{"id":143050,"date":"2022-10-24T18:17:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/uk-tv-drama-agreement-extended-by-bectu-and-pact-again\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T12:47:59","slug":"uk-tv-drama-agreement-extend-by-bectu-and-pact-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/uk-tv-drama-agreement-extend-by-bectu-and-pact-again\/","title":{"rendered":"UK TV Drama Agreement Extend by Bectu and Pact Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAnother extension has been agreed between Pact and Bectu for the pair\u2019s UK TV Drama Agreement, with the saga now looking set to rumble on for almost a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\nBroadcast union Bectu was to vote its members on 14 October through 23 October, with a result due today. But instead, the five-year agreement that has been extended twice already will be voted for in November and December. The negotiations between the two sides over the work agreement, which has been in place since 2017, broke down for the first time in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\nAccording to John McVay (CEO of Pact), the Pact spokesperson and spokeswoman, this will give Pact an opportunity to create an agreement in its entirety to avoid any doubts and to provide sufficient detail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe issue has already been balloted on, with Bectu\u2019s members \u201coverwhelmingly\u201d rejecting Pact\u2019s terms over the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\nThey have been at odds for years over issues such as work hours, prep and wrapping, and well-being. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\nPact has been supported by large studios, streamers, and indies. Major producers such as\u00a0Banijay,\u00a0Bad Wolf\u00a0and\u00a0Element Pictures\u00a0took the unprecedented step of writing to UK crew urging them to\u00a0sign up to Pact\u2019s agreement in September or risk\u00a0\u201cthe whole of [UK] scripted TV being damaged,\u201d and subsequently\u00a0Pact invited commissioners\u00a0to a \u201csummit\u201dTo break the deadlock<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDeadline understands streaming services had been considering pulling shows out of the UK if Bectu\u2019s full demands were met due to what they would deem too sharp an increase in costs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another extension has been agreed between Pact and Bectu for the pair\u2019s UK TV Drama Agreement, with the saga now looking set to rumble on for almost a year. Broadcast union Bectu was to vote its members on 14 October through 23 October, with a result due today. But instead, the five-year agreement that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":143051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/UK-TV-Drama-Agreement-Extended-By-Bectu-And-Pact-Again.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143052,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143050\/revisions\/143052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}