Forum Mithani (Cardiff University) outlines how in recent years Japanese dramas have achieved greater prominence in the international scripted television format market, focusing in particular on the remaking of ‘Mother’. Anthony Killick (Liverpool John Moores University) identifies how, since 2018, various developments in the industry and culture of film in Saudi Arabia should be read as indicative of the state’s broader cultural ideology. Finally, Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer (Kozminski University / London School of Economics and Political Science) provides a snapshot of her research examining how online news tabloids in Poland, the UK, and US frame political discourse.