Sky Studios Europe Bosses Talk Up Co-Productions With Big U.S. Players — MIA Market
deadline.comInternational co-productions are all the rage right now, and Europe’s top players are looking to the U.S. So it was no surprise when Sky Studios new UK drama chief Meghan Lyvers took the time to point to the impact an American partner can have on international projects during a session at MIA Market in Rome.
With Comcast cousin Peacock in the same family, Sky Studios has significant opportunities to order programs of scale and impact, said Lyvers, noting that the U.S.
streamer was a co-pro partner on upcoming drama adaptation The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Questioned about how Sky Studios will work with HBO going forwards, amid increasing speculation Sky’s UK output deal with the Succession network will end in 2025 when the current deal lapses, Lyvers was circumspect, noting that deal discussion was “above the pay grade” of her and fellow panellists Sonia Rovai, Senior Director of Scripted Production at Sky Italia, and Tobias Rosen, who begins as Vice President of Sky Studios Deutschland on Monday.
However, she did talk up the value of HBO as a co-production partner on shows such as Chernobyl and pointed to the importance of other U.S.
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