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Bob Jenkins was in Prague this week reporting on the speakers and sessions taking place at NATPE Europe and surveying attendees about trends in CEE. <\/em><\/p>\n

Another edition of NATPE Europe has come to a close, after four days that included screenings from Hollywood studios, sessions on formats and co-productions, a breakfast keynote with noted TV writer Adrian Hodges and much talk about the state of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as that of the market itself.<\/p>\n

Total attendance at the four-day market and screenings was \u201cjust shy of 600, of which 250 were officially registered buyers, with the largest increase in registered buyers coming from the Czech Republic,\u201d according to NATPE\u2019s president and CEO, Rod Perth. Of the 139 registered exhibitors, 33 were new to the market.<\/p>\n

On Monday, the pre-market sessions included a look at the prodigal son of the content business, the co-production, with a panel that featured Versailles <\/em>executive producer Claude Chelli, BBC Worldwide’s Ben Donald, Sky’s Anne Mensah and others. Once scorned as a \u2018Euro-Pudding,\u2019 the co-production is very much back in favor. Speaker after speaker echoed the observation of Donald, the executive producer of international drama at BBC Worldwide, that a successful co-production requires \u201cthe coming together of broadcasters and platforms with similar audience and programming profiles and sharing similar storytelling traditions.\u201d You can read more about this session, and hear what the other panelists had to say about co-productions, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There were two separate sessions on formats for Monday\u2019s pre-market roster. Keri Lewis Brown, the managing director of British research house K7 Media, opened the first by asking, \u201cWhat\u2019s Hot and What\u2019s Not?\u201d The answer? \u201cNothing.\u201d Or, at least, nothing in the sense of the heat generated in the past by the likes of Big Brother<\/em>, Millionaire<\/em> and Idols<\/em>. Lewis Brown\u2019s contention is that there may never be another \u201cnext big thing\u201d\u2014the consequence, she suggested, of market fragmentation, viewers\u2019 increasing ability to see past producers\u2019 \u201ctropes\u201d and consequent desire to see more \u201creal reactions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second of the afternoon\u2019s sessions, \u201cBuying or Selling? Creating or Adapting?,\u201d looked at the respective roles of the producer\/distributor and broadcaster, with many panelists\u2019 contributions echoing points made by Lewis Brown (although there were also some notable differences of opinion). The panel included, among others, Pascal Dalton of Endemol Shine Group, Jennifer Ebell of ITV Studios Global Entertainment and Nathan Gibbs of Zodiak Media. Continue reading about both format sessions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hodges, co-creator and lead writer on Primeval<\/em> who also served as showrunner on The Musketeers<\/em>, kicked off the official opening of NATPE Europe on Tuesday morning with a breakfast keynote, during which he shared his perspective of the global television landscape. Much of Hodges\u2019 work has been adaptations of previously existing oeuvres. \u201cThey are much easier to sell because everyone knows there is an audience for them, and they are easier to do, compared with original ideas, which are really hard and take a lot longer to develop,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it is a big help if the original writer or creator is dead!\u201d Read the full recap here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A survey of market attendees indicates that Central and Eastern Europe is seemingly coming back from a low\u2014but there are still demons in need of slaying. \u201cFor the past few years, the markets of Central and Eastern Europe have been relatively quiet, with broadcasters only really willing to commit to small, safe, non-scripted formats, but now there is a definite upturn in both scripted and non-scripted formats,\u201d observes Sivan Menashe, sales manager at Dori Media Group. Indeed, there was a prevailing mood of cautious optimism amongst sellers at NATPE Europe. Executives from A+E Networks, Armoza Formats and Televisa Internacional also shared their thoughts on the health and recovery of the CEE region with World Screen<\/em>. Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While views on the region are certainly more upbeat than they have been in years, there was some customary moaning among distributors about NATPE Europe\u2019s attendance figures. Some sellers expressed concerns that this year\u2019s event was slower than last year\u2019s. You can read about what distributors had to say about their time in Prague here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, NATPE Europe is facing competition from markets in Dubrovnik, Kiev and Moscow, rivals which NATPE\u2019s Perth described as \u201ccomparing apples and oranges, because we\u2019re so much bigger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Missed our NATPE Europe editions? Read them here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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