Michelle Donelan, the new Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport of the United Kingdom, said she was “re-examining the case” for selling Channel 4.
Despite strong opposition from the British media industry and the company's own authorities, UK ministers will formally start the process of privatizing Channel 4 on Thursday.
The combined spend by film and high-end television production during 2021 reached £5.64 billion, the highest ever reported, and £1.27 billion higher than for the pre-pandemic year 2019, BFI revealed.
The BBC’s Director-General, Tim Davie, has warned that the freeze to the television license fee recently announced by UK’s Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries would mean a substantial change to the corporation’s output.