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Why Series Mania Has Grown So Big, This Year’s Buzz Titles and Other Takes on the Top European TV Festival


Also, the move for series to examine bedrock relations and glowing reactions to festival titles which have bee released.

Delegate accreditation at Series Mania’s Forum, its three-day industry event running March 19-21, is on track to pass 4,000 participants, an all time record, and a huge step-up, say, from 2016, when attendance was limited to around 300 executives. “Dates in Real Life,” produced by Norway’s Maipo Film for NRK like “State of Happiness,” turns on Gen Z Ida who is dumped by her virtual world lover and sets out to find a physical partner. Expected to walk Series Mania’s red carpet are Patricia Arquette and “Gossip Girl’s” Kelly Rutherford, plus Peter Mullan, who stars in New Zealand drama “After the Party.” At the Forum, Sony Picture Television’s Wayne Garvie, TF1’s Rodolphe Buet and Movistar Plus+’s Domingo Corral will deliver masterclasses.

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