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Who “Survived ‘Til ’25”? Taking The Temperature Of The International Television Industry As Sector Wrestles With Strike Hangover & Financial Strife
Our Survive Til 25 feature includes BBC funding challenges, Showmax's tough year and The ABC's management issues.
In non-scripted, traditional production outfits are continuing to grapple with the “squeezed middle” — spotlighted so relentlessly at last year’s Edinburgh TV Festival — as buyers commission only top-end premium factual shows (think The Traitors) and lower-cost, high-volume returnable fare to beef up their streaming services and daytime linear schedules. Streaming regulation was due to begin last year, but is still not in operation, making global streamers reticent to commit budget (though Netflix’s investment is widely praised by our sources), commercial networks Seven, Nine and Ten are proceeding cautiously in the face of a troubled TV ad market and pubcasters ABC and SBS are under-resourced. However, most production sources point to a lack of clarity about what’s round the corner, even though there are plenty of strong local shows being made: See Prime Video’s much-anticipated drama The Narrow Road to the Deep North( set to premiere at Berlin), Netflix’s recent Neo-western series Territory, Stan trio Population 11, Black Snow and the soon-to-launch Invisible Boys, and Binge’s The Twelve and Colin From Accounts.
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