In the news this week, screen industries consider the impact of new US tariffs, BBC content spend to drop almost £150m in the next financial year, and C4’s Alex Mahon urges the government to stop AI companies from “scraping the value” out of the UK’s creative industries.
Read about it in this week’s Digest.
News
• The global film and TV industry is considering the impact of a new set of tariffs announced by President Donald Trump this week. (Screen) Analyst Alice Enders has explored the potential impact for TVBEurope. (TVBEurope)
• BBC spend on content will drop almost £150m in the next financial year according to the corporation’s Annual Plan. (Broadcast)
• Channel 4 chief executive Alex Mahon has said that artificial intelligence companies are “scraping the value” out of the UK’s £125bn creative industries, and urges the government to take action. (Guardian)
• Netflix and the National Film and Television School (NFTS) are to partner on the School’s Access NFTS Programme, an initiative designed to increase opportunities and access for the next generation of state educated film, TV and games creatives. (Televisual)
• Netflix is making Adolescence available to secondary school students through charities Into Film+ and Tender. (Broadcast)
• ITV’s Fresh Cuts strand is to return for 2025 with the broadcaster seeking to commission six companies to produce “fresh and exciting one-off programmes” that can be shown in Black History Month and UK Disability History Month. (Televisual)
Features
• “Conspicuous Achievement” and Its Toll on Young People Working in Film and TV. (Marcus Ryder, CEO of The Film and TV Charity)
• “Finally, someone gets it!” The TV invention that could revolutionise viewing for disabled people. (The Guardian)
Opinion
• Adolescence's success reveals a wider problem at the heart of British TV. (Yahoo!)
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