The citizens of Great Britain blast off into an unknown future. Image: Wallace and Gromit in A Grand Day Out.
The UK screen sector’s response to Brexit has been pretty uniformly horrified. One third of the program income for UK shows comes from Europe, which adds up to £378m annually.
That figure, based on sales and presales, tells us just how intertwined the UK and EU industries are and also how vulnerable the UK industry is to the loss of Europe. If the bureaucracy gets harder, and if the EU excludes Britain from its broadcast quotas UK filmmakers will suffer.
