{"id":2719,"date":"2026-06-01T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/06\/01\/peaky-blinders-creator-steven-knight-reignites-debate-over-u-k-levy-for-global-streamers-its-a-two-way-street\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:17:00","slug":"peaky-blinders-creator-steven-knight-reignites-debate-over-u-k-levy-for-global-streamers-its-a-two-way-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/06\/01\/peaky-blinders-creator-steven-knight-reignites-debate-over-u-k-levy-for-global-streamers-its-a-two-way-street\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Peaky Blinders\u2019 Creator Steven Knight Reignites Debate Over U.K. Levy for Global Streamers: \u201cIt\u2019s a Two-Way Street\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tPeaky Blinders<\/a><\/em> creator\u00a0Steven Knight<\/a>\u00a0added star power late in the first day of SXSW London 2026<\/a> on Monday, sharing the stage with U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\tIn case you wonder: No, they did not bring up the much-discussed future of Peaky Blinders<\/em> star Tom Hardy on MobLand<\/em><\/a> after criticism of his on-set behavior<\/a>! <\/p>\n

\tDid Knight hint at what the new James Bond movie will look like? After all, he was tapped last summer<\/a> to write the script for filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, who is\u00a0directing the next 007 film for Amazon MGM Studios<\/a>\u00a0and producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman. He didn\u2019t do that either. \t<\/p>\n

\tBut he did support U.K. political calls for global streamers to contribute to supporting the U.K. production sector, given the content they create in the country. Last year, a parliamentary committee recommended a levy of 5 percent<\/a> of U.K. subscriber revenue on foreign streamers, including Netflix, Amazon, Apple TV+ and Disney+, to help finance British drama production. Netflix rejected that<\/a>, saying that the goal should be to \u201cincentivize rather than penalize investment and success.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tArgued Knight: \u201cThe issue for me is: They come here, they make big blockbuster productions,\u201d which is \u201cgreat\u201d for job creation in the British sector. \u201cBut they keep all profits. I just feel there\u2019s a conversation to be had. It\u2019s not [a] tax. it\u2019s a two-way street.\u201d <\/p>\n

\tHe suggested that streamers could therefore \u201cleave\u201d a certain percentage of money in country to help keep its production infrastructure and success alive and well. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to come and take advantage of what we have, then maybe financially there is a 1 percent, 2 percent, something that is left behind that helps us to maintain\u201d that, Knight said. He didn\u2019t specify if that should be a percentage of revenue or profits. \t<\/p>\n

\tUnder the theme of \u201cOur National Story,\u201d he and Nandy on Monday discussed these and other topics in a well-attended session. Of course, AI was also part of the issues they mentioned.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cAI is a threat to writers\u201d and others, Knight offered, urging that \u201cthe human has to be better.\u201d He explained: \u201cI think the people who are responsible for lots of these tech things need to understand that they\u2019re human too, and they\u2019ve got a responsibility to do the right thing, not to be proud of doing stuff that they believe is possible but wrong. They seem to escape from any sort of moral judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peaky Blinders creator\u00a0Steven Knight\u00a0added star power late in the first day of SXSW London 2026 on Monday, sharing the stage with U.K. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy. In case you wonder: No, they did not bring up the much-discussed future of Peaky Blinders star Tom Hardy on MobLand after criticism of his on-set behavior! Did Knight hint at what the new James Bond movie will look like? After all, he was tapped last summer to write the script for filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, who is\u00a0directing the next 007 film for Amazon MGM Studios\u00a0and producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman. He didn\u2019t do that either. But he did support U.K. political calls for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[443,2,116,1624,1625,1533,1534,85,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artifical-intelligence","category-hollywood","category-international","category-peaky-blinders","category-steven-knight","category-sxsw-london","category-sxsw-london-2026","category-tv","category-tv-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}