This volume assembles an international team of scholars to provide a dynamic investigation of the current phenomenon of transnational television remakes. Adopting three points of focalisation ¿ genres, politics and cultural value ¿ the volume presents vibrant case studies of contemporary television series, including Broen/Bron/The Bridge, Homeland/Prisoners of War, Forbrydelsen/The Killing, Be¿Tipul/In Treatment, and The Office/Stromberg. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum.

Introduction: Transnational television remakes

Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis

Part I: Genres

1. Television format traffic-public service style

Albert Moran

2. From The Office to Stromberg: adaptation strategies in German television

Lothar Mikos

3. Trafficking in TV crime: remaking

Broadchurch Sue Turnbull

Part II: Politics

4. Remapping socio-cultural specificity in the American remake of The Bridge

Jennifer Forrest and Sergio Martínez

5. Between Homeland and Prisoners of War: remaking terror A

nat Zanger

6. The show that refused to die: the rise and fall of AMC¿s The Killing

Kim Akass

Part III: Value

7. Appreciating Wallander at the BBC: producing culture and perfoming the glocal in the UK and Swedish Wallanders for British public service television

Janet McCabe

8. `Whose side are you?¿ The Slap (2011/2015)

Constantine Verevis

9. Translating the television `treatment¿ genre: Be¿Tipul and In Treatment

Claire Perkins

Claire Perkins is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is author of American Smart Cinema (2012) and co-editor of the forthcoming Indie Reframed: Women Filmmakers and Contemporary American Independent Cinema.

Constantine Verevis is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is author of Film Remakes (2006) and co-editor of the forthcoming Transnational Film Remakes.