BBC and ITV slash big-budget TV spend as US streamers pour money into UK
Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky also among UK broadcasters making cuts as Netflix, Disney and Amazon pile on pressure
Channel 4 boss calls for TV industry to unite against profit-seeking ‘tech titans’
Alex Mahon accuses firms such as TikTok, Meta and YouTube of ‘wanton abandonment of the pursuit of truth’
Lisa Nandy vows to bulldoze barriers in arts and turbocharge growth
Culture secretary announces investment in arts at Gateshead summit and accuses Tories of stifling creative industries
‘Long way to go’ on gender parity in film and TV industry, Bafta chair says
Sara Putt cites lack of access and retention in an increasingly precarious industry
‘I was 2cm from being paralysed’: UK stunt artists celebrated with donation to BFI
Gillian Aldam, who is still working at 83, among top names in rare first edition of 1973 register being given to library
Lisa Nandy urges YouTube and TikTok to promote better content for children
UK culture minister says government wants to ‘open a dialogue’, but will intervene if platforms do not comply
Jack Bond, cult British director and Pet Shop Boys collaborator, dies aged 87
Bond worked on avant garde films with Jane Arden in the 1960s and 70s and went on to work with 80s pop stars from Neil Tennant to Adam Ant
How YouTube (and Skibidi Toilet) changed the Christmas toys market
The shift from live TV to video platforms has made toy makers and sellers rethink products and where to sell them
Doctor Who showrunners warn AI scripts will ‘eat their own tail’
Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies discuss impact of AI on creative industries before Doctor Who Christmas special
Indie films losing out to obsession with bankable stars, says Richard Eyre
British director whose career is being celebrated at the BFI says creative industry increasingly wants safe bets
Never Look Away review – Lucy Lawless’s portrait of a fearless news camerawoman
Fascinating documentary about Margaret Moth, whose footage from war zones almost killed her in 1992, lives up to her motto ‘don’t be boring’
Young working-class people being ‘blocked’ from creative industries, study finds
Sutton Trust calls for improved access to creative education and industry dominated by upper middle-class
Brutal hours, tyrants and chest pains: a freelance producer on the reality of British TV
‘TV industry would not exist without freelancers, yet it bullies us “lucky” ones into fearing about future work if we complain’
Journalism is the lifeblood of British democracy. My government will protect it
Whether it is online intimidation, journalists imprisoned abroad or the cynical use of Slapp lawsuits, we will fight any threats to those who hold the powerful to account, writes the prime minister Keir Starmer
A predator used her 12-year-old face to make porn. She helped pass a law to make that a crime
Child actor Kaylin Hayman fought back after she learned that a man had used AI to make child sex abuse materials from images on her Instagram page