{"id":14589,"date":"2021-03-09T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T14:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/crime-time-goquest\/"},"modified":"2021-03-10T08:53:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T13:53:15","slug":"crime-time-for-goquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/crime-time-for-goquest\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime Time for GoQuest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Paula McHarg, head of Europe and North America at GoQuest Media, tells <\/em>TV Drama<em> about the company&#8217;s crime series slate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GoQuest Media has been steadily building its crime drama slate over the last few years, developing a particular niche in rolling out titles from markets like Russia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. Earlier this year, a deal with Serbian telecommunications and cable TV operator Telekom Srbija brought <em>Civil Servant<\/em> to the GoQuest portfolio. \u201cThe series is unique in that it\u2019s the first of its kind to take an intimate look at the Serbian Secret Service (BIA),\u201d says Paula McHarg, head of Europe and North America at GoQuest Media. \u201cUnlike those typical spy thrillers that portray MI6, CIA and the Mossad, our hero Lazar is more of a Jack Bauer than a James Bond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McHarg also points to a strong response from the market for <em>RATS<\/em>, from Czech TV and Heaven\u2019s Gate, about a drug dealer who becomes involved with the Czech-Vietnamese mafia while also serving as a police informant. \u201cWe describe <em>RATS<\/em> as a crime thriller, but only in the sense that a character dies in the beginning and the killer is revealed by the end,\u201d McHarg notes. \u201cIn a much broader sense, it\u2019s a story about two families\u2014each represented by a different part of the European drug business. On one side, there\u2019s a female police detective, fresh off maternity leave, trying to prove herself by recruiting a young and reckless dealer who may be somehow involved in the death of her partner. From the other perspective, David, the dealer\/informer, has used his family\u2014both his literal and chosen families\u2014to haplessly try and stay afloat inside a dark criminal underworld. It\u2019s a fresh take on the crime genre with a new, unexpected twist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hybrid storytelling in the crime space has become more popular amid the pandemic, McHarg observes. \u201cHybrid stories that promote co-viewing seem to be hitting a strong note with audiences around the world. Whereas in the past, straight, tough crime stories were an enduring pastime, audiences during the pandemic have taken to dramedies, crime-inspired family dramas, thrilling love stories and various other types of hybrids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McHarg is also seeing a greater opportunity for cross-border co-productions in crime dramas, \u201cbut, as always, there must be a true and real connection between the locations,\u201d she says. \u201cIn <em>RATS<\/em>, drugs are being trafficked across international borders from Poland into the Czech Republic. Since Poland is such an important part of the story, we worked with the Polish production company MD4 to make sure that everything looked and felt as it really would during international drug trafficking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula McHarg, head of Europe and North America at GoQuest Media, tells World Screen Newsflash about the company&#8217;s crime series slate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":14590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,70],"tags":[3388,3914],"class_list":["post-14589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-profiles","category-top-stories","tag-goquest-media","tag-paula-mcharg","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Crime Time for GoQuest - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/crime-time-for-goquest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Crime Time for GoQuest - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paula McHarg, head of Europe and North America at GoQuest Media, tells World Screen Newsflash about the company&#039;s crime series slate.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/crime-time-for-goquest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-03-09T14:28:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-03-10T13:53:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/Paula-McHarg-620.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"319\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mansha Daswani\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/crime-time-for-goquest\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/crime-time-for-goquest\/\",\"name\":\"Crime Time for GoQuest - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-03-09T14:28:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-03-10T13:53:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/crime-time-for-goquest\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/crime-time-for-goquest\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/crime-time-for-goquest\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Crime Time for GoQuest\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/83da304c8bad8bfdb3edd7eb47cfe5ad\",\"name\":\"Mansha Daswani\",\"description\":\"Mansha Daswani is the editor-in-chief and associate publisher of World Screen. 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