Issues include how best to support the indie production sector, safe-guarding inward investment and overcoming exhibition challenges.
The UK government is launching a wide-ranging inquiry into the many challenges facing the UK’s film and high-end TV industry via the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport (Cms) Committee.
It will look at everything from what can be done to maintain the UK’s status as a global hub for international production to how independent producers can best be supported. Other issues under discussions include skills and retention in the industry and the best way in which the film and...
The UK government is launching a wide-ranging inquiry into the many challenges facing the UK’s film and high-end TV industry via the House of Commons’ Culture, Media and Sport (Cms) Committee.
It will look at everything from what can be done to maintain the UK’s status as a global hub for international production to how independent producers can best be supported. Other issues under discussions include skills and retention in the industry and the best way in which the film and...
- 7/21/2023
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 and Comcast-owned TV production company Love Productions have hit back against the British culture minister’s claims that a 2010 docuseries, “Tower Block of Commons,” was faked.
“Neither Love Productions’ investigation nor Channel 4’s internal inquiries revealed any evidence to support the allegations made about the programme,” the network said in a statement.
“Tower Block of Commons” was a four-episode docuseries in which British members of Parliament (MPs) were invited to live with residents in some of the most deprived areas of the country. It was made by Love and broadcast on Channel 4.
The allegations of fakery date back to May, when culture minister Nadine Dorries – who was one of five MPs who took part in the docuseries – claimed she had been told some of the participants in the show were actors and their real lives did not reflect what they were portraying to the camera.
“Neither Love Productions’ investigation nor Channel 4’s internal inquiries revealed any evidence to support the allegations made about the programme,” the network said in a statement.
“Tower Block of Commons” was a four-episode docuseries in which British members of Parliament (MPs) were invited to live with residents in some of the most deprived areas of the country. It was made by Love and broadcast on Channel 4.
The allegations of fakery date back to May, when culture minister Nadine Dorries – who was one of five MPs who took part in the docuseries – claimed she had been told some of the participants in the show were actors and their real lives did not reflect what they were portraying to the camera.
- 7/15/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The UK Culture Secretary has waded into a fresh battle with British broadcaster Channel 4, accusing producers of a reality TV show of filming actors instead of real people.
The Tower Block of Commons show, filmed in 2010, saw members of Parliament “leave behind the splendour of Westminster and their comfortable homes for eight days and nights to live in council tower blocks estates in some of Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods.”
Nadine Dorries, then serving as a MP, appeared in the show herself, sharing a West London flat with sisters Rena and Renisha Spaine. The government’s secretary of state for culture since last year, she told a political committee on Thursday that the show used actors – something strongly denied by both the production company and other people who appeared in the show.
Dorries told MPs: “The parents of the boys in that programme actually came here to have lunch with me,...
The Tower Block of Commons show, filmed in 2010, saw members of Parliament “leave behind the splendour of Westminster and their comfortable homes for eight days and nights to live in council tower blocks estates in some of Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods.”
Nadine Dorries, then serving as a MP, appeared in the show herself, sharing a West London flat with sisters Rena and Renisha Spaine. The government’s secretary of state for culture since last year, she told a political committee on Thursday that the show used actors – something strongly denied by both the production company and other people who appeared in the show.
Dorries told MPs: “The parents of the boys in that programme actually came here to have lunch with me,...
- 5/22/2022
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
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