A slide from Florian KrauÃ's presentation
The second âLetâs Talk Screenwriting!â roundtable, entitled âShowrunners and writersâ rooms in European television productionâ was held online on 12 April. The event, organised by the Media Industries, Infrastructures and Institutions (MI3) research group from Utrecht University, was chaired by
Hanna Surma, assistant professor of Media Studies at the same university.
Following Surmaâs opening remarks, the floor was given to
Eva Novrup Redvall (University of Copenhagen). In her case study on Danish writersâ rooms, Redvall explained that the countryâs audiovisual landscape has been characterised by a strong public service broadcasting culture, with a user base of around 5.7 million viewers. According to the figures provided by DR Media Research, in 2019 the largest market shares were controlled by DR (35.5%) and TV2 (40.4%). However, the country has also recorded a sharp increase in SVOD consumption and one of the most recent launched services, Disney+, reached 20% of Danish households in just three months. The surge of writersâ rooms set up by Danish pubcasters started in the 2010s and some of the best examples of this trend are the series