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THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO!

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8 What happened at MIPJunior; the stars arrive in Cannes; early MIPCOM deals; new shows and series

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTES 11.30-12.00 I Grand Auditorium, Palais 1

PRODUCT NEWS

STEVE MOSKO, President, SONY PICTURES TELEVISION

56 A round-up of what’s for sale in Cannes

Interviewed by Matthew Garrahan, Global Media Editor, Financial Times, UK

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YNON KREIZ, CEO, MAKER STUDIOS

98 Asia takes centre stage: with a special focus on the ATF

Interviewed by Matthew Garrahan, Global Media Editor, Financial Times, UK

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108 Africa on a winning streak: Africa’s growing potential 120 LatAm, the outlook is good: a booming TV region

MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTE INTERVIEW 16.10-16.50 I Grand Auditorium, Palais 1

JAMES MURDOCH, Co-Chief Operating Officer, 21ST CENTURY FOX Interviewed by David Rowan, Editor-in-chief, WIRED Magazine

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MIPCOM PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR KEYNOTE 17.00-17.40 I Grand Auditorium, Palais 1

SIMON COWELL, Entertainment Creative Icon Interviewed by Piers Morgan, Television Personality

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A MARIACHI band serenaded Palm Beach on Saturday night, to

PICTURED at the DreamWorks Animation party at the close

celebrate Mexico as 2014 MIPCOM Country Of Honour and the opening of MIPJunior. Delegates relaxed after a full day’s programme of screenings, discussions and keynotes, and sampled the Mexican food on offer.

of MIPJunior: DreamWorks Animation’s Eric Ellenbogen and Chloe van den Berg. “There is some great content out there in the marketplace, but the point of difference for us is that we’re bringing recognised theatrical properties to the small screen and committing to 78 half-hours of each series we’re producing,” Ellenbogen said.

SESAME Street’s Cookie Monster appeared on the Family Enter-

CELEBRATING the next generation of media executives at Sunday’s inaugural MIPCOM International Rising Stars cocktails were: Cherry Yeandle (left, Channel 5 Broadcasting), Nicholas DouglasHome (Red Arrow International), Daniel Nembhard (TVF International), Nicola Davey (Zig Zag Productions), Sabrina Duguet (All3Media International), Oliver Good (Nerd TV), Holly Hodges (Twofour Rights) and Dan Cazzola (Shine Group). The initiative is sponsored by All3Media International, Content Media, Red Arrow International and accountancy group Ecovis Wingrave Yeats, and hosted by Broadcast magazine in association with MIPCOM.

tainment: What Do Parents Want? panel discussion to announce that from November 14, full episodes of Sesame Workshop’s The Furchester Hotel would be available free on its YouTube channel.

“YouTube adds relevance and accessibility,” Sesame Workshop’s Terry Fitzpatrick said. “It’s not cannibalising our audiences but adding to the show’s reach.” Also speaking were Greg Alkalay of batteryPOP, which provides a safe space for kids to browse online videos freely; and Joshua Davidson of Night Zookeeper, who outlined how his online game engaged kids’ creativity while providing measurable educational outcomes. Moderator Sarah Baynes of The Creative Garden is pictured with the Cookie Monster.

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Director of Publications Paul Zilk Director of Communication Mike Williams EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor in Chief Julian Newby Deputy Editor Debbie Lincoln Sub Editors Neil Crossley, Sarah Kovandzich Reporters Stuart Braun, Ben Cooper, Andy Fry, Emelia Jones, Juliana Koranteng, Max Leonard, Rachel Murrell, Gary Smith, Joanna Stephens Editorial Assistant Hannah Stephens Technical Editor in Chief Herve Traisnel Deputy Technical Editor in Chief Frederic Beauseigneur Graphic Designers Muriel Betrancourt, Veronique Duthille, Carole Peres Head of Photographers Yann Coatsaliou / 360 Media Photographers Christian Alminana, Olivier Houeix, Michel Johner, Yohann Mortier Editorial Management Boutique Editions PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Publishing Director Martin Screpel Publishing Co-ordinator Emilie Lambert Production Assistant Eric Laurent ADVERTISING CONTACT IN CANNES Christine Mendes • christine.mendes@reedmidem.com Reed MIDEM, a joint stock company (SAS), with a capital of €310.000, 662 003 557 R.C.S. NANTERRE, having offices located at 27-33 Quai Alphonse Le Gallo - 92100 BOULOGNEBILLANCOURT (FRANCE), VAT number FR91 662 003 557. Contents © 2014, Reed MIDEM Market Publications. Publication registered 4th quarter 2014.

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Thunderbirds Are Go! remake forged on model partnerships Amazon’s Sorensen: wants shows that “cut through the clutter”

STORYTELLING IS KEY, SAY BUYERS “I WANT shows with stand-out design and storytelling that really cut through the clutter,” said Amazon’s Tara Sorensen at Sunday’s session View From The Top: What Do Buyers Want.

Amazon targets its young viewers via their parents.

“Parents are the prime subscribers,” said Sorensen.

“We pilot every show and watch the stats.”

Sorensen cited this year’s launch of Gortimer Gibbon’s Life On Normal Street as an example of Amazon’s willingness to take a risk on new voices. “[Creator] David Anaxagoras was a pre-school teacher selling his first show,” she said. “We surrounded him with experienced talent to get it into production. He couldn’t have done it alone.”

Disney’s Karen K Miller also wants strong creative voices, but ones that understand the “core DNA” that unifies Disney’s 99 platforms worldwide. “You never know where good content is going to come from,” said Miller. “We launched Storytellers, a talent incubator, to find them.”

Adina Pitt of Turner Broadcasting, currently relaunching Turner’s second biggest channel Boomerang, noted a growing trend towards co-viewing of entertainment shows.

Deirdre Brennan of ABC Australia agreed that there has been market failure with regard to family viewing. What children need, she said, is scripted fiction rather than reality shows. “I’m on a mission to get storytelling back into family viewing.”

NTICIPATION was high on Saturday night for MIPJunior’s i n aug u r a l World Premiere TV Screening, when ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) unveiled its highly-anticipated remake Thunderbirds Are Go!.

ITV has held the worldwide rights to Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s cult Sixties puppet series for years; it approached Pukeko Pictures and the renowned Weta Workshop (Lord Of The Rings, Avatar) to produce the new show, which mixes CGI and model-based animation.

“It’s a lifelong dream for me, Thunderbirds is the DNA that made our company,” said Weta CEO and Pukeko’s co-owner, Richard Taylor. He added that a crucial part of the project for him was retaining, at least in part, the miniature sets and models so characteristic of the original — the ones that inspired him to go into model-making himself.

“There’s a lot of inspirational TV out there, but there are very few

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shows that inspire kids to pursue a craft. I’m hoping that when children see our show they’ll be inspired to take up model-making,” he said.

British actress Rosamund Pike will voice Lady Penelope, and David Graham — at 89 — will reprise his role as chauffeur and International Rescue agent Parker.

“It’s always been my desire to reinvent Thunderbirds,” said Giles Ridge, ITVS GE executive producer.

It was announced at MIPJunior that the series has been acquired

by Israel’s Noga and the panArab broadcaster MBC, adding to the existing Nine Network Australia deal.

Emmy charms at International Pitch Emmy (52 x 11 mins) is about an adventurous little girl and her friend Gru learning through play in their fantasy kingdom.

Left Pocket’s Xin Yu, Emmy’s creator, was delighted by the warm reception to the show, which was described as ‘beautiful and cute’ by one jury member. “Winning the contest gives me confidence in my designs,” said Yu. “It will also inspire our studio to take the show forward.”

Belgian company Contentinuum won a special prize for My Dream Jobs, a pre-school show where parents can upload photos of themselves and their children to feature in online webisodes.

“This prize validates the project

Left Pocket’s Xin Yu (third left) and Contentinuum’s Alexandre Touret (back row, far right) at the International Pitch

FLEDGLING Chinese animation studio Left Pocket beat off fierce competition from 130 other companies to win the MIPJunior International Pitch this week with its charming pre-school show, Emmy.

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as a concept, but in terms of its storytelling too,” said founder Alexandre Touret. Following the Pitch session, Kari Voutila, CEO of Finnish 3D printing company Launzer, signed up Contentinuum to produce 3D figurines for My Dream Jobs.

The other shortlisted projects were Krakatoa from QB9 (Argentina), Isi from Edebe (Spain), Larva from Tuba (Korea) and Oongu Loongu from (South Africa).

The jurors were Patricia Hidalgo of Turner Broadcasting Systems, Remi Jimenez of M6 Metropole Television, Tara Sorensen of Amazon Studios and Emma Rigney of National Geographic Kids. The International Pitch was hosted by Christophe Erbes of Media ©onsulting.

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Peanuts fan Borde helps superstar Snoopy hang on

HE TV entertainment industry is failing to meet the edutainment needs of school-age kids, declared Joshua Davidson, managing director/founder of Night Zookeeper, an educational online/mobile game that invites children to create their own magical world. “The pre-school age is well catered for,� said UK-based Davidson, who was on the MIPJunior panel called Family Entertainment: What Do Parents Want? “For older kids, entertainment brands tend to bolt on the education element. There is no strategy linked to a (school) curriculum with an educational objective.�

Night Zookeeper has partnerships with several schools in the UK. Teachers use the platform to encourage pupils to be creative. But Davidson admits TV companies require evidence that the school kids still want to interact with the game once they reach home.

HO SAYS you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?

At the age of 65, Snoopy has not only had his contract renewed for five years by ABC, but also stars in a new animated series debuting on France 3 this month, and in a $100m (â‚Ź79m) 3D CGI movie from Fox and Blue Sky Studios opening in 2015.

Speaking at Saturday’s keynote, Peanuts Re-imagined, France Televisions’ Julien Borde explained that he commissioned the new animated series from Alexis Lavillat of Normaal Animation because of his love for the property. “We couldn’t have done it with someone who wasn’t totally in love with the brand.�

Kim Towner, senior vice-president media, Peanuts Worldwide, praised the realism of the texture of Snoopy’s fur in the movie. “He’s so huggable,� she said. The award-winning apps have already garnered 15 million downloads

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“We’ve an uphill challenge. But our website is now locationspecific, so we can understand where the kids are when they log in,� he added about the planned research.

Although a start-up, recently boosted with new investment, it is expanding internationally, starting with Japan.

THE MIPJUNIOR Networking Lounge hosted a series of Matchmaking Events, in which delegates received advice from industry luminaries to help make their ideas a reality or bring their properties to life. Rebecca Klemm, creator of NumbersAlive! characters, had discussed licensing her property — currently plush toys and picture books — with Maca Rotter of Mexico’s Televisa. “The best advice she gave me was to keep the property digital,� Klemm said.

France Televisions’ Julien Borde

and a billion social media impressions per year, she said.

The animated series launches on France 3 in a high-profile Sunday morning slot in two weeks, and on a dedicated YouTube channel.

It will screen in seven-minute episodes and 90-second shorts to maximise scheduling flexibility.

SABAN Brands’ president Elie Dekel welcomed delegates to the MIPJunior Networking Lunch on Saturday with news of a host of new shows. He announced a 22nd series of Power Rangers, “with dinosaursâ€?, the 2016 Power Rangers movie, a new season of Julius Jr., a new show EmojiVille, and a relaunch of Eighties favourite 3RSSOHV WKDW ZLOO DLU RQ 1HWĂ L[ LQ 'HNHO DOVR WUDLOHG QHZ SUH VFKRRO VHULHV /XQD 3HWXQLD WKH Ă€UVW RI VHYHUDO SURSHUWLHV LQ GHvelopment with Cirque du Soleil, a project which Dekel described as a “fantastic journeyâ€?.

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HE CANADA Media Fund opened MIPJunior with a strong showcase of imaginative transmedia content, at a screening entitled The New Crop Of Innovative Children’s And Youth Content From Canada. President and CEO Valerie Creighton reported that kids and youth was the largest genre of audiovisual content exported last year and that since 2010 the Canada Media Fund had contributed more than C$230m (€162m) in funding to 319 kids and youth productions, generating C$919.5m in production budgets. She predicted growth of transmedia content would only increase the figures.

“We’re proud to contribute to this momentum,” she said. “There are limitless opportunities to reach audiences anywhere, anytime and on the device of their choice.”

Among the six properties she highlighted was Dino Dan, a live-action and CGI mix in which a young trainee palaeontologist discovers he can imagine dinosaurs into the real world.

The show hit number one in Amazon.com’s Kids and Family Programming category and spawned eight apps.

Time Tremors, meanwhile, tells of Max and Medie’s travels through time in search of lost Time Treasures, the only possible weapon against their evil biology teacher who was putting the entire universe in danger. Kids could take part in the show’s treasure hunts using augmented reality apps in museum collections across the world.

“This showcase highlights six great examples of how Canadian creators are blending creativity for this important audience on a variety of screens,” Creighton said.

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How to turn page-turners into TV A WIDE variety of approaches can lead to a creative collaboration between books and TV, said the panel at the Publishers & Producers: Creative Collaboration From Book To Screen discussion.

But, warned Kate Wilson of publisher and transmedia company Nosy Crow: “Not every book makes a great app, or a great TV show.”

Her company had published 130 books and 14 apps — numbers that told the story of the differing resources required.

The breadth of skills needed for publishing and multimedia production, and the partners and financial commitments involved, could lead to a drawn-out gestation.

Paul Young of Cartoon Saloon and Richard Haines of Penguin Random House jointly presented Puffin Rock, a property Young had

been working on since 2008.

“Traditionally books are adapted, this is the first time I’m aware of that TV and books have been developed together,” Haines said, of Penguin’s involvement as a significant partner in the project.

“In the creator you need a strong anchor, but they have to be a boss who listens to all opinions,” Young said.

Asif Bashir agreed. His company, Unique Inspiration, was in the process of turning kids books Aku & Kamu into an animated property: “As a small independent publisher we do not have the expertise and resources to bring characters to life. So collaboration with the right partners was key.”

The event was convened by the London Book Fair, which had a large presence at MIPJunior.

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NEWS SPAIN SHOWCASES KIDS’ ANIMATION “KIDS’ consultant Justine Bannister of Just B introduced nine of the kids’ series showcased by Animation From Spain at this year’s MIPJunior. Among the pre-school titles were Pirata & Capitano (Anima Kitchent), The Sandbox Kids (Milky Moustache), Cocorico (Edebe) and Yoko (Somuga Produktora). Comedy titles on offer included Blackie And Company (Baleuko), Filly Funtasia (BRB Internacional), Planet Play (Imira Entertainment) and Pumpkin Reports (Motion Pictures).

The showcase wrapped up with Magic Mania (Veralia), featuring a magician who helps kids develop magic and motor skills.

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WILD ABOUT JACK FORMER The Apprentice director Ed Kellie, of the UK’s Moon Studio, went from crowd-funding his company’s first pre-school show, Wildlife Jack, to seeing it air on Disney Jr in a few months. Animation and natural history footage combine to take young Jack into a world where he can meet and talk to wild animals. Louise Bucknole, director of programming Disney Channels UK & Ireland bought and aired the first five episodes. Kellie is here to sell the show internationally and attract partners to make new episodes.

Moon Studio’s Ed Kellie

Disney shows first fruits of Lucasfilm acquisition LONG t i me ago in a galaxy far, far away… or rather, i n Ca l i for n ia i n 2012, George Lucas shocked millions of fans by selling Lucasfilm to Disney — and on Sunday, a MIPJunior audience was privileged to see extensive clips of CG-animated TV series Star Wars Rebels, the first new content from the Lucasfilm/Disney team.

“We are putting a flag in the sand saying this is what the Star Wars brand is going to be under Disney,” said Gary Marsh, president and chief creative officer, Disney Channels Worldwide.

Dave Filoni, Star Wars Rebels showrunner, described the series’ creative development as within the tradition and standards established at Lucasfilm.

“I worked with George Lucas for nine years on Clone Wars,” Filoni said. “We would never treat any content such as animation as lesser than the films he’d made.”

Filoni explained his job was not to “change what it is but maintain and be faithful to what it always has been. That means primarily to inspire.”

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Dave Filoni: inspiring today’s kids

rebels whose standing is modest compared to the icons of the past.

“They’re fighting to be among the heroes of the Star Wars galaxy, and I hope in season one they earn that,” Filoni said.

Filoni drew from the Indiana Jones franchise, he said, to create tense fight scenes, and the ap-

proach to sound design and music was pure John Williams. He also urged adult Star Wars fans to remember that Star Wars had always been a kids’ brand.

“Really what I get to do every day is play in the memories of my childhood and hopefully inspire today’s kids,” he said.

Mexican creativity served up at Junior WICKED flying monkeys and a rabbit on the moon were just some of the stars of the Discover The New Best Kids Content From Mexico Snack & Screen, a whistle-stop tour of 10 Mexican animations. These included Kubu, a cute pre-school show, and Day Of The Dead, about spirits returning from the underworld to visit a town once a year.

“Mexico is a country full of content, colour and creativity,”

Rodolfo Guzman Salas, head of the film unit at the University of Guadalajara, said.

There were more than 100 Mexican companies at MIPJunior and MIPCOM, Guzman said, which was a record.

He was joined on stage by Vidal Cantu, producer of Mexico’s selection for the 2015 Oscars, Cantinflas, to present a clip of the live-action film about the popular Mexican comic actor.

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Rodolfo Guzman Salas: “a country full of content, colour and creativity”

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NEWS MIPCOM GEARS UP FOR THE GLOBAL CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION DAY TELECOMS, IT technologies and TV channels come together today in the Esterel and Californie for the launch of MIPCOM’s Global Channel Distribution Day, to support and discuss a key sector of the international television business — the distribution of TV channels around the world.

“With the increasing presence of multi-service operators and channels from around the world, carriage deals are a growing part of the market,” said Laurine Garaude, director of Reed MIDEM’s TV division. “Our ambition is to become the international business destination for the carriage ecosystem.”

Eurodata TV Worldwide starts the programme with a market overview (09:15), presenting insightful data and comments relating to the growing channel distribution market.

The session What Do Platform’s Want? – created in partnership with EbonyLife TV – investigates leading international platforms’ strategies for future success (09:30).

Paula Souloumiac, consultant Media & Telecom, moderates the Q&A with Continental Satellite’s Addy Awofisayo, Orange’s Jeanne Croiger, Deutsche Telekom’s Dr Sven Weissenfels and D-Smart’s Basar Basarir.

Following a Networking Lunch in partnership with Globecast, the final session travels to Asia (15:15).

Channel Distribution: A Look At Asia, moderated by Association for International Broadcasting’s Simon Spanswick, will explore opportunities in one of the fastest-growing TV regions on the planet.

How Twitter can help TV creators to connect with their audiences HE TWITTER keynote at MIPTV in April provoked a flood of questions from producers, broadcasters, and networks, such as “How can producers integrate Twitter better into their programmes?” and “What value can Twitter bring to a TV show?”. In order to answer such questions, Twitter TV’s creative lead Fred Graver will be joined by the worldwide Twitter TV team today in Auditorium A for TV X Twitter: Where The Audience Comes To Life.

“MIPCOM gives us a great opportunity to update the TV world about some of the most effective Twitter TV integrations we have seen around the world, and meet people from countries that we do not yet have a physical presence in,” he said. “And for this year’s session, we are focusing on giving practical ideas and tips to the TV ecosystem in order to help them go one step further.”

Graver sees Twitter as a way of cutting through the clutter: “TV producers are making better content than ever before, across every genre,” he said. “But it’s harder to make your content stand out. Twitter helps broad-

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Twitter TV’s creative lead Fred Graver

casters, producers and creators enhance and build on the great moments they put on TV. In Cannes, we’re going to share research and studies we’ve made that demonstrate how Twitter helps TV creators bond with their audience and how the audience shares the live moments of TV on Twitter.”

Third Power Lunch puts women at top of the TV executive table TODAY’s Women In Global Entertainment Power Lunch will see four of the world’s most influential media executives share the experiences that have shaped their careers and their vision of an industry undergoing seismic changes.

The invitation-only event, sponsored by Lifetime Networks and organised with media partner The Hollywood Reporter, is now in its third year. It aims to offer a global platform to women in entertainment, allowing them to connect, network and listen to some of the most inspiring women in the business.

This year, the speakers include ‘Africa’s Oprah Winfrey’, Mo Abudu, CEO and executive

chairman of EbonyLife TV; A+E Networks’ Jana Bennett, president of FYI and LMN; Erin McPherson, chief content officer of ‘talent-first technology-driven’ Maker Studios; and Disney’s Anne Sweeney, co-chair of Disney Media Networks and president of Disney ABC Television Group, who is on the cusp of leaving Disney for a new career path in directing.

Observing that this is the age of female empowerment in the media as well as in every other sector of the global economy, Abudu said of her participation in the Power Lunch, “Women must rise and take their place as equal partners”.

MIPCOM FIRST AID POINT The First Aid Point at MIPCOM, where delegates can go for medical attention, has moved. It is now close to the entrance to the Riviera, by the access to the car park.

Global Channel Distribution Day speakers: Orange’s Jeanne Croiger (left), and Continental Satellite’s Addy Awofisayo

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South East Asia holds promise for Japan’s content exporters APANESE content companies see South East Asia as a big opportunity, according to Hajime Shigemura, chairman of the operation committee for the Broadcast Programme Export Association of Japan (BEAJ).

“We are thinking about Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and Myanmar,” Shigemura said. “When you look at their economic development, it is similar to Japan’s in the Seventies and Eighties.”

Shigemura, who is also vice-president and executive producer of Tokyo’s International Drama Festival, believes Japanese dramas can gain more recognition in Europe. “The most important task for us is to get European buyers to watch as many of our dramas as possible,” he said. “The more people who watch, the greater the variety of responses, and that’s good for us.”

Shigemura pointed out that young Japanese movie directors have done well in Europe through major film festivals. Now he would like Japanese TV directors and producers to show the same level of ambition: “They should go to MIPCOM and present their works themselves… show them directly to buyers.”

Overall, Shigemura thinks the Japanese must develop a greater understanding of the foreign

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DEAL TIME FOR PRIME LOS ANGELES- and Paris-based Prime Entertainment Group is finalising deals in Cannes with broadcasters around the world.

Universal Italy has acquired the latest season of Hollywood’s Best Film Directors (91 x 26 mins), which examines the lives, influences and styles of the world’s top directors. At MIPCOM, Prime is premiering the latest addition in the series, which profiles M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense).

Fitness First Class (60 x 60mins/120 x 30 mins) has been picked up by Malaysia’s new lifestyle-focused Li channel. Prime managing director David Freydt described the show as “the highest quality series in the fitness genre ever produced”, with each episode shot in a different luxury location.

In the celebrity zone — Prime’s content heartland — AXN Central Europe has acquired the fast-paced biography series Stars! (91 x 40 mins), while Sky TV New Zealand has taken Close Up (91 x 26 mins).

“Our regular clients are big broadcasters, such as HBO and Universal, but we sell our cinemarelated content, documentaries, and lifestyle and reality programming to channels of all sizes,” Freydt said. “With the exception of Netflix, the digital platforms still have limited budgets, although this is beginning to change. We recently did a digital deal with an Israeli company.”

BEAJ’s Hajime Shigemura: time for Japan to “think internationally”

market and create products that will be more appealing. “Japanese TV people don’t think internationally because they don’t think they have to,” he added.

Mouseler unveils freshest TV trends FRESH TV Around The World is back at MIPCOM with three sessions presented by The Wit’s CEO Virginia Mouseler.

First up is Fresh TV From Mexico, which will see Mouseler look at what’s hot from this year’s Country Of Honour. “Telenovelas are changing, using modern stories from real life,” she said. “Shows like Senora Acero and La Viuda Negra are indicative of a new wave of reality-based series. At the same time, we’re seeing some great fiction being developed, such as Burn The Bridge, about the assassination of Jesuit priest Ignacio Ellacuria, and black comedy God’s Cartel, which tells the story of a priest who smuggles drugs because he’s convinced that God is telling him to.”

In the Formats session, Mouseler will be talking about global trends: “We’re seeing fewer talent shows and more game shows. In tandem with that, there’s a move towards game shows that feature more realistic prizes and a general rationalisation of production costs in

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Virginia Mouseler: “modern stories from real life”

order to make the format attractive to a wider range of producers and budgets.”

The Fresh TV fiction session will examine dramas that also work as formats — “something that we’re seeing more and more,” Mouseler added.

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The Book Of Negroes ONIGHT’s MIPCOM World Premiere TV Screening brings eOne’s eagerly-awaited epic, The Book Of Negroes, to Cannes.

Based on Lawrence Hill’s prizewinning novel of the same name, it stars Aunjanue Ellis, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Louis Gossett Jr., who are at MIPCOM to attend the event. Gossett sees the production as the final part of a personal trilogy, including the mini-series Roots, for which he won an Emmy Award, and 12 Years A Slave, whose audio

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book he narrated. Of the three, he declared: “This one is the strongest.”

“I’m a big fan of literary heroines and this tops it. The idea that you would see an African woman’s journey from an 11-year-old girl to being in her late 50s is very rare,” said Aunjanue Ellis, who plays Aminata Diallo, the heroine who is kidnapped in West Africa and sold into slavery, before beginning the long journey to emancipation. Ellis said the story remained relevant in a world where human trafficking was an ongoing problem.

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Cuba Gooding Jr., said that with the increasing serialisation of content, it made sense to adapt The Book Of Negroes for TV. “You have more hours to tell a story, you can be more in-depth with your characterisation. This is the perfect example of that. It’s told on such an epic scale that it would be almost impossible to do it in two hours.” eOne’s co-production partners in the project were Conquering Lion Pictures, Out of Africa Entertainment, and Idlewild Films.

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NEWS ZED DEAL SEES GAME ON FOR GAME FEVER CO-PRO FRENCH producer ZED has signed a major co-production agreement for Game Fever with Chinese producer Oriental Companion Media and the Pegasus Media Group, whose investment represents 65% of the project’s financing.

ZED has gained exclusive access to video game champions with enormous worldwide followings and Game Fever will reveal the public and private lives of these stars. The project will launch in 2015 with a 26 x 10 mins web-based series, to be followed by the theatrical release of a feature-length documentary filmed in 4K. The ultimate aim is to create an ecosystem in which TV, cinema and new media use specially created content to address the global community of gamers.

Aggressive expansion into TV as MGM celebrates 90th year HREE years since MGM’s Television Group was formed, Roma Khanna, the group’s president, is excited to have already had hit shows like Fargo, Vikings, Teen Wolf and Lauren Lake’s Paternity Court.

“As we celebrate MGM’s 90th anniversary, the company’s roaring lion continues to be one of the industry’s iconic brands,” Khanna said. “But these days, it is set up to deliver high-quality content across film, TV and other platforms.”

MGM continues to have a lot of success in the movie world, with franchises like James Bond, The Hobbit and Jump Street but Khanna said: “The need for cable channels to stand out has resulted in growing demand for highquality original content. At the same time, we’re seeing mid-budget movies disappear.

The result is that wonderful film talents like Billy Bob Thornton (Fargo) are migrating between the media.

“We have around 50 shows in development, half based on our library titles and half completely original. What we are looking for is series that can translate globally.”

The company recently acquired a 55% interest in Roma Downey, Mark Burnett and Hearst Entertainment’s One Three Media and LightWorkers Media, including their interests in hit shows such as Survivor, The Voice,

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Shark Tank, The Bible and The Apprentice.

These will be consolidated into new venture United Artists Media Group (UAMG), with Mark Burnett as CEO.

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Game Fever: profiling the stars of world gaming

SECOND SEASON OF SING MY SONG ON CCTV SING My Song, the format created

by Star China International Media and distributed internationally by ITV Studios, is to be renewed in China for a second season on CCTV. It will also see further expansion in China following a recently announced major alliance with Alibaba Digital Entertainment, who will promote music from the show on their new digital platforms.

“We are excited to work with Alibaba to expand the reach of the show even further,” said Vivian Yin, chief representative of Star China and vice-president of Starry Productions. “We also look forward to the show being taken around the world by our partner ITV Studios.”

CITVC and Somos sign for Spanish speakers

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FASCINATION with China’s accelerating economic growth has contributed to China International TV Corporation (CITVC) and Somos Distribution sealing an exclusive deal for Spanish-speaking territories at MIPCOM. Miami-based Somos Distribution has agreed to distribute three flagship documentaries from CITVC, the sales arm of China’s giant state broadcaster CCTV. The titles are: A Bite Of China, a series about the variety in Chinese cuisine; Tea, Tale Of A Leaf, which looks at the drink’s link to the country’s culture; and Silk Road, a documentary about the historical trade routes that linked the East and West for the first time.

Ma Runsheng, general manager of China Radio, Film & Television Programs Exchanging Center, said: “For us, the Spanish-speaking countries are very important and Somos Distribution has the infrastructure and expertise to help us increase our presence in Latin America and Spain.”

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NEWS DISNEY WELCOMES THE RONKS THE WALT Disney Company has secured an agreement with French animation studio Xilam to acquire brand-new animated series Welcome To The Ronks for Disney Channel platforms in EMEA, Australia and New Zealand/ Australasia, as well as South East Asia, Korea, India, Hong Kong and Macau.

Currently in production at Xilam’s Paris-based animation studio, the comedy, aimed at kids aged six to 11, is set in the prehistoric world, when the Neanderthals lived in harmony with nature and are quite happy with their archaic lifestyle.

Flash, a refined and sophisticated alien is sent to the Ronk tribe in order to give humankind an atomic boost into the future. Unfortunately for him, Darwin’s forefathers aren’t quite ready for (r)evolution…

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GRB CLOCKS UP 2,000 HOURS OF DEALS GRB Entertainment has reported early MIPCOM deals totalling 2,000 hours of factual, lifestyle and scripted programming with, among others, Discovery, Fox, M-Net and BSkyB. “GRB Entertainment is set for its best MIPCOM to date,” said Mike Lolato, the company’s senior vice-president of international distribution.

Among the GRB titles included in the deals are For Better Or Worse (M-Net), When Ghosts Attack (Celestial Movie Channel, Foxtel and UKTV), Untold Stories Of The ER (Discovery and Intrasa Canal 4 Nicaragua), King Of Thrones (Fox Incendo for Canal Vie) and Killer Legends (BSkyB and Foxtel).

The X Factor UK celebrates worldwide sales success

The X Factor UK judges Louis Walsh, Mel B, Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell

YCO Entertainment and FremantleMedia International (FMI) have sold the UK version of talent show The X Factor to 147 territories.

AXS TV (US), MNet (pan-regional Africa), RTL CBS Asia Entertainment (panregional Asia) and Sony Pictures Television Networks (pan-regional Latin America) are among the takers for the series, launched on the international market for the first time.

The show has launched the careers of multimillion selling global artists including One Direction, Little Mix, Olly Murs, Leona Lewis and Ella Henderson.

The current season of The X Factor UK (season 11) had its highest rating launch since season eight with 10.7 million viewers and has seen MIPCOM Personality Of The Year Cowell return to lead the judging.

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Other broadcasters to take the show include DR (Denmark), TV3 (Ireland), MTV3 (Finland), 365 Media (Iceland), Sky (Italy), Upstar (Africa), PBS (Malta), TV2 (Norway), SIC (Portugal), Viacom 18 (Sub-continental India), MediaCorp (Singapore), Workpoint TV (Thailand), Chek (Canada), YES TV (Canada), Hotvision (Israel), Fox International (Russia & Poland) CNC3 (Trinidad), TV Channel 17 (Suriname) and Youku Tudou (China).

The X Factor is created and owned by Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and coproduced by Syco and Thames TV, part of FremantleMedia UK. Since the launch of The X Factor UK in 2004, the show has been watched by more than 360 million people around the world. The X Factor is now produced locally in 51 territories worldwide.

New winning formula for Jeopardy!

SONY Pictures Television (SPT) announced ardy!, which is hosted by award-winning today the international launch of Sports Jeop- sportscaster Dan Patrick, is also available on ardy!, a new sporting version of the classic the international market. game show format Jeopardy!, in The series has scored nearly which contestants have to phrase one million streams since its their answers in the form of a September 24 debut on Crackquestion. le. Nearly half of the viewers “Nothing is more universal than who tuned in were new to the the love of sport,” said Keith Le streaming service. The series Goy, president, international is complemented by a Sports distribution, Sony Pictures TelJeopardy! mobile game, availevision. “Sports Jeopardy! is able through Apple’s App Store a highly adaptable format that Google Play and Amazon App broadcasters can easily customStore. The original Jeopardy!, ise around the most popular now in its 31st season, averages sports in any territory.” nearly 10 million viewers each SPT’s Keith Le Goy: The US version of Sports Jeop- “highly adaptable format” episode.

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AMC rebrand aims to build Warehouse 51’s Carl Hall

WAREHOUSE 51 OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN CANNES FORMER Sky Vision and Parthenon executive Carl Hall is at MIPCOM for the first time with his new venture Warehouse 51 Productions.

The company recently won a commission for one-off documentary Area 51: The CIA’s Secret Files for US cable network Nat Geo. “Warehouse 51 is a new type of media company in a world increasingly dominated by super indies and traditional distributor-producer relationships,” Hall said. “We’re not looking to tie in execs to staff jobs or buy companies. Instead, we will work as a genuine partner with directors and producers who want to get their projects made without losing control of their creativity or rights.”

Warehouse 51 is also working on projects covering a range of genres from factual through to quizzes and entertainment.

Other shows currently in production include theatrical documentary Hustlers Convention, about one of the most famous events in the history of rap music. The Riverhorse/Warehouse 51 coproduction has funding from Creative England and is distributed by Kaleidoscope Films.

Further projects include Nature’s Treasure Islands, co-produced with Redfern Natural History Productions.

Launched at MIPCOM by Sky Vision, it has been pre-sold to SBS Australia.

Warehouse 51 also has three wildlife projects in development with Discovery-owned Animal Planet.

top entertainment destination MC Networks is at MIPCOM on the back of a global rebranding that is seeing its MGM Channel renamed AMC and “transformed to meet the expectations of today’s audiences”, said Bruce Tuchman, president of AMC Global and Sundance Channel Global.

AMC has now started to roll out locally versioned channel feeds on key cable and satellite platforms across Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Tuchman added: “We’re taking a channel that launched in an earlier era and offering our viewers a lot more, such as first-run, exclusive, narrative fiction from AMC Studios — series such as Halt & Catch Fire and The Divide — because that’s what people

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now want. That’s what creates value in today’s cable and satellite market.”

The new-look AMC feeds will also feature films from some of

the world’s biggest film libraries, including MGM, Paramount and Sony.

Despite the logistics involved in repositioning a well-established global network into “a top-tier entertainment destination”, Tuchman said the rebrand would be complete by yearend.

“The momentum is building and we’re signing up a lot of operators around the world,” he said. “There’s a lot of enthusiasm out there and it’s exceeding our expectations.

AMC is now debuting around the world. At MIPCOM, we want to tell everyone how excited we are about that.”

AMC Global/Sundance Channel’s Bruce Tuchman: “The momentum is building”

Zodiak targets international marketplace AFTER one year at the head of Zodiak Media, company CEO Marc-Antoine d’Halluin is confident that his efforts to bring commonality to the company are having an effect.

“When I arrived I was coming from the world of channels, so it was new to me. The advantage that gave me was that I was seeing how the company operated in a very objective way,” he said. “I saw that it needed to develop an internal culture that would breed success across a broader range of territories. We were very good at creating localised successes but those hits were not travelling nearly as much as they could.”

In the case of formats, he said: “If you don’t move quickly, someone else will come up with something similar and you’ve

Zodiak Media CEO Marc-Antoine d’Halluin

lost your market. Making that happen is all about having one identifiable company culture.”

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ing pan-national success with the Trash Or Treasure and Drop ped formats, as well as scripted series Occupied.

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NEWS Pirate’s Passage marks sea change for actor Sutherland ONALD Sutherland (Don’t Look Now, Ordinary People, Pride & Prejudice, The Hunger Games) is one of the world’s best-known screen actors. But he is in Cannes this week to promote his animation ÀOP 3LUDWH¡V 3DVVDJH EDVHG RQ D book by William Gilkerson and distributed internationally by Tandem Communications.

Ask him why and it’s clear that Pirate’s Passage is a once-ina-lifetime passion project for Canada’s greatest acting export: “Seven years ago, I was working with Matthew McConaughey in Australia on Fool’s Gold,� he told MIPCOM News in an exclusive interview. “He handed me the book, which is set in Nova Scotia where I am from. I had time to kill so I read it and re-read it. I then phoned the author and said ‘I’ll buy it’.�

The story is set in 1952, a period when Sutherland was a rangy unworldly adolescent still living in Nova Scotia. It tells the story of a fatherless boy who befriends the

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Red’s noir thriller sees cultures clash

Dominic Monaghan, who plays US cop Tommy Conley

RED ARROW International’s latest scripted drama sees Dominic Monaghan paired with Michael Nyqvist in 100 Code, a Nordic noir crime thriller with a difference.

Monaghan plays US cop Tommy Conley who has been given permission to observe an investigation into the deaths of several blonde women with Swedish policeman Mikael Eklund, The fact that Eklund despises US culture and — by extension — Conley, gave Monaghan and Nyqvist plenty of opportunities to play off each other. And in terms of standing out from other Nordic drama, a US presence can be powHUIXO ´7KH VKRZ UHDOO\ EHQHÀWV

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captain of The Flying Dutchman, the legendary pirate damned to sail the high seas forever. What ensues is a coming-of-age-story that combines adventure with emotional intensity: “Captain Johnson gives the boy hope, belief, joy, passion, education,â€? said Sutherland. “Everything about the project thrills me. It’s impossible to describe how important WKLV Ă€OP LV WR PH Âľ 6XWKHUODQG LV SURGXFLQJ WKH Ă€OP voicing the lead character and – although it wasn’t his original intention – wrote the script, with his production partner Brad Peyton. It is animation because “it would have been prohibitively expensive to make it as a live-action Ă€OP Âľ VDLG 6XWKHUODQG The project was commissioned

by CBC Canada and is being produced in Ottawa. But Sutherland has no doubt it can travel internationally. “The truth at the heart of local stories often has strong universal appeal. As W H Auden said, ‘A poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.’�

Tandem’s involvement is unusual, given the company’s emphasis on high-end drama. President Rola Bauer said: “Donald had such a passion for it that I couldn’t resist.

I can really see families sitting down and watching it together.�

from a US presence in much the same way that Lilyhammer did,�

Red Arrow joint managing director Irina Ignatiew, said.

Nyqvist agreed: “That classic antagonism between the US and Europe meant that we really had a lot of fun, and when it turns out that Dom’s character is in fact a very good policeman, the dynamic changes completely,� he said. “Plus in real life we are good friends so that added an extra element of fun to our on-set chemistry.�

For Monaghan, fun is an essential ingredient for a good performance: “No matter what the ambience of the production is, and in this case it’s very dark indeed, if you’re having fun on the set, you’re more likely to be relaxed and performing at your best,� he said.

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Mysteries, mind games and menageries from BBCWW B C WO R L DW I D E (BBCWW) is in Cannes with 150 new titles and 53,000 hours in its content library. Highlights include paranormal drama Intruders, starring John Simm, period drama Our Zoo, gymnastics format Tumble and Katherine Mills: Mind Games, which mixes magic and psychology.

Explaining why BBCWW has such high hopes for Intruders, Paul Dempsey, president of BBC Worldwide global markets, said: “It has a great cast and a top writer in Glen Morgan [The X Files]. It’s the kind of fast-paced, thought-provoking drama with high-production values that is working so well right now.”

As for Tumble, Dempsey is hoping it will continue the company’s winning streak in formats: “In France, for example, we have Bake Off, The Weakest Link, Top Gear, Sewing Bee and Antiques Roadshow

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ROCK star turned bestselling author Mike Rutherford, previously of Genesis and Mike + The Mechanics, has teamed up with Nemo Planet for a new cross-platform music elimination series. Birth Of A Band, also available as a format, is represented at MIPCOM by Peace Point Rights.

Using the web as a global casting platform, young musicians from six instrumental/vocal categories will be selected to participate in the series. A team of rock legends led by Rutherford will assess each contestant’s skills and reduce the field to 54 musicians. These finalists will then enter a camera-filled environment where they will be filmed 24/7, with the resultant footage streamed to an online platform. Each week, the young musicians, who will be mentored by the rock-star judges, will perform in various combinations and teams on linear television in a battle for viewer votes. The final two teams will compete for a career-changing opportunity to become a support act for a major band.

“Assembling a band is a fantastic experience and I look forward to mentoring raw talent for this revolutionary TV show,” Rutherford said.

BBCWW’s Paul Dempsey: “great clarity and focus”

active in that market. And Dancing With The Stars continues to do great business. At MIPCOM, we have Nadia Comaneci helping us

to launch Tumble to buyers.”

Other new titles include drama The Refugees and factual series Lands Of The Monsoon. “But it’s also worth highlighting our library titles,” Dempsey said.

“Shows like Doctor Who [back at market with series eight], Sherlock and Top Gear continue to do great business. In natural history, we are committed to delivering one new landmark series every year for the next five years.”

BBCWW has recently undergone a restructure to bring its sales operation closer to local markets. This has given the company “greater clarity and focus”, Dempsey added. It terms of strategic goals, priorities include “increasing investment in content, building brands and being innovative in the digital arena”.

BBCWW is also keen to maintain strong links with indies and recently bought a 35% stake in drama specialist Lookout Point.

Pre-sales for first Depardieu doc BALANGA, the Paris-based distributor, has pre-sold Gerard Depardieu’s first documentary series to SBS Australia, Sky UK and TV5 Canada.

The French distributor is in talks with several territories, including Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Sweden, Switzerland and the US for the as-yet untitled series, in which Depardieu journeys through Tuscany, Sicily, Bavaria, Brittany, Scotland, the Basque Country and Andalucia exploring their cuisines and history.

The series is due to be on air in September 2015.

Balanga has also sold A Tale Of Two Thieves to Histoire (Group TF1) in France and Channel One in Russia and is in negotiation with broadcasters in Ireland, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Japan and the Middle East. The

Gerard Depardieu: history meets cuisine in first documentary project

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rected by Chris Long, executive producer of CBS’ The Mentalist. The UK rights have been acquired by Signature Entertainment for release directly to digital platforms.

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NEWS TWO-PART DEAL TO SEE DISCOVERY KIDS LOCALISE HI-5 FOR LATIN AMERICA DISCOVERY KIDS Latin America has acquired the format for award-winning children’s television series Hi-5, based on a show featuring a music group, originally created in Australia. In a two-part deal, Discovery Kids Latin America is to expand on the popularity of the Hi-5 series by offering new seasons of the Australian version, while developing a localised Spanish and Portuguese version with regional cast members from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina.

“Hi-5 is a remarkable brand and a perfect fit for Discovery Kids Latin America. With its enormous success worldwide, we are confident that our young viewers will be empowered, stimulated and entertained, and continue to be captivated with Hi-5,” said Carolina Lightcap, head of content for Discovery Latin America/US Hispanic. “We’re delighted to be taking the show one step further by producing a local version.”

Additionally, Discovery Kids Latin America acquired the exclusive pay-TV and digital rights to Hi-5 Series 14 and 15, which will begin to air in November of this year. Hi-5 Operations concluded the deal with the assistance of leading international sales and distribution company Comarex. “In today’s media-savvy world, Hi-5 is a show with positivity and fun at its core, an ideal platform to engage pre-schoolers,” Marcel Vinay Jr, CEO of Comarex, said.

Hi-5: heading to Discovery Kids Latin America

International mission for streamlined Dragon TV Dragon TV Center’s Bao Xiaoqun: “more money and manpower”

RAGON TV Center has arrived at MIPCOM on the back of a major restructuring that has seen its mother company, Shanghai Media Group (SMG), rationalise its operations to benefit from China’s rapidly evolving media landscape.

“We had multiple management layers that needed streamlining,” said Bao Xiaoqun, vice-director of the Dragon TV Center. “The restructuring will give the new Dragon TV Center more money and manpower to focus on high-end production. We will be spending more on technology and manpower, as well as attracting top talent to our productions.

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This will include domestic projects, as well as those developed with international partners.”

Dragon TV Center is tasked with producing entertainment shows for Dragon TV, and SMG’s channels and associated websites.

“We are looking at large-scale shows along the lines of Got Talent and Chinese Idol,” Xiaoqun said. “We are also looking to develop shows with a digital interactive component.”

In addition to promoting Dragon TV Center’s original content to the international industry in Cannes, Xiaoqun is also seeking partners to help “develop new Chinese formats for export, as well as to adapt some for the Chinese market”.

Maximum makes impact in Middle East MIDDLE EASTERN producer Ziad Kebbi entertainment. Maximum is already develophas launched new production company Maxi- ing formats that will give the reality genre a mum Media. The Dubai-based business will surprising twist and new game show concepts create original programming specifically for the region,” he and adapt international forsaid. “We have a unique way of mats for broadcasters across the approaching each show in that Middle East and North Africa we start from point zero, look(MENA) region. ing at every parameter and how it Kebbi, who heads up the new might work for our audience. I’m company as CEO, has also very happy to say that Maximum been appointed CEO of newly has already been approached by launched Talpa Middle East, several big production compawhich is representing Talpa’s nies to produce regional versions catalogue across the MENA of some very big shows.” region, and producing local verTalpa Middle East’s first prosions of Talpa formats. duction is the third season of “Arab television is in rude health, MBC’s The Voice Arabia, the with growing audiences demand- Maximum Media/Talpa pan-regional Arab adaptation of ing high-quality, world-class Middle East CEO Ziad Kebbi Talpa’s global format hit.

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NEWS USER-GENERATED CONTENT GENERATES SALES SUCCESS ARGONON International has sold a number of its user-generated content properties in the run-up to MIPCOM. They include I’m Snowtrapped, a Leopard Films production, which has been sold to Denmark’s TV2, Sweden’s TV4 and SBS in Australia. EmergencyCam, which uses cutting-edge point-of-view cameras to capture the work of police and other key workers, has been acquired by Sweden’s TV4, Australia’s Foxtel and TVNZ in New Zealand.

“We predict that sales of Argonon’s slate of usergenerated products will continue at the market,” Argonon International sales executive Bea Tammer said.

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POPULAR PIP SAILS AHEAD FOLLOWING the success of CHF Entertainment’s Pip Ahoy! on Channel 5’s Milkshake block, Cartoon Network UK has acquired the UK and Ireland pay-TV rights for its channel Cartoonito, and RTE has acquired free-TV rights for the Republic of Ireland.

Pip Ahoy! is the numberone kids show in the UK for four- to nine-year-olds. A master toy licence deal has recently been signed with John Adams. Pip Ahoy is brought to MIPCOM by Monster Entertainment.

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Innovative film explores why differences are only Human UMAN – The Movie, compiled from 2,000 interviews with individuals gathered over the last 10 years, is the latest of Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s many groundbreaking projects.

“Without wanting to sound too portentous, we really have made this movie to try and change the world for the better, and the interviews explore the big questions of human life on the planet, such as why we find it so hard to coexist peacefully and accept each other’s differences,” Arthus-Bertrand said. “It will be 50% aerial shots with no commentary, and 50% interviews with ordinary but amazing people. We got them talking about the things that really matter to them such as religion, what they would like to change about their own world and the planet more generally.”

The film is entirely funded by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation and the GoodPlanet Foundation. A screening of some

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launch of the film will be by Ban Ki-moon at the UN General Assembly in September 2015.

Cennarium deals directly with venues PERFORMING arts specialist Cennarium is at MIPCOM to launch a global on-demand service and sell its content to thirdparty VOD platforms.

Gulu Monteiro, managing artistic and commercial director at Cennarium, explained that the company does deals with venues and theatrical companies that allow it to film performances in HD and then subtitle them in English.

Recent examples include recordings of a Russian production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters and the innovative German operetta The Circus Princess.

Once it has this content, Cennarium can license it to third-party VOD platforms or use it on its own platform, which will go live globally later in the year. “Doing deals with venues and theatrical

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companies gives us a lot of freedom in distributing content and the opportunity to bring plays, dance, opera and ballets onto one platform,” said Monteiro.

Cennarium currently produces content in the US, France, Russia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Brazil and the UK, with Japan to be added soon. When the platform launches, there will be premium and standard versions. “Premium subscribers will get around eight to 10 new performances a month from around the world,” said Monteiro.

For venues, partnering with Cennarium means increased exposure and the prospect of additional revenues. There is no upfront cost for venues, said Monteiro, but there is a 50-50 share to be had in the net revenues that accrue.

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Seasons 1 and 2 of the popular CGI animated series — which is ITV’s highestrated children’s show — premiered in France on Canal J in September 2014 while a second quarter debut is scheduled on Gulli in 2015. The dual-platform launch will be supported by a powerful on-air, online and print promotional and marketing campaign. The series already airs on CITV in UK, RTE in Ireland, Clan TV in Spain, Canal Panda in Portugal and Spain, RAI Gulp in Italy and Disney XD in the Benelux.

POWER RANGERS SET TO STAR ON MONGOL TV MONGOLIAN broadcaster Mongol TV has acquired the kids series Power Rangers — Super Megaforce from Saban Brands. The company will begin broadcasting the show in December 2014.

Commenting on the deal, Mongol TV CEO Nomin Chinbat said: “Mongol TV is very pleased to enter into this exciting partnership with Saban Brands to acquire The Power Rangers series — one of the top kids’ programmes in the world. We look forward to broadcasting the popular show, the first time in Mongolia.”

Mongol TV is a privately-owned channel, broadcasting to over three million viewers. It launched in June 2009, but underwent a complete programming, production and studio revamp in 2013.

Fuji TV announces move into international market UJI TV, the major Japanese commercial broadcaster with a traditional focus on drama, is aiming to expand overseas by merging the public relations and sales functions in its international department.

“It means international affairs will be more efficient,” said Mamiko Maekawa, who was recently promoted to senior executive director of the company’s international department.

“Those sections can now work together and communicate more easily as the occasion demands. It shows how Fuji TV is becoming more aware of the importance of markets outside Japan.”

Fuji TV is already developing the mainland Chinese market, producing a drama series — Mysterious Summer — in conjunction with iQIYI, a Beijing-based internet service company. The 15 half-hour episodes target Chinese teenagers, mainly girls, and will be distributed for free over the internet from August 2015.

At MIPCOM, Fuji TV will present a new game show called Sensational, produced in co-operation with the French production company Newen. Maekawa promises MIPCOM attendees “something you’ve never seen before”, and intends selling the format to TV companies worldwide.

An important part of Fuji TV’s new international strategy is greater distribution of content through the internet, especially in Asia.

Maekawa admits that promoting dramas in the US and Europe is difficult because both territories have established drama production

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Fuji TV’s Mamiko Maekawa said the company is becoming more aware of markets outside Japan

entities, so Fuji TV will instead push reality TV and game-show formats.

Maekawa said her department has the creativity and expertise to successfully increase the scope of the Japanese broadcaster. “We want to show the world that Fuji TV is not just a broadcasting company, but a production company too.”

Online boost for Bloomberg content BLOOMBERG has announced the launch of Media Source, a new online platform that gives broadcasters, publishers and other companies easier access to Bloomberg content.

Media Source showcases Bloomberg’s full library of constantly updated photos, video footage, short video clips and full-length shows from one online location.

“The world of global business moves fast, and our goal with this platform is to help others enhance their news content as quickly as stories break,” said Susan Vobejda, global general manager of the Bloomberg Content Service.

Bloomberg’s tagging and metadata enables users to search across thousands of photos and videos via a universal search function. In addition to the easy-to-use search, customers

can download a wide range of formats and file types and save preferences for future visits, making it easy to integrate with existing workflows and publishing platforms.

“As a market leader providing timely business and financial coverage to hundreds of global publishers, broadcasters and other organisations every day, we have a unique perspective on content value. We are seeing demand for Bloomberg visual assets explode as publishers and producers are addressing shifting news consumption patterns to formats like mobile and connected devices,” said Vobejda.

Bloomberg has more than 2,400 media professionals in 73 countries, reporting on a broad range of business topics including financial news, market coverage, technology and luxury.

Media Source will provide broadcasters, publishers and other companies easier access to Bloomberg content

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NEWS GLOBAL AGENCY BUILDS ON BUZZ WITH 20 executives in town, a portfolio of new drama series and formats, and a couple of guerilla marketing strategies up its sleeve, Global Agency is making its presence felt at MIPCOM. “We are only eight years old, but we’ve managed to create a strong brand with our programming line-up and dedicated team,” said CEO Izzet Pinto. “We have pioneered the export of Turkish drama and this will continue with great new series. On the format side, our new talent and game shows are creating a lot of buzz.”

Pinto said 2014 has been a year of highlights for Global Agency, which is a 2014 MIPCOM conference sponsor. “This year, we have grown over 70%,” he added.

“We have also entered the Latin American and Asian markets with our Turkish drama series, and our team has grown from 19 at the end of last year to 26 today.”

The last year has also seen yet more sales for Global Agency’s flagship drama series Magnificent Century and 1001 Nights, which are now airing in 56 and 53 countries respectively. “From our format division, Shopping Monsters has been a phenomenal success in Europe,” Pinto added. “And our talent format Keep Your Light Shining is also gaining a lot of attention.”

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Chadwick launches Canada’s Sinking Ship into distribution INKING Ship Entertainment, the fast-growing Canadian production group, has come to MIPCOM with its own distribution arm for the first time.

The company, which specialises in incorporating CGI into live-action kids’ entertainment, currently has in production shows with a combined budget of C$30m ($26.8m).

And that proves the company is fulfilling its ambitions to be a major global kids’ TV producer at all levels, from live action to total animation, said Lynn Chadwick, vicepresident, sales & distribution.

“We’re one of the few companies in Canada able to do this,” she said. “We would like to be like Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, pushing the boundaries with each production. What we do is cinematic experience for the TV screen.”

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Sinking Ship Entertainment’s Lynn Chadwick: “pushing the boundaries”

Sinking Ship’s distribution arm in Cannes is Odd Squad, a liveaction comedy about an investigative agency run by kids for kids, made in association with

The Fred Rogers Company. It is being produced for PBS in the US and TVO in Canada. Chirp, a pre-school series, is Sinking Ship’s first 2D animation show.

Star Trek specials steered by Shatner IN ADVANCE of the 50th anniversary of classic Star Trek television series in 2016, William Shatner is offering MIPCOM buyers a virtual starfleet of Star Trek specials and documentaries that he produced, directed and hosted.

Industry veteran Doug Lee — a former executive at Epix, MGM Studios and 20th Century Fox — is handling worldwide distribution. Much of the programming was actually commissioned by Lee while at Epix, when he developed a close working relationship with Shatner. Lee said that the busy 83-year-old remains “a force of nature”.

“It’s really Shatner’s take on it all,” said Lee, referring to The Captains, the star’s in-depth look at the influence of the role on his own life and the other actors who helmed the bridge such as Patrick Stewart and Chris Pine; and Get A Life!, Shatner’s hilarious take

Doug Lee: handling global distribution

William Shatner: force of nature

on the extraordinary Star Trek fan phenomenon.

Produced in 2014 and successfully premiering on HBO in Canada in late August, William Shatner Presents: Chaos On The Bridge is

available for the first time internationally. The one-hour documentary is Shatner’s behind-thescenes expose of the tumultuous beginnings of Star Trek: The Next Generation as it evolved into a successful franchise.

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Tricon moves into animation and teen and tween live action Splash’s Mike Young (left) and Nicolas Atlan

SPLASH STRIVES FOR FLEXIBILITY LA-BASED indie kids’ studio Splash Entertainment is here this week for four reasons, according to co-CEOs Mike Young and Nicolas Atlan – to sell shows, finance projects in development, source new ideas and promote its US on-demand platform Kabillion, now available in 50 million cable homes and regularly achieving between five and seven million views per month.

“When you’re an indie studio, you have to be flexible,” said Young. “We’re working in every possible format from theatrical to one-minute webisodes. One of our new productions, It’s Archie, is available in different lengths so is relevant for all platforms.”

Achieving stand-out is also critical, Young said. “Our theatrical animation film Norm Of The North has Rob Schneider and Bill Nighy as part of the voice cast. We’re also working with former NFL star Trevor Pryce on three animated specials based on his children’s series of Kulipari books.”

Splash, which produces shows like Chloe’s Closet and Sabrina, owns 92.5% of Kabillion. “We don’t come to Cannes to acquire shows,” said Atlan, “but we do discuss revenue-sharing deals with content owners.”

Kabillion is currently aimed at six- to 11-year-olds but Atlan said: “We are launching a pre-school app called Kabillion Junior. That transforms us into a much broader-based brand.”

O RT H A m e r i c a n producer and distributor Tricon Films & Television is at MIPCOM with a new executive vice-president, kids, family and animation — and a new focus on kids’ animation and live action.

Award-winning executive producer, writer and director Frank Saperstein, who has taken over Tricon’s Kids & Family division, is in Cannes to “expand and grow our collaborations and projects in the two sub-genres of animation and live action”. He added: “We’re moving rapidly and strongly into kids’ animation and see ourselves expanding in time into primetime and late-night animation. We’ve also stepped very definitely into tween, teen and young-adult live action, including teen telenovelas. We also see Tricon developing into a gentler and more user-friendly place for our producer partners.”

Jon Rutherford, Tricon’s executive vice-president of distribution and business development, added: “For some reason, people want to work with Tricon — perhaps because our focus has always been on partnerships and alliances.

Everything in this business comes down to relationships.”

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Tricon’s Jon Rutherford (left) and Frank Saperstein: “expanding and growing collaborations” in animation and live-action

Saperstein, whose animation credits include Pee-wee’s Playhouse (CBS) and Ren & Stimpy (Nickelodeon), added: “We’re definitely on the road, though we’re not quite ready to announce what

make of car we’re driving. What we can say is that we are diving deeper into animation and live action, building on our existing pedigree in the non-scripted space to bring great projects to market.”

Adult deal for Corus and Bento Box CORUS Entertainment, owner of Nelvana Studio, has unveiled a partnership with US animation producer Bento Box Entertainment to create a slate of original adult animation series for Teletoon at Night, the primetime block on Corus-owned channel Teletoon. The first shows to come out of the deal will debut in 2016.

Colin Bohm, vice-president, television, head of Corus Kids said: “It’s great for us to be working with the dynamic, talented team

behind The Awesomes and Bob’s Burgers. Our plan at MIPCOM is to talk to other broadcasters that see adult animation as a key way for them to target 18- to 34-yearolds.”

Bento Box founders Scott Greenberg, Mark McJimsey and Joel Kuwahara have numerous career production credits including The Simpsons and King Of The Hill.

Greenberg, who is CEO of Bento Box, added: “For us, it’s an opportunity to bring more shows to

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the world. Teletoon at Night is a great platform, so having a multi-series, multi-year commitment from them puts us in a strong position when talking to platforms in the US and internationally.”

As yet, there are no details on specific shows or how they will be produced and distributed, said Bohm. “The idea is to develop a number of adult animation series, but how we share the workload will depend on each particular property.”

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honoured to be the global distributor and are so excited that we have WKH ÀUVW HSLVRGHV UHDG\ IRU 0,3COM,” said Tatiana Kober, president of Bejuba! Entertainment.

“IT’S EXPANDED business as usual,” said Miramax’s Joe Patrick (left) of his company’s recent deal with Revolution Studios, which will see it manage the global TV and digital distribution of all the latter’s titles. Revolution’s Scott Hemming (second left), pictured here celebrating the new alliance with Miramax’s Beth Minehart and Revolution’s Vince Totino, said the agreement was “the next natural step”. He added: “The Miramax global sales team are among the most respected and creative in the industry and we look forward to working with them to broaden our diverse library worldwide.” The agreement, which expands on the current Miramax/Revolution representation alliance, also includes the prestigious Morgan Creek library, acquired by Revolution earlier this month.

Get Blake! gets moving

ZDFE’s MIPCOM kick-off ZDF ENTERPRISES (ZDFE), one of the largest TV broadcasters in Europe, brought together its international team players in a

ZODIAK Kids launched Marathon’s 52 x 11 mins animation series Get Blake! at MIPJunior. To mark the launch of the alien comedy they offered complementary Tuk-tuk Express rides to and from the Palm Beach. Pictured are: Zodiak’s Ambroise Delorme (left), Nickelodeon’s Jules Borkent, Lagadere’s Emmanuelle Baril and Zodiak’s Eryk Casemiro.

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football match at Stade des Hesperides near Cannes Palm Beach on Monday to kick off a contentrich MIPCOM line-up.

INTRODUCING A NEW AND UNEXPECTED CRIME HERO

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Faith. Love. Murder.

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‘I will be the god who makes your dreams come true’ RODUCTION and distribution company Sierra/Engine Television and Kiss frontman and media mogul Gene Simmons are launching new reality format series entitled Coliseum at MIPCOM. Created by Simmons and Sierra/Engine Television CEO Chris Philip, the series challenges multiple contestants from all musical genres and backgrounds to form bands and create an “unforgettable act”. As well as possessing an outstanding voice the act must also be capable of producing an outstanding performance.

“We all love X Factor and American Idol, British Idol and all the other variations. And they’re good shows,” Simmons told the MIPCOM Daily News. “There’s nothing wrong with The Voice or any of the other competition shows, but it’s really all a fantasy. Why? Because if Gene Simmons, or Mick Jagger, or Jimi Hendrix, or Bob Dylan or Madonna — you know, the biggest artists who have walked and still walk the face of the earth — got up there and tried to sing an Adele song or something, they would fail.”

This is because the biggest artists in the world are not necessarily the best singers, or the best performers or the best anything, said Simmons. “They just sort of hit on something.

Take Mick Jagger. There’s nobody better for what he does within the Stones. But would I have him in Crosby, Stills & Nash harmonies?

Probably not.”

Coliseum would bring together all the elements necessary to create a world-class act, said Simmons and he used the early line-up of The Beatles to illustrate his point. “At the beginning they told the drummer, ‘Sorry, you have to go. We have to get a different drummer’. That’s the right idea.”

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DISNEY DEALS WITH MURDER DISNEY Media Distribution has completed a run of successful deals with broadcasters that will see ABC Studios’ drama How To Get Away With Murder aired in 158 territories worldwide.

The 13-part show, in which a criminal law professor becomes mixed up in a murder conspiracy with her students, has been bought by broadcasters throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

It stars Oscar and Golden Globe nominated actress Viola Davis who plays high-flying criminal law professor Annalise Keating, who finds herself entangled in the plot after a relationship with one of her students forces her to confront uncomfortable truths in her life.

The latest production from Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal cocreators Shonda Rhimes and Pete Nowalk, the show made its debut on ABC in the US. Disney Media Networks president of global distribution, Ben Pyne, said: “How To Get Away With Murder created such a buzz at this year’s LA Screenings that I’m sure the interest will continue from international buyers for their local audiences.”

How To Get Away With Murder is among a raft of shows on Disney’s MIPCOM slate, including family comedy Black-ish, and thriller mystery Secrets And Lies.

Gene Simmons: Rock Caesar

But Simmons is not looking for friends with this project. “This is where Rock Caesar — the powerful and attractive Gene Simmons — gets to be your worst nightmare, because he is going to tell you the god’s honest truth. But if you’ve got the goods I will be the god that will make your dreams come true, because I do have the power.”

But is this town big enough for Simmons and MIPCOM Personality Of The Year Simon Cowell? “Oh he’s great. You know who thinks he’s the best thing that ever walked the face of the planet? One Direction. You know who hates his guts? All the people who he told to go home and try another job. Welcome to life on planet earth.”

India’s take on What’s Trending CULTURE Machine, a next-generation digital video entertainment company, has announced a strategic tie-up with award-winning US-based network What’s Trending.

Culture Machine will work closely with What’s Trending to create exclusive content, featuring talents and brands across the Indian sub-continent, using its network of over 500 YouTube creators, brands, state-of-the-art production facilities and proprietary technol-

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ogy capabilities to grow the What’s Trending brand in the country.

“Culture Machine and What’s Trending both work with the core objective of creating entertaining, trending and shareable digital video content that reaches out to audiences at scale through powerful, creative and groundbreaking digital programming. This alliance is a perfect match,” Sameer Pitalwalla, CEO, Culture Machine, said.

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Flight 920 takes off in France for Armoza and QMI Content

MTG UK’s Jakob Mejihede

VIASAT REBRANDED IN MAKEOVER FOR MODERN TIMES MODERN Times Group, one of Europe’s largest media groups, has unveiled a new corporate identity at MIPCOM this week.

At the same time, it is changing the name of its broadcasting operation in London from Viasat Broadcasting UK to MTG UK. The move is significant for buyers because London-based MTG UK handles all of the group’s programme acquisitions, said MTG UK senior vice-president programming, entertainment and acquisitions, Jakob Mejlhede: “There has been a lot of internal discussion about the way different parts of the company are branded,” he said. “The Viasat name is primarily used as our DTH and pay-TV channel brand in Scandinavia, the Baltics and Eastern Europe whereas our UK business is acquiring content for a wide range of services across free, pay and OTT. So the brand MTG felt like a better fit.”

In terms of the kind of content MTG acquires, Mejlhede said it could be anything from high-volume slates to one-off quality dramas: “We are spending a lot more time looking at ambitious scripted series that we can become involved in as a co-producer.

That way we are able to control a piece of an original production.”

Collaborative effort: QMI Content’s Andre Provencher (left) with Armoza Formats’ Avi Armoza

HE DEVELOPMENT and distribution collaboration announced at MIPTV between Armoza Formats and Quebecor Media’s QMI Content has produced its first results in the form of four new formats. The titles, produced

by QMI in co-operation with its affiliated broadcaster TVA and distributed by Armoza Formats, are prime reality show Flight 920, entertainment series By Invitation Only, and award-winning dramas

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The Odds and The Godmother.

Avi Armoza, CEO of Armoza Formats, reports deals for two of the new launches, with ACE Entertainment France picking up The Godmother and FremantleMedia France’s acquiring Flight 920.

“We are thrilled with the early success of Flight 920, which was only launched last week,” he added.

FremantleMedia France CEO Monica Galer said Flight 920, which gives 20 singletons a oncein-a-lifetime chance to explore

nine exotic destinations, offered “meaningful values” such as adventure, feel-good and sharing.

“We definitely see its potential for the French market,” she said.

Andre Provencher, QMI’s vicepresident of creation and international development, added: “This new partnership with Armoza Formats is opening the door to the world for us. QMI and TVA are taking the lead in making French-Canadian TV content shine internationally.”

Nordic World formats head to Poland NORDIC World, the programmesales joint venture of leading Nordic broadcasters TV2 Norway and TV4 Sweden, has clinched its first deals from Poland via the recently launched CEE sales division based in Budapest.

The four formats sold include U-Turn, a factual-entertainment show produced by Doceye APS and licensed to Warsaw-based Hotpot Media.

Hotpot Media also snapped up two other Nordic World titles.

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show The Extreme Popish rights to The Phone, Up Challenge, another the Emmy Award-winDoceye format, and ning format from Dutch Craft Master, a competcompany Absolutely Initive reality-talent series dependent. made by Ireland-based Emese Acs, director Big Mountain Producof sales and acquisitions. For this, craft tions for CEE, CIS, apprentices, including the German-speaking milliners, furniture Nordic World’s territories, the Middle makers and jewellers Emese Acs East, Turkey and Asia, vie for the Craft Master crown. including China, said: “These Additionally, Warsaw-based deals underline the Polish mebranded-entertainment company dia industry’s flair for innovative Blue Angels has clinched the Pol- deal-making.”

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Gaumont sends spies into the cold in French-German co-pro Miaomiao (Brain Power Studio)

BRAIN BRINGS BOOKS TO TV BRAIN Power Studio has signed a co-production deal with Kids’ CBC to air its new animated app series Lazoo, based on the award-winning children’s book. With more than three million books sold worldwide and over one million app downloads, Lazoo will now become a pre-school series including a second-screen experience. Kim Wilson, creative head of children’s content at CBC, said: “Lazoo takes an original approach to problem-solving and incorporates multiple moments for personal expression for children.”

Brain Power has also acquired the worldwide distribution rights for Mark Animation’s dual-language series Miaomiao.

CORUS SNAPS UP BITE ON MONDO BLUE Ant Media and Mondo Media have closed a deal with Canada’s Corus Entertainment for animated comedy series Bite On Mondo. The show consists of comedy shorts from the Bite On Mondo project, in which Blue Ant, Mondo Media and YouTube partnered to discover, foster and produce breakout animation. Since launching, the initiative has received over 500 submissions. The programme uses YouTube to test the popularity of animated content and measure feedback. To date, Bite On Mondo has developed 25 original animated pilots, including World Doctors and Don’t Feed The Humans.

AU M O N T T V France is to co-produce Spy City (10 x 60 mins) with Odeon in Germany.

The English-language drama series, created and written by acclaimed novelist and screenwriter William Boyd (A Good Man In Africa; Restless) and directed by Pascal Chaumeil (A Long Way

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Down; Heartbreaker), is set in early Sixties Berlin. The action centres on the personal lives of the spies embroiled in the elaborate chess game of Cold War politics.

“Spy City is the perfect Englishlanguage project for us to produce in Europe,” said Christophe Riandee, vice-CEO of Gaumont, adding that the French production heavyweight aims to produce one

to two English-language European series a year. To this end, it has appointed ex-Liaison Films and Miramax executive Elizabeth Dreyer to oversee co-productions originating out of Europe.

“With Elizabeth on board, we will be able to focus on additional strong international projects financed and produced out of Europe,” Riandee added.

CANADIAN broadcaster ichannel has acquired B.Smart Productions’ first foray into educational programming — B.Smart (13 x 30 mins) — for a primetime slot. Billed as the place “where curriculum meets cool”, the series uses a mix of animation styles to introduce viewers to the fundamentals of science, technology, maths, social studies and the arts. “It takes the audience on a journey into the world of wonders,” said Victoria Fusca, vice-president of programme acquisitions for ichannel, which explores cultural, social and political issues through documentary and factual entertainment. Abigail Pinto Correia, B.Smart co-founder and series creative director — pictured here with creative director Boyan Stergulc — added: “ichannel is dedicated to intelligent television and our series’ aim is directly in line with that broadcasting philosophy.”

It’s murder for 3DD and Yesterday

Murder Maps London (3DD)

3DD HAS closed a second coproduction deal with Yesterday for The Murder Maps London, which looks at murders in the UK capital and the changes in the Metropolitan Police from 1929 to 1968.

The series has also been pre-sold to Foxtel in Australia. A DVD will be released by FremantleMedia in the UK, with more deals expected to be closed during MIPCOM. “Moving into factual/history has broadened 3DD’s production slate from its core output

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of live music and arts, cultural documentaries and series, and widened our global channel network,” said Dominic Saville, CEO of 3DD Group. “Our new historical war series about the Vietnam War, the Second World War and Hitler are always of interest to viewers.” He added that 3DD’s war series feature people who experienced the conflicts first hand, either as refugees fleeing Germany in the Thirties, soldiers involved in war trials, or correspondents on the ground in Vietnam in the Seventies.

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STAR Wars Rebels — brought to MIPCOM by The Walt Disney Company — continues the Star Wars saga with new action-packed adventures. It is a dark time in the galaxy, as the evil Galactic Empire tightens its grip of power from world to world. As the series begins, Imperial forces have occupied a remote planet, ruling with an iron fist and ruining the lives of its people. The clever and motley crew of the starship Ghost is among a select few who are brave enough to stand against the Empire. Together, this ragtag group face threatening new villains, encounter colourful adversaries and become heroes with the power to ignite a rebellion.

ON ISLAND Time (13 x 30 mins) is a documentary series looking at the people and cultures of island dwellers around the world, whether its fantasy-style tropical islands with white sandy beaches, coral reefs, nation states or even in the icy waters of the Arctic. The German company is offering versions of the series in Arabic, English and Spanish.

Star Wars Rebels (The Walt Disney Company)

On Island Time (DW Transtel)

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TRICON FILMS & TELEVISION

NEW SCRIPTED comedy Garfunkel And Oates (8 x 30 mins) stars comedy duo Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci as they try to make it big in Hollywood while navigating love, life and work with one satirical song after another. Brought to MIPCOM by Canada’s Tricon Films & Television, the series includes guest stars Sir Ben Kingsley, Steve Agee, Abby Elliott, Chris Hardwick, Anthony Jeselnik, Natasha Leggero, Tig Notaro, John Oates and Chris Parnell. Also on theTricon roster are: new series Human Resources (10 x 30 mins), a docu-comedy following the workers at a company whose mission is to eliminate the very idea of waste; Freestyle Love Supreme (10 x 30 mins), an improvised musical comedy show created by the rap group of the same name, that mixes improvised stage shows with impromptu sketches; Welcome To Fairfax (10 x 30 mins), which delves into the lives of ambitious young LA visionaries; HitRecord On TV! (season 2, 16 x 30 mins), a re-imagination of the variety show from director/creator/star Joseph Gordon-Levitt; topical daily 60-minute late-night show Take Part Live; Maron (season 2, 23 x 30 mins), featuring Marc Maron; and Bang! Bang! (season 3, 50 x 30 mins), with comedians Scott Aukerman and Reggie Watts.

FACTUAL series Everyday Miracles (2 x 60 mins) launches at MIPCOM. Scientist, writer and broadcaster Mark Miodownik reveals the stories behind objects of desire and the materials they’re made from. The UK distributor also launches a humorous drama series with a touch of the supernatural, The Gods Of Wheat Street (6 x 60 mins), about contemporary Aboriginal family, the Freeburns. Also on the slate are two new 1 x 90-minute crime dramas How To Murder Your Wife and Venus & Mars, and drama series The Code (6 x 60 mins).

Everyday Miracles (DCD Rights)

Garfunkel And Oates (Tricon Films & Television)

SPLASH ENTERTAINMENT

RECENTLY-launched Splash Entertainment brings new animation series G.U.N.K. Aliens (26 x 30 mins) to MIPCOM. Produced in partnership with Foothill Entertainment and based on the best-selling books from HarperCollins, the series features a group of pals and a robotic dog who work for a top secret (but wacky) organisation fighting a disgusting band of extraterrestrials committed to a toxic invasion of Earth.

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G.U.N.K. Aliens (Splash Entertainment)

PRODUCT NEWS CONTENT MEDIA

NEW 13 x one hour drama series, Olympus, is set in the ancient world of humans, Gods and monsters, and featuring characters from mythology. A blend of CGI and live action, Olympus tells the story of how a few brave men

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banished the Gods to the realm of the unconscious, a place they called the Underworld.

The series is produced by Reunion Pictures and Olympus TV in association with Great Point Media, and is brought to MIPCOM by Content Media.

CANTERLOT High is hosting a musical showcase and Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy are going to be performing with their new band, The Rainbooms. But when a new girl group, The Dazzlings, arrives at school, they convince everyone to turn the friendly showcase into a Battle of the Bands. So begins the story of My Little Pony Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks (1 x 72 mins), brought to MIPCOM by Hasbro Studios. As tensions mount a reformed Sunset Shimmer realises that The Dazzlings may be after something more sinister than being named Best Band.

PBS INTERNATIONAL’s new slate for MIPCOM includes: The Rise Of ISIS (1 x 53 mins), an investigation into the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS; Robin Williams Remembered (1 x 55 mins); Killer Landslides (1 x 53 mins), discovering how new satellite monitoring technologies work; Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story (1 x 120 mins), exploring how these covert commandos evolved in response to changing threats — from WWII to the war on terror; and The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (7 x 60 mins).

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THE PRODUCTION of a fifth season of Bikini Destinations, produced by Bennett Productions is under way, with two episodes ready and four others due to be shot throughout the South Pacific and

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Australia. This series, along with the 50 half hours currently in distribution, is brought to MIPCOM by the US’ BMW. Bennett and BMW are developing several other projects, including reality show Cash Bar.

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HORACI The Inuit premieres at MIPCOM courtesy of Spain’s Imagic TV. The pre-school series, set among the snowy environment of igloos and polar bears, is developed in traditional 2D animation, and combines some old techniques including hand-drawn backgrounds and some characters. Multiplatform brand extension is also planned. Horaci is a coproduction between Imagic TV and Televisio de Catalunya and will be available early next year.

FRENCH producer and distributor ZED is at MIPCOM seeking financing for Hitler’s Last Year, a primetime documentary produced by Cineteve for France 2.

With remastered and colourised archive footage, the film follows the last year of World War II from the D-Day landings to the surrender of the Third Reich.

The company is also bringing Narco Business Undercover, about the expansion of the illegal trade, and Cities Of Tomorrow, a new 3 x 52 mins HD series.

Horaci The Inuit (Imagic TV)

Cities Of Tomorrow (ZED)

My Little Pony Equestria Girls Rainbow Rocks (Hasbro Studios)

FLAME DISTRIBUTION

AUSTRALIAN distributor Flame returns to MIPCOM with over 600 hours of content, including: car restoration show Ultimate Wheels (8 x 60 mins), already secured by Discovery Asia, Multi Canal Iberia, TV3 Denmark, History Channel Germany, as well as Singapore Airlines and Garuda Indonesia Airlines. The company also brings Darren Robertson’s Charcoal Kitchen which was made for Australia’s LifeStyle Channel. It has sold to nc+ Poland, Chello Zone EMEA and Chello Multicanal Spain, Ananey Israel and Food TV NZ.

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DEVELOPED in partnership with TF1, The People’s Choice is a new format, brought to MIPCOM by Israel’s Armoza Formats, that uses social media to generate content. Trending or thought-provoking dilemmas, including ‘world peace or $1 million’ are posed, and once the nation has made its choice live, participants in the studio must guess what they chose. Armoza also brings primetime reality show Flight 920, which gives 20 singles a chance to discover nine exotic destinations. They earn their ticket to the next destination by location-based challenges.

The People’s Choice (Armoza Formats)

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TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION

EMPIRE (13 x 60 mins) is a powerful new drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne. Other programming on offer from Twentieth Century Fox Television includes: virus thriller The Strain (13 x 60 mins); Tyrant (10 x 60 mins), about an American family drawn into the workings of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation; dark relationship comedy You’re The Worst (10 x 30 mins); unorthodox medical drama Rush (10 x 60 mins); 17th century tale Salem (13 x 60 mins); and subversive and comic crime procedural Backstrom (13 x 60 mins).

NEW HIGHLIGHTS from Cohen include its featurelength documentary Magician: The Astonishing Life And Work Of Orson Welles, looking at the legacy of his work as an independent filmmaker and Hollywood star. The California-based company also brings two restored classic films: Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn, a crime adventure, restored in 4K, about a young woman who discovers her uncle’s inn houses shipwreckers; and Nurse Edith Cavell, newly restored in 2K, which tells the true story of the WW1 martyred nurse.

Magician: The Astonishing Life And Work Of Orson Welles (Cohen Media Group)

Empire (Twentieth Century Fox Distribution)

LIONSGATE TELEVISION INTERNATIONAL

SHINE INTERNATIONAL

ON THE drama roster for Shine at MIPCOM is Our Girl (pilot, 1 x 90 mins + 5 x 60 mins), about a young army medic on her first deployment against the backdrop of the British Army’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Other dramas include: Grantchester (6 x 60 mins), a story set in 1953 about a clergyman who turns investigative vicar when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances; Gracepoint (10 x 60 mins), a US murder mystery based on UK series Broadchurch; and psychological thriller Catching Milat (2 x 120 mins), set in Australia. The Island With Bear Grylls (5 x 60 mins) sees the survival expert drop 13 men on a remote island to see how they cope. Also on the menu are three series of MasterChef, and spin-off MasterChef Junior (US Our Girl (Shine International) working title).

A MIPCOM priority for Lionsgate is new series Ascension, written by executive producer and showrunner Philip Levens, about a covert 1960s US space mission that sent hundreds of men, women and children on a century-long voyage to populate a new world. As they approach the point of no return the murder of a young woman brings into question the true nature of their mission.

Ascension (Lionsgate Television International)

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IMIRA ENTERTAINMENT

LIVE-action Austrian series Tom Turbo (182 x 26 mins) heads up the MIPCOM slate for Spain’s Imira. Tom Turbo aired originally on ORF and Nickelodeon Germany. The title character is a talking bike who boasts one hundred and eleven skills.

Imira also holds global rights for Tom Turbo, The Movie (1 x 82 mins).

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PRODUCT NEWS AB INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION

BASED on the comic strip created by Charles M Schulz, Peanuts (500 x 1.30 mins + 104 x 7 mins), the series starring Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Woodstock, is brought to MIPCOM by France’s AB International, which holds worldwide home entertainment rights. Also on the MIPCOM slate is Research Unit (100 x 52 mins), a French drama about an elite criminal investigation unit.

SCRIPPS NETWORKS INTERNATIONAL

SCRIPPS introduces 1,200 hours of new content at MIPCOM. In the travel genre comes Monumental Mysteries (40 x 60 mins), in which Don Wildman explores America’s most extraordinary monuments; Hotel Amazon (6 x 60 mins), about building a worldclass resort in the Amazon; and Mega Mansions (6 x 30 mins). Another highlight is The Shatner Project (6 x 30 mins), which follows William Shatner as he gives his outdated home a full makeover. Also in the reality genre is Growing Up Gator (6 x 30 mins), about an alligator farm, and Salvage Dawgs (52 x 30 mins). From the food catalogue comes Bite This With Nadia G (14 x 30 mins), and Restaurant Redemption (26 x 30 mins), in which chef Ching-He Huang revitalises struggling Asian restaurants.

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BEYOND DISTRIBUTION

A DIVERSE range of factual titles from Beyond includes: Bogan Hunters (10 x 30 mins), a road trip to find Australia’s greatest bogan (a crude, uncultured person); Boy To Man (3 x 60 mins), about extreme coming-of-age rituals; Park Street (10 x 30 mins), exposing the world of women’s publishing; Life Flight (10 x 30 mins), following emergency air rescue crews; Prison Songs (1 x 60 mins), a documentary musical; and Zoo Revolution (1 x 60 mins), a debate about zoos in the 21st century.

Bogan Hunters (Beyond Distribution)

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Peanuts (AB International)

Monumental Mysteries (Scripps Networks International)

POWER

LONDON-based producer and distributor Power is highlighting new and returning wildlife series from NHU Africa. Returning for a fourth season, The Cheetah Diaries (season 1: 13 x 30 mins, season 2: 13 x 30 mins, season 3: 13 x 30 mins, season 4: 10 x 30 mins), follows an outreach programme. The Great Penguin Rescue (6 x 30 mins), hosted by Michaela Strachan, follows a conservation charity trying to save South Africa’s penguin population. The Kalahari Meerkats (12 x 30 mins) takes an intimate look at the Gosa gang, a group of rambunctious meerkats.

AMERICAN Spanish-language network Telemundo brings a slate of drama series to MIPCOM, including: Senora Acero, about a woman who builds a money-laundering empire not realising someone from her past is in pursuit; Los Miserables, inspired by the Victor Hugo novel, about a woman accused of a crime she did not commit persecuted by the man she loves; drug-dealing adventure El Senor De Los Cielos; and Reina De Corazones, a love affair set against the backdrop of gem trafficking. The Florida-based company also brings musical competition Yo Soy El Artista.

ENDEMOL

ENDEMOL is debuting a line-up of new formats at MIPCOM. Endemol UK’s The Singer Takes It All is a game show where viewers become judges using a real-time interactive app. Also from Endemol UK is Two Tribes, a quiz where contestants are split into tribes depending on what they have in common, and Stars At Your Service, in which the public can book celebrities online and request helpful or ridiculous tasks. From Endemol Germany comes Hard To Believe, where celebrities investigate true stories from contestants. Scripted formats include The Orpheus Project from Endemol Israel, and No Identity from Endemol Spain.

The Cheetah Diaries (Power) The Singer Takes It All (Endemol)

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PRODUCT NEWS FIRST HAND FILMS

FAITH Love Desire (3 x 52 mins), which looks at how religions in six countries seek to control people’s sex lives and to steer them into traditional channels, and 24 Hours Jerusalem (10 x 26 mins), a portrait of one day in the life of the city, are two series leading the factual slate from Switzerland’s First Hand Films. Single films offered include: 1989 (1 x 58/97 mins), a political drama about the collapse of the Iron Curtain; Five Days To Dance (1 x 55/79 mins), about two choreographers at a high school in Spain teaching teenagers to perform in dance theatre; and Almost Friends (1 x 58 mins), about two young girls, one Jewish and one IsraeliArab, who correspond online.

OVATION

US ARTS network Ovation’s original documentary series Young Marvels follows eight exceptionally gifted children who strive to become successful artists in dance, music or vocal performance, while preserving the semblance of a normal childhood.

The series, which makes its international debut at MIPCOM, was produced by Tremendous!

Entertainment, with Shine International as distributor.

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ITV STUDIOS GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT (ITVS GE)

HEADING the drama roster for ITVS GE are: Aquarius (13 x 60 mins), starring David Duchovny, about a 1960s policeman on the hunt for Charles Manson; Schitt’s Creek (13 x 30 mins), a single-camera comedy about a rich family forced to live in poverty; Poldark (8 x 60 mins), about a man who returns home from the American Revolutionary War to a country in the grip of recession; and Jordskott (10 x 60 mins), a Nordic mystery thriller. ITV Studios’ new game show formats include Quiz Duel in which a team of friends goes head-to-head against the nation, and The Line, in which contestants play games with the hosts to win prizes.

TOEI ANIMATION

JAPAN’s Toei, creator of Dragonball, Saint Seiya and Sailor Moon, is highlighting 56 new episodes of anime series One Piece, written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. The new series has recently been acquired by YEP! on ProSieben MAXX in Germany.

Faith Love Desire (First Hand Films)

PLATINUM FILMS

THE UK’s Platinum Films brings a new season of action-adventure series Matt Hatter Chronicles to MIPCOM, comprising 13 episodes, bringing the total to 52 x 22 mins. Due to air on CITV in the UK, the series was recently acquired by France’s Lagardere Active for kids’ channels Canal J and Gulli.

Young Marvels (Ovation)

SMALL WORLD IFT

FORMAT specialist Small World IFT’s Dr What: Diagnosis Unknown is a studio-based medical game show that sees four medical interns using their expertise and skills of observation to diagnose reallife conditions. The show was originally produced for Japan where five seasons have aired on NHK as Dr G’s Case Files, and recently launched on Zhejiang TV in China as Health 007.

Matt Hatter Chronicles (Platinum Films)

Dr What: Diagnosis Unkown (Small World IFT)

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One Piece (Toei Animation)

HAT TRICK INTERNATIONAL

AHEAD of its launch at MIPCOM, Hat Trick signed a pre-sale deal with Lifestyle in Australia for Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever, the new 6 x 30 mins series produced by Outline for BBC2, which sees the Michelin-starred chef producing versions of classic dishes. The series follows on from Tom Kerridge’s Proper Pub Food, which has also sold to Lifestyle in Australia as well as Cooking Channel in the US. The UK company also brings Great British Garden Revival (20 x 60 mins), a blend of social history and advice featuring the best of the UK’s gardening talent who are determined to preserve horticultural heritage.

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PRODUCT NEWS AUTENTIC DISTRIBUTION

AUTENTIC, the new joint venture of German documentary label Autentic and the WDR mediagroup, brings a range of history programming to MIPCOM, including: moving docudrama My Daughter Anne Frank (1 x 90 mins), a new angle on the story; and Vietnam - The World Won’t Forget (1 x 90 mins), a documentary from the perspective of those who experienced the conflict. Autentic also brings a new catalogue of 3D and 4K programming, including Fascinating India (1 x 45/90 mins).

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TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION

JAPAN’s Tohokushinsha Film Corporation brings Garo The Animation to MIPCOM. Garo was well-known as a live-action series that began in 2005 and now the producer has created an animated version with a screenplay by Yasuko Kobayashi and the voices of Daisuke Namikawa and Romi Park. The story concerns a young Makai Knight, seeking revenge for the death of his mother, who must battle demons disguised as humans and an exiled Prince trying to take back his kingdom.

My Daughter Anne Frank (Autentic Distribution)

THE KITCHEN

LANGUAGE translation, dubbing and subtitling services are offered to the international TV industry at MIPCOM by Miami-based The Kitchen. The company has just included five new dubbing suites in its Miami studios, bringing the total to 14, equipped with software developed by parent company TM Systems.

DHX MEDIA

DHX MEDIA brings Doodle Productions’ Messy Goes To Okido (52 x 11 mins) to MIPCOM. CBeebies is already on board to broadcast the animated educational series in 2015. The show is a mixture of live action with 3D and 2D animation and stars Messy, a little blue monster who wants to go to Okido, a magical land where his friends Zoe and Felix live. They have adventures helped by scientists, Zim, Zam and Zoom who have a huge laboratory where they can make a rocket to go to the moon or a voice-changing machine.

Messy Goes To Okido (DHX Media)

Garo The Animation (Tohokushinsha Film Corporation)

BLUE BOX ENTERTAINMENT

BEACTIVE

PORTUGAL’s beActive presents Machinima Storyteller at MIPCOM, its new platform for real-time 3D animation production. Machinima Storyteller is a platform that allows filmmakers to create high-end 3D CGI animated content. By using a video-game 3D engine to generate real-time animated sequences, this platform employs creates a professional-standard TV and digital content.

BREAKTHROUGH ENTERTAINMENT

BLUE Box is launching 13 new formats with an interactive element at MIPCOM, including: Urban XXX, a reality show about the latest generation of street sports; Freehand Drawing, a 30-minute talent show for cartoonists and sketchers; Put Your Mask On, a cosplay (character costume) talent show: tatoo show On My Skin; talent shows Dance School and Rap Rush; and endurance format The Soul. The Italian company also brings documentary The State Of Insanity, and two new shows born of a partnership between Triangle and Fidogroup, interactive game show Face To Face and dating show Now Or Never.

CANADA’s Breakthrough Entertainment has teamed up with Nickelodeon and Canadian network YTV for a live-action buddy-comedy series Max & Shred. The half-hour sitcom is currently filming 26 episodes in Toronto, Canada. The series chronicles the unlikely friendship between Max Asher (Jonny Gray), a celebrity snowboarder, and Alvin “Shred” Ackerman (Jake Goodman), a science whiz-kid, who become roommates when Max moves to Colorado to train for the Winter Cup. The Soul (Blue Box Entertainment)

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PRODUCT NEWS FREMANTLEMEDIA

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HEAVEN Or Hell is a new primetime game-show format (60 mins weekly/120 mins) brought to MIPCOM by FremantleMedia. Contestants try to win up to €50,000 by correctly answering a series of multiple choice questions and climbing the money ladder. If they’re unsure of an answer but still want to play on they must descend into a fiery pit where they have to successfully complete a Jackass-style challenge. Devised by FremantleMedia-owned UFA Productions, the format recently launched on ProSieben.

US kids producer Little Airplane Productions has teamed up with Chinese production partner UYoung to create a new animation property for older preschoolers, P.King Duckling (52 x11 mins). Little Airplane’s previous co-production in Asia was Super Wings!, a US/South Korea/China co-production produced by FunnyFlux Entertainment, QianQi Animation and Little Airplane.

P.King Duckling (Little Airplane Productions)

BIC FORMATS

ORLANDO-based new production company Bic Formats is highlighting controversial game-show format The Godfather at MIPCOM. Inspired by Mafia tactics, contestants have to pay protection money to The Godfather at the end of each round, so as not to run the risk of being eliminated. The company also brings another game show, Just One Letter, in which each answer is the same as the previous one except for a single letter.

Heaven Or Hell (FremantleMedia)

BIG COAT PRODUCTIONS

TORONTO-based Big Coat Productions brings long-running home design/renovation reality series Love It Or List It to MIPCOM. The series features a home designer and a real estate expert as they battle it out to convince homeowners to renovate their home based on a new design, or opt to put their home up for sale. The show is in its 10th season on HGTV in the US and sixth season on the W Network in Canada.

ZODIAK KIDS

ON THE MIPCOM slate for Zodiak Kids are: the fourth series of Novel Entertainment’s Horrid Henry (52 x 11 mins), recently acquired by Cartoon Network APAC; Marathon Media’s LoliRock (52 x 26 mins), a series featuring magic, mystery and music, developed in partnership with France Televisions and Disney Channel (France), and set to premiere on France 3; and new show Zack & Quack (52 x 11 mins), a 3D pre-school series that made its international debut at MIPCOM last year and launched on Nickelodeon US in January.

TELEVISA

TELEVISA has strengthened its roster of entertainment formats with new projects showcased at MIPCOM. Stand Up For Your Country is a talent show that puts the spotlight on internet stars, where couples made up of parents and their kids get the chance to show their talent on TV, judged by the audience. In Los Gonzalez an unemployed man realises that if he and his family play pranks on people it’s not only funny, but can also become a business.

The Mexican company also brings Little Giants, a talent show involving teams of kids four to 12, mentored by celebrities.

Horrid Henry (Zodiak Kids)

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PRODUCT NEWS BLUE ANT INTERNATIONAL

NEW NATURE and wildlife content at MIPCOM from Toronto-based Blue Ant International includes: Nomads Of The Serengeti (5 x 60 mins/4K); Ol Pejeta Diaries (1 x 60 mins/4K); Dino Hunt (4 x 60 mins/HD); Volcanic Odysseys (4 x 30 mins/HD, complete season 8 x 30 mins); and Cosmic Vistas (6 x 30 mins/HD, complete season 30 x 30 mins). HD factual and reality highlights for MIPCOM include: Backyard Bounty (13 x 60 mins); Paranormal Survivor (10 x 60 mins); Cabin Truckers (13 x 30 mins); Different Drummer: Celebrating Eccentrics (1 x 52 mins); and Cosmetics Coming Clean (1 x 60 mins).

SONY PICTURES TELEVISION

ON THE MIPCOM slate for Sony comes: Outlander (29 x 60 mins), the story of a woman caught in a love triangle when she is transported from the 1940s back to Scotland in 1743; Battle Creek (13 x 60 mins), about an unlikely partnership between a detective and a big-city FBI agent; Powers (10 x 60 mins), a super-human drama from PlayStation; comedy series Marry Me (13 x 30 mins); 60-minute game-show format Release The Hounds; and entrepreneur pitching show Dragons’ Den.

EARTHTREE MEDIA

NORWAY’s Earthtree Media — which debuted in Cannes at MIPTV — has branched out from liveaction content into animation with Learn To Draw Minis (104 x 1 min), an interstitials series featuring animated versions of cartoon drawings. The series has already sold to TVO and Knowledge Network in Canada, PopTV in the UK, NRK in Norway and SVT in Sweden. Earthtree’s live-action shows include Lean To Draw and Box Yourself.

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THE JIM HENSON COMPANY

THE JIM Henson Company unveils a new live-action pre-school series, Hi Opie! (13 x 30 mins/39 x 7 mins) at MIPCOM. Produced in association with marblemedia, it is also available as a format. Hi Opie! was developed with TVO and produced in partnership with TVO, City Saskatchewan (Rogers Broadcasting Limited) and Knowledge Network.

Puppet Opie and his real classmates play and learn life lessons in kindergarten. Henson holds television, DVD, digital distribution and format rights (other than Canada, France and Australia, which are handled by Distribution360, as well as consumer products rights worldwide.

Learn To Draw Minis (Earthtree Media)

ZIG ZAG PRODUCTIONS

TWO FORMATS top the MIPCOM priorities for the UK’s Zig Zag. In Hush, a co-production with Tuvalu, celebrities are dropped into a remote location to live together for 48 hours in complete silence.

The second format blends fixed-rig cameras with retrospective interviews to explore the lives of people living in high-rise apartments. Shot over one year, the docu-soap covers everything from teenage angst to neighbourhood rows, love complications and issues of unemployment, crime and poverty.

Hi Opie! (The Jim Henson Company)

GLOBO TV INTERNATIONAL

ONE OF this year’s most successful productions for Brazil’s Globo is Caribbean Flower, a telenovela which tells the story of love and adventure between an Air Force squadron pilot Cassiano (Henri Castelli) and tour guide Ester (Grazi Massafera). Their relationship suffers a blow when a false friend manages to get his rival out of the way and realise his secret dream, to marry Ester.

Hush (Zig Zag Productions)

JETPACK DISTRIBUTION

JETPACK Distribution, the sales outfit created by Samka Productions, Nerd Corps Entertainment and Gardiner Entertainment, is at MIPCOM with the TV and licensing rights in Central Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Guru Studio’s pre-school show, Justin Time (52 x 11 mins). A third series is in development about Justin and his friends travelling through time.

Caribbean Flower (Globo TV International)

Release The Hounds (Sony Pictures Television)

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PRODUCT NEWS SABAN BRANDS

SABAN Brands, which has recently launched a distribution division, highlights a range of programming at MIPCOM, including: new animation based on a 1980s series and toy line, Popples, due to be a Netflix Original Series; multiplatform property Emojiville, in partnership with Jakks Pacific; the next series of a franchise currently in its 21st season, Power Rangers Dino Charge, debuting early next year on Nickeodeon in the US; pre-school animation Julius Jr.; and anime series Digimon Fusion. Saban is also highlighting a new project in development with Cirque du Soleil Media, a pre-school property inspired by Cirque du Soleil shows, including web and interactive content, live shows and merchandise.

ENTERTAINMENT ONE (EONE)

CUPCAKE (& Dinosaur (52 x 11 mins), produced by eOne and Birdo Studio and due for delivery in 2016, is an animation series aimed at seven- to 12-yearolds. The show features two brothers, Cupcake, the serious older one and the simpler Dinosaur, who devise their own money-making business — Cupcake and Dinosaur: General Services.

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ATTRACTION DISTRIBUTION

ULTIMATE Pet Lover is an entertainment series about people with an extraordinary passion for unusual pets, brought to MIPCOM by Attraction Distribution. The Montreal-based company also brings The Parents, a comedy sketch series that aired in France and Germany and has been adapted as a format in Greece, Israel, Poland, Spain and Russia.

From the producer of singing format Family Harmony comes Music To My Ears, and Attraction also offers a family film catalogue, a Czech comedy stop-motion series and a slate of European crime series.

Cupcake & Dinosaur (eOne)

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Popples (Saban Brands)

VICTORY ARTS

CANADIAN producer Victory Arts is launching preschool series Air Crafters (52 x 11 mins), currently in development for TVO, at MIPCOM. The flying adventures start with Jane, Johnny and their talented friends when they open their craft packs and with creative problem-solving skills they collaborate to find the best solution that solves each dilemma with style. Each one of the Air Crafters has a different creative talent, and Crafty, their supply robot is always ready to cut, paste and present each little masterpiece.

Air Crafters (Victory Arts)

THE MIPCOM kids portfolio for ZDFE includes animation series H2O Mermaid Adventures (52 x 24 mins), based on the original live-action series H2O Just Add Water. Also available is Marcus Level (52 x 13 mins), in which a boy gets drawn into his favorite video game, and Skinner Boys (26 x 24 mins), about guardians of objects that possess incredible powers. On the drama slate are: The Team (8 x 60 mins/4 x 115 mins), about an international police unit; Tellus (6 x 50 mins), about eco-crime fighters; and the second season of The Fall (6 x 60 mins/3 x 90 mins). Factual titles include: Apocalypse Neanderthal (1 x 90 mins/2 x 50 mins); Last Secrets Of The Third Reich, season 2 (5 x 50 mins); and The Ascent Of Civilization (3 x 50 mins). ZDFE also offers quiz format Quiz Champion (1 x 150 mins).

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Ultimate Pet Lover (Attraction Distribution)

NBCUNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION

TWO TITLES top the NBCUniversal slate for MIPCOM. State Of Affairs (13 x 60 mins) is a drama series that revolves around a key CIA analyst (Katherine Heigl) who works with the president on the most pressing global and national matters.

Odyssey (13 x 60 mins) is a thriller centered on three families whose lives are torn apart when a stranded female soldier, a disillusioned corporate attorney and a disrespected political activist are pulled into an international military conspiracy.

State Of Affairs (NBCUniversal International Television Distribution)

PRODUCT NEWS GRB ENTERTAINMENT

THE ZANY relationship of a ‘love-sick’ married couple is at the centre of For Better Or Worse (100 x 30 mins), brought to MIPCOM by GRB Entertainment.

The new Tyler Perry scripted series, produced in the US for TBS and OWN, is based on the

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ORANGE ANIMATION

characters created for Perry’s film Why Did I Get Married?. The action turns on the tumultuous relationship of sports commentator Marcus and his outspoken wife Angela, who is intent on giving him hell at every possible opportunity.

POLAND’s Orange Animation is highlighting preschool educational entertainment series Mr. Toti (13 x 8 mins) at MIPCOM, and the company is looking for co-producers for two further series of the show.

Orange, part of the Polish pavilion in Cannes, also brings other series to MIPCOM, including: Antje (26 x 13 mins), Janosik (14 x 6.5 mins), Little King Macius (52 x 12 mins/feature film), Pirates Family (40 x 26 mins), Papa Loewe (26 x 13 mins), Dog’s Life (26 x 26 mins) and Tigerentenbande (26 x 13 mins) ORF ENTERPRISE

HISTORIC drama documentary Maximilian – Dreams Of Power tells the story of this Habsburg prince who as Emperor of Mexico was determined to prove himself an enlightened and progressive monarch, unaware that he was being manipulated by France’s Napoleon III in order to further colonial ambitions. Powerless in the face of the popular support enjoyed by his Mexican revolutionary adversary Benito Juarez, he was defeated in battle and put on trial, Shot with his last two loyal generals, the scene of his execution was immortalised in a painting by Edouard Manet. Filmed on location in Mexico, Vienna and Trieste, the programme is a coproduction between Austria’s ORF and Interspot Film, and Mexico’s TV UNAM and OPMA, and is brought to MIPCOM by ORF Enterprise.

For Better Or Worse (GRB Entertainment)

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HIGH POINT

LONDON-based High Point is launching three series through its kids label, Junior. The Mad Cows (15 x 12 mins) follows the comic adventures of a group of cattle after a bolt of lightning gives them special powers. Preschool series Behind The Couch (13 x 4 mins) features lovable dog Scamp, whose dreams take him to a fantastical world.

Shudan is a 3D series featuring super heroes who transform into animals from the Chinese zodiac.

The Mad Cows (High Point)

BRISTOW GLOBAL MEDIA (BGM)

A MIPCOM focus for Canada’a Bristow Global Media is a new series — as yet untitled — following the wives and girlfriends of some professional hockey players over the course of an NHL season, which has been greenlit for Corus Entertainment’s W Network. The 8 x 10 mins series is anticipated to air in February 2015. This series follows on the success of BGM’s debut production, the multiplatform series NHL Revealed: A Season Like No Other.

IGMAR

RUSSIA’s Igmar brings a new film to MIPCOM. Well Packed follows four characters on their way to the airport, a trip that turns into an exciting adventure for all of them. Also on the slate is family film Schoolboy Mom’s Diary, about how life changes when a young boy begins first grade; and teentargeted film The Secret Of Dark Room, about two boys who explore a window that mysteriously appears in the wall of their house.

Well Packed (Igmar)

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PRODUCT NEWS BBC WORLDWIDE

BBC WORLDWIDE brings 12 new dramas and eight new returning series to MIPCOM. Paranormal thriller Intruders (8 x 43 mins) is about a secret society devoted to the search for immortality, starring Mira Sorvino and John Simm. Our Zoo (6 x 50 mins) is based on the true story of the Mottershead family who, despite staunch opposition, founded a zoo in the 1930s. The Refugees (8 x 50 mins) is a thriller exploring the impact of a disaster on a rural community, and The Passing Bells (5 x 30 mins/4 x 45 mins/2 x 90 mins) is a World War One drama.

Returning series from the UK distibutor include Doctor Who (series 8), Atlantis (series 2), Call The Midwife (series 4), Last Tango In Halifax (series 3), Ripper Street (series 3) and New Tricks (series 11).

Intruders (BBC Worldwide)

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INDIACAST

MULTIPLATFORM company IndiaCast, jointly owned by TV18 and Viacom18, brings a range of its programming to MIPCOM, including: Shastri Sisters (150 x 30 mins), the story of four sisters who relocate from the small town of Kanpur for a city life in Delhi; Beintehaa’(150 x 30 mins), about a young woman who uses her love and family values to turn her husband Zain from a wayward man into a responsible and mature person; and romantic saga Meri Aashiqui..Tum Se Hi’ (150 x 30 mins).

JAPAN’s Nippon Television Network Corporation (Nippon TV) brings two new formats to MIPCOM. The One(s) I Loved (11 x 60 mins/120 mins), reunites celebrities with past relationships, sometimes first loves; and Would You Pay?! (7 x 120 mins), a quiz show where guests determine if anyone would buy over-priced or unusual products sold in unexpected stores. The company also brings new animated series Parasyte – The Maxim (24 x 30 mins) and Laughing Under The Clouds (12 x 30 mins); and two new drama series ST MPD Scientific Investigation Squad (10 x 60 mins) and The Files Of Young Kindaichi Neo (8 x 60/1 x 120 mins).

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BARCELONA-based distributor GoldBee brings animation Chop Chop Ninja Challenge (40 x 1.5 mins) to MIPCOM. Based on a game franchise, the slapstick series features four ninjas who take on challenges. A full series (52 x 11 mins) and two specials (2 x 44 mins) are in development. GoldBee holds rights excluding Iberia and Latin America.

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BRAZIL’s Medialand brings 320 hours of Brazilian programming to MIPCOM, including: reality series Police Operation (88 x 47 mins); reality game show Los Hermanos Lost In Brazil (12 x 26 mins); Official Jersey (5 x 5 mins), about football supporters; Brazil CookBook (24 x 25 mins); horror/thriller drama series Way Beyond Fear (6 seasons/4 x 30 mins, 20 x 45 mins); police drama Elite Police Force (24 x 45 mins); documentary series Criminal Investigation (30 x 47 mins); Medical Specials (1 x 42 mins/8 x 22 mins); reality series Guardian Angels (16 x 41 mins); and comedy series The Bitters (13 x 26 mins).

DETECTIVE series Border (9 x 60 mins), from author Kazuki Kaneshiro, stars police detective Ango Ishikawa, played by Shun Oguri, who has the ability to speak to the dead. The meaning of justice is an issue that torments Ishikawa throughout the series, and in the finale, he faces the ultimate barrier between justice and evil.

Police Operation (Medialand)

Border (TV Asahi)

Chop Chop Ninja Challenge (GoldBee)

EXERO FILMS

NEW FORMAT, Kiss Of Art, which aims to demystify the international art business, is brought to MIPCOM by Germany’s Exero Films.

The irreverent format sees six featured objects, along with four submitted through the website, put to a panel of judges.

Negotiations continue at MIPCOM with fellow producers from Australia, Germany and the UK for the planned debut of the show in 2015.

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PRODUCT NEWS MARVISTA ENTERTAINMENT

DISNEY Channel’s original movie, Zapped, is a MIPCOM priority for MarVista Entertainment. The story follows 16-year-old Zoey who finds that her smartphone dog training app begins to somehow control the boys around her. Los Angeles-based MarVista is also highlighting The Brittany Murphy Story, the biopic of the tragically short life of actress Brittany Murphy, from her early stardom, through the years when Hollywood turned its back, and culminating with her death at 32.

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BANIJAY INTERNATIONAL

LONDON-based distributor Banijay International launches entertainment format BFF at MIPCOM. Jointly created by Nordisk Film TV, Carlsberg and TV 2 Zulu, BFF sees a group of friends who are given tasks in the belief that they have to rescue another close friend, not realising that they are being secretly filmed. After proving their friendship the joke is revealed, and they are rewarded with a group trip.

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PROPER RIGHTS STUDIO 100 MEDIA

REJUVINATED series The Wonderful Adventures Of Nils (52 x 13 mins) is brought to MIPCOM by Munich-based Studio 100 Media. The original series aired on NHK in 1980. Produced by Studio 100 Animation in Paris, the CGI animated series features Nils who is miniaturised by an elf. Now able to talk to animals he embarks on a journey with wild geese.

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CANADA’s Proper Rights brings four new series to MIPCOM. Don’t Drive Here (season 2, 6 x 60 mins) follows host Andrew Younghusband as he navigates six of the world’s worst cities or driving. Handyman Showdown (working title/9 x 60 mins) features home renovating couples competing for a cash prize. Yukon For Sale (working title/13 x 30 mins) introduces a pair of buyers on the hunt for the perfect frontier home.

Tiny: A Story About Living Small (1 x 60 mins) follows one couple’s attempt to build a tiny house from scratch.

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PRODUCED by Rays Of Sunshine, Majorca Is Not Magalluf! (1 x 55 mins/ HD) is brought to MIPCOM by Spain’s Comercial TV. Available in the English original version and with Spanish subtitles, the documentary is hosted by producer Amanda Jeffrey who was born in Majorca and is keen to counter the negative publicity around tourists involved in bingedrinking, sexual promiscuity and serious accidents. She analyses this phenomenon and talks with with those affected, but also shows the beautiful places to see in Majorca.

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NOTTINGHAM FOREST

SENDOKAI Champions has sold to more than 130 countries worldwide and is co-produced with Kotoc, TVE and Planeta Junior. At MIPCOM 52 episodes are completed, and Spain’s Nottingham Forest is looking for partners to help develop new series and a film based on Sendokai Champions next year.

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WHAT’s Cookin’? (26 x 26 mins/HD) is a food and travel series exploring the kitchens of local families in Europe, looking at regional specialties and visiting markets, cheese dairies, wine cellars, farmers, shepherds and craftsmen.

ORF ENTERPRISE

WINTER/Christmas special Forest Of Fantasies follows a deer through one year in an enchanting landscape, in which she brings up her fawn, prepares the kid for surviving the bitter cold winter and finally leads it into adulthood.

When winter arrives, right before Christmas, the hardest time in the year begins. Other MIPCOM highlights for Austria’s ORF Enterprise include a touching portrait of a young stallion in Africa’s Wild West and wildlife documentary Lionsrock Return Of The King.

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PRODUCT NEWS PEACE POINT RIGHTS

ESCAPE Or Die! (12 x 30 mins) features Dean Gunnarson, hailed by Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! as the world’s most daring escape artist, performing to audiences around the world. The documentary looks behind the bright lights of the stage and roaring crowds, and into Dean’s life as he prepares nail-biting lifethreatening escapes across the US, Canada, Europe, South America and Asia.

Escape Or Die! (Peace Point Rights)

PEACOCK ALLEY

CANADA’s Peacock Alley is launching the second series of the faux reality series, Unusually Thicke (28 x 30 mins) at MIPCOM, starring comedic best-selling author Alan Thicke. The series puts the spotlight on a real-life modern family; Alan, his much-younger wife Tanya and his opinionated teenage son Carter. In this season it’s Carter’s last year at home, Dad’s on tour with a dance show, and Tanya has motherhood in mind. The first season featured appearances from celebrity friends including Minnie Driver, David Hasselhoff, Bob Saget, Wayne Gretzky, John Stamos, Bill Maher and Alan’s son Robin Thicke. Also launching is Illusions Of Grandeur (12 x 30 mins) starring Zack Mirza, a young street magician who travels across North America exploring each city’s magic past, taking what he learns and turning it into a neverbefore-seen stunt.

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MEDIA service company Arkena was created earlier this year out of CognacqJay Image, PSN, Qbrick and SmartJog. The company manages linear and ondemand workflows for 1,500 customers including broadcasters, telecom operators, VOD platforms and content owners in eight European countries as well as the US. TELEWIZJA POLSKA (TVP)

TVP BRINGS a selection of Polish programming to MIPCOM. Two fast-paced movies on the slate are: Secret Wars, about secret service agents who operate in the dangerous zone where crime, politics, business and media meet; and The Photographer, a disturbing thriller about a serial killer and the police officers who chase him. In contrast comes legal comedy series I’ll Be Fine.

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MONDAY 13 OCTOBER CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTES 11.30-12.00 I Grand Auditorium, Palais 1

FRESH TV FROM MEXICO

STEVE MOSKO, President, SONY PICTURES TELEVISION

9.30-10.00 I Auditorium A, Palais 3 Presenter Virginia Mouseler, CEO, The Wit, Switzerland

Interviewed by Matthew Garrahan, Global Media Editor, Financial Times, UK

MEXICO COUNTRY OF HONOUR

MEXICO MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT LANDSCAPE 10.10-10.40 I Auditorium A, Palais 3 Presenter Sahar Baghery, Head of International TV Formats & Contents, Eurodata TV Worldwide, France

12.10-12.40 I Grand Auditorium, Palais 1

YNON KREIZ, CEO, MAKER STUDIOS Interviewed by Matthew Garrahan, Global Media Editor, Financial Times, UK

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10.50-11.20 I Auditorium A, Palais 3

FRESH TV

Speakers Emilio Azcarraga Jean, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Grupo Televisa, Mexico

13.00-14.00 I Grand Auditorium & Balcony, Palais 1 Presenter Virginia Mouseler, CEO, The Wit, Switzerland Emilio Azcarraga Jean

Jose Antonio Bastón Patiño, President of Content and Television, Grupo Televisa, Mexico Chair Anna Carugati, Group Editorial Director, World Screen, USA

GLOBAL CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION DAY Jose Antonio Bastón Patiño

INTERNATIONAL DRAMA SCREENING

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9.30-11.00 I Auditorium K, Palais 4 Sonia Mehandjiyska, Head of International Distribution, Electric Entertainment, USA Rebecca Romijn, cast member

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GLOBAL CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION: MARKET OVERVIEW 9.15-9.30 I Esterel, Palais 5 Presenter Sahar Baghery, Head of International TV Formats & Contents, Eurodata TV Worldwide, France

WHAT DO PLATFORMS WANT? 9.30-10.10 I Esterel, Palais 5 Speakers Addy Awofisayo, Director, Content, Continental Satellite, Nigeria Basar Basarir, Chief Content Officer, D-Smart, Turkey Jeanne Croiger, VP marketing TV & Video, Orange, France Dr. Sven Weißenfels, Senior Expert Content Partnering, Deutsche Telekom, Germany Dr. Sven Photo by Scott Patrick Green ™ & © 2014 Turner Entertainment Networks, Inc. A Time Warner Company.

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Weißenfels Moderator Paula Souloumiac, Consultant, Media & Telecom, France

OFFICIAL CONFERENCE & SCREENINGS GLOBAL CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION DAY

GLOBAL CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION DAY

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CABLE VS. OTT: GETTING PAST ‘FRENEMIES’

CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION: A LOOK AT ASIA

10.15-10.45 I Esterel, Palais 5

15.15-16.00 I Californie, Palais 5

Speakers Taahir Hoorzook, Manager Digital Distribution, Al Jazeera Media Network, Qatar Daniel Nordberg, Head of Content Acquisition, Taahir Hoorzook Opera Software, Norway Michael Turner, EVP Content and New Markets, Magine TV, Sweden

Speakers MeeFung LEE, Asia Representative, Deutsche Welle / Managing Director, PIK film, Malaysia Win Naing, Executive Director, SkyNet, Myanmar Moderator Simon Spanswick, Chief Executive, Association for International Broadcasting, UK

Moderator Stella Medlicott, Chief Marketing Officer, Red Bee Media, UK

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP EVENTS

DRIVING THE QUEST FOR THE AUDIENCE: CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS

WOMEN IN GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT POWER LUNCH

10.50-11.30 I Esterel, Palais 5

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Speakers Mo Abudu, Executive Chairman & CEO, EbonyLife TV, Nigeria Adam Freeman, Managing Director EMEA, Bloomberg Media, UK Dean Possenniskie, Managing Director, EMEA, A+E Networks, UK Adam Freeman Jon Sichel, Managing Director, UK & EMEA, Scripps Networks International, UK Moderator Nicolas Gorse, CEO, GORSE & Co, France

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By invitation Panel speakers Mo Abudu, Executive Chairman & CEO, EbonyLife TV, Nigeria

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Jana Bennett, President, FYI and LMN, A&E Networks, USA

GLOBAL CHANNEL DISTRIBUTION DAY NETWORKING SNACK LUNCH 12.30-13.30 I Californie, Palais 5

Erin McPherson, Chief Content Officer, Maker Studios, USA

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Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks, and President, Disney/ABC Television Group, USA Anne Sweeney

Moderator Stacey Wilson, Senior Editor, The Hollywood Reporter, USA

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THE CHANNEL SHOW & TELL: INNOVATION FROM AROUND THE WORLD 14.15-15.00 I Californie, Palais 5 Speakers Richard Burrell, Director of European Market Development, QVC, UK Will Johnston, Founder § Managing Director, DanceTrippin.tv, The Netherlands Gilad Neumann, CEO, DOGTV, USA Derk Nijssen, CEO, Xite TV, The Netherlands Paolo Roatta, CEO & Founder, ARKIMEDIA iLIKE.TV, Italy Benjamin Vincent, Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, OUATCH TV, France Benjamin Vincent

Moderator Paula Souloumiac, Consultant, Media & Telecom, France

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MONDAY 13 OCTOBER OFFICIAL CONFERENCE & SCREENINGS TV X TWITTER: WHERE THE AUDIENCE COMES TO LIFE 15.00-16.00 I Auditorium A, Palais 3

WHAT DO BUYERS WANT IN 4K? 14.00-14.55 I Sony 4K Theatre, Auditorium I, Palais 4 Speakers Gary Davey, EVP Programming, Sky Deutschland, Germany Bernhard Hafenscher, Head of Commercial Distribution, ed Bull Media House, Austria Eric Scherer, Director of Future Media, France Télévisions, France Ruth Sessions, Director of Operations, Atlantic Productions, UK Chair Chris Forrester, Journalist & Industry Consultant, UK

DELIVERING THE LAST MILE IN 4K 15.05-16.00 I Sony 4K Theatre, Auditorium I, Palais 4 Speakers Michel Chabrol, Director Marketing Innovation and Digital Cinema, Eutelsat, France Maryline Clare-Charrier, 4EVER Project Leader, Orange Labs, France Simon Fell, Director of Technology & Innovation, European Broadcasting Union, Switzerland Will Law, Chief Architect, Media Division, Akamai, USA Victor Lemos, Executive Producer, Trator Filmes, Brazil Chair Chris Forrester, Journalist & Industry Consultant, UK

Speaker Fred Graver, Creative Lead, Twitter TV, Twitter, France Joined by the worldwide Twitter TV team.

MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTE INTERVIEW 16.10-16.50 I Grand Auditorium, Palais 1

JAMES MURDOCH, Co-Chief Operating Officer, 21ST CENTURY FOX Interviewed by David Rowan, Editor-in-chief, WIRED Magazine

James Murdoch

MIPCOM PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR KEYNOTE 17.00-17.40 I Grand Auditorium, Palais 1

SIMON COWELL, Entertainment Creative Icon Interviewed by Piers Morgan, Television Personality Simon Cowell

CONTENT SHOWCASE

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MIPCOM WORLD PREMIERE TV SCREENING

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THE BOOK OF NEGROES

Auditorium K, Palais 4

18.00-19.45 I Grand Auditorium, Palais 1

FILM & TV CROSSROADS

DRIVING ORIGINAL CONTENT CREATION: THE INTERVIEW SERIES 14.30-16.00 I Esterel, Palais 5 Featuring 14.30-15.00 Katie O’Connell, CEO, Gaumont International Television, USA 15.00-15.20 Sharon Tal Yguado, EVP Scripted Programming and Original Development, Fox International Channels, USA Sharon Tal Yguado

15.20-15.50 Edouard de Vésinne, Co-President / Executive Producer, EuropaCorp Television, France Moderator Stewart Clarke, Editorial Director, TBI Magazine, UK

A Q&A with the cast and the Director Clement Virgo will follow the screening, Lawrence Hill will be the moderator.

4K ULTRA HD SCREENINGS & SESSIONS Sony 4K Theatre (Audi I) - Palais 4

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Monday 13 October Sky Deutschland, Red Bull Media House, France Télévisions, Atlantic Productions 14.00 - 14.55: What do buyers want in 4k?

Eutelsat, Orange Labs, European Broadcasting Union, Akamai, Trator Filmes 15.05 - 16.00: Delivering the last mile in 4k

Tuesday 14 October Atlantic Productions 9.45 - 10.15: Wild Flight BBC Natural History Unit 10.30 - 11.10: One Planet France Televisions 11.30 - 12.15: Experimenting 4K NHK 14.00 - 14.45: International Space Station Cugate 15.15 - 16.00: Europe’s concert halls

Wednesday 15 October NexTV Forum 10.00 - 10.45: The very best of 4K Red Bull Media House 11.15 - 12.00: Investing in 4K DBW Communication, RAI Com SpA 14.00 - 14.45: Breathtaking showcase Kropac Media 15.15 - 16.00: A 4K Feast Trator Filmes 16.15 - 17.00: The World Cup in 4K

Thursday 16 October 10.00 - 15.00: The very best in 4K content

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Mystery and sensation from Fuji ATF STALWART Fuji TV has helped lead Japan into the international arena with its fresh and original formats and series. This year at the ATF the company will be focusing on Mysterious Summer, an original series of 15 stand-alone episodes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is the ďŹ rst time that a Japanese TV station has co-developed a drama series with a Chinese internet distribution company, in this case iQIYI,â&#x20AC;? says Fuji TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general producer So Fujinuma. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Distribution is not only in China and the US, but will also be across Europe and Asia.â&#x20AC;?

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Africa on a winning streak The growth of digital terrestrial and internet penetration, the uptick in the sales of TV sets, mobile devices and smartphones, and the rapid rise of social media is focusing the global industry’s attention on Africa’s potential. Juliana Koranteng reports

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once saw Africa as a potential risk have spent 2014 considering the continent’s long-term potential.

Duncan Irvine, CEO at Johannesburgbased distribution group Rapid Blue, explains why his company chases after African rights to global format hits such as Dragons’ Den, The X Factor and Dancing With The Stars. “We are seeing the big global broadcasters dedicating teams, feeds and budgets just to Africa and investing in local production,” he says. “In terms of distributors, they all have at least one person with an African portfolio and, over the last year or two, quite a few have been spending more time in Africa, not just in South Africa.”

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Two major international media groups — Lionsgate and Vice Media — have reportedly made strategic decisions to do business in Africa.

According to Dean Possenniskie, managing director of EMEA for US-headquartered A+E Networks, the company recently launched the women-focused global network Lifetime on the satellite-delivered MultiChoice DStv platform in South Africa. Lifetime is also available in Portuguese for Angola and North Africa. In addition, A+E’s international channels History and Crime & Investigation are available across Africa via MultiChoice.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the past two years, we have built relationships with local [South African] production companies, who are bringing ideas to us,â&#x20AC;? Possenniskie says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our plan is to commission locally for Lifetime.â&#x20AC;?

He reports that the rivalry from other international media groups for African eyeballs is intensifying: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing a lot more competition and, to maintain the sucFHVV ZH¡YH KDG VR IDU ZH DUH SODQQLQJ D ORFDO RIĂ&#x20AC;FH sometime this calendar year to have local people and executives on the ground.â&#x20AC;?

ROOM TO GROW OF AFRICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total 1.1 billion population, the Sub-Saharan section accounts for about 800 million. Sixty per cent of the total populace is under 30 years old. The United Nations predicts the continentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s populace could grow to 1.5 billion by 2050. The region is among the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fastest growing for TV and screen-communication devices. Most ďŹ gures indicate access to TV, as well as other on-screen entertainment, is starting from a small base. But that only proves there is plenty of room for growth.

local talent and young people with established brands such as MTV Africa Music Awards, held in South Africa this year; the Choose Or Lose TV debates, which bring together local and international politicians and young studio audiences; and the Comedy Central Roast, which was recently held for controversial South African comedian/entrepreneur Kenny Kunene.

Then there is VIMNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shuga soap opera with its safesex message, which used to be set in Kenya and starred Lupita Nyongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;o before she won WKLV \HDU¡V 2VFDU IRU IHDWXUH Ă&#x20AC;OP 12 Years A Slave. Shugaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current season three is set in Nigeria.

Alessandro Tucci, Fox International Channels (FIC) Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior vice-president and general manager, says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We began H[SDQGLQJ RXU ORFDO RIĂ&#x20AC;FH WKUHH years ago to directly oversee programming, marketing, on-air and sales opportunities. This will enable us to create localised original content, schedules and marketing elements that appeal to our viewers.â&#x20AC;?

FIC reaches Sub-Saharan audiences in Nigeria via TV platform Montage, East Africa via azamTV and Mauritius Telecom, and Angola via DStv. For pan-regional transmission, it uses new satellite operator StarSat (which replaced the now defunct TopTV).

Furthermore, it took over Setanta Africa Services last year to launch two new regional Fox Sports channels in August.

Another player on the continent is FremantleMedia International, which has hooked up with Syco Entertainment and Tanzaniabased Clouds Media International (with its Abu-Dhabi subsidiary Status Communications) to produce three series of Kenyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Got Talent, based on Sycoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit format.

Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Africa has been courting the continent since 2005 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and its gamble is now paying Duncan Irvine off. Alex Okosi, VIMN Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior vice-president and managing director, says that, by the end RI LWV FXUUHQW Ă&#x20AC;QDQFLDO \HDU HQGLQJ 6HSWHPEHU the company will be operating nine channels. These include MTV Base, the youth-focused music channel, kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; network Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have addressed our commitment to local content and production,â&#x20AC;? Okosi says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It means we are one of the platforms brand-owners come to for bespoke content.â&#x20AC;?

VIMN Africa has used its TV platforms to empower There are other Africa-dedicated international inves-

We are seeing the big global broadcasters dedicating teams, feeds and budgets just to Africa

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tors. Sweden-based MTG (Modern Times Group), which already operates Viasat1 in Ghana, is paying $55m for a 75% stake in Trace, the French youth-lifestyle TV network that has a presence in 55 African countries. Meanwhile, Canal+ Afrique, a pay-TV subsidiary of French media conglomerate Vivendi, is in 30-plus African markets and is a major investor in Africanmade movies. And Chinabased StarTimes Media has Bernard Azria agreed to spend about $80m on building Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest media hub near Nairobi. This will include its African headquarters, StarTimes Ken\D¡V RIĂ&#x20AC;FH D SURGXFWLRQ DQG GXEELQJ FHQWUH D WUDLQLQJ centre, and a research-and-development division.

Such feverish activity is yielding dividends, according to Patrick Jucaud-Zuchowicki, CEO at Basic Lead.

Jucaud-Zuchowicki says that these days the international industry has â&#x20AC;&#x153;a much better understandingâ&#x20AC;? of Africa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a major Latin American company that had the impression African broadcasters had the re-

sources to dub the thousands of hours of telenovelas sold.

They soon learned that, unless they dubbed the shows beforehand, they would not sell.â&#x20AC;?

He adds that international and African content-sellers are generating income after several years of false starts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After starting from a low point, they now see Africa as a market where they can grow revenues,â&#x20AC;? he says.

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EbonyLife TV distributes â&#x20AC;&#x153;100% original and homegrown African contentâ&#x20AC;?, says Abudu, who is also the presenter of the internationally syndicated Moments With Mo chat show and is hailed as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Africaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Oprah Winfreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The channel is available in several African markets via the DStv satellite platform, and is also on the UK pay-TV platform TalkTalk Plus. It is also working with Disney Media Distribution to produce Desperate Housewives Africa, based on the original Hollywood series. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With over 200 million Africans in the diaspora, out RI ZKLFK RQH LQ Ă&#x20AC;YH LV 1LJHULDQ ZH DUH DJJUHVVLYHO\ pushing to increase EbonyLifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s viewership in key continents,â&#x20AC;? Abudu says.

Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) is organising the Nigerian Pavilion for the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s content-sellers at MIPCOM. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the past, it has always been about us coming to MIPCOM to buy content,â&#x20AC;? says Emeka Mba, NBCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director general. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But this year we are repositioning for other countries to come and buy Nigerian content.â&#x20AC;?

He adds that Nigerian content-sellers and buyers are

seeking business opportunities to ensure they are ready for June 2015 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the International Telecommunication Unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deadline for global digital-broadcast switchover. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come 2015, the conversation about content will increase,â&#x20AC;? he adds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;MIPCOM will give Nigerian practitioners the opportunity to learn how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done all over the world to enter into co-production partnerships and attract investors.â&#x20AC;?

Major players in other parts of Africa include Zuku, which is investing in original content to make its brand stand out. New Zuku-commissioned shows include the Swahili magazine Bongo Wood Access, the kids programme The Krazy Kool Show and Scrum Down, which covers Kenyan and international sports events.

Furthermore, season renewals have come for popular Zuku-funded shows with international followings, such as cookery series Tales From The Bush Larder and musical show Groove Theory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;African producers are changing the way they produce content,â&#x20AC;? says Catherine Njari, Zukuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of television. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is interest in African content so the content they produce must be exportable.â&#x20AC;?

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BILLIONAIRESâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; CLUB AS POTENTIAL investors in their own region, the number of African billionaires grew to 27 last year from 16 in 2012 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and only two in 2003. The current crop of tycoons is led by Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aliko Dangote. Others in Sub-Saharan Africa include Kenyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Vimal Shah, Tanzaniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rostam Azizi, South African media mogul Koos Bekker, Nigeriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Folorunsho Alakija and Angolaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Isabel dos Santos.

AFRICA BY NUMBERS â&#x20AC;˘ TV homes (Africa): 132.4 million by end 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Pay-TV subscribers (sub-Sahara): 11.01 million in 2013 and expected to grow to 25.65 million by 2020 â&#x20AC;˘ Pay-TV revenues (sub-Sahara): $3.17bn in 2013 and expected to grow to $5.35bn by 2020 â&#x20AC;˘ Digital-TV penetration (Sub-Sahara): 57.1% by the end of 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Internet (Africa): 241 million internet users at the beginning of this year, representing 16% of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population â&#x20AC;˘ Mobile phones (subSahara): 635 million subscriptions by the end of 2014 and expected to grow to 930 million by the start of 2020 â&#x20AC;˘ Smartphone connections (Africa): 83 million at start 2014 (We Are Social); 300 million by 2017 (Informa Telecoms & Media) â&#x20AC;˘ Social media (Facebook): 100 million active monthly users, with 80% connecting via mobile devices in 2014

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Azria, Cote Ouestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CEO. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we look at the African audiovisual industry, we see there is a new trend in production, as is illustrated by the dynamism of the South African, Nigerian, Ghanaian and Kenyan industries. With more than 1,000 different cultures and lanJXDJHV ZKHQ LW FRPHV WR Ă&#x20AC;OP $IULFDQ EHKDYLRXU FDQ be drastically different from one country to another.â&#x20AC;?

In an effort to help overcome the barriers caused by cultural differences, Cote Ouest is ramping up its dubbing expertise. The company has dubbed Windeck, an Emmy-nominated Angolan telenovela, into French and English. Also on its books are Pokou, Princess Ashanti from Abidjan-based 2D/3D animation specialist Afrikatoon, and Adamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Apples from Ghanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sparrow Productions. /RFDO LQGHSHQGHQW SURGXFHUV DUH DOVR EHQHĂ&#x20AC;WLQJ IURP the new regional wave. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We recently completed the Ă&#x20AC;UVW VHDVRQ RI WKH 79 VHULHV 6$) E\ %D\ZDWFK FUHator Gregory J Bonann), which was shot entirely in South Africa,â&#x20AC;? says Cape Town-based Irfaan Fredericks, Kalahari Picturesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; head of production. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was GHOLYHUHG LQWHUQDWLRQDOO\ IURP 6RXWK $IULFD Âł D Ă&#x20AC;UVW for the country â&#x20AC;&#x201D; proving we can complete post and deliver on an international series.â&#x20AC;?

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LATAM AT A GLANCE ACCORDING to PwC, television subscription revenues in Latin America will increase from $16.9bn in 2013 to $23.6bn in 2018, representing a 6.9% compound annual growth rate (CAGR). The total number of subscription-TV households in Latin America will grow at a CAGR of 6.3%, increasing from 55 million at the end of 2013 to 74.6 million by 2018.

The leading technology is about to change, with satellite overtaking cable during 2015. Cable TV accounted for 27.7 million households in 2013, but growth of just 2.1% means that this total will only increase to 30.8 million by the end of 2018.

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Cablevision/Multicanal has more than half of all multichannel subscribers, but there are two other big cable operators (Supercanal and Telecentro) and about another 700 small operators.

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FEATURE BRAZIL: SATELLITE ON THE UP BRAZIL, the richest country in Latin America, has a competitive subscription-TV sector with pay-TV penetration at only 27.8% in 2013 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a level set to rise to 35.1% by the end of 2018.

According to PwC, some 17.9 million Brazilian homes took pay TV in 2013, with roughly half taking services from the Telmex-backed providers Net Servicos (cable) and Via Embratel (satellite). Growth will be primarily in the satellite sector, which will account for 20.7% of TV households in 2018 compared with 16.5% in 2013. Considerable growth in revenues is expected as pay-TV penetration rises, along with increasing value-added services and triple-play bundles. Revenues will grow at 7.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), reaching $9.31bn in 2018.

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