Moritz Polter, also an executive producer on the Netflix series 'Freud,' will launch the new TV label later this year.
ITV Studios is boosting its investment in German TV, launching a new label for high-end scripted television with Moritz Polter, the producer of such hit German-language series as Sky'sPolter, a former executive at Bavaria Fiction and StudioCanal-owned Tandem Productions, Polter will set up the new German fiction division under the auspices of ITV Studios. The label, which is still unnamed, will be launched later this year.
Polter will develop and produce high-end fiction series for the German-language market which ITV Studios will distribute internationally. He will report to Lisa Perrin, ITV Studios' managing director of international production. "We have long been aware of the scope for high-quality European drama to find international success, but currently the opportunity is at a record high," Perrin said in a statement."Increasingly, well-produced German drama series are proving themselves to have global resonance and several of the most successful have been brought to screen by Moritz Polter.
ITV Studios already has a strong foothold in non-English-language production, with international subsidiaries including Italian producers Cattleya (