CONTENTS

CANNES CONFIDENTIAL

Stars Lucie Lucas, Jamie Bamber and Tamara Marthe offer up an inside look at the new European crime procedural.

Now I know that even though peak TV has peaked, there is still a shocking number of scripted TV shows for one to sample. So I guess I shouldn’t be expecting everyone to have heard of Prime Video’s lush, stunning drama set against the backdrop of the early days of Indian cinema. But given how long it took me to discover it, and I actively seek out new Indian dramas to watch on a regular basis, I’m beginning to think that the platforms aren’t doing the best job of making sure that the shows they’re spending a lot of money on to deploy globally are actually being sampled globally. It never came up in my recommendations—I maintain that those algorithms are deeply flawed—and I’m fairly certain I was scrolling for a long, long time before I saw the thumbnail in Prime’s long list of originals. Addressing subscriber erosion at Disney+ last month, Disney CEO Bob Iger alluded to the abundance of content being made by the streamers—and the need to be “surgical” in the months ahead. Will beautiful, expensive pieces like Jubilee , which perhaps have niche appeal, still get made? And if they do, will they even be discovered? —Mansha

True Colors

Distributors and producers share the keys to creating and selling dramas inspired by real stories.

Daswani

INTER MEDYA’S CAN OKAN

The Turkish distributor is finding success with a new generation of miniseries as well as long-running hits.