Brexit Is ‘Likely To Be Devastating’ For Film And Television Industry In The U.K.

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Brexit Is ‘Likely To Be Devastating’ For Film And Television Industry In The U.K.

The night is dark and full of terrors: Though some are already expressing buyers’ remorse and/or frantically Googling to find out what, exactly, they just signed up for, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. The vote could still be blocked or overturned — “no backsies” is apparently not a policy on the other side of the Atlantic — but such a move seems unlikely, even after the resignation of Prime Minster David Cameron, who right now must be casting his gaze forlornly into the middle distance like Ben Affleck on the Batman v. Superman press tour.

Friday morning, Michael Ryan, the chairman of the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA), the trade association representing companies behind independent film and TV worldwide, said the Brexit is “likely to be devastating” for the creative sector, Variety reports.

In a statement, Ryan described the decision as “a major blow to the U.K. film and TV industry”:

Producing films and television programs is a very expensive and very risky business and certainty about the rules affecting the business is a must. This decision has just blown up our foundation — as of today, we no longer know how our relationships with co-producers, financiers and distributors will work, whether new taxes will be dropped on our activities in the rest of Europe or how production financing is going to be raised without any input from European funding agencies.

The U.K. creative sector has been a strong and vibrant contributor to the economy — this is likely to be devastating for us.

In May, nearly 300 prominent actors, musicians, filmmakers, writers, dancers, and other artists signed a letter organized by the Britain Stronger in Europe campaign, urging voters to remain in the E.U. Backers included Keira Knightley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Vivienne Westwood, and Sir Patrick Stewart.

http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2016/06/24/3792315/brexit-will-likely-devestating-film-television-industry-uk/

[DonCoquixote]

1. A great way to illustrate this very point

Most Uk Tv features actors that are Scottish, Welsh and English. The current Dr. Who, Peter Capaldi, is a Scot, as was David tennant (arguably the most famous) and was Sylvester McCoy. Now a Dr. Who who is a Scot wil have to work in England with the very realization that he or she is making a product that is England's main cultural face, that ties it to the American and Canadian fans ( a true "lynchpin of the English Speaking world) and that despite that, he or she will become a froegner in England, no less so than any Russian or Chinese.

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2. Good, I hope the UK goes down the shitter.... boycott the hell out of that racist country.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. And do we believe it when Repouiblicans say raising minimum wage will be devastating to the economy?

Anyone opposed to anything will trot out the same arguments about how devastating it will be. Yes, it's the end of the world. No doubt about it. Except it's not, and never has been the end of the world every time something happens that someone doesn't approve of.