Managing Media Projects - Managing the People : Industry Agreements (Actors, In-House ITV, 2)

Appendix covers the engagement of Stunt Arrangers and Performers.

The Main Agreement provides for a programme fee, which gives the producing ITV Company the consents needed in order to make use of the recorded performance and the right to transmit the programme in defined areas of the ITV network, or on the whole of it, according to the level of fee paid. It provides for repeat fees, again for part-network or whole-network transmissions.

It allows the producing ITV Company to acquire the right to license the use of the recording containing the artistās performance for transmission by other UK broadcasters (subject to certain conditions) and overseas, subject to

payments calculated as royalties ie a percentage of the licence fee earned by the ITV Company, divided between the actors involved in proportion to their original earnings.

The Main Agreement provides for daily and weekly fees for attendance, with provision for 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