International Insider: UK Production Booms… Sort Of; Star Rukh Khan; ‘Doctor Who’s Regeneration; Inside Channel 4’s Failed Sale; Panahi On Hunger Strike
deadline.comHello and welcome back, Insiders. Jesse Whittock here to guide you through another week in film and TV. Onwards to the weekend… UK Production Booms… Sort Of Feeling a little peaky: There was a lot of good news in the BFI’s latest official production spend stats – and some worrying stuff, too.
The top line figures for the UK’s film and TV industries were excellent: record spend of £6.3BN ($7.8BN), up more than £600M on the (also record-setting) £5.6BN from 2021.
Film production was up a welcome 27% to almost £2BN but high-end TV (HETV) once again provided the lion’s share (£4.3BN), as shows like Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Slow Horses and Top Boy drove up spend.
Inwards investment – a fancy way of saying ‘money from overseas’ – accounted for 88% of that total, but HETV spend was actually down 3% year-on-year.
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