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Film and television producers are sacrificing their intellectual property (IP) rights to bridge a widening funding gap, while many other Irish screen stories are simply not being made, the Oireachtas media committee heard on Thursday.
Industry representatives urged the committee to recommend the immediate introduction of a content levy on streaming and pay-TV companies. This would generate a fund that could be contested by indigenous producers in a sector âextremely vulnerableâ to dominant global players.
Susan Kirby, chief executive of Screen Producers Ireland (SPI), which represents more than 130 independent production companies, said a levy âat a minimum of 3-4 per centâ should be applied from 2023 to the Irish revenues of pay-TV, video-on-demand and overseas broadcasters targeting Irish audiences.
| 24 May 2021
Aiming to build on what it says is its global success and what it says is its commitment to collaborating with partners to create engaging local adaptations from its slate of hit formats, A+E Networks Global Content Sales has announced format commissions in key global territories.
Heading the slate is Alone (pictured), a self-shot survival competition series that has been a critical and ratings success for seven seasons on The HISTORY Channel in the US, with an eighth season set to premiere in June, and which recently premiered its first season on Discovery+ Sweden as Ensam I Vildmarken. The latter is the format’s third successful launch in the Nordics, as the fifth season of Alone’s Danish iteration, Alene I Vildmarken, premiered as number one in its time slot on DR-1 in March, and Norway premiered its version of the format, Alene, in 2017.
Graham Nortonâs Debut Novel To Be Adapted Into Four Part TV Series
Gary Grimes
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If you haven t gotten around to reading to
Holding, the debut novel by Irish national treasure and gatekeeper of the infamous Red Chair Graham Norton, now s the time to smash that Amazon Prime order button to get yourself a copy as it s been announced the book is being adapted into a four-part TV series.
For those unfamiliar with the book, the premise is centred around Irish police officer (a Garda to us but we ll say no more), Sergeant PJ Collins, described as a gentle but towering man who keeps to himself in the fictional village of Duneen in West Cork.
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