Open Book
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Taking a digital idea into national television — and building the production system to sustain it.
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When Open Book – Ανοιχτό Βιβλίο premiered on ERT3 in November 2024, its ambition was unusual for Greek television: to create a contemporary cultural programme devoted entirely to books, authors and the modern Greek publishing world.
Presented by Yiannis Sarakatsanis, the programme developed from an existing digital audience into a fully realised television format.
Ace House Productions undertook the production across two seasons and 22 episodes, creating a repeatable production pipeline capable of supporting the very different requirements of a weekly cultural television programme.
Each episode combined studio and multi-camera production with interviews, location filming, editorial segments and stories from across Greece's literary ecosystem.
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The production therefore demanded much more than a consistent visual language. It required coordination between editorial, direction, cinematography, field crews, sound, post-production, graphics and delivery — repeatedly, across an entire television season.
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ΕRT described the programme at launch as part of its primetime cultural programming, created to approach the promotion of reading with a fresher television language.
Following its first cycle, the programme returned for a new season in 2025. ERT continued to broadcast new episodes in prime time, with scheduled repeat broadcasts and availability through ERTFLIX. Γραφείο Τύπου ΕΡΤ
For Ace House Productions, Open Book became much more than another television credit.
It demonstrated our ability to design, execute and maintain a long-form recurring broadcast production, while preserving consistency across dozens of individual stories, locations and contributors.