Q&A
New Korean Series and Hit Turkish Dramas Fredrik Af Malmborg, managing director of Eccho Rights, shares details about the Swedish distributor’s new slate, featuring titles from Korea, Turkey and the Nordic region. He also offered insight into his company’s business model for working with producers. By Gonzalo Larrea / @glarrea / glarrea@todotv.tv
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Legacy Series
“WE ARE IN AN INTENSIVE PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHT NOW, WITH NEW SERIES FROM TURKEY, KOREA, AND THE NORDIC COUNTRIES.”
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What are the newest additions to the company’s catalog? We are in an intensive phase of development right now, with new series from Turkey, Korea, and the Nordic countries. We have a big new big Turkish series launching soon on Kanal 7 called ‘Legacy’.
To find out more about this growing slate, as well as the company’s unique approach towards the production business, ttv spoke to Fredrik Af Malmborg, managing director of Eccho Rights.
We are also doing interesting things with our new mother company CJ ENM from Korea, working to get Korean series to launch more successfully in Latin America after the incredible success of ‘Parasite’, also from CJ ENM. We put together a package of 8 differ-
espite the cancellation of Miptv, Swedish distributor Eccho Rights continues to add titles to its vast catalog, with a slate that’s increasingly more diversified through titles from Turkey, the Nordic region and now, South Korea.
