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Sony Pictures TV President Katherine Pope Still Bullish on Biz Amid Disruptions, Says ‘Creative Production, Budgetary Friction,’ a ‘Good Thing’
Speaking at Rome's MIA Market, the veteran exec had encouraging words for European TV professionals and insisted it's a 'good time' for the industry.
Sony Pictures Television president Katherine Pope is still bullish on the future of TV, saying that some of the recent disruptions rattling the global business will be good for the industry in the long haul and insisting that this sink-or-swim moment is the time for visionary creatives to shine. In a wide-ranging conversation with MIA’s head of drama Paolo Ciccarelli, Pope acknowledged that pessimism persists in many quarters — something she partly attributed to “the hangover of the boom times” — but suggested the leaner business model of a previous TV era, when she was cutting her teeth at NBC and NBCUniversal, could help set the industry back on track. Speaking to a packed audience of largely European industry professionals in the Italian capital, Pope credited rival Netflix for “bringing international shows into the mainstream” and said she was hopeful about the prospects for local-language content, noting: “The world has gotten so small in that sense.”
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