News Summary

• German vet Robert Franke says the older generation is losing influence in the industry.
• Franke was speaking at Seriencamp in Cologne.
• He said traditional players need to speed up development and learn from unscripted in order to get zeitgeist-y stuff on screen as quickly as possible.
• The older generation continues to prove they don’t know what audiences want, said Franke, who was with ZDF for a decade before moving to run The Swarm producer Intaglio Films last year.