{"id":479281,"date":"2026-06-06T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/479281\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T11:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T11:56:32","slug":"next-wave-of-european-showrunners-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/479281\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Wave Of European Showrunners Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: As Europe pushes for more showrunners<\/a>, a dozen writers from across the continent have been selected for an EU-backed program headed by some big names from Borgen<\/a>, Doctor Who<\/a> and Neumatt.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe European Showrunner Programme is for experienced series writers who want to make the jump to showrunner. It is overseen by Jeppe Gjervig Gram, whose credits include Borgen, alongside showrunners Chris Chibnall<\/a> (Doctor Who), and Marianne Wendt (Neumatt). Check out the full list of writers taking part, below. The cohort has, collectively, impressive credits, and the writers will learn about the showrunner role, which remains more commonplace in the U.S. industry but much less so in Europe. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Internationale Filmschule K\u00f6ln (ifs) has been running an EU-supported European Showrunner Programme since 2022 and once again hosts proceedings.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe European Showrunner Programme focuses on training and mentoring. The founders previously told Deadline about the importance of establishing the showrunner role <\/a>in Europe. A recent report from the ifs said having showrunners emerge from across Europe is key to the future of storytelling in the region.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe program is funded by Creative Europe, the European Union\u2019s funding program for culture, and specifically through its MEDIA strand dedicated to film and TV. The Showrunner Programme\u2019s key festival partners are Seriencamp in Cologne, TV Drama Vision at the G\u00f6teborg Film Festival, and TV Beats, which is the series part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe European Showrunner course lasts six months with the writers attending in-person as well as online modules.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere are the dozen writers selected this year, hailing from nine countries across Europe.<\/p>\n

\n\tChristian Wehrlin, Switzerland (Our Little Embassy)<\/p>\n

\n\tEric Andreae, Switzerland (Mindblow)<\/p>\n

\n\tJudit Anna Banhazi, Hungary\/France (Underdog)<\/p>\n

\n\tSina Flammang, Germany (The Three Detectives)<\/p>\n

\n\tJo\u00e3o Lacerda Matos, Portugal (Good Girls Club)<\/p>\n

\n\tVictor Lockwood, France (One Night to Live)<\/p>\n

\n\tMakgano Mamabolo, South Africa\/Denmark (Society)<\/p>\n

\n\tRodrigo Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez, Spain (Pray for Blood)<\/p>\n

\n\tChristina \u00d8ster, Denmark (Hooligan)<\/p>\n

\n\tYemi Oyefuwa, UK (Dreaming Whilst Black)<\/p>\n

\n\tKatharina Ru\u00df, Germany (Der Staatsanwalt)<\/p>\n

\n\tMaja Todorovi\u0107, Montenegro (V-Effect)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: As Europe pushes for more showrunners, a dozen writers from across the continent have been selected for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[222281,130892,57052,146,85,46,222282,411],"class_list":["post-479281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-borgen","tag-chris-chibnall","tag-doctor-who","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-showrunners","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}