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THE AMERICANS
Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys are in Cannes for the MIPCOM World Premiere TV Screening of Fox’s The Americans See page 16
WOMEN IN ENTERTAINMENT
A+E’s Nancy Dubuc joins a panel of executives who will speak at the MIPCOM Women In Global Entertainment Power Lunch in association with Lifetime Networks See page 86
HOUSE OF CARDS
Kevin Spacey is in Cannes for the international launch of the Netflix drama series House Of Cards See page 26
SKY VISION
Carl Hall and Sophie Turner Laing are at MIPCOM for the international debut of new distribution outfit Sky Vision See page 20
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The official MIPCOM daily newspaper Monday 8 October 2012 Director of Publications Paul Zilk Director of Communications Mike Williams EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor in Chief Julian Newby Deputy Editor Debbie Lincoln Sub Editors Clive Bull, Sarah Kovandzich Reporters Ben Cooper, Andy Fry, Emelia Jones, Juliana Koranteng, Max Leonard, Rachel Murrell, Gary Smith, Joanna Stephens, Chris White Editorial Assistant Hannah Stephens Deputy Technical Editor in Chief Frederic Beauseigneur Graphic Designers Muriel Betrancourt, Veronique Duthille, Marie Moinier, Carole Peres Head of Photographers Yann Coatsaliou / 360 Media Photographers Christian Alminana, Georges Auclaire, Olivier Houeix, Michel Johner, Yohann Mortier Editorial Management Boutique Editions PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Publishing Director Martin Screpel Publishing Coordinator Amrane Lamiri Production Assistant Eric Laurent MANAGEMENT & SALES TEAM Director of the Entertainment Division Jérome Delhaye Director of the Television Division Laurine Garaude Director of Market Development Ted Baracos Sales Director Frédéric Vaulpré Managing Director (UK / Australia / New Zealand) Peter Rhodes OBE Sales Manager Javier Lopez Vice President Sales and Business Development Americas Robert Marking Sales Director Latin America JoséLuis Sanchez Vice President Business Development, North America JP Bommel Sales Executive Panayiota Pagoulatos Sales Managers Paul Barbaro, Nathalie Gastone, Samira Haddi Sales Executives Liliane Dacruz, Cyril Szczerbakow Digital Media Sales Manager Nancy Denole New Media Development Manager Bastien Gave Australia and New Zealand Representative Natalie Apostolou China Representatives Anke Redl, Tammy Zhao CIS Representatives Alexandra Modestova, Igor Shibanov English Speaking Africa Representative Arnaud de Nanteuil India Representative Anil Wanvari Israel Representative Guy Martinovsky Japan Representative Lily Ono Middle-East Representative Bassil Hajjar Poland Representative Monika Bednarek South Korea Representative Sunny Kim Taiwan Representative Irene Liu Germany Representative (Digital Media Sector) Renate Radke Adam
NEWS 8 In pictures Breakfast with the stars 10 MIPJunior Keynote, conferences and news from the Martinez
Teruhiko Sato, deputy director, Promotion for Content Distribution Division at the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
PEOPLE 16 The Americans Meet the stars
32 Nigellissima Cooking Italian
26 Kevin Spacey House Of Cards
PRODUCT NEWS 50 Content for sale What’s on offer in the Palais
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A JOINT force of Japanese broadcasters and government representatives held a dinner in Cannes last night to promote the country’s formats to the world. Speaking about the event, Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications deputy director, Promotion for Content Distribution Division Teruhiko Sato said: “Japanese content has got a lot of potential that’s not well known enough at the moment. We’re using this opportunity to present the range of formats and ideas around in Japan”.
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FEATURES 86 Women in entertainment Top executives gather for a Power Lunch 97 Another golden age for drama The rise and rise of scripted content 108 Coming soon to the big screen… Moviemakers at MIPCOM
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in pictures I T WAS wall-to-wall talent at Sunday’s eOne press breakfast, with stars from action series Primeval: New World, medical procedural-come-supernatural thriller Saving Hope and the new season of the global zombie phenomenon The Walking Dead. The international producer and distributor is also launching Conspiracy 365 (12 x 60 mins), a A$13m transmedia adaptation of the best-selling teen book series by Australian author Gabrielle Lord. Primeval: New World (13 x 60 mins) — a North American spin-off of the original UK series — stars Niall Matter (Eureka; 90210, Melrose Place) as visionary hero Evan Cross. His team of scientists must battle prehistoric and futuristic beasts to save his city from destruction in Omri Film’s visceral thriller for Canada’s Space, UKTV and Germany’s Prosieben. Equally scary is the latest outing of AMC/Fox International Channels’ (FIC) post-apocalyptic drama The Walking Dead, represented in Cannes by executive producer Gale Anne Hurd and lead actor Sarah Wayne Callies, who will be speaking at tomorrow’s conference, Changing The Way TV Is Launched Globally. The Walking Dead has now been seen by more than 17 million FIC viewers worldwide. The new 16-episode series debuts on Sunday on AMC in the US, followed by 133 territories in the following week. From the walking dead to the nearly dead, Saving Hope (26 x 60 mins) stars Erica Durance (Smallville) and Michael Shanks (Stargate Atlantis) in a tense story of surgeons, doctors and patients — and the complicated and courageous decisions that have to be made in the daily struggle to keep hope alive.
“It’s fun to play a genius,” said Niall Matter, who stars as scientist and inventor Evan Cross in Primeval: New World. “The show is edgy, suspenseful, high-action and fast-paced. And thanks to its phenomenal CGI effects, the dinosaurs — like the ferocious Albertasaurus that kills my screen wife — look very real and extremely scary.”
Danny Rahim plays ‘dino whisperer’ Mac Rendell in Primeval: New World. “Matt grew up on a rough estate, surrounded by drugs and gangs, but he’s good at heart. He’s recruited to be a security guard but he’s soon upgraded to the ‘dyno team’. He gets to ride in a lot of cool vehicles and do the sort of cool things most kids can only dream of.”
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Sarah Wayne Callies (left) plays Lori Grimes in The Walking Dead: “It’s an amazing new series and I think it will live up to everybody’s hopes. We do several things that have never been done on TV before, both technologically and in terms of pushing characters to the extreme. In fact, the first thing the audience will see is a technological innovation. They won’t notice it, but they will notice the story that it’s telling.” “Almost every culture has some sort of zombie mythology,” said Gale Anne Hurd (right), executive producer of the third season of The Walking Dead, which tells the story of the weeks following a pandemic zombie apocalypse. “But this latest series is not just a zombie-kill-of-theweek. It’s also about the human survivors. And we also have one of the most kick-arse female characters ever seen on TV…”
In Saving Hope, Erica Durance plays doctor Alex Reid, whose fiance is close to death: “I did a lot of sitting by myself trying to stay in a place of grief, which was a solitary journey but ultimately very rewarding. Saving Hope considers the questions that we all ask about life and death and grief and what happens when you pass away.”
Michael Shanks is surgeon Charlie Harris in Saving Hope. Following a car crash, he is left in a coma, whereupon his disembodied ‘spirit’ roams the hospital halls: “There are three angles to the story. At the centre, it’s a love story. Second, it’s a very effective hospital procedural. And lastly, it’s got a supernatural element. It’s like three different shows in one.”
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Turner Animation still focused on TV as Cartoon Network turns 20 Hachette’s Karen Lawler
STRICTLY BOOKS FOR HACHETTE PUBLISHER Hachette has used its expertise in girls’ serial fiction to convince the BBC to allow the company to turn global TV phenomenon Strictly Come Dancing into a book property for young girls. “Research showed that little girls love Strictly for the dresses and makeup,” said Karen Lawler, licensing executive manager, Hachette Children’s Books. “But this is not an obvious child-friendly brand. Our challenge was to make it work as a book series for seven- to 10-year-olds.” Hachette’s success with girls’ book series Rainbow Magic and Secret Kingdom, combined with the BBC’s research, led them to create the fictional Strictly Dance Academy. “We peopled it with characters and storylines, supported with black-and-white illustrations,” said Lawler. The series is supported by sticker books, and digital apps are planned. Lawler was speaking at the MIPJunior event What Publishers Want To See From Producers, in which she discussed the role of TV brands in a challenging publishing market with fellow panelists Eric Huang of Penguin Books, Helen McAleer of Walker Books, and Alison Ruane of HarperCollins. The session was co-organised with the London Book Fair.
Turner Animation’s Stuart Snyder: “kids are absorbing more content than before”
ELEVISION programming remains core to Tu r ner Broadcasting System’s strategy for animation despite the growing inf luence of digitalmedia technology, declared Stuart Snyder during MIPJunior’s Media Mastermind Keynote on Saturday. The president and chief operating of¿cer of Turner Animation, Young Adults & Kids Media, responsible for the Cartoon Network (CN), Boomerang and Adult Swim networks, was at
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just been commissioned for the third time. “With all these media platforms and a fragmented media landscape, it’s important that kids are watching as much TV as ever before,” he said. However, he admitted that the TV industry could not ignore new technology, which is “lowering the barriers” for creative talent to get things out there: “Through technology, kids are absorbing more content than before,” he said. When asked about the emergence of hits from other platforms such as Angry Birds via mobile games or YouTube’s channels, Snyder disclosed that Turner does develop original content in those spaces. Cartoon Network’s The High Fructose Adventures Of Annoying Orange began as a web-only series. “Original content can be developed as games, as shorts or as apps; that’s the way the business needs to think of itself more and more,” he said.
Jalpari drama brings Ultra success ULTRA Distributors in India won the fourth annual MipJunior Kids’ Jury Award in the Tweens (11-14) category with live-action drama Jalpari — The Desert Mermaid, about two kids unravelling the mysteries of a village of secrets. Chilly Christmas from Crystal Sky Worldwide Sales (US) won in the Kids (7-10) category, and The Airport Diary from DPS Co (Korea) won in pre-school. Hosted by French children’s presenter Billy, the winning programmes are selected by juries of children from the International School of Nice The winners gain a range of benefits, including one-to-one meetings with buyers and complimentary entry to MIPJunior 2013.
Ultra Distributors accepts the award from the Kids’ Jury for Jalpari
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JCC FINDING NEW GLOBAL PARTNERS AL JAZEERA Children’s Channel (JCC) is looking to explore new collaborations with global industry players this MIPCOM. Presenting its in-house edutainment catalogue and underlining its commitment to becoming fully child-centric in the future, JCC’s strategy includes a 360-degree media proposition both enjoyed by children and trusted by parents. “We offer a carefully-studied mix of fun and entertaining content, along with valuable educational programming,” JCC’s acting executive general manager Haya bint Khalifa Al Nassr, said. “We also adopt an open-minded approach to content selection and constantly look for original entertainment that inspires minds and touches lives. In doing so, we hope to open up new horizons for children to learn about different cultures and to unlock their potential.” This year JCC is showcasing productions covering an array of subjects relevant to young audiences internationally, including Shams & Rami, Nan & Lili, Power Struggle and The Flying Saucer. JCC and Baraem TV provide content that currently reaches over 350 million households across the Arab world as well as many parts of Europe.
“58% of children aged 7-16 are using a smartphone, tablet or iPod touch. Of these, 78% download apps. #MIPJunior” Retweeted 23 times from MIPJunior session yesterday Richard Gaywood @PenLlawen
Children’s yoga show triumphs at international pitch competition OOMMM-MMMOOO, Yoga For Children from Colombian producers 4Direcciones won the MIPJunior International Pitch with a convincing display of originality and licensing potential. Pitched by Diana Rico and Richard Decaillet, the series combines animation, live action, transmedia and some yogaloving cows to enthuse four- to eight-year-olds with yoga. “TV yoga has always been based around routines,” 4Direcciones managing director Eduardo Salazar said. “This is the ¿rst time narrative has been included, which works well for kids. This show illustrates why we think the second wave of transmedia will support more physical and outdoor use of content.” Other projects pitched included Animals (Mighty Studio, Mexico), Gorollas (BI Group, South Korea), Casimilo And The Legends Of The New World (Sacre-
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bleu Productions, France), Las Cuevas (Ink Apache, Spain), and Toggle (Beakus, UK). “The jury enjoyed the originality of all six pitches,” jury chair Andy Heyward of A Squared Entertainment said. “But Ooommm-Mmmooo stood out for its spectacular pitch, original storytelling and transmedia potential. We all felt we could imagine this show on screen.” The winners secured €2,500 ($3,260) as well as networking
and promotional bene¿ts. And all six ¿nalists were granted free permanent access to award-winning Toon Boom’s Storyboard Pro 3D software worth $1,249. The jurors were Morgann Favennec of M6, Emmanuel Franck of Ankama, Helen McAleer of Walker Productions, Anna Rafferty of Penguin Digital, and Brad Schultz of Mind Candy. The event was produced in partnership with C21 Media, MediaClub and Toon Boom.
Birthday bash for Cartoon Network THIS year’s MIPJunior networking lunch was hosted by Turner to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Cartoon Network. Welcoming guests, Michael Carrington, Turner’s chief content of¿cer EMEA said: “We are celebrating 20 years of Cartoon Network, and 20 years of nurturParty time with (left to right) Turner Broadcasting’s Pablo Zuccarino (Latin America), Mark Eyers (Asia Pacific), Michael Carrington (EMEA), Stuart Snyder, and Rob Sorcher
ing amazing talent.” As evidence, Carrington noted the 15 awards — including a BAFTA — won by The Amazing World Of Gumball in its first year, and the Emmy won by Regular Show. And this year sees the launch of new seasons of returning shows such as Ben 10: Omniverse, Adventure Time and LazyTown. Cartoon Network’s 20th birthday coincides with that of MIPJunior.
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Kids like to stay in touch with characters after the show’s over Doco’s Maurice Wheeler
TEENS LIKE MORE THAN THEY TALK TEEN shows have eight times more Facebook likes than non-teen shows revealed Virginia Mouseler of The Wit, as she shared her social media research at the Teen Fresh TV: The Top TV Shows In Social Media. “Teens like more than they talk — that may not surprise some of you who live with teenagers,” she added. Yet teens were seemingly less interested in Twitter as a means of engagement, as teen shows had on average 10% fewer followers than other programmes. Annoying Orange and Fred, The Show, both based on YouTube hits, topped the most social teen programmes of 2012. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Last Airbender – The Legend Of Korra, based on huge IPs followed, with girl-focused Jane By Design and Miss XV next. The correlation between social media buzz and ratings success is highest with 12- to 17-year-olds, so social engagement is crucial, said Doco’s Maurice Wheeler. To do that, teen shows must engage with their preoccupations — badging, communication, peer comparison, testing out identities and obsessive consumption. He said producers should ask themselves how teens could badge themselves with their brand. And finally, in order to feed the audience’s excessive consumption, he had this advice: “Give them as many assets as you can.”
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sion on what buyers want. She explained that this was driving the growth of mobile content and live events. “There is a growing demand for off-screen interaction,” said Sondon. “The more touch-points we offer, the higher a character’s popularity becomes.” Mobile is a key part of this, said CBeebies executive producer Jackie Edwards, but it needs to be brand-appropriate. “A simple pairs game for Mike The Knight is huge and for Rastamouse, dance games, music and radio work well,” she said. “For us, the challenge is keeping up and making brand extensions effective on all the platforms.” Sondon, and fellow panelists Sebastian Debertin of KiKA and Carole Bonneau of Teletoon said
they were also looking for comedy for six- to nine-year-olds. And Debertin noted that after a long period in which CGI reboots of classic properties were seen as a safe bet, original properties were making a welcome return. Curriculum-based content has always attracted broadcasters and parents, but the definition of curriculum is moving beyond numbers and letters. “Programmes can support learning in the areas of emotions, art, music and physical development. But they must offer real enrichment, which means using education experts and making sure we don’t bore kids,” said Sondon. All four credited presenters — both the human and animated kind — with helping give their channels coherence and personality.
Fun never goes out of fashion
CBeebies’ Alison Stewart
“FUN GAMES and shows will never go out of style,” said Chris Waldron of Cartoon Network. All speakers at the Meet The Digital Content Strategists conference agreed that games were key to engaging kids: emphasising brands and extending onto mobile screens were also top priorities.
“Connecting, engaging and entertaining your audience is more important than revenue,” said Paul Brown of Disney EMEA. He pointed to new properties such as Swampy The Alligator, whose gaming adventures were creating a new legacy, but also to classic characters. “Our task is to re-version, re-imagine and take these characters forward,” he said.
Claude Schmit of RTL Disney Fernsehen struck a note of caution with his presentation of Togo Lino, the SuperRTL umbrella brand for all pre-school content. “As long as there’s not a comprehensive business model for digital, it’s only part of the strategy. Important, yes, but only part,” he said. Telling stories, for him, was the most important thing. “Even the youngest children are now accessing digital content,” said Alison Stewart of CBeebies. That was the rational for the current CBeebies website redesign, placing more emphasis on pictures, and “games, stories, activities, songs.” CBeebies radio, launched this summer and accessed through the site had proved a huge success, she added, with a peak daily audience of 50,000 people — up 400%. Kirstine Vinderskov of DR, Denmark, emphasised a 360 approach and a brand-driven online strategy. “We’re not yet doing digital coproductions, but we will,” she said.
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World Premiere TV Screening HE MIPCOM 2012 World Premiere TV Screening is The Americans, a new 13-part drama series for FX from Fox Television Studios (FTVS). The star-studded event takes place today at 18.00 — after which stars of the show will walk the red carpet to the MIPCOM Opening Party at the Martinez. The Americans centres around an arranged marriage between two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington DC shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. Phillip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell) have two children who know nothing about their parents’ true identity, and while the marriage is merely a cover, the relationship grows more real by the day. “The pilot script was one of those scripts that everyone was talking about, because it has a lot of good elements in it, but it could go in many different ways,” Keri
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mobile phones — adds another layer of intrigue. “Back then you relied more on human ingenuity, which is far more interesting than watching a computer or satellite that can do everything for you. If it’s all down to wits, then it makes it far more interesting to watch.” Noah Emmerich and Max Hernandez star alongside the couple in the series created by executive producer and showrunner Joe Weisberg. “Keri, Matthew, Noah and Max were sensational in it, and a joy to be around,” Weisberg said of the “beautiful pilot”. He added: “To have all of this come to fruition has been indescribably exciting. Really, I’m a writer, and I can’t describe it. It’s a great privilege and opportunity to get to make this television show. I can’t wait to get to work on it.” Production starts after MIPCOM and is scheduled to premiere in early 2013. Delegates in Cannes will be treated to the ¿rstever international screening of the pilot.
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9 STORY UNVEILS EXPANSION PLAN TORONTO-based 9 Story Entertainment, a leading Canadian independent production company, has unveiled significant expansion plans following the celebration of its 10th birthday in September. It is hosting its own stand at MIPCOM for the first time ever, is in the middle of one of its busiest production periods and has announced a new strategy to acquire content for the first time. “After always being part of the Canadian pavilion, we’re in our own booth,” president/CEO Vince Commisso said. “And
Hirsh brings one big kid to market as Canadian companies combine OLLOWING August’s announcement of the acquisition of Cookie Jar Group by Canadian kids’ studio DHX Media, executive chairman of the enlarged group Michael Hirsh is in Cannes to explain why the acquisition makes sense. When ¿nalised, the $111m deal will create the largest independent owner of children’s programming in the world. Speaking to MIPCOM News, Hirsh said: “Companies in this sector need to be big to survive. By combining these two groups we create a company with 8,000 hours of programming, great production companies and a world-class licensing division [CPLG].” At this MIPCOM, for which Canada has been designated Country Of Honour, the group will be seeking partners for series such as Richard Scarry’s What Do People Do All Day?, Dr Dimensionpants and In-
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spector Gadget (a reboot of the classic series). However Hirsh, who founded Cookie Jar with Toper Taylor, said his focus will be on digital distribution: “At Cookie Jar, we did streaming deals with SVOD companies like NetÀix, Amazon, Dish and Dailymotion. That will be my main priority at the new company.” Hirsh is convinced that SVOD is a game-changer for the industry: “It reminds me of the rise of the specialty cable channels in the 1980s. I’m convinced that this new group of on-demand companies will emerge as both significant buyers of library content and funders of new shows.”
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Pop Corn TV Show gets local flavour 9 Story’s Vince Commisso and Natalie Osborne
we have 10 shows in various stages of production.” They include kids’ animation Camp Lakebottom, which will premier on Canada’s Teletoon network next year. Also on 9 Story’s plate is Fugget About It, a 13 x 22 mins primetime adult animation series currently on Teletoon with the next 13 episodes in the pipeline. 9 Story, which already has a catalogue of more than 600 half-hour shows, is ready to expand via acquisition, added Natalie Osborne, executive vice-president, business development. “We’re looking for properties that can complement and augment what we already have.”
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PARIS-based Novavision, a world leader in hidden plete 26 minutes with animated links, in Brazil and camera video programming, comes to MIPCOM now Canada the videos are linked by a recognisable following a 170-episiode co-production deal with local host in a studio. Poirier said. “It’s great that we Canadian producer/distributor have teamed with a TV station Tricord Media for its flagship that has the connections, not programme Pop Corn TV Show only to get the show broadcast in which is being ¿lmed in Canada Canada, but also to help us to get and started airing in September it sold in the US. on Canadian channel CTS, with “We are now working in India popular Canadian comedian Leand China, striving to ¿ nd the land Klassen as host. right partner to prepare the right Novavision, which celebrates its type of production — including 10th anniversary this MIPCOM, clips that can be produced localacquired Scandinavian rival Mely to be added to those we have dia Entertainment Group (MEG) which are international, and then last year, making it a key player to be hosted by a local personalin the niche but global market of ity.” non-verbal, short-form comedy Also new from Novavision is programming. Poirier: Fast, Mad And Explosive. Based Novavision CEO Francois-Xavi- Francois-Xavier next step for the format on footage of police chases and er Poirier, a former Wall Street ¿nancial advisor, said the inclusion of Leland Klas- weird incidents captured on surveillance cameras, sen represented a next step for the format. Where Novavision will produce 13 shows of 26 minutes, previously Pop Corn TV Show was sold as a com- with the pilot available in Cannes.
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NDEPENDENT distributor Parthenon Media Group was acquired by BSkyB in the UK in July, to provide the basis of a new in-house distribution division. This week, the company is being introduced to buyers under its new name Sky Vision. Carl Hall, who founded Parthenon and is now managing director of the company, said: “The deal makes sense for Sky because it is investing such a lot in original content and needs to get the best return on its assets. Parthenon gives it access to a proven sales team and state-of-the-art rights management.” Hall, who reports directly to Sophie Turner Laing, Sky’s managing director, entertainment and news, is now well placed to secure rights to Sky shows that previously went to third party distributors. He has, for example, just acquired hundreds of hours from entertainment channel Sky Living, which were with distributor Target Entertainment until it closed down. He stresses that Sky Vision has to ¿ght just as hard for new con-
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We have to provide the best business plan to win tent: “We’re better-resourced, but we still have to provide the best business plan to win,” he explained. An early coup for Hall is that he has secured the rights to two 4 x 60-minute Sky series fronted by Sir David Attenborough — Kingdom Of Plants and Galapagos. “These are exactly the kind of quality productions we want — we’re not trying to rack up huge volumes of hours quickly.” Sky Vision is focused on factual content for now, with 3D a big push at MIPCOM. Longer term, Hall wants to make his mark in drama and comedy — with new titles likely by MIPTV. Expanding into formats is also a priority, as is winning third party business.
Khanna oversees high-speed re-start of MGM’s TV slate NAMED president, television group and digital, MGM Studios last June, Roma Khanna is back at MIPCOM after little more than a year in post, declaring that she and her team have already achieved several key goals. A major development was bringing together all of MGM’s TV businesses, under Khanna’s newly created role. “TV is really the key to the growth of the company so we decided to get it under one umbrella — domestic and international distribution, channels and production — and think strategically across all the elements,” Khanna said. “When I came in there was a new management team in place with Roger Birnbaum and Gary Barber, and they had a very strong vision of growth for the company,” she said. “Back then there was a lot of anticipation, and now it’s starting to come to fruition; there’s the ¿lm slate — amazing tent-pole ¿lms — new TV productions coming in, and a reinvigorated distribution strategy.” To help fast-track the new production slate, Khanna appointed Steve Stark, who brought the discipline of an independent producer to the mix. “You know it can take years to get into production
and on the air, and that’s where I am extremely proud — at the speed with which we have built the TV studio, having one show already in production, and multiples in development. We’re right on track if not a little ahead of schedule on that.” The ¿rst new TV title under Khanna is Vikings, written by Michael Hirst (The Tudors), and her team has been working to ensure that it is not just a one-off. “I’m hoping to ¿nd a steady position where we have got a number of shows on the air every year,” she said. “And, of course, we have the existing catalogue of over 4,000 ¿lm titles and 10,000 hours of TV. So for me it’s extremely important that people know that we’re here, we’re open for business and we’re looking for relationships.” With the imminent release of Skyfall, MGM will also be celebrating 50 years of James Bond in Cannes. “Most of our ¿lms are that big these days — our upcoming slate has multiple Bond films, three Hobbit films, we’ve had 21 Jump Street, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and we’ve got GI Joe II coming out in multiple territories. I feel like we’re now really well positioned for future growth.”
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DreamWorks Classics offers up new TV and film franchise opportunities Mr. Peabody & Sherman: “how we all started working together”
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DLT TEAMS UP WITH RAYDAR PRODUCER/distributor DLT Entertainment has launched a distribution company with Raydar Media, the new content management and creation company set up by former Target Entertainment chief Alison Rayson. Under the terms of the partnership, the new joint-venture DLT/Raydar Rights will be worldwide distributor for Raydar Media and its third-party suppliers as well as being DLT’s distributor for the world, excluding the US and UK. DLT will distribute all finished programmes flowing through DLT/Raydar Rights in the US, in addition to its own product. US format exploitation, meanwhile, will be jointly handled by DLT and Raydar. DLT president Don Taffner Jr said: “DLT/Raydar Rights will be able to tap into Alison’s expertise in the production, distribution and international financing sectors and will allow us to increase our distribution activity across all genres and increasingly on new and emerging digital platforms.” Rayson added: “Partnering with Don through Raydar Media in a new distribution venture unites our strengths and offers producers a home that will focus on achieving the best sales results and service.”
OLLOWING the acquisition of Classic Media by DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks Classics is making its debut at MIPCOM with a portfolio that includes DreamWorks Dragons: Riders Of Berk, inspired by the How To Train Your Dragon movie franchise, plus a new TV series based on the upcoming ¿lm Turbo. “It’s great to be working with people who are as excited as we
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are about expanding further into franchise TV, where feature ¿lms feed into complementary TV series, and vice versa. We all regard that area as a huge growth opportunity,” Eric Ellenbogen, co-CEO, DreamWorks Classics, said. “We will also be looking at the 450 properties that came with the acquisition of Classic Media, including properties like Mr Magoo and George Of The Jungle, with a view to developing ¿lm/TV synergies.”
“The big announcement is that we are bringing a fantastic TV portfolio to MIPCOM. Looking ahead we see Kung Fu Panda: Legends Of Awesomeness, and Penguins Of Madagascar as still having enormous potential on TV. Our feature film slate includes Turbo, coming out in July 2013, and Mr. Peabody & Sherman in November 2013,” said Kelley Avery, head of worldwide franchise strategy & distribution, DreamWorks Animation. Starting with The Croods, in March 2013, all features from DreamWorks Animation will be distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. Rise of The Guardians, which is released theatrically next month, will be distributed by Paramount Pictures. The presence of DreamWorks Animation at MIPCOM marks the ¿rst major ¿lm studio debut at the market for more than a decade.
ITV extends reach in Nordic region ITV HAS acquired Finnish producer Tarinatalo. Together with existing divisions in Norway and Sweden, the deal means ITV now has a production footprint in three of the Nordic markets. Paul Buccieri, managing director of ITV Studios International and president and CEO of ITV Studios America, said: “Tarinatalo is a terri¿c ¿t as we progress with growing our business globally. It is an extremely creative production company and has built fantastic relationships with Finnish broadcasters. It has a wonderful portfolio of hit shows and a huge number of great ideas in development.” Tarinatalo, which specialises in factual entertainment, reality and lifestyle, will produce an estimated 50 hours of programming this year across 11 shows, including a new series of Dragon’s Den on broadcaster Nelonen. In a separate development, ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has secured a raft of
deals for three of its drama series, Mr Selfridge, Falcon and Endeavour. Mr Selfridge (1 x 90 mins/9 x 60 mins) has been presold to Ireland’s TV3, Norway’s NRK and Finland’s YLE, while Falcon (4 x 60 mins) has been pre-sold to HBO Latin America, Sweden’s SVT and HOT Israel. Inspector Morse prequel Endeavour (4 x 120 mins) has been acquired by Pramer’s Film & Arts channel in Latin America,
Sweden’s SVT, Norway’s NRK, Denmark’s DR, Croatia’s HRT and Lietuvos Ryto Televizija in Lithuania. Tobi de Graaff, director of global television distribution, ITVS GE, said: “In an increasingly competitive market, broadcasters are looking to acquire high-end drama as soon as possible. These pre-sales demonstrate we are the destination to meet this growing demand.”
From left: Tarinatalo’s Kari Tervo, Esko Naskali, Jukka Heinonen and Aram Aflatuni with ITV Studios Nordic’s CEO Hans Engholm
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The Malaysian version of TBS’ Ninja Warrior
NINJA Warrior is making its European debut on the back of collaboration between Japan’s Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) and line production company Eccholine, which specialises in big-event entertainment. The deal follows several successful local versions in the US and Asia of the action-packed format, which challenges the nation to complete the world’s toughest obstacle course. Earlier this year, cable channel G4 in the US collaborated with broadcast stablemate NBC to produce a 27-hour American Ninja Warrior series, which culminated in a five-episode grand finale — and record viewing figures. In Asia, the show, known as Sasuke in Japan, has aired in Singapore and Malaysia. At MIPCOM, TBS and Eccholine are unveiling their European production plan, which includes a nine-obstacle mobile casting course that will travel from city to city. The primetime finale will take place at a European reconstruction of the mammoth Japanese four-stage course. Makito Sugiyama, TBS’ chief of international programme and format licensing, said: “With Eccholine on board, we have found a way to bring the excitement of Ninja Warrior to broadcasters in Europe without burdening them with the complexity of this production.”
New-look NHK team highlights original factual productions A PA N E S E p u b l i c broadcaster NHK and its business arm NHK Enterprises have arrived at MIPCOM with a raft of innovative new factual programmes heading their slate. Top titles include science series The Cosmic Shore and Woman At 40, A Silent Revolution. The latter is a two-part co-pro with Point du Jour and France 5, which follows 10 women in their 40s in different countries as they challenge norms and provoke changes in society by reinventing themselves. Discover Science Season 2 (produced by NHK/NED, in co-production
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with SWR, EBS, and SJRTV) is also being showcased with 52 episodes now available. NHK and NHK Enterprises arrived in Cannes with a new-look executive team that has been briefed to drive forward NHK’s content development and international business strategy. Key changes include the appointment of Junko Ogawa as head of NHK’s newly launched Global Content Marketing division, which oversees the sale of NHK programmes internationally and domestically. Commenting on her new role, which also encompasses international co-produc-
tion, Ogawa said NHK needs to work harder to get its content on to new platforms and new markets: “We should be more aggressive in getting content out there,” Ogawa said. Meanwhile, over at NHK Enterprises, Fumio Narashima has been appointed head of international sales. He said: “We plan to strengthen our efforts in the newly evolving markets such as Asia and the Middle East. In addition, following the encouragement of NHK’s historical drama Princess Atsu going to Romania, we hope to penetrate other C & E European territories.”
Sony Creative’s animation showcase SONY Creative Products (SCP) is at MIPCOM to further its drive into international markets which began back in 2008. For some 30 years the company had focused almost exclusively on acquisition and expanding its business within Japan. But now the company is going global. “Our intention is to introduce quality Japanese animation series and characters that work worldwide, but with a Japanese twist,” SCP president Aiichiro Fu r u k aw a s a id . “Since MIPCOM Aiichiro Furukawa: “MIPJunior 2010 was especially good for us” 2009 we have met
many key partners and global industry players in Cannes, and our projects have been well received. MIPJunior 2010 was especially good for us.” Furukawa said that the international expansion has been a learning experience for the company. In Japan, animation is as popular with adults as it is with children — which is not the case in many of SCP’s target countries. “To be successful abroad we do have to understand each target nation’s speci¿c culture and demands,” he said. “We work not only with Japanese producers, but with producers from around the world. With the ideas coming originally from Japan and then interpreted by animators and production houses abroad, the result is the creation of a unique and original style.” Flagship titles for Sony Creative Products at MIPCOM include Mofy and Gaspard & Lisa, for which it acquired worldwide rights last year and which currently airs in more than 40 countries.
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From film to stage to TV Academy Award-winning actor Kevin Spacey is in Cannes this week to promote the hotly-anticipated Netflix series House Of Cards. Julian Newby reports ouse Of Cards is based on the classic British mini-series of the same name, originally screened in 1990. Conservative government chief whip Francis Urquhart, immortalised by the late British actor Ian Richardson, becomes Spacey’s majority whip of the House of Representatives Francis Underwood. His wife Claire is played by Robin Wright (The Princess Bride, Forrest Gump, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo).
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With 26 x 1-hour episodes coming over the next two years, House Of Cards is a major statement of intent by video-on-demand platform NetÀix. For Spacey, the arrival of new funding partners of this kind represents a great opportunity for creatives. “Because NetÀix stepped up in the way that they did, and because they are just entering into the world of original content, that means that they don’t even have of¿ces in which to run a series the way other networks or cable services would, and that’s put us in the position of having complete creative control, which has been fantastic,” Spacey said. “I think one of the things that makes the show unique is that it’s a new paradigm. I believe that when they do air them they’re going to drop them all at once, all 13. It seems to me that’s the way viewers are watching shows now — they get stuck on them and they end up spending a whole weekend watching a whole series.” Spacey is best known for feature ¿lms including The Usual Suspects, LA Con¿dential and American Beauty. The move to television is part of a transition that started some 10 years ago when he became artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London.
House Of Cards is executive produced by David Fincher, Joshua Donen, Eric Roth, Beau Willimon, Kevin Spacey, Dana Brunetti, Andrew Davies, Michael Dobbs and John Mel¿. Based on the BBC mini-series of the same name, it is produced by Donen, Fincher, Roth and Trigger Street Productions, in association with Media Rights Capital for NetÀix. The international distributor is Sony Pictures Television. Principal writer Beau Willimon, and Robin Wright are in Cannes with Kevin Spacey to promote the series.
Spacey said that he and the series’ director, David Fincher, started plotting a move to television while shooting The Social Network. “I got to the point when American Beauty was out and that had gone better than I could have hoped, and I didn’t feel like I wanted to spend the next 10 years chasing the same dream,” he said. “The focus, the shape of the [¿lm] industry has shifted and I think everyone recognises that. And that shift has opened up opportunities in television. When you look at where the most interesting plot lines, storylines and characters are, it’s in television.”
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New markets get taste for lifestyle channels from Scripps Networks The Wit’s Virginia Mouseler
THE WIT CEO HAS FRESH APPROACH TODAY Virginia Mouseler, CEO of research company The Wit — World Information Tracking — announces her selection of 25 of the world’s most inspiring new ideas in TV, social media and branded content this season at Fresh TV Around The World. Her presentation uses analytical research provided by The Witspotter, its latest social media tracking development, to find the most anticipated shows and what happens after they launch. “The Witspotter has enabled us to understand trends in real time using information direct from the viewers,” she said. “In turn, social media has also enabled us to discover content on smaller channels that might have otherwise slipped under the radar.” Her presentation highlights that many new shows, in spite of a low marketing push online, have still managed to create a large socialmedia response. “We are now able to calculate very accurately what topics are making people react — and also the way in which audiences react to new shows,” she said. “My wish is that everybody attending the conference discovers one new show they didn’t know existed before.”
CRIPPS Networks International has announced new carriage agreements that extend the European and Asian reach of its lifestyle channels. Food Network is now available in Latvia, Georgia, Romania and Serbia. It has also expanded its offering in Cyprus through a new agreement with PrimeTel, which has added a standard-de¿nition version to its basic tier offering, having launched the channel in HD last year. And Food Network Asia is debuting in Mongolia with Univision, the country’s ¿rst IPTV operator. Meanwhile, Fine Living Network has launched in the Russian Federation, and is increasing its dis-
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tribution in the Ukraine and the Czech Republic. The recently acquired Travel Channel International has launched its HD service in Turkey and Turkishspeaking Northern Cyprus. “With our ambitious international objectives, we have been very pleased with the steady growth of our channel brands,” said Jim Samples, president of Scripps Networks Interactive’s international division. “We look forward to continuing our distribution momentum as we expand to new markets.” Scripps is also strengthening its original programming. Food Network UK has commissioned the 10 x 30 mins programme Jonathan Phang’s Caribbean Cookbook (working title), and Travel
Channel International has commissioned its ¿ rst Asian series, the 6 x 30 mins Destination Weddings, which follows six couples as they plan their dream wedding in exotic locations.
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HOLLYWOOD-based distributor Mance Media and Toronto’s Microtainment have signed a MIPCOM distribution deal for two new series, Zoo Diaries (74 x 30 mins) and Urban Angels (13 x 30 mins). Zoo Diaries documents the lives of animals in various North American zoos, and the people who work with them, while Urban Angels follows the working lives of doctors in a Toronto hospital. Mance Media CEO Matthew Mancinelli (right) said: “This is our first year of operations and MIPCOM is the ideal platform to do business. We have doubled the size of our catalogue since MIPTV and this latest deal with Microtainment is the perfect springboard for future activities.” Microtainment Plus Productions’ CEO Garry Blye (left) added: “This is an exciting step forward for both companies and we are currently working on developing new and exciting projects together.”
PGS builds on Playmobil success THE TREND for releasing TV series with one eye on the ¿lm market seems to be growing with PGS Entertainment president Philippe Soutter arriving at MIPCOM with Heroes United: “The series is produced in asso-
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ciation with Playmobil, and one of the ideas behind it is that the knight, pirate, robot and fairy characters are mixed together, much like kids do in real life with Playmobil,” he said. “But the 104 episodes [series 2 is already in pre-production] will also be combined to make six 60-minute mini-movies aimed at holiday periods such as Christmas. We think it’s an excellent way to extend the brand and also to create event programming.” Heroes United is produced by Method Animation and German production house Morgen Studios, with the ¿rst series originally
commissioned by France Televisions. “Sales-wise it is looking very good,” Soutter said. “We are already ¿nalising deals in Canada, the US, the UK, Germany and Italy, so we are expecting that the series will be in demand this week. We have an animation test with us in Cannes.” PGS also has new animated movie Stanley, The Secret Kidventure Club and the third season of The Little Prince. “A drawing competition has been launched for viewers to design a new planet for the Little Prince to visit, and so far there have been over 100,000 entries,” Soutter said.
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neWs Red Arrow International on target for big debut IPCOM 2012 marks the first international appearance for the new-look SevenOne International. The distribution arm of German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 was renamed Red Arrow International in July, strengthening its ties to parent company Red Arrow. Flagship properties for Red Arrow International at MIPCOM this year include the crime series Jo (8 x 45 mins), created by Rene Balcer and starring Jean Reno as an elite cop who stops at nothing t o s olve murder cases; and the thriller Restless (2 x 90 mins/1 x 130 m i n s). Based on Jens Richter the book of the same name by William Boyd and produced by Endor Production’s Hilary Bevan Jones, Restless is set in the shadowy world of British Secret Service operations in the US during World War II, with a strong ensemble cast including Hayley Atwell, Michael Gambon and Charlotte Rampling. These two properties follow the runaway success of
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Lilyhammer, a NetÀix original series starring Steven Van Zandt that has sold worldwide and is now in pre-production for a second series. “The timing of the decision was important for us,” said Red Arrow International managing director Jens Richter. “It was impor tant that when we did the re-name it was nicely in-sync with other developments at the company. For example over the last year we have become involved in some pret t y exciting third-party stuff. Lilyhammer and Jo are both third-party properties and I want to keep the third-party business at a very h ig h le vel .” Richter identifies Israel, the Middle East, Latin America, Asia and the US as strong markets for Red Arrow International at the moment, and he identi¿es a buoyant industry generally — for those producers and distributors who do their homework. “If you want to sell a show in today’s market you have to know about the needs of the client; that’s much more important in today’s world than it was yesterday,” he said.
Looking on the bride side of life KEASHA Rigsby is in Cannes to promote her new Peace Point series Keasha’s Perfect Dress. Rigsby, who will be on the Peace Point stand today at 11.00 for a signing session, is known and loved for her passion for brides and their dresses. “Being with a bride and helping them to find the ultimate dress often also reveals a fascinating back story and I often ¿ nd myself acting as a psychiatrist as much as a style adviser,” she said. “It’s mind-blowing how they open up.” Brides appearing on the show included o n e
woman who had survived the 9/11 attack, has since been operated on 37 times and is now wheelchairbound: “I spent much more time with her than I normally would because she is such an amazing person,” Rigsby said. “And there are others like the woman who spent $34,000 on a dress, and another who found the perfect dress for $2,000 but was disappointed that she couldn’t ¿nd a more expensive one.” Peace Point has also brought The Bulloch Family Ranch, and Bake With Anna Olson t o MIPCOM, plus a pilot of Colin & Justin’s St reet Swap.
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TF1 HAS commissioned children’s cartoon Totally Spies! for a sixth season, to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the launch of the brand’s original incarnation as a social role-playing game. The cartoon, produced by Marathon Media — part of Zodiak Media — is also being sold internationally with several negotiations under way and signings already completed with Nickelodeon, Canadian network Teletoon and Disney in France. Celebrating the deals were (left to right): Ambroise Delorme and Nathalie Pinguet from TF1, Marathon Media’s Vincent Chalvon Demersay, Yann Labasque from TF1, Walt Disney’s Caterina Gonnelli-Linden, Carole Bonneau and John Rooney from Teletoon and Karen Vemeulen and David Michel from Zodiak Kids and Zodiak Media respectively.
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OOKERY writer and TV presenter Nigella Lawson is at MIPCOM for the ¿rst time, to launch her latest series, Nigellissima, to the international marketplace. Like the book of the same name, Nigellissima offers Lawson’s take on Italian cooking, inspired by a period spent living in Florence. Speaking with MIPCOM Daily News editor Julian Newby, Lawson described a remarkably relaxed approach to her television work, one that requires no scripts and seemingly precious little planning. “I never think of making anything for any particular audience, I just think about cooking the things that I love,” she said. “I don’t get the notion of strategy, and I’m not market-driven. I’m never, ever scripted. The director says ‘Action!’ and I babble. I say what I think and just do it. I don’t consider what I do to be a format, I don’t consider an audience any more than I sit and think about ratings.” Lack of structure increases risk, of course, hence the rigorous planning that normally applies to televsion production. So how does she explain her success — and longevity? “Since you’ve asked me the question I will struggle to answer it! I think that I am being a real person in a kitchen, cooking, and people who are watching it are cooking in exactly the same way, so I’m not on a pedestal telling people how to do things, I’m showing people how I do things and I think that people relate to that.” She added: “Television is a strange thing. On one hand it’s a totally arti¿cial medium in that obviously it’s not live, it couldn’t be done in real time. But TV is also a great phoniness detector, in that if you are not who you are, it comes across. At least I’d like to think it does.” Lawson has high praise for the small team that has worked with her for many years. “I’ve had the same crew forever, they’re my family,” she said. “They are the best in the business, I think. I always say to my director [Dominic Cyriax], that he’s got the ultimate ‘naffometer’, he will never let anything happen that will be embarrassing or not satisfy our need for quality.” Nigellissima, the book, is to be published in Italian — “that’s the biggest thrill of my life” — and Lawson said that the Italians seem to like her shows: “It probably helps that I look a bit Italian and also that Italians know I love their food.” Nigellissima, the series, is at MIPCOM with BBC Worldwide.
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TOP DRAMAS IN SEOUL AWARDS THIS year the Seoul Drama Awards have had 201 entries from 45 countries, including newcomers such as the Arab Emirates, Iceland, Estonia and Qatar. For SDA managing director Chongsuk Kim, the Seoul Drama Awards ceremony has a dual role to play, highlighting domestic drama as well as productions from around the world. “While the cultural and industrial values of Korean dramas are highly appreciated around the world, Korean viewers want to see TV dramas from elsewhere, and they get that through the SDA event,” Kim said. “We are very proud to say that the Seoul Drama Awards has a critical role in the improvement of the drama industry both inside and outside Korea.” Kim intends to further grow the international aspects of the awards: “Our ultimate goal is that everyone in drama production and distribution will start to consider the Seoul Drama Awards as an event that reflects trends in global TV dramas. We have been putting a lot of effort into turning our event into a meeting point between the Korean and foreign drama markets alongside our main aim of finding and rewarding high-calibre drama productions.”
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which has spread demand for Korean content across the globe — is continuing to bring a tidal surge of Korean talent to the international marketplace. Hong is in Cannes leading a delegation of some 100 Korean companies, with 60 being brought to MIPCOM speci¿cally by KOCCA. Korean games, formats and dramas have been breaking new sales records across the globe. The games industry alone makes up about half of the export income for Korea’s total content business. The Korean drama The Deep Rooted Tree recently sold to 11 countries, following the global success of such dramas as Jewel In The Palace and the animation Pororo The Little Penguin. “The story should al-
ways come first, technology second,” Hong said. “KOCCA is now into its fourth year of a highly successful mentoring programme titled The New Story Creation Project. We encourage young writers but we also bring them into contact with veteran producers who can help them bring the stories to market.” One successful drama to come out of the scheme is I Do, I Do — a mini-series that is now being broadcast on Korea’s MBC. Hong said that the digital revolution and the increasing sophistication of social networking are clearly enhancing what Korea has to offer. He pointed to the success of Psy’s video Gangnam Style which became an overnight sensation on YouTube and by the beginning of October had racked up more than 394 million views.
Made in Chile — launched in Cannes
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CINEMACHILE, the international marketing agency set up by Chile’s independent producers association APCT for its movie industry, has launched its TV equivalent at MIPCOM. Called MICH!TV, for Made In Chile Television, the new agency’s mission is to promote the fast-growing Chilean TV business internationally. It is in Cannes at the Chilean pavilion with nine production companies and a catalogue of TV content from 2009 to 2013. Although Chile’s independent producers have come to the market before as individual enterprises, MICH!TV represents the ¿rst time the country is present as an industry under one umbrella, Constanza Arena, CinemaChile’s executive director said. “Our independent cinema producers, who are respected worldwide, also work in the TV
industry and now TV producers are realising that they can get the same recognition.” Additionally, the Chilean National Television Council offers funding for international co-productions. In Latin America, the Chile economy might be smaller than Brazil, Mexico and Argentina, but MICH!TV’s message is that it has the resources to be a major exporter of TV talent, products and deals. The 2011 thriller Profugos has been screened on HBO Latina; popular Chilean telenovelas Esperanza and Dama Y Obrero are independent productions; kids shows like 31 Minutos and Zumbastico Fantastico are on panregional channels Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network; while Con Que Suenas, by Mi Chica Productions won the 2011 International Emmy for Best Children’s Programme.
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Award-winning France 5 takes cheeky documentary journey RESH from being awarded the Best TV Channel Grand Prix 2012 by CB News Media, France 5’s Caroline Behar, head of documentaries for France 5 and head of acquisitions and international co-productions for the France Televisions Group, is at MIPCOM looking for shows that ¿t the channel’s remit of broadcasting entertaining and accessible documentaries and current affairs. “Quality and insightfulness are very important to France 5’s channel identity, and that’s undoubtedly one of the reasons why we have such a loyal audience,” Behar said. “The award consolidates the channel’s position as leader in the public service sector, and acknowledges a particularly successful year of record ratings, television indus-
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HELLO KITTY IN ITALIAN DEAL INTERNATIONAL pre-school entertainment channel JimJam is to be the exclusive Italian broadcaster of a number of Hello Kitty titles following a series of new acquisition deals with distributors Medianetwork Communication and DYNIT. The channel has secured rights to La Fiabe Di Hello Kitty, Kitty And Mimi’s New Umbrella, Lesson & Numbers With Usahana, and Parenting With Cinnamon from Medianetwork Communication. Further titles acquired from DYNIT include Hello Kitty Stump Village, Hello Kitty Fantasy Apple Forest, Hello Kitty Mystery Apple Forest, Keroppi, Usahana, Chi’s Sweet Home and Cuties. Commenting on the acquisitions, Kathy Fairbairn, director of programming for JimJam said: “We are thrilled to announce that Hello Kitty has a new home in Italy on JimJam. It’s easy to see why this iconic show is so popular with our pre-school audience. The franchise is not only appealing to children of all ages, but its familiarity with parents and siblings makes it unmissable viewing for the whole family.”
try awards, and innovation.” France 5 was also awarded the Albert Londres prize in 2012 for Zambia: Who Bene¿ts From The Copper? “We know we have to push the boundaries of factual and documentaries,” Behar said. “So last season we created It’s A Bare-Faced Cheek! (Nus et Culottes), which was produced by Bonne Pioche, where two
back-packers who set off on their journey with absolutely nothing, not even clothes, then ¿ nd that people are astonishingly ready to help.” France 5 will also be broadcasting the eight-part BBC series History Of The World, It’s Good To Be President from AETN and Battle For The Cell, a France 5 co-production with the BBC and Discovery Channel.
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VICKIE Corner, managing director of UK independent V&S Entertainment, and Fernando Hernandez, acquisitions executive at Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, are jubilant as RTVE agrees to buy the third series of Everything’s Rosie, V&S’ pre-school HD animation show. Series Three (26 x 11 mins) will air in early 2013 on RTVE’s digital terrestrial channel CLANTV and is part of a package that also includes a 22-minute one-off special, which is currently in production. The V&S-RTVE partnership extends back to 2011 when CLANTV transmitted the first and second series. But after clinching a 64% share among Spain’s four- to six-year-olds, RTVE has come back for more.
Basque producers highlight pilots BASQUE Audiovisual, the association of TV producers in Spain’s Basque region, is showcasing four pilot programmes
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produced via Eiken — Basque Audiovisual Cluster, a privatepublic funding initiative designed to assist the next generation’s TV talent. The pilots include Mom, Vote 4 Me!, a talent contest by production ¿rm Pausoka, and competition show Tu O Yo (You Or Me?) from 3koma. They have been funded by EikenBank, which is collaborating with 10 local TV companies, including 3koma, Bilbovision, Canal Bizkaia, K2000
and Pausoka, with the help of the Basque government. They invite aspiring producers, who must have no ongoing experience in the business, to submit ideas to EikenBank via its website. The participating production companies create the selected projects and EikenBank oversees the ¿nancing during all the production stages. EITB, the Basque region’s leading TV broadcaster, acquires the completed shows and broadcasts them.
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Malaysian Government in drive to boost local TV and film industry HE MALAYSIAN Government is leading a drive to grow the country’s local ¿lm and digital content industry. Con¿rming its commitment, secretary-general of the Malaysian Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture, His Excellency Dato’ Sri Kamaruddin Siaraf, is heading up the Malaysian delegation at MIPCOM. The National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS) — which oversees the television and ¿lm industry and reports directly to the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture — has joined forces with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) and Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), in association with the Malaysian External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), Filem Negara Malaysia, Performance Management & Delivery Unit (PEMANDU), Creative Content Association of Malaysia (CCAM), Creative Content Industry Guild (CCIG) and MyCreative Ventures, to engage with the global marketplace. Kamaruddin said: “Forty Malaysian content companies, including broadcasters and distributors as well as feature ¿lm, television and animation producers, are offering 200 new programmes for distribution or acquisition — double the number last year.” Malaysia has also launched a Film In Malaysia Incentive for foreign companies involved in location ¿lming and/or post-production in Malaysia, Kamaruddin said: “This will prove to be a huge boost for both local and
T JONATHAN LIM, CEO AND PRESIDENT, CRIMSON FOREST ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, CHINA “CRIMSON Forest Entertainment Group is an international television, film and animation production company based in Beijing. We have successfully developed content for local and international release. “MIPCOM represents the largest entertainment content market, which provides Crimson Forest with new opportunities to create strategic partnerships, launch new content and research future trends in the global market. We hope to meet potential production partners — broadcasters, international sales agents and production houses — interested in developing content for the growing Chinese entertainment market, as well as international broadcasters who are looking at buying content from China. We are launching a children’s animated TV series at MIPCOM called The Jeezles, and searching for any potential business partners or broadcasters. “We have existing partnerships with local TV stations and film companies in China, such as CCTV, Hu Nan Satellite and China Film Group, the biggest film production company in China. “Crimson Forest is a diverse team, fluent in English and Chinese, and we specialise in executing our clients’ China strategy and successful entry. We have years of experience and success in helping our clients bridge the gap between east and west.”
His Excellency Dato’ Sri Kamaruddin Siaraf: “ready to co-operate”
foreign producers and productions, because feature ¿lms, animation, documentaries, TV productions and commercials will be eligible for a 30% cash rebate on audited in-country spend, as long as they qualify for the minimum spend criteria.” The rebate will be effective from January 2013. Kamaruddin added: “Malaysia is proud to have a healthy creative economy. With the strong commitment by the Malaysian Government, the Malaysian creative talents we have brought to Cannes are ready to co-operate with the international production and distribution community at MIPCOM.”
UNODC helps access the inaccessible UNODC — The United Nations Of¿ce on Drugs and Crime — is at MIPCOM to raise awareness of its role as a production partner for documentary-makers looking for access to inaccessible or hostile locations. Alun Jones, UNODC’s chief of communication and advocacy, said: “UNODC operates in all regions of the world through a network of field offices on projects to promote health, security and justice, UNODC’s Alun Jones: ranging from counter“in a unique position to piracy programmes in facilitate access”
the Somali Basin to ¿ghting human traf¿cking in Latin America and South East Asia. Our work puts us in a unique position to facilitate access to locations and people with stories to tell that would otherwise be very hard to reach.” The UN agency is mandated to assist member states in their struggle against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism. The three pillars of its programme are: ¿eld-based technical co-operation projects to help counteract illicit drugs, crime and terrorism; research and analytical work to increase knowledge and understanding of drug and crime issues; and assisting member states in the rati¿cation and implementation of international treaties and the development of domestic legislation.
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point of view of kids that dealt with the issues that they have to cope with, which was my wife Linda Schuyler’s idea,” Stohn said. “And that turned into the series Degrassi Junior High, which was followed by Degrassi High, then Degrassi: Next Generation, and now we’re calling simply Degrassi.”
Pilot celebrates 20 years of travelling the world
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ILOT Productions is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Àagship Globe Trekker series — now in its 16th incarnation — with a Cannes party and an eightpart mini-series paying homage to what is claimed to be the longest running, most widely watched indie travel series ever made. “Globe Trekker is very much a MIPCOM creature, so it’s ¿tting we should celebrate its 20th birthday here,” said Ian Cross, Pilot’s
managing director, who has attended every market since he launched the show in Cannes in the early Nineties. It is now aired in over 100 territories. “When we started, there were no mobile phones and no internet, never mind HD, widescreen TV, DVD, 3D,” Cross recalls. “It was a very, very different world.” Some things, however, do not change — such as the international audience’s appetite for quality travel reportage. Pilot’s Globe Trekker Around The World mini-series, shot to mark the anniversary, sees the show’s most popular hosts, past and present, embark on a roundthe-world marathon. From Route 66 to the Silk Road, from conquistadors to cannibals, the new series “has more travelling and more history” than the traditional Globe Trekker format, Cross explained.
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Easel TV thinks smart with direct-to-consumer TV app H E F R A M EWOR K for a connected TV app that allows content owners to bypass traditional broadcast and VOD services and sell content directly to consumers on smart television sets is launched at MIPCOM by VOD company Easel TV. The concept was developed by Easel with payment business PayWizard, video technology specialists
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GETTING IN ON CHIMPACT ACT UK-BASED TV producer Studio Liddell has agreed to adapt Chimpact, a rapidly growing mobile app game created by British digital-entertainment firm Yippee Entertainment, demonstrating the melding of the TV and games sectors. Launched in August, Chimpact is a one-touch downloadable casual mobile-game app. The globally distributed game is currently playable on Apple’s iPad and iPhone devices, on BlackBerry’s Playbook, Sony’s PlayStation VITA console, and the Nintendo DS. It will soon be extended to mobile devices powered by Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Google’s Android operating systems. “Studio Liddell aims to ensure that the crafting that is already in place for the gaming app is met with high-quality writing and animation, plus added extra appeal through second-screen interactivity and potential online-world activity,” said Studio Liddell managing director Ian Liddell. “And we see licensing and merchandising opportunities.”
M2B’s Samsung tie-up has WOW factor M2B WORLD Asia Pacific (M2B), and Samsung Electronics have forged a technological partnership, under the brand name WOWtv. It allows both companies to distribute content
to over 130 countries worldwide through Samsung smart TVs and mobile devices. M2B has signed an agreement with Samsung Asia to provide rich media and entertainment
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content for Samsung’s 2011 and 2012 smart-TV models and Samsung Galaxy devices. The WOWtv app is available for download through the Samsung App store. “Samsung is committed to providing the highest quality of entertainment experience and viewing options to consumers, and with the broad range of content that M2B offers, we can now provide consumers with long hours of entertainment both at home and on the go, taking the multi-screen concept to a whole new level,” said Christopher Tarr, Samsung’s head of contents & services, Southeast Asia, Oceania, and Taiwan.
Rightster gets teeth into Viral deal THE STARS of the most successful viral YouTube video of all time – Harry and Charlie of Charlie Bit Me – will soon be seen in new original content thanks to a partnership between Viral Spiral and Rightster. The deal will see Rightster, a video distribution and monetisation specialist, investing in Viral Spiral, which holds the rights to many of the most
popular online viral videos, to create a new entity, Viral Studios. This will co-produce and ¿nance new digital content with Rightster Studios, Rightster’s new online production ¿nance arm. Rightster now has exclusive distribution rights to all of Viral Spiral’s YouTube content. The aim is to develop YouTube audiences and sponsorship opportu-
nities and increase off-YouTube syndication. The London-based company has also announced Donagh O’Malley as its new global vice-president of platforms and US general manager. O’Malley, an ex-director of Google TV and formerly in charge of YouTube’s premium content business in the UK, will be based in New York.
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big events were popular with all of the audience demographics.” The viewing increases came during a period which has also seen the rapid roll-out of new devices such as smartphones, tablets, PVR players and internet-enabled (smart) TVs. “Between the ¿rst half of 2011 and the ¿rst half of 2012, sales of smart TVs in Germany have increased by 74%, while the UK now has 2.7 million tablets compared to less than a million over the same period last year,” Braun said. “Smartphones also continue their progression, with 5.6 million in France compared to 4.4 million over the ¿rst semester 2011. For many, smartphones and tablets are indispensable companions when watching TV. In France,
Sales of smart TVs in Germany have increased by 74% more than one in three (34.9%) tablet owners use it to watch TV.” According to Braun, however, TV has nothing to fear from new and emerging technologies. “New devices are creating great opportunities for people to follow TV content wherever they are and to connect more deeply with the content they like.” He also said that there is evidence of increased PVR usage in markets like the UK and France. This is a positive and negative for established players. On the one hand, it is an opportunity for viewers to catch up on shows they miss — with Doctor Who in the UK and House in France both bene¿tting. On the other, it is an opportunity for challenger brands to enter the market.
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Mosfilm in the right place to find new clients for film catalogue EADING Russian studio Mos¿lm is in Cannes this week and has made winning new business a priority, according to director-general Karen Shakhnazarov: “MIPCOM provides a unique opportunity to meet colleagues from all over the world, make new business contacts, present our products and services, share experience and develop a better understanding of the newest trends in the content market. Our present objective is winning new clients, and we believe our presence at MIPCOM will increase our visibility and secure us new partners.” Shakhnazarov, who oversees an iconic library of 2,500 feature films, said Mosfilm will “seek contacts with new clients who may have interest in our catalogue, such as TV channels and video distributors. However, we also welcome production companies to whom we can offer professional services. Mos¿lm is a modern content production hub, equipped with advanced technologies.”
L MARINA ARTEMIEVA, DIRECTOR GENERAL AND PRODUCER GENERAL WORLD FASHION, WORLD FASHION CHANNEL, RUSSIA “WORLD Fashion Channel (WFC) broadcasts throughout Russia and Europe. It is now beginning a gentle introduction into Australian and Asia Pacific markets, and we have ambitious plans to launch in the USA and Canada. “I was at MIPTV as a delegate and I appreciated the business atmosphere. I could connect with colleagues from other countries, gain useful and interesting information about industry directions and share our ideas. “After that we really wanted to make a statement about our channel, and we now have a big stand. Our distribution director is ready to talk about the development and distribution of WFC and our production team is shooting a set of interviews devoted to the exhibition. We also plan to connect with our current and potential partners, to tell them about our new projects and plans for a new TV season. We hope to attract more companies, operators, and active market participants for co-productions, broadcasting distribution and potential co-operation not only for TV channel distribution but also for interesting TV projects. “We are leaving the narrow segmented format, and are trying to make our channel not only beautiful quality but also add interesting interviews and high-quality competitive programmes. We participate in social events, designer visits and shows, hold our own awards, and organise the visits of celebrities, including Sarah Jessica Parker and Dominic Cooper.”
Karen Shakhnazarov: “MIPCOM provides a unique opportunity”
According to Shakhnazarov, the last year has been a busy one for his company, which was formed in 1924: “In 2012, Mos¿lm produced a new feature ¿lm about World War II and restored several classic ¿lms. We’ve also continued to ¿t out the studios with new technologies and equipment. Of course, our business has been affected by the shifts in the content market. We recognise the necessity for new approaches and business patterns, and believe MIPCOM will be instrumental to that end.”
GERMAN kids and youth channel KiKA has snapped up two titles from producer and distributor DHX Media. How To Be Indie is a tween live-action series. “It fits perfectly into the channel’s main theme for 2013: the extremely important issue of integration and inclusion,” said Sebastian Debertin (pictured left), KiKA’s head of fiction, acquisition and co-productions. Music-centric series dirtgirlworld — featuring a blend of live action, animation, photo-montage and illustration — aims to educate an older pre-school audience about environmental issues and nature. “Well-written, insightful series always find homes internationally and have long-term appeal,” said Josh Scherba (right), senior vice-president of distribution at DHX Media.
GAUMONT’s sales for Hannibal GAUMONT International Television (GIT) will be opening a nice bottle of Chianti to toast a varied bouquet of pre-sales for its 13part series Hannibal. Canal+ (France) is taking the 13-part series for its subscription service, City TV (Canada) will show it free-to-air and Nordisk (Scandinavia) has acquired DVD rights. Starring Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne and Mads Mikkelsen, the drama explores the early relationship between the infamous character, psychiatrist-turned-serial-killer Dr Hannibal Lecter, and Will Graham, a young FBI criminal pro¿ler. “We are delighted to have finalised these deals on the eve of MIPCOM,” said Erik Pack, head of international distribution and co-production at GIT. “As evidenced by these sales, Hannibal is proving to be an incredibly successful and sought-after title across all forms of media in all parts of the world. We look forward to closing more deals at
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MIPCOM.” The drama is in production for NBC in the US and is being co-produced by Sony/AXN. German’s ProSieben has also already signed up.
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HE UK arm of History channel has commissioned a one-off documentary telling the story of the end of apartheid in South Africa. Produced by Combined Artists, Miracle Rising: South Africa will be broadcast internationally by History parent company A+E Networks UK from next February. Miracle Rising: South Africa covers the transformation of the country’s political landscape following the fall of apartheid
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Sweet success for Indian film THE DEBUT feature from two Indian film-making sisters has travelled from rural India, via a theatrical run at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, to MIPCOM. The last part of that journey is thanks to Indigo Film & Television, which holds worldwide rights to the ¿lm in all media. Little Box Of Sweets was described by critics as “a pleasant, lushly shot ¿lm” and “a touching, confidently told love story”; it
chronicles the struggle of young Indian woman Asha against the race and class boundaries as she is drawn to westerner Seth. Seth is played by Joe Anderson, in his ¿rst ¿lm role. He has since appeared in Control and The Crazies, and will soon be in the second installment of the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn. Sheenu and Meneka Das play Little Box’s two lead female roles; Sheenu also produced, while Meneka wrote and directed.
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SHAFTESBURY has brought to market the first project from Vancouver-based Bron Animation. Mighty Mighty Monsters, based on a series of books by Sean Patrick O’Reilly, comprises two 44-minute animated comedy specials — Halloween Havoc and New Fears Eve. The specials feature three movie monster tweens — Frankenstein-esque Frankie, Vampire Vlad and Wolfman Gunnar. After pulling a prank, the trio is expelled from Monster Academy and sent to a Human Immersion programme at a middle school where they must adapt to terrifying human teen culture. A third special called Howl At The Moon is due next year. Shaftesbury also has a new one-hour documentary Why Men Cheat, which investigates the powerful men who endanger marriages, reputations and careers in their quest for illicit affairs. Mighty Mighty Monsters (Shaftesbury)
AMEBA TV DIGITAL distributor Ameba is highlighting RGH Entertainment’s CGI-animated series Ben & Izzy. The series is currently airing on Cartoon Network Arabia, and as in-flight entertainment on Emirates and Qatar Airlines. The story follows two inquisitive 11-year-old boys — Ben from the US and Izzy from Jordan — as they travel back in time to meet historical figures and visit landmarks with their archaeologist grandfathers, and grow to appreciate each other and their respective cultures along the way. TRICON FILMS & TELEVISION TRICON’s MIPCOM slate features six new titles and over 35 new hours of scripted comedy, lifestyle and factual content. New titles include: Comedy Bang Bang (10 x 30 mins), hosted by Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts, and featuring character cameos and sketches with some of the biggest names in Hollywood including Zach Galifianakis, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks and Jon Hamm; Bunk! (10 x 30 mins), a game show in which a trio of comedians compete in a series of bizarre challenges to win surreal prizes; I Didn’t Do It (7 x 60 mins), a factual series that exposes wrongful convictions; Satan a feature-length documentary exploring the role of the devil in the modern age; Restaurant Takeover (26 x 60 mins), where two restaurant industry top guns help rescue a failing restaurant; and Birth Of A Car (2 x 60 mins), which tells the stories of modern vehicles from concept to creation. Returning series include Ex-Wives Of Rock (14 x 30 mins) and Love Trap (50 x 30 mins). Comedy Bang Bang (Tricon Films & Television)
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TOONBOX ENTERTAINMENT TOONBOX and Redrover have partnered with Gulfstream Pictures to develop feature film The Nut Job. The project stars the characters Surly Squirrel and Buddy the rat, who made their debut in an award-winning short film Nuts & Robbers. ToonBox’s and Redrover’s animated two-minute interstitials of The Beet Party are also making an appearance on the Nintendo 3DS system, available on the eshop application, where they can be downloaded-to-own throughout Europe and Australia and watched in autostereoscopic 3D.
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MONTREAL’s production house Echo Media has brought Toopy And Binoo to market. Airing on Treehouse and TeleQuebec in Canada, the first two series have been licensed to broadcasters in the majority of territories worldwide and dubbed into 28 languages. Due early next year, season three is in production, which will mix puppets with background animation. Working on the series is professional puppeteer Frank Meschkuleit, who was trained by Jim Henson and is the voice of Toopy. Four mobile phone/tablet apps are also in production. SI ENTERTAINMENT
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ON SI Entertainment’s HD slate this MIPCOM are: Live Here Buy This (26 x 30 mins), which tantalises homeowners with enviable properties around the world that match the cost of their current home; Buy Herself (14 x 30 mins), an advice show for women buying realestate; Open Doors: The Secret Life Of Luxury Hotels (6 x 60 mins), which includes profiles of The Savoy in London and The Park Plaza in New York; Operation Oblivion (1 x 60 mins), the true story of a World War II suicide mission; The Ron James Show (35 x 30 mins and 4 x 60 mins specials), a scripted sketch comedy series; home renovation show Leave It To Bryan (new 52 x 30 mins, complete seasons 65 x 30 mins); and Pick A Puppy (new 16 x 30 mins, complete seasons 48 x 30 mins).
TWO NEW live-action tween series top the MIPCOM bill for Cookie Jar. The Jadagrace Show is a live-action series starring Jadagrace as a 12-year-old musical sensation whose amateur videos go viral. A TV network offers her the chance to produce her own show for kids, incorporating music, dance, and comedy. Produced through Fun World Media, 14 episodes are in the can with 12 more episodes in production. Deadtime Stories is an anthology series based on books by Annette and Gina Cascone. The spooky stories cover subjects ranging from hauntings to monsters and supernatural occurrences.
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PICTURE BOX DISTRIBUTION PICTURE Box has added new shows from various producers to its MIPCOM catalogue. TVOKids programmes include Tumbletown, Math Mystery, Drew’s Magic Tricks and The Big Escape. From Mountain Road come design/home-focused series Lofty Ideas, Broken House Chronicles, Me, My House & I, Design U, The Restaurant Adventures Of Caroline And Dave and Sheltered. Sinking Ship Entertainment’s new live-action/CGI kids’ series Anne’s Droids focuses on genius kid scientist Anne, her assistant Nick and Anne’s android creations. Currently in production, Picture Box is meeting with financing partners and buyers for pre-sales. Another new Sinking Ship programme, Giver, is a playground makeover series that follows 10 kids as they make their community a better place to play. Picture Box also has Worldwide Bag Media’s Get Stuffed, a competition series with extreme challenges and outrageous food, and Anaid Productions’ The Liquidator.
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ENDEMOL UK comes to Cannes with The Bodyguard, in which contestants train to become a celebrity bodyguard through entertaining games and challenges. The company also brings World Games, which sees two celebrities compete in extreme challenges set in exotic locations; Love Is In The Air, which reunites loved ones living in far flung countries; and Plan B, which brings people together to make music over the internet, creating original tracks that are immediately available for download. Endemol Netherlands, meanwhile, is prioritising Your Face Sounds Familiar, in which celebrities perform as iconic singers — the catch being that this could be someone older, younger or even of the opposite sex..
SEA RESCUE (39 x 30 mins), hosted by Good Morning America’s Sam Champion, follows SeaWorld’s wildlife rescue teams as they save, rehabilitate and return marine animals to the wild. Stories include airlifting a manatee by helicopter out of the Everglades, replicating mother’s milk for an orphaned gray whale, and creating a back brace for a stranded pilot whale with scoliosis. The Los Angeles-based company is also showcasing the true crime series, Homicide Hunter (16 x 60 mins), a behind-the-scenes look at Joe Kenda, one of the most successful detectives of all time.
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FLAME DISTRIBUTION AUSTRALIAN independent Flame Distribution has added 70 hours of factual and lifestyle content to its slate. Titles include culinary Australian road trip Lyndey & Herbie’s Moveable Feast (8 x 24 mins); James And Thom’s Pizza Pilgrimage (6 x 22 mins), which follows two brother chefs on a tour of Italy; Dream Of Dakar (4 x 25 mins), the story of an under-resourced off-road motorcycle team; Grand Tours Of Scotland (18 x 29 mins); New Zealand From Above (4 x 43 mins); The First Fagin (1 x 80 mins/55mins); and The Last Dogs Of Winter (1 x 97 mins/52 mins), which looks at a man’s quest to save the world’s rarest dog breed.
DEUTSCHE WELLE ART BEATS (7 x 30 mins) is a documentary series that examines all aspects of culture from an international perspective. Among the topics covered are street musicians, graffiti artists, samba and tango virtuosos, and masters of caricature and satire.
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AFTER two seasons that aired worldwide and two liveaction films produced by The Walt Disney Company Germany, Lilly The Witch returns in a new series (26 x 22 mins), targeted at six- to nine-year-olds. Based on the best-selling children’s books about a brave girl and a tiny dragon, the series is produced by Trixter Entertainment in co-operation with broadcasters WDR and ORF, and production companies Dor Film in Austria and AT-Production in Belgium. Germany’s ohm:tv is responsible for worldwide distribution.
PERNEL Media brings a slate of original programmes to MIPCOM, including Virgins Attack, a coming-of-age tale about four young men travelling across Florida during the spring break. The French indie also brings Street Cuisine, an original format that blends cooking and comedy. A series of 25 x 30 mins episodes has been produced for the D8 channel, where it airs daily.
ZODIAK RIGHTS NEW TO the Zodiak Rights catalogue is documentary Aung San Suu Kyi: The Choice, produced by Ronachan Films & Finestripe Productions. The one-hour programme, directed by Angus Macqueen, profiles the Nobel prize-winning leader of the opposition movement for democracy in Burma.
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CABLEREADY LOST Treasure Hunters (6 x 60 mins) follows a group of prospectors as they journey to an ancient Indian city, known as the possible source for the world’s most valuable diamonds. It is among 320 hours of new programming brought to MIPCOM by CABLEready. Other highlights include The Night Patrol, a factual entertainment crime series set in Finland, and Struggle For Justice (4 x 60 mins/US rights only), which tells the stories of individuals convicted of crimes they did not commit.
ENTERTAINMENT ONE ENTERTAINMENT One has unveiled several new dramas and returning hit series at MIPCOM. The package includes action series Primeval: New World, drama series Saving Hope and The Spiral, action-thriller series Conspiracy 365, and the Hallmark Channel TV movie Tom Dick & Harriet. Entertainment One has also brought new seasons of critically acclaimed hit shows The Walking Dead, Hell On Wheels, Haven, Call Me Fitz and Rookie Blue.
JANSON MEDIA AWARD-winning documentary Minds In The Water (1 x 86 mins/1 x 60 mins), which follows the quest of professional surfer Dave Rastovich and friends to protect dolphins, whales and the oceans they all share, is being premiered at MIPCOM by Janson Media. Minds In The Water features a five-year adventure spanning the globe from Australia to the Galapagos, Tonga, California, Alaska and Japan, following Rastovich’s quest to activate his community to help protect the ocean and its inhabitants.
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XILAM XILAM has introduced new animation series Hubert & Takako (26 x 30 mins/78 x 7 mins) at the market. Hubert the pig aspires to be a modern clean-cut guy but Takako the outof-control fly persistently puts little glitches in Hubert’s well-oiled cogs. Takako is messing up his plans and worse still, she accepts him just the way he is — but isn’t that what true friendship is about?
Minds In The Water (Janson Media)
JOHN MCLEAN MEDIA INDEPENDENT distributor John McLean Media has brought an arsenal of new programming to MIPCOM, focusing on adventure sports, business and environmental sustainability. Content includes: 30 x 30 mins episodes of adventure sports series Adrenalina; the Global Village Project, a documentary on female refugee; and 32 half-hours of The Green Economy. All are available in HD.
FOOTHILL ENTERTAINMENT Hubert & Takako (Xilam)
CMT CABLE network CMT is launching Dog (working title), a new unscripted series that showcases Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth Chapman’s journey into the American heartland to help fellow bondsmen and bounty hunters in the business of catching fugitives. CMT has ordered 10 one-hour episodes of the series from Ben Silverman’s multimedia entertainment studio Electus, and the series is expected to premiere next year on CMT.
FOOTHILL Entertainment has brought a promo for its new animated buddy comedy Raz & Benny. It is also relaunching the classic animated series Barney, produced by the late legendary director John Coates (The Snowman and its soon-to-be-released sequel Snowman And The Snowdog). New programming from Foothill also includes family comedy drama series My Momtourage And Me and Boy And The Dinosaur.
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ISLAMIC FINANCE: IS THIS THE ANSWER? While conventional banking continues to make headlines for scandals and big bonuses, Islamic Finance is growing by 20 percent annually and attracting the support of nonMuslims worldwide. Bloomberg TV’s six part series, “Faith in Finance,” takes an in-depth look at this $1.3 trillion rising industry sector and its effect on the wider financial landscape.
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CONTENT TELEVISION NEW THRILLER The Bletchley Circle (3 x 60 mins) from World Productions is brought to MIPCOM by Content Television. With a flair for code breaking and the intelligence skills gained at the UK’s top security HQ, Bletchley Park, four women become the unlikely investigators of a string of grisly murders in post-war London.
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TOEI ANIMATION DRILAND (13 x 60 mins), an animation series from Japan’s Toei, brings to life the storyline from the game on which it is based. Princess Mikoto and her band of heroes are on a quest to find the most revered treasure in Driland. In the process, they encounter mysterious monsters and discover a cloud of evil that is making its way across the land, threatening its very existence.
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TF1 INTERNATIONAL FRANCE’s TF1 International brings a wide-ranging catalogue to MIPCOM. Top picks include No Limit (6 x 52 mins), which tells the story of an undercover agent on the Riviera, who is battling traffickers and a lifethreatening disease; and Bullet In The Face (6 x 26 mins/3 x 42 mins), an off-beat comedy thriller featuring a criminal who is forced to work undercover after his face is altered by injury. Also on offer is The Cop, The Ex And The Idiot (1 x 96 mins), a comedy about a detective who travels to the Riviera for an undercover mission. But at the airport, he runs into a childhood buddy who is so thrilled to see him that he decides to tag along. No Limit (TF1 International)
WARSAW-based MMB is in production on a new documentary series for A+E Networks UK’s Crime & Investigation channel — the first such commission for a Polish company. MMB, which comes to MIPCOM on the back of a contract to provide production services for ITV Sport’s Euro 2012 Football Championship broadcast in the UK, is also the producer of the longest-running documentary series in Poland.
OPTOMEN INTERNATIONAL IN KEVIN McCloud’s Man Made Home, UK design expert Kevin McCloud questions whether the modern spaces we inhabit are costing us our individuality, sense of creative fun and freedom to invent. In the series (4 x 60 mins), McCloud fulfills a boyhood ambition by creating his own haven — a customised shed that he fills with incredible objects of his own making. He is then forced to ask whether simple would really be better.
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TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION THE MIPCOM line-up includes Graceland, an ensemble drama that follows a diverse group of FBI, DEA and US Customs agents. The team finds itself living undercover in a beach house seized from drug lords in southern California. The roommates must solve cases for their respective agencies, while keeping the peace in their own household. Also from the drama slate is The Americans, set in the Cold War during the 1980s. The action centres on two KGB spies, who are posing as a couple in suburban Washington DC. The New Normal is a new comedy series about Bryan and David, a successful Beverly Hills couple anxious to become dads. Into their life comes Goldie, a single mother looking to escape her dead-end life. Goldie quickly becomes the guys’ surrogate — and possibly the girl of their dreams. And there’s more comedy from Ben And Kate, which follows the antics of pair of odd siblings and their friends.
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UK INDEPENDENT Archie Productions has been commissioned by BBC Two to produce the 60-minute documentary The Sea King: Britain’s Flying Past. The film celebrates the helicopter designed to save lives as well as fight battles that is approaching retirement from service. Host John Sergeant presents the story of the helicopter, which has more Royal connections than any other, with both Prince Andrew and Prince William becoming Sea King pilots.
PARAMAX Films is producing six programmes of concerts from a jazz festival that it is organising in Israel this month. The concerts, produced for Mezzo TV, will feature Yaron Herman, Eli Degibri, Amos Hoffman, Gilad Abro, Avi Lebovitch and Omri Mor. The performances will be filmed in clubs in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, in multicam HD with high quality 5.1 surround sound.
TUBA ENTERTAINMENT KOREA’s Tuba Entertainment is highlighting its animation series Larva (104 x 90 secs) at MIPCOM. The 3D series features an impetuous red worm and his gluttonous yellow friend, who live in a gutter on 52 Street. Season two of the series is set to air next year.
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Yaron Herman, soon to be filmed for Mezzo TV
SMALL Hands In The Big War (8 x 25 mins/HD) is a series about the First World War for children and teens, brought to MIPCOM by Germany’s Looks Film & Television. Using reconstructions, colourised archive film and animation, each episode examines children in different countries to show how the Great War changed their lives. Looks is also prioritising two history documentaries. Author Christoph Weinert portrays Adolf Hitler’s career from the viewpoint of First World War hero Field Marshal Hindenburg. In the 1932 elections, Hindenburg beat his rival candidate Hitler. Why he later became instrumental in the ascent of the Nazi leader is also examined in the film. The second project is an indepth study of the life and legacy of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin.
STRIX TELEVISION NEW REALITY series Double Wedding (12 x 45 mins) features two couples that are about to tie the knot. Though they have different ideas about what they want, the challenge is to have one wedding and to agree on all the details. Produced by Strix Denmark, Botox Or Broccoli (6 x 23 mins) helps two people who are unhappy with their appearance to look younger. One person opts for diet changes, exercise and alternative treatments to achieve a younger look; the other goes for fillers, laser and facial surgery. The participants are then judged by a panel, which tries to guess their real age.
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THE RIVER Rhine connects and divides six countries — Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands. It is also one of the busiest waterways in the world. The Rhine Story (5 x 52 mins), brought to MIPCOM by Germany’s Vidicom, looks at the conflicting interests of industry and the environment, from the work of an archaeologist studying Lake Constance in the Alps to the life of a shepherd living in the Rhine delta near Rotterdam. The company is also making a 52-minute 3D special about the great European river. Both the series and special will be delivered in 2013.
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VERIA LIVING WORLDWIDE VERIA is in town with the second season of Yogi Cameron: A Model Guru, part of a catalogue totalling 1,100 hours of programming focused on fitness, yoga, healthy living, cooking and related topics. The 26 x 60 mins series features the model turned spiritual healer Yogi Cameron, who treats people with health issues by using yoga and Ayurveda, a 5,000-year-oldsystem of medicine and healing.
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CYBER GROUP STUDIOS THREE series top the roster for France’s Cyber Group Studios. Zou (52 x 11 mins), co-produced with Scrawl Studios, tells the story of a lovable five-year old zebra and his family, who live next door to his best friend, Elzee. With the help of his family and friends, Zou learns about the world in which he is growing up. Mademoiselle Zazie (78 x 7 mins), also co-produced with Scrawl, is a contemporary comedy featuring seven-year-old best friends Zazie and Max, and their gang of pals who live by the seaside. My Goldfish Is Evil (26 x 24 mins), produced by Sardine Productions for CBC and SRC in Canada, chronicles the adventures of a young boy and his pet, Admiral Bubbles — a talking goldfish who would like to be a criminal genius.
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NPO SALES THE WESTWICK Four: The Disappearance Of Bo Monti (10 x 30 mins) is a youth-skewed drama about three children and a dog who go in search of a missing pop singer. Netherlands-based NPO Sales also brings the documentaries Backlight: Power To The People (1 x 52 mins), which looks at the phenomenon of citizen groups that band together to secure cost-effective energy, insurance and healthcare; and Backlight: The Promised City (1 x 50 mins), which profiles Bashar Masri, a Palestinian millionaire who is building a model city 25 km from Jerusalem. Dina Between Four Walls (1 x 50 mins) is the story of a modern-day Anne Frank in hiding from a Muslim fatwa against her father.
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Yogi Cameron: A Model Guru (Veria Living Worldwide)
SHORELINE’s film catalogue for MIPCOM includes Born To Hate, which revolves around the taboo relationship between Parma, the grandson of a Hindu politician running for election, and Zoya, the daughter of the Muslim politician who currently holds the post that Parma’s grandfather desperately wants. Also on offer is Magic Boys, a comedy about two unemployed men who find themselves with a lucrative contract to become strippers; and 7 Cajas, the story of a 17-year-old delivery boy in Paraguay who is caught up in a crime while trying to deliver a mysterious box.
BABYFIRST LOS ANGELES-based BabyFirst, a baby-focused TV channel and new-media company, has a lineup of educational and entertaining programming for young children and their parents. Its programming airs on Samsung’s Learning Hub Education Service in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Korea and Singapore, and will become available globally in 25 countries by the end of the year. The Westwick Four: The Disappearance Of Bo Monti (NPO Sales)
Born To Hate (Shoreline Entertainment)
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product neWs NBCUNIVERSAL NBCUNIVERSAL format Top Chef pits professional chefs against each other in culinary challenges, as they battle it out for a grand prize and the title of Top Chef. The show, which originated on US cable channel Bravo (part of NBCUniversal), has aired for 10 seasons, with seasons 11 and 12 confirmed. It has also spawned two spin-off series: Top Chef: Just Desserts and Top Chef Masters. Top Chef has also been sold to Portugal and Romania. In Portugal, the 13 x 75 mins series, hosted by Portuguese celebrity Silvia Alberto, is produced by CBV and premiered on pubcaster RTP in August. In Romania, it is currently airing on country’s largest broadcaster, Antena1.
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DAEHAN’s catalogue is headed by two 52-minute HD documentaries. Spiders, Its Hidden Warrior looks at the creatures’ incredible survival techniques as they weave their webs to hunt, mate and protect their eggs. Winter Fishermen follows the hardy men who fish in an ice lake called Chaganhu — the largest freshwater lake in northern China. Their livelihood depends on breaking through 80 cms of ice to release their nets, before using horses to haul in 10 tons of net.
KOREA’s CrazyBird Studio highlights three programmes at MIPCOM. Alien Monkeys (52 x 3 mins) is a slapstick animation about monkeys sent to earth to study humans. The music soundtrack to the non-verbal show is authentic to the areas that the monkeys visit. Winston (26 x 22 mins), aimed at boys aged between six and nine, follows a mystery investigation club. When the boys come across the gate to a parallel universe, they accidently allow monsters through. Boing The Play Ranger (26 x 11 mins) is a pre-school animation set in a village called Playville.
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TWO WAY MEDIA TWO WAY Media has launched the cross-platform puzzling service, myPuzzler, with content supplied by the UK’s Puzzler Media. Operating from www.mypuzzler. com, the service uploads new crosswords, word searches and kriss-kross puzzles every day. Access to bespoke puzzles and personal stats is exclusive to members of the myPuzzler club. Members-only prize draws, offering prizes such as cash or shopping vouchers, give members all the perks of bingo sites with the added enjoyment of playing a puzzle. As an HTML5 service, myPuzzler can be played on most internet connected devices.
EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTING SYSTEM (EBS) CHILDREN Of The World (26 x 40 mins) looks at the issues and challenges of vulnerable children living in undeveloped regions of the world, including Madagascar, the Himalayas and Tuvalu. The HD series is also available in an Englishlanguage version. Also from EBS is Untamed Spirit: The Steppes Of Asia, which takes a look at the animals and people who inhabit this vast region, their relationship with nature and the consequences of environmental destruction. Children Of The World (EBS)
mypuzzler.com (Two Way Media)
TELEMUNDO INTERNACIONAL FLORIDA-based Telemundo Internacional brings a raft of telenovelas to MIPCOM, including Rosa Diamante (Precious Rose/130 x 60 mins). The action centres on Rosa, a beautiful young woman whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets a handsome womaniser. Other titles include El Rostro De La Venganza (Facing Destiny/130 x 60 mins), the story of an exprisoner who becomes involved in a conspiracy; contemporary relationship drama Dulce Amargo (Bitter Sweet/130 x 60 mins); baby-switching tale Pobre Rico (The Switch/90 x 60 mins); and Aqui Mando Yo (I’m The Boss/100 x 60 mins).
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THE JIM HENSON COMPANY PRE-SCHOOL CG-animated series Doozers (52 x 11 mins) stars characters that first came to light in the Fraggle Rock series 30 years ago. The Doozers are green, three inches tall and live in harmony with nature in a self-sustaining community. Four new characters make up the Doozers’ Pod Squad, who share a passion for inventing. The series, a co-production with Canada’s DHX Media, incorporates concepts that enhance creative-thinking abilities, physical skills and knowledge of tools and materials.
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IMIRA ENTERTAINMENT SPAIN’s Imira Entertainment is showcasing the CGIanimated feature The Wish Fish. Produced by Baleuko, Talape and Image Venture, the 75-minute family feature is the story of a boy called Opil who doesn’t like eating fish. In an attempt to stop him eating junk food, his mother serves him a special dish: the wish fish. Opil jokingly wishes aliens would take away all the fish in the world — which is exactly what happens when, the following morning, troops arrive on a spacecraft and suck out all the oceans. Mortified, Opil embarks on an adventure to save the planet.
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MULTICOM ENTERTAINMENT GROUP MASK Masters (26 x 30 mins) follows four teens who are chosen to wear masks of power, which transform them into the Four Guardians who conquer evil and protect the planet. Produced by Korea’s Studio W.Baba and Mirayi Sdn Bhd, the 3D series is aimed at seven- to 14-year-olds. It makes its debut at MIPCOM with Multicom, which is showcasing the first full episode.
LEGEND Of A Rabbit (104 x 11 mins) is a new 3D animated series set in Peking 400 years ago. Two teenage friends — Tu, a kind-hearted rabbit, and Bo, a bear on a mission to become a number-one fighter — are trying to get into the top Kung Fu academy. In an adventure involving warriors, bandits, beauties and beasts, the friends are forced to part company and enter different academies. Tu finds himself in the Ying Yand school, while Bo strays to the ‘dark side’.
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SPOONFILM BERLIN-based based production company spoonfilm is showcasing the first season of its time-lapse video series Little Big World, which is already an internet hit. Now available to TV broadcasters at MIPCOM, the 18 episodes, shot in 13 countries, are aimed at the fillers and interstitials market. Season two is currently in production.
PLANETA JUNIOR PAN-EUROPEAN producer and distributor Planeta Junior heads its MIPCOM slate with three co-produced animation series called Camille, Egyxos and Magiki. The company is also showcasing Maya The Bee 3D, which is launching in Spain and Italy this year; and Vicky The Viking 3D, the first episode of which is being unveiled at MIPCOM. Planeta Junior is also presenting a series for pre-schoolers called Lua’s World.
BOPAUL MEDIA WORLDWIDE (BMW) BMW HIGHLIGHTS a range of classic films at MIPCOM, all in HD. Titles include special-forces action movie Wild Geese (133 mins), starring Richard Burton and Roger Moore; African kidnap thriller Ashanti (118 mins) with Michael Caine; Zulu Dawn (113 mins), the true story of a Zulu victory over the British army; horror movie Hellraiser IV (86 mins); Citizen Kane (119 mins) with Orson Welles; and Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War with Pauline Collins and John Alderton. The US company also brings documentary special Heaven (1 x 45 mins/1 x 90 mins), as well as the 1979 movie and mini-series Freedom Road, featuring the only dramatic performance by Muhammad Ali. Legend Of A Rabbit (Tianjin Film Studio)
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product neWs SCORPION TV LONDON-based distributor Scorpion TV brings four new HD documentaries and series to MIPCOM. Inside Tattooing (1 x 45 mins) looks at the art of prison tattooing, with interviews with ex-prisoners, gang members and wardens. Intersexion (1 x 52 mins) explores the lives of people born with genitalia that is neither male nor female. Ever Wondered (20 x 26 mins) is a cutting-edge science show, with episodes including The Future Of Food and New Energy Technology. The Naked Option (1 x 52 mins) profiles the inspiring story of the Nigerian women who use the threat of stripping naked in public — a serious cultural taboo — to make their political voices heard.
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NEW ADDITIONS to the Cargo catalogue include Semisweet: Life In Chocolate (1 x 54 mins), which travels from Hershey, Pennsylvania to Paris, northern Canada and West Africa in search of people whose lives are transformed by chocolate. Other titles include Hunting Corruption: The Network (1 x 55 mins), about a group of public prosecutors who fight corruption; Bomb It! 2 (1 x 70 mins), which explores graffiti; Johnny Cash: Song By Song (6 x 30 mins), an exploration of the great Country singer’s life through songs; and Echoes (1 x 54 mins), which looks at the Chinese mothers who give away their babies, the mothers who adopt Chinese babies and a mother who is preparing to pick up her baby from China.
REDROVER, in partnership with Toonbox Entertainment, has developed the 3D animation series The Beet Party (104 x 2 mins). The plot centres on Five Beets, who live in a fridge and finish each story with a party where they beatbox. The Korean company also brings Bana Royale (1 x 90 mins), which tells the story of a teenage monkey orphan called Patch and his friends, who must fight against an evil overlord. Also on offer is The Nut Job (1 x 90 mins/52 x 11 mins), a bank heist comedy seen through the eyes of animals; and Bolts & Blip (26 x 22 mins), a 3D animation in which robots in the Lunar League settle disputes on Earth.
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TELEVISA MEXICO’s Televisa brings a new drama series to MIPCOM. Crown Of Tears is the story of Refugio (Victoria Ruffo), a hard-working woman who has devoted her life to her three sons. Patricio is an ambitious man, Edmundo is a lazy but brilliant medical student, and Ignacio is a mechanic who works to pay for his brothers’ studies. The plot is centred on Mexico City, where the characters struggle through the challenges that life throws at them. BE THE ONE KOREA’s Be The One brings children’s animation Paper Town to MIPCOM. The series features animal friends living in a land made of folded paper in the six basic colours that represent the colour wheel. Under a beautiful rainbow, there’s a small island where tiny paper animals live. They make all the things they need out of paper — and decorate them with any colour they fancy.
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ITV STUDIOS GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT THE UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ITV is highlighting three productions at MIPCOM. Produced by ITV Studios, Mr Selfridge (1 x 90 mins + 9 x 60 mins) follows the rise and fall of the US retail genius. The series is set in London between 1909 and 1939. Rectify (6 x 60 mins) is a Sundance production that follows Daniel Holden as he leaves prison after serving 19 years for rape and murder. DNA evidence casts doubt on the conviction and he returns home, where many still believe in his guilt. Making a comeback, meanwhile, is the classic entertainment show Surprise Surprise, which gives deserving members of the public a wish-fulfilling surprise.
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HALF The Sky (2 x 120 mins) follows reporter Nicholas Kristof and celebrity advocates America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Gabrielle Union, Meg Ryan and Olivia Wilde on a journey to meet women and girls fighting to change the difficult circumstances under which they live. The programme, inspired by the book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, Half The Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide, chronicles these dramatic stories across 10 countries: Cambodia, Kenya, India, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Liberia and the US. Half The Sky is produced by Show of Force with Fugitive Films.
MARVISTA Entertainment debuts a 2D animated preschool series produced by Saban Brands in partnership with Brain Power Studio. Julius Jr (52 x 11 mins), currently in production, features a monkey with a penchant for invention. MarVista also debuts three films produced for teen and young adult audiences. Pop Star, which features Christian Serratos (Twilight), Ross Thomas (Soul Surfer) and Eric Roberts (The Expendables), is the story of a talented young singer who is promised riches if she lends her voice to a celebrity with no singing talent. I Kissed A Vampire is a musically driven tale about a teenage boy who seems to be turning into a vampire. And, in Circle Of Lies, Kirsty vows to do whatever it takes to be the most popular girl at school.
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DOFUS, Kerubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bazaar (52 x 13 mins), the first in a trilogy of series, makes its international debut at MIPCOM. Aimed at six- to 10-year-olds, the series â&#x20AC;&#x201D; pre-sold to France 3 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is based on a game and manga magazine, with stories about antique weapons and talismans. The French company also brings the animation series Wakfu, which is due to broadcast on Cartoon Network France early next year.
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Sky Vision, formed with the alliance of Parthenon Media Group and BSkyB, is celebrating its first MIPCOM with a world-class slate of multi-platform entertainment.
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MONDAY 8 OCTOBER The world’s entertainment content market
DIGITAL MINDS SUMMIT 10.00-14.30 I Majestic Hotel In partnership with The Bell Fund In partnership with Canada Media Fund & Telefilm Canada
By Invitation only.
FRESH TV FROM CANADA
The Digital Minds Summit is an invitation-only gathering which convenes more than 50 carefully selected top-level executives from the highest ranks of digital entertainment for three hours of structured brainstorming and debate on the first day of MIPCOM. The Summit will explore the new revenue models digital brings to the distribution business: how to profit as programming goes digital, gets personal and embraces social.
9.30-10.00 I Esterel Presenter Virginia Mouseler, CEO, The WIT, France @TheWitFreshTV Virginia Mouseler
CO-PRODUCE WITH CANADA OVERVIEW 10.05-10.20 I Esterel
Moderator: Kate Bulkley, Media Commentator and Journalist, KG Bulkley, UK @katecomments Headline Speakers: Saul Berman, VP & Partner, Global Strategy Consulting Leader, IBM Global Business Services, IBM, USA Mark Ghuneim, CEO, Wiredset/Trendrr, USA
Presenter Carolle Brabant, Executive Director, Telefilm Canada, Canada @Telefilm_Canada
Saul Berman
Mark Ghuneim
Carolle Brabant
10.25-11.10 I Esterel
MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTE 11.50-12.25 I Grand Audi
Moderator Jean Bureau, Co-President, Incendo, Canada
Nancy Dubuc President, Entertainment and Media, A+E Networks
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Case Studies: Jean Bureau “Viking” by James Flynn, Producer, Octagon Films Limited, Ireland Morgan O’Sullivan, Director, World 2000 Entertainment, Ireland John Weber, President, Take 5 Productions Inc., Canada
“Rouge Brésil” by Ricardo Rangel, Partner/COO, Conspiração Filmes S/A, Brazil Nicolas Traube, President, Pampa Production, France
MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTE 11.15-11.45 I Esterel
12.25-13.00 I Grand Audi Mark Burnett President, One Three Media
“18*12” OPENING INTERNATIONAL FILM PREMIERE 12.00-13.30 I Esterel By Central Partnership
Pierre Karl Péladeau President and CEO, Quebecor Inc., Quebecor Media Inc. & Sun Media Corporation Introduced by Valerie Creighton, President and CEO, Canada Media Fund, Canada
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Interviewed by Tracey Jennings, Partner, Canadian Technology, InfoComm and Entertainment and Media Leader, PwC, Canada
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Nancy Dubuc, President, Entertainment and Media, A+E Networks, USA Marion Edwards, President, 20 th Century Fox International Television, USA
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Speakers Mark Burnett, President, One Three Media, USA Roma Downey, Executive Producer, “The Bible”, USA
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Margarita Simonyan, Editor-in-chief, RT (Russia Today), Russia
PWC GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT & MEDIA OUTLOOK
Sophie Turner Laing, Managing Director, Entertainment, News and Broadcast Operations, BSkyB, UK
Margarita Simonyan
16.00-17.35 I Grand Audi Presenter Marcel Fenez, Global Leader, Entertainment and Media, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Hong Kong Marcel Fenez
Sophie Turner Laing
MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTE INTERVIEW 16.20-16.55 I Grand Audi Bruce Rosenblum President, Warner Bros. Television Group and Office of the President, Warner Bros. Entertainment
FRESH TV AROUND THE WORLD 14.00-15.00 I Grand Audi In partnership with The WIT
MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTE INTERVIEW
Speaker Virginia Mouseler, CEO, The WIT, France @TheWitFreshTV
Virginia Mouseler
17.00-17.35 I Grand Audi Andrea Wong President of International Production, Sony Pictures Television & President of International, Sony Pictures Entertainment
MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTE 15.10-15.50 I Grand Audi
MIPCOM WORLD PREMIERE TV SCREENING: FX’S “THE AMERICANS”
Robert Kyncl VP, Global Head of Content, Google/YouTube
18.00-19.45 I Grand Audi
Robert Kyncl will invite special guests to join him on stage: Robert Kyncl
Yair Landau, Partner, MK Capital, USA Elisabeth Murdoch, Chairman, Shine Group, UK Peter Tortorici, CEO, GroupM Entertainment Global, USA Michael Kassan
Yair Landau
Elisabeth Murdoch
Peter Tortorici
Moderator: Michael Kassan, Chairman & CEO, MediaLink, USA
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Be the first to screen the new FX drama series distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution and presented by cast members Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys who will be taking the stage together with David Madden, President of Fox Television Studios and Eric Schrier, EVP of FX Productions and Head of Series Development, FX.
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18.30 - 20.30 I 3.14 Hotel Plage
International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Press Conference: Announcement of the 2012 International Emmy® Awards Nominees
By invitation only (invitation cards can be picked up at the Malaysian Pavilion at Stand 11.18)
Google YouTube & Partners Beach Cocktail
17.30 - 19.00 I Stand 10.02
By invitation only
Ile de France Film Commission
17.00 - 18.00 I Stand 10.35
Creative Connection Cocktail
KOCCA
By invitation only
Meet the Ted & Dory Detectives
19.30 - 22.00 I Hotel Martinez MIPCOM Opening Party
18.00 - 20.00 I Majestic Hotel – 17.00 - 19.00 I Gray d’Albion Hotel –
Poolside and solarium
Salon 4 Saisons
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His Excellency Kamaruddin Siaraf, Secretary General of the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture (KSU) of Malaysia
Haim Saban and Saban Brands cocktail party By invitation only
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TWO NEW series head Beyond’s MIPCOM slate. Highway Thru Hell follows the men of Jamie David Heavy Rescue as they tackle the unforgiving and treacherous Coquihalla Highway. The Mistress features a famous ex-mistress on a mission to rescue other women looking to escape their affairs. Other programme highlights include reality series Cause Of Death: Unknown; adventure fishing series Rod & Rucksack; and Animal 999, a behind-the-scenes look at charity SPCA as it rescues animals in Scotland.
FANTAWILD ANIMATION SET AGAINST the backdrop of ancient China, One And A Half Heroes is a 3D series featuring Tornado Claw, a Kung Fu hero cat, and a bungling canine lawman called Dumpling. Tasked by the Emperor to search for stolen treasure, the two unlikely partners forge an alliance against the forces of evil. The Chinese company also brings the follow-up to its Boonie Bears series, Boonie Bears Or Bust, which features more comic stories from the bear brothers and logger villain Vick.
DRAMA series from ZDF include telenovela Roads To Happiness: Footsteps In The Sand (99 x 43 mins) and Crime Stories (6 x 45 mins), based on unusual cases inspired by real crimes. From the children’s catalogue comes Michel (52 x 11 mins), which follows the adventures of a child with a furry-monster alter ego. Reality series Navajo Cops (7 x 50 mins) follows the 330 officers serving the 180,000 citizens of the Navajo Nation — the largest Indian Reservation in North America. All these shows are in HD.
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Highway Thru Hell (Beyond Distribution)
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Roads To Happiness – Footsteps In The Sand (ZDF Enterprises)
CHIDYAGHAR, which translates as ‘animal house’, is a family comedy based on the premise that all humans have an animal trait. The character names in this threegeneration family resemble certain animals, and each individual displays some of that animal’s characteristics. Also from the Mumbai-based company comes Kya Hua Tera Vaada, which tells the story of a young woman who struggles to forge a new identity beyond that of a simple housewife after her husband leaves her. Both series are in Hindi.
LUDORUM
Zigg & The Zipzaps (Technicolor Digital Productions)
Chidyaghar (Sony Entertainment Network India)
TECHNICOLOR Digital Productions is in Cannes with two new animated series currently in development. Zigg & The Zipzaps (52 x 11 mins) is a pre-school series about seven animal adventurers as they travel across Hopscotch Island. In Atomic Puppet (52 x 11 mins), targeted at six- to 11-year-old boys, Captain Atomic is transformed into a powerless puppet by a disgruntled sidekick. Luckily, his super powers are transferred to 12-year-old Joey and, together, they become a team.
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NEW DRAMA from Mexico’s TV Azteca, La Teniente (The Lieutenant), is 24 x 60-minute series distributed internationally by Comarex, Azteca’s exclusive sales agent. The series makes its European debut at MIPCOM. La Teniente is the story of a woman who goes through challenging times, physically and mentally, to succeed in a man’s world.
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MI SUENO Es Bailar, which translates as My Dream Is To Dance (6 x 60 mins/9 x 120 mins per season) features 12 teams of celebrities and their professional dance partners who compete in front of a live audience and a panel of judges. The winning couple is given the opportunity to help out a family in need. The show, brought to Cannes by US Spanish-language TV network Estrella TV, mixes the choreographed dancing with the moving stories of the people hoping for a chance to be helped out of their difficult situation.
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LEVEL K
DENMARK’s Level K brings two new projects to MIPCOM. Rita (8 x 42 mins) is a drama series about an unconventional suburban teacher, loved by her students. One day her son brings his father-in-law to the house, and to her surprise he is an old boyfriend of hers. Level K also brings family film The Great Bird Race (1 x 90 mins) about a birdwatching competition. Victor is confident he’ll win with last year’s champion Daniel out with a broken leg. That is until Daniel shows up unexpectedly.
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FRENCH distributor GAD is at MIPCOM seeking pre-sales for its new HD 52-minute documentary Medicines And Children, co-produced with France 5. Paediatric medicine is often a haphazard adaptation of adult medicine and this programme looks at why there is so little development of medicines that specifically target children. GAD also brings Portrait Of A Nobel Prize, Christian de Duve (1 x 52 mins), a portrait of the winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for medicine, and a 120-minute concert performance at the Paris Olympia by French rapper Youssoupha — whose father was the first black artist to play at the Olympia 42 years ago.
GRIMM STUDIO
KOREA’s Grimm Studio is prioritising two shows at MIPCOM. Cobot is about a young boy who is visited by robots — called Cobots — who have come from the future, where a robot factory is in trouble. Sing For You A Happy Song is set in Sunny Ville, where a dog called Dogy Ellie Boom entertains the children, encouraging them to join in with the singing and dancing.
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KOREA’s Studio Gale brings Circus Show to MIPCOM. A little lion called Grami dreams of being a circus star. He eagerly performs his best routines with team members Nemo and Sam, hoping to impress the audience. But he has a lot of work to do before he can be as good as the best circus performers.
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RIPPER Street, produced by Tiger Aspect Productions and Lookout Point with BBC America for the UK’s BBC, has pre-sold to Network Ten in Australia. The drama is set in and around Whitechapel in London’s East End in 1889, in the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders. The action centres on the notorious H Division, which is charged with keeping order in the chaotic streets of London. The BBC also brings Jane Campion’s new series Top Of The Lake (8 x 50 mins), Spies Of Warsaw (2 x 90 mins) and A Young Doctor’s Notebook. Medicines And Children (GAD)
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Women in entertainment Influential women executives from international television and entertainment are gathering for a first-of-its-kind event. Marlene Edmunds talks to some of the speakers who will share their view of the future and the experiences that have shaped their careers ORE than 100 of the most inÀuential women executives in the world of entertainment are set to attend the ¿ rst ever MIPCOM Women In Global Entertainment Power Lunch today, held in partnership with Lifetime Networks. The invitation-only event on October 8, the ¿ rst day of MIPCOM, is aimed at providing a forum for top women executives to network, exchange best business practices, expand business opportunities, and pass on their experiences to international peers. That’s the word from Laurine Garaude, director of Reed MIDEM’s television division. MIPCOM, she says, “is attended by a Who’s Who of women entertainment executives from over 100 countries whose inÀuence and vision over the programming we consume worldwide need to be recognised.” A+E Networks’ president, entertainment and media, Nancy Dubuc will lead a discussion during the lunch. Joining Dubuc will be Fox’s Marion Edwards, Sky’s Sophie Turner Laing and RT’s Margarita Simonyan. Lifetime Networks from its very beginning has prided itself on being programmed by women for women. “It brings a wealth of experience and understanding of the important role women are playing in entertainment,” Gaurade says. Lifetime is in the A+E portfolio and Dubuc will lead the panel of pioneering women in talking about the vision, insights and experiences that have driven their global careers in the entertainment industry. Having previously headed up History, Dubuc is credited with propelling Lifetime Networks’ original movies, dramas and unscripted series to serious ratings success. On the subject of programming for women, Karoline Spodsberg, managing director, Banijay International, says that the industry has moved on. “There was a time when the phrase ‘niche female viewing’ would have meant soap operas and talk shows. Today, it refers to a whole subcategory of channels across the world that specialise in the kind of strong character - and relationship-based programming that women respond to,” Spodsberg says. “Women like to watch shows which allow them to compare and contrast their own lives with the lives of characters on TV. While their viewing of dramas and factual shows in the evening may seem like an escape from their hec-
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tic 20th century living on the surface, it’s actually where women process and reÀect on what’s happened in their own day. These shows are a conduit for learning, it’s the different responses and consequences of the characters on screen which help them to decide on what their own actions in real life should be.” But she says it would be naive to think that selecting content driven by gender alone is enough to draw in a loyal viewer base. “In the modern entertainment environment, with so many content providers ¿ghting for space and attention, viewers have the luxury of being very picky about what they watch and they want to feel that programming has been produced with them in mind, at that particular moment — whether they are watching as a family, as a person with particular interests or beliefs, or someone who wants to access their content on a particular platform,” she says. “All of this has to be part of the modern conversation that broadcasters have with their audiences.” Talk to the women executives who are attending the event and it becomes clear they are keenly aware of how their roles are reshaping the industry. Among them is Sophie Turner Laing, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) managing director entertainment, news and broadcast operations. Her rem it includes, among other things, deliver i ng on the promise by Sk y t o increase its
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WATCH AS WE CHANGE THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT. We’re thrilled to be a part of the first-ever Women in Global Entertainment Power Lunch. We salute panelists Sophie Turner-Laing, Marion Edwards and Margarita Simonyan along with our own Nancy Dubuc.
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managing people that can add signi¿cantly to the process,” Edwards says. “I also think women tend to be less conÀict-adverse. I think women will have the tough conversation earlier rather than later in order to avoid the drama of dealing with a situation after it has become a big problem.” But leadership styles aside, she says when it comes to the key challenge of the business, women and men face the same dilemma: how to give consumers what they want and still have a business model capable of generating suf¿cient revenue to support a production model that creates the quality of show expected by that consumer. Edwards is responsible for international licensing of Twentieth Century Fox productions, sales of Twentieth Century Fox feature ¿lms for US networks, overseeing local of¿ces, managing agreements for licensing product and overseas acquisition of proMarion Edwards duction for distribution to international divisions. As part of her remit, she has launched a new international scripted-format business that has helped ensure development opportunities for both international broadcasters and Twentieth Century Fox. It has also created new revenue streams for properties considered dead by US networks, an approach that has also helped offset development costs and drive pro¿t. “I also saw it as an opportunity to take some creative ‘passion projects’ from our development team and work with international creative executives to create new shows,” Edwards says. The ITV hit Marchlands is one of the projects to come out of the mix. “The project has also helped re-con¿ rm a belief that as successful as some of our shows have been, nothing resonates with the same power as the local actor in the local version.” Edwards believes that the internet, acting as a great leveller of sorts, has helped women. “Many lessons are best taught through entertainment, and we are now able to reach people of all ages Sumedha Saraogi with greater ease and frequency than DQ Entertainment Internatioever before. The internet has connected nal the world in a way that did not seem possible in the past, and the sharing Sumedha of stories and events has the power to educate and Saraogi change all of us.” As president of Japan’s Index Corporation, the holding company of the Index Group of Companies, Yoshimi Ogawa is considered one of the most powerful women in Japanese business. Index divisions and businesses encompass internet and games, mobile and animation. Sophie Turner Laing, While her position and her company is poised BSkyB on the digital cutting edge, Ogawa says the
annual investment in home-grown programming to $952m by 2014. Game Of Thrones, Hit And Miss, Moone Boy and David Attenborough’s Kingdom Of Plants are among the original titles that have come to fruition under her current brief. While her background includes signi¿cant amounts of time working with creatives, she says she doesn’t think of herself as a natural creative as the dictionary might de¿ne the word. “My particular blend of creativity comes in being the one who joins the dots,” Turner Laing says. “I can see what the challenges are and what kind of approach might be taken to meet them.” “The great trick is to resist the temptation to control or dictate. You can’t further creativity if you put barriers around people,” Turner Laing says. “I see myself in the role of being a kind of guidance mechanism in a long-term endeavour to encourage and support creativity. And of course, when you’re running a portfolio of channels, the trick is also to stop those who are truly creative from crashing into each other.” So what do women executives in the global arena see for the future of media? It depends on what part of the world they inhabit, but at Sky it’s a true marriage of content and technology. “We literally have both disciplines at the heart of the business and that is actually quite rare,” Turner Laing says. “Take Sky Go as an example. The ability to watch channels streamed on your smartphone, mobile tablet, PC, Mac or laptop is truly about enhancing the customer experience.” Also sharing her experiences at the event is Marion Edwards, president, inter national television, Twentieth C e nt u ry Fox Television Dist r i b u t io n . Sh e believes that women bring something special to powerful positions. “They have the ability to handle stress and be as tough as men, but they also frequently bring emotional intelligence to negotiating and
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technological revolution has helped, but there is no guarantee women can move up into positions of power even in the digital sector. “In managing a mobile and internet business, the knowledge of technology is essential. I do feel that women are less willing than men to try to understand technology and the impact of its progress,” she says. “On the other hand, there are a few elderly and conservative men who control the industry in the mobile and internet sectors. It would be better if women did move up to that top level.” One obvious bene¿t, she says, especially when it comes to content, is that female top management “can easily understand and judge content that may be targeted mainly to women”. Sumedha Saraogi, senior vice-president, global business development and management of¿ce, DQ Entertainment I nter nat ional, ag rees. “T he media i ndust r y bene¿ts from having more women at the top because half the populace gets represented on issues of importance, and because women tend to be more intuitive, resourceful, passionate and — hold your breath — business-savvy!” Saraogi says while there aren’t too many women holding senior management positions, women in India have nevertheless come a long way towards being represented as equals in the media industry. “It’s a matter of time before complete parity is achieved with more women being educated and joining the workforce in greater numbers.” Saraogi has been dealing with media on a global level for some 15 years and has seen both the creative and management sides of the business change when it comes to accepting and welcoming women into higher levels of management. On a global scale, she says, “the acceptance levels have certainly undergone a sea change”. Veteran of the Canadian industry Mary Powers, president of MPowers Communications, says that such acceptance can only bene¿t the industry as a whole. Powers got her start in the ¿ nancial sector but moved into television in the early 90s at Chum Limited’s groundbreaking local Toronto television station Citytv. She was a key ¿gure in establishing distribution arm Chum Interna-
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tional. In 2007, she launched her own ¿rm MPowers Communications. “Any industry, and I think in particular a creative one, bene¿ts when there are no restrictions on the pool of available talent. It serves us all to have the best and brightest minds attracted to our industry and the number of women engaged at its top levels shows its an attainable goal to a new generation [of women] making career decisions.” In 2005, Margarita Simonyan became the youngest ever editor-in-chief of an international TV network when she took the reins at RT (Russia Today). One of
Any industry benefits when there are no restrictions on the pool of available talent Mary Powers, MPowers Communications
the panelists on the panel with Nancy Dubuc, Simonyan says: “I am excited to share my experience at MIPCOM and look forward to the exchange of ideas and know-how with the most successful women-professionals in the business.” Can women at the top affect real change in the industry? Alex Mahon, newly-appointed CEO of Shine Group, says there are not only more women in senior management positions, especially on the content side, but they are leading more integrated lives than the men that used to hold those positions. “As they try and manage personal, professional, family and community they tend to blend all parts of their lives in a more open and integrated fashion, rather than compartmentalising as men in more traditional/inÀexible sectors did.” “Of course as we know, this doesn’t make the women any less hard working or available,” Mahon says. “But in order to be their authentic selves and get what they want from life, this blending of home and work is a necessity for many of us. In turn this tends to have a positive cascade effect on the next levels down in the of¿ce, both male and female, as they see that example and then their behaviours change.” Mahon’s new remit includes responsibility for 28 operating companies within the News Corp-owned group, including Shine TV, distribution arm Shine International and production companies including Kudos Film & Television, and DragonÀy. Hong Kong-based Promo Group TV president Lanny Albina Huang says that the behaviour of different young audience groups — watching content on internet, tablets and other mobile devices — is still pretty much restricted to passive information and short form. “We need to reach out and enhance real-time news and events and long form for these young audiences,” Huang says, adding that women executives
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There has never been a better time for women to take top positions in our industry Andrea Gorfolova, Tricon Films & Television
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Another golden age for drama Against all the odds, drama has survived the rise of reality shows and time-shifting technology. According to Fox’s Marion Edwards, we are in another ‘golden age’. Andy Fry reports on how scripted content is playing a defining role in the digital environment OT SO long ago there were fears that drama would struggle to adapt to the changing television landscape. There were two reasons for this. Firstly, because audience fragmentation was making funding more complicated. With drama among the most expensive of all genres, there was a view that it would be dif¿cult to put together production budgets. Secondly, because of concerns about the impact of PVR-style technologies. With drama more susceptible than most genres to time-shifting, some analysts predicted that there would be an increase in ad-skipping which would make the genre less attractive to commercially-funded networks. This argument predicted
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a shift towards live and reality TV. In fact, drama has not just survived — it has thrived. While digital fragmentation has indeed made funding more complicated, it has also become obvious that scripted content helps networks stand out from their rivals. So rather than give up on scripted content, broadcasters, producers and distributors have found new and innovative ways to ¿nance shows. The result has been the most impressive array of titles in the history of the genre. Maria Kyriacou, managing director of UK-based ITV Studios Global Entertainment, says drama has proved its case. “There are a lot of networks out there that are totally de¿ned by drama. It is certainly an important
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Dan Allen says. “In terms of the highpart of the mix for both our end, big ticket co-productions, we domestic channel ITV and for have The Drivers for 2013. We also our international distribution signed a ¿ rst-look deal with produbusiness.” cer Justin Bodle to develop high-end ITV’s drama distribution slate dramas that stand out in the schedule. over the last year reÀects the The ¿rst on our slate of four shows is importance of the genre to the called Fire Of London.” company: “We sold Prime SusAt the same time, FME is after the pect US and Titanic to more kind of returning franchise that is than 100 countries,” Kyriacou also coveted by ITV Studios: “Nosays, “and now we’re at MIPvember sees the launch of The WedCOM with a superb slate of ding Band on TBS in the US. That’s dramas including Mr Selfridge (scripted by Andrew Davies), Maria Kyriacou, ITV Studios the ¿ rst in a slate of shows that we hope will build as a long-running Dancing On The Edge (scrip- Global Entertainment franchise.” ted by Stephen Poliakoff) and Producer/distributors that haven’t Rectify, an AMC Networks historically been known original drama about a for drama have joined the man who is released from rush. Cathy Payne, CEO prison after spending 19 of Endemol Worldwide years on death row.” Distribution says: “A key Viewed in its entirety, focus for us is growth in ITV’s slate is a good UK and USA scripted indicator of the kind of product, 50% of which dramas that are attracwe anticipate will flow ting investment at prethrough our LA-based sent. On the one hand, scripted production arm there is a trend towards Endemol Studios. Endetitles like Mr Selfridge mol Studios had a terri¿c and Dancing On The first 12 months during Edge — authored pieces which it sold Red Widow with respected writers to ABC, Low Winter and the kind of high-end Sun to AMC and saw budgets that can only be Hell On Wheels renewed achieved via co-producwith AMC. In addition to tion. On the other, there Endemol Studios, we are is strong interest in proacquiring scripted productions like Rectify, a duct from a range of third project that ITV Studios party North American is hoping will turn into a and British producers and long-running returnable expect to announce some franchise. “It’s only six soon.” hours at present,” KyriaIt’s a similar story at Cicou says, “but the real neÀix, a factual producer opportunity for us as a that has now entered the distributor is if it gets scripted genre with perenewed for a number of Shine International’s The Hour riod piece Copper (aired seasons.” FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) is pursuing a simi- by BBC America and distributed by CineÀix Rights), lar path, as are many of the world’s biggest distribution and also at Shine International (SI), where incoming companies. “We’ve placed a lot of emphasis on deve- CEO Camilla Hammer has targeted scripted as a prioloping our drama slate,” FME chief operating of¿cer rity: “Last year we set out to grow our scripted content. This strategy is now coming into place and saw us launch more than 50 hours of new and returning drama in Spring 2012 (including The Hour, Hunted and Real Humans). We will continue to grow our drama portfolio and continue to invest in original TV content.” That effort will be helped by the arrival of Georgia Brown, a BBC Worldwide drama expert who has joined SI as director of acquisitions. As titles like Rectify, The Wedding Band, Hell On Wheels and Copper illustrate, the battle to secure returning drama franchises often involves US cable Dan Allen, FME channels as core funding partners/commissioners.
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There are two reasons for this, according to John Morayniss, CEO of Toronto-based eOne Television (over and above the fact US scripted content sells well internationally). The ¿rst is that US cable networks tend to be more supportive of their shows than the big four US networks — going straight to 10 episode orders rather than killing series off at pilot stage or cancelling them in mid-season, something that the big four US networks have a tendency to do. This support is welcomed by distributors, which are investing against the prospect of international sales, Morayniss says. The second is that “they are very open to the prospect of working with partners from outside the US, which has meant companies like eOne have been able to develop viable business models”. Typically, eOne’s approach is to pull together ¿nance from a US cable channel, a Canadian broadcaster and an international channel family. Depending on the project, its own role will be as producer and/or distributor (sometimes sharing rights with another distribution agent to amortise the budget risk). “There’s not one way of goi ng
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This really is a golden age for TV drama, there are so many wonderful shows right now Marion Edwards, Twentieth Century Fox International Television
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about this, but an example might be The Walking Dead — the subject of a MIPCOM Creative Talk today — which involves AMC in the US, Fox International Channels and eOne as distributor. Or Haven, which involved ourselves, Syfy and NBCU’s global channels.” It’s not just the deal that is taking on a more international character, Morayniss says, but also the content. “The cable channels have opened the door for more drama series that originated abroad to be re-versioned for North America. Recent examples include The Killing (for AMC), Being Human (for Syfy) and Primeval, an adaptation for Canadian thematic channel Space which eOne is now distributing internationally.” So ingrained is this international mindset, that eOne even sent its international TV chief Peter Emerson to work out of the UK. That decision has helped give rise to Rogue, a drama starring Thandie Newton being made by a UK producer (Greenroom Entertainment) and eOne for US satellite broadcaster DirecTV. Making the deal even more interesting is that fact that it is DirecTV’s ¿rst-ever drama commission — again underlining the importance of being active in the genre. Also signi¿cant in this regard is the sensational ratings that History Channel US had with its scripted western Hat¿eld & McCoys (starring Kevin Costner). “What this shows is that, if you have a platform, you can have scripted and non-scripted success,” Morayniss says. Another interesting dimension to the current US demand for drama is that ideas are coming into the market from numerous territories aside from the UK and Canada, which have generally been popular sources for content. The Killing on AMC was a Scandinavian concept — as is The Bridge, which is being piloted by FX. Also in this category is French crime drama Braquo, which is being reinvented for the US by Stephen Kronish (24) and Red Widow — an adaptation of an Endemol scripted format from the Netherlands called Penoza. Low Winter Sun meanwhile is a UK Endemol format.
If there’s another point worth making about this new wave of drama it’s that the quality is so high, Moryaniss says. “A few years ago, co-productions might have meant compromise. But networks are taking creative risks and betting on quality.” Marion Edwards, president, Twentieth Century Fox International Television, agrees: “This really is a golden age for TV drama, there are so many wonderful shows right now like Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Sons Of Anarchy and The Tudors.” Pleasing for Edwards is that the artificial barrier between ¿lm and TV seems to have broken down. “Talent from both sides of the camera are moving between the two media, recognising that both have something to offer from a creative perspective.” Edwards con¿ rms that there is a widespread desire
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among distributors for returning franchises. But she says: “The ideal is returning franchises with free-standing episodes so that audiences feel connected to characters but don’t have to make a commitment to stick with the show through every episode.” Her own headliner at MIPCOM is The Americans, a 13-part series that is due to air on FX in the US. “The Americans, starring Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys and Noah Emmerich, is a period drama about the two KGB spies posing as a married couple in Washington DC around the time Ronald Reagan was President,” Edwards says. “It’s very suspenseful because of the stress in their lives. There is the tension between them, including the fact they have two children who know nothing about their parents’ true identity. And there’s the fact that the Soviet Union is rocking and the walls are coming down.” According to Edwards, there is also still plenty of heat around big signature co-productions such as The Tudors. Her point is backed up by projects like The Musketeers, The White Queen (both BBC-backed), King Tut (from Muse Entertainment and Sonar) and Dracula, which is being reimagined as a 10-part coproduction involving Universal Television, Carnival Films & Television, Flame Ventures, Playground and Sky Living. The project stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) and will be made by Carnival (Downton Abbey) later this year.
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While North American drama continues to dominate global trade, there is evidence from other parts of the world that scripted continues to be in the ascendancy. A key theme at MIPCOM will be the successful export of Turkish dramas like Magni¿cent Century into the Middle East and Eastern Europe. No less signi¿cant is the success that Korean drama is having in Japan and other parts of Asia. In a new analysis of this market, The export of Korean dramas has risen from $105m in 2008 to $107m in 2009 and $133m in 2010 (¿gures from The Korea Creative Content Agency). In terms of speci¿c titles, the Korean Times cites MBC’s The Moon Embracing The Sun, which has generated significant revenues from sales to markets such as Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and the Philippines. Another spectacular success is KBS’s Love Rain, which sold to Japan before it aired domestically. All told, it has sold to 12 countries so far. There’s similar positivity in the telenovela market. Under Emilio Azcarraga’s management Mexican company Televisa saw its exports grow to $306m in 2011, a performance which is driven by a steady Àow of top titles like Triunfo Del Amor, Rebelde, Donde Esta Elisa? and latest hit series Teresa. There’s limited scope in this story to talk about how drama is adapting to the opportunities presented by digital. But it’s worth parting with two observations. Firstly, there is a rise in cross-platform dramas. A good example is Channel 4 UK’s multiplatform conspiracy drama thriller Utopia. Written as a six-part series by Dennis Kelly, the drama will also incorporate a multiplatform experience created by TH_NK, the digital agency behind JK Rowling’s Pottermore. “TH_ NK is designing an experience that plays off the paranoia of the thriller, engaging viewers and encouraging debate around some of the drama’s biggest themes. The experience will play out in the run up to TX and extend the experience across the episodes,” C4 says. Also of note is the number of distributors reporting signi¿cant deals with SVOD players like NetÀix, Hulu, Amazon and blinkbox. The latter, an emerging force in the UK, has just secured access to the second seasons of HBO’s Game Of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire ahead of their DVD and Blu-ray release in the UK. “This partnership with HBO is huge news for blinkbox and our customers,” blinkbox CEO Michael Comish says. “Anyone wanting to watch the second seasons of Game Of Thrones or Boardwalk Empire will have to wait to watch them on DVD — but we’ve got them right now on blinkbox across a wide range of digital platforms.” A signi¿cant point is that blinkbox belongs to major retailer Tesco. So in addition to a new window, HBO can also expect decent retail support when the titles do launch as physical products.
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Coming soon to the big screen… TV is the new big screen. The wall that traditionally separated the worlds of TV and film is slowly but surely crumbling, and the arrival of internet-based VOD platforms has provided yet another reason for independent feature makers to seek non-traditional opportunities to expose their work. Gary Smith reports DIRECT effect of the narrowing focus of Hollywood, now more or less exclusively geared towards blockbuster releases, combined with the corporatisation and homogenisation of cinema chains, is that the independent ¿ lmmaking sector ¿ nds itself increasingly deprived of outlets for its work. On top of that, the near impossible task of running art-house cinemas at a pro¿t has seen hundreds either close or become part-time operations. And while the rise in the number of ¿ lm festivals
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and intense series to the end, and then buy the box set in order to enjoy the experience all over again. That doesn’t mean they’re deserting the movies. What it means is they are ¿nding new outlets for their talents, and often getting a faster and certainly a substantial return at the same time. Witness the cinema royalty coming to MIPCOM 2012. DreamWorks and The Weinstein Company (TWC) is exhibiting this year, and co-founder Harvey Weinstein is a MIPCOM keynote speaker. “This visit to MIPCOM is a long time coming, we have had a commitment to television for a long time. With [former Miramax and NBC executive] Meryl Poster heading up our TV division, we have carved out a big space for ourselves to make a splash in the TV business,” Weinstein says. “We aren’t moving away from ¿lm at all but rather broadening our TWC brand. Project Runway and its spinoffs speak for themselves, not to mention Mob Wives and the many shows we have in development, including the highly anticipated Marco Polo.” Another Hollywood living legend, director Jane Campion, is at MIPCOM for a Creative Talk on her up-coming TV series Top Of The Lake. “I was very encouraged by some of the latest series that I have seen — I think the one that made me really excited, it’s form, it’s content, everything, was [HBO western series] Deadwood when it ¿ rst came out,” Campion says. “It started to become obvious that HBO and other companies, they were starting to take risks that you can’t take with ¿lm any more. Audiences get very conservative about what they are willing to go out and see but there seems to me to be a big audience of people that wants adventurous content. But they have got families and they can’t always go out, and they get used to watching it on their own screens — and you know I’m one of them.” She adds: “I also love the idea that [with TV] you can tell a longer story and you can get to know the characters, let the whole thing grow and develop. And you have room for whimsy and things if you wanted it.”
transformed the Rio Carnival Parade into the biggest spectacle on earth, and The Mountain — about a Brazilian mine-hunting patrol operating in Italy in WWII. We are looking for theatrical and TV distribution for both ¿lms.” Mariani sees NetÀix as a viable alternative to cinematic distribution, at least outside the country of origin of Heidi Klum, star of TWC’s Project Runway (Fremantle International Distribution)
Joana Mariani, executive producer at Brazilian producer Primo Filmes, is happy working across both cinema and television. “Primo Filmes produces ¿ction, documentaries and reality programming for both TV and theatrical release,” she says. “For MIPCOM 2012 we are bringing several TV series, and two feature ¿lms: Trinta — about Jorge Trinta, the man who
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the property in question. “Nowadays, lots of features that would never have been seen outside their country of origin can reach a global audience thanks to internetbased platforms,” she says. “Mainly because they are able to ¿nd an audience for all kinds of content, especially for independent features and foreign-language ¿lms. Plus, as a producer, it makes the selling process a lot easier when you are dealing with a single player, such as NetÀix. In our case, NetÀix is interested in our new documentary She Dreamed That I Died. But with Trinta and The Mountain, it’s a bit more complicated right now, because we would still like to see both getting a theatrical release abroad.” So is the ‘Berlin Wall’ between cinema and TV content merely wobbling or is it crumbling? “What is undeniable is that the length or format of content is increasingly irrelevant. People just love good stories, no matter whether they are presented in a long or short form,” Mariani says. “On top of that, the interJoana Mariani, Primo Filmes net is a very neutral environment. It is a fundamentally a-la-carte ecosystem which meshes well with the way the modern audience likes to watch its TV, but those VOD operations need lots of content, and that new reality is bringing cinema and TV closer together, which I believe offers more chances to smaller ¿lms. But in terms of the audience, there will always be a difference between watching a ¿lm on TV, or on a tablet or a computer compared with the full-bore theatrical experience. So there’s space for
VOD operations need lots of content, and that new reality is bringing cinema and TV closer together
both new and traditional formats, although they are increasingly to be found in the same place. But for a lot of people, the experience of seeing something in a cinema will always be a unique one.” The global popularity of Swedish crime novels over the last ¿ve years has given rise to a raft of spin-off series and TV movies based on best-selling books. Given the high drama and spectacular landscape backdrop that these books are so often set against, it probably comes as no surprise that feature ¿lms are also being planned following the success of TV versions. “The TV adaptations of the Millennium and the Wallander books were hybrids that had lots of ¿lmic elements,” Patrick Nebout, managing director and executive producer at Swedish company Nice Drama, says. “In the case of Millennium, it became so popular that it almost had to go to cinemas, and we are currently putting together the ¿nance for a trilogy based on the Fredrika Bergman books by Kristina Ohlsson, the plan being to release the ¿rst one of the three as a feature ¿lm.” Nebout is coming to MIPCOM with the project to see how much interest it generates among both TV and ¿lm distributors. “Structure-wise, each book is a standalone story, with the third ending on a classic cliff hanger. We intend to make a 90-minute adaptation of each one, and we believe that the ¿rst book certainly could become a theatrical release,” Nebout says. “Bringing the project to Cannes provides us with alternative ways to fund the production, through a further international co-¿nancing deal for example, plus, in making a feature ¿lm, we can also tap into Swedish ¿lm funds.” Nice Drama is also currently producing The Cente-
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narian. “It’s our biggest ¿lm project to date. Disney Nordic is on board as Scandinavian distributor, and the company also has a ¿rst-look agreement for the rest of the world. So the theatrical rights are pretty much tied up, but we are bringing it to Cannes to look at the possibilities on all the other platforms,” Nebout says. Nice Drama is also developing Jour Polaire, a co-production with French production house GMT, plus broadcast partners Canal+ and SVT. “We’ll be bringing that to MIPCOM as well, as again we are looking for more co-production partners,” he says. In yet another twist on the TV/¿lm interface, Island Films managing partner Sarah Beardsall has just ¿ nished producing The Scapegoat, a ¿lm that was commissioned by UK broadcaster ITV. “These days a broadcaster like ITV commissioning a ¿lm is very rare, but we felt that in between what ITV was investing, and what we could raise from theatrical releases in the rest of the world, putting together the ¿nancing would be relatively simple. We ended up shooting on a relatively small budget, but that said, it was no smaller than many indie ¿lms get made on,” Beardsall says. The ¿lm was produced with a stereo soundtrack for TV and a 5.1 version for cinema, a digital print was made for theatrical release as well as the TV version, and different framing and aspect ratios were employed to give each one the look its medium required. “The way we made The Scapegoat shows that ¿lms that may otherwise have remained ignored are at least getting made, but having a broadcaster on board means that there are compromises everywhere,” Beardsall says. “The time frame is limited by the broadcaster’s need to schedule the broadcast slot, so you are looking at six months maximum, and that means that you have to take the talent that is available, rather than being able
to wait for big ¿lm names. Overall it was a wonderful experience but frankly next time I might go down the traditional ¿lm ¿nancing route.” Island chose to go with Content Film as a distributor. “We could have teamed up with a dedicated TV distributor but we chose Content because they do both TV and theatrical,” Beardsall says. “It has been well received and so far it’s the only UK ¿lm to have been selected for the Chicago Film Festival. Content is bringing it to MIPCOM, and to be honest, I think that the fact that we ended up using some well-known TV actors will make it easier for them to sell it to broadcasters.” In terms of Island’s future slate, the company is currently working with Kirk Jones, director of What To Expect When You’re Expecting starring Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Lopez, on a book recently optioned by Island. “Plus Island Films partner Dominic Minghella is working on a ¿lm based on the life of Giacomo Puccini, a project that was initiated at last year’s MIPCOM. “We are bringing both projects down to Cannes for further discussions this week.” Distributor First Hand Films, based in Switzerland and Germany, specialises in documentaries which are usually either sold as 60-minute TV versions or full-length
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tion with legendary gender activist and performance artist Diane Torr, which teaches women to become the man of their choice, was shown at the Berlin Festival in February. “One aspect of the MIPs that is de¿nitely growing is that ¿lm distributors will bring their work along to give sneak previews to TV and VOD distributors. It’s a way for the ¿lm’s producers to ¿nd out rapidly if there is a market for their work after the ¿rst window,” she says. Catherine Tait, chairman of iThentic and president of Duopoly, is currently producing web series which are then versioned into 90-minute feature ¿lms: “SOS: Save Our Skins is the very ¿rst Canadian/UK digital co-production, which will go out as a web series (13 x 7 mins) then a feature. It is a co-production between my company Duopoly, Farmhouse Productions and Baby Cow in the UK, with Smiley Guy Studios providing interactive elements. The creators are two British comedians — Nat Saunders and Chris Hayward, and I’m delighted that we have pre-sold the series to the FEARnet channel in the US,” Tait says. The reason behind Tait’s strategy is that more and more producers are obliged to monetise content across multiple platforms in order to recoup. “A feature version of a web series can open up other ancillary markets like international TV and VOD,” she says. “And in a similar vein, we recently produced a feature with a web series companion entitled Everyday Is Like Sunday which is currently streaming on indiegogo.com.”
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TV PinGuim’s Tarsila, about the Brazilian painter Tarsila do Amaral
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popularity of the show, we were The sheer volume of new films is able to get funding from Brazil’s forcing producers to adopt new tacproduction incentive law,” Kiko tics. “As lower budget indie ¿lms are Mistrorigo, director of Fishtronaut produced in ever greater numbers — and executive producer at TV Pinand traditional theatrical strategies Guim, says. “Our other ¿lm project are no longer as effective in terms is Tarsila, about the Brazilian painof reaching audiences — straight to ter Tarsila do Amaral, her work and VOD has become more of a realistic her crazy world. It’s not a biograoption for feature ¿lms than going phy, it’s actually using her work to TV,” Tait says. “An example of and her style to create a ¿lm that this is the ¿lm we recently released tells a story.” through Gravitas in the US Mistrorigo’s plan is to get a theacalled Roller Town. It is trical release, then take the ¿lm to distributed through TV, and then develop a TV series. cable VOD services, “I see ever more TV producers getiTunes, Amazon, ting involved in ¿lm and vice versa, and pretty much Esther van Messel, and I think it’s mainly because there e v e r y w h e r e First Hand Films are now so many choices in terms of except movie distribution. That means that if you theatres.” Much as it ever was, many ¿lms manage to get your production everywhere, you have get made at least in part thanks a much greater chance of success,” he says. “Tarsila is to incentive funding from already with Buena Vista for theatrical distribution in government bodies, which is Brazil, plus we are talking to theatrical agents in France exactly the case with Brazilian and will be meeting with them this week.” TV producer TV PinGuim: As Mistrorigo points out, this is not about taking on com“Our animated series Fishtro- panies like Pixar: “We started making Tarsila because we naut was a huge success on were excited about creating a new graphic language, but cable and free-to-air, and we because our roots are in TV, we now suddenly straddle wanted to extend the brand, so the two worlds. And I believe we will only see more and making a ¿lm seemed like a more companies producing content that can be versioned good option, and thanks to the for any platform and any distribution outlet,” he says.
Film distributors will bring their work along to MIPCOM to give sneak previews to TV and VOD distributors
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