Film and TV Briefing: Friday 20 October 2023
Welcome to this week’s round-up of news, commentary and industry announcements that you may have missed from the past week.
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In the news
‘Beckham’ becomes highest rated TV premiere in the UK since 'Harry & Meghan' documentary (Deadline)
LA production dropped by 41% in the last quarter due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes (Variety)
SAG-AFTRA strike talks break down due to $480 million gap (Variety)
Nigeria have submitted CJ Obasi’s ‘Mami Wata’ for the international feature Oscar (Variety)
New CBBC/CBeebies commissions announced, including one to teach coding to preschoolers (Royal Television Society)
The Trades Union Congress has delivered a statement on Israel and Palestine (Bectu)
Netflix have exceeded Q3 expectations and confirms price increases in US, UK, and France (Deadline)
Skydance Animation to release its animations on Netflix now that Apple deal has ended (Variety)
Netflix is modifying its’ CEO pay policies (Deadline)
Features and commentary
Digital Domain CTO Hanno Basse discusses how generative AI could be useful for visual effects (The Hollywood Reporter)
Netflix Co-Chief comments on how streaming data is expected to become more transparent (Deadline)
Industry announcements
DOC NYC has announced its lineup for features and short categories for 2023 (The Hollywood Reporter)
Cristina Nicolotti Squires has been appointed to lead Ofcom's broadcasting work (Ofcom)
The new Directors UK Commercial fee table has been published (Pact)
BAFTA expands its bursaries programme and is addressing socio-economic inequality within the industry (The Hollywood Reporter)
Resources
Click here to sign up for the Writers’ Union’s celebration of Black writing talent event on 27 October (The Writers’ Union)
