Girls Love Media in Southeast Asia / Young Audiences and British Screen Content / Streamers and Drama Production in Smaller European Markets

Eva Cheuk-Yin Li (Lancaster University) introduces her work on the rise of the Girls Love media industry in Southeast Asia, and particularly the growth of GL television series production in Thailand. Jeanette Steemers (King’s College London) and Andrea Esser highlight findings from ‘Screen Encounters with Britain’, a project examining what young audiences in Denmark, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands are thinking about British film and television output. Finally, Nino Domazetovikj (Free University of Brussels) outlines how transnational video streaming services are reshaping commissioning strategies and production investment for scripted television fiction in smaller European markets.