Luca Barra is Associate Professor of Television and Digital Media at Università di Bologna, Italy.Massimo Scaglioni is Full Professor of Media Economics and History at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan.

• 1. Introduction: The Many Steps and Factors of a European Renaissance Luca Barra and Massimo ScaglioniPart I: Researching European Fiction2. The Grounds for a Renaissance in European Fiction: Transnational Writing, Production and Distribution Approaches and StrategiesLuca Barra and Massimo Scaglioni3. Mapping European Premium Scripted TV: Trends, Patterns and Data in an Emerging EU MarketDom Holdaway, Cecilia Penati and Anna Sfardini4. Transnational Circulation of European TV Series: National Models and Industrial Strategies for Scripted Pay Imports/ExportsPaolo Carelli and Damiano GarofaloPart II: United Kingdom5. A 21st-Century Gold Rush? Video on Demand and the Global Competition for UK Television Philip Drake6. "The Biggest Drama Commission in British Television History": Netflix, The Crown and the UK Television EcosystemRoberta PearsonPart III: France7. Video on Demand Platforms, Editorial Strategies and Logics of Production: The Case of Netflix FranceChristel Taillibert and Bruno Cailler8. The Strategy of "Quality TV": Branding, Creating and Producing at Canal+Hélène Monnet-Cantagrel9. What is a Quality French Series? Reflections on The BureauFrançois JostPart IV: Italy10. Towards a New Model for Italian TV Fiction: Sky Italia Originals and the Struggle for DifferenceLuca Barra and Massimo Scaglioni11. The Holy See(ing): Splendors and Miseries of The Young PopeGiancarlo LombardiPart V: Germany12. TV Drama Series Production in Germany and the Digital Television LandscapeLothar Mikos13. Selling Location, Selling History: New German Series and Changing Market LogicSusanne EichnerPart VI: Spain14. Ways of Production and Distribution as Movistar+Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano15. Bambú Producciones and the Transformation of Spanish Television Fiction ProductionConcepción Cascajosa-VirinoPart VII: Central and Eastern Europe16. HBO Europe’s Original Programming in the Era of Streaming WarsPetr Szczepanik17. Quality by Design: Feature TV Series from Premium Television in PolandArtur Majer18. Familiar, Much Too Familiar… HBO’s Hungarian Original Productions and the Questions of Cultural ProximityBalasz Varga

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