New BBC Director General Matt Brittin has signaled his support for the license fee to expand to streaming services while acknowledging enforcement would be “difficult.
Multi-prized Mexican filmmaker Isaac Ezban (“The Incident,” “The Similars,” “Párvulos”) is in advanced development on his sixth and “most personal project yet,” a time-travel, sci-fi road movie. The project is one of 34 works presented at this year’s Frontières International Co-Production Market...
BBC director general Matt Brittin has made a bullish case for the future of Doctor Who after the sci-fi show’s Christmas special was canceled amid production changes.
The number of households paying the BBC license fee plummeted last year at a time when the corporation is desperately seeking a revamp of its funding model. Today’s BBC Annual Report showed that license fee payers slid by 539,000 last year to around 23. 3 million.
The BBC closed out a year that included its most-watched title in “The Celebrity Traitors” and its best drama debut in three years with “The Night Manager,” but its annual report and accounts for 2025/26 warns the corporation faces “real jeopardy” as license fee erosion drives a third consecutive...
The head of the UK broadcasting union is stepping down after almost a decade in post. Philippa Childs, Bectu’s first female boss, will exit at the start of next year. Her successor will be unveiled by Bectu’s parent union Prospect soon.