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The European Producers Club has appealed to the European Commission, EU member governments and global streamers to help avert the decimation of the audiovisual sector as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. President Alvaro Longoria, VP Dariusz Jablonski and MD Alexandra Lebret talk to Jonathan Webdale.

BBC Studios director of content Ralph Lee explains how the company has been stepping up third-party production for the likes of Amazon and Quibi; writer Matti Laine and director Marja Pyykkö discuss new Finnish-Spanish crime drama The Paradise; plus a round-up of this week's news.

Preethi Mavahalli and Koby Adom, exec producer and director of new BBC drama Noughts + Crosses, discuss their adaptation of Malorie Blackman's subversive young-adult book series, while Anthony Horowitz and Jill Green, CEO of Eleventh Hour Films, talk about their upcoming TV version of the author’s Alex Rider teenage spy novels.

Hollywood star Cate Blanchett discusses her upcoming ABC drama series Stateless together with Matchbox Pictures MD Alastair McKinnon; writer Sarah Williams, exec producer Kate Bartlett and director Louise Hooper talk new ITV thriller Flesh AND Blood; plus a round-up of this week's news.

C21's Karolina Kaminska and Inigo Alexander report from the UK Screenings, speaking with BBC Studios senior VP of global format sales Andre Renard; head of development at its Natural History Unit, Doug Hope; plus ITV Studios MD of creative networks Mike Beale; and Banijay Rights CEO Tim Mutimer.

C21 Canadian bureau chief Adam Benzine reports from the 25th annual PrimeTime conference in Ottawa, where the publication of sweeping reforms for the nation’s broadcast and streaming sectors were the focus of attention. Adam speaks with presentation committee chairman Janet Yale; CMPA CEO Reynolds Mastin; and Jesse Wente, exec director of Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office.

C21 news and factual editor Clive Whittingham reports from New Orleans on the final day of the 2020 Realscreen Summit, speaking with Hit + Run founder and exec prodcuer Rob Shaftel, Lion Television CEO Tony Tackaberry, and Five Films founding partner and exec producer Craig Jenest.

C21 news and factual editor Clive Whittingham reports from the 2020 Realscreen Summit, talking with Ample Entertainment co-founder Ari Mark, Cream Productions president Kate Harrison, Intuitive Content senior VP of production and development Patrick Weiland, and Jupiter Entertainment president Patrick Reardon.

C21 news and factual editor Clive Whittingham reports from the first day of the Realscreen Summit in New Orleans, speaking with Sam Sniderman, co-president of Blue Ant Studios, and new senior VP of unscripted Jennifer Harkness.

C21 Canadian bureau chief Adam Benzine reports from Natpe Miami 2020, speaking with president and CEO JP Bommel; ViacomCBS's Federico Cuervo and Juan ‘JC’ Acosta; Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards honoree Courtney Kemp; Hearst Television public affairs show host Soledad O’Brien; and Ryan Chanatry, general manager of First Look Media streamer Topic.

Downton Abbey scribe Julian Fellowes and Carnival Films CEO Gareth Neame reflect on a decade working together on the period drama, plus new series Belgravia and The Gilded Age; while The Libertines guitarist Carl Barat, sister Lucie and producer Zoe Rocha discuss their noughties indie music scene drama The Heartless.

Actors Sophie Cookson and Ben Miles discuss The Trial of Christine Keeler, the new BBC1 drama from Amanda Coe about one of the most controversial UK political sex scandals of modern times; while Mindhunter star Holt McCallany opens up about the Netflix crime drama and how the streamer has changed the game for US studios; plus a run-down of this week's news.

Netflix VP of international originals Kelly Luegenbiehl sits down with C21 editor-in-chief and managing director David Jenkinson to talk about the streaming giant’s growing slate of overseas originals, plus her favourite non-Netflix shows, the way in which the company’s responding to its new array of rivals, and the kinds of programming it’s looking for moving into 2020 and beyond.

Kevin Reilly, chief content officer of HBO Max and president of TBS, TNT and TruTV, discusses the global strategy for WarnerMedia’s upcoming streamer in this extract from his keynote interview at C21's International Drama Summit as part of Content London 2019.

Tim Hammond, executive director of Listen Entertainment; Kirsty Hunter, founder and MD of StoryHunter; and James Cooper, co-creator and co-host of My Dad Wrote a Porno, talk to C21Media.net editor Jonathan Webdale on the fourth and final day of Content London 2019.

Lars Blomgren, Endemol Shine Group head of scripted for the EMEA region; Helen Bowden, MD of Australian producer Lingo Pictures; and Maartje Horchner, executive VP of content at All3Media International talk to C21Media.net editor Jonathan Webdale on the third and final day of the International Drama Summit at Content London 2019.

Killian Kerwin, exec producer on Netflix Indian drama Delhi Crime; Femke Wolting, co-founder of Dutch production company Submarine; and Moritz Polter, executive producer for international television at Germany’s Bavaria Fiction, talk to C21Media.net editor Jonathan Webdale on day two of the International Drama Summit at Content London 2019.

Claire Mundell, MD and creative director of UK-based Synchronicity Films; Marianne Furevold-Boland, executive producer at Norway's NRK Drama; and Atar Dekel, VP of global drama at Keshet International talk to C21Media.net editor Jonathan Webdale on day one of the International Drama Summit at Content London 2019.

Patrick Dempsey and Alessandro Borghi, stars of new Sky Italia drama Devils, and director Nick Hurran discuss the show, while Laura Carmichael of Downton Abbey fame talks about her very different role in new Australian thriller The Secret She Keeps; plus a run-down of this week's news.

Mark Lewis Jones, Genevieve Barr and Adrian Scarborough talk about their roles in new Jack Thorne Channel 4 and Hulu miniseries The Accident, while Pontus Edgren and Fatima Varhos of Swedish producer FLX discuss their new financial thriller Blinded for TV4 and C More; plus a round-up of this week's news.

Nico Franks reports from Connext 2019 in Ghent, which put Flemish content and talent front and centre, alongside presentations and screenings of Flemish films and TV series. Featuring in this episode: Rikke Ennis, CEO at REinvent Studios; Marianne Furevold-Boland, executive producer at NRK; and Walter Iuzzolino, co-founder of non-English-language VoD service Walter Presents.

Banijay Group head of acquisitions Carlotta Rossi Spencer, The Story Lab executive VP of entertainment Fotini Paraskakis, and Eccho Rights MD Fredrik af Malmborg deliver their verdict on Mipcom 2019 and the major trends shaping the market on the final day of the Cannes confab.

William Shatner tells C21 reporter Inigo Alexander about his new History channel series The UnXplained, while Tubi CEO Farhad Massoudi and chief content officer Adam Lewinson, plus Pluto TV Europe MD Olivier Jollet talk to editor Jonathan Webdale about the growth of ad-supported VoD.

Darren Star – creator of Beverly Hills 90201, Melrose Place, Sex and the City and Younger – talks about his new series Emily in Paris, while Max Conze, CEO of Germany's ProSiebenSat.1, discusses the reasons for putting Red Arrows Studios up for sale; plus a round-up of news from Cannes so far.

Endemol Shine Group Creative Networks CEO Lisa Perrin, Warehouse 51 founder Carl Hall, and South Pacific Pictures CEO Kelly Martin sit down with C21Media.net editor Jonathan Webdale in Cannes to discuss the major trends shaping Mipcom 2019 on day one of the event.