“Survive until 2025”: British TV and film workers battle a jobs crisis

With almost 70% of the workforce out of jobs, writers, producers and actors cling to hope that the industry will stabilise.

In March, Philip Ralph lost his job as a screenwriter for BBC’s Doctors. The show was a medical soap classic with over 4,500 episodes produced since 2000. “As a writer on the show for the past 19 years, I’m personally impacted along with hundreds by the disastrous decision to axe it,” he wrote in an emotional social media post, citing the opportunities …