Euro TV producers to pick American brains

June 06, 2007 European TV drama producers, the British and Germans in particular, seem determined to learn all the tricks of their trade -- as they apply in the U.S. The industrialization of TV production by U.S. studios is something many European producers are urgently looking to adopt as they cope with harsh economic realities. The aim of the gathering of TV executives from the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Spain and other big international territories is to look at how the U.S. process of writing and sustaining TV series could be a model for production in Europe. Joining Shore in the panel lineup are Carol Flint ("ER," "The West Wing"), Scott Free Prods. president of television David Zucker, Sony Pictures Television International senior vp production Antony Root, BBC Drama's Julie Gardner and Paul Marquess, managing director at Endemol U.K.'s drama division.

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