Nearly half of the UK’s TV industry workforce are jobless, a survey released Friday shows, with many workers looking beyond the sector for survival in an unprecedented crisis.

A UK Bectu (Broadcasting Entertainment Communications and Theatre Union) survey for 2025, as seen and reported by Deadline, found some 45 percent of those in TV drama, 46 percent of those in unscripted and 45 percent of those working in commercials were not working when it surveyed 3,621 people in March 2025.

Nearly seven in 10 (68 percent) said they were struggling financially.

The employment woes have been attributed to the long tail of troubles that have been hitting…

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