Film and TV production spending in Ontario reached a record $1.26 billion in 2011, according to the latest stats from the Ontario Media Development Corp.

Domestic production posted a record total spend of $852.1 million, up from $$646.2 million in 2010, as the number of local film and TV series shoots was up sharply, while the number of local TV movies, miniseries and pilots held steady.

Also up sharply was the number of foreign location shoots in Ontario, which includes Hollywood studio productions that took place in and around Toronto.

The total foreign spend in Ontario last year was $412.9 million, up on the $318.1 million brought into the province in 2010.

The number of foreign movies shot in Ontario last year was down to 15, against 20 shot in 2010.

But with big budget movie shoots like the $200 million Total Recall remake and Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim booked into Pinewood Toronto Studios, the coin dropped by foreign movie makers in the province last year was up sharply.

So too were budgets for Hollywood TV series shoots, as NBC Universal brought five shows to Toronto last year: Warehouse 13, Suits, Covert Affairs, Against The Wall and Alphas.

The result is foreign TV series production in Ontario last year reached $150.2 million, excluding cycles that started production in 2010, compared to $119 million spent locally in 2010.

Despite the strong Canadian dollar, compared to the American greenback, the all-spend structure of the Ontario film tax credit for foreign producers contributed to the rebound in foreign location shooting in the province last year.

On the domestic side, film production spiked in 2011 to $165.9 million, against a year-earlier $62.6 million, as Ontario drew its share of movie co-productions that included Impact Pictures’ Resident Evil: Retribution, Film Farm’s Foxfire, David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis and Davis Films’ and Don Carmody Productions’ Silent Hill: Revelation 3D.

On the TV front, domestic series production was up to $626.7 million, against $467.9 million in 2010, as big-budget Canadian dramas with U.S. financing like ABC/Global Television’s Rookie Blue, NBC/Global Television’s The Firm and MuchMusic/CW’s The L.A. Complex shot locally.

As Canadian broadcasters increasingly commission reality TV shows, the budgets on domestic TV movies, miniseries and pilots were down last year, according to the report.

The OMDC’s 2001 data differs from last week’s Profile 2011: An Economic Report on the Screen-Based Production Industry in Canada data from the Canadian Media Production Association, which put Ontario’s total local production volume last year up 6.3% to a record $2.06 billion.

The CMPA report included in-house broadcaster production, and has a 2010-11 fiscal year, compared to the OMDC report following the 2011 calendar year.