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JULY 2022 EDITION
TV Drama Festival Recap
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CONTENTS HOWARD GORDON The acclaimed writer, producer and showrunner on how he adapted the British drama Accused into a new anthology for FOX in the U.S.
Ricardo Seguin Guise Publisher
U.K.’S FINEST Banijay Rights’ Cathy Payne, All3Media International’s Louise Pedersen, Entertainment One’s Stuart Baxter and ITV Studios’ Ruth Berry weighed in on commissioning and financing trends in British drama.
Anna Carugati Group Editorial Director
WALTER PRESENTS’ WALTER IUZZOLINO The curator and co-founder of the streaming service discussed how he and his team are positioning it as a premier home for top-notch foreign-language scripted series before being honored with the inaugural TV Drama Pioneer Award. CO-PRODUCTION EVOLUTION ZDF Studios’ Robert Franke, Dynamic Television’s Daniel March and LEONINE Studios’ Caroline Kusser offered insights on how the co-production model has evolved. JUAN JOSÉ CAMPANELLA The Argentinean television and film director, writer and producer weighed in on his exclusive deal with VIS for scripted projects, including his Paramount+ series The Envoys (Los Enviados). MIDSOMER MURDERS’ NEIL DUDGEON The actor, who plays DCI John Barnaby, discussed the enduring success of the All3Media Internationaldistributed crime procedural, which has been airing on ITV since 1997. MIRANDA KWOK The showrunner talks about how she adapted the successful Argentinean series The Cleaning Lady for FOX in the U.S. and placed diversity and inclusion at the forefront of the show. VIAPLAY GROUP’S FILIPPA WALLESTAM The company’s executive VP and chief content officer on her approach to curating the streamer’s slate of originals and acquired fare as it expands its global footprint. LIONSGATE’S SANDRA STERN The president of Lionsgate Television Group discussed how the independent studio is partnering with established and new talent to serve the needs of commissioners across broadcast, cable and streaming. ROBERT & MICHELLE KING The writing and producing power couple talked about their long-running collaboration that has resulted in such hit shows as The Good Fight and Evil. BANIJAY’S LARS BLOMGREN & KUDOS’ KAREN WILSON In a joint keynote, Lars Blomgren, head of scripted at Banijay, and Karen Wilson, managing director of Kudos, shared a look at the drama development and production process at the company. EUROPEAN MIGHT Bob McCourt, the COO of Fremantle International, discussed the opportunities the company is finding amid a renaissance in European drama production. SCREENINGS ZDF Studios’ Sløborn and All3Media International’s Dalgliesh, The Brokenwood Mysteries and Van der Valk.
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Keynote:
HOWARD GO
Acclaimed writer, producer and showrunner Howard Gordon discussed how he adapted the British drama Accused into a new anthology for FOX in the U.S.
Read the recap here.
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GORDON It has the trappings of a pretty classic courtroom story. But it’s about so much more than that. It is about very human, relatable, small-scale stories, but told against all the fault lines in the world that we’re living with: The corrosive impact of social media, identity, race, inequality. It shows us how exquisitely vulnerable we all are at this moment. It’s an empathy engine.
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U.K.’S
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Banijay Rights’ Cathy Payne, All3Media International’s Louise Pedersen, Entertainment One’s Stuart Baxter and ITV Studios’ Ruth Berry weighed in on commissioning and financing trends in British drama.
Read the recap here.
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You used to be able to tell the difference between a big U.S. show and a U.K. show. Budgets are getting ever closer together.
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–Louise Pedersen
We’ve all got to think much more thoroughly about how we deficit finance and who the partners are that we can do it with.
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—Ruth Berry
You have to be a lot more creative. It’s not just about financing. You need to add value not just as a distributor but creatively.
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–Stuart Baxter
The sophistication of the behindthe-scenes financial banking is just more intricate than ever.
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—Cathy Payne
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TV Drama Pioneer Award
WALTER IUZZ
Walter Iuzzolino discussed how he and his team are positioning Walter Presents as a premier home for top-notch foreign-language scripted series before being honored with the inaugural TV Drama Pioneer Award.
Read the recap here.
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The streamers have helped to accelerate a change to the point where viewers are now used to international drama. They’re not scared about subtitles anymore. The shows stream really well. And we are growing and growing. We used to launch one, sometimes two shows a month. Now, in the States we launch a show every week. It’s a very hungry machine. Our viewers are very loyal and passionate.
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CO-PRODUCTION
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ZDF Studios’ Robert Franke, Dynamic Television’s Daniel March and LEONINE Studios’ Caroline Kusser offered insights on how the co-production model has evolved.
Read the recap here.
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If you’re not part of an idea from the get-go, you’re not part of it at all. That leads to a situation where we are forced to become co-producers. It’s not an evolution of the co-production model per se. It’s more the evolution of the role of distributors.
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–Robert Franke
Co-productions fit into one of two buckets: creatively driven or economically driven. The benefit of economic models is often trying to attract an additional broadcaster or another entity. That’s just getting more challenging. But I think, in general, demand for co-productions is very strong.
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–Daniel March
We will see more like-minded broadcasters willing to partner up. As the big streamers commission more out of Europe, the traditional broadcasters are partnering up with each other.
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–Caroline Kusser
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Keynote:
JUAN JOSÉ CA
Argentinean television and film director, writer and producer Juan José Campanella weighed in on his exclusive deal with VIS for scripted projects, including his Paramount+ series The Envoys (Los Enviados).
Read the recap here.
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CAMPANELLA My career has been parallel on film and television, not much feeding each other; almost disconnected. I find pleasure in both. Of course, in film, you have a larger canvas. You have that feeling of permanence through time. But in television, I love the fact that in a series, you can go deeper into the characters. Television is more like a novel, and film, a short story. I like them both. I like the speed of television. I like the fact that you have to shoot from the cuff.
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Keynote:
NEIL DUDGEO
Actor Neil Dudgeon discussed the enduring success of All3Media International’s Midsomer Murders, which has been airing on ITV since 1997.
Read the recap here.
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EON The formula is: something, not necessarily a murder, happens in a rural location, and two police officers go to see what’s happening. Through the police officers’ eyes, the audience is introduced to the milieux and the new characters. Most of your cast are going to be new people every week. So every time [viewers] watch it, they see something that they know, but it’s completely different from anything they’ve seen before.
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Keynote:
MIRANDA KW
Miranda Kwok on how she adapted the successful Argentinean series The Cleaning Lady for FOX in the U.S. and placed diversity and inclusion at the forefront of the show.
Read the recap here.
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One of the most important things is to tell stories that matter, that can affect people and bring a greater understanding about humanity. When you show these characters that you don’t normally see, you’re opening people’s perspectives. The more we can put that specificity onscreen, the more we can understand each other and that at the core, we are all more the same than we are different.
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Keynote: Viaplay Group’s
FILIPPA WAL
Filippa Wallestam, executive VP and chief content officer at Viaplay Group, on her approach to curating the streamer’s slate of originals and acquired fare as it expands its global footprint.
Read the recap here.
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Our ambition in new markets is to be as local as possible. We stay very true to our core values, our way of telling stories and how we’ve built our credibility in the Nordics. If you do local at an excellent level, it tends to travel regardless. That is very much our focus for the majority of our shows. We tend to stay very close to our core, which is not just Nordic noir—it’s authentic storytelling, story-first types of projects.
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Keynote: Lionsgate’s
SANDRA STE
Sandra Stern, the president of Lionsgate Television Group, discussed how the independent studio is partnering with established and new talent to serve the needs of commissioners across broadcast, cable and streaming.
Read the recap here.
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As we look at a maturing streaming market, in which unlimited growth may not be the future, there may be some pullback. That is both a challenge and an opportunity. It requires us to double down on our quality, to be the studio that breaks through the clutter. As the f inancial ability of some of the platforms to spend wildly is perhaps shrinking, we are able to pivot in a way that I think a lot of the studios are not able to do.
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Keynote:
ROBERT & MIC
Robert and Michelle King talked about their long-running collaboration that has resulted in such hit shows as The Good Fight and Evil.
Read the recap here.
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As long as we’ve known one another, we’ve been talking about how does one explain evil in the world? Robert goes more toward a supernatural, demonic explanation. I’m more likely to look at psychological or sociological explanations.
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–Michelle King
Right now what drives [The Good Fight] is the fear of civil war in America. Worries about a Balkanization of American politics. We’re taking it to a political dimension.
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—Robert King
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In a joint keynote, Lars Blomgren, head of scripted at Banijay, and Karen Wilson, managing director of Kudos, shared a look at the drama development and production process at the company.
Read the recap here.
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RS BLOMGREN & N WILSON The situation with the streamers plays to our advantage. We have a lot of high-end companies with proper track records. In challenging times, you want to have reliable partners.
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—Lars Blomgren
The BBC, for example, is adapting to the streaming market. They want to be a place that speaks to its local audience, that serves that public-service broadcaster mentality, but that also is surprising. They are forming really good partnerships with co-producers in the U.S. in order to allow them to have those windows in the U.K.
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—Karen Wilson
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Bob McCourt, the COO of Fremantle International, discussed the opportunities the company is finding amid a renaissance in European drama production.
Read the recap here.
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Inevitably, budgets are going up, which is making projects harder to finance. The budget levels of the broadcasters may not be able to increase to that extent. Funding of shows can be an issue where you’ve got big, big budgets, and you’re trying to piece together the financing with three or four co-production partners and potentially taking a big risk by putting a big distribution advance in.
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ZDF Studios
SLØBORN
Directors Christian Alvart (Dogs of Berlin) and Adolfo J. Kolmerer again take the helm of the disaster thriller in season two, where our heroes have lost all contact with the mainland but their troubles are far from over.
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All3Media International’s
DALGLIESH
From the award-winning New Pictures, this classic detective series welcomes Bertie Carvel as Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. Slow-burning, tension-filled and beautifully shot, the series follows three murder mysteries across six episodes.
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All3Media International’s
THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES
In the deadly but picturesque town of Brokenwood, Detective Mike Shepherd and his close-knit team use unorthodox methods to uncover the murders that lead to the town’s rising death count.
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All3Media International’s
VAN DER VALK
Set against the bustling backdrop of the stunning city of Amsterdam, Van der Valk and his brilliant team continue to investigate and solve compelling murder mysteries.
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