Streamers Urged to Pay U.K. Levy to Protect Embattled British TV Drama in Parliament Report: They Must ‘Put Their Money Where Their Mouth Is’

The British government has been urged to take a series of drastic measures to help support the beleaguered U.K. TV industry and indie film sector in a major parliament committee report.

Following months of evidence provided to MPs by some of the biggest figures in the British creative industries, the wide-ranging report asserted that “tax breaks and a streamer levy should be on the table” as part of an “urgent package of support for U.K.’s crisis-hit high quality drama sector.”

Amid spiraling costs, a collapsing ad market, major funding cuts across the local networks and the recent global pullback by studios and streamers when it comes to

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