Transnational Circulation of European TV Series. National Models and Industrial Strategies for Scripted Pay Imports/Exports
Pay fiction experienced a production boom in Europe between 2008 and 2017. The output of original productions in Europe’s five main markets (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the UK) leapt from 8 series in 2008 to 47 in 2017 – a rise of +490% (as shown in the previous chapter). This growth is based on a change in the national production paradigms, which are increasingly modelled on “quality TV” from the US (Thompson 1997). Unsurprisingly, most of the titles travel very well across borders, both within and outside Europe.