Eight European public service broadcasters have united on New8, a collaboration through which they will co-produce eight drama series annually.
Starting this year and on an initial three-year agreement, the broadcasters will work with each other on the series; with broad distribution of the created projects a key tenet of the deal. The first series will be greenlit in 2023 for broadcast in all participating territories in 2024.
The participating broadcasters are ZDF (Germany), NPO (Netherlands), VRT (Belgium), SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), RUV (Iceland) and NRK (Norway).
The deal was unveiled today (Tuesday, October 10) at MIA (International Audiovisual Market) in Rome. Simone Emmelius, SVP of international fiction at ZDF, Anna Croneman, head of drama at SVT, Elly Vervloet, international drama expert at VRT and Hans-Jorgen Osnes, head of international facing drama…
