Features

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 ...

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

Reports on the fast-developing OTT landscape across Europe.

Leading European channel buyers share their shopping lists and reveal the challenges of multiplatform rights acquisition.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...