Get the latest gossip

“52 Per Cent Of UK Screen Industry Still Out Of Work” Following Last Year’s Strikes – report


Screen industry union Bectu reports that many professionals remain unemployed.

The Times reports that budgets of both streamers and linear broadcasters have fallen over the past year, and some postponed work has yet to be rescheduled. It also cites the challenges of freelance contracts with its lack of guaranteed employment, a reduction in advertising money leading to fewer greenlit projects and the long-lasting effects of lockdown prior to the strikes, when production ground to a halt on many others. Big cinema hits made in the UK over the past couple of years include Barbie, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning and Wonka.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Deadline

Read more on:

Photo of 52 per cent

52 per cent