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How International Alliances Are Reshaping TV Drama Financing
Stan, BritBox and the Scandi Alliance are among the players finding new ways to finance drama series in face of the tricky global market.
Over recent months, BBC Studios-owned ‘best-of-British’ streamer BritBox’s name has constantly been cited by UK producers, who have rarely found it harder to make scripted for terrestrial networks, as a key commissioner. Broadly, BritBox will seek to play the North American co-producer role, stepping in to finance a key portion of budget to get a show into production — much like AMC, BBC America and others were doing a few years back. While he welcomes initiatives such as Scandi Alliance and the New8 (comprising Germany’s ZDF, the Netherlands’ NPO, Belgium’s VRT SVT, Denmark’s DR, Finland’s YLE, Iceland’s RÚV and Norway’s NRK), he wonders, “How many co-productions can they be involved in?”
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