Channel 4’s Ian Katz has become the first broadcasting boss to acknowledge the UK commissioning slowdown, which led Bectu to yesterday declare an “emergency” in the freelance TV c…
has become the first broadcasting boss to acknowledge the UK commissioning slowdown, which led Bectu to yesterday declare an “emergency” in the freelance TV community.
The cost-of-living crisis has been causing a well-publicized slowdown in the advertising market and Katz noted this could decline by 10% to 20% over the coming months, with ITV last week'Queenie': Onyx Collective Boards Candice Carty-Williams & Channel 4 Drama; Cast Unveiled Compounding the current freelancer situation, last year saw a post-Covid commissioning boom, with the freelance community virtually at full tilt. Yesterday’s declaration of acame with the union saying there is an “unprecedented” lack of work for freelancers in unscripted, some of whom say they haven’t been working since January.
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