Film and tv Production restart scheme
What is the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme?
The Film and TV Production Restart Scheme helps film and TV shows struggling to get insurance for Covid-related risks to get back into production. The Scheme makes direct compensation available to producers that incur costs caused by coronavirus abandonment or delays to eligible pre-existing and new productions.
Registration for the Scheme has now closed, as of 1 May 2022. Claims from registered productions will be able to be submitted up to 23:59 GMT on 30 September 2022 for losses incurred up until 23:59 GMT on 30 June 2022.
The funding is available to all productions made by companies where at least half of the production budget is spent in the UK. Shows will receive compensation for costs up to a value of 20% of the production budget, with abandonment covered up to 70% upon agreement with the Government.
How to make a claim
Please download and complete the claim form below in full. Once complete, email your form along with all supporting documentation to restartschemeclaims@marshcommercial.co.uk.
Read our claims guidance to help you complete your form. Please note that submitting incomplete claim forms or failure to supply supporting documentation may delay the processing of your claim.
Download claims form.

LEAD PRODUCER
If you are the lead or sole producer registering a production to the scheme, please download your application form here.
CO-PRODUCER
If you are a co-producer, please download your application form here.
Headline Figures
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - May 2022
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - April 2022
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - March 2022
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - February 2022
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - January 2022
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - December 2021
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - November 2021
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - October 2021
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - September 2021
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - August 2021
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - July 2021
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - June 2021
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - May 2021
Film and TV Production Restart Scheme - April 2021
About the data
The data we are publishing each month is based on information provided in application and claims forms and aggregated to provide headline figures for overall budget and positions supported, as well as the total volume and value of claims received, paid and rejected. ‘Positions supported’ is the total number of cast/on screen talent and crew/off screen production crew working on the production. ‘Filming locations’ are provided on the application form and there may be multiple locations per production. This information is used to present filming locations by parliamentary constituency and local authority. Claim location is also provided on each claim form. Not all productions using the scheme are included in the list of scheme users. This is because some productions have requested to be excluded until the project is in the public domain. Rejected claims are claims where no eligible losses have been identified by DCMS.
Any questions?
If have any questions, please call our dedicated team on 0333 015 1253.
Alternatively, for general enquiries you can email restartscheme@marshcommercial.co.uk or for claim enquiries please email restartschemeclaims@marshcommercial.co.uk.
FAQs
(I) one or more members of the cast or crew (whose roles are necessary elements in the production) contracting COVID-19 and having to stop working (either through death or illness); or
(ii) one or more Named Persons needing to take time off work because of the death or critical illness of a member of their immediate family due to COVID-19.