gameshow Hole in the Wall<\/a>, based on Japanese format Brain Wall, pointing to a significant investment on imports. However, Irtizaali believes this has had a stimulating effect on UK indies.<\/p>\n\u201cWe make 3,000 hours of content in unscripted every year, and most of that is British IP,\u201d said Irtizaali, who also insisted that the British adaptation of Dutch original The Traitors served to \u201cre-energise\u201d the British market.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt allowed other indies to develop new fact-ent titles that perhaps wouldn\u2019t have happened. A rising tide floats all ships.<\/p>\n
\u201cLots of indies have said \u2018Thank you for making The Traitors because allows us to do more things on other channels.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cOf course we want to make British shows with British IP.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Phillips also flatly rejected the notion the BBC is not pulling its weight, referencing shows including Sort Your Life Out (Optomen), Chess Masters (Curve), I Kissed a Boy (Twofour) and The Hit List (Tuesday\u2019s Child).<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are the biggest commissioner of original content in the UK,\u201d she claimed. \u201cOur job is really simple: to commission the best content for the audience. We are all about the viewer. The idea of saying \u2018I don\u2019t think we should commission that because it is a foreign format\u2019 is crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Committed to Doctor Who<\/p>\n
BBC leaders revealed the BBC is also committed to Doctor Who in the long term, after a period of uncertainty over its future.<\/p>\n
The Russell T. Davies-helmed Disney co-production is expected to go through a hiatus following two series led by Ncuti Gatwa.<\/p>\n
Chief content officer Kate Phillips said: \u201cAny Whovians out there, rest assured Doctor Who is going nowhere. Going forward, with or without Disney, Doctor Who will still be on the BBC.\u201d<\/p>\n
Drama director Lindsay Salt added: \u201cThe BBC is always committed to that brand. In drama it is the biggest brand with under 35s, so it\u2019s hugely important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interim unscripted director Syeda Irtizaali and chief content officer Kate Phillips have defended the BBC\u2019s dedication to British…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-84051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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