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Max Orders Season 2 Of Polish Breakout ‘The Eastern Gate’ & Outlines Slate Ambitions: “We Always Look For The Zeitgeist”
Max will open 'The Eastern Gate' again. The Warner Bros. Discovery streamer will get a Season 2 of the drama, which stars Lena Góra and Karol Pocheć.
The news came during a wide-ranging interview with Dorota Eberhardt, VP of Programming at WBD in Poland, during which she discussed content spend for 2025 that we understand is in the eight figure range, addressed local competition and talked about the impact of shows such as Netflix’s Adolescence. Tapping into concerns around the precarious political environment in Europe, the series is billed as “a modern espionage game amid brewing international conflict and rising tensions.” It is set in the spring of 2021 and follows the story of Polish spy Ewa Oginiec (Góra), who after a personal tragedy plans to quit the intelligence service and start an ordinary life, but is derailed when Russian operatives expose her partner (Pocheć), who disappears without a trace. In December 2024, the current Polish coalition government, led by pro-EU leader Donald Tusk, added TVN to a list of “strategic companies” that cannot be sold without its approval, amid fears of a hostile takeover and a sign of growing political unrest before elections in May.
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