Caroline Dinenage Returns Unopposed To UK Culture Committee Hotseat; BBC ‘Waterloo Road’ Spend; Sphere Abacus Hire – Global Briefs
deadline.comCaroline Dinenage Returns Unopposed To Culture, Media & Sport Committee Hotseat The UK’s Culture Media & Sport Committee (CMSC), which scrutinizes the work of the film and TV industries, has re-elected Caroline Dinenage as chair.
Dinenage, whose father Fred Dinenage was a TV presenter, was the sole nomination and therefore elected unopposed. She had been chair for around a year before parliament was dissolved for the July 4 election.
During her tenure she oversaw the review into the high-end TV and film industries, which saw the likes of Gurinder Chadha, Slow Horses director James Hawes and the head of Amazon UK appear in front of the committee.
That work will need to be started from scratch if Dinenage chooses to do so. “I’m delighted to be re-elected to chair the Culture, Media and Sport Committee and entrusted to build on our achievements in the last parliament,” said Dinenage. “These sectors are our global economic super-power, they have remarkable abilities to drive regeneration and bring communities together.
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