Netflix ‘Squid Recreation’ Subsequent Hopes Set With 34 New Exhibits – Deadline

Netflix has unveiled hopes for its subsequent Squid Recreation with the streamer’s largest ever Korean TV and movie slate.

The 34-strong slate was revealed this morning in Korea and incorporates a wealth of beforehand introduced and new content material in each the scripted and non-scripted area.

Six Korean motion pictures function together with sci-fi thriller JUNG-E and Kill Boksoon, which can have its premier on the Berlin Movie Competition.

On the TV drama aspect, choices embody the likes of Crash Course in Romance, which Deadline chosen as one in every of its prime worldwide dramas to look at in 2023, Behind Your Contact [working title] and social commentary exhibits similar to Bloodhounds. Half two of revenge drama The Glory, which was final week’s most-watched non-English TV present on Netflix with greater than 80M viewing hours, arrives later this 12 months.

There are additionally a variety of actuality exhibits together with the Bodily: 100 journey format and zombie survival recreation Zombieverse.

“During the last 12 months, Korean sequence and movies have repeatedly featured in our World High 10 record in additional than 90 nations, and three of Netflix’s most-watched exhibits ever are from Korea,” defined Content material VP Don Kang.

“This 12 months, we’re pushing the envelope even additional with the tales we inform and the way we inform them. With this lineup of Korean titles, Netflix will proceed to be the final word vacation spot for compelling, numerous and must-watch Korean storytelling.”

The streamer has been capitalizing on the runaway success of Squid Recreation since that present’s 2021 launch and one other season is within the offing together with an leisure format produced by UK indies Studio Lambert and The Backyard.

Final 12 months, hours of Korean content material on the platform rose barely to 93, in accordance with analysis printed this morning, though proportionally the rise was far smaller than the likes of Japan, the UK and Spain. Japanese content material hours doubled to overhaul Korea with 123.

The brand new titles on the Korean slate are: