Sony’s Wayne Garvie On Scripted TV Landscape As ‘The Crown’ & ‘Sex Education’ End: “We’re Going Back To The Future” — Series Mania

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Sony Pictures Television‘s President of International Production, Wayne Garvie, has said the scripted TV landscape in the post-peak TV era is like “going back to the future” — especially with his Netflix hits The Crown and Sex Education coming to an end.

During a keynote interview here at Series Mania in Lille, France, Garvie acknowledged that levels of global drama production had fallen, and that working with traditional networks and streamers on projects of all types would be critical going forwards.

He added: “The ecology of TV production is a very fragile thing,” and said: “The future is going to be more about collaboration,” but refuted the idea the market is depressed. “Everyone knows that not as much drama is being commissioned as was being commissioned, but more drama is being commissioned now than at most times in human history.” SPT itself is it gearing up for a slate that no longer contains new seasons of Netflix hits The Crown and Sex Education, and is gearing up to launch a new slate of dramas such as BBC crime series Dope Girls, from Doctor Who co-producer Bad Wolf, and Dear England, from Left Bank Pictures.

Garvie said that as economics change, SPT will begin branching out in Europe, especially in Spain where it has an office. He also cited Germany, Italy and France as territories of interest as he said: “We’ve had some near misses in Europe and we’re ready to experiment.” To date, SPT’s international scripted efforts have focused on the UK, where it owns companies such as The Crown maker Left Bank Pictures and Sex Education producer Eleven Film, along with Australia, where it owns The Narrow Road to the Deep North producer Curio, and Latin America, where it makes the likes of La Reina del Flow and Rio