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French TV Productions Maintain High Sales Despite Higher Risk Aversion, Contraction in North America Deals


Overseas French TV programming sales last year remained high despite worsening conditions, slipping slightly to just under $225 million year on year.

The report attributed the strong performance of French program exports to “the quality and diversity of audiovisual works in all genres, which continue to appeal to the international market. Programs echoing current events and hybrid works combining several genres, such as science and history, performed particularly well last year, among them “Hunting the Russian Oligarchs,” “The Sunken Secrets of Iznik’s Basilica” and “Cobalt Rush: The Future of Going Green.” The opening of the automatic support fund to delegated production works intended for global SVOD services last year may have affected pre-sale figures, the reported stated.

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