The UK must protect its drama sector

Financial Times - 11/04
Major streamers such as Netflix should pay a levy to fund uniquely British television

The writer is a director and screenwriter

In 2014, I directed the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both winners of the Booker Prize. In 2023, I shot The Mirror and the Light, completing the trilogy. If we were to attempt to make either in 2025, we would not succeed.

Colin Callender, who persuaded Hilary to make the TV rights available, offered each of the major streamers the chance to collaborate on the original Wolf Hall series...
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