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The warning from Jane Featherstone this week about the future of scripted TV prompted me to write about other producers who have the same concern about factual TV - not the type of factual as entertainment telly, but the factual TV that is journalistic in nature. The streamers don’t do that type of TV - they are in the entertainment game…

'Netflix can't do everything' - the future of scripted and serious factual