interview
TİMUR SAVCI, PRESIDENT / TIMS & B PRODUCTIONS BURAK SAĞYAŞAR, CO - FOUNDER | CEO / TIMS & B PRODUCTIONS
“Turkish series must remain true to their essence, maintaining authenticity” By OBEN BUDAK
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ims&B Productions is one of the biggest and most prominent production companies in Türkiye. The most acclaimed series in the history of Turkish television and one of the most watched series in the world is produced by one of its founders. We sat down with Timur Savcı and Burak Sağyaşar, who will be launching “Another Love”, the season’s biggest hit at MIPCOM, and talked about everything from “Deception (Aldatmak)” to “Another Love (Bambaşka Biri)”, from “Magnificent Century (Muhteşem Yüzyıl)” to their predictions for the future of Turkish TV series. Tims&B Productions, one of the most important production companies in Türkiye, produces creative and original works, from historical dramas to action thrillers, from family dramas to period pieces. How do you decide on projects? Timur Savcı: As a company, we are always trying to create vivid content in terms of our main strategy. In fact, this is our main motto: to create innovative, pure and vivid content. So, we prefer to create content in different genres such as action, comedy, historical drama, thriller and even horror, rather than repeating ourselves. We make our decisions at the story stage. If we like the story and the concept, we devote ourselves entirely to developing it. During this development process, if we have developed it enough to see that we can realize the potential we felt earlier, and if the story is open to it, then we move on to the final step, which is to start preparing for packaging and production.
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