International Disruptors: ‘Another Love’ Producers Tims & B Productions Reflect On Local Successes, Historical Impact Of ‘Magnificent Century’ And Why Turkish TV Continues To Punch Above Its Weight

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Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S shaking up the offshore marketplace.

This week, we’re talking to Turkish TV powerhouse Tims & B Productions. The company is coming off the back of launching new drama Another Love in Mipcom last month andSelin Arat, Director of International Operations at the company reveals what next steps are for the prolific producer and why Turkish TV content will continue to punch above its weight in the international arena.   When rival producers Timur Savcı and Burak Sağyaşar decided to join their two production outfits – Savcı’s Tims Productions and Sağyaşar’s Bi Yapım – in 2017, it marked a union of two of Turkey’s most prominent creators of television content.

Savcı had been the producer behind Ottoman period drama Magnificent Century, a worldwide phenomenon that is largely considered as the catalyst for the country’s television boom, while producer-actor Sağyaşar had made the hugely popular comedy-drama Hayat, which aired in more than 30 countries worldwide.

In the last five years, the company has carved itself into one of the most successful production banners in Turkey, producing a raft of genres from drama, fantasy, dystopia and melodrama for linear broadcasters and global platforms.