UK Film & TV Industries To Be Probed By Influential Parliamentary Committee
deadline.comThe UK’s film and high-end TV industries are to be examined in depth by an influential parliamentary committee, with hot-button issues including AI and struggling cinema chains sitting atop the agenda.
Around two decades after the previous probe, the Culture, Media and Sport Committee will investigate “what needs to be done to maintain and enhance the UK as a global destination for production and how the independent film production sector can best be supported,” it said in a statement today.
On the agenda will be the rise of AI – a key sticking point in the current labor disputes across the pond – along with skills, retention and the challenges for British cinemas following the recent Cineworld restructure and collapse of the Empire chain.
Britain’s high-end TV and film sector is one of the world’s leading and last year spent £6.3B ($8.1B) on production but, as with many industries, it is experiencing teething problems and is being impacted by the SAG and WGA strikes, amongst other issues.
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