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Maxton Hall season two – which is officially called The World Between Us has already filmed and fans are anxiously awaiting a premiere date from Prime Video.

If you aren’t aware, the smash-hit show debuted to a huge audience back in May 2024. The show quickly hit the number 1 spot on the Prime Video Charts in over 120 countries and territories.

We now know who from season 1 will be back for season 2 of the show.

Keep reading to see who is returning…...

One of the best things about fictional tales is the fact that we can swoon over the couples. Shipping can be a full-time job when you're super invested! There's just something about love stories that make us feel all warm inside, and helps us connect to a series. There's some really good series' that came this year that gave us all that. Here's 5 best romance shows from 2024 that made us swoon!

One Day on Netflix

If slow burns are your thing, then you'll definitely like One Day on Netflix. It was great to see them being friends first and nourishing that, before becoming a couple. Dexter and Emma are also great at encouraging each other's interests and endeavors, the definition of a healthy relationship. Fate has heartbreaking plans for them, but they still love each other through it all. If you've seen the movie, I think you'll like the show more,...

How do you react if you’re an award-winning actress but feel like you don’t have much control over the direction of your career? In the case of Taiwan’s Yen Yi-wen, you start writing and directing your own series.

Based on her own experiences, Yen has written and directed 12-part series, Born For The Spotlight, produced by Netflix and Third Man Entertainment, which is streaming globally from November 7. The Taipei-set drama revolves around a group of actresses, spanning different generations, from a newcomer trying to get her first break in the industry to an older soap opera star, who feels she can’t retire because she needs to support her family.

The core group of characters includes three women supposedly at the top of their game – an actress turned manager (played by Hsieh Ying-xuan); her former friend and current adversary (played by Cheryl Yang), who is struggling with...

Taiwanese stars Vic Chou and Hsueh Shih-ling and rising talents Liu Tzu-chuan and Ryan Pai, will headline the cast of the second series of hit local series The World Between Us for Taipei-based production and sales company Screenworks Asia, the production subsidiary of Catchplay.

Chou, well known for Meteor Garden, and Shih-ling, who won best supporting actor for Taiwan Crime Stories at last year’s Asia Contents Awards & Global Ott awards (Aca & G.Ott) in Busan, took to the stage on the second day of the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (Tccf) on November 7. Yang Kuei-mei and Hsieh Hsin-ying, who were not present at the event,...

It was standing room only as the follow-up to 2019 Taiwanese series “The World Between Us” debuted its teaser at Taiwan Creative Content Fest (Tccf), with “Meteor Garden” star Vic Chou leading an ensemble cast.

The series, set for a 2025 release, comes after five years of script development. The story opens with an arson case and explores themes of choice, healing, and gaps in social support systems, drawing inspiration from judicial cases.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The two-minute preview introduced a sprawling narrative spanning two decades and following six families impacted by various incidents including a police stabbing, a train derailment and parliamentary confrontation.

Director Lin Chun Yang, who returns alongside Golden Bell Award-winning producer Jayde Lin and writer Lu Shih Yuan, likened the production scale to “producing three dramas at once.”

Chou portrays Ma Yi-sen, a character dealing with the loss of his wife and child in an accident. “Ma Yi-sen is a heavy,...

Amazon’s Prime Video smash-hit series – Maxton Hall – The World Between Us - has officially wrapped filming for season 2!

Production quickly began on the second season earlier in the summer after the first season saw massive success on Prime Video. If you don’t know, the series debuted in May 2024 and quickly hit the number 1 spot on the Prime Video Charts in over 120 countries and territories.

Keep reading to see who is returning…...

When Comcast-owned Sky Deutschland cancelled its usual drama event at the Munich Film Festival at short notice last summer, it came as a surprise. That surprise quickly turned to shock and bitter disappointment when the pay-tv giant revealed it wasn’t simply nixing a networking bash, it was exiting the original drama business full stop.

More bad news followed as the local impact of Paramount Global reining in spend on original international drama kicked in – German shows were yanked off the streamer and projects in the works canned. This wasn’t that long after HBO Max had pulled out and Starz Play closing simply added to a stream of bad news. Apple, Disney+ and Prime Video remain in the German drama business, but commission in such low volume that it is the thinnest of silver linings for the vast majority of local scripted prodcos. The strategy at Netflix, easily...

Maxton Hall – The World Between Us is Prime Video’s biggest ever international launch, and the streamer has shared the inside story of the series’ rollout and admitted it is “tempting” to make the second season of the romantic drama extend beyond the six episodes seen in the first run.

The series is a classic love story. It follows Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten), a girl from a humble background who wins a scholarship to an elite college, and her relationship with the uber-privileged heir James Beaufort (Damian Hardung). The German-language series is set in England but was filmed in Germany by producer UFA Fiction.

Given how the show has popped on Amazon and social media, fans are clamoring for season two, which was quickly ordered as season one blew up. At the Seriencamp TV festival and conference, Petra Hengge, Head of Scripted TV at Amazon MGM Studios, was asked if...