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FeaturesTony Jordan, Red Planet Pictures
The team discuss stepping into the big league with five new drama commissions
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NewsRed Planet calls for tax credit reform
Red Planet Pictures is lobbying to relax tax credit rules to allow for more flexible episode length in high-end drama.
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NewsAbolition of retransmission fees on hold
The legal row between the commercial terrestrial broadcasters and online streaming service TVCatchup has stopped the government from intervening in the retransmission fees row.
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CommentPressing need for diversity data
Representation won’t improve if we don’t know who’s making TV
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NewsTV admits diversity failures
Baroness Floella Benjamin made an impassioned plea in her opening address at Ed Vaizey’s diversity roundtable last week: “Don’t let our children down,” she said, “especially our young black men. They don’t feel part of this.”
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NewsUK film urges broadcasters to invest
Sky, ITV and Channel 5 have been accused of not supporting the UK film industry by the Film Policy Review Panel which has called for a £35m annual investment in the sector.
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NewsRevealed: Diary of a director general
The political pressure and manoeuvring that comes with being director general of the BBC has been laid bare in an analysis of Tony Hall’s diary for his first seven months in office.
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NewsCreative Industries Council kick off UK campaign
The Creative Industries Council is to promote TV, film and other creative industries via a website which showcases and coordinates activity across the sector.
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NewsCreative industries worth £8m an hour to UK
The UK’s creative industries are worth £71.4 billion per year to the UK economy, according to new DCMS statistics.
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NewsDocs tax credit under review
The government is considering lowering the TV tax relief threshold for documentaries from £1m per hour to £650,000 per hour to boost the UK’s factual output.
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NewsBullying: BBC still under fire
NUJ and MPs dissatisfied with corporation’s implementation of Rose report recommendations
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Aver Media targets UK projects
Canadian financier Aver Media is targeting high-end drama and animation series in an aggressive move into the UK television market.
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NewsBBC Trust ‘faces axe’ in payoffs row
The government is weighing up abolishing the BBC Trust as part a major overhaul of the corporation’s governance, according to a report.
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NewsBFI issues first tax break guarantees
CBeebies’ Sarah and Duck and BBC1 dramas Death Comes To Pemberley and Remember Me are among the first projects to be guaranteed a tax break by the BFI.
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NewsSky in PSB talks over retransmission fees
BSkyB is hoping to hammer out commercial agreements with each of the public service broadcasters in a bid to defuse the row over retransmission fees.
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CommentReplace the BBC licence fee with tax
Does Finland hold the key to how to fund our national broadcaster? asks Tony Ballard
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NewsDCMS to abolish retransmission fees
The government plans to abolish retransmission fees and has set out plans to preserve the prominence of PSB broadcasters in a wide-ranging policy paper.
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NewsDCMS aims to protect PSB content on digital platforms
The DCMS will set out measures to protect the prominence of PSBs on new content platforms in the long-awaited Communications Act strategy paper this week.
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NewsS4C funding maintained by government
Welsh broadcaster S4C has warded off threatened cuts to the £6.7m it receives from the government.
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NewsFormer S4C boss warns of "grave danger" over funding
Former S4C chief executive Arwel Ellis Owen has claimed that the government may cut all of its £6.7m funding for the Welsh language broadcaster.