European TV fiction production valued at 2.7 billion Euros

The European Audiovisual Observatory, Strasbourg, is publishing the Economy of European TV
Fiction study, carried out by the INA for the Observatory and the CNC. This survey will provide
previously unpublished information on an issue that had not yet come under close scrutiny. For
the first time, comparative figures established using a common methodology, are available for the
five major European fiction-producing countries Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the United
Kingdom
At the same time, the European Audiovisual Observatory is also publishing the Eurofiction 2000
report produced by the Fondazione Hypercampo (Italy), which offers a qualitative analysis of
fiction within the same countries and provided the descriptive basis for the INA study.
5193 hours of national TV fiction produced in 1999
The Eurofiction project has been supplying accurate statistics on the annual production of
national fiction programmes broadcast in the 5 countries in question since 1996. Eurofiction
carries out a comprehensive analysis of first-run national fiction shown by 42 channels monitored
in the 5 countries. Only 22 of these channels broadcast a significant volume of original fiction.