and more cheaply one of the solutions? Can smaller budgets and shorter content still deliver complex and compelling stories? Are broadcasters ready and able to schedule shorter programmes? Three wildly varied examples dramatize the possibilities and could point to the future of the almighty doc.
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