Olivier Wotling ⢠Head of Drama, Arte France
âWe want to favour new approaches in series writingâ
21/04/2021 - The Head of Drama of Arte France decrypts the partnership with Le Groupe Ouest over three workshops, including a Franco-Danish lab, and evokes the current mutations in the industry
In 2019, Arte Franceâs Fiction Unit and Le Groupe Ouest launched Expérience sérielle, two workshops organised every year (read details here), titled âPre-writing of seriesâ and âBuilding a series concept.â This partnership is now expanding with the creation of a Franco-Danish lab for seriesâ writers, set up with the TV2 channel and the regional fun FilmFyn, and which will allow 12 professionals (six French and six Danish, four screenwriters and two producers from each country) to test their initial ideas, the bases of their future shows, in order to fortify them before going into development. We met
Olivier Wotling • Head of Drama, Arte France - Industry Report: Series
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Marseille. Netflix said that 70 million subscribers watched at least 2 minutes of
Lupin within its first month on the platform. It’s not just Netflix; “
The Bureau,” Éric Rochant’s poignant spy series, is on Amazon, and it’s become a global success, with several remakes in the works.
The quality of French television shows has gone up, while streaming platforms have “played a major role in showcasing foreign series, boosting the appetite of global audiences for local shows, and maximizing their exposure around the world,” Olivier Wotling, director of fiction for Arte, told Variety.
Netflix especially has bet a lot into the French market. It is working on 20 new French series and movies, and just opened its first office in Paris. It’s a good investment for the streaming service, which in a recent letter to shareholders (pdf) laid out a strategy of developing original foreign-language shows with wide appeal: As Adam Epstein reports, at least 87% of