Hollywood’s Mental Health Crisis: UK Screen Industry Faces Fresh Reckoning As Scandal & Suicide Strengthen Calls To Make Wellbeing Support On Sets A Mainstay
deadline.comEditor’s note: This article is the latest in a series of Deadline reports looking at how the current upheaval in the media & entertainment industry is impacting mental health.
Today: how wellbeing conversations are shaping up in Britain, Hollywood’s home away from home. Before TV producer John Balson took his own life, he told loved ones that he wanted to raise awareness about mental health and burnout in the UK screen industry.
A month on from news of his death, the early signs are that Balson could leave the legacy he intended. Balson’s death shook a film and TV business that has long discussed the wellbeing of crew who stock studio shelves with world-class content, but are always at the sharp end of the sector’s peaks and troughs.
His tragic passing has also combined with a conversation about the welfare standards on, the iconic BBC show that has been tarnished by allegations of bullying and abuse.
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