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Love, lies, angry ghosts: Indians are bingeing on two-minute dramas

Some of India's biggest producers are eyeing investments in micro-dramas, which are now hugely popular.

Are Chinaโ€™s TV dramas obsessed with beauty? An industry regulator thinks so

TV drama regulators in China have taken aim at beauty-obsessed and traffic-driven programming in the industry, with a call for more โ€œqualityโ€ storytelling. The National Radio and Television Administrationโ€™s drama department sent out the call on Thursday as it brought major streaming platforms and production companies together for a conference on โ€œhealthy aestheticsโ€. โ€œ[Efforts should be made] to avoid the tendency to value physical beauty above everything else and reliance on traffic-driven...