A year ago, I asked the question “Who can save linear TV?” I think I have the answer now – nobody.
“Sorry, guys! It’s time to move on.” This is what many people from the TV industry get to hear when they lose their jobs.
Crossing moral barriers has become something of a habit for modern TV shows. It seems, however, that after a few years of “shocking reality” viewers are growing immune and unmoved by the numerous experiments – mainly those dealing with people showing off their body parts.
This year for the first time NATPE Budapest and CEETV organized the event PITCH & PLAY LIVE with the goal to showcase and promote fresh original formats from Central and Eastern Europe.
This summer Perform Group launched DAZN - the first streaming service dedicated to sports. dazn.com offers over 6.000 live sports events, including the biggest European football leagues, the NBA, NFL, tennis, handball, ice hockey, Formula 1, etc.
Italian production company Cattleya gained great international recognition with its mafia-themed series Gomorrah. The show became Italy’s best selling TV production in recent years and was also named Best International TV Drama Series at the 2015 Monte-Carlo TV Festival.
Can it be justified to shoot down a civilian plane, converted by terrorists into a deadly suicide missile? Can “human arithmetic” be a legal calculus? With the audience in the judge’s seat, the TV event The Verdict is a legal thriller testing the fundamental values of democracy.
Japanese TV has become synonymous with its gameshows.
