John Altschuler , the co-showrunner of Silicon Valley and King of the Hill , wants Europe to show more respect to writers.

The scribe, part of a writing duo with Dave Krinsky, called on the European production system to better recognize the role of its screenwriters and the wider role of a showrunner during a keynote interview at Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid. While Hollywood “despises” writers, he argued, “they know without a script you have nothing.”

His comments came an on-stage interview with Gersh agent Roy Ashton, in which he described the “greedy, ravenous, terrible people” that HBO’s Silicon Valley was based on, and revealed a new UK-Irish co-production.

Altschuler outlined the differences between European and Hollywood production systems – and was partic

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