News & Updates

We are aware of numerous members being asked to apply Channel 5 Terms of Trade to scripted productions and advise producers to push back.

The updated agreement reflects changes to the market and grants co-productions the same treatment as solely British or Canadian productions.

The responsible AI for TV and film course has been updated to include information on the Act and what UK productions should do to ensure compliance.

Pact Director of Policy, Emily Oyama shares her round-up of the key issues discussed as the TV industry got together in the Scottish capital at the end of August.

Changes to trade union workplace access under the Employment Rights Act 2025 come into effect this October. We've produced a guidance note to help Pact members across both unscripted and scripted production understand the law and prepare.

Pact is endorsing a set of shared principles on out-of-hours contact in the television industry published by Action for Freelancers.

New guidelines from the Directors & Producers Forum (which Pact is part of) aim to aid with consistency and clarity.

Find out what you need to do and when you need to do it with changes coming to the Diamond diversity monitoring system for UK TV productions in September.