FutureFrame is a monthly digital publication dedicated to amplifying the voices of independent film and television companies across the UK and Europe.
Each issue focuses on a single timely topic, blending industry insight with the lived experiences and perspectives of producers themselves. The goal is to highlight the sector’s most pressing challenges — and the opportunities that lie ahead — in a format that is concise, accessible, and designed to spark discussion.
At a glance
no. 2/11.25
The Showrunner Gap:
Why Europe Still Can't Close It
The December issue of FutureFrame examines Europe’s unresolved “showrunner gap” — and what it reveals about how creative authority is structured across the continent’s television ecosystem. Featuring Ioanina Pavel and Johnathan Young (May One, Romania/UK), alongside Antti Kaarlela and Jukka Vidgren (Whatever Pictures, Finland), the issue explores why Europe continues to struggle to sustain a single creative anchor across development, production, and post.
Rather than advocating for an imported American model, this edition interrogates the structural, cultural, and financial conditions that shape creative leadership in Europe — from fragmented financing and dispersed decision-making to limited training pipelines for writer-producers. Through contrasting Nordic and Central European perspectives, it argues that Europe’s challenge is not a lack of talent, but a lack of systems that protect continuity, authority, and long-term creative stewardship.
This issue ultimately reframes the showrunner debate as a question of design rather than terminology: how Europe might evolve a form of creative leadership that preserves collaboration while enabling coherence — and equips independent producers to compete at scale without sacrificing the values that define European storytelling.
Download the full issue to find out.
Past Editions
The Adaptation Economy
How Europe’s Indies Can Still Win the IP Race
no. 2/11.25
The Perfect Crime
Has the tv world finally run out of ways to kill?
no. 1/10.25
Our Contributors
Jukka Vidgren
Creative Producer
Whatever Pictures
(Finland)
Andri Ómarsson
CEO / Producer
Glassriver
(Iceland)
Alexandre Dahan
CEO / Producer
Stupefy
(France)
Antti Kaarlela
CEO / Producer
Whatever Pictures
(Finland)
Pedro Lopes
General Content Director
SP Televisão and SPi
(Portugal)
Johnathan Young
Co-Founder / Producer
May One
(Romania / UK)
Sina Knoll
Production Executive
NDR
(Germany)
Ioanina Pavel
Co-Founder / Producer
May One
(Romania)
Anders Berg
CEO / Producer
Fredo Pictures
(Denmark)