Some bad news – according to The Guardian “BBC Resources’ Birmingham and Bristol bases will be closed”.
Mark Thomas, the BBC Resources chief executive, has apparently emailed staff to explain that jobs will be lost across the corporation’s commercial post-production and studios arm and that the Birmingham premises are no longer commercially viable.
As the BBC Resources website says:
BBC Post Production Birmingham is home to some of the best Drama, Magazine and Contemporary Factual programmes on television. From ‘Doctors’ and ‘The Afternoon Plays’ to ‘Coast, ‘Countryfile’, ‘Gardeners World’ ‘Don’t Die Young’, ‘The Sky At Night’, ‘Indian Food Made Easy’, and ‘To Buy Or Not To Buy’
(Via Simon Howes)
This will hit Birmingham uni hard, we’re meant to be offered at least 10 work experience places in TV production but now it might not happen…0ne of the reasons people chose the uni in the first place