ITV Studios is boosting its investment in German TV, launching a new label for high-end scripted television with Moritz Polter, the producer of such hit German-language series as Sky's Das Boot and the Netflix/ORF production Freud.
A former executive at Bavaria Fiction and StudioCanal-owned Tandem Productions, Polter will set up the new German fiction division under the auspices of ITV Studios.
The label, which is still unnamed, will be launched later this year. Polter will develop and produce high-end fiction series for the German-language market which ITV Studios will distribute internationally.
He will report to Lisa Perrin, ITV Studios' managing director of international production. "We have long been aware of the scope for high-quality.
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