(L to R): Adam Scott, Jisoo, Richard Gadd Patrick T. Fallon/AFP, The Chosunilbo JNS/Imazins, Mike Marsland International television festival Canneseries, will honor K-Pop superstar and actress Jisoo, Severance star Adam Scott and Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd at this year’s event.
Jisoo will receive the Madame Figaro Rising Star Award, Gadd the Prix Konbini de L’Engagement honor, and Scott this year’s Canal+ Icon award.
Gadd’s Baby Reindeer follow-up, Half-Man, premiering on HBO on April 23, will screen out of competition at Canneseries. The high-profile out of comp line-up also includes AppleTV+’s Soviet-era sci-fi series Star City; AMC’s horror anthology The Terror; BBC drama California Avenue with Bill Nighy and Helena Bonham Carter; Canal+ period procedural Paris Police 1910; and Sky’s Prisoner starring Tahar Rahim.
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Canneseries 2026 competition lineup includes British relationship dramedy Alice and Steve, staring Jemaine Clement and Nicola Walker as unlikely friends; the Finnish/Slovenian psychological drama Guts (Finland/Slovenia); Danish series Harvest — described as a Succession-style drama set on a family farm; the Spanish coming-of-age dramedy I Always Sometimes; Danish real-life crime drama Snake Killer; Swedish period series Summer of 1985; the Spanish comedy thriller Many People Need to Die; and The Red and the Black, an Iranian drama from Ida Panahandeh and Arsalan Amiri (At the End of Night).
Spanish director Isabel Coixet (My Life Without Me) will head up this year’s competition jury, together with director Lesli Linka Glatter (Homeland, Mad Men); actors Simon Astier (Hero Cop), Vincent Elbaz (The Hundred-Foot Journey), and Mamadou Sidibé (A Prophet: The Series); and composer Ruth Barrett (The Terminal List).
The Canneseries industry section, which runs April 23-25, will feature discussions and keynotes from The White Lotus producer David Bernad and Our Boys creators Hagai Levi and Tawfik Abu Wael as well as panels on K-Drama, artificial intelligence, and vertical, mobile-phone-first series, among others.
The 2026 Canneseries festival runs April 23-28.
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