{"id":4236,"date":"2012-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2012\/05\/14\/welcome-to-america\/"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:23:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:23:38","slug":"welcome-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/welcome-to-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">This feature, by Elizabeth Guider, originally appeared in the L.A. Screenings 2012 issue of <\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">World Screen.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/content\/features\/mf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Forget the wow factor. When it comes to Hollywood\u2019s international-television business, it\u2019s the how factor that counts. As in how to maximize revenues from program sales when big-time broadcasters abroad are increasingly making their own first-rate (and highly rated) local shows, when so many hit American shows are getting long in the tooth, and when newcomers to the U.S. network schedules have not set the world on fire recently.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Despite these and other challenges, the six Hollywood majors, who jointly account for the lion\u2019s share of the program-sales business done abroad, have adroitly managed to lock in healthy license fees from their traditional broadcast clients and at the same time to get into bed, at first gingerly and now more eagerly, with the SVOD platforms and niche players popping up around the globe. Overall revenues from the sale of TV shows and feature films abroad in 2011 will purportedly hit an all-time high of $8.5 billion, per sources that track the financial performance of the top U.S. content providers.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The majors have pulled off this feat during a stubborn recession across much of Europe, which in turn has put downward pressure on television advertising and on program-acquisition budgets. But even in as tough a market as Germany, where local shows are the mainstay of the schedules, the top commercial players RTL and ProSieben went up against each other recently in what was described as \u201cfrothy bidding\u201d to wrest the latest multiyear package from Warner Bros. (ProSieben will get the deal back from RTL in 2013.)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u201cDuring one of the worst financial downturns in Europe, we have renewed deals for high prices and for long terms in France, Spain, Italy, Australia and Scandinavia, as well as in Germany,\u201d says Jeffrey Schlesinger, the president of Warner Bros. International Television, describing just how counter-intuitive the international TV business is. Downturn or not, acquisitions are cost-effective and in some cases can help brand a channel.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u201cGranted, we haven\u2019t heard a lot of wows at the Screenings of late, but inarguably it\u2019s been an unbelievably long run of global success for U.S. shows abroad,\u201d adds Marion Edwards, the president of Twentieth Century Fox International Television. \u201cIf there\u2019s not been a breakout drama in the last couple of years\u2014and we can\u2019t discount problems in Greece, Italy and elsewhere\u2014we\u2019ve been able to take advantage of new developments and platforms around the world. Five years ago they weren\u2019t even there, but now Netflix, Amazon and all sorts of new players are changing the dynamics and opening up opportunities.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">So, how do the big six Tinseltown players do it? The heads of the distribution divisions all put the accent in the same place. It\u2019s about delivering quality series that can be nurtured into successes at home on the U.S. networks and that are targeted, promoted and made available astutely by the acquirer abroad.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Even the majors\u2019 definitions of what seems to be working best in foreign markets display similar characteristics, whether the genre is action, suspense, family, fantasy, romance or high concept:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u201cGood strong episodic drama with strong central characters,\u201d says Warner Bros.\u2019 Schlesinger.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u201cBig promotable hours with clear plots and relatively few characters,\u201d adds Fox\u2019s Edwards.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A-LIST CREDENTIALS<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Among the 85 or so current pro\u00adjects vying for a prime-time pickup for the 2012\u201313 fall season Stateside, a dozen have generated considerable buzz, and boast A-list talent attached in front of or behind the camera\u2014or both.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Kevin Williamson is hatching a drama about a serial killer with Kevin Bacon (Warner Bros.), Shonda Rhimes is doing a period piece set in 1890\u2019s New York called <em>Gilded Lilys <\/em>(Disney), Shawn Ryan and Martin Campbell are readying a submarine suspense series called Last Resort (Sony), Bradley Whitford is top-lining a spy drama called <em>The Asset <\/em>(Fox), Dick Wolf is masterminding an action ensemble hour called Chicago Fire (NBCUniversal) and an offbeat cop show called <em>Widow Detective<\/em> comes from Carol Mendelsohn, starring John Corbett and Jennifer Beals (CBS Studios). Other \u00fcber-producers in the thick of it this development cycle include Jerry Bruckheimer, J.J. Abrams, John Wells, Josh Schwartz and Greg Berlanti, who has three shows in contention. And those are just the dramas.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">No project is a shoe-in, however, and no name producer is guaranteed a slot. Even <em>Hallelujah<\/em>, a show from Marc Cherry, the force behind <em>Desperate Housewives<\/em>, was passed over at ABC. What gets greenlit depends on the specific needs of each network and the analysis of long-term value in any given piece of content.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Still, barring the unforeseen, Warner Bros. is poised to surface yet again as the biggest supplier both of new comedies and of dramas to the five broadcast networks, boasting as it does first-look deals with a number of key creators around town. Schlesinger rattled off the names of several contenders on his lot that he suspects will go to series and will have international appeal. Among them, he notes, is one for The CW called <em>The Selection<\/em>, which he thinks captures the zeitgeist of the moment; he describes it as a cross between<em> The Hunger Games<\/em> and <em>The Bachelor<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Admittedly, with so many new outlets abroad and so much more production from every entity imaginable, nonfiction fare, original and formatted, is playing a growing role on schedules from Slovakia to Singapore. Nonetheless, it is still American drama that pulls in the biggest bucks for the studios, arguably 70 percent of the overall haul from the licensing of TV product. (Fees for feature films are not to be sniffed at, however. All told, American movies sold to foreign TV outlets, free, pay and what-have-you, still account for roughly half of the total $8.5 billion annual haul. Japan, Italy and Russia are particularly movie mad at the moment.)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">THE WOW FACTOR<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">As to the gripe from foreign buyers that nothing they\u2019ve seen at the last three or four L.A. Screenings marathons in May have bowled them over, Armando Nu\u00f1ez, the president of CBS Studios International, has a ready response: \u201c[There\u2019s] no sense in having a wow factor in a show that goes for only six episodes.\u201d More important, he contends, is having what he calls \u201ca formidable studio production operation\u201d and \u201ca highly successful network\u201d for which most of that studio\u2019s pickups are earmarked. (Thanks to the end of fin-syn rules, the networks, including CBS, now notably rely on product from their own sister production studios.)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Nu\u00f1ez\u2019s portfolio has been the slow-burn success story of the decade in that both the tripartite <em>CSI<\/em> franchise and the <em>NCIS<\/em> duo have done more to solidify the American drama presence in prime time abroad than any other two shows, at least since the<br \/>\nDisney-distributed combo of <em>Desperate Housewives<\/em> and <em>Lost<\/em> a decade ago.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u201cThe thing about <em>NCIS<\/em>,\u201d Nu\u00f1ez adds, \u201cis that it faced considerable skepticism initially among foreign buyers.\u201d As a spinoff of the respectable but hardly breakout <em>JAG<\/em> (judged too military-oriented and too courtroom-centric by the European clientele), the show, starring Mark Harmon, was slotted only grudgingly by CBS at first. Its delicate balance of serious drama and whimsy, Nu\u00f1ez says, helped it find its audience, turning the show into a hit in many major territories.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">EYE ON THE PRIZE<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">With a slate that includes three other hit CBS shows, <em>Blue Bloods<\/em>, <em>Hawaii Five-0<\/em> and <em>The Good Wife<\/em>, CBS Studios International in 2011 surpassed the traditional top supplier to Europe, Warner Bros., with more hours aired in prime time (4,861) across 119 channels in 21 countries than its nearest rival. Warner Bros. was in second place with 3,891 hours, according to a recent report out of London entitled <em>Imported Drama Series in Europe<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In short, it\u2019s not essential for a buyer to be wowed by one or more contenders during the annual unveiling of new prime-time fare in order for the U.S. studios to actually go home with (or eventually amass) a winning hand. Some shows strengthen in their second or third season and are much preferable to something that seemed a slam dunk on first viewing but whose story line eventually sagged.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">As one analyst who focuses on the European market opines, \u201cThe smart program buyers are rarely drawn into bidding wars on the basis of a sexy pilot or hype in the press. They want to see and hear more about a series, they employ reps on the ground in L.A. for year-round intelligence-gathering, and unless competition in their own market suddenly gets ferocious, they take their time in making choices.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The sad news is that most shows do not make it past the first year, which explains why most buyers do deals for multiple shows with various Hollywood suppliers. It also explains why those who have the luxury of cherry-picking on the open market, like the British, tend to wait months to sign on the dotted line, until they\u2019re convinced a new American show is headed in a propitious direction. The current season has already seen several highly touted dramas struggle or fall by the wayside, including FOX\u2019s<em> Terra Nova<\/em> and <em>Alcatraz<\/em>, CBS\u2019s <em>A Gifted Man<\/em>, ABC\u2019s <em>The River <\/em>and <em>Pan Am <\/em>and NBC\u2019s <em>Prime Suspect <\/em>and <em>Awake<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">SOPHOMORE RUSH<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Among those series that appear to be gathering steam heading into renewal season are<em> Person of Interest<\/em> on CBS, <em>Grimm<\/em> on NBC and <em>Scandal<\/em> on ABC. NBCUniversal reps recently dispatched several key cast members of another of its frosh crop, <em>Smash<\/em>, to London for a promotional blitz ahead of the musical drama\u2019s debut on Sky Atlantic and other Continental European stations. During the promotional stunt in Europe, word came down that the series would be returning for a second season on NBC.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Along with the abiding appeal of American drama abroad, other changes in global audience tastes have benefited Hollywood producers of late. One of them is a worldwide hunger to see talked-about material in the most timely fashion, a shift that all the Hollywood majors have hastened to address in their deal-making and partnerships.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u201cOne of the biggest changes is how the distribution of our content has quickened and how our partners are using new media to expand viewership,\u201d says Ben Pyne, the president of global distribution at Disney Media Networks. Pyne says the studio is finding incremental value in shows by slicing their windows more narrowly, in some cases making hot-ticket items available abroad within 24 or 48 hours of the Stateside release, and in a few others staging the premieres abroad ahead of the U.S. debut. That\u2019s what Disney did recently with <em>Body of Proof <\/em>and <em>Missing<\/em>. Like his counterparts at other studios, Pyne is also finding ways to boost the shelf life of series with services abroad like ABC TV On Demand and Disneytek, which allows for the downloading and viewing of full episodes after their first broadcast.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">For another thing, comedies, which for decades did not travel far beyond English-speaking territories, are catching on in the most unexpected of foreign climes. The rise in interest in \u201cfunny business\u201d arguably started with NBC\u00adUniversal\u2019s <em>30 Rock<\/em> and <em>The Office<\/em>, but has since intensified and spread. <em>Two and a Half Men<\/em> is making them laugh on Germany\u2019s Kabel Eins (in a second window, no less), Scandinavia is tittering over<em> 2 Broke Girls <\/em>and <em>New Girl<\/em>, and <em>Happy Endings<\/em> has found enthusiastic fans in far-flung parts of Europe. Part of the reason has to do with Internet-attuned, glo\u00adbalized tastes among the young set wherever they are and part has to do with the revitalized strength and diversity of sitcom story lines from ace writer-producers like Chuck Lorre, Steve Levitan, Ryan Murphy and Michael Patrick King. Not to mention the universal desire to laugh amid all the depressing economic news.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">BANKABLE LAUGHS<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u201cIt\u2019s not unheard of for a top-notch laugher to pull in upwards of $1 million an episode from foreign [sales], a sum unheard of just five years ago,\u201d says one analyst, who is not authorized to give out specific examples. That sum would include the cumulative fees coming in for second cycles of series on alternative platforms, which are enticing new viewers to the genre.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u201cThere are some wonderful new players out there with whom we are now doing business in sync with our traditional broadcast partners,\u201d Fox\u2019s Edwards says. \u201cIn this new world, everything is open to negotiation, and things like exclusivity and early SVOD windows drive program prices higher.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">And as American television has seen a proliferation of outlets that are increasingly niche-specific and narrowly targeted, new platforms abroad have followed a similar trajectory. In so doing, these foreign outlets have become highly receptive to edgy, alternative, up-market and\/or challenging fare made for U.S. cable networks like AMC, FX and USA Network, as well as for the traditionally buzzed-about premium pay services HBO and Showtime.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">To take one example, Sony Pictures Television has carved out a sizeable business abroad with such critical darlings as <em>Breaking Bad<\/em>, <em>Justified<\/em>, <em>The Big C <\/em>and <em>Damages<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">\u201cI think the trend started with FX\u2019s <em>The Shield<\/em>, which arguably pioneered the antihero genre and found respectable, and receptive, audiences abroad,\u201d says Keith LeGoy, the president of international distribution at Sony Pictures Television. \u201cOur foreign partners are now finding different ways to skin the cat with such shows as these, which tend to instill compulsive viewing habits on the part of core audiences.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Similarly, <em>Homeland<\/em>, one of Showtime\u2019s most provocative new series, is attracting a following abroad, becoming cult viewing, for example, on Sky in the U.K. The series is licensed by Fox internationally and is based on an Israeli format, another indication of just how porous the borders now are for good ideas, in both the fiction and nonfiction categories.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> If, indeed, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery\u2014and also helps boost the overall value of a seemingly largely exploited commodity\u2014a plethora of players in disparate territories are paying American creators the compliment, trying their hand at localized versions of Hollywood TV fare. CBS\u2019s <em>Everybody Loves Raymond<\/em>, sold by Sony Pictures Television, is getting a Saudi makeover. In Asia, Fox\u2019s <em>24<\/em> will be reimagined in India with Anil Kapoor in the Kiefer Sutherland role, and Disney\u2019s reality juggernaut <em>The Amazing Race <\/em>has just clinched its ninth deal for a localized competition, this one in Vietnam and the Philippines. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This feature, by Elizabeth Guider, originally appeared in the L.A. Screenings 2012 issue of World Screen. Forget the wow factor. When it comes to Hollywood\u2019s international-television business, it\u2019s the how factor that counts. 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