08/04/2005

The COSIP (support fund to all TV programmes) has just given 185.8 million euros to help the production of 3929 hours worth of programmes. This figure was published on Thursday in the 2004 report on supported audiovisual production from the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC). One of the major tendencies that appear in this report is an increased number of supported fiction programmes (721 hours) ; same for animation programmes, while TV magazines and documentary are decreasing. These results were confirmed by the fact that TV channels have invested 639.1 million euros (10.9% more than in 2003) in COSIP-supported programmes, 65% of which went to fiction. However, foreign investments in French programmes have only amounted to 125.1 million euros, that is, 13% less than in 2003.

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TV France International and the CNC have also published their now traditional annual report on French TV programme export. It appears that in 2004, 110 million foreign spectators have watched 144 French programmes broadcasted on 37 channels in five different countries (Germany, Spain, Italy, UK, and Quebec). On the whole, animation programmes have been successful, as the results of Totally Spies in foreign countries show —Spain in particular just loves it. In Spain, as a matter of fact, the five terrestrian national TV channels and the six regional channels have shown 10 million spectators 30 different French programmes. Italy reaches even higher with 27 million spectators for 29 programmes, most of which were fiction. In Germany , over 51 million spectators enjoyed 28 programmes. Finally, the UK broadcasted 20 French programmes for 17 million spectators.

(Translated from French)