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‘Wolf Hall’ Director Peter Kosminsky Says British Dramatists In Danger Of “Insidious Self-Censorship” Amid Funding Crisis
'Wolf Hall' director Peter Kosminsky says funding emergency for British dramas is the “greatest crisis we've ever faced in my working lifetime.”
He described this as becoming “silent, insidious self-censorship” that could lead to the “invisible” decay of shows including Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV drama that caused political outcry and expedited a fight for justice, and Three Girls, the BBC grooming gang series. The director, whose body of work includes BAFTA-winning limited series Warriors, was speaking after his headline-grabbing evidence to lawmakers last week, in which he revealed that Mark Rylance took a significant pay cut to get Season 2 of Wolf Hall made for the BBC. He argued that incentives for lower-budget series would not be enough to plug funding gaps and could exacerbate the issue of streamers taking advantage of cheaper rates in the UK to make stories for a global audience.
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