A European Television Fiction Renaissance

Luca Barra is Associate Professor of Television and Digital Media at Università di Bologna, Italy. Massimo Scaglioni is Full Professor of Media Economics and History at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.

1. Introduction: The Many Steps and Factors of a European Renaissance

Luca Barra and Massimo Scaglioni

Part I: Researching European Fiction

2. The Grounds for a Renaissance in European Fiction: Transnational Writing, Production and Distribution Approaches and Strategies

Luca Barra and Massimo Scaglioni

3. Mapping European Premium Scripted TV: Trends, Patterns and Data in an Emerging EU Market

Dom Holdaway, Cecilia Penati and Anna Sfardini

4. Transnational Circulation of European TV Series: National Models and Industrial Strategies for Scripted Pay Imports/Exports

Paolo Carelli and Damiano Garofalo

Part II: United Kingdom

5. A 21st-Century Gold Rush? Video on Demand and the Global Competition for UK Television

Philip Drake

6. "The Biggest Drama Commission in British Television History": Netflix, The Crown and the UK Television Ecosystem

Roberta Pearson

Part III: France

7. Video on Demand Platforms, Editorial Strategies and Logics of Production: The Case of Netflix France

Christel Taillibert and Bruno Cailler

8. The Strategy of "Quality TV": Branding, Creating and Producing at Canal+

Hélène Monnet-Cantagrel

9. What is a Quality French Series? Reflections on The Bureau

François Jost

Part IV: Italy

10. Towards a New Model for Italian TV Fiction: Sky Italia Originals and the Struggle for Difference

Luca Barra and Massimo Scaglioni

11. The Holy See(ing): Splendors and Miseries of The Young Pope

Giancarlo Lombardi

Part V: Germany

12. TV Drama Series Production in Germany and the Digital Television Landscape

Lothar Mikos

13. Selling Location, Selling History: New German Series and Changing Market Logic

Susanne Eichner

Part VI: Spain

14. Ways of Production and Distribution as Movistar+

Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano

15. Bambú Producciones and the Transformation of Spanish Television Fiction Production

Concepción Cascajosa-Virino

Part VII: Central and Eastern Europe

16. HBO Europe’s Original Programming in the Era of Streaming Wars

Petr Szczepanik

17. Quality by Design: Feature TV Series from Premium Television in Poland

Artur Majer

18. Familiar, Much Too Familiar… HBO’s Hungarian Original Productions and the Questions of Cultural Proximity

Balasz Varga