overtime and additional payments for attendance on public holidays and for night work, and for travelling days, as well as for standby days.

It also contains a great deal of detail, dealing with such matters as the precise definition of working hours, the video-recording of auditions, performances for pilot programmes, the recording for television of all or part of theatrical productions, nudity and simulated sex, curtailment or cancellation of an engagement, dubbing and post-synching, sound-only recording, dangerous work, transport and subsistence, the use of the artistâs performance more than once for flashbacks or flash-forwards, in trailers and/or opening and closing sequences of a series or

serial, calls for still photographs, sickness, and for long-running engagements ö holiday entitlement. There are special provisions for educational programmes.

The ITV Companies are committed by the Main Agreement to a policy of offering engagements to experienced professional artists, and not to use amateurs to supplant the use of professionals. All engagements made under the Main Agreement are to be confirmed by use of the standard contract annexed to the agreement.

The fees set out in the Main Agreement are minimum fees. Producers should expect artists with a television track-record (usually through their agents) to want to negotiate fees above these minimum levels.