A European Television Fiction Renaissance: Premium Production Models and Transnational Circulation (Routledge Advances in Television Studies)

This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories. Combining a media-production approach with a textual and audience analysis, the volume offers a complex, stratified, systemic view of ongoing aesthetic, sociocultural and industrial developments in contemporary European TV. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book first offers an overview of the industrial, policy and cultural context for the renaissance of European television drama over the past decade, based on original comparative research. This research is then supported by case study chapters from the key contexts within which quality European television is being produced, offering a complex and complete picture of the industry’s strengths and limitations, its traditions and trends, its constraints and future perspectives. __A European Television Fiction Renaissance__ is a must-read book for TV scholars working across Europe and beyond in the areas of media studies, international communications and television studies, media industries studies, production studies, European studies, and media policy studies as well as for those with an interest in television drama, Netflix, globalisation, pay TV and on demand. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors 1 Introduction: The Many Steps and Factors of a European Renaissance Part 1 Researching European Fiction 2 The Grounds for a Renaissance in European Fiction: Transnational Writing, Production and Distribution Approaches, and Strategies 3 Mapping European Premium-Scripted TV: Trends, Patterns, and Data In an Emerging EU Market 4 Transnational Circulation of European TV Series: National Models and Industrial Strategies for Scripted Pay Imports/Exports Part 2 United Kingdom 5 A 21st-Century Gold Rush? Video on Demand and the Global Competition for UK Television 6 “The Biggest Drama Commission in British Television History”: Netflix, The Crown, and the UK Television Ecosystem Part 3 France 7 Video on Demand Platforms, Editorial Strategies, and Logics of Production: The Case of Netflix France 8 The Strategy of “Quality TV”: Branding, Creating, and Producing at Canal+ 9 What is a Quality French series? Reflections on The Bureau Part 4 Italy 10 Towards a New Model for Italian TV Fiction: Sky Italia Originals and the Struggle for Difference 11 The Holy See(ing): Splendors and Miseries of The Young Pope Part 5 Germany 12 TV Drama Series Production in Germany and the Digital Television Landscape 13 Selling Location, Selling History: New German Series and Changing Market Logic Part 6 Spain 14 The Origins of Premium Television Fiction in Spain: Canal+ and its Evolution Towards New Ways of Production and Distribution as Movistar+ 15 Bambú Producciones and the Transformation of Spanish Television Fiction Production Part 7 Central and Eastern Europe 16 HBO Europe’s Original Programming in the Era of Streaming Wars 17 Quality By Design: Feature TV Series From Premium Television in Poland 18 Familiar, Much Too Familiar... HBO’s Hungarian Original Productions and the Questions of Cultural Proximity Index "This book maps the landscape of contemporary European premium television fiction, offering a detailed overview of both the changes in the digital production and distribution and the emergence of specific national and transnational case histories. Combining a media-production approach with a textual and audience analysis, the volume offers a complex, stratified, systemic view of ongoing aesthetic, sociocultural and industrial developments in contemporary European TV. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book first offers an overview of the industrial, policy and cultural context for the renaissance of European television drama over the past decade, based on original comparative research. This research is then supported by case study chapters from the key contexts within which quality European television is being produced, offering a complex and complete picture of the industry's strengths and limitations, its traditions and trends, its constraints and future perspectives. A European Television Fiction Renaissance is a must-read book for TV scholars working across Europe and beyond in the areas of media studies, international communications and television studies, media industries studies, production studies, European studies, and media policy studies as well as for those with an interest in Netflix, globalisation, pay TV and on demand and television drama"-- Provided by publisher