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Features

Power Plays

October 2, 2019

Jay Stuart finds out how Europe’s most prominent broadcasting groups are taking on the threat from well-funded global streamers. The impact of the FAANGs is so enormous, you only need A for Amazon and N for Netflix to spell trouble for leading European broadcasting companies, no matter what language they …

Hot Picks

March 27, 2019

Steve Clarke checks in with some of Europe’s leading programmers about their content wish lists.

Stream Wars

October 3, 2018

Reports on the fast-developing OTT landscape across Europe.

Pay Day

October 4, 2017

Steve Clarke analyzes how the region’s biggest cable and satellite platforms are facing the threat, and opportunity, of OTT.

London Calling

October 5, 2016

As the industry comes to grips with the Brexit fallout, Steve Clarke delivers an in-depth look at the shifts already under way in the British media business.

Hit Seekers

March 22, 2016

The acquisition of nonlinear rights is a key issue on the minds of leading European buyers as they vie for the next breakout hit.

Give Me a Break

October 1, 2015

Joanna Stephens explores the tax incentives that are reshaping the U.K.’s production landscape. It just got a whole lot cheaper to make expensive television in the U.K. Under the country’s new high-end TV (HETV) tax-relief system, producers can claim a rebate of up to 25 percent of U.K. expenditure on …

French Connection

October 1, 2015

Steve Clarke provides an in-depth look at the latest developments in the French media sector. In an era of smart technology, binge-viewing and on-demand content, TV watching has changed beyond all recognition—except, perhaps, in France. At 9 p.m. on an average Sunday evening, it’s commonplace for French families to gather …

From Turkey with Love

October 1, 2015

In the Istanbul neighborhood of Arnavutköy, overlooking wooden homes that are remnants of Turkey’s ancient architecture, you’ll find Yazi Odasi, the country’s first, and only, U.S.-style writers’ rooms. In a three-story converted house, Yazi Odasi’s founders—the in-demand writing duo of Kerem Deren and Pinar Bulut Deren—are churning out scripts for …