Long reads
Belgium’s Streamz remakes YouTube format Blue Therapy
Unscripted show started on Google-owned streamer before being remade for the UK’s E4 and most recently Netflix
More long reads
Turning the tables on IP creation
Finland’s Salla Kozma on how ping pong and YouTube inspired a new route to market for fresh IP
How a UK prodco is building the first AI star
Particle 6 wants AI creation Tilly Norwood ‘to be the next Scarlett Johansson or Natalie Portman’
Anjali Sud: We need to think more broadly about what entertainment can be
The Tubi chief on competing with YouTube, breaking the Hollywood monoculture and the platform’s scrappy new project, Stubios
How TF1 & France TV are rewriting streamer partnerships
Deals with Netflix and Amazon employ similar strategies for different reasons, but why and what do the deals mean for producers and distributors?
Breaking down the content behind Netflix’s winning strategy
Following its Q2 earnings, GlobalData analyst Jemma Preston outlines the global streamer’s content strategy and key areas of growth
Unpacking the problem & promise of Germany’s TV market
WedoTV’s Philipp Rotermund on how to profit from Europe’s largest TV market despite its slow shift to streaming
Adapting to a new scripted calling
Fifth Season’s Chris Rice on the evolving world of US-UK drama deals and why shows with mid-range budgets aren’t necessarily a thing of the past
Hot take on a transitioning format market
Richard Middleton on how a YouTube hot wing series and a 52-year-old US gameshow suggest potential in a transitioning format market
Unpacking the fast-shifting world of creators
Cowshed Collective’s chief exec George Cowin on how to adapt to a creator-led reality
Why dwindling budgets were only part of the story at Sunny Side
Love Nature’s head of content, Alison Barrat, returns from French factual event having found resilience among producers
Pushing partnerships to the limit
From regional coproductions to global corporate alliances, there’s an unfortunate reality behind the surging popularity of partnerships
Jason Isaacs: 'I worried I would be the dullest person that’s ever been in The White Lotus'
British actor on how he internalised the suffering of his lorazepam-popping character in The White Lotus
Factual commissioners talk market flux at Sunny Side
CBC’s Lesley Birchard and Sílvia Pairó Vila of Catalonia’s 3Cat talk commissioning trends, rights requirements and greenlights
O Canada! How the country is striving for local content
At Banff World Media Festival, delegates saw how Canada’s difficult relationship with America has galvanised local broadcasters’ ambitions
Canada’s TVO: Ontario-based, global facing
The head of production at the children’s and documentary channel expains she’s on the look out for both global and local hits
Revealed: How BBCS aims to ignite unscripted ambition
Karl Warner and Suzy Lamb lay out ambitious strategy to become unscripted heavy hitter on the global stage
How Europe’s drama industry is putting tears & fears to one side
Squeezed scripted producers on the continent are evolving to a new reality that has talent and IP at the centre
Unpacking Mediaset España’s scripted revival
Broadcast International explores the Spanish giant’s renewed scripted strategy
Banff World Media Festival: Six key takeaways
Canada’s Rocky Mountains again provided a suitable backdrop to some seismic industry activity
NEM Dubrovnik: Six key takeaways
European regulation, production inflation and streamer quotas among topics in focus at CEE event