Handmaidens of consolidation in the UK television production sector

This article analyses the role of intermediaries in evolution UK TV production sector tracking processes which past two decades have underpinned consolidation sector. The research involved elite interviews with executives at ten Independent companies and financial as well trade bodies civil servants. epistemic work shape transactions a way that aligned buyers’ desire to grow their portfolio by establishing fitness for acquisition. Through classification, clustering sorting, they confirm notion (Knorr Cetina Preda 2001, 30–31) knowledge can be treated commodity – ‘a more or less valid representation world is “inscribed constitutive economic objects relevant practical activities agents” purposefully assembled.