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EXCLUSIVE: New UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng are preparing to unveil the government’s plan to tackle the worst cost-of-living crisis for decades, and the TV industry is not immune. As Britain’s production community feels the crunch, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Paramount-owned Channel 5 have…

With a new British government, specifically a new culture secretary, in place, the decisions to privatize Channel 4 and to scrap the BBC license fee are being reviewed.  The new culture secretary, Michelle Donelan – who replaced Nadine Dorries after Liz Truss replaced Boris Johnson as prime minister – told the BBC…

British broadcasters are reviewing their TV schedules daily in the lead up to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II next Monday, striking a balance between tribute programing and some shows that were previously due to air. Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday aged 96 and the country is in mourning, with tributes pouring in…

British ratings body Overnights.tv has said 33 million people tuned into the country’s news channels yesterday, as the public pressed for news about the health of Queen Elizabeth II. The new monarch, King Charles III, will make his first public address at 6pm today, almost 24 hours after the news of his mother’s…

The board of Britain’s main public service broadcaster, the BBC, has called Queen Elizabeth II “a unifying figure across generations, communities and borders,” as bosses paid tribute to the monarch, who died today aged 96. The broadcaster has cleared its schedules this evening as the UK comes to terms with a future…

EXCLUSIVE: A prominent Scottish MP is attempting to block former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries’ path to the House of Lords over her controversial claim that Channel 4 used actors in Love Productions’ reality format Tower Block of Commons. John Nicolson, who sits on the influential Digital, Culture, Media & Sport…

The UK TV boom that brought you the likes of Netflix’s The Crown may be slowing, with producer trade body Pact’s latest Census showing the lowest level of international TV revenue since 2017 and streamer spend dropping by £50M ($57.7M). While the overall UK TV market almost returned to pre-Covid levels due to a £500M…

Michelle Donelan, a former WWE marketing manager who was Boris Johnson’s Education Secretary for just 48 hours, is to replace Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary in UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’ first cabinet. Donelan, who has previously called for the “unfair” BBC license fee to be scrapped, has been named in the past…

UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries is to stand down when Liz Truss formally takes over as Prime Minister today. The arch-BBC sceptic confirmed reports this morning that she was asked to stay on by Truss but will now likely be given a peerage, triggering a tricky by-election in her constituency. Many had anticipated…

The BBC and Channel 4 may fear the worst as the anti-Public Service Broadcasting agenda led by Boris Johnson’s administration looks set to continue under a Liz Truss premiership, with all eyes trained on whether Nadine Dorries remains Culture Secretary. As expected, Truss comfortably won the race to be the next Conserv…

UK TV producers have made a last gasp attempt to stop the next Prime Minister privatizing Channel 4 as the country prepares for Monday’s big announcement, but the noises coming from Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak’s camps are not good. More than 750 indies including major groups such as All3Media and Banijay signed an open …

BBC Studios has taken a 25% minority stake in former Channel 4 Deputy Head of Programmes Kelly Webb-Lamb’s Mothership Productions. Webb-Lamb set up the company earlier this month along with former Channel 4 colleagues Charlotte Desai and Gilly Greenslade and it joins a roster of BBC Studios-backed non-scripted indies…