New data released by Digital i research says that women aged 35 and older are leading viewership of microdramas on YouTube, with "significant" under-viewing from men in all age groups.

Banijay Entertainment's Banijay Iberia is prepping a trio of microdramas, while Banijay Finland is producing a video mockumentary for Yle that will be available as both 9:16 and 16:9.

R91, a six-part French thriller from Next Episode being distributed by SND Groupe M6, won the second edition of the Series Mania Buyers Upfront.

Amid a constricted commissioning environment for scripted in the post-peak TV age, producers and distributors of the genre should be prioritizing efficiency over “high-budget spectacle,” lean into streamers’ new acquisition-first strategies, and exploit opportunities in the vertical video space, Olivia Deane, research manager at Ampere Analysis, said at Series Mania…

Beta Film is set to distribute Queen Silvia (w.t.), telling the love story of Carl XVI Gustaf and Silvia Sommerlath, King and Queen of Sweden, from Pyjama Pictures (Germany) and Unlimited Stories (Sweden).