EXCLUSIVE: Seriencamp will zero in on international co-production and innovation this year amid ongoing industry disruption, the German confab’s organizers told Deadline. There will also be a session given over to the international success of the ever-popular comedy series Ghosts.
The drama get-together is held in Cologne in early June and new additions for this year’s eleventh edition also include a focus on games
Under the co-production banner, there are strands including “Next From” and “Work in Progress” with sneak peeks and first looks at shows including: Mozart Mozart, for German pubcaster ARD and its Austrian counterpart ORF, We Come in Peace, for Sweden’s TV4 and Germany’s ZDF, the much-anticipated Ku’damm 77, and Netflix’s Alphamännchen.
Seriencamp has become a major drama event for European players. Commissioners including Alexander Bickel from Germany’s WDR, Morad Koufane from France Télévisions, and Pernille Bech Christensen from TV2 Denmark will be among those in town to break down their programming plans.
Within the co-pro sessions there will be a ‘European Co-Production: Meet the Commissioners’ strand and a case study on upcoming series Weiss & Morales, which counts RTVE, Portocabo, Nadcon, ZDF, and ZDF Studios as co-pro partners.
Other programming highlights include a session on the international success of BBC comedy Ghosts, which has been remade in Australia, France, Germany, the U.S. and elsewhere, and a sit-down with Johannes Jensen, the newly appointed Head of Scripted at Banijay.
There will be a full day focusing on the intersection of games and drama series, with sessions covering topics including world-building and what games and series can learn from one another.
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW support the event and ZDF Studios is the main partner. Seriencamp runs June 3 through 5.
