The Connected Set

07/11/2025

We’re hiring!

🌟 Job Opportunity: Researcher & AI Creative

Location: London/Remote (Hybrid)
Company: The Connected Set
Type: Full-time, Initial Fixed Term Contract (3 months)
Start date: 1st December 2025 (flexible)
Application deadline: 21st November 2025
Salary: £30,950

Are you excited about how AI is transforming the creative industries?

Are you already playing with emerging tools like Sora, NotebookLM, Canva AI and Adobe Firefly to create your own content and push creative limits?

What if YOUR job was to experiment with these kinds of emerging AI tools and workflows to create groundbreaking content, day-in-day-out? Sounds exciting, right?

The Connected Set - an award-winning independent production company and creative studio - is looking for a ‘Researcher & AI Creative’ to join our small and ambitious team in a new and exciting R&D role.

Working directly with the company directors including our Founder, Jason Mitchell, a regular speaker on the transformative potential of AI within TV and video production, you’ll be our eyes and ears on emerging creative AI technologies: constantly identifying, testing and recommending new AI driven ways of shaping our TV, digital and creator-led video projects.

This role is perfect for someone early in their career with boundless enthusiasm, an eagerness to learn and upskill, a demonstrable interest in AI and creativity, and strong organisational skills.

For more details and to apply via our LinkedIn page.

13/10/2025

🍂 New season, new routines, and a good moment to check in on your mental health. We produced World of Wellbeing for and to give young people tools that actually help.

Swipe the carousel for 5 takeaways featuring tips from & , plus real talk from &

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06/10/2025

🎉 WE’RE NOMINATED! 🎉
Our Live Lessons episode on learning to disagree respectfully for Anti-Bullying Week 2024 is up for ‘Best School Age Children’s Programme’ at this year’s Awards! 🏆

Built with the brilliant team at , produced by for and BBC Bitesize for Teachers. Hosted by .paris, & , and broadcast from - home of 🐶 () and featuring Gary the Rabbit and Barry the Hamster.

Massive congrats to every single person who made this happen. Fingers (and paws) crossed for November! 🐾✨

01/09/2025

👉 Think you know The Connected Set? Think again. Here are 5 things you probably didn’t know we do…

To find out even more, talk to our MD, Jake Cassels or Founder, Jason Mitchell: [email protected]

05/06/2025

🌟What a treat to be invited to the star studded launch of Parenting with our favourites Baroness Benjamin Evie Pickerill .pickerill and Bluey! (Jake couldn’t resist a pic). It’s the new home for Tiny Happy People where you’ll find all the content The Connected Set had the privilege to make with families, children and experts in all corners of the UK. Please take a look. It’s especially useful if you have any preschoolers in your life!

22/05/2025

🦘We’re jumping for joy that Live Lessons produced by for BBC Teach and is a Broadcast Digital Awards finalist for Best Digital Children’s Content🎉 Congratulations to everyone involved in this series from all four corners of the UK - It’s take a village!🙏

22/05/2025

06/05/2025

✨ This Friday, join us for our Live Lesson! 🎉 It’s the final episode of this series produced fo CBBC and BBC Bitesize for Teachers BBC Teach by the talented team at , in partnership with BBC Children in Need.

🎥 Hosted by Rhys Stephenson and Evie Pickerill, with expert advice from Dr Tharaka and a special appearance by Pudsey Bear.

💻 Tune in at 11am on Friday 9 May on CBBC, BBC iPlayer and the Bitesize for Teachers / BBC Teach website.

🔗 Catch up via the link in the comments or visit the website.

17/04/2025

🌍Next Tuesday is Earth Day and Live Lessons will be coming from the Eden Project in Cornwall! ✨

🌳 Hosted by Naomi Wilkinson () and Lizzie Daly (), we’ll travel deep inside the Rainforest Biome (), which contains over 1,000 varieties of plants to learn all about the water cycle and its vital role in sustaining life on our planet, produced for CBBC () and BBC Bitesize () for Teachers by the talented team at

💻 Watch at 11am on Tuesday 22 April 2025 or catch up via the link in the comments below and find it on the website, and on

10/03/2025

🚀✨How do you survive in space? Watch today’s episode of BBC Live Lessons to find out from a real life astronaut on location at the National Space Centre in Leicester, to coincide with British Science Week, produced for CBBCand BBC Teach by the talented team at The Connected Set

🧑‍🚀 British astronaut Tim Peake, who spent 173 days living on the ISS, will join Live Lessons hosts, Greg Foot and Grace Webb to teach us what it takes to survive in space. In today’s episode, we’ll learn about the effects of space on our bones and how astronauts manage food and hydration. By the end of the show, viewers will have completed an ‘astronaut training plan’ and be inspired to blast off into the world of science and space exploration, designed specially for KS2 pupils.

💻 Watch live at 11am or catch up via the link in our bio and find it on the website, BBC iPlayer and on CBBC

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06/03/2025

🎉 Today is World Book Day! This morning BBC Live Lessons broadcast live from City Library and Centenary Square in the centre of Bradford, the UK City of Culture 2025. Hosted by Naomi Wilkinson and Joe Tasker with special guest, poet and author, Joseph Coelho. Today’s show was produced for CBBC and BBC Teach by the talented team at The Connected Sett

📚 The episode culminated in ‘The Big Live Read’, a special live moment when children in schools across the UK all read a book they love for 60 seconds, exactly at the same time.

🚌 Newsround’s Emma-Louise Amanshia hitched a ride on the legendary Bradford Stories Bus visting schools across the city who shared their favourite books, offer inspiration to others along the way.

💻 Catch up via the link in the comments and find it on the BBC Teach website, BBC iPlayer and on CBBC


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11/02/2025

🎉 Today is Safer Internet Day! We’re rehearsing for this morning’s Live Lessons show that will be broadcasting live from Bristol’s Wake The Tiger. The venue is being transformed into the backdrop for a new game called Scam Smashers 💥 hosted by Joel Mawhinney and Maddie Moate.

💪 Our audience will be challenged to outsmart digital tricksters to protect their personal information and use their detective skills to make it to the end of the Live Lesson and beat the scammers once and for all. Scam Smashers was inspired by this year’s Safer Internet Day theme is ‘Too good to be true? Protecting yourself and others from scams online’.

💻 Watch today LIVE at 11am via the link in the comments below and find it on the website, BBC iPlayer and on CBBC It will remain online afterwards to be used as a teaching resource whenever you need it.