Pierre Ziemniak has been named director of the Series Mania Institute, the Lille-based training and professional development organization for the television and audiovisual industries.

Some 112,000 attendees were present for Series Mania this year, including 5,200 at Series Mania Forum, with a record 97 exhibitors at the Lille Grand Palais.

Ahead of this year’s edition of Series Mania Forum, Laurence Herszberg, founder and general director of Series Mania, joins the ScreenMDM Talks podcast to weigh in on scripted trends, celebrating Korea as the event’s first-ever country of honor, cultural soft power and flexibility, and more.

Series Mania will present its sixth annual Woman in Series Award to Marianne Furevold-Boland, the head of drama at Norway's NRK.

The Testaments, the follow-up to The Handmaid's Tale, based on the Margaret Atwood novel of the same name, is set for a world premiere at Series Mania.