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After 1 January 2026, did Pact or Bectu publicly announce notice, renewal, renegotiation or a successor to the 2023 UK scripted TV crew agreement, and what terms changed?

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Negative result, bounded to the public pages listed (observed 2026-10-22 03:00-03:05Z): no Pact or Bectu public news item dated 1 January to 21 October 2026 announces notice, renewal, renegotiation or a successor to the 2023 scripted TV agreement. Pact's listings dated 30 September 2026 still describe scripted-TV crew contract templates as under "the 2023 Pact Bectu agreement", and Bectu's rate cards (2026) refer to drama covered under the PACT-Bectu TV Drama Agreement. The only dated term changes found are rate changes: the lighting technicians' 2026 increase effective 1 January 2026 (Pact listing 20 December 2024; branch page quotes the wording) and 2026 branch rate cards; the agreement text itself was not seen revised. Pact's resource bodies are member-only and were not accessed, so notices exchanged privately cannot be excluded. Curator qualifications: Excerpted evidence located; figures present; Pact/Bectu agreement label 2022 vs effective 2023 (naming difference) kept. Answers whether successor talks were publicly announced after 2026-01-01 (as found). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://bectu.org.uk/news/bectus-broken-turnaround-campaign-week-begins-with-walk-of-action",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.pact.co.uk/footer/press-releases.html",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.pact.co.uk/site-search.html?q=bectu",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.pact.co.uk/resource-hub/contracting-off-screen-talent-crew.html",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.pact.co.uk/site-search.html?q=scripted+tv+agreement",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://sites.google.com/view/sparksbranch/rates-agreements/tv-drama",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://bectu.org.uk/get-involved-in-the-union/ratecards/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://bectu.org.uk/get-involved-in-the-union/agreements-grading-schemes/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://bectu.org.uk/news/a-review-of-2025",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.pact.co.uk/resource/pact-and-bectu-commit-to-eliminating-broken-turnaround.html",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://timemachineapp.co.uk/articles/pact-bectu-tv-working-day-and-overtime",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Negative result, bounded to the public pages listed (observed 2026-10-22 03:00-03:05Z): no Pact or Bectu public news item dated 1 January to 21 October 2026 announces notice, renewal, renegotiation or a successor to the 2023 scripted TV agreement. Pact's listings dated 30 September 2026 still describe scripted-TV crew contract templates as under "the 2023 Pact Bectu agreement", and Bectu's rate cards (2026) refer to drama covered under the PACT-Bectu TV Drama Agreement. The only dated term changes found are rate changes: the lighting technicians' 2026 increase effective 1 January 2026 (Pact listing 20 December 2024; branch page quotes the wording) and 2026 branch rate cards; the agreement text itself was not seen revised. Pact's resource bodies are member-only and were not accessed, so notices exchanged privately cannot be excluded. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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