Behind The Cry

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Viacom International Media Networks president and CEO David Lynn explains how the MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount and Telefe parent is leveraging these assets and others like AwesomenessTV and Pluto TV to build out a three-tier strategy spanning basic cable, SVoD and AVoD.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Newen CEO Bibiane Godfroid discusses the rapidly expanding French producer-distributor, which has now added Canada’s Reel One Entertainment to its portfolio after taking stakes in Holland’s Tuvalu Media, Belgium’s De Mensen and Denmark’s Nimbus Film, as well as pioneering English-language drama out of France with Versailles.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Darío Madrona, co-creator and co-writer of Élite, talks about the Netflix teen drama set in Spain which centres on the cultural clash between two groups of high school students from different walks of life and the murder which ensues. The series, from Zeta Producciones, is heading into a second season after the first debuted last year.

C21TV TRENDING: From The Masked Singer to Queer Eye, reality, talent and gameshows are once again on the up thanks to a boost from SVoD and audience demand for an alternative to high-end TV drama. A C21TV special featuring Ben Silverman, Craig Plestis, David Eilenberg, Erik Barmack and Elaine Frontain Bryant.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Beta Film CEO Jan Mojto reflects on shifts in international storytelling. This includes not only Germany, where the firm has titles like Babylon Berlin and Bauhaus on its books, but Spain, from where it has taken The Pier and Perfect Life, and Eastern Europe, where it picked up Pleasure Principle.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Writer and director David Schalko and producer John Lueftner of Austria’s Superfilm talk about their small-screen serialised adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic movie M for ORF and RTL Crime, which is being distributed globally by Beta Film.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann, creator of Netflix original German comedy-drama How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast), discuss the show’s roots in the real story of a teenage geek who built up a narcotics empire from his bedroom.

THE C21 INTERVIEW: Deutschland 83 star Jonas Nay discusses his new miniseries The Master Butchers Singing Club, together with Sarah Kirkegaard from producer Moovie. The period drama, distributed by Global Screen, is for ARD Degeto and SWR and is based on Louise Erdrich’s novel.