Writers on BBC shows have landed themselves a 10% pay increase and improved residuals following updates to the agreement between the Writers Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) and UK’s biggest public broadcaster.
Revealed in the past few minutes, the WGGB called the deal a “significant increase on minimum fees and compensation for the commercial exploitation of [writers’] work across a number of new platforms.” The Script Agreement for Television and Online covers work commissioned by the BBC and for commercial production arm BBC Studios, which is allowed to make shows for third parties.
The newly renegotiated agreement includes a 10% rise in minimum fees, seeing the minimum rate for a 60-minute show increase from £12,780 ($16,132) to £14,040.
Series minimum rates will rise to £12,900 per 60 minutes, dramatizations to £9,360 per 60 minutes and adaptations to £5,760 per 60 minutes.
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