AGC Studios CEO Stuart Ford Says TV’s “Nanny Mentality” Funding Model Is Over 

AGC Studios CEO Stuart Ford has offered a stark assessment of the television funding model, arguing that the days of fat fees from networks and streamers are over.

AGC Studios has backed film and television projects, including Jude Law’s The Order and the upcoming BBC Beatles biopic Hamburg Days, meaning LA-based Ford has worked across both worlds.

Speaking at the Creative Cities Convention in his home city of Liverpool, Ford said: “There’s a slight nanny mentality to a lot of TV production, which is: Let’s wait for a broadcaster or streamer to give us the money to make the show, and then when they do, we will take a nice fee, and it’s their product to do what they will with.”

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