What are the new challenges for production, distribution and reception of European Television from a transnational perspective? What national experiences in a transnational context does contemporary European television fiction offer its international audiences? And what is and should be the social responsibility of television through fiction or other contents? This book aims to examine some of these current transformations, challenges and risks that impact the future of European television and of TV series production, its creative processes, its genres and representations, its distribution, and its reception across Europe. Sixteen scholars from eleven Uni-versities of nine different countries discuss three main topics: the transnationalisation of television, its representation and narration, and its production practices and audience engagement production, mainly of contemporary European television series. Within these topical frames, five European television markets enter the limelight: Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Germany. Within the dynamics of an increasingly global and transnatio-nal entangled m
