Features

James McNamara, creator, showrunner, head writer and executive producer of The Artful Dodger, talks to World Screen about balancing historical accuracy with a contemporary feel.

Various Turkish distributors discuss the emergence of vertical dramas.

A recap of the major stories from the drama business in 2025.

A Life’s Worth’s Ahmed Abdullahi, director, and Mona Masri, writer, on bringing Magnus Ernström’s memoir to life on screen.

Annette Hess, Maurice Hübner, UFA Fiction’s Marc Lepetit and ZDF Studios’ Dr. Markus Schäfer talk about Ku’damm 77.

Robert Taylor and Kitty Kaletsky talk to World Screen Newsflash about collaborating on King & Conqueror, a historical epic starring James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

Executive producers Lisa Harrison and Ann Johnson on grounding true-crime storytelling in empathy.

Dori Media Group’s Nadav Palti and actor Michael Aloni discuss AMIA: The End of Truth.

Producers of micro-dramas from China and Korea, the leading purveyors of short-form scripted, shared their expertise in Bali last week at APOS.

A recap of the major stories from the drama business in 2024.