Today, however, Turkey’s high inflation has slashed the value of ad revenues, which now barely cover half of an episode’s production costs. That has led to a thinner pipeline of shows, less ...

LONDON — On a recent evening, Nahid Akhtar, 47, sat on a sofa in London shouting at a TV. She was watching “The Protector,” Netflix’s first original series in Turkish. The show, released that day, is ...

The Turkish government on Wednesday said it would provide incentives to producers of the country's increasingly popular soap TV series that promote Turkey and its language. To receive the govermment ...

Goryana Vasileva, sales manager for Latin America and Europe at Calinos Entertainment, discusses shares how long-term character development, morally complex protagonists and socially grounded themes ...

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline’s strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. Breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all ...

Ahead of the arrival of a new summer season in mid-2025, Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, together with the country’s Tourism Promotion and Development Agency, leveraged the popularity of ...

In an unexpected plot twist for Turkey’s sizzling TV soap opera industry, the government has pledged financial support of up to $100,000 per episode of “exportable” series. Widely hailed as ...

The Turkish government has announced financial incentives for producers of the country's increasingly popular soap-style television dramas, known locally as "Dizi", provided they help promote Turkey ...

In a recording studio in Dhaka, voiceover artist Rubaiya Matin Gity dubs the latest Turkish soap opera to become a megahit in Bangladesh -- a pop-culture trend that reflects growing ties between the ...

The decision by Morocco’s public broadcaster 2M to schedule four Turkish series during Ramadan has triggered a wave of criticism on social media, after the channel allocated key time slots to imported ...