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“The Era Of Government Stoking Culture Wars Is Over”: New UK Culture Secretary Promises End To “Divisive Decade”
Lisa Nandy will call out UK TV & Film today for being centralised and exclusive, coming after James Graham's MacTaggart on working class voices.
Delivering her first major set-piece, Lisa Nandy will say her department is prepared to introduce “rocket boosters” in order for it to commission more shows from across the UK and from working-class voices. She will pose the question to TV commissioners in the room at RTS London: “If you aren’t commissioning content from every part of the country – towns and villages as well as major cities – why not?” Nandy is speaking on the same day as the likes of Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, who has just opened a new studio in the Midlands.
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