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“Dramaworld,” a pioneering Korean-American rom-com series, will debut on in the U.S. on IMDb TV, Amazon’s premium free streaming service, from this weekend.

Seasons one and two will both debut on IMDb TV from Feb. 12, 2022, with the launch marking the U.S. premiere of season two. The first season of “Dramaworld” originally debuted on Netflix and Viki.

The series follows an American girl who is obsessed with K-drama and is underwhelmed by her real life become catapulted into the world of the Korean dramas she obsesses over. There she meets a facilitator who keeps “Dramaworld” turning through deft but undetected intervention in each storyline. She tumbles headfirst into another show starring her K-drama crush but upsets the equilibrium of “Dramaworld” by kissing her hero.

Season two sees the return of leads Liv Hewson, Sean Dulake (“Operation Chromite”), Justin Chon and Nuri Bae (“Unstoppable”).

Notable new cast members joining...

A second season of bilingual series “Dramaworld” takes to the airwaves across Asia from this week. The show is a fantasy about an American K-drama fan-girl who is supernaturally transported into the Korean drama scene and there must save her favorite leading man.

In Korea itself “Dramaworld” will play from Friday on A+E Networks’ Lifetime Korea channel and on the Cj Enm-backed streamer TVing. In Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia it will play out on the international service of Chinese streamer iQIYI, while in Japan its home will be the country’s number three streamer U-Next.

In its first iteration, as a web drama with mini episodes, the show played from 2016 on Netflix and the Rakuten-owned streamer Viki.

Now presented as a long-form drama, the series was written by Josh Billig and Chris Martin, with Martin directing all episodes. Production was through Korean-American company Third Culture Content and Raemongraein a.

Securing Endeavor Content to represent a second season of a cross-cultural fantasy rom-com four years after the show’s debut was good news for “Dramaworld” and its producer, Korean-American company Third Culture Content.

So, too, was the attachment of major talent, including Daniel Dae Kim, Henry Lau, and feted Korean actor Ha Ji-won.

But, arguably, the greater triumph was managing to produce the show this spring. It was a time when Covid-19 was expanding from epidemic to pandemic, and most other film and TV series were going on hiatuses of unknown duration.

“Dramaworld” originally aired on Rakuten-owned streamer Viki but Endeavor Content is now shopping both seasons around. The show is a bilingual drama about an American girl who, through a supernatural twist of fate, is transported into the middle of one of the Korean drama shows she is obsessed with. With the disease raging around it, “Dramaworld” shot...

Daniel Dae Kim, Brett Gray (“On My Block”), K-Pop star Henry Lau and Ha Ji-won join cast line-up; Endeavor Content boards sales and distribution

Award-winning production house Third Culture Content has completed production on a second season of the cult hit “Dramaworld”, a bilingual rom-com adventure series set in the world of Korean drama, filmed on location in South Korea.

Season two sees the return of leads Liv Hewson, Sean Dulake (Operation Chromite) and Justin Chon and the addition of notable new cast members: Daniel Dae Kim, Brett Gray (“On My Block”), K-Pop star Henry Lau, Ha Ji-won along with a host of cameos from the biggest names in K-pop and K-drama. Endeavor Content is selling the project and will handle distribution for both seasons one and two.

The new episodes were safely shot on location in Seoul over ten weeks as South Korea is one of the few countries...

In today’s Global Bulletin, London’s Christmas Pantomime set to go forward with a significant contribution from The National Lottery; Efm moves its upcoming Italy in Focus sidebar to 2022; “Dramaworld” finishes Season 2 filming; Cake will spotlight animated series “Tish Tash” at Mipcom; and this year’s Frankfurter Buchmesse Film Award winners are announced.

Pantomime

Qdos Entertainment and Lw Theatres have announced that Julian Clary will headline this year’s “Pantoland at the Palladium” Christmas special running Dec. 12-Jan. 3, supported by a joint initiative with The National Lottery.

To aid in facilitating a safe and enjoyable pantomime experience, The National Lottery has agreed to purchase all socially distanced seats left empty in compliance with relevant government and public health guidelines. Up to 250,000 tickets are expected to be available, with more than 20,000 free tickets going to National Lottery players.

Hosted at the London Palladium, the special will feature panto regulars Paul Zerdin,...

Propagate has landed the rights to “Dramaworld,” the award-winning scripted series set in L.A. and Seoul. The first season of the show scooped the Most Popular Foreign Drama of the Year award at the Seoul International Drama Awards, and Netflix acquired the streaming rights.

A second, 10-episode season is in production. Propagate, which is run by Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens and backed by A+E, will sell both seasons of “Dramaworld” outside of Svod after striking an agreement with its producer, Third Culture Content.

Cyrus Farrokh, president of international at Propagate, did the deal. “Ben was one of the first television executives to successfully format an international property for the U.S. market, with mega-hits like ‘The Office,’ ‘Ugly Betty’ and ‘Jane the Virgin,’” he said. “Bringing international stories to the U.S. and global market is part of our DNA, and we think that the unique concept...