From the original idea to the actual distribution on TV, VOD and DVD, the production process and subsequent “life” of a TV program are divided into numerous stages, involving numerous actors (e.g. distribution, production, direction, screenwriting, casting, post-production or dubbing) and thus leading to the generation of a huge amount of heterogeneous metadata. However, only a few metadata eventually survive the tortuous production and distribution processes, making their integration difficult into novel TV-centric products. Even for TV productions where one actor manages the whole production pipeline (e.g. Canal+ in France or BBC in the UK), most of the metadata do get lost at one point or another. The MetaDaTV network proposal aims at initiating a European research community around metadata associated with TV productions (such as dramas, documentaries or TV films) and at gathering interested partners from all over Europe toward a joint European project submission (Horizon 2020).