U.S. sales made up nearly 20M of the total.
However, drops in pre-sales and co-production business led to an overall 15% fall in French TV exports.
Pre-sales were down 50.3% and co-productions dipped 38.4% dip against a record 2021.
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This means the overall figure was 319.6M, down from 375.9M last year.
Asia/Oceania was responsible for 7.7% and Eastern Europe took 4.7%).
Within this, free-streamer AVoD deals made up over 20% as the medium continues to rise.
Projects benefitting from the Tax Rebate for International Productions was a massive 442.1M.
The average for the past decade has been 27.6%.
This was driven by major deals for shows such asThe BureauandVortexand formats deals for the likes ofHIP.
Linear networks remain the top buyers across genre, accounting for 49.1% of all sales.
The CNC and Unifrance noted this was specifically due to a decrease in global rights sales.
Entertainment format sales also dropped, down to 7.9% from 10.4%.
Its really a perfect storm for fiction.
New Unifrance President Gilles Pelissonpraised the unique success ofHIPin his first public remarks since taking on the role.
The former TF1 CEO also added some color to the growth in TV sales.
There are more high quality shows coming out, he added.
In the past a 52-minute [drama] episode was less than 1M but theyre are about 2-3M.
There could be 20 versions ofCall My Agentaround the world, and then the second seasons and the third.
All that brings revenue and a rosy future on the fiction side.
In general, I dont think the strikes are a good thing.
Unifrance and CNC gather the stats through an annual survey of distributors, including members and non-members of Unifrance.
The pre-sales and co-pro stats are compiled by CNC.
