Fred Seibert's Blog

When my family vacation moved from London to a couple of days in France I ducked out again for a meeting over at France 3 television with Julien Borde and his team and Jesse Cleverly from the BBC. The subject again was cartoon shorts, and whether they could provide a creative injection into co-productions between France 3 and the BBC.

As you might imagine I said they could.

France’s situation is a bit different than the UK. There are probably 60 active producers in cartoons and 15 are primary suppliers to France 3. Their issue has more in common with Canada than the US or the UK, in that the government broadcasters are almost required to commission programming from them. As one would imagine this situation adds to a bit of complacency among producers.