Karen said that the change in stance was “inevitable” because mobile operators were already exposed to up to €75 of monthly wholesale charges for roaming traffic per customer, which is likely to rise from next year. This is because the EU’s cap on wholesale charges will no longer apply to UK operators from January. She said that EE and Vodafone’s move made it “that bit easier now for O2 to follow that lead."

Karen said the move was "inevitable" as it exposed operators to up to €75 in monthly wholesale charges per customer.

She now expected Virgin Media O2 and virtual network operators such as Tesco Mobile and Sky to revive roaming charges.

"Free EU roaming has become a highly politically sensitive issue and the operators have been somewhat reluctant to be seen to be reintroducing charges," she added.

"There was a lot of negative press around O2 when it was simply introducing a fair usage cap which brought it into line with other mobile operators, and even more for EE as the first operator to announce the reintroduction of EU roaming fees back in June."

Tom said “A minority of people have been annoyed by the [BBC’s] reduced coverage. The BBC made a pragmatic move. If they had carried dozens of simultaneous streams it would be costly, but the reality is not many people would have watched them, particularly with the time-zone issue. Of course the BBC would want to have everything, but times have changed.”

Tom said "The BBC shares the TV rights to the Six Nations rugby with ITV and co-produces dramas with the American streaming services - that is what it has to do now."

He added "The BBC is not getting any more money, but the cost [of acquiring rights and making programmes] is getting more expensive. It can only deliver less when the income from the [157.50] annual licence fee is the same."

Francois said “Nothing catastrophic, but it's a return to reality. It is obvious that growth was going to slow down after last year's boom. Demand is not infinitely expandable: in the United States, Netflix is ​​already very present while in Europe, the potential is lower. The whole question is whether they can still invest so heavily in content in the future, given this slower growth."

He added "Netflix seems to have reached the saturation of its market in the United States", adds Eric Haggstrom, analyst at eMarketer, quoted by AFP, noting that "Netflix has lost significant market share against Disney."

Gill said “If they don’t stick to [the guidelines], they might lose the compensation they get when production is delayed, and they are sort of incentivized to stick to those. If you are not actually sticking to the guidelines, you probably lose that compensation.”

She added “So people are going to be able to come back to work pretty quickly. And if you are immediately off, then your colleagues don’t get infected with it. So I think the industry has done pretty well.”

Gill said “There's been a lot of stuff that Ofcom have done in the past with the industry as well about actually trying to understand the number of different ethnicities that are employed behind the screens, in front of camera, on the production side [and] across the entire industry."

Jamie said GB News had succeeded in winning over a dedicated audience even if viewing numbers were below what the channel might have hoped for.

“It is becoming clear that fewer and fewer are experimenting with the channel, but it is finding a core audience.There was always going to be a launch pop and then a decline."