Banijay Entertainment‘s co-head of scripted has given his assessment of the current scripted market, suggesting that the budgeting challenges of the post-peak TV could give rise to better television.
In an on-stage interview with Deadline at Seriencamp, he added that the upside to streamers lowering their spend is that their budgets are now more “stable” and simpler to plan around.
“You can talk about the streamers decreasing investment, but there is now a plateau, and it is a little more stable way for them to work, which is great as we then know how they work and what their budget limits are,” he added. “As long as we know the rules, it’s easier to work in this environment.
“It wasn’t purely a great time during peak TV, because everything could be done, and one or two things weren’t that great. In the long-term we need to produce
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