CEE: Natpe, Content.
A Tale of Two Markets
There are books such as A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens), films such as A Tale of Two Wars and A Tale of Two Sisters, and many other (…)
Spanish TV Revival Brings
Rewards and Challenges
Recently, the Spanish television scene has returned to the dynamism of the days before it basically left the international scene in the 1990s. “Spanish TV fiction is being discovered worldwide,” (…)
Hulu: The Struggle of
a Demanding Service
Streaming service Hulu has had a troubled existence that its current parent companies are trying to untangle, and epitomizes the complexities that all SVoD platforms are experiencing in different forms. (…)
NATPE Budapest vs. Content
Budapest: A Solution Is a Pest
During last month’s MIPTV, managing director David Jenkinson of the U.K.’s C21 Media published an online editorial titled “The Fight for Budapest,” about his company’s competition with Canada’s Brunico Communications (…)
AFM Changes Venue,
But Not Its Spots
After 29 years at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel, the American Film Market will be changing venues for its 2023 edition, moving its event 800 meters east to the Le (…)
L.A. Screenings Inches its
Way to Pre-Pandemic Times
Between suites and tables, the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel in the Century City section of Los Angeles will be housing over 70 exhibition companies for the upcoming L.A. Screenings.
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Pilots for the New Broadcast
Season Being Decimated
Last year’s broadcast pilot season had around 35 shows to present, the lowest number ever — until now, that is. This go-round looks to be considerably lower. The 2023-2024 season (…)
Content and NATPE Battle for
CEE TV Trade Show Supremacy
In 1867, the Austro-Hungarian empire was formed with a compromise that created a dual monarchy. The current standoff between C21’s Content Budapest (formerly Content East) and Brunico, the new owner (…)
L.A. Screenings at 60 Still
Shows Teen’s Pimples
Looking at next month’s L.A. Screenings, now in its 60th year, one cannot help but marvel at the resilience of a market that was never formally organized, but grew organically.
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Trials and Tribulations
of the NATPE Market
The international TV industry is now witnessing the disappearance of the National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) as we know it. NATPE was born in New York City in (…)