“British storytelling is at growing risk of being squeezed out in an extraordinarily competitive global media landscape,” the BBC Director General will warn in a landmark speech tomorrow that can set out methods to “radically transform and renew” the 100-year-old company.
Tim Davie plans to say “we are in danger of the UK’s world-class creative industries being undermined,” and diminishing our distinctive cultural id and its exceptional affect worldwide,” within the Tuesday set piece that was revealed by Deadline final week.
Davie’s proclamation will come just some days after The Crown EP Andy Harries warned that the UK is prone to turning into a Hollywood “service industry” until native storytelling is protected.
In notes briefed to the press earlier than the speech, Davie additionally plans to lift considerations that “U.S. and Chinese algorithms” could possibly be the “potential taste-makers of the future.”
He plans to say “polarisation and social division are being fuelled by the fragmentation of media consumption among global platforms,” and can float that shared moments and unifying cultural experiences are more and more uncommon.
Davie will sit down in London on Tuesday morning for the speech and Q&A arguing that “the BBC can and must be part of the solution to national challenges” equivalent to AI and fast technological change.
He will float 3 ways to “radically transform and renew”: Integrating the BBC’s on-line companies, investing in high-impact content material from throughout the UK and boosting industrial revenue together with establishing new partnerships.
More element is incoming on every within the set piece. Davie has touched on all previously, floating in a 2022 speech that the company would ultimately “consolidate activity under one simple, single brand,” discussing the high-impact content material strand as a part of the BBC’s ‘fewer, bigger, better’ technique and steadily stressing the necessity for extra industrial revenue to offset declining license payment revenue and hovering inflation. BBC Studios not too long ago purchased ITV out of streamer BritBox International for £255M ($322M),’ its costliest deal of all time.
“These steps will help secure the future of the BBC, but more importantly, the vital role that a BBC can play for the UK at home and abroad in the years ahead,” Davie will conclude tomorrow.
After delivering the set piece, Davie will “hold sessions with each division to look at what this means for everyone in more detail and what we need to prioritise as we set goals for the year ahead.”
The speech will come within the days earlier than the BBC’s Annual Plan, which units out spending priorities for the approaching yr.