DirectorsDigest—Thursday11December2025

In the news this week, Netflix and Paramount are engaged in a bidding war over Warner Bros Discovery, BAFTA albert has published a roadmap for the UK film and TV industry’s permanent shift to clean temporary power, widely backed by the industry, and UK actors’ union Equity is to hold an industrial action ballot on AI protections.

Read about it in this week’s Digest.

News

•  Netflix and Paramount are currently engaged in a bidding war over Warner Bros Discovery. (Deadline) This is a rapidly evolving situation, but both deals raise competition concerns and are expected to face scrutiny from regulators in the US and Europe. (BBC)

•  BAFTA albert has published a roadmap for the UK film and TV industry’s permanent shift to clean temporary power, which has been widely backed by the industry. (Televisual)

•  The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, together with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), has released a comprehensive document on Artificial Intelligence and its affect on the media. (Televisual)

•  UK actors’ union Equity is to hold an industrial action ballot for its members working in film and TV on the issue of artificial intelligence protections. (Screen)

Features

•  Netflix and Paramount are battling for more than Warner Bros: they present rival visions for the future of entertainment. (The Economist)

Opinion

•  The International Documentary Association (IDA) has called the planned merger of Netflix and Warner Bros a threat to nonfiction filmmakers. (Deadline) Director Sean Baker has also spoken out on the proposed deal, saying “Filmmakers Need to Put Our Foot Down.” (The Hollywood Reporter)

•  Armando Iannucci: political interference in BBC at ‘tipping point’. (Broadcast)

Director Interviews

•  “You Have to Trust That the Story Will Reveal Itself”: documentary directors on following real lives when the stakes have never been higher. (The Hollywood Reporter)

•  Kate Winslet hopes that making her directorial debut Goodbye June will help “change the culture” around female filmmakers. (Screen)

•  Andy Mundy-Castle, Founder of Doc Hearts, and director of BAFTA-winning White Nanny, Black Child, speaks to TV Makers about the craft of documentary storytelling and what it takes to run a purpose-led indie in one of the toughest TV markets we've ever seen: TV Makers Ep 34: Andy Mundy-Castle - The Art of Docs VS the Reality of Running an Indie 

Awards

•  Nominations were announced for the 2026 Golden Globes, see the nominees here. (The Hollywood Reporter)

•  Winners were announced for the 2025 Women in Film and TV Awards, see the full list of winners here. (Televisual)

•  The 2026 Critics Choice Awards‘ film and TV nominees have been revealed, see the full list of nominees here. (The Hollywood Reporter)