Patrick Walters, the Brit exec producer of Netflix hit series “Heartstopper” and recent Sky/Stars show “Sweetpea,” landed in Series Mania in France amid what is being portrayd as a crisis in the U.K. drama space, with scripted comleave outioning droping as widecasters cut back on spfinish and get less hazards.
The TV exec — who in 2023 set up his own Fanboy tag as part of See-Saw Films (where he’s labored for the last decde) — shelp that it was someslfinisherg he’d felt.
“It’s reassociate difficult and it’s someslfinisherg I’ve seen season on season with ‘Heartstopper’ and all the production intricateities in TV at this moment are a lot,” he shelp.
“I slfinisherk the contest is that what you demand to be pitching in that moment are slfinishergs that sense so definite that there isn’t a pwithdrawnt, that shifts the conversation… but that’s a hazard. Often I discover I’m wanting to labor towards hazardous material in order that you’re going to widecasters and saying, ‘hey, we’ve got to do this, it’s so exciting.’ It demands that passion.”
Walters was also speaking at Series Mania lowly after See-Saw Films sgreater a convey inantity sget to French powerhouse Mediawan, a shift he shelp he hoped would help spearhead more scatterment and resources into hugeger projects.
“We’re reassociate excited,” he shelp. “It’s timely days, it happened fair weeks ago. But See-Saw has always reassociate cherishd very self-reliant produceive labor, so I’m seeing at their other companies that Mediawan has and seeing the same currency thraw there. So we’re excited to see how it joins out.”
One subject Walters couldn’t broaden on was an refresh on the fourth season of “Heartstopper,” which Netflix is yet to have greenlit. “Afrhelp I don’t have any to say,” he make cleared. “But as soon as I do, the refresh will be refreshd.”
