The industry agreement which should meet your needs is the Television Agreement negotiated between the Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) and the British Actors’ Equity Association (Equity). There is a separate agreement between the two organisations for feature films.

This agreement provides for the engagement of main-part actors and walk-ons and extras by the day or by the week, and specifies the hours that actors thus engaged may be required to work. It sets out minimum fees for each type of engagement, and overtime rates for additional working hours. (In practice, more established actors negotiate fees above the minimum, usually through their agents.) It does this for

single dramas, series and serials. It also sets minimum fees for the engagement of actors whose performances will be included in more than one episode of a series (multi-episodic use).

The agreement contains special rates for programmes intended for regional, rather than network, transmission on terrestrial television, for programmes intended to be transmitted onlyoutside peak hours, and for programmes designated as educational.

The agreement also caters for the engagement of session singers, dancers and voice-over artists. The agreement sets out a great deal of detail about such matters as meal breaks and