The consistent expansion of the U.S. television landscape coupled with an increasing number of emerging platforms has meant the hunger for new content is greater than ever. While streamers such as Netflix often fulfill that appetite by acquiring international series outright, the demand for adaptations of successful formats from series created in other countries is growing exponentially as well.
The burgeoning value and influence of global television “is creating new star writers and directors around the world,” says Paradigm TV literary agent Steve Wohl. “It’s creating opportunity for new voices to get heard.” And to answer the demand, Wohl says a lot of time must be dedicated “out in the world,” identifying “the top production companies … and top distributors in each region.”
For Wohl and Paradigm’s Bill Douglass, who have long specialized in packaging international properties into U.S. series — including “Maniac,” a Norwegian show that inspired...
The burgeoning value and influence of global television “is creating new star writers and directors around the world,” says Paradigm TV literary agent Steve Wohl. “It’s creating opportunity for new voices to get heard.” And to answer the demand, Wohl says a lot of time must be dedicated “out in the world,” identifying “the top production companies … and top distributors in each region.”
For Wohl and Paradigm’s Bill Douglass, who have long specialized in packaging international properties into U.S. series — including “Maniac,” a Norwegian show that inspired...
- 1/24/2019
- by Scott Huver
- Variety Film + TV
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