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Meh, the Audiovisual Media Services Directive sets quotas for how much EU sourced Video on Demand media should be present in an effort to preserve the cultural identity of member states and promote domestic media production. As we voted to leave, we no longer fall under the Audiovisual Media Services Directive so UK sourced media falls in to the same category as US based media.

Just a consequence of leaving the Single Market. Difficult to get too excited...

Only for video on demand mind you, For broadcast, different rules apply (European Convention on Transfrontier Television)
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Explainer here from 2017 - https://mediawrites.law/translation-...er-television/

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It's what you voted for Seph. :confused:

In simple terms. The UK has left the EU. British content is likely to no longer qualify as European content for the purposes of the quotas that EU broadcasters have to abide by after a future review scheduled in 2024.
Brexit has been described as a slowly deflating tyre and this type of thing supports that description and also flags a potential reduction in our soft power.

It would be good if the UK could negotiate on this issue but I suspect we might just see more English language content with British actors made in Ireland and elsewhere in the EU.

Non-paywalled links here:
Original exclusive article from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...m-shown-brexit

Subsequent articles:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu...it-1234971245/
https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2021...adcast-quotas/

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Oh so true. What's changed in UK output that it is now creaturely alien to the EU?

Re: Britain outside the EU
 

Other industries besides fishing, agriculture and broadcasting are starting to face Brexit reality.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57555608

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/g...up-21-05-2021/

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COVID played a very large part.

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No one's denying that Covid was a factor.

However Mr Moore said Brexit was "definitely the biggest" factor behind staff shortages,

I would expect him to know his sector better than us.

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It's not the output that's changed, it's the fact that we're not an EU member so may not qualify from 2024.

A bit like the oft-quoted metaphor about expecting to play on a golf course after having cancelled your membership.

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I’m not sure what all the hand-wringing is about here. Uncontrolled mass immigration might have brought about a golden age for sectors that thrive on the low wage environment you can only get from severe over-supply of labour but that is not good in the long term for the British labour force.

Brexit is not a slowly-deflating tyre - it’s cold turkey, breaking the hospitality industry’s addiction to an endless supply of cheap labour that’s prepared to put up with crap working conditions because they don’t intend to stick around for long. There are already encouraging signs of change in the BBC version of the report - restaurateurs realising they’re going to have to improve pay. It’s not enough though. Unpredictable hours, excessive use of part-time staff and all the other stuff you can only get away with when you know high staff turnover isn’t a real problem ... it all has to go. There’s a long road ahead, but there are immense opportunities here for owners who are prepared to invest in stable, well-trained and remunerated jobs. Meanwhile, those who will only obsess over where they’re getting their next fix of cheap, super-flexible (and exploitable) workers from, are going to land up in trouble.

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It's not hypocritical to accept that British content is unlikely to count as European content for the purposes of EU quotas, as we've actually left the EU. It's called facing up to reality and moving on. Sorry, Seph, but that's what you need to do.

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Why do you seem to think we have some god given right to retain the benefits that came as part of our membership of the EU when we're no longer members ?

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Fair comment, i actually i believe that most of the issues in the hospitality trade are originating from Covid as opposed to Brexit, I think furlough has caused many to question if they want to continue working in the conditions you've described above.

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Do this rule only apply to the UK ? or does it apply to other non EU members?

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It's not punishment it's what you and 52% of the UK voted for. You're playing victim mode. If you care so strongly about UK content not being regarded the same as EU content then you should expend your energy in getting the UK to rejoin the EU.

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You would think so given the bleating by the Telegraph but no, it applies to any country outside the EU. The UK currently qualifies as it's on a list but this list will be reviewed in 2024. It is likely not to as it has left the EU.

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Again, I’m not sure what the problem is here. The single market is the single biggest protectionist operation on the planet. There are benefits to trading within it, but for a major world economy with global connections and a deeply embedded international outlook, those benefits may well be eclipsed by the restrictions that come with it. That was one of the calculations inherent in any intelligent approach to the referendum vote. I, and many others in the oldest Brexiteer constituency (that which took form after Thatcher’s famous Bruges speech) long believed that in the round, it was not in the UK’s interest to remain tied to the single market. No single example of disadvantage brought about by our exit from the bloc changes the overall calculus.