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Kevin Reilly, president of entertainment at Fox Broadcasting Company, will present the Media Mastermind Keynote today at 15.30 in the Grand Auditorium. He will then unveil an extended trailer of the new drama series Touch, along with star Kiefer Sutherland and creator Tim Kring
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The official MIPCOM daily newspaper Tuesday 4 October 2011 Director of Publications Paul Zilk EDITOrIal DEParTMEnT Editor in Chief Julian Newby Technical Editor in Chief Herve Traisnel Deputy Technical Editor in Chief Frederic Beauseigneur Graphic Designers Carole Peres, Veronique Duthille, Muriel Betrancourt Deputy Editor Debbie Lincoln Sub Editors Sarah Kovandzich, Max Leonard reporters Marlene Edmunds, Andy Fry, Emelia Jones, Juliana Koranteng, Rachel Murrell, Gary Smith, Joanna Stephens, Chris White, Nigel Willmott Head of Photographers Yann Coatsaliou / 360 Media Photographers Christian Alminana, Georges Auclaire, Olivier Houeix, Michel Johner Editorial Management Boutique Editions. PrODuCTIOn DEParTMEnT Content Director Jean-Marc Andre Publications Production and Development Manager Martin Screpel Publishing Product Manager Chealsy Choquette Publishing Co-ordinators Emilie Lambert, Amrane Lamiri, David Le Chapelain Productions assistant Veronica Pirim Production assistant, Cannes Office Eric Laurent Printer Riccobono Imprimeurs, Le Muy (France).
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Deals made in Cannes; product news; and forthcoming events
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Published by reed MIDEM, BP 572, 11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia, 75726 Paris Cedex 15, France. Contents © 2011, Reed MIDEM Market Publications, Publication registered 4th quarter 2011. ISSN 1962-9974. Printed on FSC certified paper The MIPCOM news team is located in the Press & news Hub next to the Palais des Festivals
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aDVErTISInG COnTaCT In CannES Christine Mendes 01 41 90 49 89 christine.mendes@reedmidem.com ManaGEMEnT, MarkETInG & SalES TEaM Director of the Entertainment Division Anne de Kerckhove Director of the Television Division Laurine Garaude Director of Market Development Ted Baracos Sales Director Sabine Chemaly Marketing Director Stephane Gambetta Programme Director Tania Dugaro Managing Director (uk / australia / new Zealand) Peter Rhodes OBE Sales Manager Elizabeth Delaney Vice President Sales and Business Development, americas Robert Marking Vice President Business Development, north america JP Bommel Executive Sales Director, north america MJ Sorenson Sales Executive Panayiota Pagoulatos regional Sales Director Fabienne Germond Sales Managers Paul Barbaro, Nathalie Gastone, Samira Haddi Sales Executives Liliane Dacruz, Cyril Szczerbakow Digital Media Sales Manager Nancy Denole australia and new Zealand representative Natalie Apostolou China representative Anke Redl CIS representative Alexandra Modestova English Speaking africa representative Arnaud de Nanteuil India representative Anil Wanvari Israel representative Guy Martinovsky Japan representative Lily Ono latin america representative Elisa Aquino 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.
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74 Now the small screen is sexy too It used to be that you weren’t
a star until you’d made it to the big screen, but all that has changed. Bob Jenkins reports
82 It’s back to school for formats The formats business has
welcomed screenwriters into its fold. Bob Jenkins looks at successful scripted formats
EARLY tomorrow morning at 08.00 in the Majestic hotel, the Asian Content Exchange Networking Breakfast features speaker Mark Welinski of Eutelsat. It is hosted by ContentAsia’s Janine Stein.
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THE DIGITAL Game-Changers Networking Drinks takes place today (18.30-20.30) in the Salon Marta of the Majestic Hotel. The invitation-only cocktail, part of MIPCOM’s series of networking events, will bring together digital media VIPs from production studios, broadcasters, online platforms, social media, startups and innovative technologies. THE PRODUCERS Networking Drinks takes place today in the Californie on level 5 of the Palais des Festivals (18.00-19.00). The get-together provides an opportunity to network with independent producers, with a great view of the Croisette.
90 TV for the awkward kids Cult TV series are attracting teenage audiences around the world. Gary Smith takes a walk on the wild side
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After the World Premiere TV Screening of Missing, stars walked the red carpet into the MIPCOM Opening Night Party at the Hotel Martinez. And we caught the action …
Parade’s End scriptwriter Tom Stoppard
Stars light up the red carpet before MIPCOM’s Opening Night, hosted by Channel One Russia and Red Square Group, and High TV 3D Disney/ABC’s Anne Sweeney and Missing’s star Ashley Judd
Inkmasters’ tattooed talent Oliver Peck and Original Media’s Charlie Corwin
The cast of Hell On Wheels: Colm Meaney, Anson Mount, Dominique McElligott and Common.
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Into The Abyss’ director Werner Herzog Happily Divorced’s Fran Drescher
Lilyhammer’s Steven Van Zandt
Channel One Russia’s Konstantin Ernst, TV host Vladimir Pozner, producer Nadezhda Solovieva, and Channel One Russia’s Alexander Fayfman
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RUSSIA House, in the Azur Hall near registration, opened its doors early to showcase Russian animation and children’s programming to MIPJunior delegates on Sunday. Ilya Popov, CEO of The Riki Group, and Tatyana Tsyvareva, editor-in-chief of Carousel children’s channel, hosted the showcase on Sunday afternoon with characters from the Russian animation Kikoriki.
Record-breaking MIPJunior hits the mark as industry evolves
Fresh from Finland: Red Caps
CONTENT FEST FROM FINLAND PETRA Theman, CEO of Finnish Film & Audiovisual Export (FAVEX), screened an array of Finnish children’s content and animation at Sunday’s Laugh, Scream, Learn event. Delegates packed the room to see clips from the 3D stereoscopic animation Red Caps (26 x 26 mins) about Santa’s elves, and the cross-platform anti-bullying drama, Respect, followed by a snack lunch.
The Networking Lounge at the Martinez
OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK THE NETWORKING Lounge was a hub of activity throughout MIPJunior. Sponsored by Foothill Entertainment, it gave delegates a place to talk, catch up on e-mails and plan their days.
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IPJUNIOR broke records this year, and not just for the temperatures. Attendance numbers went over the 1,000 mark for the first time, including 600 buyers — up 25% on 2010 — and 1,092 titles were listed in the programme catalogue. “The significant progression of MIPJunior reflects the kids’ entertainment industry’s impressive evolution,” said Laurine Garaude, director of television at Reed MIDEM. “Kids’ publishing and licensing now represent important segments of the industry and are reflected in events such as our inaugural Books-To-TV Exchange, and the eighth edition of our Licensing Challenge.” The screening booths at the Martinez were kept busy throughout the weekend, and French and Canadian programmes performed
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particularly strongly, being eight of the 10 most-requested programmes. The mostrequested title was 1001 Nights from Big Bad Boo Studios (Canada), followed by Floopaloo, Where Are You? from Xilam (France) and Chaplin And Co from PGS Entertainment (France). Other
titles in the top 10 included Lightning Point from Germany and Kung Fu Panda: Legends Of Awesomeness from Viacom International (US). The three categories of programming that were screened the most at this year’s MIPJunior were animation, live-action and comedy.
Kids call the shots at awards event THE winners of this year’s MIPJunior Kids’ Jury — as
determined by 18 pupils from the International School of Nice — were announced on Saturday. Dig Deep Creek, made by 1440 Productions, Australia, won the Tweens category (11-14 years), Hick-City, from Fantawild Animation in China won the Kids category (7-10 years) and Patch Pillows from Cyber Group Studios in France won Pre-School (3-6 years). Cyber Group also took an impromptu prize from Carousel, sponsors of the Kids’ Jury, given to the programme they liked best. The Kids’ Jury was conceived by French TV presenter and producer Billy, and staged in
partnership with Carousel, the new kids’ channel owned by Channel One Russia, Kidscreen, ContentAsia, Total Licensing and Worldscreen’s TV Kids. Channel One’s Tatyana
Lobanova, head of marketing and communications, presented the awards. “We sponsored the Kids’ Jury because we are interested in what kids think of our programming,” she said.
Fantawild Animation’s Daisy Shang (fourth left) celebrates her win in the Kids category with French TV presenter Billy (left), Channel One’s Tatyana Lobanova, Reed MIDEM’s Laurine Garaude, and the actors and jurors of the Kids’ Jury
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TEENS’ SCREENS TEENS differ from their younger siblings in the way they consume media, said panelists at the Teen Market At The Heart Of Transmedia’s Explosion session. Bob Higgins, senior vice-president of kids and family entertainment at FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), outlined how FME promoted My Babysitter’s A Vampire before broadcast. Creating a trailer for a movie in the show, and war games against vampires “gave kids something to get viral about,” he said. Nuno Bernardo of beActive in Portugal, makers of Sofia’s Diary and Beat Girl, said: “Online content tends to be more about normal kids doing cool things.” Teens typically consume over eight hours of media a day, much of it in parallel, said Donna Friedman Meir of Lemonade Creative Consulting. “They need bite-size snacks of content, and connectivity is important to them,” she said. The session was moderated by author and consultant Christophe Erbes of Media (C)nsulting.
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kids’ views at the Consumer Lab give insight into the gender divide JUST a day after serving on the
MIPJunior Kids’ Jury, Oscar (11) and Sophie (10) took to the stage again at the Kids’ Jury Consumer Lab to share with producers some deeper insights into their taste in kids programmes. “I liked Groove High best, and then Surviving Time Island,” said Sophie. “I like good stories, and magic.” “I chose Dig Deep Creek,” said Oscar. “It had lots of anticipation, and I was keen to find out what would happen. Even the trailer was exciting.” Kidscreen editor Lana Castleman, who had shortlisted the finalists, evaluated the shows’ creative content and commercial potential. Meanwhile, Stacey Matthias, co-CEO of Insight Research Group, analysed the Kids Jury
results in developmental terms. She factored in social, emotional, cognitive and physical elements. “By 11 to 14 years, audiences are highly gendered,” she said. “Whereas boys like suspense and action, girls tend to gravitate towards ensemble casts and the
relationships between characters. Both genders like physical comedy.” Dig Deep Creek, which won the 11-14 category, was liked by both boys and girls. “But they describe it so differently, you wouldn’t know they were talking about the same show,” Matthias said.
From left: kidscreen’s Lana Castleman, Oscar and Sophie, and Stacey Matthias of Insight Research Group
LOOkING FOR ThE uNuSuAL BUYERS at MIPJunior screened hundreds of shows at the weekend. One of them — Keisuke Tsuchihashi, executive producer animation at NHK Enterprises — outlined his animation needs. “We have only one or two slots for acquired animation on our educational and satellite channels,” Tsuchihashi said. “I am looking for high-quality shows that use techniques we don’t use in Japan, such as stop-frame. Shaun The Sheep has been very successful for us.” Refreshments in the screening lounges at MIPJunior were supplied by Rainbow.
Nhk’s keisuke Tsuchihashi
DANIEL Lennard, Turner Broadcasting’s vice-president of original series and international development, EMEA, regales guests at the MIPJunior networking lunch with stories about creating The Amazing World Of Gumball. The show — which won Best TV Production at the Annecy International Animation Festival 2011, and has taken the top spot for six- to 11-year-olds in many territories — combines live action, animation and a dancing banana. It is Turner’s first wholly-European production. Turner Content Solutions sponsored the lunch. For conference videos and liveblogging: http://blog.mipworld.com
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Change the broadcasting model but keep the culture says Ernst
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NATALIA Yakovleva, entertainment and media industry leader for PwC Russia, is at MIPCOM 2011 to share her expertise. Speaking to MIPCOM News, her key message is that Russia is making up for lost time: “We’ve seen a quick recovery since the 2009 downturn. Advertising growth is outpacing GDP and feeding into free TV. Consumers are demanding sophisticated content and channels are delivering.” However, despite the quality of local content, the production market is still fragmented. “There are a few major businesses but a lot of small ones. We expect to see rapid consolidation. CTC Media’s decision to merge Costa Film and Soho Media behind the Storyfirst banner is an example.” Consolidation is also a theme in pay TV and digital. PwC advises both domestic and foreign media companies. So how would Yakovleva brief new arrivals? “Russia is no different from other territories, in that it is a very specific market. You need to know the government is strong — but also that it is home to world-class talent in areas like gaming. The message, like anywhere, is do your homework, and we can help.”
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ONSTANTIN Ernst, CEO of Russia’s leading broadcaster, Channel One Russia, used his Media Mastermind Keynote to warn delegates against predicting the future of media: “Nothing can harm your image more than trying to act like Nostradamus. I’m not here to be a Delphic Oracle.” Instead, he delivered an emotionally charged assessment of the communications crisis facing today’s global TV industry: “The old broadcast model is broken,” he said.
“People born after 1980 aren’t watching TV in the same way as older people. The big channels need two versions: one for older audiences who have a TV viewing routine, one for people born in the digital era who find it difficult to watch an entire one- or two-hour show.” Ernst compared the old appointment-to-view model to expecting people to attend church at a specific time. “Broadcasters need to behave like street market traders,” he said. Ernst, a key figure in the revival of Russian cinema, also implored mainstream channels
Channel One Russia’s Konstantin Ernst
to take their cultural role seriously, instead of offering viewers little more than an “amusement ride”.
AT the formal opening of Russia House, and Focus On Russia. From left: film director Olga Fonfrantskevich, Reed MIDEM’s Paul Zilk; Konstantin Ernst of Channel One Russia; Alexandre Orlov, Russian Ambassador to France; Bernard Brochand, mayor of Cannes; Marie Chatardova, Czech Ambassador to France; Palais des Festivals’ president, David Lisnard; and Reed MIDEM’s Laurine Garaude.
Impressive stats prove Russia is a global media force ANTON Kudryashov, CEO of Russia’s largest commercial broadcaster, CTC Media, kicked off yesterday’s groundbreaking Focus On Russia session by saying that 2011 will be a record year for Russian TV advertising, predicting $5.5bn in revenues: “With 15% annual growth CTC’s Kudryashov: forecast, Russia “Russia will be Europe’s will be Europe’s largest ad market”
largest ad market by 2013,” he said. TNS Russia CEO Ruslan Tagiev stated some impressive internet stats: “Internet is 11% of all advertising. Internet reach among 12- to 24-year-olds is already higher than for television.” Irina Dorogan, general producer of pay-TV operator Red Media, said pay TV now accounts for 8-10% of all viewing. She added: “The challenge for us is to persuade advertisers to move from free TV to pay TV, so we can increase investment in
production.” Vlad Riashyn, CEO of producer Star Media Group, outlined the dominance of local production: “Local production, mainly TV series and movies, makes up 90% of primetime on the top channels. Now, companies like Star are successfully exporting content.” Margarita Simonyan, editor in chief of English-language news channel Russia Today, gave an interesting presentation on how her channel provides an alternative view of world events.
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E-BOOK DEBATE GETS ANIMATED INDUSTRY experts at MIPJunior discussed how publishers and producers should react to the convergence of e-books and animation.
NNOVATE or die” was the message from Miramax CEO Mike Lang in Monday’s keynote. With a 700-title film library, Lang has recently signed long-term deals with Hulu and Netflix, launched a cable network, and created an App that lets people watch movies across Facebook, iPad and Google TV. “We believe that all these different platforms can be complementary and co-exist,” he said. Netflix’s Ted Sarandos (left) and Miramax’s Mike Lang: complementary platforms
Fiona Macmillan of Random House Children’s Screen Entertainment UK, said: “The key is to go where kids want to read. One of our most exciting projects is Mortal Kiss, an online narrative developed with social gaming site Stardoll.” Cbeebies controller Kay Benbow agreed, saying her channel’s move into online and red button interactivity was about “providing different experiences and narrative.” Atlantyca Entertainment CEO Claudia Mazzucco said her company has developed e-book content around Geronimo Stilton: “We have now set up a division called Atlantyca Lab to explore transmedia,” she explained. Skywriter Media CEO and executive producer Kevin Gillis said there was great potential in e-books but publishers and producers need to “create content relevant for this new medium”.
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Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos, was equally upbeat. In March, Netflix bagged first-run rights to David Fincher’s US remake of the BBC thriller, House Of Cards. And this year it premiers Steven Van Zandt’s Lilyhammer. There is a deal with DreamWorks Animation to screen films before their free-to-air window, though Sarandos said this may not be the way forward. “Consumers are valuing exclusivity a little bit less,” he said. While unphased by Facebook’s entry into screening content, Sarandos was more concerned by Amazon’s recent moves to licence films. But the philosophy that guides him is clear. “When consumers tell you what they want figure out a way to give it to them. Because they will figure out a way to get it,” he said.
Fresh TV offers sex and action THE WIT CEO Virginia Mouseler
delivered her Fresh TV Around The World survey of the most anticipated formats of the season. The themes included action, tests of tolerance and kindness, … and occasional glimpses of sex. Picks from the session included: Ransom, from Spain’s Pulso/ Aftershare TV in which a contestant is “kidnapped” and vanishes for four days without telling anyone, with €200,000 and a backpack; Special Mission, from Russia’s Red Square, in which celebrities take on missions with help from the military; Go Back To Where You Came From, from Australia’s SBC Content Sales, where six Australians with different views on immigration must live the life of refugees; and Babes On The Bus, from Norway’s Nordic World,
in which a bus full of 20 single city girls who dream of country living visit 11 towns to meet bachelors. One person is voted out per week.
The Wit’s Virginia Mouseler
Pitch Doctor Paul Boross
DELEGATES GET BIG PITCHER YESTERDAY’s opening conference, The Pitch Doctor’s Guide To Making It At MIPCOM, got off to an unscripted start. A New Zealand delegate called Rodgerson Cunningham treated the overflowing auditorium to an impromptu Maori welcome song. Paul ‘Pitch Doctor’ Boross applauded Cunningham’s chutzpah. “You might have enjoyed that or your might not,” he told the audience. “But the one thing you will do is remember Rodgerson. And that’s what we all want to achieve at MIPCOM — be remembered.” Boross explained how, by using a suite of psychological tools, delegates could maximise their chances of winning hard business in Cannes. Creating rapport is the single most important thing, he advised: “Unless you’ve established a connection with somebody, you’re unlikely to close a sale. Your format, idea or service is secondary — when there’s an element of risk, people make a relationship decision before a buying decision.”
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Shimazu sharpens 3D focus 3D’S DAYS as an entertainment
3D keynoter Sony’s Akira Shimazu
gimmick are over, according to Akira Shimazu, senior general manager of Sony Corp’s 3D & BD project management division, during his keynote speech at yesterday’s Creating A New 3D Entertainment Experience sessions. Almost 70% of Japanese TV homes have 3D-capable sets, as do 40% to 50% of the homes in Europe, the US and China, he added. “I expect 3DTV will soon be mandatory on larger TV screens,” he said. “Because investment in 3D
content is growing.” Six out of the top 10 movies in the last year, including Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2, have been in 3D. Sony’s Blu-ray discs and PS3 games will each have more than a hundred 3D titles by the end of the year, while the opening and closing ceremonies, plus coverage of the competitions at next year’s London Olympic Games will also be broadcast in 3D. But Shimazu advised the industry to raise its game by making more TV and cinema screens 3D-capable, by reducing the content-production costs, and increasing 3D advertising.
Cassy hails blooming budgets
BSkyB’s John Cassy
BROADCASTERS are setting up dedicated 3DTV budgets following the success of trial transmission during the last 12 months, said John Cassy, director of BSkyB’s Sky 3D channel in the UK, at yesterday’s 3D Broadcast session.
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The network has commissioned new original 3D shows, including The Bachelor King, about the lives of penguins in South Georgia, for Christmas, and Kew 3D, about the fauna and flora at England’s magnificent Kew Gardens. “Watching a flower bloom in 3D as time lapses is extraordinary,” Cassy said. He recalled that Sky 3D broadcast more than 50 live sport events and the world’s first live broadcast of an opera in 3D. Joining his panel were Cosetta Lagani, Sky Italia’s head of Sky 3D; Mark Ringwald, 3net’s director of scheduling and acquisitions; and Hiroaki Nakashima, Fuji Satellite Broadcasting’s producer, programming & news headquarters, programme department.
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Bakish bullish on research as route to media success VIMM’s Bob Bakish
CONSTANT research is the key to success in the modern media market, declared Bob Bakish, president of Viacom International Media Networks, at his Media Mastermind Keynote. That research — “market by market, demographic by demographic” — should guide all stages of the business: programming, marketing and monetisation, and should lead to constant reinvention. “We have an audience hard-wired for change,” he said. In particular there needed to be an “evolution of the balance
of global and local”. We had moved from standardised global — mainly US — programming and formats to greater localisation, he explained. But now, he said, we needed to think “glocal” — to balance the inventiveness of local content with the economies of scale of global distribution. “We are importing and exporting much more content than we ever have,” he said. “In 2005 there were five shows on US networks from the international market. In 2010 there were 53.”
New dimensions in advertising THE 3D format will overhaul the way advertising is created — that was the conclusion of speakers at yesterday’s 3D Advertising session. For standard 2DTV commercials, the chain of command kicks off with the advertiser and ends with post-production
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technicians, who never need to contact the advertiser. “With 3D, there is a new division called the stereoscopy (3D imaging) department, which needs to talk to everyone in the food chain, including the ad agency and client,” explained Markus Aha, CEO of Aha International Media. “Communication without restraint is vital to the stereoscopy expert,” he added. Matthew Bristowe, head of production, View-D at UK post-production house Prime Focus Film, added: “In the last 12 months, it’s been as much about educating ourselves as much as our clients, as the 3D technology rapidly moves on.”
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SECRETARY-General of Malaysia’s Ministry of Culture, Communication & Information, His Excellency Kamaruddin Siaraf, was in Cannes yesterday to visit the Malaysian National Film Development Corporation (FINAS) stand. This year, a record number of Malaysian companies are attending MIPCOM and this evening FINAS is holding a cocktail party at the Carlton to mark the signing of several international co-production agreements. Kamaruddin Siaraf (centre) is pictured in Cannes with Reed MIDEM’s Laurine Garaude and Paul Zilk.
NHK has tsunami stories to tell MIPTV 2011 was a difficult time for Japanese public broadcaster NHK, coming just after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that claimed so many lives. But six months on, NHK is back in Cannes with a slate of new programming and a newlook archive: NHK Video Bank. Top priority is a collection of powerful documentaries that deal with the aftermath of the tsunami: “NHK and NHK Enterprises are releasing 20 documentaries,” Kazumasa Iida, head of international pro-
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gramme development told MIPCOM News. “NHK sent crews into the disaster areas after the tsunami. This resulted in films that look at the scale of the disaster, the nuclear accident and the struggles of survivors.” Other headlines include continued collaboration between NHK and France Televisions, said Iida: “One highlight is c o -produc e d do cu- d ra ma, Volcano Devils. As for other partnerships, we have signed MOUs with NFB, Discovery Canada and Al Jazeera Children’s Channel.” Iida is also upbeat about drama and animation: “Our drama is popular in Asia, but is now crossing borders to Europe, like Goldfish (licensed to Sweden) and Princess Atsu (licensed to Romania).” In animation, a headliner is Phi Brain — a mixture of animation and puzzles developed as crossplatform content. “The production team is looking to release multimedia products to go with the broadcast,” said Iida.
LAST night saw the World Premiere TV Screening of Disney/ ABC Studios’ Missing — and the fulfilment of a dream for the series’ executive producers Gina Matthews, Gregory Poirier and Grant Scharbo. “It was a dream to get Ashley Judd to star,” Matthews said. “She’s 100% perfect. We thought right from the start of the project, dream big, even though it’ll probably never happen. But in this case, the dream came true.” Starring alongside Judd in the thriller, every episode of which is set in a different European city, are Cliff Curtis and Adriano Giannini, who were also present at last night’s red-carpet event.
Missing begins when Becca Winstone (Judd) discovers her son Michael has disappeared while studying in Rome. When she travels to Europe to track Michael down, she is swept up in a vortex of intrigue. “The action moves at the pace of a movie,” Matthews said. “It’s big, exciting, thrilling, global and beautiful, but you can also relate to the story on a personal level.” With around 30 nationalities represented in its cast, Missing is also authentic. “We made every effort to be international,” Poirier said. “We really immersed ourselves in all the places in which we filmed. The result is a great drama with a great heart.”
SONY Pictures TV has brought Pan Am to MIPCOM. The original new show, set in the 1960s, about passion, adventure and espionage 30,000 feet in the air is being unveiled in Cannes. Jack Orman, executive producer of Pan Am, said that in the jet age, flying was an adventure: “It was really pioneering. It almost feels like science fiction now. It wasn’t something you had to get through. You go through no security. There’s a lounge. They are having martinis and it’s a lot of fun.”
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RAI SEALS FILM DEAL FOLLOWING an agreement between Rai and Cinecitta Luce, 59 films and 116 documentaries will now be distributed by Rai for the next 10 years. Rai has also signed an agreement with Rai Cinema to distribute the Titanus library of 350 titles which includes Rocco & His Brothers by Luchino Visconti and Poor But Beautiful by Dino Risi. “These agreements represent a major step in Rai’s positioning across foreign markets,” said Rai commercial director, Luigi De Siervo.
WINDMILL SIGNS FOR AQUABATS WINDMILL Lane Entertainment has signed a post-production deal with FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) for the hit series The Aquabats Super Show. In the deal, FME benefits from the competitive 28% tax break offered by the Irish government. Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon is also on board for animation as a coproducer on the project.
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IKHAIL Gorbachev’s grand-daughter Ksenia Gorbacheva is in Cannes to launch the televising of the second Mikhail Gorbachev Awards gala. Subtitled The Man Who Changed The World, the awards honour people who make a major contribution to the world’s future. “The 2012 gala is in Berlin on 20th March,” said Gorbacheva, who represents producer/ distributor The Mikhail Gorbachev Foundation. “Future galas will take place in a different country each year, and in time we hope the broadcast will become an annual fixture in broadcasters’ diaries around the globe.”
The 2011 winners were internet inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner, and 25-year-old Kenyan inventor Evans Wadongo whose solar-powered lamp has brought affordable, low-impact lighting to thousands of Africans. The theme of the 2012 gala will be ‘Ecology and the resilience and sustainability of the world’s great cities’. Broadcast rights will be available through Mikhail Gorbachev Awards. Mikhail Gorbachev Awards (Mikhail Gorbachev Foundation)
Gaumont’s going global FRENCH motion picture studio
Gaumont is moving into worldwide television production and distribution with the launch of Gaumont International Television (GIT), based in Los Angeles. The independent studio, which will produce high-quality drama and comedy programming for the US and international markets, already has a number of projects in development including Hannibal and six-hour mini-series Madame Tussaud.
US television executives Katie O’Connell and Richard Frankie have been hired as CEO and chief operating officer respectively, and will have unique access to Gaumont’s resources including its global sales force and a catalogue of entertainment properties to develop into television projects. O’Connell and Frankie have brought on board Erik Pack, based in London, who will head international distribution and co-production.
“We are excited to be working with a company the size and calibre of FME, and to be entering the kids market with a truly global co-production with live action shooting in California, animation from award-winning Cartoon Saloon, and post production from Windmill Lane in Ireland,” said Windmill Lane Entertainment CEO, Michael Murphy.
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FREMANTLE TAKES THE RIGHT HAND THE FREMANTLE Corporation has acquired the international distribution rights for The Right Hand, a reality series about an adult film production company, produced by Torontobased EWL Media. In 12 half-hour episodes, the series follows a new film school graduate from his first day at Immoral Productions. The show debuts on Canadian TV in the last quarter of 2011 and on pay-TV in the US next year.
PLUS LICENS HEADS EAST SWEDEN’s Plus Licens has finalised several deals with Russian and Eastern Europe territories for programming. The anime series Dragon Ball Z will premiere on free-TV in Russia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan, while the first two series of Gormiti have been placed with Russia’s TV3 and 2 x 2 channels. TNT has sold a total of 104 x 30 mins episodes of Jewelpet, based on a joint venture between Sanrio and Sega Toys, to Plus Licens, while all 228 half-hour episodes of the Naruto Shippuden series have been placed with Russia’s 2 x 2.
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classic quartet of war novels, has brought acclaimed writer Sir Tom Stoppard back to TV drama for the first time in 20 years. He is at MIPCOM with series producer David Parfitt — reuniting the Oscar-winning partnership from Shakespeare In Love — to promote the series. The show, co-commissioned by the BBC and HBO, is being produced by Mammoth Screen and Lookout Point, with international partners and funds. Mammoth Screen had interested Tom Stoppard in working on the BBC Worldwide’s Ben Donald: “finalising negotiations” adaptation and BBC Worldwide secured the international funding to make the project happen. “Our ambition is always to work with the so-called ‘ungettable’ writers and talent,” said Ben Donald, BBC Worldwide’s executive producer for international drama. “Parade’s End isn’t a finished story for us with HBO on board,” he continued. “We’re also finalising negotiations with major European broadcasters around the project.” Parade’s End is directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker Susanna White. Cast includes Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall.
Enlight focused on formats MIPCOM newcomer Su Ming, general manager of television at Beijing Enlight Media, is here to pursue his ambition of being the first to bring a Chinese format to the international market. Enlight makes the Chinese versions of The X Factor for Liaoning TV and Clash Of The Choirs for CCTV. It also produces Su’s own entertainment show Happy Birthday on Shenzhen TV. “The international market is of increasing importance to us,” said Su. “We look forward to collaborating more with international format creators in the future.”
Enlight is working with The Format People Group whose Michel Rodrigue brokers business relationships with format creators in the international community. Colleague Justin Scroggie deals with the creative challenges of adapting formats for the Chinese market. “It’s about understanding from the get-go what the restrictions are,” said Scroggie. “The government limits lots of aspects — the maximum prize on a TV show is $800. And Chinese game shows tend to have five or six hosts. My job is to work with the format owner and Enlight to find a way to make it work.”
Justin Scroggie (left) and Michel Rodrigue of The Format People Group with Beijing Enlight Media’s Su Ming and translator Zhang Weidong.
Scott Garner of OWN and Sally Miles of Passion Distribution
PASSION goes beyond the name at London’s Passion Distribution, which launched at MIPCOM three years ago. CEO Sally Miles believes that a shared commitment to positive lifestyle programming lies behind the distribution deal that sees Passion bringing OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) programmes to the international market at MIPCOM this year. “They could see that we were very passionate about the same things,” she said. “Their programming is all about living the best life we can.”
It’s a philosophy that underlies the distribution catalogue at Passion, which includes programmes from Sundance Channel and Scripps Networks International. “We are a distributor of very lifestyle, female orientated, feel good programmes,” she said. “With markets falling and doom and gloom everywhere, inspirational and empowering programmes are all the more important.” But in the television world at least, there are bright spots. She reported “a big rising market in Latin America” and business growing strongly in central and eastern Europe.
The Firm’s next chapter opens ENTERTAINMENT One (eOne) and Via-
sat Broadcasting have entered into a distribution financing co-venture for 10 Viasat Broadcasting free-TV territories on the highly-anticipated television series, The Firm, based on John Grisham’s best-selling novel. The deal marks Viasat Broadcasting’s first foray into the distribution financing arena, providing them with the television broadcast rights in DenThe Firm’s executive mark, Norway, Sweden (both pay-TV and free-TV producer Lukas Reiter rights) and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Ghana (free-TV rights), as well as ondemand rights for its Viaplay services. The 22-part series, based on the life of central character Mitch McDeere after the events portrayed in the book, commenced production in August 2011 in Toronto, Canada. The one-hour series will be simulcast on Global and NBC and will air on Sony’s AXN networks in more than 125 territories around the globe. “We have just completed the first two-hour double episode, and are currently working on the next two,” Lukas Reiter, executive producer, said. “The series is, on one level, an adrenaline-fuelled legal thriller with a slightly pulpy edge, but on another, it’s about credible things that happen to people, but with a sense of heightened reality.”
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piece of art, with the kind of lush beauty and high artistic quality one associates with Italy,” SCP president Aiichiro Furukawa said. “We used cotton because we wanted to reflect the sensitive nature of the characters in the series,” said Gian Maria Misseri, executive producer for Misseri Studio. “It’s the first coproduction we’ve done in years with Japan and we’re hoping this will pave the way for additional projects in the future,” said Rai Fiction’s head of marketing and animation production, Luca Milano.
Kids and formats on Fremantle table
From left: FME’s David Ellender; FM’s Tony Cohen; FM’s Jeff Tahler; FME’s Sander Schwartz; FM’s Trish Kinane
FREMANTLEMEDIA (FM) has unveiled a mass of new corporate and programming initiatives. FM CEO Tony Cohen’s top headlines were a doubling of investment in kids’ content, further expansion into gaming and branded content and the opening of a new Dubai office. Picking up the kids story, Sander Schwartz, president of children’s and family entertainment at FM’s commercial arm FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME), announced the company’s investment in a new
animated series from Fresh TV called Grojband, and a deal with Mattel to re-imagine Max Steel as a CG animation series. FME has also come on board for Happy Films’ pre-school show Bookaboo. The big news in drama is the decision to adapt 1992 movie Universal Soldier as a drama series, to be written by Damian Kindler (Sanctuary) and produced by FM North America. FM also brings 13 entertainment formats to market including new titles Hidden Stars and Don’t Stop Me Now. FM’s acting president of worldwide entertainment Trish Kinane also highlighted the reboot of reality series The Villa, “which takes us into the Jersey Shore, Only Way Is Essex genre — but with a game-show mechanic”, and a revival of Through The Keyhole.
Disney counts growth in viewers for on-demand services globally AT THE Disney lunch content has been incredibly yesterday, Disney Media popular on this platform. Distribution’s (DMD) president People who select one of our of global distribution at Disney shows typically end up watching Media Networks, Ben Pyne, 13 or 14 episodes. Encouraged commented that Disney is by this success, we’ve also rolled currently on the frontline: out the service in several other “The world is changing so markets including in Portugal much, and so fast, but TV with Zon Lusomondo and in continues to be a very strong Germany with Vodafone. On medium, with viewership the B2B side we also now have a growing and people watching DMD iPad app for the sales more TV than ever thanks to team to use with clients.” new technologies. Just over a year ago, we announced the first international launch of ABC On Demand, with BT Vision in the UK. The service gives BT Vision’s subscribers full seasons of hit ABC Studios series on demand, immediately following their first UK From left: Disney’s Fernando Barbosa, Ben Pyne, Catherine Powell broadcast window. Our and Rob Gilbey, with new iPad sales app
Strong Hasbro sales as company OKs second series of key shows FINN Arnesen, senior vicepresident of international distribution and development at Hasbro Studios, has sold five shows to Turkish broadcaster ATV for its new kids channel Minika. Titles are: My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic; Pound Puppies; GI Joe Renegades; The Adventures Of Chuck And Friends; and Transformers Prime. Commenting on the deal, Arnesen said: “Minika is a
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smart ambitious network that will be the perfect environment for our programming.” Minika’s Mahmut Ipsirli added: “As a new channel building our own brand, it is vital we partner with leading distributors as we develop and grow.” Arnesen is now updating buyers about the next wave of Hasbro Studios content: “Firstly, I’m telling buyers that we have greenlit second seasons on all these shows. But also that we have a superb slate of new content including The Littlest Pet Shop and Kaijudo (respectively, animations for girls and boys); Rescue Bots (an aged-down Transformers spin-off) and Clue, a reimagination of board game Cluedo that is our first foray into live action. We also have formats, Family Game Night, Pictureka and The Game Of Life.”
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MINUTE TO WIN IT CLOCKS UP SALES LAUNCHED only last year, TV game show Minute To Win It has already been acquired by 51 countries and is expected to be picked up by more buyers at MIPCOM this week. Originally conceived and developed by Swedenbased Friday TV (now part of News Corp’s Shine Group) and launched on NBC, Minute To Win It gives contestants a short space of time to complete up to 10 challenges. Every time the challenge intensifies in difficulty, the prize money escalates. The format was recently sold by NBCUniversal (NBCU) to Poland, Armenia and Ukraine where it is due to go into production. Local versions have been completed and gone on air in countries including the UK, French-speaking Belgium, Spain and Italy, with a number of formats going into second and third series in multiple territories. Although most broadcasters are showing localised editions created by local production companies, in Asia-Pacific NBCU’s international television production formats unit has linked up with Astro, the Malaysian satellite-TV operator, to co-produce the show.
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MPCA has plan of action for Daro DARO Film Distribution has acquired a slate of action movies from Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA) for Central and Eastern Europe, the CIS and Baltic states, and Africa. They include Assassination Games, Six Bullets, One In The Chamber and The Package. Francisco Gonzalez, MPCA’s senior vice-president of worldwide sales and distribution, said Daro was the “perfect partner” to deliver MPCA’s action-packed slate to these emerging territories. Daro Film Distribution vicepresident Michael Wolter added: “We hope the relationship with MPCA continues to grow.”
Documentary Channel has entered into its first international deal with France’s Kwanza to co-produce The Himalayan Gold Rush. Other partners involved in the 52-minute documentary, due to be delivered in early 2012, include France TV, NDR, SWR, VRT, TV3, TG4, RSI and SRF. It focuses on a ritual in the Himalayas, when every spring thousands of men, women and children trek high into the mountains to gather a transmutation between a plant and an insect called the Yarsagumbu used extensively in traditional Chinese medicine and worth $50,000 a kilo.
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CCSA PILOTS ARE SET TO TAKE OFF COMEDY Central Studios Arabia (CCSA), the joint venture operated by twofour54 and Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), has unveiled three new pilot programmes. Sitcom Rabea’ Darb Arbae’ah follows the story of Rabea’, a 24-year-old man living in Abu Dhabi on a quest to succeed in fame, love, money and physical perfection. Fun Koosh is a fast-paced, improvisation-based comedy game show in which four contestants test their comedic reflexes, and Coach Khateer is a short-form animation sport concept based on a genius football coach who devises creative and devious plots to help his team score. At the end of each episode, the audience is presented with a multiple choice question to try to predict Coach Khateer’s next plan. “All three were presented as concepts at MIPTV last year, and based on positive broadcaster response have now been developed into pilots ready to be pitched to potential partners,” Wayne Borg, CEO of twofour54, said. “We have a lot of meetings lined up and I’m optimistic that we’ll be taking these pilots further.”
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OMINATIONS for the 39th International Emmy Awards, which take place in New York on 21 November, were announced by The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences at MIPCOM yesterday. A total of 40 nominees across 10 categories from a record 20 countries were revealed, and Bruce L Paisner, president and CEO of the Academy, said that the competition had attracted over one thousand entries from a total of 61 countries this year.
In addition to the awards, the Academy will present two special awards. Veteran UK producer Nigel Lythgoe, co-creator and executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance and executive producer of American Idol, will receive the 2011 International Emmy Founders Award, and Subhash Chandra, chairman Zee Entertainment Enterprises, will be presented with the Directorate Award.
Arts Programming
Julie Walters in Mo
Life With Murder
ITV Studios for Channel 4 United Kingdom
JS Kastner Producions / National Film Board of Canada Canada
All My Life: Adoniran Barbosa TV Globo Brazil
Gareth Malone Goes To Glyndebourne Twenty Twenty Television United Kingdom
In Der Werkstatt Beethovens — Die Neunte, Thielemann Und Die Wiener Philharmoniker Unitel GmbH & Co. KG / ZDF / 3sat Germany
Memories Of Origin — Hiroshi Sugimoto The Contemporary Artist Wowow / TV Man Union Japan
Best Performance By An Actor Fabio Assuncao in Songs Of Betrayal TV Globo Brazil
Christopher Eccleston in Accused RSJ Films for BBC One United Kingdom
Jang Hyuk in The Slave Hunters KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) South Korea
Michael Nyqvist in Millenium Yellow Bird / SVT / ZDF / Nordisk Film Sweden
Best Performance By An Actress Athena Chu Yan in A Wall-less World Radio Television Hong Kong / Social Welfare Department Hong Kong, China
Adriana Esteves in Songs of Betrayal TV Globo Brazil
Noomi Rapace in Millenium Yellow Bird / SVT / ZDF / Nordisk Film Sweden
Bruce L Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Children & Young People Allein Gegen Die Zeit (13 hours — Race Against Time) Norddeutscher Rundfunk / Askania Media / Bavaria Fernsehproduktion / Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk / Kinderkanal / Westdeutscher Rundfunk / Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg Germany
¿Con Que Suenas? (What Is Your Dream?) Mi Chica Producciones / CNTV / TVN Chile
Dance Academy
The Nonfiction: Family Meeting — 7 Years In The Tanaka Family Fuji Television Network Japan
Wild Japan Studio Hamburg DocLights Naturfilm / ORF / ARTE / National Geographic / Parthenon Entertainment Germany (aired on ARD)
Drama Engrenages (Spiral)
Werner Film Productions / Australian Broadcasting Corporation / ZDF / ZDF Enterprises / Australian Children’s Television Foundation Australia
Son et Lumiere / CANAL+ France
Saladin
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Japan
Multimedia Development Corporation / Al Jazeera Children’s Channel Malaysia
Comedy Benidorm Bastards Shelter / VMMA Belgium
Breaking Up TV Globo Brazil
Facejacker Hat Trick for Channel 4 United Kingdom
The Noose Season 3 MediaCorp TV Pte Ltd Singapore
Documentary Confesiones De Un Sicario Turner Argentina / Anima Films Argentina
Sakanoue No Kumo (Cloud Above The Slope)
Sherlock Hartswood Films / BBC Wales United Kingdom
Under The Law TV Globo Brazil
Non-Scripted Entertainment La Expedicion — Mas Alla De Lo Imposible RM 5TO Elemento Mexico / Zodiak Entertainment Group / Fundacion Teleton Mexico Mexico
El Hormiguero (The Anthill) 7 y accion Spain
The Master Show KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) South Korea
The World’s Strictest Parents Twenty Twenty Television United Kingdom
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Frank Verheggen is producer and partner of the Chocolate Liberation Front (CLF), a multiplatform producer from Australia, with offices in Canada Tell us about Chocolate speak for themselves. Liberation Front What partnerships are “Chocolate Liberation you looking for? Front is a producer of
content for a range of platforms — TV, games and film —using CGI, stop motion and 2D animation. CLF’s core focus is on creatordriven original intellectual properties.” What drew you to MIPCOM?
“MIPCOM is the perfect place to show our slate to all the major players. And if you’re talking to us you can relax: we don’t do the hard sales pitch; we’d rather draw people in with chocolate. After that, we believe the quality of the properties
“We’re setting up a development partnership with Australia’s most exciting talent. The synergy between CLF and this creative force leads to a development powerhouse and slate that we would love to show to interested parties.”
Paradise Lost finds co-pro partners AUSTRALIAN production company Quail Television has unveiled two new co-production partners at Cannes for its major mini-series Pitcairn: Paradise Lost. The Crime and Investigation Network on Australian pay-TV platform Foxtel and New Zealand’s TV3 (a MediaWorks NZ subsidiary) have come on board not only as co-producers but also as buyers of the broadcast rights. Pitcairn: Paradise Lost, currently in development, is a gripping docu-drama based on the true story about the descendants of Fletcher Christian and the HMS Bounty
mutineers. Their rebellion against abusive naval authority and new life on the Pacific Ocean’s Pitcairn Islands became the movie Mutiny On The Bounty. What had been one of history’s idyllic tales of the fight for human rights turned into a real-life horror story in 1996 when the systematic sexual abuse of girls and women by the mutineers’ descendants on the island became exposed. The fight for justice that followed, complicated by dependence on a British legal system that might not have been valid at the time, forms the basis for Quail’s production.
What’s the most important development for the industry?
“Touch screens are now becoming much more than a gimmick — it’s a business. It’s not just that you need one, you need to know that your audience has one.”
Foxtel’s Jim Buchan (left), MediaWorks’ Kelly Martin, and Quail Television’s Greg Quail and Rick Kalowski seal the deal for Pitcairn: Paradise Lost
NICE change reflects strong creative
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Morten Aass, CEO of NICE: unique proposition
HE Northern Alliance Group (NAG) is launching a new brand and identity at this MIPCOM, rebranding itself as NICE (Nordic Independent Creative Entertainment). The group comprises Monster and Limelight Film &TV from Norway, Moskito from Finland, Baluba, Titan Television and Nice Scripted Entertainment from Sweden, and Gong from Denmark. “The group is a unique proposition right now in the Nordic territory in terms of size, turnover and diversity. The NICE rebrand is designed to be playful but to mirror closely our USP — which is our very strong creative
development units,” Morten Aass, CEO of NICE, said. “All our companies are directed by respected creatives with rock-solid track records, which enable us to continue to produce the majority of our own formats. I also think this reflects the spirit of the group — to be creative, have fun and make the best content possible.” NICE is set to produce well over 100 TV series across all genres in 2011, including Babes On The Bus from Monster Formats, Celebrity Babysitter from Limelight/Titan and major drama production The Half Brother from Monster Film. NICE is also producing films, commercials and events.
LEss ThAN A KINd GETs NEW AudIENCE LESS Than A Kind, the Canadian primetime TV series produced and distributed by Torontobased Breakthrough Entertainment, will debut in the US on the newly launched DirecTV specialty channel Audience Network. The top-rating series has already earned several prestigious Canadian TV awards.
LAuNCh FOR zOdIAK’s COPyCAT CONTEsT ZODIAK Rights has unveiled a new Mastiff Sweden (part of the Zodiak Media Company) format, Copycat Singers, at MIPCOM. Originally made for TV3 Sweden (8 x 60 mins), Copycat Singers features five dedicated fans competing to sing as much like their idol as possible. The contest is built around an array of well-known and loved songs from the featured star’s long career, and also features the contestants competing against the original performers.
ACTION FROM FREMANTLE THE FREMANTLE Corporation has unveiled the fourth season of children’s series A World Of Wonders. Fremantle has also acquired the international television distribution rights for the action-adventure series Movin’ On and for feature documentary Bhutto about the life and political career of two-time Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
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MISSING, the new series from Disney/ABC 10.00 – 11.00 Blue Lounge By invitation only Press ConferenCe
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Paul Verhoeven presents The Entertainment Experience 14.30 – 15.30 Blue Lounge By invitation only Press ConferenCe
Yann Arthus-Bertrand launches new sustainable development TV production company 16.30 – 17.30 Californie, Palais des Festivals By invitation only sPeCial event for Press & Buyers
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BBC Worldwide grows business in France
BBC Worldwide France director Jean-Louis Blot: promoting new formats
AFTER just three years of operating, BBC Worldwide France has built itself into an important supplier of programming for French broadcasters. “The thing that surprises many people in the industry here is that we are not just selling finished shows but we are also a producer, delivering shows based on the BBC’s most successful and upcoming formats,” said director JeanLouis Blot, who founded the office in Paris.
“The first season of Strictly Come Dancing, which starred former footballer David Ginola, singer Sheila (known as Sheila B. Devotion outside France) and tennis player Cedric Pioline, did very well indeed on TF1 and the second season will launch later this month.” Alongside that, The Week The Women Went on France 2, another primetime series, and Design For Life featuring Philippe Starck have proved to be hits with French viewers. “We have also produced a series of 24 concerts featuring major acts such as Bon Jovi and Elton John which has been sold to Direct Star, part of the TNT digital offer,” he said. “Now that we have become established as a supplier of shows, my main aim is to promote new formats such as Young Doctors, which is like Grey’s Anatomy for real, When Romeo Met Juliet and Daddy Day Care.”
Log Media cuts 3D deals LOG Media, launched last year by Paul and Michael Berrow, is at MIPCOM with over 140 hours of 3D content including Bigger Pictures’ Brian May’s Brief History Of 3D, Britain & Ireland From The Sky, the World Music Awards, and Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Since its launch, Log Media has sealed a distribution deal with High TV 3D, and has been working closely with a number of prominent independent producers and with two media funds. Paul Berrow said: “As specialists in the international 3D marketplace, Log Media is uniquely positioned to provide insight into this complex and nascent global market. We will shortly be
revealing a new funding package for production houses to support new 3D programming.” Berrow and brother Michael launched the career of international pop band Duran Duran in the Eighties and recently produced the feature film Solomon Kane. Berrow said: “Our longtime experience of producing content ensures that we understand the nature of the landscape.”
Log Media’s Paul Berrow
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Tricon cranks it up to 11 for Metal Day
TO PROMOTE the broadcast debut of Metal Evolution, a definitive history of Heavy Metal music, US distributor Tricon Films & Television is organising a National Metal Day on November 11: “The number 11 comes from the film Spinal Tap, and is a re-occurring feature of the series,” Jon Rutherford, Tricon’s vicepresident of international sales and acquisitions, said. “We have had a strong response to the idea and it looks as if November will be Metal Month.” The series is based on the Heavy Metal family tree created for Banger Films’ awardwinning feature, Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey. The chart reveals the complex progeny of heavy metal — from early Metal and Shock Rock, to
Thrash. “We’ve already sold Metal Evolution to broadcasters in Brazil, Norway and Finland, and we’ve had a lot of interest from other territories,” Lia Dolente, Tricon’s manager of international sales and publicity said. “It’s an amazing series with very high-end production values, so we expect to be busy this week.” On another musical note, Tricon has also bought Ex-Wives Rock to MIPCOM.
Metal Evolution host/producer Sam Dunn with Alice Cooper
Viasat’s relationship reality ARMOZA Formats has sold its
relationship reality format, 24/7 Love Lab, to Viasat, to be versioned for the veteran broadcaster’s channels in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The multi-territory deal, brokered by Beata Hegedus, Viasat’s vice-president of formats and entertainment, precedes 24/7 Love Lab’s international launch at MIPCOM. It points to the format’s “strong potential for multi-territory co-operation in terms of sharing and reducing local production costs”, said Avi Armoza, CEO of Armoza Formats.
Produced by Abot Reif Hameiri, 24/7 Love Lab debuted in primetime on Israel’s Channel 10, pulling in ratings 13% above its slot average and becoming the channel’s most-watched show. The action centres on one bachelor, his entourage of three best friends and 15 single girls, who are locked up together in a luxurious mansion in pursuit of true love. Armoza said: “24/7 Love Lab is not a dating show in the conventional sense. It focuses on the very real difficulty faced by successful, intelligent, good-looking people in their late 20s and early 30s finding suitable partners.”
24/7 Love Lab: a date with Viasat
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IT’S THE question everyone is asking: What if rock stars became butchers? Or perhaps more relevant to its children’s audience: What if Barbie were a real woman? Or: What if the Titanic had never sunk? The successful Belgian sketch comedy series What If? — presenting a flipside view of life as it could be, is being distributed in Cannes by Germany’s SevenOne International.
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NDIAN company Travelxp HD is making its MIPCOM debut with over 300 hours of HD travel programming, covering not just the Indian subcontinent but also South East Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Husband and wife Prashant and Nisha Chothani of Celebrities
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COMES TO TOWN TELEVISION de Radio-Canada is showcasing its new pre-school series On Zenon’s Farm at MIPCOM.
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It follows the adventures of a group of friends who live in the countryside. Alongside Zenon the naive piglet are Colin the puffin, Crepine the goat, Zoumba the llama, and Bizz the gnat.
Hola Entertainment has announced the sale of Chilean kids animation comedy series Zumbastico Fantastico to Cartoon Network Latin America at MIPCOM. The series (17 x 26 mins) is co-produced by Chile-based Solo Por Las Ninas Audiovisual with Television Nacional de Chile with financing from the country’s Conseja Nacional de Television.
Through funny, heartfelt and surprising stories, the series aims to involve kids in Zenon’s world and introduce them to escapades geared to early childhood development.
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Management launched Travelxp HD in February. “We are India’s first HD travel channel and the biggest India-centric HD library of travel content across the world,” said Nisha. “With 300 hours of footage we aim to capture the travel market with some 1,200 hours of prime HD footage by 2015.” Prashant added: “In production since 2008, Travelxp HD has already set benchmarks in the Indian travel and lifestyle segment. Apart from the Indian subcontinent, Travelxp HD has also produced travel programming about Thailand, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Jordan, Dubai, and Europe including the Czech Republic, Scandinavia and the UK.”
VISUALON HAS APP APPEAL MULTIMEDIA software company VisualOn has announced a deal with Netflix, at Cannes. The video streaming service has chosen VisualOn software for the Netflix app on Android devices. “It’s important for content providers to reach this growing mobile audience, no matter the device,” said Yang Cai, CEO of VisualOn.
Mioko Iwashima of Wowow, with Hat Trick’s Sarah Bickley
LeBlanc comedy bound for Japan HAT Trick International, the distribution arm of London production house Hat Trick, has sold series one and two of its prime-time comedy Episodes to Japanese pay TV channel Wowow, in a deal brokered by HTI’s Sarah Bickley. Series one, which stars Matt LeBlanc as an outrageous version of himself, has been sold to more than 180 countries. Mioko Iwashima of Wowow said: “Wowow brought Friends and Joey to Japan, so we thought it would be fitting for us to bring Episodes to the Japanese audience too.” Episodes tells the story of a British husband and wife scriptwriting team whose life is turned upside down when they go to Hollywood to write a show for Matt LeBlanc.
BIG SNAKE, WEE DEAL BRITISH factual producer Wide-Eyed Entertainment (WEE) is co-producing a two-hour special about the biggest snake ever known, the titanoboa. Working with Smithsonian Networks, History Television and yap films, WEE will use animation to bring back to life the mighty titanoboa in all its 48 feet, one-and-a-half ton glory. The monster reptile was reconstructed from the remains of a fossilised vertebra discovered in Colombia in 2002. It lived 60 million years ago, after the dinosaurs became extinct. Titanoboa: Monster Snake is a co-production with History Television Canada, and will be distributed by FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME). The production team previously collaborated on March Of The Dinosaurs.
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neWs Big surge for British exports BRITISH TV exports grew by 13% in 2010, according to the UK Television Exports Survey, released by producer trade association PACT. The report, produced by Television Research Partnership, (and supported by UK Trade & Investment, ITV and BBC Worldwide) showed revenues were up from £1.26bn ($1.96bn) in 2009 to £1.42bn. The US remains the largest export market for UK producers with sales growing by 13% to £526m. Sales to Canada also rose significantly with a 20% increase year-on-year (£61£73m). Among emerging markets, Russia stood out, with sales up 54% (£13m). John McVay, PACT’s chief executive said: “Once again
the Exports Survey shows strong growth — but just as importantly — we’re seeing growth in new territories too.” In terms of other positive trends, overseas production of UK formats grew significantly from £37m (2009) to £81m (2010). Sales of digital rights grew to £10m (up 48%). A major contributor to UK exports is BBC Worldwide. Steve Macallister,managing director, sales and distribution, said: “2010 was a fantastic year for BBC Worldwide. Hits like Sherlock, Dancing With The Stars and Primeval have helped establish the UK as a real alternative to the US for big hits in drama and entertainment.”
MAI goes Dutch for Europe’s first national content audit MEDIA Audits International (MAI) — the new international arm of US-based Cable Audit Associates — has announced its first European countrywide audit in the Netherlands. The initiative, which spans over 40 channels, is the territory’s first ever audit of transactional content, according to broadcast veteran Simon Pollock, MAI’s senior vice-president,
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international. Pollock said: “The Netherlands is a great example of a typical, modern pay-TV environment, with all the relevant platforms well developed — cable, satellite, pay DTT and IPTV. It’s the perfect launch pad to show the benefits of accountability to both operators and content owners.” MAI, which plans to launch an audit in one other key European territory before year-end, aims to “deliver clarity to today’s international pay-TV business”, Pollock said. He added that the MAI audit programme resulted in better transparency and revenue reporting in an increasingly fragmented market, because it ensured contract compliance and accurate subscriber reporting.
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neWs ACTIVETV TRACKS DOWN FORMAT DEAL INDEPENDENT production company activeTV Australia, producers of the Amazing Race Australia series, has secured format rights for Australia and New Zealand for Mantracker from Canadian-based kelencontent. It is the Canadian factual adventure series’ first ever format sale. The licensing agreement was concluded yesterday by Amanda Peppard, vice-president of development at activeTV, and Tanya Kelen, president of kelencontent. Mantracker features contestants working in pairs to cross 40km of rugged terrain in 36 hours, while avoiding being caught by the titular tracker. According to Peppard, the format, which features a race through extreme conditions with spectacular challenges, plays to activeTV’s production strengths. “We anticipate a great response from the Australian networks,” Peppard said. “The Australian Mantracker will be our own Bear Grylls — calm, fearless and knowledgeable — and be accompanied by local indigenous trackers whose understanding of the bush is almost mystical.”
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Simon Cowell bets big and asks, Red Or Black?
Red Or Black?: “Bigger, bolder, brasher”
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GAMESHOW on steroids,” is how television maestro Simon Cowell of Syco TV described his latest creation, Red Or Black?, at last night’s party for the show. “People want bigger, bolder, brasher,” Cowell said. “This is why we decided to have the scale of X Factor, stars from all over the world taking part, and some of
the biggest artists in the world performing.” Each episode involves contestants betting on a succession of red or black stunts, building to a climax in which the last player stands to make £1m ($1.55m) on the spin of a giant roulette wheel. It is said to be the most expensive show in television history. “[With] a lot of shows on TV, you either have to be really smart or really talented to be on the show,” Cowell said. “There weren’t really enough shows that could make somebody rich, [shows that] gave normal people the chance to enter. I mean, you’ve got to have nerve, but that was the appeal of making it. It felt different to everything else.” Red Or Black? is a co-production with ITV Studios and is distributed by ITV Studios Global Entertainment.
Deal takes Rob The Robot global IN AN early MIPCOM deal,
Entertainment One (eOne) has been appointed sole distributor of the second series of Rob The Robot (52 x 11 mins), the pre-school show from Amberwood Entertainment and Singapore’s One Animation. Entertainment One will hold the global rights for the CGI property across TV, home entertainment, and licensing and merchandising (L&M), with the Asian rights remaining with One Animation. The deal builds on the parties’ existing relationship for series one, which covered the TV and home-entertainment rights. Set on the fun and fantastical planets of the Galaxy Robot, Rob The Robot has been sold into multiple territories across Europe,
Scandinavia, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Olivier Dumont, managing director of eOne Family, said: “With this latest deal now including L&M, we are looking forward to securing some great partnerships while building on the existing licensing programme for the property.”
Robot roll-out: Amberwood Entertainment’s Jonathan Wiseman (left) and eOne Family’s Olivier Dumont
Baby talk: Steven Paul
BABY GENIUSES SOLD TO STARZ THERE is global conspiracy afoot, led by Jon Voight in many disguises — and only the babies of the world can solve it. All will be revealed in new children’s series, Baby Geniuses: Baby Squad Investigators (26 x 22 mins). And Starz Media Worldwide Distribution has acquired the international sales rights from its creator, Crystal Sky. Oscar-winner Voight’s co-star Sammy is the three-year-old son of Steven Paul, the founder, chairman and CEO of Crystal Sky. No surprise, perhaps, since Paul was also something of a prodigy: he is in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest producer of a feature film – Falling In Love Again, in 1979, when he was 18. Baby Squad Investigators is an extension of the film franchise he began with the 1999 film Baby Geniuses. The new series is built on close observation of his son. “Babies have much more intelligence than we think, it’s just that they can’t communicate it. But I believe they do have a way of communicating with each other,” he said.
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NAKED Flame Productions has arrived at MIPCOM with a packed slate of cooking, travel and reality series. Topping the bill is Lyndey And Blair’s Taste Of Greece, featuring Naked Flame’s creative director, TV food personality Lyndey Milan. Other inhouse productions include Lyndey Milan’s Taste Of Ireland, Just Add Spice, and Inside Lyndey’s Kitchen, a nine-part series of interstitials. Naked Flame also has the following acquisitions: Contract Killers: Who Killed Caroline Matthews?; Under The Grill, with Sean Connolly; A Law Unto Himself, with Spitting Image’s Roger Law; and Adventure Angle series one and two. There are also four history projects from Australian company Bear Cage Productions for pre-sales and co-production.
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RIVE GAucHE Television has launched Hollywood’s Hot List at MIPCOM. It is the first original programming from Rive Gauche and Splash News, who have joined forces to produce TV for the international market. Hollywood’s Hot List (10 x 30 mins) is a fastpaced series that counts down the best, worst and most outrageous Hollywood hot spots, homes, bodies and breakups — all captured Splash News’ video paparazzi. KIDOBI
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MARVISTA ENTERTAINMENT US LIVE ACTION SERIES
THREE outings (2 x 30 mins/1 x 60 mins) of the MarVista Entertainment/Saban Brands’ Power Rangers Samurai series are available at MIPCOM. Firstly, a holiday celebration with the Rangers as they reflect on their first year together as a team and learn about the true spirit of the season; secondly, a scary night as the creepiest monsters from the Netherworld gather for a spooky party and trade war stories about their battles with the Rangers; and lastly, a cross-over event when the Samurai Rangers team up with the RPM Red Ranger to save the earth from an evil robotic mastermind and the Nighlok army.
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ON THE eve of MIPCOM, Canadian pre-schooltargeted video-streaming platform Kidobi picked up 85 hours of programming in distribution deals with Target Entertainment, The Juno Company, Big City Publishing, SWE Global, and Pdoink. Acquired titles include Larry The Lawnmower and Angels From The Attic. The company is in Cannes to meet with international distributors, producers and rights holders as they search for new content partnerships. Kidobi’s emphasis is on live-action, educational and animated content for a younger pre-school audience.
Power Rangers Samurai (MarVista Entertainment)
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SKY FORcE, an upbeat animation movie that features super cool planes and robots, has been brought to Cannes by Hong Kong studio T-Films. According to T-Films, the film and associated merchandise have drawn warm responses from distributors during sneak previews. On board the project are creatives who played a part in hits such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Astroboy.
SMOKEBOMB ENTERTAINMENT CANADA MOBILE APP SERIES
SMOKEBOMB Entertainment, the digital media division of Canada’s Shaftesbury, is launching its first original mobile app series, Totally Amp’d, at MIPCOM. Targeted at eightto 14-year-olds and starring Ashley Leggat, Totally Amp’d combines a live-action broadcast-quality comedy series (9 x 7 mins), with interactive activities designed to immerse viewers fully in the action. Totally Amp’d follows five teenagers with raw musical talent who are brought together by a rogue manager in the hopes of becoming the next big supergroup. The app will be available from November, via iTunes, and published by XMG Studio. It will also be offered as a standalone property for other platforms at MIPCOM.
Larry The Lawnmower (Kidobi)
CHEERS MEDIA HONG KONG ANIMATION
HONG KONG-based Cheers Media’s MIPCOM portfolio includes 3D titles such as Water Culture – Pearl Legend, a Chinese animation series with a fairytale setting. Also on the slate is Ben And Izzy, a 23-episode Jordanian cartoon named after its two kid characters, who take viewers on a tour of Middle Eastern countries and their cultures. While in Cannes, Cheers will also be talking to producers about picking up more original productions for distribution. It acquires and markets programmes to major TV stations, home-video distributors and airlines.
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FooThILL Entertainment has taken delivery of the half-hour pilot of My Momtourage And Me, a new live-action series about the fraught and funny relationship between a 14-year-old and her diva of a mother. Other titles available include US rights to pre-school show Iconicles, French documentary Kings Of France, and factual series On Duty, featuring the firefighters of Santa Barbara. Foothill is backed by Odyssey Pictures and now has a London office.
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oNe-hoUr special Death Beach examines a rocky cove on the rural coast of South Africa that has been the scene of five horrific shark attacks. Another one-hour documentary Venom Island explores the Lower Sunda Islands in Indonesia, home to the largest collection of venomous creatures on earth. Speed Kills, meanwhile, is a three-part series that investigates animals in super slow motion to examine how extraordinary bursts of speed are possible. All three projects are co-produced with the Smithsonian Channel, and will air on the channel.
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KUNG FU Panda: Legends Of Awesomeness (65 x 30 mins), the CG animated series spin-off from the hit movies, chronicles the further adventures of Po, the energetic, enthusiastic, always hungry martial arts panda. It is available from Viacom, along with animated action-adventure T.U.F.F. Puppy (20 x 30 mins), new episodes of Beavis And Butthead, and scripted comedy Awkward (12 x 30 mins).
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PArIS-BASeD distributor Wide Management handles a library of feature films, including classic French features, and modern fiction and documentaries. On its slate this year are Rafael Lewandowski’s The Mole, from Poland, and the Pascal Arnold/ Jean-Marc Barr thriller American Translation, about a woman who falls in love with a serial killer, and Nadav Lapid’s Policeman about the psychological struggle of a young Israeli policeman and a group of passionate extremists. Among the new feature-length documentaries on offer are This Is Not A Film from Iran, In My Mother’s Arms from Iraq, and Anca Damian’s animated documentary Crulic – The Path To Beyond, about a Romanian hunger striker.
CoMPLeTeD just in time for MIPCOM, Libya: The Path To Freedom (1 x 52 mins) takes an inside look at the revolution in Libya which toppled Muammar Gaddafi. Produced by Cairo-based Zad Communication and Production, the film tells the stories of four people in what became a life or death struggle for their future — and the future of Libya. The film contains footage of the first peaceful protests that turned violent, the fighting in Ajdabiya and rebel army training. The documentary is available from TPI (Teleproductions International Ltd) of Chantilly, Virginia.
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Kung Fu Panda: Legends Of Awesomeness (Viacom)
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IMIRA Entertainment comes to Cannes with the worldwide distribution and licensing rights to The Lighthouse Island (26 x 6 mins), a new 2D animation from TVC, publishers Editorial Claret, and illustrators Pilarin Bayes and Marga Sala. Aimed at three- to six-year-olds, the action centres on Dana, a seven-year-old girl who embarks on a magical holiday to Lighthouse Island, accompanied by her Labrador dog and a robot. Also new on Imira’s third-party distribution slate is Joco, a non-verbal liveaction comedy for three- to seven-year-olds from producer El Terrat.
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AWARD-winning Canadian content company marblemedia has three new children’s and youth shows in development. Snow Joe (26 x 11 mins), a cross-platform animated pre-school comedy, is set in a winter wonderland, where hero Joe finds imaginative ways of turning everyday experiences into snow-filled adventures. Dave And Jonesy’s Locker (13 x 30 mins) is a live-action tween comedy from Ali Marie Matheson (Rugrats) about two unlikely buddies — one who lives in the present and the other in the future. Also aimed at tweens is Breaker Brothers (13 x 30 mins), a live-action comedy about two 16-year-olds who are trying to break the world record for the most records broken.
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FEAR, vertigo, team spirit, raw competition — these are some of the ingredients of Vertice Sales’ new adventure series, Vertical Challenge, which puts normal people under abnormal strain as they struggle to complete a gruelling four-week mountain challenge. Six city dwellers with no climbing experience are pushed to their physical and psychological limits in the elimination format. The contestant who shows the greatest skill and self-assurance in the final challenge — descending Venezuela’s 890-metre Angel Falls — wins a 30-day guided trip around the world.
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BADE Achhe Lagte Hai is the story of two middleaged strangers from different worlds who meet, marry and embark on a journey of discovery, companionship and love. The Indian primetime hit is available from Multi Screen Media (MSM), the Indian entertainment network comprising Sony Entertainment Television, MAX, SAB, PIX, MIX and AATH channels. In total, MSM reaches over 300 million viewers across the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East and the South Asian diaspora.
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A SCIENCE programme with a difference headlines CCI Entertainment’s MIPCOM slate. Finding Stuff Out (16 x 30 mins), aimed at six- to nine-year-olds, sets out to answer science-related questions submitted via webcam by real kids. To help bring the answers to life, the energetic young host makes use of in-studio demonstrations, eye-catching video, special guests, playful animation and interaction with the audience. The liveaction series from Apartment 11 was codeveloped by CCI’s digital division, with funding from Bell and Shaw Rocket Fund.
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Vertical Challenge (Vertice)
GRUPPO ALCUNI ITALY KIDS ANImATION SeRIeS
ITALY’s Gruppo Alcuni and longstanding partner UNESCO are at MIPCOM to present H20oooh!, a new global initiative aimed at raising awareness of water-related environmental issues. H20oooh! is already a successful 3D animation starring Pet Pals, the fifth, 52-episode season of which is now available from Gruppo Alcuni in stereoscopic 3D. In collaboration with UNESCO, the scope of H2Ooooh! is being widened to include new countries, new episodes and new audiences of children from around the world.
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DRIvINg Wars (8 x 60 mins) uses state-of-the-art robotics and radio-controlled technology to allow hot-shot drivers to take on challenges that could otherwise be fatal. But the drivers won’t be burning real rubber. Instead, they’ll be behind the wheels of cars in a simulator, facing a panoply of fast-moving driving scenarios designed to test their speed and skill to the max. Produced by Blink TV — and also available as a format — Driving Wars is distributed by Cineflix Rights. Cineflix Rights also represents programming by a growing list of international producers, as well as formats and scripted programming including Cineflix Studios’ recently greenlit series Copper.
LINE 32 (8 x 50 mins) is a Dutch drama about a supposed terrorist attack on a bus in Amsterdam and events leading up to it. The attack coincides with a court appearance by an extreme right-wing politician, and the series holds a mirror up to many aspects of Dutch society by going back in time to follow the passengers’ lives in the weeks before the explosion. Produced by Amsterdam-based IDTV Film, Line 32 premieres on Nederland 2 next month. Distribution is by Bavaria Media.
PET ER (26 x 30 mins HD) is a series about family pets facing life-threatening medical emergencies. It features dramatic re-enactments and is available both as a completed series and a format from Canada’s Best Boy Entertainment. Best Boy is also offering: The Skinny Dip (8 x 30 mins/HD) in which Eve Kelly travels the world in search of places to skinny-dip; Soccer Shrines (13 x 30 mins/HD), about 13 of the most revered soccer stadiums in the world; and a history of our equine companions, The Horse (6 x 60 mins HD).
Line 32 (Bavaria Media)
MARVISTA ENTERTAINMENT US TV MOVIES
Driving Wars (Cineflix Rights)
LA-BASED MarVista has added a new Hallmark original movie — National Tree — to its MIPCOM slate. The film stars Andrew McCarthy (Royal Pains, The Spiderwick Chronicles) as a father bonding with his son, played by Evan Williams, as they drive across the country to deliver the Christmas tree to the White House in Washington DC. Other new titles in MarVista’s catalogue of over 2,000 hours include romantic movies Fairfield Road and 3 Holiday Tails, thrillers Shattered Silence and Dangerous Attraction, action-adventure Absolute Fear, comingof-age story My Name Is Jerry, and family film The Soccer Nanny.
SBS CONTENT SALES AUSTRALIA COMEDY SERIES
SBS CONTENT Sales’ newest comedy series, Housos (9 x 30 mins), is a parody of life in Australian Housing Commission estates from Paul Fenech, creator of Fat Pizza and Swift And Shift Couriers. Housos (9 x 30 mins) follows the adventures of the residents in the Sunnyvale Housing Commission estate as they battle cops, scam welfare, and throw the occasional swingers party. National Tree (MarVista Entertainment)
Pet ER (Best Boy Entertainment)
AWOL ANIMATION FRANCE ANIMATION SERIES
FRENCH distributor awol animation has added a new pre-school show from Korea to its portfolio of kids’ shows. Kioka (78 x 7 mins) is about a little girl who goes on magical adventures with her toys whenever she shakes her snowglobe. Kioka is a KBS/Goldilocks Studios coproduction. Other awol titles include Wismo (52 x 3 mins), about a friendly imp travelling through Europe’s fairytales, and Gombby’s Green Island (52 x 13 mins), about a group of friends learning about friendship and sharing. Made in Portugal, Gombby’s Green Island has achieved top-three ranking in its domestic market, and a 40% share for four- to six-year-olds on Clan TV/TVE in Spain.
Kioka (awol animation)
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ChiNa-based Golden Mushroom Cartoon Design and Cultural Co will be fighting fit in Cannes with Rainbow Pandas: Dragon Claw Heroes. The kids animated comedy-action series follows the adventures of seven brightly coloured pandas, whose mission is to protect animals and the environment in China’s Bamboo Forest from external dangers. Rainbow Pandas: Dragon Claw Heroes aims to entertain its young audience and also teach them the values of teamwork, hard work and protecting the environment.
TORONTO-based BuzzTaxi Communications comes into MIPCOM with a slate of content for men, starting with AppTV. The new 13 x 30 mins series produced by Vancouver’s Blink Media Works is a fast-paced technology show on how apps, which are being downloaded 50 million times daily, have become today’s universal means of digital communication. Also new from BuzzTaxi is GetConnected (26 x 30 mins), which aims to help consumers understand technology for everyday life. Meanwhile, adventure/travel series Beyond Survival joins river rafting doc 100 Days and docusoap Sibling Rivalry on BuzzTaxi’s portfolio of factual content.
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GRB ENTERTAINMENT US UNSCRIPTED REALITY
GRB ENTERTaiNmENT has brought unscripted reality and documentary shows to MIPCOM, covering genres including crime, docu-drama, lifestyle and disastertainment. Top of the slate is Braxton Family Values, an 11 x 60 mins HD series following the family life of Toni Braxton, the Grammy award-winning artist. American Greed (5 x 60 mins/HD) is the CNBC series that examines sensational and profitable crimes. GRB has also announced it is broadening its portfolio to include scripted content. It plans to acquire 10 to 15 films each year, which it will then sell to the international market.
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Sibling Rivalry (BuzzTaxi)
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Rainbow Pandas: Dragon Claw Heroes (Golden Mushroom)
THE FREMANTLE CORPORATION CANADA DOCUMENTARY
BaSQUE animation studio Silverspace has unveiled new kids’ animation series Oskarlab at MIPCOM. Available in both 2D and 3D, Oskarlab aims to empower children, and educate them about their rights via the United Nations’ convention on the Rights of the Child. Co-produced with Cre-Accion Films and CTP (Club de Tecnicas de Produccion), the €2.75 million ($3.8 million) Oskarlab has been created with the support of various humanitarian organisations, including UNICEF. The format can be customised with local celebrities from different countries, and the company says it has great multiplatform potential.
iNSiDE Grand Prix, the 20 x 26 mins series previewing the glamorous and fast-paced world of Formula One motor racing, celebrates its 10th birthday at MIPCOM 2011. Available from Germanybased RTV, the show is centred on the Grand Prix calendar, and designed for transmission on the Monday preceding Sunday’s F1 race. Fans are treated to background information, as well as analysis of and stories about the F1 teams and drivers, focusing on the incumbent world champion and his closest rivals. Also included is exclusive footage of star drivers relaxing when they’re not fighting it out on the tarmac.
CaNaDa’s The Fremantle Corporation has brought The Journey Beyond, a 13-part series about the phenomena of psychics, telepathy, clairvoyance and the paranormal, to MIPCOM. Available in 3D, as well as 2D HD, the series by US-based Hybrid-Reality Entertainment uses interviews, re-enactments, expert commentary, graphics and eye-witness accounts to take viewers into the world of the unknown. Discover how a New Yorker saved her sibling’s life by foreseeing a road accident, and another interviewee’s account of a near-death and out-of-body experience. Oskarlab (Silverspace)
Inside Grand Prix (RTV)
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FRENCH producer and distributor Zed is in Cannes with three new programmes, The Legend Of Versailles, Mao’s Great Famine and Facing The Giant Bees. Docu-fiction trilogy The Legend Of Versailles was produced for BBC and Arte, and focuses on France’s most renowned monarchs, Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI. Mao’s Great Famine is a 52-minute HD production about the period of time known in China as the ‘great leap forward’. Facing The Giant Bees is a 52-minute HD doc produced by Zed for France 5 and SWR focusing on honey hunters in Nepal.
PUKEKO Pictures is in Cannes with The WotWots, a learning-based series aimed at one- to three-yearolds and featuring a mix of CGI animation and live action. The pre-school series follows the adventures of two siblings from outer space, SpottyWot and DottyWot. They land on a farm and meet strange and friendly farm animals, then travel to the seashore where they discover earth creatures on the beach and in the sea. Worldwide licensing and merchandising of the pre-school series is by America Greetings Properties.
COOKIE Jar Entertainment is unveiling a star lineup of titles, among them the Emmy Award-winning Arthur. The 185 x 30 mins series, aimed at two- to five-year-olds, follows the adventures and misadventures of an eight-year-old aardvark. Cookie Jar has also brought Inspector Gadget, a series dubbed into 24 languages and broadcast in 190 countries. Johnny Test, Sonic The Hedgehog, Caillou and Super Mario Brothers are also among the line-up of Cookie Jar titles in Cannes.
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MILLIMAGES FRANCE PRE-SCHOOL ANIMATION
BLINK TV is handling all international TV distribution for Kylie – Aphrodite-Les Folies, a 90-minute 3D and HD film of the final date of the Australian pop star’s Aphrodite-Les Folies world tour. Filmed at London’s O2 Arena, the show featured Dolce & Gabbana costumes and 30 fountains projecting water 30 metres into the air. Blink is also in Cannes with Best Of The Festivals Series 2 in several formats. Performances include Black Eyed Peas, Coldplay, Snoop Dogg and Arctic Monkeys.
MILLIMAGES is in Cannes looking for development partners for its latest project, Call For Chi-Chi (52 x 11 mins), and is screening a full episode to buyers at MIPCOM. It is also searching for broadcast and licensing deals, and gaming partners, for its newest title, Mouk. Mouk is a 62 x 11 mins animated preschool series that has been commissioned by France Televisions and Disney Channel UK. It is based on two globetrotting adventurers Mouk and Chavapa, who explore and discover unique culture and identity of various places they visit. Millimages is also showcasing new kids property Trust Me I’m A Genie.
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EDEBE AUDIOVISUAL LICENSING SPAIN KIDS ANIMATION
SPANISH production house Edebe Audiovisual Licensing is in Cannes with Wilbur Willmore, a new 2D animated series that has just picked up La Station d’Animation as co-production partner. Wilbur Willmore is a slapstick comedy about a junior knight whose mission is to reach the tower of his beloved princess, Violet of the Kingdom of Lipwig, to give her a kiss. However, in the video game-like series, nothing in Lipwig is quite as it seems.
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THE POLITICAL unrest in Syria is the subject of a new documentary brought to MIPCOM by Java Films. Journalist Sofia Amara entered Syria illegally earlier this year to film the scale of the uprisings and the government’s reprisals, and interviewed rebels and victims, documenting how the rebels were building up their own ‘free army’. Syria: Inside The Repression also reveals how Hezbollah and Guardians of the Iranian Revolution are now active in Syria.
MICA, the character created by publishing house Editorial Santillana for pre-school children, will make the leap to the small screen thanks to Screen 21 and Plural Entertainment in a new cartoon series being launched at this MIPCOM by BRB Internacional. The 52 x 7 mins series revolves around Mica and her friends Daniel and Julia, and will be available in 3D HD.
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A FASCINATING HD aerial journey across Europe’s most prominent mountains is the subject of The Alps From Above, which is being launched internationally at MIPCOM by Vidicom. The 10-part series uses cuttingedge camera technology and takes the audience on a discovery trip along selected routes, exploring their history and revealing the lives and stories of residents. The Alps From Above will air on ARTE/ZDF, SWR Germany, Discovery Asia and Europe, HDNET US, RAI Bolzano, and other international broadcasters in 2012. ALBATROSS WORLD SALES GERMANY DOCUMENTARY
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ALBATROSS World Sales has launched several new documentaries including Blue Whisper – A Journey Into The World Of Underwater Communication (1 x 52 mins) which focuses on the communication among fish in the underwater world. Also included in the MIPCOM package is On The Trail Of Eden (1 x 52 mins), which provides an insight into the minds of psychopaths, and wildlife documentary The Forest Of The Spirit Bear (1 x 52 mins).
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Blue Whisper - A Journey Into The World Of Underwater Commuication (Albatross World Sales)
EBS KOREA is launching a new 13 x 15 mins TV animation series Opera House at this MIPCOM. The series aims to introduce children to important works of music and literature and presents the classics in an accessible way to children. Stage works featured include The Magic Flute, The Barber Of Seville, Aida and Carmen.
FORMULA FUN ENTERTAINMENT UK ANIMATION SERIES
FORMULA Fun Entertainment (FFE) has partnered with Ireland’s Telegael and India’s DQ Entertainment to co-produce a new CGI animated pre-school series based on the award winning property, Franco And Formula Fun. The 52 x 11 mins series is aimed at threeto seven-year-olds and will be available for broadcast in early 2013. Animation production will take place at DQ’s studios in India and post-production at Telegael in Ireland. Opera House (EBS Korea)
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NPo/rNw Sales’ package of MIPCOM programming includes the 8 x 25 mins youth series Charlie Champion, which follows the turbulent lives of Charlie and his friends Niels, Renske, Aukje, Tarkan and Gijs who form the youth team of football club FC Top. The series is planned for broadcast just prior to the UEFA EURO 2012 football championships in June 2012.
A+E NEtworks has brought more than 500 hours of new programming to MIPCOM including Dance Moms (12 x 60 mins), a real-life series which explores the world of competitive dance where mothers push their daughters to the extreme, while living out their own dreams through their children. Other A+E offerings include Monster-In-Laws (13 x 30 mins), which shines a light on married couples who are at boiling point with their in-laws, and Raising The Titanic (1 x 120 mins), which commemorates the 100th anniversary on April 2012 of the sinking of the liner.
ACCENt Films International brings an exclusive behind-the-scenes portrait in The New Great Bolshoi, a one-hour special by German production company Eurokick, which will air on ZDF’s cultural channel and 3Sat later this month, coinciding with the gala reopening of the legendary Moscow opera house. The restoration and renovation process has taken four years to complete.
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FrEsH tV, in association with Teletoon Canada, has started production of season two of My Babysitter’s A Vampire for launch on Teletoon in early January 2012. My Babysitter’s A Vampire is Teletoon’s most successful liveaction series produced to date. Fresh TV is also starting production on season two of the hit Family Channel series Really Me.
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ADAstrA Creative, a writer-led independent, has teamed up with the literary estate of worldrenowned author Roald Dahl, to produce the firstever animated television series based on a Roald Dahl title. Developed from the best-selling children’s book The Enormous Crocodile, the series will be faithful to Dahl’s unique style of storytelling and the illustrations of his principal illustrator, Quentin Blake. Adastra will develop and produce the 52 x 11 mins series for the Dahl literary estate.
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HIs NAmE is known around the world as the symbolic figure of Ancient Egypt, but his life and death have been shrouded in mystery until now. Tut, an eight-hour television drama produced by Muse Entertainment, delves into King Tutankhamen’s dramatic rise to glory. The series chronicling his efforts to rule a chaotic empire, and his untimely death, has been brought to MIPCOM by Muse Distribution International, whose catalogue also includes The Kennedys and Pillars Of The Earth.
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ANKAMA, the company behind the transmedia gaming world of Wakfu, is now launching a new project combining 2D and 3D, called Muffin Jack & Jean-Francois (52 x 13 mins). Muffin Jack is a secret agent who has been transformed into a doublechocolate muffin by an evil genius. After taking refuge in a bakery, he has to team-up with Jean-Francois, an awkward teenager, and together they fight crime in Marmalade City. The series is available for presale.
SCORPION TV’s MIPCOM slate includes: the BBC documentary series My Life (6 x 30 mins) that gives an insight into the lives of some very different children; The Sony Ericsson World B Boy Championships (3/6 x 30 mins), an HD series about break-dance crews competing to reach the World Finals in London; Defusing Human Bombs (52 mins/HD), the story of a school in Pakistan, which aims to undo years of Taliban indoctrination of young boys; Richard III: An Arab VIP (58 mins/HD) follows a touring Arab production of Shakespeare’s play; music doc Arab Rap (52 mins/ HD); travel series Of Islands And Men (6 x 52 mins HD); and All Dolled Up (58 mins/HD), a light hearted journey into the growing world of high end life-sized dolls.
FORMAT Sell Me Your Style mixes elements of fashion into a quiz show. Contestants win money from answering a series of questions then hit the streets and approach passers-by and haggle to buy the clothes off their backs. The 30-minute format has been optioned by Peace Point Entertainment Group for Canada and the US, and is distributed internationally by ohm:tv.
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FUN WORLD Media makes its international debut at MIPCOM with tween comedy series The Jadagrace Show (26 x 30 mins) that follows the adventures of the 11-year-old Jadagrace who gets her own television show after her internet music video goes viral. Other family programming from the company includes: Time Chasers (13 x 60 mins), about a family of archeologists who unearth an alien time machine; My Dad’s A Superhero (26 x 30 mins), a comedy series about two average Dads who secretly moonlight as crime fighting heroes; and Game Of Life (90 mins), a drama crossing the lives of five families living in Los Angeles, all connected by a children’s soccer team.
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TARGET is launching 2D animation Punky at MIPCOM. The 20 x 7 mins series, which has already aired on RTE, takes an inclusive, progressive and upbeat look at the life of a regular little girl who just happens to have Down’s Syndrome. Punky lives with her mum, big brother, grandmother, and her pet dog Rufus, and makes sense of the world in her own way. Target is donating half of the sales commissions to Down Syndrome Education International, which pioneers inclusion at schools for all children with Down’s Syndrome.
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BLACK’s Game is a crime drama series set against a transformational period for the Icelandic underworld. What had been a playground for petty criminals progressed into the organised and violent industry that now prevails. Black’s Game uses real events as a framework — the Ecstasy revolution, two armed bank heists, a large-scale insurance scam and the biggest drug-bust in the country’s history. A recent graduate from Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Oskar Thor Axelsson is both director and scriptwriter on the film. The Jadagrace Show (Fun World Media)
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Now the small screen is sexy too It used to be that you weren’t a real star— or writer, or director — until you’d made it to the big screen. But all that has changed and today talent happily moves from screen to screen … and to screen. Bob Jenkins reports
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IRAMAX — exhibiting at MIPCOM for the first time — has dropped the word ‘Films’ from its name. Newly appointed CEO Mike Lang cites two reasons for the breaking down of barriers between film and television: “Firstly, in the US, both basic and pay cable operators have very good economics, largely generated from the affiliate fees paid to them by the telecos,” he says. “This means that, not only do they have the money to invest in great new shows, but they also have a real need to invest in high-end, showcase productions, as these are the shows that both brand the channel and also bring in the subscriber numbers that generate the affiliate fees. The second reason is to do with the international market, where there is a very real
demand for these shows. When we are looking to package our very impressive library of movies, we are constantly asked if we can package original television production of the same quality, and this is something we have definitely taken on board and are very keen to develop.” He adds: “In fact, when we bought the company back from Disney there were about six hundred television projects in development and, after assiduously combing through them, we have identified between five and ten that are ready to go.” Speaking of the company’s rebranding following its buy-back from Disney, Lang says: “It’s not an accident that we dropped the word Films from the company name. This is not because films will be any less important to Miramax than they have
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always been, but rather because we do not see this as an either-or situation. We will be developing feature films and television alongside each other, and, may I say, a few years down the line I expect us to add short-form content for the internet with some very high-end talent.” Lionsgate Television Group president, Kevin Beggs, also points to US cable as the main driver of this change, although he does believe there are other factors at play here. “The current explosion in great cable programming offers talent the opportunity to push the boundaries of what they do in ways that, frankly, aren’t available to them in movies — which, with very few exceptions are spectacles,” he says, adding: “The differing cycles between cable and network production is another big incentive for major talent. If you are a lead on a major network show that is pretty much a year-round commitment with a hiatus of just seven to eleven weeks, that means that trying to slot in a movie is pretty much like trying to push a camel through the eye of a needle, and that doesn’t take into account trying to live your life. Whereas, with a show like Weeds, all thirteen episodes are shot over the summer which means that Mary-Louise Parker (Nancy Botin) has the rest of the year for other projects. And, finally, consistent television work can be a great source of income for an actor,
whereas the independent film sector remains challenged and actors are often paid on a ‘passion project’ scale.” Patrick Moran, head of drama, ABC Studios agrees: “The feature film business is currently going through a very challenging time with little happening outside the main franchise movies. Consequently, actors, directors and writers alike are becoming increasingly frustrated at the amount, and range, on offer from the feature business. Simultaneously, television is better now than it has been for decades. More and more outlets are opening up, and more and more of them want quality, character driven, content, which is what the talent wants to make, and which is also what we do best at ABC.” As an example, Moran points to Ashley Judd’s role in this year’s MIPCOM World Premiere TV Screenings, Missing, which he describes as “a really well crafted character, a great role and one Ashley was very keen to play”. Joel Viertel, producer of Content’s Strictly Sexual: The Series, (a TV version of the 2008 movie which Viertel directed) also taps the simultaneous rise of the cable business in the US and the challenges currently faced by Hollywood, both creative and financial, as the primary cause of the ease with which top talent now moves between feature work and television work. “In the feature world”, he
Demi Moore, producing, developing and directing for Lifetime
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Titanic: Blood And Steel (De Angelis)
years. Making a feature film is a long and painful process, while television, by comparison, is a short and painful process.” By way of illustration, Sharenow points to Lifetime’s recent deal with Demi Moore, which sees the big screen legend producing, directing and developing for the channel. “The deal with Demi is only a few months old, and, already she is in production with a talk show, The Conversation, to be hosted by Amanda De Cadenet. She has shot the film Five on breast cancer, and is in development with a scripted series, and that speed of turnaround could not, would not, happen in Hollywood.” Departing from the previous consensus, Andrea Zoso, CEO of De Angelis, thinks this is a change driven by business considerations of the US cable channels. Citing AMC as “the perfect example”, Zoso says: “This is a channel originally conceived as an outlet for classic American movies, but they eventually realised that, not only was there a place for television in their schedules, but that it could also work really well for them. In fact, if you asked people what was the one title they most associate with AMC, they would say Mad Men.”
A&E’s Robert Sharenow
THE MOVIES AT MIPCOM l Miramax, following its acquisition from Disney/ ABC by Tom Barrack of LA-based Colony Capital, construction billionaire Ron Tutor, and actor Rob Lowe, is exhibiting at MIPCOM for the first time. The company’s CEO Mike Lang is giving a MIPCOM keynote l Acclaimed director Werner Herzog is at MIPCOM to present his new documentary for ZDF, Into The Abyss - A Tale Of Death, A Tale Of Life l Shakespeare In Love Oscar winners — writer Tom Stoppard and producer David Parfitt — are in Cannes for the launch of Parade’s End, a drama series from the BBC, HBO, Mammoth Screen and Lookout Point, adapted from the novels of Ford Madox Ford l French movie star Sara Martins is in Cannes to promote the eight-part drama series Death In Paradise, authored by new television writer Robert Thorogood, and produced by Red Planet Pictures and Atlantique Productions in association with BBC Worldwide and Kudos Film and Television for BBC One and France Televisions l Movie star Ashley Judd (Double Jeopardy, Heat) is in Cannes for the MIPCOM World Premiere TV Screenings featuring ABC Studios’ Missing
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feature And it isn’t just this branding disciplined and keep deficits as that Zoso believes series such as low as possible. When you look Mad Men contribute to channels at some of the HBO series such such as AMC. “The great as Boardwalk Empire and Game advantage of series such as Mad Of Thrones, the value, or if you Men to channels such as AMC prefer profitability, of such is that they are high-quality, series, is not stand-alone. must-see drama and if you want Marquee series such as these are to see them first, you have to very valuable in keeping and subscribe to the channel.” adding to subscribers, and so This is a view shared by Eric their profitability to HBO Welbers, managing director, sales cannot be calculated solely on a and acquisitions, Beta Film. stand-alone basis.” “This trend towards convergence Control of the deficit is also a really emanates from the success key issue for De Angelis’ Zoso. of platforms such as HBO and “With a high-end series such Kevin Beggs, Showtime. Their entire business as our forthcoming Titanic: Lionsgate model is built around spending Blood And Steel, the expectamoney to create very high-end tion is that 80% of the budget content, which they promote heavily and for which will be covered by co-production partners and people pay good money,” he says. “This model has distribution advances, leaving 20% to be recoubeen shown to work, and this is what’s driving the ped from sales to territories not given away in convergence we are witnessing.” the co-production. This is a rule of thumb Almost all the executives the MIPCOM Daily — deficits rarely move outside a range of 15% to News spoke to agreed that this was a permanent 25%.” change and not a passing fad, although Mike Lang It seems that with US cable needs high-end televialso underlined his view that “this will not have sion and is wealthy enough to pay for it. There is much, if any, impact on the business. Great showgrowing demand for this content internationally, casing will remain and, if anything, I think each and an eagerness on the part of talent to consider will add more to the other.” options outside of the feature film business. And De Angelis’ Zoso says: “The TV content business with television viewing growing worldwide and is currently undergoing such dramatic change that recent predictions concerning the death of the a prediction is really very difficult. It is, for medium having been widely exaggerated, Kevin example, very difficult to predict where the line Beggs is probably much nearer the mark in descriwill be drawn between the linear consumption of bing these developments as representing “a new content and interactive consumption.” But he golden age of television”. adds: “Producing high-end content is going to be ever-more expensive and the need for it on channels will be ever-more unavoidable.” Beggs adds: “This does feel like a permanent change but it is Weeds star always difficult to make long term predictions in Mary-Louise Parker this business.” Whether this change does, or does not, prove to be permanent it is certainly something that is currently very much in evidence. “This is bound to impact on the length of time it takes to move into profit,” says ABC’s Moran. “One of the features of this change is that we are now generally dealing with smaller orders. Under the old system there was an initial order of thirteen, then a back order of another nine, and if they were successful, the second season would be commissioned at twentyfour. That doesn’t really hold up in the new world, and we are regularly looking at smaller orders, especially mid-season, and, as I say, this is bound to impact on the time taken to move into profitability.” Lionsgate’s Beggs also picks up on the smaller number of episodes currently being commissioned: “It is certainly true that these smaller production runs — with fewer episodes, often produced at a higher cost — will mean that it will take many of these series longer to move into profit.” Although he adds: “Our approach at Lionsgate is to be very
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It’s back to school for formats Programme makers have to learn how to write again now the formats business has welcomed screenwriters into its fold. Bob Jenkins looks at what is involved in creating and adapting a successful scripted format
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or years the formats business has been almost exclusively the preserve of game shows and reality — and it is easy to see why. Local audiences want local content and replaying a game with local contestants is easy, relatively cheap. And, if the game comes with a track record of success, there is a good chance it will deliver high ratings. But now, with NBC about to air a US version of ITV’s Prime Suspect and AMC basking in the success of The Killing, its adaptation of the Danish series Forbrydelsen, scripted is claiming its piece of the format pie. Dutch giant Endemol recently opened Endemol
Studios in the US with the specific aim of developing scripted shows for US broadcasters, and Philippe Maigret, CEO Endemol Studios, is clear that, “there is no question that the US adaptation of international scripted formats from the Endemol portfolio is an important component of our plan and will compliment original ideas originated within the US creative community”. And, as Maigret explains, there is good reason why this should be the case. “I cannot remember many international dramas successfully adapted in the US before Ugly Betty,” he says, adding: “Cracker in the Nineties, Life In The Wild in 2007, Life On Mars in 2008, none of these
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made it past season one. But, last year, The Killing, Danish series Forbrydelsen, Piv Bernth, senior Haven and Being Human were all big successes on producer DR Fiktion says “there was no formal US cable, providing tangible proof that it is possible collaboration as such” and that the decision to go successfully to adapt a foreign series for an American with AMC was based on its “reputation for making audience; and that is bound to drive deal activity.” series that are different from the mainstream”. But Maigret is clear that not all series, no matter how While the adaptation of foreign series in the US successful they have been in their home territory, are might be a new phenomenon — no more than a year suitable for adaptation. In his view, to work in this old at current levels of activity — the process of process, “the set up, narrative or central characters adapting US series for international markets has need to be original, the stories need to work across been happening for a while longer. One of the most cultural sensibilities and the series production successful scripted format franchises internationally requirements need to fit with, or be adapted to, US is NBCUniversal’s Law & Order, and spin-off series network requirements”. Special Victims Unit and Law & But it seems that different people Order: Criminal Intent. Vice-prehave different views on how that sident, formats sales and produccollaboration with your partner tion, worldwide, Charlotte Raben, works best. Commenting on the sees some very clear rules that deal with NBC for the US version must be followed in order for the of Prime Suspect, Paul Buccieri, process to be successful. “Firstly it managing director, ITV Studios, is critical, when adapting Law & praises “Bob Greenblatt and Order, to reflect the cultural NBC’s great creative team, in differences of each host country, particular Alex Cunningham who and to adapt the show based on gave Jane an authentic New York the nuances of the local judicial cop’s voice,” and also describes the system,” she says. “We work very process of working with NBC as closely with our local production “very collaborative”. By contrast, partners to ensure that the Law & Charlotte Raben, however, in the case of AMC’s The Order brand is maintained and Killing, an adaptation of the that the production values meet NBCUniversal
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the high standards of both Dick Wolf and NBCUniprogramming, comedy, mystery, and soap opera, all versal.” But Raben stresses the importance of in one series”, says Nina Hahn, senior vice-president making the adaptations truly local. “Shows without production and development for Nickelodeon, local considerations simply do not resonate with Viacom International Media Networks. local audiences. When a local partner thinks they can The story revolves around a girl sent to boarding just translate the US scripts cold, cast local actors school. Her arrival sparks a chain of events leading and off they go — that is when the quality of the to a mystery, which she and a group of friends from show is potentially compromised.” the same school house, set out to solve. Carolina Leconte, senior director, co-productions The series was such a success in The Netherlands, at Colombia’s Caracol — a company that has that Germany’s Studio 100 decided to do exactly adapted a number of its telenovelas, including what NBCUniversal’s Raben cautioned against Roman X 2, in Vietnam — believes that paying — translate the script word for word, cast local attention to local cultural differences and nuances actors and re-shoot the original series in German. often means the adaptations can be improved on Again, it was a big success. So much so that Nickeloan ongoing basis, “each time keeping the essence deon US decided to adapt the show for the American the same but adding new elemarket, and this is where a ments which increase audience process much closer to the Law & identification”. Order model kicked in. But it seems that, if the art of “In the Dutch and German adaptation is rooted in changing versions the girl is local, but, as the show to fit with local mores, America doesn’t have boarding then the process by which the schools in the way that The adaptation is made can be just as Netherlands and Germany do, influenced by the nature of the we decided to set it in England series itself — the kids’ series and take advantage of the House Of Anubis being a good ‘fish-out-of-water’ element that example. The Nickelodeon/Studio would be added by an American 100 production started life in The girl attending an English boarPaul Buccieri, Netherlands (Het Huis Anubis), ding school,” Hahn says. “And, ITV Studios with the aim of “bringing together of course it added interest for the three key strands of kids’ kids in the US.” But this was not
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the only change made. “We crunched it for the US, the US of the local adaptation of the Ricky Gervais making 60 x 11 mins, whereas, in The Netherlands, hit The Office, but since 2006, there has not been a the first series was 113 x 15 mins”. It is this AngloUS adaptation of a foreign comedy hit. Until now. American version which will be offered for sale DAG, a black comedy drama created by Kamerakainternationally except in The Netherlands and meratene for TV2 Norway and distributed by Germany. Nordic World, is about to be adapted for the US by Hahn believes that some, if not all, of the diffeFox. Nordic World CEO Espen Husebey says: “I rences in the process by which the local adaptaam sure that scripted adaptations are here to stay. tions of House Of Anubis came into being can be The Scandinavian region already has had success in explained by the fact that House Of Anubis was a this area with the feature film The Girl With The co-production, as well as an adaptation. “When Dragon Tattoo, and series such as Wallender and making an adaptation like this there has to be a The Killing. But I think that comedy is embedded clear understanding of who does what, as every in the soul of the Scandinavian people, and even country has a different way of though, traditionally, comedy working when it comes to does not travel that well, I think television production, and so Scandinavia is able to make the roles of individuals must be comedy with themes that are clearly defined and understood much more universal than they before production starts,” she are local.” says. “This differs from an adult Husbey’s conviction that the series where you buy the rights scripted format is a feature of to the characters and stories and the content landscape that is not only adapt them for your here to stay, is also shared by own market, but also shoot ITV’s Paul Buccieri. “People them in your own market.” have been telling stories for as This emerging trend for scripted long as we have been in exisEspen Husebey, formats not only covers many tence,” he says. “Today’s camp Nordic World geographical areas, but also an fire is the television set in our ever-wider range of genres living room, and a great story is including comedy. Everyone will a great story with the ability to be familiar with the success in be re-told around the world.”
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Cult, and often quite dark, TV series are becoming more popular, attracting large teen audiences around the world. Is this the only way to get GenY offline and back to the TV screen? An exploration of Cult TV and its audience by Gary Smith
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ERIES like The In-betweeners, Torchwood, Skins, Being Erica and Dr. Who are pulling in a teen demographic that was presumed to be largely indifferent to scheduled TV. And to some degree they are, as proven by the numbers who now watch on mobile devices or online. But highly original plot-twists, cliffhangers and gripping story arcs have lost none of their fundamental appeal. “The audiences are definitely still there, but they are watching TV very differently,” John Griffin, executive producer of Skins and Beaver Falls at Company Pictures, says. “Like most people of my generation, I was obliged to watch the sole TV in the house with my parents
in the lounge, whereas most kids now have either a TV or a PC in their bedroom.” He adds: “As well as a significant rise in the popularity of box-sets, the online viewing stats for Skins are amazing. The first season six years ago was watched online by around 150 people per episode, but the last series drew over 520,000.” In terms of the show’s online halo, Skins has a highly active presence on e4.com, 3.3 million Facebook fans — which is significantly more than both Sarah Palin and Tom Cruise — and 120,000 Twitter followers. “Skins’ online presence is very active and engaging in that we run competitions, there’s a music blog for every track used in the
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feature show — which also has a chat forum — plus there are regular making-ofs, plus special extra short films with characters doing something quite different from what they are doing in the series,” Griffin says. “As well as being a great way to add to the life of the show, it also acts as a talent spotting mechanism. Daniel Lovett won an online writing competition and has since scripted one of the episodes in the last series. He is a classic example of someone who most probably would never have got a chance in the pre-online era. And Toby Welsh and Jack Clough, who started out making the short films I just mentioned, are now both established as a highly in-demand producer and director.” Another statistic that shows the online power of the show is that 26 of the 30 Most Watched Videos on e4 are episodes of Skins. Another more orthodox writing talent competition led to Less Than Kind, Breakthrough Entertainment’s dramady based around overweight 15-yearold Sheldon Blecher, his self-destructive driving instructor father, pyromaniac mother, and failedactor brother. Breakthrough president and executive producer Ira Levy takes up the story. “The family business, Blecher’s Driving School, is on its way down the toilet, and to top it all, the family lives in Winnipeg,” he says. “I was at a writers’ boot camp held by the National Screen Institute listening to a pitch by Marvin Kaye, and I suddenly realised that it was not only very powerful stuff, it was Marvin’s life writ large. So we optioned the idea and brought in Mark McInney who had worked with Aaron Sorkin on Studio 60 On Sunset Strip, and he loved the idea of a central character who weighs 300lbs and is the ultimate outsider.” Like many series in the teen cult genre, it has a dark edge. “It’s what I call a comerama,” Levy says. “It has a skewed approach to life as well as very bitter-sweet humour in the Yiddish tradition. We’re now on the fourth series and the show is exporting well. The latest acquisition is by DirecTV in the US, plus we have also sold the show into a number of European territories.” Breakthrough will be launching Crash Canyon and Single White Spenny at MIPCOM. “Crash Canyon is written by Ted Cohen, one of The Simpsons’ writers, while Single White Spenny is an off-shoot of the hit
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Kenny vs. Spenny,” Levy says. According to Lia Dolente, manager international sales, Tricon Films & Television, teens these days have roughly the same programming requirements as young adults did a decade ago: “It’s been a trend recently that younger audiences are watching programming that is aimed at an older demographic, especially on kids’ and teen channels,” says Dolente. “With the tremendous changes in what is available to them and what they are exposed to at any time, it makes sense that teen tastes are evolving at a faster rate, and that they would be interested in more sophisticated programming at an earlier age.” Tricon’s Sanctuary, favourably compared to Torchwood, is a classic teen cult series. “Sanctuary’s unique attractions are the constant flow of new storylines, great production, and the strength of the characters, some of whom are quite young. The sci-fi and fantasy genres have always attracted a youngerskewed audience,” Dolente says. “But with the current advances in digital tech, this is now a very savvy audience that demands intricate story lines, strong leads and high production values. The fact that
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Sanctuary is led by a woman has also attracted a considerable female audience looking for a strong role model.” The show necessarily has a robust multiplatform life: “There’s a very active website where fans can interact with each other and the characters,” Dolente says. “There are also blogs, and insider information on the series along with mobile apps so that viewers can take the show beyond the television platform. In fact Sanctuary originated as a web series, and it already had an online fan base, so building on those elements has made the series even stronger. It has all the elements needed to attract and keep the teen audience; a great story and more than one medium for teens to interact with. Teens today expect multiple engagement points to connect with their content, and that’s essential to keep them interested.” Patrick Elmendorff, managing director, Studio100 Media, sees two major reasons for the growing need for more complex and elaborate storytelling using mystery, drama, science-fiction/crime and comedy in teen series. “Lifestyle patterns have entered the lives of children at an earlier stage than a decade ago and kids nowadays are using more advanced technologies than adults,” he says. “Secondly during adolescence teenagers start to spend more time socialising, using other media, such as music, video games, computers and the internet. As a result children are constantly in touch with young adults’ content, which is of course attractive, since there is a chance to heighten one’s own social status by being familiar with properties meant for an older target group.” Studio 100’s latest teen production is House Of Anubis. “It works because it is a well-balanced combination of drama, mystery and comedy,” Elmendorff says. “The format has already been a hit in the Benelux, Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as the US, Australia and the UK. And it is the first Nickelodeon US live-action series show produced in the UK by a European producer.” The success of House Of Anubis has already spread far beyond the TV screen. “More than half a million merchandising products have been produced to date from books, board games, DVDs and computer games.” Elmendorff adds. “The brand is also present on several media platforms with spots on TV and on social media sites such as
Facebook. In addition there are several websites devoted to the series.” The series has also spawned two feature films, and several stage shows in the Benelux. “In September 2011 Nickelodeon Germany broadcast the third season of the German version of the House Of Anubis and the second season of the English version is currently in production,” Elmendorff says. “In addition Studio100 Media is also theatrically releasing the House Of Anubis film in co-operation with Nickelodeon Germany in Spring 2012. For Caroline Beaton, senior vice-president, programme sales, Viacom International Media Networks, House Of Anubis is currently a big priority. “Even though we only have the distribution for certain territories, the company really believes in the show. It’s a highly effective mix of traditional scripted drama, high production values, with scary, dark elements skillfully woven in. Such has been the impact of the show that we are talking to third-party producers and broadcasters about the possibility of creating a series in the same vein,” she said. Asia and Asian programming is also very much on Beaton’s radar: “We have two great shows from MTV Japan — Usavich and Shibuhara Girls. They both fit into the teen demographic which, it is increasingly apparent, has a stronger link to Asian animation and entertainment than previous generations, through the huge popularity of Manga,” she says. “It’s no coincidence that we’ve just opened an office in Seoul, and that we already have one in Singapore. Generally speaking, we have found that it’s much better to generate content over there which increasingly can then be sold into other territories, rather than filling the schedules with imported shows.” Having said that, however, there are two US-made shows that do extremely well internationally: “Awkward. and The Hard Times of RJ Berger are so very broadly relatable for teens, and they’re also very funny shows, one with a female lead and one with a male, so they cover all the bases.” Beaver Falls (Company Pictures)
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