Drama under the microscope
When Jeffrey Katzenberg-backed streaming platform Quibi collapsed in 2020, after just six months, it looked like the market for shortform drama was dead in the water. But roll forward five years and one of this year’s hot topics is rampant consumer demand for what are...
The rise of micro drama and why UK producers need to take vertical seriously
Micro drama is moving fast and Samantha Sun thinks the UK is only just waking up to what is already a mature, multi-billion-dollar ecosystem elsewhere. Sun, a producer at ReelForce, joined Justin Crosby on TellyCast to unpack how vertical-first scripted series are...
Steve Ackerman: Podcasting is still a baby industry – the real growth is just starting
Steve Ackerman has been at the centre of audio’s evolution for more than thirty years, but he is very clear about where we actually are in the podcast timeline. Now that his run as Executive Vice President and Head of Global Podcasts at Sony Music has come to an end,...
The New Playbook: What Sony, ITV Studios and Mako Studios Think Comes Next for Digital Formats
Digital formats have stopped being the bolt-on. That was the clear message from one of the most candid sessions at the TellyCast Digital Content Forum 2025, where Sony Pictures, ITV Studios and Mako Studios laid out a new reality. The old pipeline where digital...