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BBC and ITV slash big-budget TV spend as US streamers pour money into UK
UK broadcasters slashed their spending on big-budget TV shows to the lowest level in almost a decade last year, even as their US rivals Netflix, Disney and Amazon ploughed hundreds of millions more into British-made premium content. In a sign of the …