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New U.K. Unscripted TV Fund Launches for Skills Development
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The BBC, Channel 4, Sky, A+E Networks UK and Discovery UK have joined forces with ScreenSkills and Pact to create the Unscripted TV Skills Fund.
The new fund aims to address skills gaps and shortages in unscripted television as it builds a wider pool of off-screen crew and talent in the nations and regions, with a focus on building a more inclusive workforce and future-proofing the industry. Significant upfront funding has been provided by the BBC and Channel 4.
Areas of skills development to be supported by the fund include production management, development, self-shooting skills and postproduction. The new initiative replaces the ScreenSkills TV Skills Fund, which relied on broadcaster contributions alone, and the Indie Training Fund. It aims to raise in the region of £3 million a year by 2024 with contributions by production companies, broadcasters and SVOD services.
By Hannah Bowler2021-04-15T11:03:00+01:00
Five broadcasters on board at launch, after three-year campaign
A pan-industry training levy on unscripted programming has been agreed following a three-year campaign, with the potential to generate £3m per year to plug skills shortages.
ScreenSkills has united the BBC, Channel 4, Sky, A+E Networks UK and Discovery UK, along with Pact, to invest in the fund for off screen training. All non-scripted commissions greenlit by these broadcasters will be subject to the levy from this summer, and the skills body is also in advanced discussions to bring ITV and Netflix on board.
Led by ScreenSkills chair Richard Johnston and chief exec Seetha Kumar, The Unscripted TV Skills Fund charges a levy of 0.25% of the budget of all unscripted productions (see box for full details).
The UK needs a rebrand – an expert explains how
The UK needs a rebrand – an expert explains how
As the UK prepares for economic recovery from COVID and makes the best of Brexit, it is striking that there has been no talk of investing in the national brand. A post-Brexit “global Britain” will need more than rhetoric – and something more sophisticated than the nine-year-old GREAT Britain promotional campaign – to sell its products and services, develop new strategic alliances, retain its soft power, and make the nation an attractive destination.
UK governments have tended not to engage in serious branding activities. They have preferred to focus on slogans and logo-heavy campaigns that draw heavily on marketing tools such as advertising (the regular VisitBritain tourism campaigns), PR (Tony Blair’s so-called “Cool Britannia” party in the 1990s), and exhibitions (Food is GREAT at China’s 2020 International Import Expo).
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9th April 2021 12:07 pm
Electric boats of all shapes and sizes are beginning to make a splash in the maritime sector. Andrew Wade reports.
It’s estimated that maritime greenhouse gas emissions account for around 2.5 per cent of the global total, marginally ahead of the two per cent that aviation contributes. If shipping were a country, it would be the sixth largest emitter of CO2 after China, the USA, India, Russia and Japan. International shipping – much like long-haul flight – will not be electrified any time soon, as the energy density of batteries simply cannot facilitate it. And for an industry that’s recently committed to halve its emissions by 2050, that’s a fairly significant problem.