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16.02.2023 - 12:17 / deadline.com
As many as 35,000 UK film and TV workers could be plunged into financial distress over the coming year, according to new research from The Film & TV Charity, which revealed improvements to the industry’s mental health crisis.
The charity’s third Looking Glass survey, which takes the industry’s temperature on mental wellbeing, bullying and working conditions, found 16% of 2,000 respondents believe their financial situation is “quite difficult” or “very difficult.”
Extrapolating this out, the organization said up to 35,000 workers could be “plunged into distress” due to a combination of inflation, energy price rises and higher rent and mortgage costs.
Around one-fifth of respondents said they are “just getting by”, 41% are “doing alright” and 21% “living comfortably,” according to the research. Elsewhere, 75% are “worried about future income” and 27% have to take work outside the industry to make ends meet.
The survey is unveiled as the UK’s cost of living crisis worsens, with prices skyrocketing, which is clearly impacting an industry that is heavily reliant on casual, freelance labor, although the number feeling their job was secure actually improved from 23% in 2021 to 28%. The latest UK economic statistics found inflation to be at 10.1%, a minor fall but remaining close to a 40-year high. Industry leaders have been warning of the impact of the cost of living crisis and buyers are feeling the pinch, with budgets falling while costs increase.
Mental health improvements
Meanwhile, the Looking Glass findings showed small improvements regarding the industry’s mental health crisis, with 80% of respondents agreeing that they sense a positive change to the industry’s culture and behavior.
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Michelle Yeoh is opening up about the discrimination she faced in Hollywood.
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Lucy Fallon welcomed her first child with boyfriend Ryan Ledson in January, and the new parents have now shared the name they've selected for their baby son. The ex-Coronation Street actress, 27, who starred in the ITV soap as Bethany Platt until 2020, has exclusively introduced her newborn son, Sonny Jude, in a new OK! interview, where she and footballer Ryan, 25, opened up about their baby's birth and his sweet moniker.The couple have revealed there isn't a specific meaning behind Sonny's name, it was just one of the few monikers they both agreed they liked for their little one.
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A think-tank has warned many people on benefits will be financially worse off until 2025 due to a failure in payments keeping up with inflation. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the annual uprating of benefits in April will “merely take them back to around the real level they were at a year earlier”.
The Great British Bake Off charity special for Stand up to Cancer will be back on screens in March, with a whole new host of celebrity guests. Among them will be Loose Women star Judi Love who has admitted to "melting in Paul Hollywood’s eyes" while filming this year’s show. "I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be appearing in the upcoming series of The Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up 2 Cancer," Judi confirmed in her OK! column this week.
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Scottish Government’s consultation on proposals to restrict alcohol advertising, TRSNMT and Glasgow Summer Sessions – both DF events – have been named as examples in the section about advertising and promotion at non-sporting events.However, the consultation states: “Although there is strong academic evidence looking at the nature and extent of sports sponsorship in Scotland, as well as the impact sports sponsorship has generally, the extent and impact of sponsorship of non-sporting events has not been researched.”DF chief executive Geoff Ellis has said that the changes would “harm the Scottish economy, harm Scottish artists, harm Scottish businesses, reduce tourism and leave Scotland in a weakened position.”He also added that there would likely be job losses, with ticket prices increasing and music fans heading south instead as a result.In a letter to Maree Todd MSP, Minister for Public Health, Women’s Health and Sport, Ellis wrote (via The Glasgow Times): “This letter is not intended to ignore or try to dismiss the fact that there are problem drinkers in Scotland. Rather, it is to implore the Scottish Government not to pursue the misguided proposal to ban all forms of alcohol marketing sponsorship.”He continued: “A proposed restriction on alcohol sponsorship and advertising will be nothing short of disastrous for Scotland’s live music industry.
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