What’s the equivalent of a TV show or film on Golarion? Are there any references to cinema-style places already, especially in or around Absalom? Not a theatre with actors recreating the piece each time, but somewhere that plays recordings of events. Camcorders exist, surely somewhere to watch them must too.
Urgently need an answer within the next two months, I’m closing the campaign with a session of Come Dice With Me starring the PCs and would prefer to justify the film crew with existing lore if possible.
That sounds like a good way to go. Perhaps as they get bigger, it has affects on the puppeteers market, putting some out of business, but others start making puppet shows for the company, then the government gets involved, etc.
Skies the limit really. The real key is to not get too bogged down in explaining what is happening unless the party is actually knowledgeable about it AND wants to investigate it. Otherwise it can just sorta happen in the background around the plot.