DIRECTORS UK COMMERCIAL FEE RATES - BEFORE AND AFTER 1 JULY 2019 (C5 VERSION)
This document sets out the new DUK Commercial Fees for all genres and applies to all commissions from 1st July 2019, as well as the applicable fee for programmes commissioned prior to but delivered after 1 July 2019.
Please note that all of the amounts in the grid below are per £1 million of primary rights* commissioning price and should be applied pro-rata as applicable and there is no minimum or maximum level of fee.
Commercial Fees per £1m of % for C5 primary rights commissioning Reference price Genre Includes Programme Examples Programmes Programmes Rate % commissioned commissioned Programmes before 1 July from 1 July commissioned 2019 2019 from 1 July 2019 Children’s Animation / Drama / Danger Mouse ; Thunderbirds are Go ; Tracy £5,121 £5,512 0.5512% Pre-school Beaker; My Parents are Aliens ; Peppa Pig; Andy's Dinosaur Adventures, Wallace and Grommit: The Wrong Trousers; The Snowman and the Snowdog; Mr Bean: The Animated Series; Byker Grove; Justin’s House Factual The Dengineers ; Bear Grylls: Survival School; £4,268 £2,441 0.2441% Deadly 60 Drama All except CDS Sherlock; Death In Paradise; Doctor Who; £5,121 £8,358 0.8358% Killing Eve; Clique; Taboo; Murdered for being different; Midsomer Murders; Vera; Cucumber/Banana/Tofu; Kiri; Endeavour; The Virtues; King Charles III, Cyberbully CDS EastEnders; Doctors; River City; Pobol Y Cwm; £2,561 £2,101 0.2101% Coronation Street; Emmerdale; Hollyoaks Comedy All Mrs Brown's Boys; Tracy Ullman; £5,121 £5,902 0.5902% Inbetweeners; Benidorm; Friday Night Dinner
Entertainment Light Entertainment Graham Norton; HIGNFY; QI; WILTY; Great £4,268 £3,236 0.3236% (includes Fact-Ent) British Railway Journeys; Masterchef; Ant and
Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway; X Factor; Celebrity Juice; 8 Out of 10 Cats; Big Fat Quiz; Top Gear; Gadget Show; Embarrassing Bodies; GBBO; Eddie Stobart: Trucks and Trailers; Tattoo Disasters; Cruising With Jane McDonald; Long Lost Family; Travel Man; A League of their Own; Made in Chelsea; Only Way is Essex Quiz / Reality / Live Pointless; Mastermind; Countdown; Crystal £0 £2,129 0.2129% Event Maze; Catchphrase; The Chase; Million Pound Drop; Fifteen to One Factual Features/ Planet Earth; The Planets; Hunted; Dynasties; £4,268 (except £6,108 0.6108% (For Fact-Ent Documentaries/NHU/ Stacey Dooley Investigates; The Secret Life of for programmes History/Science the Motorway; The Yorkshire Steam Railway; Documentaries see above) Extraordinary People; 24 Hours in A&E; Police which is £3,414) Interceptors; Ambulance; 999 What's Your Emergency; Paddington Station 24/7; Heathrow: Britain's Busiest Airport; Alan Shearer: Dementia Football and Me; School for Stammers; My Son the Jihadi; M1: The Motorway that Made Britain Flog It; Bargain Hunt; Eating With My Ex; A Leisure / Daytime Place in the sun; Jeremy Kyle Show; Judge £3,414 £3,217 0.3217% Rinder; Four in a Bed; First Dates; Hunted, One Hot Summer; Coast vs Country Other Film 4 £0 £0 0% Reality / Live Event Love Island; Big Brother; Soccer Aid; £0 £0 0% Trooping the Colour Report/Magazine This Morning; See Hear; Countryfile; Fake £0 £0 0% Britain
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DIRECTORS UK COMMERCIAL FEE RATES - BEFORE AND AFTER 1 JULY 2019 (C5 VERSION)
Religion (SF) Songs of Praise £0 £0 0% Sport £0 £0 0% News / Current Affairs Question Time £0 £0 0% Contemporary Music Glastonbury; Jools £0 £0 0% Holland Classical Music Proms; Recording of £0 £0 0% a Concert/Ballet etc Arts / Education £0 £0 0% Award Show BAFTAs, The British £0 £0 0% Soap Awards, Compilation You’ve been framed; Outtake TV; £0 £0 0% The 100 Greatest…
NB: o The following programmes are out of scope and exempt from payment of the commercial fee: o Welsh language programmes commissioned by S4C, and other indigenous language programmes commissioned by or in association with a Broadcaster. o Programmes under 15 minutes (where programme means the total series duration). o Programmes commissioned for online only use (ie no linear transmission) o Exempt Works (as defined under the Agreement dated on or around 30 April 2020 between Directors UK, Pact, PSBs, Sky and others).
o The producer’s final invoice to the Broadcaster must identify the total DUK deduction as set out in the commissioning agreement.
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