It’s often said we live in a golden age of television: a time where the choice is immense and quality is incomparable. And when you look back at the last year alone, it’s difficult to disagree.

Planet Earth II was breathtaking; dramas from Line of Duty to The Night Manager and Poldark gripped audiences; family favourites like Strictly and Bake Off continued to set the conversation in workplaces and homes around the country. And that was just on the BBC. The standard elsewhere was high too – whether it’s Game of Thrones and Westworld on Sky, ITV’s Victoria, Stranger Things on Netflix, or the great job Channel 4 did bringing the Paralympics to a mass audience once more.

Together it shows that the UK’s broadcasting industry is the envy of the world – with public service broadcasting at its heart. But for all the choice, there’s a real threat. And if we’re not careful, we could be at risk of losing something vital to our British identity.

Despite our growing choice, spending on British television programmes has fallen. The biggest media companies are American. Netflix and Amazon Video are focused on global content and have so far only made a handful of programmes that reflect British society.