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UK Film & High-End TV Production Spend Slid Sharply To $5.3B In Strike-Hit 2023


Spend on UK film and high-end TV slid sharply to £4.23B ($5.3B) in the strike-hit 2023, according to the BFI’s latest annual stats. The figure was 35% down on a record 2022, the BFI said, whi…

It will come as little surprise that the figures fell so starkly given that the latter half of the year saw film and high-end TV production severely dented due to the writers and actors strikes across the pond. There were green shoots in the box office figures, with cinema admissions rising by 5.5% to 123.6 million, helped along by a massive 57% month-on-month boost in August, which is when Barbie and Oppenheimer were released. The cameras rolled last year on the likes of Netflix’s The Diplomat, upcoming BBC drama Dope Girls and regulars such as Call the Midwife, but the sector was clearly hit heavily by the strikes, which has had a major impact on the .

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