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BBC Says “Unprecedented Funding Challenge” Lies Ahead As Content Spend Set To Fall By $200M
The BBC's Annual Plan talks content budget, funding challenges and Richard Gadd's new series 'Half Man'.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the LightBBC/Playground Entertainment/Nick Briggs The BBC faces an “unprecedented content funding challenge” in the year to come, the corporation’s Annual Plan setting out priorities for the next 12 months has said. This comes with Netflix’s Adolescence dominating headlines worldwide, with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying in the past few minutes that the show about teenage masculinity and the damaging impact of social media “hit home hard.” The document revealed plans to “move more creative spend, programming and journalism outside of London to better represent and reflect audiences,” citing upcoming examples like Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd’s new show Half Man, which is made with HBO.
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