“British storytelling is at growing risk of being squeezed out in an extraordinarily competitive global media landscape,” the BBC Director General will warn in a landmark speech tomorrow that will set out how to “radically transform and renew” the 100-year-old corporation.
Tim Davie plans to say “we are in danger of the UK’s world-class creative industries being undermined,” and diminishing our unique cultural identity and its remarkable influence worldwide,” in the Tuesday set piece that was revealed by Deadline last week.
Davie’s proclamation will come just a few days after The Crown EP Andy Harries warned that the UK is at risk of becoming a Hollywood “service industry” unless local storytelling is protected.
In notes briefed to the press before the speech, Davie also plans to raise concerns that “U.S. and Chinese algorithms” could be the “potential taste-makers of the future.” He plans to say “polarisation and social division are being fuelled by the fragmentation of media consumption among global platforms,” and will float that shared moments and unifying cultural experiences are increasingly rare.
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