Overview

• Speaking at Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid, the Silicon Valley co-showrunner argued Europe undervalues writers and misunderstands the showrunner’s role.
• He said he is developing an Irish–U.K. co-production based on The Gangster’s Guide to Sobriety and is in Europe to seek partners.
• Altschuler endorsed blending Hollywood’s writer-led process with Europe’s stronger cultural focus to create more compelling projects.
• A Writers Guild figure, cited on stage, put U.S. writer jobs down about 40% since the strike, which he linked to structural shifts such as shorter streaming seasons rather than the strike alone.
• He described real-life tech leaders as greedy and criticized The Big Bang Theory as an inaccurate portrayal of tech culture, framing Silicon Valley as corrective satire.