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With writer and director Jason Kohl, who worked on the recent Trans in Trumpland docu-series, we talk about writing documentaries and how real-life serves as a guide for fiction.

Katarina Tomkova, producer and program coordinator for MIDPOINT, describes the many workshops for writers and producers offered by the institute. We talk about how to create a favourable environment for creativity, then Pierre and Philipp learn about the television landscape in Central and Eastern Europe.

With German writer and producer Kirsten Ittershagen, we go through the process of writing daily dramas and what writers can learn by working in soap operas. And what changed with Covid.

With Gerhard Maier, artistic director of the TV festival Seriencamp, and writer Melina Natale, we talk about the state of TV festivals in the year of Covid, how important these events are to writers, and how to approach them.

Maggie Murphy, a veteran Hollywood TV producer for some of your favourite series, tells us what exactly is "development". How do you find an idea and make a great series happen?

With Dennis Schanz, writer, producer and creator of the Netflix series SKYLINES, we talk about how to create the role of the showrunner in the European system.

We're back! With writer Felice Goetze, we discover how to brainstorm and build series characters using the enneagram, a model of human personalities.

Pierre and guest co-host Ruddy-Williams Kabuiku have an enlightening conversation with American academic Álvaro Luna about diversity and representation on French television.

Lorraine Sullivan, former head of the Serial Eyes programme and supervisor of the Séries Mania UGC Writers Campus, talks about finding and educating talents in Europe, giving a taste for creativity, and fostering diversity.

German screenwriter Andrea Frischholz introduces us to "Silent Zooms", and Ellis Freeman, head of screenwriting at DFFB, gives us many tips to find back our creativity in these strange times.