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January 2025

The latest issue reveals the industry’s best employers, how UKTV plans to gets bold and bullish and the story behind Brian And Maggie

Broadcast Best Places to Work 2025

  • Putting staff welfare first

  • Building a business for everyone

  • Taking perks seriously

  • Creating a better balance

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Chris Curtis: Netflix’s mainstream ambition should reassure its UK rivals

The end of peak spending and broad appeal of UK content should generate renewed optimism

Broadcast Magazine

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Brian And Maggie: How Baby Cow shrugged off co-pro woe

Executive producer Sarah Montieth reveals how this British drama about Brian Walden’s infamous interview with Margaret Thatcher made it to screen

The Marlow Murder Club

UKTV talks tough as BVoD blossoms

Richard Watsham and Andrea Amey discuss the broadcaster’s 2024 revamp, renewed focus on original drama and narrowing the gap with rivals

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The Assassin: Delivering a killer co-pro

Exec producer Daisy Mount and commissioner Hannah Blyth on talent, co-pros and filming on location in Greece for Prime Video’s comedy drama

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Dope Girls: Living the high life in post-WWI London

Shannon Murphy reveals how Bad Wolf drew inspiration from costumes and photos of the era to recreate the hedonistic world of Soho at the end of WWI

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Lifetime on hunt for zeitgeist content with a female focus

US broadcaster is looking for shows that provide ‘watercooler moments’, in the vein of Surviving R. Kelly and The Life & Murder Of Nicole Brown Simpson

Tom Clark index

End Credits: Tom Clark

The ITV Studios exec on farm life, zip-lining and Jonny Wilkinson