“What we were excited about in launching Topic was to be a home for so many great series over the past five or ten years that never really came meaningfully or at all to the U.S., partially because the appetite wasn’t there, or there wasn’t anybody focused on looking and picking out what was available,” Chanatry says. audiences have shown a willingness to watch subtitled series. But there’s a new hunger now for global fare, especially now that U.S. series when the shelves were empty due to a Hollywood strike or production shutdown. broadcast and cable outlets, which preferred to focus on homegrown fare - and would only acquire Canadian or U.S.
International series, particularly those not in English (but even plenty that were) used to be nonstarters for U.S. version to see what inspired it,” says Topic general manager Ryan Chanatry. “I think this is a perfect time to be releasing and hopefully getting people who watched the U.S. Now, international hits such as Netflix’s “Squid Games” and “La Casa de Papel” have become more frequent. predating the streaming revolution, which has made it much easier to watch such shows. The international success of “The Killing” foretold the globalization of worldwide TV hits hailing from all parts of the globe, not just the usual territories like the U.S.
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