Reports

February 2026 Insight Report

Sessions: Ros Lynch (Deputy Director for Creative and Education, DBT) and Tendai Chetse (Head of Creative Industries, DBT) discussing trade and export policy and the screen sectors; Iain Bundred (Director of Policy & Public Affairs, BBC) presenting on the BBC Charter Review; and Emma Thomas (Director of Strategy & Policy, British Business Bank), who presented on the means of support currently offered by the British Business Bank and then participated in a roundtable discussion focused on the current barriers to screen sector companies accessing such support and exploring possible solutions.

December 2025 Insight Report

Sessions: Joanne Gibbs (Partner, Wiggin) provided an update on recent legal developments involving AI and Copyright; Alexandra Lebret (Partner, Axio Capital) spoke on the Together Fund, an independent private equity fund dedicated to supporting European independent production companies; a major session on impact producing and how to maximise the positive impact from screen content featuring renowned writer/director Richard Curtis, Richie Mehta (Writer/Director), Alison Ramsay (Producer Director; Impact Production Fellow, AKO Storytelling Institute, UAL), and Lucy Stone (Founder and Executive Director, Climate Spring).

October 2025 Insight Report

Sessions: Marcus Arthur (CEO, UKTV) presented on UKTV’s strategy; Simon Burton OBE (Senior Counsel, Lexington Communications; former Senior Special Adviser, Downing Street) discussed Reform UK, their current political performance, and their possible future policies; and Adam Minns (Executive Director, COBA) and Gill Hind (Managing Director and Director of TV, Enders Analysis) presented as part of a discussion on BBC Charter Renewal.

September 2025 Insight Report

Sessions: Alex Cameron (Director EMEA, Parrot Analytics) delivered insights from the world’s largest audience behavior datasets on how “Britishness” has been exported abroad; Iain Bennett (Founder & Director, Fifth Sector) on future-proofing the UK Screen Sector through a strategic investment framework; Chris Warhurst (Director, Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick) on research commissioned by the BFI as part of its Good Work Programme for Screen, which aims to deliver improved evidence and actionable recommendations for setting new Good Work industry standards for use in UK film, broadcast and high-end TV (HETV); and Andy Tomlinson (Director of Public Policy, Electronic Arts) and David Wheeldon (Managing Director, Head of EMEA Government Affairs and Public Policy, YouTube/Google) on EU policy developments, including the Digital Fairness Act and the AVSMD review, and how digital regulation can and will impact the screen sectors.

June 2025 Insight Report

Sessions: Paul Lee (Partner, Deloitte), Ben Stanton (Senior Manager, Deloitte), and Laura Khnichich (Manager, Deloitte) on Deloitte’s recently published Digital Consumer Trends 2025: UK Insights Report; Zygi Kamasa (CEO, True Brit Entertainment) on True Brit’s strategy for making commercially oriented films; Vishaal Virani (Strategic Partnerships, Health, Kids & Learning, YouTube), Anna Taganov (Head of Children’s Content & Programming Strategy, BBC), and Oli Hyatt (Managing Director, Blue Zoo Animation) on connecting kids with quality content; and Mike Benson (Managing Director, Clapperboard TV) and Sebastian Cardwell (Head of Drama & Deputy Chief Content Officer, Paramount UK) on the challenges of making lower tariff dramas in the UK and the case for reducing the £1m AVEC threshold for HETV.

Members Briefing: July 2025 Copyright Update

British Screen Forum has published a confidential briefing on copyright as part of an occasional series. It aims to inform, but does not constitute legal advice. Anyone intending to take action in relation to the issues discussed should consult a lawyer. Topics in this update cover a range of decisions, policy developments and ongoing litigation concerning, mostly, issues of artificial intelligence regulation with respect to copyright law and data protection law.