‘Gyeongseong Creature’ S2 Trailer; Olympics Spark Sports Docs Record; Paramount Australian Soccer Deal; ‘My Lovely Liar’ Remake; ROKiT Flix Esports Series — Global Briefs

Jesse Whittock
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Netflix’s ‘Gyeongseong Creature’ Season 2 Gets Trailer

Season 2 of Netflix’s Gyeongseong Creature now has a trailer. The science fiction K-drama is teleporting the action from Season 1’s 1945 to the present day, and will star the likes of Park Seo-jun, Han So-hee, Lee Mu-saeng and Bae Hyeon-seon. Where Season 1 focused on the Japanese Imperial Army’s occupation of Gyeongseong and the experiments carried out on Korean men and women, Season 2 will focus on the ties between o-jae (Park Seo-jun), a man deceptively similar in looks and demeanor to Season 1 lead Tae-sang, and Chae-ok (Han So-hee), a survivor of the Gyeongseong spring. Chung Dong-yoon is directing and Kang Eun-kyung is writing. Story&Pictures Media and Kakao Entertainment are producing, with Studio Dragon the co-producer. Season 1 spent four weeks in Netflix’s Global Top 10 TV (Non-English) chart and reached the top 10 in 69 countries. Since the mega-success of Squid Game, Netflix has pumped huge investment into Korean content, launching the likes of Sweet Home and Physical 100. Also launching this year are Season 2s of Hellbound, Zombieverse and, most notably, Squid Game , on December 26.

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Sports Docs Set Olympic Record — Study

Sports docs flooded the market in the run-up to the Paris Olympic Games, research from Ampere Analysis has revealed. A record 103 new sports docs and doc series were launched between May and June, and represented a massive 25% of all docs released in July.The last time similar levels were reached was in the run up to the FIFA World Cup in the three months to November 2022. The new figures mark a new high for documentary sports content, which has risen from 6% of all docs released in 2020 to 12% so far this year. Netflix, Prime Video and other subscription streamers have driven the trend, though public broadcasters such as the BBC and France Télévisions have also upped their share, especially in the run up to the Olympics. Furthermore, a cool 17% of all unscripted content was sport-related in July. “Content producers had prepared in earnest for the spike in interest in sport of all kinds that the Olympics produces,” said Ampere Senior Analyst Cyrine Amor. “This year there’s been a huge increase in the number of sports documentaries, docuseries, reality, and entertainment programming. Unusually, public broadcasters created more of this material than the global streamers.”

Paramount Strikes ‘Historic’ Australian Soccer Deal

Soccer has been growing its popularity in Australian over several years now, and Paramount has struck a deal that represents the interest. The U.S. studio’s Aussie arm, which operates commercial TV channel Network 10 and Paramount+ in the country, has secured an “historic” multi-year deal with Football Australia to play more an 100 games featuring the Socceroos and the Matildas — or the men’s and women’s national teams, respectively — with at least 50 played free-to-air. This will cover the 2026 Women’s Asian Cup, which is being hosted in Australia, and the AFC Asian Cup in Saudi Arabia a year later. Furthermore, Paramount Australia has secured exclusive rights to the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil in 2027, via a deal brokered in partnership with IMG. The pact also contains all friendly matches, at AFC tournaments and the Australia Cup Finals through to 2028. “These rights are integral to our strategy to secure a transformative broadcast deal that we anticipate will set new benchmarks in the valuation of football media rights in Australia,” said Football Australia CEO James Johnson. “Australian football fans are the winners here,” added Beverley McGarvey, President of Network 10 and Paramount Australia’s Head of Streaming and Regional Lead.

ViuTV Remaking CJ ENM Drama

Cantonese general entertainment channel ViuTV is remaking Studio Dragon and Big Ocean ENM’s Korean drama My Lovely Liar in Hong Kong. The romcom series was originally directed by Nam Sung-woo and written by Set Jung-eun, but will now be reproduced as Useless Liars on ViuTV. My Lovely Liar follows ‘Liar Hunter’ Mok Sol-hee (Kim So-hyun), a character with an extraordinary ability to hear lies, and Kim Do-ha (Hwang Min-hyun), a genius songwriter who holds a secret. They become involved in each other’s lives after a scandal forces him to move out of his home. “The Korean version of My Lovely Liar was a huge hit overseas when it aired, and we have high expectations for the Hong Kong adaptation,” said Diane Min, Head of Format Sales at My Lovely Liar distributor CJ ENM.

ROKiT Flix Puts Esports Doc On Grid

Free streamer ROKiT FLix has launched an Esports docuseries, Racing Star. The series chronicles teenage sim-drivers in the UK as they are given the opportunity to go from the video game screen to reality by securing the winners of an esports competition a drive in the ROKiT British F4 Championship. All six episodes dropped yesterday. ROKiT Industries Chairman Jonathan Kendrick and late British motorsport businessman Bob Fernley conceived the ROKiT Studios-made Racing Star. The Racing Star event was first held in 2022, a year before ROKiT Flix was launched. Reagan Fairclough, one of the inaugural winners, has gone on to become the most successful F4 driver and is currently leading the 2024 championship race. ROKiT Flix claims to have surpassed the one million download mark earlier this year.

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