We don't have any access to a fund similar to the Canadian Television Fund. There is no equivalent in the U.K. But what we do, particularly with some of our more expensive productions, is we look for co-producers, for other broadcasters, who, in return for the rights to show the programs themselves, put money into the program to help us make it. I gave an example earlier: the CBC co-funds Doctor Who, but we also have support from the Discovery Network in the U.S. for many of our natural history productions. Increasingly, we look to maximize the value for licence payers by getting money from third parties, who essentially are buying the rights to the programs in advance by co-funding them. But there is no U.K. fund other than the licence fee.
On January 29th, 2008. See this statement in context.