Sister co-founder Jane Featherstone has said the contracting TV market in the U.K. has created a “difficult few months” for production companies.

“Some have closed down and people are losing their jobs,” she said. “Producers like me are trying to navigate how we have a mixed ecology [between public service broadcasters and deep-pocketed U.S. streamers.]”

“We’re in this structural change where there will be consolidation of some kind to get us through this,” she added.

“When we all started [in the industry] twenty-five years ago there weren’t that many of us and the market was in a very different place. I don’t see doom and gloom forever...