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Telemovie production: Australian production summary

Number of Australian telemovies produced, total production budgets and average budget per title (current and 2009 dollars), 1970/71–2008/09

Next update November 2010

Converted to 2009 dollars, the average budget per title for Australian telemovies has increased from $1.5 million in the 1980s to $2.29 million in the 1990s and then $3 million for the nine years since, reaching as high as $3.86 million in 2000/01. By comparison, the average budget of a foreign telemovie shot here during the 1990s was $6.63 million (again, in 2009 dollars). Since 2003/04, there has been only one foreign telemovie made in Australia. See also Telemovie production: Budget ranges.

	No. per year¹	Total budgets ($m) per year		Average budget per title
	No. per year¹	Current $m	2009 $m²	Current $m	2009 $m²
1970/71	0 (0)	n.a.
1971/72	2 (0)	n.a.
1972/73	1 (0)	n.a.
1973/74	2 (2)	n.a.
1974/75	5 (4)	n.a.
1975/76	10 (1)	n.a.
1976/77	24 (9)	n.a.
1977/78	15 (7)	n.a.
1978/79	10 (5)	n.a.
1979/80	11 (7)	n.a.
Annual av. 70s	8 (4)	n.a.
1980/81	5 (3)	0.7	2.5	0.14	0.49
1981/82	10 (1)	2.5	7.5	0.25	0.75
1982/83	9 (3)	3.2	8.8	0.36	0.97
1983/84	19 (9)	5.3	13.6	0.28	0.72
1984/85	24 (9)	16.3	39.8	0.68	1.66
1985/86	14 (4)	9.2	21.1	0.66	1.50
1986/87	30 (2)	27.4	58.5	0.91	1.95
1987/88	19 (0)	16.6	32.9	0.87	1.73
1988/89	9 (0)	5.0	9.1	0.56	1.01
1989/90	14(2)	20.7	35.4	1.48	2.53
Annual av. 80s	15 (3)	10.7	22.9	0.70	1.50
1990/91	2	2.0	3.3	1.00	1.63
1991/92	5 (1)	4.0	6.4	0.80	1.28
1992/93	6	7.0	11.1	1.17	1.84
1993/94	11	12.0	18.8	1.09	1.71
1994/95	17	25.5	39.5	1.50	2.32
1995/96	12	20.0	30.2	1.67	2.52
1996/97	8	16.0	23.8	2.00	2.97
1997/98	7	13.0	19.1	1.86	2.73
1998/99	8 (1)	14.0	20.5	1.75	2.56
1999/00	16	37.0	53.0	2.31	3.31
Annual av. 90s	9 (<1)	15.0	22.6	1.64	2.29
2000/01	7 (0)	19.7	27.0	2.81	3.86
2001/02	8 (0)	18.2	24.4	2.28	3.05
2002/03	4(0)	10.3	13.4	2.56	3.34
2003/04	11(0)	27.2	34.1	2.47	3.10
2004/05	6(0)	15.3	18.4	2.54	3.06
2005/06	9(0)	18.5	21.3	2.05	2.36
2006/07	4(0)	12.6	13.9	3.15	3.47
2007/08	4(1)	9.7	10.2	2.42	2.55
2008/09	2(0)	4.4	4.4	2.22	2.22

Source: Screen Australia.

Notes:
Does not include telemovies for children.
n.a. Not available.
1. Includes in-house productions made by television broadcasters (in-house number shown in brackets).
2. Adjusted using the non-farm GDP deflator; base year 2008/09.

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