TVNZ: Quarterly Update On Programme Commissions

In the second quarter of this calendar year, TVNZ committed just under $3 million in Direct Government Funding to making five local series or programmes, and some associated research.

In the previous quarter, just over $2.5 million of special funding was allocated to local programming.

Direct Government Funding is granted to TVNZ to allow the production of programmes which would not be made in a wholly commercial environment. The Company reports quarterly on programme commissions made with this funding, in order to increase transparency on how and where public money is spent.

Direct Government Funding commissions for the three months to the end of June are set out below:

Programme: A Moment In Time Genre: Comedy/Entertainment Duration: 8 x 1 hour Production Company: Eyeworks Touchdown Ltd $ committed: $1,204,711

Programme: The Pretender Genre: Comedy/Entertainment Duration: 8 x half hour Production Company: Great Southern Television $ committed: $240,000 Programme: Sir Edmund Hillary Honoured Genre: Documentary/Factual Duration: 1 x 1 hour Production Company: TVNZ $ committed: $55,000

Programme: Intrepid Journeys Genre: Documentary/Factual Duration: 7 x 1 hour Production Company: Jam TV Ltd $ committed: $962,593 Programme: Netball World Cup Genre: Sports Duration: TBA Production Company: TVNZ $ committed $350,000 Non Programming Costs Research $110,000 (Public survey on perceptions of public broadcasting and Charter performance)

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