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From Remade Drama to Original Crime – HBO Europe’s Original Television Productions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2020

Kim Toft Hansen ,
Anna Keszeg  and
Sándor Kálai
Kim Toft Hansen
Affiliation:
Aalborg University, Kroghstraede 3, room 2-204, DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark. Email: [email protected]
Anna Keszeg
Affiliation:
Babes-Bolyai University/Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences/Department of Communication and Public Relations, 400132Cluj-Napoca, Traian Mosoiu Street 71, Romania
Sándor Kálai
Affiliation:
University of Debrecen/Faculty of Arts/Department of Communication and Media Studies, 4032Debrecen, Egyetem Square 1, Hungary
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Abstract

In this article, we examine developments in HBO’s original European productions based on a quantitative overview of production from 2007 to early 2020. We supplement this overview with an analysis of the generic changes during the past decade as well as a practical producers’ approach to remakes. The intention is not to analyse the specific series’ content; rather, we scrutinize genre, talent and remakes through the perspective of the HBO brand and the creatives behind the series. The main empirical material for this article is interviews with key informants and an exploitation of online resources. Altogether, this establishes both a historical overview of the productions and an up-to-date idea of how the transnational institution considers its own local endeavours.

Type
Focus: Crime Fiction as a Mirror of Europe’s Changing Identities
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European Review , Volume 29 , Issue 5 , October 2021 , pp. 601 - 617
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© 2020 Academia Europaea

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