Overseas sales of Screen Australia-supported TV drama
Screen Australia tracks the overseas sales of films and programs in which it has invested. The extracts in these tables give a picture of the international distribution of Australian TV drama projects between January 2013 and October 2015.
During this period the highest numbers of sales were made to other English-speaking territories – the USA, UK and Canada – while sales to France brought in some of the highest prices.
The prices listed are for various types of deals. For TV drama they generally refer to licence fees paid for free and/or pay TV rights. However the term of the deal and the rights sold (free TV, pay TV, video rental, video sell-through, video-on-demand etc) may vary between deals. Therefore it is difficult to ascertain the nature of a deal by looking at price alone. Most sales are for a single country within a territory grouping (eg Eastern Europe), and some are for the entire territory. Multi territory sales refer to Pay TV or digital operators who buy pan continental rights or the rights for numerous individual territories. Sales in currencies other than USD have been converted at the average exchange rate over the period for that currency.
Lowest and highest prices paid for Screen Australia-supported series and mini-series – sales reported between January 2013 and October 2015
| Territory | No. titles | No. buyers | Price paid (US$) per hour Lowest |
Price paid (US$) per hour Highest |
| Belgium | 3 | 2 | 3,200 | 8,100 |
| Benelux | 4 | 3 | 1,400 | 13,000 |
| Brazil | 8 | 1 | 2,000 | 12,500 |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 1 | 1,900 | 2,100 |
| Canada | 10 | 9 | 1,600 | 26,100 |
| CIS | 4 | 5 | 700 | 10,300 |
| Croatia | 6 | 4 | 1,000 | 8,500 |
| Denmark | 3 | 3 | 3,400 | 5,900 |
| Eastern Europe | 6 | 4 | 500 | 13,700 |
| Finland | 3 | 1 | 1,200 | 1,300 |
| France and French Speaking Europe | 6 | 8 | 1,400 | 78,300 |
| Germany and German Speaking Europe | 7 | 11 | 900 | 36,200 |
| Great Britain | 10 | 12 | 1,900 | 99,500 |
| Greece, Cyprus | 2 | 3 | 600 | 3,400 |
| Iceland | 4 | 2 | 700 | 1,800 |
| Ireland | 4 | 4 | 4,100 | 7,100 |
| Israel | 5 | 4 | 500 | 6,200 |
| Italy and Italian Speaking Europe | 3 | 4 | 5,400 | 49,800 |
| Japan | 3 | 3 | 600 | 9,900 |
| Latin America | 8 | 6 | 1,700 | 35,000 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 2 | 600 | 7,600 |
| Middle East | 4 | 2 | 1,300 | 3,800 |
| Multiple Territories | 3 | 1 | 5,100 | 62,100 |
| Netherlands, The (Holland) | 4 | 3 | 5,000 | 59,200 |
| North America | 3 | 3 | 1,500 | 15,000 |
| Norway | 4 | 3 | 3,400 | 9,600 |
| Pan Asia | 9 | 3 | 800 | 10,000 |
| Pan European | 2 | 2 | 700 | 4,400 |
| Poland | 3 | 2 | 400 | 6,100 |
| Portugal | 2 | 2 | 300 | 1,000 |
| Russia | 4 | 4 | 800 | 4,400 |
| Scandinavia | 3 | 4 | 3,000 | 31,800 |
| Singapore | 2 | 1 | 900 | 1,100 |
| Slovenia | 2 | 1 | 2,100 | 2,300 |
| South Africa | 9 | 6 | 700 | 14,100 |
| Sweden | 6 | 6 | 3,900 | 21,400 |
| United States of America | 12 | 9 | 1,700 | 137,600 |
Lowest and highest prices paid for Screen Australia-supported telemovies – sales reported between January 2013 and October 2015
| Territories | No. Titles | No. buyers | Price paid (US$) per hour Lowest |
Price paid (US$) per hour Highest |
| Asia including Japan | 4 | 5 | 1,500 | 103,000 |
| Benelux | 3 | 5 | 5,400 | 88,700 |
| Eastern Europe | 6 | 8 | 500 | 129,000 |
| France | 2 | 2 | 17,500 | 205,000 |
| Great Britain & Ireland | 3 | 3 | 5,800 | 57,200 |
| Latin America | 2 | 2 | 9,600 | 108,700 |
| Middle East | 2 | 2 | 4,200 | 30,500 |
| Scandinavia | 3 | 4 | 5,600 | 14,000 |
Lowest and highest prices paid for Screen Australia-supported TV dramas for children – sales reported between January 2013 and October 2015
| Territories | No. Titles | No. Distributors | Price paid (US$) per half hour Lowest |
Price paid (US$) per half hour Highest |
| Africa | 3 | 3 | 400 | 10,900 |
| Asia-Pan Asia | 7 | 5 | 200 | 1,400 |
| Belgium | 3 | 1 | 1,600 | 2,800 |
| Eastern Europe | 5 | 6 | 500 | 8,000 |
| Finland | 3 | 2 | 2,100 | 5,000 |
| France and French Speaking Europe | 6 | 5 | 1,800 | 28,800 |
| Germany and German speaking Europe | 11 | 5 | 300 | 11,700 |
| Great Britain & Ireland | 7 | 6 | 200 | 37,700 |
| Italy, Italian speaking Europe | 3 | 2 | 2,300 | 30,200 |
| Latin America | 6 | 6 | 200 | 11,600 |
| Multi Territory | 4 | 2 | 8,500 | 25,900 |
| Netherlands, The (Holland) | 3 | 3 | 1,500 | 5,100 |
| North America | 7 | 2 | 400 | 29,500 |
| Pan Europe | 5 | 6 | 200 | 2,100 |
| Portugal | 3 | 2 | 1,800 | 2,100 |
| Singapore | 2 | 1 | 400 | 500 |
| Spain | 2 | 2 | 6,900 | 8,000 |
| Sweden | 3 | 2 | 800 | 1,000 |
| Thailand | 2 | 2 | 400 | 1,300 |
| United States of America | 4 | 2 | 200 | 15,400 |
