BBC, Fremantle, ITV, Prime Video, Sky Team on Fourth Edition of U.K. TV Breakthrough Leaders Initiative (EXCLUSIVE)

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Naman Ramachandran Giants of U.K. TV and streaming have combined for the fourth iteration of The TV Collective’s groundbreaking Breakthrough Leaders program.

The program aims to identify and empower 50 exceptional individuals from Black, Asian and global majority (a collective term for people of Indigenous, African, Asian, Latin American descent, who constitute some 85% of the global population) backgrounds who are poised to become the future leaders of the U.K.

TV industry. This year, the initiative co-devised by influential TV producer Remy Blumenfeld has considerably expanded its scope and will work in collaboration with Fremantle, BBC Studios, Prime Video, SKY and ITV Studios for the first time.

Together with Fremantle, the first three years of Breakthrough Leaders played a significant role in enhancing careers and have seen more than 150 TV professionals benefit from the initiative, with 95% of participants acknowledging improved career prospects.