The industry agreement which deals with the acquisition of the performers’ rights of actors and other performers (except most musicians) taking part in in-house BBC programmes is the Television Agreement negotiated between the BBC and the British Actors’ Equity Association (Equity).

The agreement is divided into sections, covering the engagement of:

• Actors ("artists exercising dramatic skills")
• Dancers and skaters (solo and in groups)
• Solo singers (appearing in at least one act of an opera, a musical, etc)

• Variety acts (including speciality acts)
• Solo light entertainment singers
• Pop singers and pop groups

• Stunt or fight arrangers
• Stunt performers
• Choreographers
• Chorus singers (including the lay clerks of Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and St Paul’s Cathedral, but not choristers there or elsewhere, or lay clerks and choristers in other cathedrals or churches of similar status, who are represented by the Incorporated Society of Musicians)
• Supporting artists (crowd) and walk-ons (individual characterisation).