The attention economy—or dispersion economy—has also affected the world of soap operas. In China, they've been pushing "vertical serials" for years: fictions under two hours long, divided into micro-episodes of one or two minutes, and filmed in a way that eschews the landscape format of film or television, adapting to mobile screens without having to rotate them. The business already represents revenues of $5 billion in the Asian country, or, in other words, 70% of the century-old traditional film industry. And by 2027, the business is expected to have skyrocketed to €14 billion. With these credentials, the rest of the industry worldwide is beginning to mobilize. And the Chinese government has activated several mechanisms to ensure that the plots favor the values of its regime, for example in terms of promoting birth control.

The Catalunya Media City project pivots largely on the transformation of the Tres Xemeneies del Besòs, but also includes Terrassa. The existing Audiovisual Park of Catalonia (PAC) in the co-capital of Vallès will double its filming area, with an expansion that will allow it to have two new large studios: one measuring 2,200 square meters—the largest in the country—and another measuring 1,000 square meters. The studio census at the end of 2023 indicated that, of the 68 available studios in Catalonia, only three exceeded 1,000 square meters.

The protection and promotion of Catalan, in full regression in terms of speakers according to the latest studies, is one of the pillars of the action of numerous organisations and one of Aragonès's government's goals, as Catalan ministers for the Presidency and Culture, Laura Vilagrà and Natàlia Garriga, stated in an article in ARA at the beginning of September. That is why alarm bells rang this Monday when it has emerged that the text of the new audiovisual communication bill the Spanish government is finalizing does not include the protection of Catalan through quotas on streaming platforms such as Netflix, HBO or Amazon Prime. As published by El Periódico, the draft, which has gone onto a second phase of public hearing, excludes Catalan demands in this regard. The Generalitat had demanded, among other things, that within the percentage reserved for European works (30% of the total, as established by a European directive), there should also be a percentage for the Catalan language of 30%. However, the text that the Spanish government is working on at the moment only talks about reserving half of European productions for "works in the official language of the State or in one of the official languages of the autonomous communities". Central government sources assure that this text is not definitive, as does the Generalitat, but political parties and organisations have redoubled the pressure so that the final project ensures specific quotas for titles in Catalan.

Turning a monstrous crime into a work of art. This action carefully defines In Cold Blood (1965), by Truman Capote, considered the starting pistol of one of the great journalistic and literary revolutions of the 20th century: the non-fiction novel. The New American journalism (authors such as Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Harper Lee) brought a shine to a phenomenon that has reached the present day at its best thanks to the fascination with true crime.