'Blue Cheap': 4 New Ways of Making TV Only Look Expensive

As budgets shrink, scripted teams lean on unscripted's playbook and new digital tools: ‘If we can make a show for $250,000 [that will be bought], what can we do?'

QUEEN SHEEN Finnish production company Rabbit Films expanded from unscripted fare to make scripted dramas like The Queen of Fucking Everything, a hit at home that has sold in five other territories. (Jaakko Kahilaniemi/Rabbit Films)

Manori Ravindran covers int’l TV from London. She recently covered producers cashing in on YouTube and AI this year, interv…