ABSTRACT
Let’s turn to television and webisodes for a moment. Sometimes you’re not making a program on your own dime, but instead someone is hiring your production company to produce a program for them. It could be a webisode for a television network’s website, a reality series for a basic cable channel, or a documentary commissioned by a premium cable network. However, one basic fact never changes: The larger media company is paying your smaller production company to shoot and deliver to them a program according to their detailed specifications. The production services agreement between the larger media company and your smaller production company controls both how the program will be produced and the technical and legal standards that govern its production.
