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Canneseries has unveiled a buzzy lineup for 2026 pinch Richard Gadd’s caller show Half Man, Hugo Blick’s California Avenue and Apple TV’s Star City all premiering retired of competition.
Severance star Adam Scott is meantime being awarded nan Canal+ Icon Award, while Baby Reindeer creator Gadd gets a committedness award.
In competition, Disney+’s Alice and Steve will travel up against nan likes of Media Res show Summer of 1985.
The splashy retired of title entries see Half Man, the show astir 2 friends down nan decades created by and starring Gadd alongside Jamie Bell. California Avenue is Blick’s caller bid astir a family of outcasts and For All Mankind spin-off Star City is astir nan Soviet abstraction programme, pinch Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin and Agnes O’Casey starring.
Others see Paris Police 1910, AMC’s The Terror spin-off Devil successful Silver and Matt Charman’s Prisoner for Sky.
The title assemblage will beryllium led by Spanish auteur Isabel Coixet. Others vying for awards successful title see Finland’s Guts, Denmark’s Harvest, Spain’s I Always Sometimes and Many People Need to Die, along pinch an Iranian show, The Red and nan Black.
“Despite nan economical difficulties faced by each nan producers we activity with, crossed each regions, nan precocious standards and value of nan bid stay unchanged,” said Canneseries Artistic Director Albin Lewi. “Over 300 bid were submitted to america from 41 countries. The selected bid travel from 17 countries. Canneseries proves erstwhile again that it is nan show for eager bid from astir nan world.”
Canneseries runs April 23 to 28.
