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Revealed: BBC Boss Tim Davie Held Crunch Talks With Top Producers Over UK Scripted Funding Crisis
The BBC assembled some of the UK's finest drama and comedy producers to discuss the scripted funding crisis currently gripping the industry.
EXCLUSIVE: The BBC assembled some of the UK’s finest drama and comedy producers to discuss the scripted funding crisis currently gripping the industry, we can reveal. One person familiar with the talks said the BBC had “thrown down the gauntlet” to producers to devise stories that domestic broadcasters can afford, without having to turn to U.S. studios like Netflix for a co-production deal. “What was expressed in the meeting was that the BBC wants the best shows and are willing to do co-production deals, but the direction of travel is that they’re going to have to work with producers on £2M-an-hour ($2.5M) stories that they fund alongside a tax break and distribution finance,” the source adds.
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