Australian mini-series Number of Australian mini-series produced, total production budgets and average budget per title (current* and 2014 dollars), 1980/81–2013/14 Next update March 2016 * Dollar value as per each year specified (ie not adjusted for inflation) Production of Australian mini-series for adults (including co-productions) declined significantly from the 1980s, when an average of 12 titles with average annual production budgets of $42 million ($101 million in 2014 dollars) were produced each year, to the 1990s, when the average was four titles with average annual budgets of $25 million ($43 million in 2014 dollars) each year. However, mini-series production rose again over the next decade, from an average of two titles with total budgets of $16 million ($23 million in 2014 dollars) in the years 2000/01 to 2004/05, to an average of eight titles with total budgets of $65 million ($73 million in 2014 dollars) in the five years to 2009/10. Average budgets have remained relatively stable over the last 30 years, at around $8-11 million per title (2014 dollars). No. per year1 Total budgets ($m) per year Average budget per title Current ($m)* 2014 ($m)2 Current ($m)* 2014 ($m2) 1980/81 9 (7) 15 57 1.69 6.37 1981/82 10 (1) 3 11 0.34 1.14 1982/83 9 (4) 20 60 2.24 6.69 1983/84 5 19 52 3.70 10.39 1984/85 12 (3) 49 131 4.06 10.96 1985/86 22 (2) 78 198 3.56 9.01 1986/87 11 (2) 40 95 3.66 8.60 1987/88 17 84 185 4.96 10.88 1988/89 12 61 124 5.10 10.33 1989/90 10 (1) 52 100 5.23 9.99 Total 80/81–89/90 117 (20) 423 1,014 – – Annual av. 80/81–89/90 12 (2) 42 101 3.60 8.44 1990/91 9 45 82 4.94 9.08 1991/92 3 (1) 18 32 6.00 10.82 1992/93 5 31 56 6.24 11.17 1993/94 1 5 9 4.90 8.67 1994/95 3 13 23 4.33 7.52 1995/96 5 (1) 26 44 5.20 8.75 1996/97 5 54 90 10.85 17.99 1997/98 3 12 20 4.12 6.74 1998/99 3 32 51 10.51 17.10 1999/00 2 17 27 8.50 13.47 Total 90/91–99/00 39 (2) 253 433 – – Annual av. 90/91–99/00 4 (<1) 25 43 6.56 11.13 2000/01 3 (1) 21 32 7.11 10.82 2001/02 0 0.00 0.00 2002/03 4 23 34 5.81 8.38 2003/04 1 8 11 8.00 11.11 2004/05 3 30 40 9.96 13.32 2005/06 3 21 27 6.98 8.87 2006/07 9 (1) 61 74 6.77 8.21 2007/08 8 61 71 7.64 8.85 2008/09 10 87 96 8.69 9.56 2009/10 10 95 103 9.50 10.34 Total 00/01–09/10 51 (2) 407 487 – – Annual av. 00/01–09/10 5 (<1) 41 49 8.00 9.56 2010/11 13 138 141 10.59 10.88 2011/12 16 150 152 9.38 9.48 2012/13 22 (2) 194 196 8.81 8.91 2013/14 15 (1) 169 169 11.27 11.27 Source: Screen Australia. Notes: Productions under Australian creative control, including domestic productions, official co-productions and other productions involving shared creative control, i.e. with a mix of Australians in key creative positions. Does not include mini-series for children. Figures are updated on an ongoing basis therefore there may be some discrepancies with previously published data. Figures may not total exactly due to rounding. * Dollar value as per each year specified (ie not adjusted for inflation). 1. Includes inhouse productions made by television broadcasters (inhouse number shown in brackets). 2. Adjusted using the non-farm GDP deflator; base year 2013/14.