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Transnational Television Distribution and Co-Production Challenges: A KirchMedia and Sony Pictures Television Case Study

Author(s): Torre, Paul

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This article explores the production and distribution process for television co-productions and explains the potential benefits and risks compared to other media joint ventures, like television formatting. Using a detailed case study of one television series within a larger co-production agreement between a German rights trader and a Hollywood studio, the author analyzes production and distribution challenges and complex contractual arrangements within the context of global media trade. Co-productions are situated in between, and as a transition from, acquiring rights to canned television programs, and acquiring rights to television formats. The author contends that a range of difficulties in co-productions has contributed to a turn to television formatting, where the production process is more easily controlled and customized by the partner acquiring the property, leading to more predictable and successful distribution outcomes.

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Torre, Paul: Transnational Television Distribution and Co-Production Challenges: A KirchMedia and Sony Pictures Television Case Study. In: VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, Jg. 9 (2020), Nr. 17, S. 43-61. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15352.
@ARTICLE{Torre2020,
 author = {Torre, Paul},
 title = {Transnational Television Distribution and Co-Production Challenges: A KirchMedia and Sony Pictures Television Case Study},
 year = 2020,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15352}",
 volume = 9,
 address = {Hilversum},
 journal = {VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture},
 number = 17,
 pages = {43--61},
}
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