Nutopia – 1st Floor, Kirkman House – 12/14 Whitfield Street – London W1T 2RF https://nutopia.com/
PhD Internship with a Nutopia production team
The goal of our internship program is to discover and develop new talent seeking to gain an understanding of TV production, an idea of potential career paths within the industry, and to spend a fun and exciting time as part of a smart, creative production team. It’s also an invaluable opportunity to begin networking within a pool of the best talent in the business. Nutopia is the perfect place to gain the knowledge and real-world experience needed to launch a career in TV – specifically in specialist factual and factual entertainment programming.
The Nutopia production offering this internship is making an 8×60’ factual entertainment series for a major US channel. The series looks at the human capacity for resilience, how we endure life-threatening situations, and how individuals may respond when they are under threat; the physiological and psychological impact of danger. The intern will help provide evidence-based information for incorporation into programme scripts, for example, helping to craft questions for interviewees on this subject matter. From science to history to geography, these dramatic adventure stories are brimming with captivating take home information and accessible factual information.
The selected intern will get valuable practical experience on this project during the preproduction / scripting / shoot preparation stages.
As well as playing an integral role on the project, the intern will also be assigned a mentor on the production with whom they will have regular meetings to discuss progress and goals achieved
Timeframe:
The placement would ideally begin as soon as possible and last up to, or beyond, a 3- month period. However, there is some flexibility so please outline your situation.
Please note this is a full-time placement, with a combination of home and office working (our offices are based in London close to Tottenham Court Road).
The application deadline is 5pm on Thursday 6th August 2026. Applications (CV and cover letter) to be emailed directly to placement@nutopia.com
Please do state your earliest availability, so we can review to make sure we can accommodate and discuss what stage of the production we will be at.
The ideal candidate would have:
- A genuine interest in communications and the desire to gain an understanding of a future career in television
- Studying for a degree which requires strong research skills, journalistic rigour, lateral thinking, and an eye for detail
- The ability and willingness to take on a wide range of tasks, including investigating some of the science behind survival
- Excellent communication skills, pro-active, enthusiastic, determined, adaptable and driven
- The ideal candidate will have a specialism they are passionate about but should also be something of a generalist, happy to apply their transferable creative and critical skills to areas outside their expertise. This is the opportunity to be part of a team tasked with transforming facts into entertainment, so we’re looking for storytellers, communicators and original thinkers
- Awareness of, or a keen interest in, AI Image Prompt Writing
Due to the varied nature of factual programme making, this placement description may not be fully inclusive. It is an outline of likely engagement and tasks. In collaboration with your Mentor/Manager, it may alter depending on the changing needs or parameters of a production, including helping other production teams, and Nutopia’s in-house development team, with ad-hoc research tasks.