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HEIRS Of The Night had its MIPJunior World Premiere TV Screening last night. It was attended by Arne Lohmann of distributor ZDFE; Sandra Le Blanc-Marissal, commissioning editor, NDR; series director Diederik Van Rooijen; and Fleur Winters, co-CEO and producer, Lemming Film.

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series is set at the close of the 19th century when the last five vampire clans in Europe are facing extinction. If vampires are to survive, five of their young people must forget their centuries-old feuds and unite to combat Dracula and the terrifying Redmasks, and the vampire hunter Van Helsing. The five heirs train together, learning to trust each other and battle the forces of evil.

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The team is led by 14-year-old Alisa von Vamalia (Anastasia Martin) who has a particular vulnerability through her connection with Dracula himself.

“Heirs Of The Night combines coming-of-age, mystery and adventure in an addictive way,” said ZDFE.Junior vice-president Arne Lohmann. “I am sure children all over the world will fall for our vampire kids, just as we have.”

This is one of the biggest Dutch drama series ever made. Written

by Swedish screenwriter Maria von Heland and directed by Diederik van Rooijen (Penoza, Daylight, Taped), the series is based on the successful German books Die Erben der Nacht.

Heirs Of The Night is produced by Lemming Film (the Netherlands) in co-production with Maze Pictures and Hamster Film (Germany), and Maipo Film (Norway) for NDR and KiKA. Actors from eight countries star the series and the production language is English.

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor in Chief Julian Newby Deputy Editor Debbie Lincoln Reporters Stuart Braun, Ben Cooper, Andy Fry, Juliana Koranteng, Isobel Lee, Max Leonard, Rachel Murrell, Gary Smith, Joanna Stephens Sub Editors Neil Churchman, Sarah Kovandzich, Nigel Willmott Editorial Management Boutique Editions Head of Graphic Studio Herve Traisnel Graphic Designers Muriel Betrancourt, Gaelle Daireaux, Véronique Duthille, Carole Peres Head of Photographers Yann Coatsaliou / 360 Media Photographers Christian Alminana, Patrick Frega, Phyrass Haidar, Michel Johner.

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SMALL INDIES PAN FOR GOLD FROM THE STREAMERS “SOME people say this is boom time for kids producers,” veteran animation producer Larry Schwarz, CEO of Larry Schwarz and His Band, told an interactive session, Staying Competitive In The Gold Rush Boom, where small producers discussed working with the streamers.

“But there seems to be an increasing trend towards known brands, reboots and big-name talent,” Schwarz added.

Djukic Mladen of Bosnia’s Aeon Production felt local voices were suffering. “I know the big broadcasters need to promote stories universally, but the essence of diversity is difference,” he said. “One model doesn’t fit all.”

Another producer commented: “There’s so much content out there, it’s dizzying. And however stand-out your content is, you’re up against the commissioners’ tried and trusted suppliers.”

But small indies are innovators, building relationships with those suppliers and using guerilla marketing, book publishing and Kickstarter to catch the broadcasters’ eye.

Punarau Media’s Kristin Ross, producer of pre-school Maori-language series Pipi Ma, had a more radical approach.

“TVNZ rejected our show three times,” Ross said. “So we took a risk. We sent the character designs to China and ordered 4,000 Maori-speaking dolls. We sold out within 24 hours. So we went back to the broadcaster and said ‘There’s your proof of concept!’” New Zealand broadcaster TVNZ took the show and Pipi Ma is now in its third season.

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Russian animators have ‘amazing projects’ to offer, session hears EVGENIA Markova, industry liaison director at Expocontent, introduced animation projects from established companies and new faces at the Made In Russia: The Next Animation Boom screening session. “If you’re looking for new amazing projects, we won’t disappoint,” she said.

Projects highlighted included Masterfilm Studio’s The Farm:

Why Do Zombie Veggies Hunt My Uncle?, a story about a 10-year-old boy who finds himself in an alternate reality.

Gama Film Studio, producer of Masha And The Bear, presented a project called Fairy-teens, which is in development and will air in Russia in the third quarter of this year.

Crabots, from Airplane Inc, producer of The Fixies, intro-

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duced little crab robots to teach kids science. Airplane also announced an 85-minute Fixies Vs Crabots animated film.

Space Port from Parovoz Animation was a comedy-adventure aimed at nine- to 12-year-olds about a boy, an alien and a robot in an intergalactic spaceport; and AA Studio brought two 3D-animated projects: The Princess And The Dragon, about a princess and a magic book, and The Mystery Of Haunster, about friends who travel into a different dimension Riki Group, meanwhile, brought The Kameleons, in partnership with Tremblay Bros, a character-driven comedy for six- to 11-year-olds about a wacky chameleon band who pursue stardom. Red Carpet Studio’s pre-school Blinky & Knobby featured two crash-landed aliens having short-form adventures on earth.

Russia is one of MIPCOM 2019’s Countries Of Focus.

Croatia’s Recircle wins kids pitch LITTLE Who Who, a 2D-animated pre-school show from Croatia’s Recircle, has won the MIPJunior Project Pitch.

It explores the world through the eyes of a curious little owl called Who Who, who lives at a railway station with his mother.

In each episode a passenger arrives and teaches Who Who and his friends something about life.

The judges praised the gentle camaraderie of the clip. “It has the perfect combination of design and story,” judge Nina Hahn of Nickelodeon said.

“Little Who Who started as an interactive story book for little kids,” director and producer Vjeko Zivkovic, said. “Kids loved the characters and designs.

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The other nominees were: the education-focused GoGo Bus & Team Steam from China’s Winsing Animation; the absurdist Quirkistador: Book Of Tales, about hapless explorers, from Oscar-winning director Laurent Witz of Zeilt Productions (Luxembourg); Spookies, about a fearful ghost who helps pre-school viewers through new challenges, from Germany’s Wolkenlenker; and The Curious World Of Linda, about an imaginative girl and her best friend Louie the dog, from Taktoon Enterprise (Korea).

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NOW TRENDING FOR KIDS: DIVERSITY AND DETECTIVE DUOS “DIVERSITY is a continuing theme this year,” said Avril Blondelot, head of content insight at the newly launched Global Audience and Content Evolution (Glance) — formerly Eurodata TV Worldwide. “Nickelodeon’s The Casagrandes is about a Latin American family with a Down’s Syndrome character, and Australian television movie First Day — about a trans teen navigating school — is soon to be a TV series.”

Blondelot identified several of the key trends in children’s programming this year.

Comedy investigation duos are hot in animation, as seen in Grosha And Mr B from Teletoon. With four investigators, Mama K’s Team 4 from Triggerfish — Netflix’s first animation pick from Africa — doubles the fun.

“Puppets are making a comeback,” said Blondelot. “In Teddy Telephone Show, the toys phone their child owners for help on emotional issues.”

And teen presenters are big in formats such as Giulia Sa and FYI – For Your Information.

Live-action series include Dream from Palladium Fiction in Sweden, in which the teen protagonists see themselves as adults, and have to act to avert disaster.

And Canada’s Avec Moi is a 10-minute web series about being a teen online.

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Awards for creative thinking and the quest for perfection “WE HAD a meeting when people wanted to jump out of the window,” said Iginio Straffi, founder and CEO of Rainbow.

“I had just told my team Winx wasn’t working and we had to start again. It was a difficult moment, but I am convinced the show’s success came from that meeting.”

This relentless pursuit of perfection saw Straffi given a World Screen Trendsetter Award for his contributions to children’s media.

Also awarded was Bronagh

O’Hanlon, series director/creator of Brown Bag, whose talent is turning technical constraints into advantages. “On Sadie we had a mix of 2D and 3D, which was hard on the production pipeline. But then we started to think creatively around that,” she said.

“In movies, people say success is about the script,” said Marc du Pontavice, CEO of Xilam, makers of hundreds of hours of animation, including Oggy And The Cockroaches. “But in animation it’s about character. Characters

have to be relatable, inspiring and unique.”

“It has to be unique,” agreed Rajiv Chilaka, founder and managing director of Green Gold Animation. “Our kids’ show Mighty Little Bheam is a 3D non-dialogue series about a character from the Mahabarata.” The show is Netflix’s first kids’ animation from India.

The Trendsetter Awards were presented by Ana Carugati of World Screen and Lucy Smith of Reed MIDEM.

Ana Carugati (left), Rajiv Chilaka, Mark du Pontavice, Bronagh O’Hanlon, Iginio Straffi, and Lucy Smith

Fantastic flaws of DC’s supergirls “DC SUPER HERO Girls is about balancing life as a superhero with teenage life,” said series creator Lauren Faust of her new show. “The typical superhero show is about the good guys and bad guys. We started with teen coming of age stories and put a superhero spin on it.”

Having teenage female superheroes doesn’t mean the action is watered down. “Some of the fights are very strong,” Faust said. “In one episode Supergirl is knocked across the floor and has a huge shiner for the rest of the

episode. A lot of girls shows think girls can’t handle that. But it’s more rewarding to watch a show if the heroes nearly lose.”

“Too often shows for girls are soft and nice, and concerned about their feelings all the time,” Faust said. “Our show has a different tone. We make sure it’s cool, cute and comedic but our girls have flaws and mess up.”

There’s a female sensibility behind the screen too. “We have a lot of women working on this show,” Faust added. “They don’t have to guess how girls feel. They know.”

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WOODGATE OPENS DOORS TO THE ‘MIDDLE KINGDOM’ WHAT kind of world do kids in the ‘Middle Kingdom’ — six- to 10-year-olds — live in? One in which media is present in every part of life and TVs are ubiquitous. But, said Adam Woodgate of kids research agency Dubit, “for today’s kids, the rite of passage isn’t getting a TV, it’s getting their first smartphone.”

He added, however, that linear viewing still predominates — though its timeshare is declining, and YouTube content is crossing over to the TV screen.

In many European markets linear TV viewing was strongest in the morning, where it can help set a schedule and time-crunched kids don’t have time to choose content.

Six- to 10-year-olds are more likely to balance their animation intake with live action than pre-schoolers, and the number of generalist — not specifically made for kids — shows they watch is extensive.

“They’re getting more adventurous and migrating to content that makes them feel grown-up, but not too edgy,” Woodgate said. He added that there was an opportunity for programmers to adapt generalist shows in popular areas such as wildlife for younger brains, or to make kids versions of popular formats.

Global theme travels well for Mayo’s adventure in science HOW DOES a UK-based kids book trilogy translate to a live-action series set in Western Australia? Easily, if the themes are right, said the participants in the Co-Productions: Going Global & The Generation Alpha Audience panel.

Simon Mayo’s Itch books, about a boy who finds a powerful rock and hunts down all the elements from the periodic table while evading evil forces, were initially written solely for his science-mad son. However, in today’s climate their environmental awareness attracted wider interest. “They’re about young people working out what to do with the resources the earth has given us,” Mayo said.

Production company Komixx Entertainment, which has of-

Simon Mayo: “a timeless story”

fices in London and Perth, proposed moving the story to Western Australia, where, like the original location, Cornwall,

there are stunning coastlines and remote mining communities. Screen Australia, which has around AUS$7m annually to contribute to kids productions, supported the project, which also benefited from regional incentives.

Speaking to MIPCOM News after the panel, Mayo said: “It’s a timeless story, but with the contemporary spin — concern about resources and power, distrust of authority — it becomes much more powerful.”

The environment is “a soft theme in the series, which is an adrenaline-fuelled adventure,” added Melanie Halsall, Komixx writer and producer. “But these ideas are so important today, and our kids are way ahead of us. They want these stories.”

African producers on a learning curve “WE HAVE lots of talent in the Ivory Coast, but we need funding and partners to help create more opportunities at home,” said Simon Adae, CEO and founder of Arobase Studio, at Saturday’s session, Global Hotspot: Producers To Watch From Africa. His show Kassa The Messenger aired on TV5Monde last year; a second season is in development.

Mbuotidem Johnson, founder of Nigeria’s Basement Anima-

tion Studio, agreed. “We’re a new company and we welcome the chance to learn from international partners.” Basement is developing two slapstick comedies for six- to 11-year-olds, Adefellas and Tech Timi Out. At the other end of the scale is the mighty Triggerfish — now boasting 170 artists — which counts Stick Man, Oscar-nominated Revolting Rhymes and feature film Khumo among its credits. Its new show Mama K’s

Team 4 is the first original African animated series to be picked up by Netflix.

“We set up our Story Lab programme to find and nurture writers, directors and animators, and provide professional opportunities to keep them on the continent,” said producer Vanessa Ann Sinden. “We help African creators to pitch projects internationally, including to Disney Junior and Netflix, and the writers retain ownership of their IP.”

Arobase Studio’s Simon Adae

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Basement’s Mbuotidem Johnson

Dubit’s Adam Woodgate

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NEW STREAMING SERVICES IN THE SPOTLIGHT CHILDREN’S TV is enjoying what Genevieve Dexter of Serious Lunch Distribution and Eye Present Productions described as a “bonanza”, thanks to the proliferation of streaming services. Her fellow panellist at the MIPJunior Keynote Superpanel, Josh Scherba of WildBrain, agreed: “There are more resources, more opportunities for making more content. I think the industry is healthier than it’s ever been.”

However, Dexter warned that after the bounty, business terms might become less favourable and questioned the streamers’ desire to recommission a property after the initial series order. “They need new content to drive subscriptions. It’s yet to be proven that they’re in for the long term in kids,” she said.

Andy Heyward of Genius Brands International said that shows need to be on streamers to make headway in L&M and other areas. But there is a vicious circle: properties without existing brand recognition find it difficult to make waves and establish themselves in the crowded landscape. “The market is so fragmented and cannibalised, it’s hard for one service to get a big audience,” he said.

Serious Lunch Distribution and Eye Present Productions’ Genevieve Dexter

Genius and Youku take Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten to China GENIUS Brands International has formed a strategic co-production partnership with Youku, the video streaming platform of Alibaba Group, to co-produce the new children’s animated series, Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“This marks the first time we’ve done a co-production with China,” said Andy Heyward, chairman & CEO of Genius Brands. “We’ve started on the pilot script and designed characters with input from Alibaba.”

Genius Brands and Youku will co-produce the 52 x 11 mins episodes of the comedy action-adventure series, which will be available to Chinese audiences on Youku.

“When selecting shows for children today in China, the educational aspect, the quality and who’s making it is very important,” said Aaron Liao, general manager of Youku Kids.

Heyward added: “Apart from being the iconic action hero that he is, Schwarzenegger is devoted to the health, wellbeing and future prospects of kids. This is an incredibly positive series which encourages kids to take

care of themselves and be a part of positive values.”

Genius Brands said it was also in active discussions with potential US partners and had been debuting the series to international buyers at MIPJunior.

Jon Ollwerther (left), VP business development, Genius Brands International; Caroline Tyre, SVP international distribution & head of Genius Brands Network; Andy Heyward, chairman & CEO of Genius Brands; Aaron Liao, general manager Youku Kids; Yuanchang (Amanda) Sun, director of international business, Youku Kids

SeaBelievers seeks out eco partners US PRODUCTION company SeaBelievers is in Cannes seeking broadcast partners for its ecotainment series of the same name.

“We’re not just looking for partners,” said SeaBelievers founder Brien Arone. “We want active players who will really embrace the idea of saving the environment.”

Arone is working with Korea’s Ocon Inc (Dibo, Pororo), writer/ director Mike de Seve (Madagascar) and composer Rich Dickerson (Scooby-Doo).

SeaBelievers (52 x 11 mins) is a CGI animation featuring a human girl who goes underwater with the magical SeaBelievers to bring environmental issues alive for four- to seven-year-olds. The pilot will be complete by the end of 2019. Pro-

duction begins in early 2020 and the show will be delivered at the end of the year.

SeaBelievers sponsored Saturday night’s opening party to welcome MIPJunior delegates.

Ocon Inc’s Sandy J (left) with SeaBelievers’ Brien Arono

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KIDS TV CHANNELS DIVERSIFY TO STAY IN THE GAME BIG LINEAR players on the View From The Top: Rewriting The Rules Of The Game panel spoke about navigating the disruption brought by changing formats and changing platforms.

“We’re living in a world of trying to acquire audiences and retain them,” said Adina Pitt of Cartoon Network, adding that her company had a twin focus on understanding its audience and upholding its brand values.

Tiphaine De Raguenel of France Televisions talked about the disappearance of France 4, and the upcoming launch of Okoo, the new dedicated kids’ streaming platform: “We will diversify into live action and unscripted,” she said. “We have to keep a strong link with older kids.”

Jules Borkent of Nickelodeon hailed the ongoing success of Nick’s offering on Viacom’s Pluto AVOD platform.

“Whether it’s an animation from India or a comedy from the UK, we’re looking to increase our variety,” he said.

Rai, meanwhile, was starting to commission directly to RaiPlay. “The real jump is when you invest the same budget for series only on the VOD platform,” the company’s Luca Milano said.

Cartoon Network’s Adina Pitt

Pikwik Pack presents new kind of role model for pre-schoolers “OUR new show Pikwik Pack models a different kind of leadership for children,” said Frank Falcone, president of Toronto-based producer-distributor Guru Studio. “The typical kids’ hero stands with their hands on their hips and orders people around. But Suki is quiet. She shows kids they can be a leader by supporting others rather than having to be first all the time.”

Falcone was speaking at the world premiere of pre-school show Pikwik Pack (52 x 11 mins) at MIPJunior. The series launches on Disney Junior in 2020 in the US, India, Korea, Australia and New Zealand, and on Treehouse in Canada, and Falcone is here to sell it elsewhere.

As with Guru’s other shows (Justin Time, True And The Rainbow Kingdom and Paw Patrol, which it animated), Falcone

approaches Pikwik Pack as a brand. He’s leveraging partnerships with Scholastic Publishing, Playmates Toys and broadcasters to offer kids multiple touchpoints. But times are changing.

“Channels are good at helping

a show to grow, but the streamers have a take-it-or-leave-it approach,” he said. “With True And The Rainbow Kingdom, which is a Netflix Original, we’re working with them to build out a brand strategy.”

Guru Studio’s Frank Falcone: “streamers have a take-it-or-leave-it approach”

All The Kids and El Canonazo get social ALL THE Kids Entertainment and El Canonazo Transmedia have formed a strategic partnership to create transmedia formats for children and youth audiences.

The move brings together All The Kids’ experience in creating TV content for children and youth audiences with El Canonazo’s digital storytelling expertise, allowing both of the Madrid-based companies to diversify their businesses and expand into a largely unexplored area of the formats market.

The first project to emerge from the alliance is Time To Face (13 x 30 mins), a comedy based on the influence of social networks on our lives and the gap between real-world and online relationships. To be produced

by Onza Producciones, the format reflects the partners’ aim of creating entertainment that con-

nects with young people on the platforms they inhabit.

“The new audiences demand new ways of narrating in line with new media,” said El Canonazo CEO Roger Casas-Alatriste.

Joana Carrion, CEO of All The Kids, said: “El Canonazo’s knowledge both in the area of content and in the management of the transmedia element of properties means that together

we can offer unique IP to the market, adapted for new audiences.”

Cristian Liarte, El Canonazo’s director of operations and new business, added: “We want to take advantage of the opportunity to offer new platforms better family content that allows families to share moments of consumption on the first and second screens.”

Partners in transmedia: All The Kids Entertainment’s Pablo Vinuales (left) and Joana Carrion with El Canonazo Transmedia’s Roger Casas-Alatriste and Cristian Liarte

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BES ANIMATION HAS PURRFECT NEWS FOR KITTY IS NOT A CAT BES ANIMATION is at MIPCOM to announce the commissioning by the Seven Network of season three of children’s comedy series Kitty Is Not A Cat. BES aims to further grow the series into a global property in Cannes, with UK-based Jetpack Distribution having already sold seasons one and two to 90-plus territories including Disney across Europe, D’Agostini Editore in Italy, TVNZ, VTM Kids Junior in Belgium and Clan TVE in Spain.

Season three will go into production in late 2019, while a book series with Hachette Publishing is slated for release early in the new year.

“We set out to create a gentle comedy that deconstructed the way kids are expected to behave and the conventions we consider to be normal human behaviour,” co-creator and director BES Animation, Bruce Kane, said.

“This wonderful series resonates with children and adults alike,” Niki Hamilton, executive producer, Seven Network, added.

TV Asahi and Turner team up for superhero dog’s spin-off series FANS of 1990s manga franchise Crayon Shin-chan have a new cartoon to watch with their kids thanks to TV Asahi and Turner’s Cartoon Network Asia Pacific.

Super Shiro is a 48 x 5.5 mins series for four- to eight-year-olds that follows the adventures of Crayon Shin-chan’s dog Shiro. It is the first such collaboration between the two companies and is made by Science Saru, the production company of master animation director Masaaki Yuasa.

“I started thinking about how we could revitalise the franchise,” said TV Asahi’s international business department head of animation Takahiro Kishimoto. “I looked at Tom & Jerry’s longevity and high repeat value and it got me thinking: what if we create a spin-off in a chase/ comedy style, starring Shiro?”

“We’ve always wanted to work on a closer collaboration with TV Asahi,” said Leslie Lee, Turner’s vice-president, kids, in Asia Pacific. “The project was a close collaboration with

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the parties involved.”

Super Shiro airs in Japan and China this week, and will hit Cartoon Network Asia Pacific in Q1 2020, on linear and digital platforms. The partners are looking to capitalise on the in-

ternational brand recognition of Crayon Shin-chan as a springboard to European sales. “We’re also open to exploring collaboration with licensing, merchandise and gaming companies,” Kishimoto said.

IN A distribution deal handled by Go-N International, Riki Group’s pre-school animation series Tina & Tony, produced by Petersburg Animation Studio, has been sold to Francophone territories. Sealing the deal in Cannes were: Riki Group’s Valeria Korotina (left); France Televisions’ Naleka N’Guessan, Tiphaine De Raguenel and Claire Heinrich; Riki Group’s Diana Yurinova; and Eric Garnet of Go-N International

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‘Argentina is a talent factory’ ARGENTINA, one of the Countries of Focus at MIPCOM 2019, is currently in the middle of a broad-based push by its audiovisual sector to attract more international business. Led by the Argentinian National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA), Argentina will have a high-profile presence in the Palais des Festivals this week. Producer, production manager and INCAA president Ralph Haiek, spoke to MIPCOM News ahead of his visit

What do MIPCOM delegates need to know about filming in Argentina, and working with Argentine partners?

Argentina is a ‘talent factory’, a reliable audiovisual industry leader due to its ecosystem of acknowledged artistic and creative talent and its huge production capacity. It is a competitive player given its seasoned technical crews, knowhow and state-of-theart technology — and the diversity and extent of its locations, which include beaches, mountains,

deserts, forests, lakes, rivers, fields, villages, towns and a wide range of climates, from the tropical desert of the north to a cold snow-covered Patagonia.

INCAA has, in the past, been primarily concerned with the film industry.

What is its full remit today?

Our Film Institute has been around for 62 years, and in the last decade has added the rest of the

audiovisual sectors to its policies.

This means the inclusion of television series, web series, animation and documentaries across all the value chain — development, production and exhibition.

What have been Argentina’s most successful exports on the international television market in recent years?

Large international production companies have chosen our country to settle and invest in, for example Disney/Fox, Turner, Viacom, DirecTV, Mediapro and Globant, one of the four Argentine ‘unicorns’. Also, the excellence in audiovisual services provided by Argentine companies is reflected in original series exhibited through international broadcasts and OTT streaming platforms. For example: El Jardin De Bronce and Epitafios for HBO; Monzon and La Fragilidad De Los Cuerpos for Turner; Edha, El Marginal, Estocolmo, Go! Vive A Tu Manera and Fangio: El Hombre for Netflix; Maradona for Amazon Prime Video; Violetta! for the Disney Channel; Sandro De America, Kally’s Mashup and Un Gallo Para Esculapio for Viacom; La Casa Del Mar for DirecTV; and

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La Biblia Prohibida for History Channel, among others.

How will Argentine companies benefit from the spotlight being on Argentina in Cannes?

What are your aims and goals for MIPCOM? Our Focus Argentina strategy is in place to spread the word to the international audiovisual industry, establishing Argentina as a development, production and a privilege destination hub for its diverse and extensive locations.

To achieve it, we are working as a team together with Agencia Argentina de Inversiones y Comercio Internacional (AAICI) and the Embassy of the Republic of Argentina in France, so everyone is invited to meet our audiovisual companies delegation on our stand. Delegates are also welcome to attend the Snack ‘n’ Screen Argentina session tomorrow from 12:30-14.00 in the Salon Croisette, where some of our most talented producers will pitch their projects in development, searching for international funds for co-production and/or distribution. And today delegates are very welcome to attend our customised section of the MIPCOM Opening Night Party, to network with our delegation and celebrate with a glass of Malbec wine.

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PITCH DOCTOR ACCENTUATES THE POSITIVE PITCH Doctor Paul Boross put MIPCOM first-timers at their ease on Sunday night as he told Cannes’ debutants that “attitude is everything”.

In a welcome event, designed to give newcomers “tools and techniques to approach MIPCOM in the perfect state of mind”, professional trainer Boross said that delegates’ success would be almost entirely dictated by psychology.

“You need to believe that everyone is lovely, and everyone wants to meet you,” Boross told an audience of hundreds. “Only then will you make that happen. By being negative, you short-circuit your own brain.”

Boross backed being “open to every moment — so you don’t risk missing out. If you’re in the right state of mind, you look forward to the unusual and the unexpected happening. Sometimes, your best meeting can happen when you’re simply waiting for a coffee,” he said.

“MIPCOM is all about engagement and interaction. All of us have that feeling in the pit of our stomach when we walk into a room. From a psychological perspective, there are two types of people in the world — there are those that get nervous, and there are liars.”

Boross added: “The best sales people in the world are relationship experts. It’s a superpower.”

Paul Boross, The Pitch Doctor

New series takes Swedish hero Hamilton into the present day MIPCOM last night hosted the World Premiere TV Screening of Agent Hamilton (10 x 60 mins), a Swedish spy thriller presented

by Beta Film.

Based on a series of books by Jan Guillou, it follows Carl Hamilton, a former Swedish intelligence officer now plying his trade in the murky world of industrial espionage — played by Jakob Oftebro. Guillou, a journalist, started writing the bestselling books in the 1980s while in prison for his role in exposing a secret spy organisation within the Swedish military.

The series has the potential to be the first truly international spy-thriller series to come out of Scandinavia, according to Patrick Nebout, founder of the show’s producer, Dramacorp-Pampas Studios. “Jan Guillou’s work has the kind of attention to detail and authentic-

ity you get with Ian Fleming or Tom Clancy. You can tell he really knows the world he is writing about,” he said.

In contrast to the source material’s Cold War setting, the series is based in the present day.

“I think the stories in Hamilton

are more relevant than ever, because we are living in a kind of Cold War 2.0,” Nebout said.

“Maybe we don’t have two forces facing off against each other, but the political situation is just as interesting.”

Jakob Oftebro and cast watch the world premiere of Agent Hamilton

‘We need great stories’, Amazon says WITH THE battle for supremacy in the streaming business poised to intensify, MIPCOM delegates will be able to gain exclusive insights from two senior Amazon Studios executives at today’s Media Mastermind Keynote.

Speaking in the Grand Auditorium at 11.30 will be James Farrell, head of international originals, who oversees the development and production of all original series and features under the Amazon Studios banner outside the US. Alongside him will be Georgia Brown, director of European Prime Original Series for Amazon Studios. Both are charged with finding great shows for the Amazon Prime Video platform.

Farrell said his objective was to seek out original, creative voices

from anywhere in the world. For MIPCOM, he wants to focus on Europe. “We need great stories from France, Italy, Germany, Spain, the UK, the Nordics, the Netherlands and Turkey. That’s a lot of countries so my hope is that I can help articulate to everyone the kind of series and films that would be great fits with Amazon.”

He’ll be supported by Brown, who oversees the development and production of scripted and non-scripted Amazon Originals in Europe, including shows like Good Omens and El Corazon De Sergio Ramos. Brown joined Amazon in 2017 from FremantleMedia where she worked on projects including Young Pope and D83.

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Project Blue Book unravels the mystery of high-end global sales

A+E Networks’ Patrick Vien (left) and Steve MacDonald

AS HOLLYWOOD’s major studios deliberate over whether to send shows into distribution or hold them back for their new

streaming platforms, A+E Networks is setting out its stall as an independent player, primed to meet the demand of global con-

tent buyers with a slate of highend scripted and factual shows.

Steve MacDonald, president of A+E Networks’ global content licensing and international division, said a show that encapsulates the company’s position is UFO mystery series Project Blue Book, the number one basic cable show in the US in 2019, renewed for a second season.

On the eve of MIPCOM, the Robert Zemeckis executive-produced scripted franchise has sold into 165 territories. New buyers include Viasat World (15-plus pan-CEE markets) and RTL (Germany).

“We’re also in Cannes with five factual series in the paranormal and mystery genre,” MacDonald said. “That’s 100 new episodes of content.”

Headlining the slate is The UnXplained, hosted by Wil-

In a spin over Chinese singing format ENDEMOL Shine Group is in Cannes to unveil a new non-scripted format co-developed by its China division in partnership with leading Chinese producer and broadcaster Hunan TV. Called Sing Or Spin, the new primetime entertainment format has a revolving stage that lets singers know how well they are scoring.

Sing Or Spin has been developed as part of Hunan TV’s Biu Project, an initiative set up to create a new pipeline of pilots for the Chinese linear channel.

The partnership with Endemol Shine China has been approved

by China’s National Radio & Television Administration and has been given official support, in line with the government’s call for further content innovation and export.

William Tan, managing director of Endemol Shine China, said: “This deal is part of our ongoing approach to long-term strategic partnerships for non-scripted

programming in China. We believe such co-operation benefits both parties and will enable us to elevate the Chinese market internationally.”

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liam Shatner and made by Prometheus Productions (producer of Ancient Aliens). A key part of the appeal, MacDonald said, is that each episode has an ending: “They can all be watched independently of each other; you don’t have to commit from episode one.”

Group strategy is also boosted by investment in co-productions, Patrick Vien, A+E Networks’ group managing director, international, said. “We are developing, co-producing and distributing shows that are sourced internationally and have global appeal, including to US audiences. Flagship titles include scripted series Miss Scarlet And The Duke and factual series Damian Lewis: Spy Wars.”

Other headlines include an extended relationship with Vice Studios. “We will be distributing all Vice content outside the US, including hit original series Dark Side Of The Ring, Devil You Know and Gaycation. Vice has an independent liberal spirit that is a great addition to our lineup,” MacDonald said.

Lester Hu, Hunan TV’s head of format and international business, added: “Sing Or Spin is a milestone co-development which reinforces our strategy to partner with international content creators to bring original Chinese TV formats to the global market. It’s fantastic to launch our third primetime show developed through the Biu Project at MIPCOM. We’ll be back in Cannes next year when we partner with Reed MIDEM for the first time ever at the MIP Formats International Pitch.”

Sing Or Spin is showcased today at an event in the Verriere Californie, Palais des Festival, where the promo will be premiered to buyers at the Hunan TV International Biu Project Conference.

Lisa Perrin, CEO of creative networks at Endemol Shine Group, will join Hunan TV’s executives to share the story of their international co-development.

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‘The crew worried about my state of mind’ Takako Tokiwa, in Cannes for the world premiere of The Return

MIPCOM delegates will have a unique opportunity to attend the World Premiere TV Screening of The Return, from Japanese pay-TV service The Samurai Drama Channel. The two-hour historical epic, shot in 8K, is based on a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa and stars Tatsuya Nakadai, Takako Tokiwa and Jiro Sato

TAKAKO Tokiwa, star of the MIPCOM World Premiere TV Screening, The Return, told MIPCOM News she feels blessed to be working with Tatsuya Nakadai, a star of numerous films directed by the legendary Akira Kurosawa. “It’s a great honour for me to be working with such a major, world-famous artist,” she said. “I was really impressed with the exceptional power he brought to his character.”

In terms of her own character, Tokiwa said part of the appeal is that she is a very independent and strong-willed woman, despite being isolated. “Even when she was a child, she tried to hide her loneliness. She felt she had to be strong. That’s why she was so hard on herself,” she said.

The Return is directed and co-written by Shigemichi Sugita, president of Nihon Eiga Broadcasting, which operates Samurai Drama Channel. Sugita has directed more than 100 TV dramas and films, including the Warner Bros.

2010 movie The Last Ronin and popular TV drama series From A Northern Country. Tokiwa said working with the highly-respected Sugita was emotionally challeng-

ing and made a deep impression.

“Mr Sugita’s direction was very precise. He would often call for extra takes of a scene, and sometimes those scenes involved crying and screaming. Many members of the crew worried about my state of mind.”

Tokiwa said her approach to acting for a TV drama was subtly different from that for a movie.

“When people watch TV they are often doing something else at the same time,” she said. “A movie audience concentrates all their attention on the screen, so when I act on TV I try to make my actions easier to understand.”

Since the drama is being shown to an international audience, Tokiwa believes it’s a good opportunity for non-Japanese people to learn something of Japanese life.

“I hope they can get a feeling for Japan, which is not always an easy country to understand.

I think viewers will take away the beauty of the Japanese soul.” n The Return, MIPCOM World Premiere TV Screening, is on Tuesday, October 15 at 11.30, Audi A

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NHK and 8K: seeing and believing Japanese public broadcaster NHK is at MIPCOM to showcase its expertise in 8K, the next level of UHD television and today it will screen an adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist Of The Floating World, starring Academy Award-nominated actor Ken Watanabe

WHILE 4K is currently the cutting-edge standard for TV productions and TV sets in most countries, Yukinori Kida, NHK’s executive director in charge of broadcasting, is urging content creators to explore the possibilities of 8K. “It will inspire them,” he said, “and that will give new momentum to broadcasters.”

Although he acknowledged the main appeal of 8K was its superior resolution, he also cited the great improvement in sound quality. In addition, data can be sent along with picture

and sound, and 8K technology can be used for medical equipment and art research. At present, only NHK is broadcasting 8K programming “but once 5G technology is widely available, it will become much easier to receive 8K content,” Kida said.

So far, most content NHK has developed for 8K is nature and performing arts, but the decision to produce An Artist Of The Floating World proves that 8K is also relevant to scripted TV. “Drama was the last type of content we tackled with 8K,”

Kida said. “It took some time to apply the technology to a story. You have to think about the depth of the image and other considerations.”

The MIPCOM screening will use a projection device and a 248-inch screen. “It will be just like watching it in a movie theatre,” Kida said. “It’s something you just have to see to believe, so I hope many people attend.

I think it turned out excellently, and can’t wait for international viewers to see it.”

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NHK’s Yukinori Kida

erated the development of 8K is to have the new technology in place ahead of summer 2020’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. n An Artist Of The Floating World screening today 11.00-13.00, NHK 8K Theatre, Palais 3.

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Blue Ant International gets boost from Japanese deals MIPCOM 2019’s Japanese focus is shared by Blue Ant International, which arrives in Cannes on the back of four new licensing deals and four renewals with the country’s two leading platforms: public broadcaster NHK and Fox Networks Group Japan.

NHK has licensed three new titles: Renegade Pictures/ Merit Entertainment’s Turtle Beach (1 x 60 mins/4K/HD), which invites viewers into the hidden world of turtle nesting; Megalomedia’s UFOs: The Lost Evidence (1 x 60 mins/ HD), which examines hitherto unknown human contact with UFOs; and Rooted Media’s award-winning natural-history film Rooted (1 x 60 mins/4K/ HD), which tells the story of five iconic South African trees and the wildlife communities that surround them.

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has acquired Northern Pictures’ Blue (1 x 60 mins/4K /HD), a mesmerising journey

Blue Ant Media’s Solange Attwood: “excellence in storytelling”

into the ocean realm, while renewing four other Blue Ant natural-history series.

Renewals include the first seasons of Undiscovered Vistas (8 x 60 mins/4K/HD) and Great Blue Wild (6 x 60 mins/4K/HD), both produced by Blue Ant Studios.

Undiscovered Vistas takes viewers on an aerial journey over some of the most beautiful places in the world, while Great Blue Wild joins marine ecologists as they uncover the ocean’s secrets.

The first seasons of two Off the Fence series have also been renewed: Coastal Africa (4 x 60 mins/4K/HD), which examines the marine life that thrives where two oceans converge on the tip of Africa; and Land Of Gremlins (3 x 60 mins/4K/HD), which looks at the weird and wonderful creatures that inhabit Mada-

Jennings seeks indie co-pro partners CANADIAN producer Shaftesbury has been one of the big beneficiaries of the scripted content boom, with series including the Murdoch Mysteries and Frankie Drake Mysteries selling around the world. More recently, the Toronto-based firm has been involved in intriguing co-productions including Dead Still (Canada/ Ireland) and The Sounds (Canada/New Zealand).

Shaftesbury CEO and chairman Christina Jennings said MIPCOM was “a great place to find and nurture co-productions. Shows like The Sounds were born at this market, so a lot of my time this week will be spent talking to other indie producers about

how we might work together on original ideas.”

According to Jennings, now is a great time to be working on

co-pros because “broadcasters need interesting ideas to combat the global SVOD platforms.

There is a renewed pressure on

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gascar’s pristine natural environment.

“Japan is a highly curated market that is looking for excellence in storytelling,” said Solange Attwood, executive vice-president of Blue Ant International.

“We not only deliver beautiful, thought-provoking stories, but our premium 4K content also aligns with Japanese broadcasters’ high standards in terms of technology.

Both NHK and Fox Networks Group Japan are great partners for us and we look forward to placing additional titles on their platforms.”

Attwood added that Blue Ant International’s MIPCOM roster is its most diverse yet: “We’ve got a little bit for everybody, from high-end factual through kids and family to scripted entertainment.

The one common denominator is that everything on our slate is premium in nature.

The truth is you have to deliver quality to break through the sheer volume of product on the market.”

them to find partners with exciting projects.”

For Shaftesbury, working with other English-speaking markets makes sense, which is why the company now has an executive, Alexandra Finlay, located in London. But Jennings pointed out that “we are collaborating with French producer Wildcats, on a show based on a French novel and set in North America.”

Historically, there was a fear co-pro would lead to compromise. But Jennings believes that mashing up different sensibilities can bring positive creative results: “We had a Canadian director on Dead Still, which is set in 1880s Dublin. I think being open to that kind of collaboration can elevate a production.”

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KOMMISSAR REX REIMAGINED FOR GLOBAL AUDIENCE MUNICH-based Beta Film has secured new sales for police series Hudson & Rex, the first Englishlanguage adaptation of classic Austrian franchise Kommissar Rex. Produced by Shaftesbury, Pope Productions and Beta Film for Rogers Media/ CityTV, the series has been picked up by RAI Italy, and will soon be broadcast on TNT Serie Germany and France Televisions.

The re-imagination of the series has also been sold to CLT UFA in the Netherlands, NBCUniversal for Eastern Europe and Africa, as well as to Lithuania (LRT), Uruguay (Channel 12), and throughout Latin America (Belleville Group).

In addition to this, further deals in Spain, UK and Scandinavia are in advanced or final negotiations.

Set in Newfoundland, Hudson & Rex is a police procedural focused on the partnership between a detective and a police dog. The series debuted on Canada’s CityTV in March 2019 and was quickly renewed for a second season, which is currently being produced.

More than 2.5 million viewers tuned into the show’s first six episodes, making it the network’s highest-rated drama since 2015.

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Animation sales to China boost trade for TV France International FRENCH content export body TV France International, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month, reports that foreign receipts for French programming in 2018 totalled €276m. €173m of this came from sales, with the balance made up of international pre-sales and foreign input to co-productions.

Sarah Hemar, executive director of TV France, said it was the “third highest figure in the last 25 years”. She added: “As

in previous years, animation was the strongest performer, but fiction (€50m) has also been growing strongly in the last three to five years. Sales of documentaries have shown great stability, remaining above €30m.”

While French animation sells well worldwide, TV France said the sector had achieved strong growth in China, the third-biggest export territory (nearly €5m in 2018). VOD growth has also

TV France’s Sarah Hemar and Herve Michel

been impressive, with streaming platforms accounting for onethird of foreign revenue at some animation companies.

In drama, Spiral has sold to more than 100 territories, while Candice Renoir was bought again for Spain in 2018. Herve Michel, president of TV France, said: “The big difference is that French producers are making a much broader range of scripted content. Philharmonia and Maroni illustrate this diversification, while Call My Agent! has been acquired by Netflix and picked up as a format in the UK.” According to Hemar, French producers are upbeat about new investment by streamers.

“There is also a trend towards co-production, because they want to make more ambitious shows,” she said. In terms of TV France’s plans, the organisation is looking at ways to connect producers and distributors earlier in development, she added.

Heidi and Kosmoo head for Hungary STUDIO 100 Media in Germany has secured a new volume deal with Hungarian public broadcaster MTVA. The channel has secured exclusive freeto-air rights for more than 200 half-hours of programming, a total of 390 episodes of premium kids’ content from the company’s extensive library.

“We pride ourselves on delivering quality kids content which has universal appeal and with proven track record,” Dorian Buehr, head of global distribution at Studio 100 Media, said.

“We are confident that they will be just as popular on MTVA as they have proved to be in other territories.”

MTVA’s deal with the German production and distribution company sees the highly successful global animation brands Heidi, Wissper, The Wild Ad-

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ventures Of Blinky Bill, Nils Holgersson, Miffy Adventures and the live-action adventure series, Kosmoo, making their way to MTVA.

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GAUMONT BRINGS TAMER TO CANNES GAUMONT, the studio behind the hit series Narcos and upcoming series El Presidente, and Sazia Films (Mission Impossible – Fallout, Midnight In Paris, Les Miserables, RED2), will co-produce The Tamer, an sci-fi thriller (8 x 60 mins) co-created by Spanish director Paco Torres and American screenwriter Katherine VanPelt.

Set in 2020 and centered around a secretive geo-thermal energy plant within the isolated, fictional town of La Perdida in the Canary Islands, The Tamer follows local police who partner with CNI agents in Madrid to investigate the puzzling murders of convicted criminals. The series will be shot in Spain and Gaumont is offering the series to its partners for pre-sales this week.

BETA FILM CREATES SCANDINAVIA ARM BETA FILM has taken a majority stake in Finnish film and TV producer Fisher King and simultaneously launched Swedish-based Beta Nordic Studios (BNS). The group will serve as an umbrella for Beta’s production activities in Scandinavia, which include Finnish production company Fisher King and Dramacorp, the joint venture set up in 2016 by Patrick Nebout and Jan Mojto’s production and distribution outlet. Beta Film’s executive vice-president Justus Riesenkampff and newly appointed CEO Martin Hakansson, a former executive at Lagardere Sports and Nice Entertainment Group, are serving as directors of BNS.

Sustainability key to Globoplay Amazon rainforest eco-drama AGAINST the backdrop of the global Extinction Rebellion movement and the urgent need to preserve the Amazon rainforest, it’s a safe bet that Aruanas will be attracting attention this week in Cannes.

The Globoplay original series, co-produced by Brazil’s Globo and Maria Farinha Filmes, centres on three idealistic women who start an NGO to investigate suspect mining activities in the Amazon. Adding credibility to its hard-hitting storyline, Aruanas is supported by some 20 NGOs, including Greenpeace, Amnesty International, WWF Brasil and UN Environment.

Estela Renner, who co-wrote the series with Marcos Nisti, describes Aruanas as a “fiction freely inspired by true events”. Renner and Nisti interviewed dozens of activists while researching the series and were inspired by their resilience and dedication. “Activists have a really busy life, with lots of human drama and scenes that could be on the big screen,” Renner said. “When creating Aruanas, we prioritised strong stories in which personal dramas

and the search for an ideal are sometimes mixed, sometimes an interference and sometimes salvation.”

Aruanas’ focus on the environment extended well beyond the storylines: sustainability permeated the entire production. “We re-used 90% of the costumes by recycling second-hand clothes, which generated less waste; 33.9% of the extras lived in the Amazon rainforest; and 47% of the cast and operational staff were women,” Renner added.

Following its digital launch in 150 countries on Vimeo-powered aruanas.tv., Aruanas is being presented to the global television market at tomorrow’s Globo Series Screening: 2020. Also premiering at the event is the third

season of medical drama Under Pressure, for which Marjorie Estiano has just been nominated for an International Emmy for her portrayal of a conflicted religious surgeon.

Talking exclusively to MIPCOM News, Estiano said Under Pressure had carved out a “really special and necessary” place for itself by combining entertainment with a valuable social role. “The fact that this series is broadcast by the channel with the highest ratings in Brazil makes us able to reach a lot of people,” she added. “Under Pressure, by coming as close to reality as possible, informs people about diseases and healthcare, stimulates discussions and raises awareness about citizens’ rights and duties.”

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Jo’burg’s real housewives return BUILDING on the success of its hit franchise, NBCUniversal International Formats has signed a deal with M-Net for a second season of The Real Housewives Of Johannesburg. Produced by independent production compa-

ny RHOSA, the second season promises even more drama as it follows the lavish lifestyles of Johannesburg’s glamorous and affluent women. Set to launch on M-Net’s channel 1Magic this quarter, season two will see the

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return of Brinnette Seopela and Christall Kay, and welcome five fresh faces to the mix. Featuring luxurious homes, and prestigious families and friends; the housewives’ new season is said to take the opulence and extravagance to even greater heights.

NBCUniversal International Formats’ Real Housewives franchise has proved popular all over the world. Other international versions include Cheshire, which is currently on air in its 10th season on ITVBe in the UK and Melbourne, which was recently renewed for a fifth season by Foxtel and is produced

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DUO DISTRIBUTE MASTER MOLEY UK-BASED Jetpack Distribution and Signature Entertainment have joined forces at MIPCOM to offer new halfhour animation series Master Moley globally. Available as a 30-minute family TV special plus a 52 x 11-minute series, Master Moley centres on an adventurous mole who discovers a magical book with powers to bring peace between humans and moles.

While Signature Entertainment is handling UK and international distribution for the special, Jetpack is selling the series worldwide.

“Jetpack’s addition will no doubt ensure Master Moley has a very successful launch and eventual global roll-out,” said Andrew Nerger, Signature Entertainment’s head of international distribution.

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BIG BUZZ FOR BERRY BEES THE FIRST complete episode of animated production Berry Bees, from co-production and distribution partners Atlantyca Entertainment, Australia’s SLR Productions, Ireland’s Telegael and Singapore and India’s Studio Cosmos-Maya, is coming to MIPCOM this week where delegates will get a first look at the children’s 52 x 11-minute spy action series. The world premiere took place this month on Nine Network’s 9GO, with Rai set to launch the series later this year. Distribution is being shared with worldwide rights being handled

by Atlantyca Entertainment and Cosmos-Maya handling distribution across Asia, SLR Productions handling distribution for Australia as well as New Zealand and Telegael distributing in Ireland and UK.

Formats guru Winnan is key to new global strategy for TBS TOKYO Broadcasting System Television (TBS) is hosting a breakfast session tomorrow at 08.45 in the Verriere Californie, to launch its latest format, Time Is Money: The Celebrity Life Hack Show, in which well-known faces share their tips on how to make life easier and more enjoyable.

Time Is Money is produced in partnership with UK format specialist Dave Winnan, CEO of Global Creatives, whose credentials include the mega-formats I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and Hell’s Kitchen.

According to Shinichi Mishiro, deputy director of TBS’ international business centre, the partnership with Winnan extends well beyond Time Is Money and is intended to help feed the broadcaster’s IP pipeline with new reality and non-scripted formats.

“TBS was searching for a format expert with the right level of expertise and interest in its content,” Winnan added. “I think TBS con-

tent has a very strong brand flavour — and I love that flavour.”

Winnan has worked extensively in Asia, but Time Is Money marks his first experience of adapting a Japanese format for the international market.

Since the late 1980s, TBS has licensed more than 200 local versions of its formats, which include Funniest Home Videos,

Ninja Warrior, Takeshi’s Castle and Happy Family Plan. This experience has now been distilled into a new “three-pronged strategy” for TBS’ international operations, Mishiro said. Three new departments have been created to handle international distribution, international business development and international strategy development.

Global Creatives’ Dave Winnan (left) and TBS’ Shinichi Mishiro

Noggin to screen BabyRiki in Brazil FUN UNION’s series BabyRiki (156 x 5 mins) is set to launch on Noggin, Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) The Americas premium SVOD service in Latin America.

Under the deal, brokered by Imira Entertainment, all three seasons of the pre-school show will be broadcast on Noggin, with seasons one and two airing on the platform in Brazil.

The Russian-produced show also airs across Latin America and the US Hispanic market on Moolt, across Latin America on Playkids and in Brazil on Gloobinho. Globally, sales have also been closed in Spain, Israel, the Middle East, North Africa, the UK and South Korea.

BabyRiki launched in 2016 on Karusel in Russia, before rolling

out across China, where it now airs on more than 20 channels and has amassed 1.7 billion-plus views. Across the world, the show has now generated upwards of 3.5 billion views and

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BabyRiki is distributed by Imira in Latin America, the US Hispanic market, Spain, Italy and Portugal.

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DREAM TEAM FOR FOOTBALL DOCS DUTCH distribution and production company Rooftop Film & TV, together with Zoomsport and Erik Barmack’s new production company Wild Sheep Content have joined forces to co-produce two footballthemed docu-series — The Agent (6 x 30 mins) and Ronaldo, El Presidente (6 x 30 mins). Developed and created by Zoomsport, both series will be distributed internationally by Rooftop Film & TV. “After the worldwide success of the Barca documentary Take The Ball, Pass The Ball, these two projects are the direct result of our logical partnership expansion with Zoomsport,” said Rooftop Content Group co-founder and managing partner Jordi van Even. “Adding renowned TV executive Erik Barmack and his new company Wild Sheep Content to the equation has upped the creative and commercial level of the shows.”

The Agent is a six-part reality series where viewers get a window into the life of one of football’s most well-connected agents, Pere Guardiola. In Ronaldo, El Presidente, the show follows Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima as he goes about his business as the new owner of Spanish football club Valladolid.

Ronaldo, El Presidente

Keshet seeks global partners for BBC’s very British scandal KESHET International is in Cannes to promote a major upcoming BBC series covering the British political sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.

The US-based distributor, part of Israeli parent company Keshet Media Group, is at MIPCOM with stars from the show and its lead screenwriter to meet potential broadcast partners from around the world.

The Trial Of Christine Keeler documents the shocking discovery in the 1960s that Conservative British minister, John Profumo, was having an affair with an aspiring 19-year-old English model with suspected ties to the Soviet military.

The revelations led to a major scandal which tainted the government of the day, contributing to the downfall of prime minister Harold Macmillan, who stepped down in October 1963.

The Trial Of Christine Keeler will make its debut on BBC One next quarter, and be broadcast in six hour-long episodes. The show is a joint production between BBC One, Ecosse Films and Great Meadow Productions.

Appearing in Cannes are So-

phie Cookson, who plays Christine Keeler, Ben Miles, playing John Profumo, and screenwriter Amanda Coe. Speaking to MIPCOM News, Cookson said: “One of the things we had to do was make sure we approached the role of Christine in the right way, to give her a full voice and make sure that modern audiences connected to her. The establishment took charge of that story at the time. She was made to suffer and had to deal with the conse-

quences for the rest of her life.”

Coe added that the show resonated with modern audiences because of the ongoing presence of sex scandals in politics, and the treatment that Keeler received because she was a woman.

She said: “Keeler went through the court of public opinion, and she went through a real trial.

The criminal justice system was used to create a scapegoat.” The show also features James Norton, star of British TV dramas McMafia and Happy Valley.

Screenwriter Amanda Coe, left, with stars Ben Miles and Sophie Cookson.

Celebrity drives GRB Studios’ success US CONTENT producer and global distributor GRB Studios has completed a series of deals with international sales of celebrity-focused programmes.

The company is in Cannes celebrating sales of documentary title Remembering Whitney to Globosat in Brazil, round-table interview series Close Up With Hollywood Reporter to NBCU Latin America and MNET in South Africa, and docu-series Irreconcilable Differences to RTL Netherlands.

GRB senior vice-president of international, Sarah Coursey,

said the deals showed the continuing global interest in celebrity stories and documentaries covering real life in Hollywood.

She said: “This content has a universal appeal. We keep one ear into the US market and one ear to the rest of the world.”

GRB is also in Cannes with a view to acquiring new content, including factual and documentary programming, as well as new formats for potential adaption in the US. Sarah Coursey of GRB Studios

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ALCHIMIE SCORES WITH SWITCH’S SPORTS SLATE CONTENT aggregation and distribution company Alchimie has acquired a major slate of programming from Australian distributor Switch International.

Take five: MF Yapim in remake deal for hit Nippon TV drama

Alchimie has completed the deal to acquire the European rights for 560 hours of sports programming from Switch International for distribution across a number of bespoke themed SVOD channels.

The deal includes sports programmes and documentary content which will be distributed via a number of potential themed channels within the Alchimie model, including biography channel Big Name and Give Me Five, which is dedicated to five-a-side football.

Commenting on the deal Bill Farrow, founder of Switch International, said: “Sports is one of the world’s great unifiers, able to unite people, cities and countries. Switch’s collection of sporting titles covers some of the most memorable athletes, venues and moments from history through to current day.

We’re thrilled that through Alchimie these programmes will continue to find new audiences across Europe.”

Alchimie distributes content to platforms throughout Europe, and on its own UK OTT platform, TV Player, acquired in a deal completed last month. The Alchimie library consists of over 40,000 hours of programming, which it distributes to digital platforms including Google and Amazon.

Nippon TV’s Shigeko Cindy Chino and MF Yapim’s Faruk Bayhan

A RELATIONSHIP initiated at MIPCOM in 2015 has resulted in a fifth major scripted-format deal between Japan’s most popular broadcaster and one of Turkey’s leading drama producers.

MF Yapim has acquired the remake rights to Nippon TV’s latest drama Abandoned, a touching story about children in an orphanage who are desperate to find new families to take care of them. The deal follows on from local adaptations of four previous Nippon TV dramas — Mother, Woman: My Life For My Children, My Son and Oasis: A Love Story — all of which have proved to be ratings winners in Turkey.

“Since the start of our co-operation over three years ago, we’ve achieved very successful results from the productions we’ve adapted from Nippon TV’s outstanding drama formats,” said Faruk Bayhan, CEO of MF Yapim. “Our adaptations, which have been produced in collaboration with our partner Medyapim, have had significant appeal not only in Turkey but also in many other countries.”

Shigeko Cindy Chino, associate managing director of Nippon TV’s international business development division, said that, although there are clear cultural differences between Turkey and Japan, “emotionally the two countries are very closely aligned”. She added that Abandoned has also been reformatted for Thailand, where it has generated huge audiences and social-media feedback for Line TV. As to whether we can expect a sixth Japanese-Turkish collaboration, Chino said there were “many more plans” in the pipeline.

Bayhan added: “The continuation of this co-operation for many years to come is my biggest wish. Nippon TV don’t know this yet, but we’ve been studying their catalogue closely and are ready to talk about three to four new projects.”

Crime series a first for Philippines ELECTRIC Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based production, distribution and post-production company, has partnered with ABS-CBN in the Philippines to produce the new crime series Almost Paradise, which will begin airing on WGNA in the first quarter of 2020.

For Dean Devlin, president of Electric Entertainment, the collaboration has both a pioneering and a personal aspect. “There has never been a US series shot in the Philippines,” Devlin said.

“I’m half Filipino, so it’s an exciting project for me.”

Set on the resort island of Cebu, Almost Paradise stars American actor Christian Kane (The Librarians, Leverage, Angel) and is set to feature a Filipina actress as the female lead.

“This will be the first of many

strategic partnerships and collaborations with partners from all over the world,” said Ruel S Bayani, head of international production and co-production division at ABS-CBN. “We chose to partner with ABSCBN because they have been so instrumental in the development

of talent here, both in front of and behind the camera. I think they have the most experience and they have just been amazing partners,” Devlin added.

Devlin is serving as executive producer and is set to write the first two episodes, as well as directing the finale of the series.

ABS-CBN’s Ruel S Bayani (left); Sonia Mehandjiyska, head of international distribution, Electric Entertainment; Electric Entertainment’s Dean Devlin; and Laurenti M Dyogi, head of TV production, ABS-CBN.

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Mary’s Kitchen Crush cooks up recipe for international success

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THE WORLD of culinary entertainment may have found a new star in Mary Berg and her show Mary’s Kitchen Crush.

Berg, who won the third season of cooking-reality series MasterChef Canada, has travelled to Cannes for the first time to pro-

mote her new show to broadcasters, streaming platforms and other content buyers.

The first season (30 x 30 mins),

MMA moves into the mainstream

Fighting Spirit: promoting the PFL

FIGHTING Spirit, which specialises in combat-sports media rights, is at MIPCOM on a twopronged mission: to raise awareness of the Professional Fighters League (PFL) and to promote the second PFL championship and the subsequent crowning of a further six mixed martial arts (MMA) millionaires on New Year’s Eve. The star-studded event, which will be delivered to MMA fans in 150 countries live from Madison Square Garden, is the culmination of the year’s PFL fight season, in which the world’s best MMA athletes battle it out in six weight disciplines for million-dol-

lar prizes. And according to Laurent Pourrut, chairman and CEO of distributor Fighting Spirit, the PFL, although only in its second season, is rapidly gaining in popularity on the back of its partnership with sports broadcaster ESPN. “PFL MMA is no longer a niche sport,” he said. “It’s very big in the US, thanks to its coverage on ESPN and NBC, and it’s getting bigger by the season. Now, we’re focusing on Spain, Germany, Japan and South Korea, where we believe MMA also has an exciting mainstream future.”

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which premiered during primetime on Canadian network CTV early this year, is produced by Proper Television and distributed by Boat Rocker Studios, both subsidiaries of Boat Rocker Media.

It has already been sold to US streaming network Tastemade. In Canada, it is also on SVOD platform Crave, and Bell Media channel Gusto. In Australia, the programme has been snapped up by Foxtel’s subscription-funded channel Lifestyle Food and by public broadcaster SBS. “I believe this will appeal to international viewers because it will be as if they are in the kitchen with me; that can create a great bond and relationship with the audience,” Berg said.

“They will see how closely I bring viewers into my life and that sets it apart from other cooking shows without being jarring about it.”

Viewers can expect to see her mother participate in one episode, while another features her celebrating her second wedding anniversary with her husband.

“This might be shot mainly in a studio with a kitchen and dining area and I am also Canadian, but I feel this type of content travels well.”

larity is the arrival on MMA scene of several high-profile fighters, including two-time Olympic US judo gold medallist Kayla Harrison and boxing legend Mike Tyson.

The PFL is the first professional MMA organisation to present the sport in a format that sees individual athletes compete in a regular season, a ‘win-or-go-home’ post-season and a championship.

“We started Fighting Spirit back in 2005 because we’re passionate about MMA,” Pourrut added.

“So at MIPCOM, we’re not just selling a combat sport but sharing our passion. MMA is tough and challenging — in the ring. But out of it, the fighters are real gentlemen and women. There’s a lot of respect.”

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DOGWOOF DOCS MAKE GLOBAL BUYERS BITE LONDON-based Dogwoof, whose credentials include four Oscar- and three BAFTAwinning documentaries, reports a string of preMIPCOM sales for its Cannes headliners.

Making Waves: The Art Of Cinematic Sound, which explores how sound is used in filmmaking, has been picked up for France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Japan, China, Taiwan and Yugoslavia. In addition, the airline rights have been acquired by Encore. The film, directed by Midge Costin, features sounddesign legends Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now; The Godfather), Ben Burtt (Star Wars; Raiders of The Lost Ark) and Gary Rydstrom (Saving Private Ryan; Toy Story).

Also generating global interest is Richard Lowenstein’s Mystify Michael Hutchence, an intimate portrait of the INXS frontman.

The documentary, which features rare archival footage of Hutchence with Kylie Minogue and Paula Yates, has been sold to Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel, Spain, Denmark and CEE, again with the airline rights taken by Encore.

There have been more sales for Mark Cousins’ Women Make Film, whose narrators include Tilda Swinton, Jane Fonda and Thandie Newton.

The 14-hour series has now been licensed in Finland, Sweden, Greece and Poland, with theatrical deals inked in Spain, Portugal, India, China and North America.

And Watergate, directed

by Oscar-winning Charles Ferguson, has been snapped up for the UK, South Africa, Norway, Denmark, Czech Republic, Poland, Spain, Canada and France. The limited series is billed as the definitive telling of the scandal that took down a presidency.

Doc Martin heads down under as DRG celebrates raft of big deals DOC MARTIN is one of many DRG titles to have been sold to broadcasters in Australia and New Zealand in the run-up to MIPCOM. The 8 x 60 mins ninth series of Buffalo Pictures’ hit medical comedy drama, which stars Martin Clunes as the irascible GP of a Cornish village, has been picked up by Australia’s ABC, which has also bought the fifth season of Rise Films’ comedy Plebs (8 x 30 mins), set in ancient Rome.

SVOD platform Stan, meanwhile, has taken three series of Tracey Ullman’s Show (19 x 30 mins), in which the actor and comedian plays high-profile characters, including Angela Merkel, Melania Trump and Dame Judi Dench.

Foxtel has acquired a pack of WildBear Entertainment titles, including Titans Of The 20th Century (6 x 60 mins), Jungle War (4 x 60 mins), A Royal Tour Of The 20th Century (4 x 60 mins) and Dynasties: The Families That Changed The World

(4 x 60 mins). Also headed for Foxtel is Mid Oil Pictures’ truecrime series Detectives: My Killer Case (4 x 60 mins).

And Australia’s Channel Seven has acquired series six and seven of Daisybeck Studios and Motion Content Group’s The Yorkshire Vet (20 x 60 mins).

Over in New Zealand, Sky has acquired new DRG titles The Art Of Architecture (10 x 60 mins) and Auction 11 (5 x 30 mins), both produced by Colo-

nial Pictures. Sky New Zealand has also picked up Handmade In The Pacific (4 x 60 mins), Oceans Apart: Art And The Pacific (3 x 60 mins), War Of Art (1 x 60 mins), Lazy Boy Garage (10 x 30 mins) and series seven and eight of Inside The Ambulance (20 x 60 mins).

Remarkable Places To Eat (4 x 60 mins) has been picked up by TVNZ, while Viacom’s Comedy Central channel in has also acquired series five of Plebs.

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Markuss gives GoQuest dramatic boost INDEPENDENT distributor GoQuest Media Ventures has strengthened its drama portfolio by acquiring Markuss (8 x 60

mins), a detective series from Media Group Ukraine (MGU).

The series tells the story of lonely English teacher Polina Kloch-

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ko who, five years after her son disappeared from kindergarten, spots him in a crowd on a TV newscast. To find him, she enlists the help of ex-police officer Denis Denisov. Produced by Ukraine TV Channel (an affiliate of MGU) and Riga-based Helio media, Markuss is the first ever Latvian/Ukrainian co-production.

Jimmy George, vice-president of sales and acquisitions at GoQuest Media said: “We look forward to continuing our special relationship with Media Group Ukraine, which has given us another really engrossing drama to add to our expanding catalogue.”

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GOING NATIVE! IN ASD’S INDIGENOUS TALENT PACK ANIMIKI See Distribution (ASD), a Canada-based international distribution group, is officially launching at MIPCOM, armed with what it describes as the world’s biggest package of indigenously produced content.

A subsidiary of not-for-profit Canadian broadcaster APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Networks), for-profit ASD has been mandated to market and sell shows made by indigenous talent and creatives.

Starting with Canada and the US, ASD will also be approaching indigenous-owned production companies in Australia and New Zealand.

“Our mission is to help indigenous creators and producers get their content to the global market,” said Susan Boshcoff, ASD’s general manager, distribution & business development.

“The timing is ideal because of the current diversity protocol in the industry; it is important for indigenous people to tell their own story, not have others tell it for them.”

One title expected to gain traction among broadcasters is Going Native!, a 13-part documentary taking a humorous look at the impact of Native cultures worldwide.

Currently in production, it will premiere early next year on APTN, which has the Canadian rights. ASD has worldwide rights outside of Canada.

Going Native! is co-produced

by Ice River Films and Paul Kemp Productions.

Animiki See Distribution’s Susan Boshcoff

Zig Zag and Hipster Media ready to press play on Mandela Tapes ZIG ZAG Productions and Hipster Media are in Cannes seeking funding for a documentary series on the life of Nelson Mandela based on exclusively-held recordings made by the former South African president.

The two companies are well advanced in the pre-production stage of the programme, The Mandela Tapes, and are looking

to secure the remainder of the funding needed to proceed to production.

UK-based Zig Zag Productions and South Africa’s Hipster Media have secured permission from the Nelson Mandela Foundation to proceed with the co-production, which will feature extracts from recordings made during the writing of

Hipster Media’s Markus Davies (left) with Danny Fenton of Zig Zag Productions

Mandela’s autobiography Long Walk To Freedom.

The Mandela Tapes will be produced as a documentary narrated

by Mandela himself, to be made either as a one-part 90-minute show or a series of three onehour episodes.

“We have the blessing of the Nelson Mandela Foundation to have exclusive access to the archive,” said Danny Fenton, chief executive of Zig Zag Productions.”

It is hoped that the production will be ready for release in 2020 — the 30th anniversary year of Mandela’s release from prison on Robben Island.

Hipster Media chief executive Markus Davies said: “In an increasingly divided world, Mandela’s words and deeds are more relevant today than ever before.

The production will bring a message of hope for humanity facing an uncertain future.”

Bollywood films on the MIPCOM bill MUMBAI-based Ultra Media & Entertainment Group has added award-winning and internationally acclaimed Indian movies plus a new cookery series to its MIPCOM slate.

Among the titles on offer is 3 Idiots, one of the highest grossing Bollywood films of all time and starring Indian film star/filmmaker Aamir Khan.

Also in its catalogue is Chippa, the award-winning Hindi-language movie about a 10-year-old boy searching for his father and his adventures in poverty-stricken parts of Kolkata. Its accolades include awards at the New York Indian Film Festival and Germany’s Indisches Filmfestival.

Additionally, Ultra has brought to MIPCOM a culinary series called Ultra Cookery, based on

Ultra Media’s Rajat Agrawal: introducing new post-production services

international recipes. Rights are available for satellite TV, digital media and video podcasts for all platforms apart from YouTube.

Rajat Agrawal, Ultra’s head of syndication & creative, also announced a new service for MIPCOM participants and visitors.

“Due to the influx of post-production work globally, we’ve increased our studio capacity significantly and now have two

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fully-fledged studios in Mumbai,” he said. “We have upgraded our technologies and are offering high-end 4K restoration and 4K scanning plus background music and sound design, as well as 5.1 surround-sound mixing, among other post-production services.

At MIPCOM, we are introducing these developments to participants and visitors exclusively.”

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Brazilians find their voice with growing roster of participants FULL-SERVICE dubbing operation Up Voice is the first company from the Brazilian Content delegation to have its own stand at MIPCOM. The company has brought a dubbing studio to MIPCOM and needs the extra space.

Stand visitors have the opportunity to both dub a new language on to a section of content and to take a tour of the company’s headquarters through a guided 360-degree augmented-reality visit.

“It is our first participation at MIPCOM and we intend to hit the ground running through a fully-equipped and cosy stand,” Tati Peres, business development executive at Up Voice, said.

“We took the decision to operate our own space because of MIPCOM’s great importance in our expansion plans. Our aim is to connect with potential partners from every continent and across

Tati Peres with Up Voice’s dubbing facility

all languages. We want to show the world our professionalism and quality, as well as our pas-

sion for dubbing.”

It is the 16th time that Brazilian Content — a partnership

DocuBay makes mark with buying spree MUMBAI-based DocuBay, the international documentary VOD service, has signed multiple acquisition deals with France’s ARTE Distribution, France TV Distribution, and the UK’s Scorpion TV. The films will be available on DocuBay for worldwide streaming (in English or English with subtitles) in more than 180 countries, beginning next month.

Titles acquired include ARTE’s Tattoos, featuring celebrities including Dennis Rodman and Kat Von D; Geek Planet: The Irresistible Rise Of A Generation, a feature that chronicles the rise of Geek culture, includ-

between BRAVI, the Brazilian independent producers’ group, and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) — has organised a Brazilian delegation at MIPCOM. Among the 31 companies, four are first-timers.

“MIPCOM is an event at which Brazil needs to be present every year, both to maintain contacts and to open up new market possibilities,” Mary Morita, executive manager at Brazilian Content, said. “Last year, we closed deals totalling $40m.

And at the market this year we are expecting results similar to those of 2018.”

While animation and fiction are seen as the flagships of Brazilian production today, the country’s documentaries are also starting to attract attention from foreign companies and distributors, specifically in the growing market for one-off shows.

“In fiction, we have several original Netflix productions standing out and now the arrival of Amazon Studios in Brazil,” Morita said. “During Rio2C, Netflix announced more than 30 originals, including Reality Z, the new series by Conspiracao Filmes.”

ing comic books, science fiction and fantasy; and Father’s Birth, a feature that follows the story of a gay couple in France who, in the desire for a child, travel to Wisconsin, USA, to explore surrogacy.

“As a premium streaming service, DocuBay’s acquisition strategy is to curate the most compelling and diverse stories from around the world,” Adita Jain, head of acquisitions and syndication at DocuBay, said. “Having the ability to meet and close deals at MIPCOM with extraordinary content partners such as ARTE, France TV and Scorpion is key to that strategy.”

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GARY RE-OPENS FORENSIC FILES GARYLICO.TV is launching a new production run of Forensic Files, the half-hour true crime/investigation television series.

“After 25 years on the air and 400 episodes that continue to be telecast, the client and viewer demand for new episodes was pleasantly deafening,” said Gary Lico, the exclusive international distributor of Forensic Files.

“All the stars aligned and here we go with 16 new episodes being produced for Turner Broadcasting’s US network, HLN”.

The new shows are scheduled to premiere in the first quarter of 2020.

In addition to HLN, other channels already committed to the new episodes include RTL in Germany, CBS Reality in the UK, Atresmedia in Spain and Foxtel in Australia.

“The response from our long-time clients and the entire global marketplace is a testament to the evergreen nature of Forensic Files.

“It’s great to be back in production for our many clients around the world. We’ll deliver the same success we have for 25 years”, added Paul Dowling, executive producer of the series.

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RTL4 and TV4 make a date with Fremantle’s Five Guys A Week FREMANTLE has announced the first global commissions for the new reality-dating format Five Guys A Week. Created by Label 1 for Channel 4 in the UK, the format has stolen the hearts of RTL4 in Holland and TV4 in Sweden, who are set to produce local versions. A commission in France is to be announced soon.

“Entering the market with commissions from RTL4 and TV4 is a fantastic kick-off for our MIPCOM campaign for Five Guys A Week,” said Rob Clark, director of global entertainment at Fremantle. “The format has an authentic premise and taps into the universal theme of people’s desire to find lasting love.

This is fantastic storytelling built around a simple structure that we’re confident audiences around the world will find com-

pelling and highly entertaining.”

Five Guys A Week transforms the first-date experience into the ultimate test of romance and compatibility, while putting the woman in control. Fast-tracking the “getting to know you” period, a single girl invites five guys who are looking for love

to move into her home and live with her for a week, all at the same time. Suitors compete for her affection and go everywhere with her together: whether that’s out with her friends, or for dinner with her parents. A combination of fixed rig and roaming cameras captures all the action.

Five Guys A Week (Fremantle)

Insight TV set for major US push INSIGHT TV, the Netherlands-based 4K UHD broadcaster and producer of adventure and action sports lifestyle programming, is expanding its content production and sales operations to the US. Insight TV Studios will develop and produce original content for broadcasters and digital platforms, as well as looking for co-production partners and brands to help finance series and live television event programming. “Having produced over 550 hours of content, Insight TV has established itself as a leading producer of 4K UHD content,” said Rian Bester, CEO, Insight TV. “Now, we are expanding our production services to also create original programming for third-party media platforms in the US targeted at millennial and gen-Z audiences.”

Insight TV Studios will also license content from Insight TV’s

extensive library of original content, all of which is filmed in native 4K UHD HDR and available in HD and UHD. “Over the past couple of years, we have seen the market for high-quality content for millennial audiences accelerate,” said Natalie Boot, head of media sales, Insight TV.

“Insight TV is in the unique and fortunate position to have international rights to an extensive library of original 4K UHD content that speaks to the millennial. Insight TV’s signature is engaging, quality content that stands out in a highly competitive US TV market.”

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EENA MEENA DEEKA LEADS ANIMATED TRIO TO THE US QUINTUS Media has secured a digital distribution agreement with Indian animation studio Cosmos-Maya for three kids’ animation series.

The deal, which covers digital exploitation rights in the US, includes slapstick action comedy Eena Meena Deeka as well as Motu Patlu and Tik Tak Tail.

Motu Patlu follows the endearing adventures of two friends, Motu and Patlu. Typically Motu gets them into trouble and Patlu saves the day, sometimes by sheer luck.

Tik Tak Tail, meanwhile, is an action-packed series about a cute rabbit and a ferocious tiger who are constantly on the run.

The partnership gives Quintus control of 179 half-hour episodes.

Gerrit Kemming, managing director of Quintus Media said: “Cosmos-Maya is one of the leading animation producers in their field; and their series have the right blend of entertainment and global appeal.

We look forward to growing their tens of millions of viewer base even further.”

Eena Meena Deeka (Quintus Media)

Masha And The Bear on hunt for new territories to spread success MASHA And The Bear, produced by Russian animator Animaccord, has now been translated into 36 languages and broadcast in more than 100 countries by Turner, NBCUniversal, Netflix, Sony Pictures, Google, Viacom, Univision, Rai, France TV, KiKA, SBT and many more.

The show is also hugely popular on YouTube where Animaccord has established 15 YouTube channels of cartoons in local languages including Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Polish, Chinese (Taiwan), Hebrew, Hindi, Korean, Ukrainian, Turkish and Arabic. As a result, the total number of views from Animaccord president and CEO Vladimir Garbulya: step-by-step approach

all channels exceeds 55 billion.

“The quality of the animation is one factor in the show’s global success, but the real appeal is the nature of the child/parent relationship,” Animaccord president and CEO Vladimir Garbulya, said. “Now we are looking to close deals for a few missing territories, mainly in South East Asia, and we are also looking forward to launching the show in China. That will happen before the end of this year and it will be on a big and unorthodox streaming platform whose name I cannot yet reveal.”

According to Garbulya, the strategy around Masha And The Bear has been systematic from the start: “I see a lot of companies adopting multi-content strategies but we prefer to take things step by step, and territory by territory.”

Take-off for Doctor Space partnership LITTLE Airplane Productions, Fantawild Animation of China, and Studio 100 Media are set to collaborate on Doctor Space, a new animated comedy for fourto seven-year-olds. The companies plan to co-invest in the production.

The pilot of Doctor Space was written by Emmy Award- winning creator/writer/composer Billy Lopez (Welcome To The Wayne, The Wonder Pets) and the show’s educational curriculum was written by Beth Richman (Super Wings). Doctor Space is the first new series to be created

by Josh Selig since his New Yorkbased studio, Little Airplane, was acquired by Studio 100.

“I’m very happy to be reconnecting with Billy Lopez. He’s absolutely the funniest writer I know, and Doctor Space is the first comedy we’ve worked close-

ly on together since The Wonder Pets,” Josh Selig, CEO of Little Airplane, said. “I’m really excited to see the show come to life with great partners like Fantawild and Studio 100 Media.”

Martin Krieger, CEO of Studio 100 Media, is also already a fan

of the show: “For me, Doctor Space is one of the most hilarious, whacky and witty show concepts that I have seen lately,” he said. “Collaborating with the brilliant teams of Fantawild and Little Airplane on the series and IP will be extraordinary.”

Doctor Space (Little Airplane Productions/Fantawild/Studio 100 Media)

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KIDS SHOWS THAT PUT THE VIEWER IN THE PICTURE ALEXANDRE Touret, co-founder and director of innovation for kids and family content at Belgian production company Contentinuum, is attending MIPCOM following the success of his company’s first series, My Dream Jobs (70 x 3 mins).

The show was regularly in the top three shows on France 5’s kids block and, thanks to its quick and easy interactive elements, it also scored highly with internet users.

“The characters in every episode of My Dream Jobs can be personalised online to feature the faces of viewers and their family members,” Touret said.

“And once that is done they can even order a book of the episode featuring them. We are very proud because the show got a 21.4% audience share in its slot and has garnered five awards. On top of that, the series can be hyper-localised by changing the faces to adapt the characters to the territory of the whatever channel is broadcasting it.”

Contentinuum is currently developing a new series called Paperman And Machegirl Smash The Holograms. “In this series viewers can turn everyday objects into characters that are inserted into the online version of the show, and we are here at MIPCOM looking for co-production partners,” Touret added.

Paperman And Machegirl Smash The Holograms (Contentinuum)

AVOD channel Yaaas! launches with Aardman deal for content UK TV-entertainment group Video on Demand 365 (VOD365) is in Cannes to acquire content for its new AVOD streaming channel, Yaaas!, which is targeting children between the ages of six and 11.

The news of Yaaas!, which launches early next year, comes as the company announced it had sealed a content deal with Aardman, the acclaimed UK animation studio famous for global hits including Wallace And Gromit: Cracking Contraptions

and Shawn The Sheep: Moss Bottom Shorts.

The Aardman shows will be available on both Yaaas! and Ketchup TV, VOD365’s other children’s network aimed at pre-schoolers. Both services are for the UK market.

“Yaaas! will broaden our reach to the six- to 11-year-olds market, creating an opportunity for the existing viewers on Ketchup TV to migrate to the new platform, instead of losing them to other kids services,”

Wallace And Gromit: Cracking Contraption (Aardman)

Paul Coster, VOD365 CEO/ founder, said.

He said that with the AVOD business model VOD365 can offer advertisers a brand-safe environment for content that is accessible via free-to-air platforms, mobile networks, online and smart TV sets.

“The deal with Aardman confirms we have good relationships with traditional producers and distributors,” Coster added. “We’re also keen to talk to creators of original YouTube kids shows.”

VOD365’s Paul Coster

Team effort behind Sky Blue Academy SINGAPORE-based August Media Holdings is at MIPCOM seeking broadcasters and other distribution platforms for a new football-themed kids animation series inspired by Manchester City Football Club (MCFC), the current English Premier League (EPL) defending champions.

Called Blue Sky Academy and aimed at eight- to 11-year-olds, the 26 x 22-minute series is still in early development. It is based on MCFC’s own academy, where aspiring players polish their talent for top-flight football.

August Media is collaborating with Spanish production company Minoria Absoluta and Synergy88 Entertainment Media in the

Philippines to develop and produce the series, while MCFC will “ensure their brand is portrayed accurately”, Moy Saha, August Media’s CEO/founder, said.

“Manchester City is famous for not focusing on superstars, but investing in skilled players who are good at working as a team.

Those are the values that we shall be focusing on in the series,” Saha said.

The venture is a rare instance of a football club like MCFC, which belongs to the EPL, the world’s richest football league, making its IP available for a global children’s TV show.

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cus on the friendship and camaraderie inspired by team work.

Blue Sky Academy will be part of a 360-degree strategy, with content created for TV, digital services, print magazines and other media platforms.

August Media’s Moy Saha

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Godzilla Celebrates 65th Anniversary and Launch of GODZILLA: GENESIS by Stomping into Cannes

In 1954 Japanese studio TOHO CO., LTD. introduced the world to Godzilla, and except for a few Hollywood collaborations they’ve kept the King of the Monsters to themselves. But as Godzilla celebrates its 65th anniversary this fall Toho is celebrating by spreading the gospel of Godzilla to the rest of the world.

“We’re very excited to revitalize the original series of 29 feature films,” says Takaaki Nakazawa, head of global licensing for Toho during an interview at the company’s Tokyo headquarters.

“Audiences have always appreciated the franchise, and now we feel the time is right to launch our new exciting GODZILLA: GENESIS campaign.”

Toho is excited to be able to offer all 29 films, either as a package or separately, to international broadcasters, cable stations and video platforms for the very first time.

“Because MIPCOM is a market for media content we’re looking forward to discussing deals for the series,” says Nakazawa, “but we also want to strengthen the brand value of the franchise.”

In preparation for GODZILLA: GENESIS, Toho conducted a survey to gauge public awareness of Godzilla in other countries around the world, and found that the majority of the respondents were familiar and had a relatively strong engagement with the monster, but as Nakazawa points out there is still a great deal of potential for the character.

“The key driving content will be different in each territory,” he says. “For instance, in China the Hollywood versions contributed greatly to Godzilla’s popularity, while in the U.S. and Europe the original Toho films are mainly responsible.”

Godzilla is such an iconic film presence that the brand encompasses more than just the films, so merchandising will also figure heavily in the campaign. Toho plans to showcase Godzilla brand sake at its MIPCOM Launch of GODZILLA: GENESIS and at their booth. In the future it will also license other titans of the Godzilla Universe such as Mothra and Rodan individually.

For the first time they’ll also increase localization by providing production entities with music and effects soundtracks so that individual films can be dubbed into other languages. Despite the fact that Americans first encountered Godzilla through a hybrid version of the original in 1956, The Godzilla films produced by Toho have so far not been dubbed, with very few exceptions Much of the series’ appeal is its never-ending cycle of destruction and rebirth, a theme that may seem particularly Japanese given the island nation’s history, but which Nakazawa believes is universal.

“People all over the world suffer disasters that they must overcome to rebuild their lives and move on,” he says.

“It’s something everybody understands and is a universal experience.”

About Godzilla Godzilla first appeared in Toho’s “Godzilla” (1954), a classic monster movie, widely regarded as a masterpiece, that launched a film franchise that has lasted 65 years and more than 30 features. The character has been adapted via numerous international productions, re-introducing the character to new generations and a global audience. Godzilla continues to stomp through popular culture with “Godzilla: King of the Monsters,” released in May 2019, and “Godzilla vs. Kong” coming in 2020.

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SOCIOGRAPH TAKES SCIENTIFIC APPROACH SOCIOGRAPH returns to MIPCOM to showcase its latest technologies and strategies as a consulting company specialised in marketing science and analysis.

The company, which has offices in Spain and Mexico, tests the effectiveness of a new project by combining neurotechnologies — including facial coding, skin measurement sensors and eye-tracking — with traditional questionnaires and focus groups.

“Understanding our consumers is more important than ever as the new generation plays a more important role in the media sector. They are more aware than ever before of what they want and how they want it,” Daniel Ramos, Sociograph’s international marketing director, said.

Major companies including Warner Bros., AMC Networks, RTVE and Mediaset have used the approach and, recently, a number of film festivals have explored the potential.

According to Ramos, Sociograph’s new collaboration with the Raindance Film Festival in London is an example of a festival “using neuroscience to allow attendees to participate more actively, using their emotional reactions to identify and award the most impactful film”.

Ramos is on the panel for the MIPCOM D2C Tech session Emotional Data: Measuring Audience Engagement on Wednesday, 09.30, Auditorium A.

Sociograph’s Daniel Ramos

Boat Rocker Media puts power behind Platform One projects CANADIAN content powerhouse producer and distributor Boat Rocker Media, has acquired Los Angeles-based television production studio Platform One Media, strengthening Boat Rocker’s foothold in US and global television production, notably in premium scripted series.

Katie O’Connell Marsh, who launched Platform One in 2017 as CEO, now takes the title of founder and chairman of Platform One. Platform One projects include a recently greenlit untitled science-fiction series from Simon Kinberg and David Weil for Apple and straight-to-series Rust, starring and executive-produced

by Jeff Daniels.

The studio is in pre-production on Rita, a pilot for Showtime starring Game Of Thrones actress Lena Headey and created

by Christian Torpe, and Beacon 23, a drama series from Zak Penn for Spectrum Originals.

The company also has a firstlook deal with Laura Dern and Jayme Lemon’s company, Jaywalker Pictures.

“What Katie and Platform One have accomplished in a couple of years is beyond impressive,” said John Young, CEO of Boat Rocker. “We’re confident that with the additional horsepower provided by the larger Boat Rocker family of companies Platform One will be ideally positioned to push forward on its ambitions of producing highend, world-beating entertainment.”

“The ethos and shared outlook on the ever-changing global media business was the primary driver in pursuing this opportunity with Boat Rocker,” added O’Connell Marsh. “I’m

thrilled for our team to join such an innovative and ambitious company.”

O’Connell Marsh will also be taking on a senior leadership role at Boat Rocker.

Platform One Media’s Katie O’Connell Marsh: “shared outlook”

NiS studio in the mix for The Kitchen THE KITCHEN has added the NiS studio to its growing international network. Re-named The Kitchen MENA, the Cairo-based studio is ready to accommodate all dialects of Arabic, as well as Farsi and Kurdish.

The Kitchen MENA’s pan-regional reach in the MENA territories means it is already in demand and the MENA countries will be able to benefit from the expertise offered by the latest Kitchen studio as content continues to sell to new regions worldwide.

“We’ve already begun working on numerous cartoons, features and live-action series for

The management team attending MIPCOM from The Kitchen MENA: Nabeel Al Dakkak (left), Kenan Al Oulabi and Mohammad Assadieh

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companies wishing to dub into the languages offered by The Kitchen MENA,” said Yoram Chertok, managing director of The Kitchen EMEA, which will merge the dubbing talents of the NiS studio with the Kitchen MENA family.

“The Kitchen family has a stellar reputation and we will continue to live up to that,” added Kitchen MENA’s Kenan Al Oulabi.

“A very experienced team in the Cairo-based studios will be joining forces with The Kitchen to make us stronger and allow us to open new opportunities for our existing clients, while also fulfilling the needs of new ones.”

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SPLASH ROSTER FOR KIDOODLE.TV SPLASH Entertainment has licensed six of its most popular children’s series — Chloe’s Closet, Dive Olly Dive, I Got A Rocket, Hero 108, Pet Alien and ToddWorld — to AVOD/ SVOD platform Kidoodle.TV. The Splash shows will be made available to Kidoodle.TV’s audiences worldwide.

“Both Splash and Kidoodle.

TV are dedicated to delivering age-appropriate, family-friendly content, which provides us with a great opportunity,” Mevelyn Noriega, Splash’s president of distribution, said.

Los Angeles-based Splash has also appointed industry veteran Mounia Aram as its sales agent for Africa and the Middle East.

Chloe’s Closet (Splash Entertainment)

AIR BUDDIES HEAD TO LATIN AMERICA AIR BUD Entertainment, the California-based family-entertainment company, has signed a licensing deal with Discovery Kids, the Latin American network targeting pre-schoolers.

This agreement marks the first time Air Bud content has been licensed to Discovery Kids.

The network will be airing a slate of Air Bud movies, including five films from the Air Buddies franchise and four from the Pup Star series.

“Our films have always been popular in Latin America as they each feature wholesome family values,” Robert Vince, Air Bud’s CEO/founder, said.

Pup Star (Air Bud Entertainment0

Stoef and Daris dance to a new tune with latest animation offer TWO OF the best-known names in kids entertainment — Hans Ulrich (Ulli) Stoef and Jo Daris — are in Cannes to fly the flag for newly launched production and distribution operation Toon2Tango.

The new venture is headed by Stoef, who has one of the most impressive CVs in the business, having served as CEO of Studio 100 Media, m4e, Tele Muenchen’s CTM and Universal Studios CP Germany.

Daris, who joined Toon2Tango as chief creative officer last month, is also a respected industry figure. He has worked with Stoef in various roles for nearly 20 years, including most recently at Studio 100 Media, where he was chief content officer.

Based in Munich, Toon2Tango specialises in kids’ and family entertainment, covering the gamut from IP creation, seed financing and development, to production, distribution and brand building.

“We want to go back to our roots and make shows we 100% think are worth making, rather than shows that fit what the mass market considers are the

Toon 2 Tango’s Jo Daris (left) and Ulli Stoef: “Back to our roots”

acceptable criteria,” Daris said, explaining the impetus behind Toon2Tango’s formation.

While the new company intends to develop its own IP, it will also act as a consultant. “Many creatives have fantastic ideas, but not the network or the knowledge to succeed in the international market,” Stoef said.

“That’s where we come in. We can incentivise creative talent, cut them a fair deal and help them develop their shows in the right direction.”

Days after its launch in July, Toon2Tango announced a strategic alliance with Italy’s Mondo TV, under which eight new animated titles will be developed

over the next four years. The first project off the block is Agent 203, about a little girl who finds an alien in her garage and is recruited into the mysterious Intergalatic Agency.

As it heads into its first MIPCOM, Toon2Tango has already been given the green light “by a big German broadcaster for an animation”, Stoef revealed.

He added: “Our message to the market is that we have a powerful slate and a strong network of friends and partners around the world. We’re ready to explore possibilities with third-party creatives, to help them open the door to commercial success.”

Chasing dreams with Woozle & Pip LONDON-based Cake and Amsterdam-based The Dreamchaser Company have teamed up to develop a new series of Woozle & Pip (working title), with Cake at MIPCOM to present the project to potential broadcast co-production partners.

The 2D comedy series (52 x 11 mins) — based on a children’s book series by Dutch author Guusje Nederhorst — is aimed at an upper pre-school audience, with stories based on themes of friendship and teamwork.

Woozle & Pip has become a

leading pre-school brand in Benelux and Germany after expanding into TV, music, toys, apps, a theatre show and a successful feature film.

Tom van Waveren, CEO and creative director at Cake said:

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“With Woozle & Pip going from strength to strength and evolving as a brand, it felt like the right time to develop an animation series for the international market, which reflects the IP as it is today.”

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DOCUMENTARY SHEDS LIGHT ON SNIPER ATTACKS PBS INTERNATIONAL has acquired I, Sniper from UK indie Arrow Media and is distributing the six-hour series at MIPCOM. Three years in the making, the documentary is billed as the definitive account of the Washington DC sniper killings that terrorised the US capital for 23 days in 2002.

The series also features the first interviews with one of the two teenage snipers, Lee Malvo, who recounts his story via a series of phone calls from his supermax prison cell.

“This is the first time this tragedy has been told in such depth, with interviews with the investigators, police, witnesses, victims’ families and the voice of the teenage sniper who committed these terrible crimes,” said Tom Koch, vice-president of PBS International.

Wag Entertainment doc charts Krow’s transformational journey UK-BASED distributor Wag Entertainment is at MIPCOM with Krow’s TRANSformation, a no-holds-barred account of the transitioning of the world’s first female-to-male trans supermodel.

The acclaimed 90-minute documentary, which had its global premiere at London’s prestigious Raindance Film Festival, was produced by Vancouver-based They Produce & Film. It features the challenges faced by the 23-year-old catwalk model, following him through his hormone therapy and invasive surgery.

“Coming to Cannes with the film is perfect timing, especially as MIPCOM’s Diversify Awards is about diversity and inclusion,” said Janice Strangward, Wag Entertainment’s senior vice-president and head of sales and acquisitions.

“Although there might be broadcasters who might reject it for cultural reasons, this is a very

positive story about real life.”

Krow, who has maintained his career as an in-demand catwalk model for some of the world’s biggest designer labels, including Louis Vuitton, explained that he felt it was important to educate society about the different genders that exist. “We originally wanted to put it into

only schools so that kids can learn about puberty and could have this documentary to show there are other options,” he said.

“With film and TV, we realised it was about getting the word out there in any way we could to more people, to get them to understand the issues and the information needed to do that.”

Trans supermodel Krow

I, Sniper (PBS International)

TERRANOA LANDS NEW DOC DEALS TERRANOA has reported a string of deals for its landmark history documentaries. The French distributor has pre-sold two Gedeon Programmes titles — Pompeii Rising and Vatican: Secrets Of The Pope’s City — to Viasat, while Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King’s Vanished Palace has been picked up in Italy, Belgium, Poland, Sweden and Spain. Eiffel Tower: The Incredible Bet, which celebrates the 130th anniversary of the iconic structure, has also sold around the world, including Japan, Germany, Austria, Italy and Poland. War Time Rapes: The Unspoken Weapon has been acquired by RSI, RTS and TV5 Quebec. Terranoa also closed several package deals in the run-up to MIPCOM, including 30 hours to Ceska TV and eight hours to Servus.

Barbara Kopple films head Cargo slate NEW YORK City-based Cargo Film & Releasing is at MIPCOM to announce the latest documentary films from Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple (American Dream); and Inspired, an eight-part documentary series exploring the indelible connection between artists and place.

Kopple’s 2018 feature documentary, New Homeland, is an intimate chronicle of five refugee children from Syria and Iraq as they try to create a new life in Canada after fleeing their war-ravaged homelands. An official selection at Doc-NYC and the Woodstock Film Festival, the doc is a co-production between Cabin Creek Films and NowThis!.

Cargo Film & Releasing is also presenting Miss Sharon Jones!, Kopple’s Emmy-nominated

portrait of soul singer and music legend Sharon Jones of the

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Dap-Kings as she battles with cancer yet finds a way to perform one last time.

Available for the first time for streaming rights, Kopple’s Academy Award-winning classic American Dream (1990) is a remarkable look at a year-long fight between union workers and food-factory executives.

Created by Brooklyn-based filmmakers Guto Barra and Tatiana Issa, Inspired is a new eight-part documentary series that illuminates the intricate relationships between artist and place. From Henri Cartier-Bresson in India to pop artist Keith Haring in Brazil and Yves Saint-Laurent in Morocco, the series illustrates how the artists were profoundly inspired by a specific location, and how they in turn changed how we see these places.

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UNSCRIPTED SUCCESS FOR CORUS SHOWS CORUS Studios, a division of Corus Entertainment, arrives at MIPCOM on the back of a raft of multiple worldwide sales for its original lifestyle and unscripted content.

Landmark deals include sales to Cooking Channel in the US for grilling competition series Fire Masters (20 x 60 mins), and pre-broadcast sales of demolition show Salvage Kings (10 x 60 mins) to A+E Networks in multiple territories.

Focusing on characterdriven content in niche industries, Corus Studios’ unscripted content has caught the attention of international buyers for programmes.

Sold in advance of its broadcast premiere in Canada, Salvage Kings has sold to A+E Networks in the UK + Ireland, Sweden, South Africa, Poland and Romania.

Truck racing docu-series Big Rig Warriors has sold to Foxtel in Australia, A+E’s FYI in the US and A+E Networks in Italy.

Additionally, History Erased (8 x 60 mins), which in each episode imagines how the world would be without one specific country, has sold to Foxtel in Australia and New Zealand as well as HISTORIA in Spain and Portugal.

Salvage Kings (Corus Entertainment)

Dooley deal kicks off Orange Smarty’s new indie alliance MULTI-PLATFORM factual content specialist Orange Smarty has entered into a new representation partnership with TI Productions, a subsidiary of TI Media, which owns more than 40 UK media brands, including leading mag-

azine titles Country Life, NME and Wallpaper*.

The partnership kicks off with a four-show deal, under which two new Stacey Dooley-fronted documentaries will add to Orange Smarty’s raft of shows from the campaigning filmmaker.

Stacey Dooley: Face To Face With The Bounty Hunters (TI Media)

In Stacey Dooley: Face To Face With The Bounty Hunters (1 x 58 mins), produced for BBC Three, Dooley lifts the veil on America’s $14bn-a-year bail-enforcement business, and how it is taking advantage of people’s desperation for freedom. Also produced for BBC Three is Stacey Dooley Investigates: Kids Selling Drugs Online (1 x 30 mins), in which Dooley creates a fake social-media profile to investigate the UK’s supersizing problem of online drug dealing.

“Both TI and Orange Smarty are indies, which means we share a mindset, a culture of hard work and a passion for our respective businesses. That obsession with excellence is evident in TI’s documentaries, which mix topicality and impact with exclusive access and meticulous research. And we’re confident it will also be reflected in the global sales of Stacey Dooley’s latest shows,” said Karen Young, founder and CEO, Orange Smarty.

More buyers for Newen’s popular cop

NEWEN Distribution’s cop series Cassandre has been sold to several European broadcasters, including NBCUniversal’s 13th Street in Spain, where it will be launched on primetime in June 2020.

It has sold to Paramount Channel in Spain (launch to be confirmed in 2020), with Paramount Channel in Italy also recently acquiring the fourth season.

Produced by France’s Barjac Production and commissioned

by France 3, it stars Gwendoline Hamon as Florence Cassandre, a Parisian police chief who takes a transfer to sleepy Annecy to be near her son.

Cassandre has previously also

been picked up by RTS (Switzerland), RTBF (Belgium), Film

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MARVISTA Entertainment debuts seven holiday movies at MIPCOM. Topping the slate is A Christmas Movie Christmas, a rom-com written by and starring Brant Daugherty and Kimberly Daugherty, a married couple in real life. Two city-savvy sisters make a wish to have a Christmas like a movie and find themselves trapped in what appears to be an actual Christmas movie. They realise that perfection is not the true meaning of the season and that there might actually be magic in burnt Christmas cookies and imperfect storylines. The other christmas titles include 12 Pups Of Christmas, Christmas Crush, A Christmas Comeback, Holiday Heist, A Merry Holiday and A Winter Song.

FICTION titles from france tv distribution include: Bright Minds (8 x 52 mins), about a police chief who links up with an officer who has Asperger’s; Captain Marleau (18 x 90 mins + 2 x 90 mins specials); new Agatha Christie collection Criminal Games (24 x 90 mins); and Perfect Crimes Collection (16 x 52 mins).

The factual slate includes: Lady Sapiens (2 x 45 mins/1 x 90 mins/52 mins); about prehistoric women; Extreme Lands (6 x 45 mins); Trees: A Global Superpower (2 x 45 mins/1 x 90 mins); and Versailles, Challenges Of The Sun King (2 x 45 mins/1 x 90 mins).

Bright Minds (france tv distribution) A Christmas Movie Christmas (MarVista Entertainment)

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GAUMONT BIONIC Max tells the story of a friendship between two very different characters. Max is a prototype bionic guinea pig born in a laboratory, and JeanClaude is the goldfish who is a social outcast at the lab. After escaping from the laboratory into the bustling world of Woodchuk Woods, the pair have to learn how to live in the forest metropolis. Adapting to the urban jungle is not easy for the duo as they try to fit in with the local wildlife while having madcap and clumsy adventures. Bionic Max is co-produced with Gulli.

AT MIPCOM, The Jim Henson Company is presenting the new fifth season of animated pre-school series Dinosaur Train (22 x 11 mins). The series premiered in the US on PBS Kids earlier this year and continues the exploration of natural science with Buddy the T-Rex and his adoptive family of Pteranodons.

Together they visit different climates, go underground, under the sea, and up in the air in their search for the new and unknown, making new friends along the way.

Dinosaur Train (The Jim Henson Company)

JOHN MCLEAN MEDIA SEATTLE-based John McLean Media is launching several new documentaries at MIPCOM. The line-up is led by A Seat At The Table: New Zealand’s Wine Story which profiles the success of the country’s wine industry and culture.

America is now New Zealand’s biggest wine export market with New Zealand ranking in the top three wine import countries after Italy and France.

Bionic Max (Gaumont)

ITV STUDIOS GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT (ITVS GE) TOPPING the natural-history slate for ITVS GE is India’s Wild Karnataka (1 x 60 mins). Narrated by broadcaster, writer and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, the special explores one of the richest wild places on Earth, home to a quarter of India’s animal species, including more tigers and elephants than anywhere else on the planet. Another priority is Flesh And Blood, a thriller about three adult siblings who are shocked when their recently widowed mother declares she’s in love with a new — and in their eyes suspicious — man. ITVS GE also brings: gameshows In For A Penny and Catchpoint; and Comedians Giving Lectures, in which top comedians give their own version of an academic lecture.

A Seat At The Table: New Zealand’s Wine Story (John McLean Media)

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DARO FILM DISTRIBUTION DARO Film is presenting three new festive TV movies with worldwide rights excluding the US and Canada in Cannes: Christmas On The River from Active Entertainment, starring Jana Kramer and Percy Daggs III; Magical Christmas Shoes from Chesler Permutter, starring Erin Karpluk and Damon Runyan; and Christmas Jars from Muse Entertainment, starring Jeni Ross and Markian Tarasiuk. All three are currently in post-production and will be ready for delivery for the Christmas 2019 window. Other new acquisitions from Monaco-based Daro Film Distribution include thriller Force Of Nature, expected in 2020 and set to star Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth and Emile Hirsch. The movie features a cop who protects the remaining residents of an evacuated building from criminals trying to execute a heist as a hurricane hits the city. Daro holds rights for English-speaking Africa, CIS and the Baltics. Also due next year is Debt Collector 2 — a sequel to the 2018 action thriller from Bleiberg Entertainment — in which the debt collector returns to action after narrowly avoiding death at the hands of the kingpin Barbosa. Daro has taken African, Eastern European and Portuguese rights.

CINEFLIX RIGHTS THE UK’s Cineflix Rights brings slate of new shows and returning content to MIPCOM. Leading the scripted slate is thriller Mirage, in which Claire, starting over in Abu Dhabi with her son and husband, discovers that her late husband is still alive. Other new dramas include the second season Coroner (8 x 60 mins), starring Serinda Swan as a recently widowed, new coroner who investigates suspicious deaths in Toronto, and the third season of Marcella (8 x 60 mins),a Scandi-noir thriller from The Bridge creator Hans Rosenfeldt, starring Anna Friel. The factual slate includes Let’s Talk About Sex (3 x 60 mins), critiquing unintentionally hilarious sex-education videos; Extreme Tribe: The Last Pygmies (3 x 60 mins), about the Mbendjele tribe in the Republic of the Congo; Inside Cadbury: Chocolate Secrets Unwrapped (1 x 60 mins); Inside The Pet Food Factory (1 x 60 mins); Egypt’s Lost Pyramid (1 x 60 mins); and The President’s Mother (1 x 60 mins), about Donald Trump’s mother.

Extreme Tribe: The Last Pygmies (Cineflix Rights)

9 STORY MEDIA GROUP Magical Christmas Shoes (Daro Film Distribution)

ARMOZA FORMATS DEVELOPED and produced by Israel’s Armoza Formats, Queens Of Love (60 mins) features three drag queens who come to the rescue of one hopeless single. They pick her up for a night of fun and audition four potential suitors.

The queens then decide which man is the best fit. The company is also highlighting I’ve Got Issues (30 mins), in which a well-known comedian addresses a light-hearted issue, using a support group to help them through it; and scripted thriller Call Me If You Die (8 x 60 mins), about an unlikely friendship between a police lieutenant and a high-ranking mafioso in Montreal during a major operation to bring down the Italian Mafia.

Queens Of Love (Armoza Formats)

NEW PRE-SCHOOL series Book Hungry Bears (52 x 11 mins) is brought to Cannes by 9 Story Media Group. The bears love picture books and every day they go on adventures in a beautiful papercraft world in search of books they can share together. As they read they share the delight of the book and learn about each other and the world around them. Creator Pukeko Pictures has appointed 9 Story Brands as its global merchandising partner for the new series (excluding Greater China), and 9 Story Distribution International has been granted worldwide rights to the series (excluding Canada, Greater China, Australia and New Zealand), with 9 Story Media Group handling distribution of the series in Canada.

Book Hungry Bears (9 Story Media Group)

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THE UK’s Aardman brings a new series of Morph to Cannes. In the five-minute non-dialogue episodes Morph and Chas are reunited with their old friends Delilah, Grandmorph and The Very Small Creatures. Aardman is also distributing Pop Paper City (52 x 7 mins/3D), LoveLove Films’ new pre-school craft series focussing on friends who live in a paper environment and have fun by creating new parts of their world. To encourage the children to create, the character Grown Up takes the form of a real hand, reaching into the screen to help the characters to get crafty.

AT MIPCOM Fremantle brings new crime drama Face To Face, an eight-part Danish series about a detective who refuses to accept his daughter’s death as a suicide and investigates her last day until he finally faces the unavoidable truth. Other titles from the scripted slate include: drama series The Luminaries, starring Eva Green; Dublin Murders from Euston Films; and La Jauria, a Spanish-language series from Chile.

Fremantle’s non-scripted shows include: documentary series Enslaved, featuring Samuel L Jackson; Secrets Of The Solar System (working title); and Chasing Life, looking at where in the world people live longer and happier lives.

Face To Face (Fremantle)

Morph (Aardman)

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STUDIO TREFL THE TREFLIK Family (52 x 8 mins), produced by Studio Trefl, is a Polish stop-motion animation aimed at three- to six-year-olds. The series aims to teach children positive values including family ties, friendship, respect, honesty and tolerance. The two children and their parents live in a small house which one day is visited by a mysterious guest called Little Uncle.

GERMANY’s ZDFE returns to Cannes with a line-up including: Heirs Of The Night (26 x 26 mins), a live-action young-adult series set in 1889, when the heirs of the five remaining vampire clans in Europe are brought together on a ship to attend the newly created vampire school; animations Henrietta (52 x 7 mins), about a cow and her farm friends and Zoom The White Dolphin (104 x 12 mins); history series The Greatest Events Of World War II (10 x 50 mins); astronomical series Ancient Skies (3 x 50 mins); Lost Kings Of Bioko (1 x 50 mins), about primates on an island off the coast of central Africa; reality format Cash Or Trash; and drama series Ottilie Von Faber-Castell (2 x 90 mins), Dead Still (6 x 50 mins) and Hide And Seek (8 x 50 mins).

PEAK ANIMATION PEAK Animation’s focus for MIPCOM is CoNaBLUE (104 x 11 mins/HD/3D), an animation series co-produced by FZ Entertainment and Tencent Penguin Pictures, aimed at two- to six-year-olds. It tells the story of Captain Columbus and his four friends who travel the world, exploring, investigating and protecting the environment, and learning the importance of teamwork.

CoNaBLUE (Peak Animation)

Heirs Of The Night (ZDFE)

SONY PICTURES NETWORKS INDIA ON THE Sony Pictures Networks India slate, among many titles, comes: A Different Language Of Love (150 x 20 mins), a coming-of-age story about Yogi, who cannot hear or speak; Baalveer Returns (150 x 20 mins), following a warrior’s magical war against the Evil Lords; I Am A Star! (171 x 20 mins), which follows the stardom of a boy after winning a dance reality show; CID, an Indian police procedural series about Mumbai’s Crime Investigation Department; Bhanwar, a docu-drama series based on judgements in the Indian judicial system; and crime anthology series Crime Patrol, which features a celebrity host narrating dramatised sto- A Different Language Of Love (Sony ries and re-enactments of crime cases. Pictures Networks India) MIPCOM News 1 • 74 • 14 October 2019

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MEET The Millenials (3 x 26 mins) is a light-hearted documentary profiling issues faced by millennials. The series travels across Asia, where the largest population of millennials live. Other titles from the Spanish-German distributor include: The Birds Of Winter (1 x 52 mins), about bird migration to the Spanish and Portuguese wilderness; and Lessons Of The Sky (1 x 52 mins), a paragliding adventure across the Pyrenees.

RUSSIAN animation franchise Masha And The Bear celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Recent iterations include a cinema release in the UK, a fourth season of Masha’s Songs and production has begun on a fifth season of Masha And The Bear. Other titles brought to Cannes by Animaccord include: Cleo&Cuquin, from Anima Kitchent, Smighties (Herotainment) and Mika’s Diary (Mendes Bentancour Producoes Artisticas).

Masha And The Bear (Animaccord)

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MGM WORLDWIDE TELEVISION DISTRIIBUTION THIS year’s line-up of feature films from MGM is headed by the 25th instalment of EON Productions, MGM and Universal Pictures’ Bond series No Time To Die, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Lea Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, Rory Kinnear, David Dencik, Dali Benssalah, Jeffrey Wright and Ralph Fiennes.

Other titles include: Legally Blonde; Respect, based on the life of Aretha Franklin; animation The Addams Family; and horror story Candyman. Television highlights include: romantic comedy Four Weddings And A Funeral (10 x 60 mins); the fourth No Time To Die (MGM Worldwide series of Fargo (10 x 60 mins), set in Television Distribution) the1950s; modern noir drama Perpetual Grace LTD (10 x 60 mins); and new series Personal Injury Court (120 x 30 mins). Formats include: quiz shows Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader and Generation Gap; and TKO: Total Knockout, an obstacle course series.

DAEHAN MEDIAWORLD TWO TITLES top the roster for Korea’s Daehan Mediaworld. Ultimate Volcano Adventure (2 x 52 mins/4K) follows a team of international adventurers on world’s most active volcanoes in Congo, Ethiopia and Vanuatu. Mountain Between Borders (1 x 52 mins/4K) features the highest mountain on the Korean Peninsula, on the border between China and North Korea. This special features the animals and plants that inhabit the mountain’s many climates, waterfalls and lakes, including the crater lake of emerald water.

Ultimate Volcano Adventure (Daehan Mediaworld)

MEDIA CARAVAN A PRIORITY for China’s Media Caravan is the period kung-fu drama The Longest Day In Chang’an (23 x 45 mins). Featuring an international cast, the 60-episode series recounts a multi-layered story happening over 24 hours. In AD 744, a group of terrorists infiltrated into trade caravans plans to launch a fire attack at Chang’an. Lee, the head of Chang’an’s anti-terror department, has to protect the capital. He teams with Zhang, a death-row prisoner and former constable. They prevent many disasters, but Lee is dragged into a whirlpool of conspiracy.

The Longest Day In Chang’an (Media Caravan)

IGMAR AT MIPCOM this year Russia’s Igmar is presenting Three Days Till The Spring, a wartime detective story during the siege of Leningrad; and another wartime drama, The Oath, centres on a doctor who runs a psychiatric hospital in Sevastopol, caring for victims of repressions, and later Nazi occupation. Igmar also brings two animated titles. Afanasii.

The Road To The Other End Of The World, about a Russian merchant travelling to India in the 15th century; and educational series Petrushka celebrates Russian handcrafts through the adventures of Three Days Till The Spring (Igmar) a toy.

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BRINGING INDIA TO THE WORLD THE ACCIDENTAL ENGLISH TEACHER (130 hours) A journey of an uneducated English teacher

WEB OF LOVE (130 hours) Journey of three individuals whose lives are entwined in one marriage

THE BRAVE HEARTED (130 hours) Story of a fiercely independent woman who takes on the world to protect her family

SONS OF LORD RAM & SITA (130 hours) Virtues of Lord Ram and Goddess Sita narrated through the lens of their sons, Luv and Kush

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BANIJAY RIGHTS BANIJAY Rights launches comedic physical game show Don’t (8 x 60 mins) at MIPCOM. Hosted by Adam Scott (Big Little Lies), the show features families who can win money by following one simple rule: Don’t. Each week a family of four receives their directives — it Don’t (Banijay Rights) could be don’t blink, don’t play with matches, don’t get tired or don’t play ball.

Produced by Banijay Studios North America for ABC Network, the show is also available as a format.

LIONSGATE LIONSGATE is launching a new drama series in Cannes. Manhunt: Lone Wolf (10 x 60 mins) chronicles one of the largest and most complex manhunts in the US, the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, Eric Rudolph, played

by Jack Huston. The series also stars Cameron Britton, Gethin Anthony, Carla Gugino, Desmond Harrington, Arliss Howard, Kelly Jenrette and Judith Light, and is produced by Spectrum Originals and Lionsgate Television. Lionsgate also highlights Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (12 x 60 mins), about a smart computer coder forging her way in San Francisco. Manhunt: Lone Wolf (Lionsgate)

AVAILABLE for the first time in Cannes from HIP is the CG-animated series, friendZspace (working title). The 52 x 11 mins series is targeted at six– to 11-year-olds, and is a new character-driven comedy about three human kids on a mission to make friends with outer-space kids across the universe and then share their findings via posts to kids on Planet Earth. The action-packed series is currently in production at Shellhut Entertainment for delivery in the third quarter of 2021. friendZspace (HIP)

STUDIOCANAL THE NEW thriller drama series from Studiocanal, Savages, is set in present-day France, with the first presidential candidate of Algerian descent on the brink of power. He is shot on the night of the election, bringing turmoil to two families and the entire nation. Adapted from Sabri Louatah’s novels, Savages has an ensemble cast including Marina Fois, Roschdy Zem, Amira Casar, Souheila Yacoub, Dali Benssalah and Sofiane Zermani. Savages (Studiocanal)

WAG ENTERTAINMENT NORMAAL ANIMATION A TOP priority for France’s Normal Animation at MIPCOM is Ella, Oscar & Hoo (52 x 11 mins), based on picture books by Theo de Marcousin and Michael Dudok De Wit. The stories concern a smart and active girl, a little boy and a very young cloud. Their adventures include chasing dinosaurs, exploring mysterious woods and assisting Santa as they learn courage, honesty and the benefits of friendship.

WAG ENTERTAINMENT is using MIPCOM to launch documentary Monster Ships (8 x 60 mins). The series profiles the crews of the world’s monster ships, as they take on the toughest jobs on the roughest oceans ­— from arctic icebreakers to hi-tech aircraft carriers. Monster Ships reveals each ship’s engineering secrets — from how they were built to how the crews keep them running. The series is a Wag TV production for Yesterday (UKTV).

MEDIA GROUP UKRAINE PROGRAMMING from the Ukrainian TV channel highlighted in Cannes includes three 16-episode HD drama series. Who Are You? is about psychologist Inga, who after the mysterious deaths of a couple of her patients and the disappearance of her fiance, begins Who Are You? (Media Group Ukraine) to work in the field of criminal profiling. Reflection Of Desires is a family drama, focused on a young woman who dreams of working in a famous designer house. November Sun sees Nina transform from a self-conscious, unlucky girl into a strong personality. Nina becomes a source of hope and light not only to her family and friends but also to all those who need help and support.

Monster Ships (Wag Entertainment)

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AT MIPCOM Beta Film presents third seasons of two of its long-running dramas, Tom Tykwer’s Babylon Berlin (28 x 60 mins) and Italian crime series Rocco Schiavone (28 x 60 mins). Other titles include: The Pier (16 x 60 mins), which returns with eight new episodes after premiering at MIPCOM last year; 1994, retelling Italy’s recent history concerning the rise of Silvio Berlusconi; crime procedural Hudson & Rex; a second season of Maria Theresa; and The Velvet Collection (20 x 60 mins), the spin-off of Spanish series Velvet, which comes to a grand Christmas finale.

THE FOOD Inventors (7 x 60 mins) focuses on six food inventors, people or small companies, with an idea for a new food product. They are given €15,000 and mentored for six months to help refine their product. After various challenges the inventors are scored each week by a panel of experts, as they strive to see their product released nationwide through The Food Inventors (Magnify Media) a supermarket chain.

PASSION DISTRIBUTION PASSION Distribution brings a slate of more than 100 hours of factual and entertainment titles to MIPCOM. Entertainment highlights include RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (8 x 60 mins), in which RuPaul has crossed the pond in search of a British queen with the most charisma, uniqueness and talent in the elimination series. Lifestyle titles include Twice The Life For Half The Price (6 x 60 mins and format), presented by Kate Humble, who joins families who are looking to change their lives in a big way; and The World’s Most Expensive Cruise (4 x 60 mins). From the factual slate comes: Secrets Of Royal Travel (2 x 60 mins), which tells the inside story of the traditions and protocols of the British monarchy on the move; Pompeii: The Untold Story (1 x 90 mins); and Architecture The Railways Built (10 x 60 mins), looking at railway architecture across the UK and Europe built in the 19th century.

Babylon Berlin (Beta Film)

MY ENTERTAINMENT IN EDD China’s Garage Revival (6 x 60 mins) car expert Edd China answers the distress calls of amateur mechanics working on reviving and renovating their dream cars when their projects grind to a halt. He works with the mechanics so they can get the cars back on the road.

Edd China’s Garage Revival (MY Entertainment)

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ORF-ENTERPRISE is showcasing a selection of new content including: the fourth season of dramedy Suburbia – Women On The Edge (40 x 48 mins), featuring five witty housewives; the new season of comedy Walking On Sunshine (20 x 45 mins); Timber! and Workout, the latest 90-minute films in the Tatort crime-movie franchise; and from ORF’s nature and wildlife brand Universum, Empire Of The Vineyard (1 x 52 mins/4K) and Corsica – Mountains In The Sea (1 x 52 mins/4K). Universum History documentary Richard The Lionheart also premieres at MIPCOM.

Suburbia – Women On The Edge (ORF-Enterprise)

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (Passion Distribution)

EBS KOREA’s EBS (Korea Educational Broadcasting System) brings documentary series Mystery Migration: Red Crabs Of Christmas Island (3 x 50 mins/HD) to Cannes.

Once a year — around Christmas — on the coast of Christmas Island a crimson carpet covers the ground as more than one hundred million red crabs march en masse from inland forests to the shores. They risk their lives on this 12-hour journey to spawn in the sea.

Mystery Migration: Red Crabs Of Christmas Island (EBS)

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NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL thriller The Secrets She Keeps (6 x 60 mins) is brought to MIPCOM by the UK’s DCD Rights. An adaptation of Michael Robotham’s novel, it tells the story of two women who have a chance encounter in a supermarket in an affluent Sydney suburb. They are the same age, both heavily pregnant. Meghan (Jessica De Gouw) is a glamorous online influencer and Agatha (Laura Carmichael) works in the supermarket as a shelf stacker. Both women have secrets and their worlds collide in one shocking act.

A MIPCOM highlight for IX Media is the martial arts drama The Return Of The Condor Heroes (50 x45 mins). Based on a novel by Jin Yong, it is a love story about the martial arts master Yang Guo and Xiao Long Nv in mid-13th century China. When Yang is orphaned as a boy he encounters the mysterious young woman Xiao, who lives in a remote region. She takes him under her wing and he begins to train in all aspects of martial arts. Other titles brought to Cannes include Cantabile Youth (48 x 45 mins), about two young musicians and romance Love Under The Moon (48 x 45 mins).

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OCTOBER MEDIA OCTOBER Media, creator of 2015 feature Monkey King – Hero Is Back, brings its first original 3D animation series to MIPCOM, Monkey King And JJ (52 x 11 mins). Targeting children aged six to 11, this comedy follows Monkey King, a superhero who accidentally falls into the modern world and loses 80% of his magical powers. He meets JJ, a nine-year-old boy who then follows Monkey King around as he gets into all kinds of trouble.

The Secrets She Keeps (DCD Rights)

YOUHUG MEDIA SHANGHAI’s Youhug Media is highlighting the 52-minute format Your Home Is My Business at MIPCOM. The story concerns a determined real-estate saleswoman, who pries into the private lives of her clients, using any tactics to find them the right home and maintain her 100% success rate.

UK DISTRIBUTOR Kew Media Distribution brings new documentary series The Movies (12 x 60 mins/6 x 120 mins) to MIPCOM. From executive producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, in association with HBO and Mark Herzog, the CNN Original Series explores American cinema through the decades and the cultural, societal and political shifts that framed its evolution, combining archival footage and interviews. The series is produced by The Playtone Company and Herzog & Company.

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Monkey King – Hero Is Back (October Media)

WINSING ANIMATION CHINA’s Winsing Animation brings a range of kids programming to Cannes.

A highlight is a new CGI animation aimed at two- to six-year-olds. Gogo Bus tells the story of Gordon the talking school bus who transports children from home to nursery, protecting them and helping them with everyday problems.

MIPCOM will also see the introduction of two new in-development projects looking for co-production and investment: the action-focused Herbal Master, about a young recruit to the ancient Herbal Masters, and his mission to save his little sister from a fierce beast; and Lion Dance, about a former dancing star who aims for a comeback.

Heath Ledger, featured in The Movies (Kew Media Distribution)

YAP FILMS TORONTO’s Yap Films introduces a slate of factual programming at MIPCOM. A company speciality is LGBTQ programming. My Trans Journey (5 x 30 mins) follows Dr Carys Massarella as she helps her patients with their transitions.

Translating Beauty (1 x 60 mins) explores the concept of beauty in the age of social media, through the lens of transgender women. Murder On The Fringe (6 x 60 mins) is a true-crime series recounting some of the most notorious homicides of the last 30 years. Also new for MIPCOM is Construction Fails (8 x 60 mins/16 x 30 mins), looking at mishaps from the world of construction.

Gogo Bus (Winsing Animation)

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FRENCH animation producer and distributor Dandelooo brings pre-school CGI series Taina And The Amazon’s Guardians (52 x 11 mins) to MIPCOM. Based on successful Brazilian films, the series features eco-friendly storylines in which children learn about the rainforest, respecting cultures and friendship.

The series is co-produced by Brazil’s Hype and Sincrocine, and Nickelodeon, with Dandelooo responsible for worldwide distribution.

RICKY Zoom (52 x 11 mins) is a new pre-school series about a red rescue bike and his bike buddies. They race around the sports track and try new stunts while learning to stand on their own two wheels. Other priority titles from the Toronto-based eOne include: the eighth series of Peppa Pig (52 x 5 mins), introducing sporty Mandy Mouse in her wheelchair and the puzzle-solving Panda Twins; PJ Masks (52 x 11 mins); and Cupcake & Dino (52 x 11 mins).

Ricky Zoom (eOne) Taina And The Amazon’s Guardians (Dandelooo)

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PERNEL MEDIA SECRETS Of The Pyramid Builders (6 x 45 mins), from Pernel Media and Vivendi Entertainment, profiles the construction of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx of Giza. Combining 4K fictional scenes shot in Morocco with the latest research from Egypt, expert interviews and VFX reconstructions, the story emphasises the less-known tales of people who lived and worked in the shadow of the pyramids and how the construction lead to the creation of the first centralised administration. Vivendi Entertain- Secrets Of The Pyramid Builders ment distributes the series globally. (Pernel Media)

PALATIN Media is launching the first season of sci-fi drama Spides (8 x 60 mins) in Cannes, which as been acquired by NBCUniversal International Networks. Set in modern-day Berlin, Spides follows Nora, who wakes from a coma without any memory after taking a mysterious drug. A local police detective and his partner are hunting down the drug in relation to dozens of missing teens. When Nora tries to find out what happened to her, she discovers that aliens are using humans as host bodies, and that she is the key to the invasion.

Spides (Palatin Media)

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DOCUMENTARY series Africa Wild (26 x 45 mins) is in production and showcased at MIPCOM by West One International. Filmed over several seasons, the series delves into the complex lives of the continent’s extraordinary species and their struggle for survival. From hostile desert to swamplands, forests and oceans, meals are hard to come by, enemies are plentiful and the weather can change in a heartbeat.

A MIPCOM focus for France’s TF1 is a series of dramas based on or inspired by true stories. Never Without You, Louna (1 x 100 mins/2 x 50 mins) is about medics who suspect parental abuse when a young girl is hospitalised. The mother, who carries a rare disease, demands a blood test for her daughter, but the doctor won’t listen and the family comes under suspicion. How Mom Turned To Armed Robbery (1 x 104 mins/2 x 52 mins) is about a struggling single mother who can see only one solution to save her family. Inside Suspicion (1 x 90 mins/2 x 45 mins) is about a woman who’s partner is suspected of being an assassin, who vanished 15 years ago after murdering his family.

The First Forgotten (1 x 100 mins/2 x 50 mins) is about a man who cares for his mother who is suffering with Alzheimer’s.

Africa Wild (West One International)

Never Without You, Louna (TF1)

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ON THE slate for London-based Drive are: Poisonous Liaisons (13 x 60 mins), an HD factual series tracing the practice of poisoning and its use in infamous crimes; Should We Bomb Auschwitz? (1 x 60 mins), which combines drama with first-hand testimony from survivors, archive and expert voices; The Restoration Yard (working title) (10 x 60 mins), featuring antiques dealer and restorer Gary Wallis; The World’s Most Beautiful Railway (6 x 60 mins), showcasing Scotland’s dramatic landscape; documentary 10 Mistakes That Sunk The Titanic (1 x 60 mins); Return To Downton Abbey (1 x 60 mins), about Highclere Castle; A Killer’s Mistake (10 x 60 mins), about 10 murder investigations; The World’s Deadliest Weather (13 x 60 mins); and Warship: Life The Restoration Yard (Drive) At Sea.

PROGRAMMING on offer from China’s Left Pocket Animation includes: The Adventures Of Papa And Melody (52 x 13 mins), for six- to nine-yearolds, about a girl and her father who face the threat of a fearful demon trapped inside a sealed book; Nana & The Toy Kingdom (52 x 11 mins), about two sisters who play with magic toys; Mini Mind Warriors (104 x 7 mins), about little heroes who fight the evil Trouble Monsters; and Emmy & GooRoo (52 x 11 mins/104 x 7 mins), about Emmy and her best friend, Goo- The Adventures Of Papa And Melody Roo, in their magical forest home.

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ELECTRIC ENTERTAINMENT FANTASY adventure series The Outpost (23 x 60 mins) features a woman with supernatural powers she must learn to control in order to defend the world.

Other content from LA-based Electric Entertainment includes: Almost Paradise (10 x 60 mins), set in the Philippines where a retired DEA agent becomes entangled in a drug investigation; mystery drama Change Is In The Air (1 x 94 mins); comedy romance Say My Name (1 x 83 mins); and the Stephen J Cannall Library, a collection of drama series from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Go To Zhongnan Mountain (Oriental Creative Color)

ZIG ZAG PRODUCTIONS

The Outpost (Electric Entertainment)

FILMRISE US DISTRIBUTOR FilmRise brings a range of series and films to Cannes, including: West Of Liberty (6 x 60 mins), a thriller following a former Stasi agent; Little Dog (season 1, 7 x 30 mins/season 2, 8 x 30 mins), a comedy about a washedup boxer; The Cat And The Moon (1 x 108 mins), about a young man on a trip to New York; Nighthawks (1 x 90 mins), set in the nightlife of New York; and 1275 Days (1 x 80 mins), about a young man’s experiences in prison.

West Of Liberty (FilmRise)

TWO TITLES are prioritised

by Oriental Creative Color at MIPCOM. Go To Zhongnan Mountain is an animated series about a magic-arts student who is tasked with taking his late master’s ashes to Zhongnan mountain.

Awakening is a fantasy drama in which humans have overdeveloped AI, causing the awakening of the AI main brain, which captures human consciousness and creates a zombie world.

THE MANDELA Tapes (1 x 90 mins/3 x 60 mins) is a documentary chronicling Nelson Mandela’s life in his own words, based around his own audio tapes.

The tapes, sourced from the Nelson Mandela Foundation, begin a year after he was released from prison. In over 15 hours of tapes he alternately reminisces about his past and deliberates on the extreme challenges he was facing. The documentary is intercut with archive imagery, and is produced to coincide with the 30th anniversary of Mandela’s release from Robben Island.

The Mandela Tapes (Zig Zag Productions)

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BARCROFT STUDIOS LONDON-based Barcroft Studios is showcasing Love Don’t Judge (10 x 60 mins) in Cannes, featuring remarkable couples hoping to find acceptance from their loved ones. As they prepare to declare their love at a public event, they must rally their friends and family to convince them to accept their extraordinary relationships.

Love Don’t Judge (Barcroft Studios)

GIL FORMATS LAUGHING All The Way To The Bank is a comedy competition format in which people get the chance to win a cash prize by making an accountant laugh during a car ride to their bank.

The accountant does their best to keep a straight face, but if the contestant makes them laugh they win a cash prize, which they can deposit in their bank at the end of the ride. The format is showcased in Cannes Laughing All The Way To The Bank

by Israel’s Gil Formats.

(Gil Formats)

BAVARIA FICTION FREUD (8 x 45 mins) is a German-language Netflix Original series, a co-production with ORF, Satel Film and Bavaria Fiction. The mystery thriller series is based on the celebrated doctor in 1890s Vienna. Young psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud meets the war veteran and policeman Alfred Kiss and medium Fleur Salome, then unwittingly becomes part of an investigation into a murderous conspiracy. ZDF Enterprises handles international distribution.

Freud (Bavaria Fiction)

RED ARROW STUDIOS INTERNATIONAL RED ARROW Studios International brings a diverse slate to MIPCOM. The scripted line-up includes: Dignity (8 x 52 mins), a thriller based on real events, about a Germanic cult established by a former Nazi in a Chilean town; The Bank Hacker (8 x 50 mins), about a teenager who joins expert con men to commit a bank heist; and Vienna Blood (3 x 90 mins/6 x 45 mins), a mystery set against the backdrop of philosophy, science and art in 1900s Vienna.

Factual titles include Dog’s Most Wanted (10 x 45 mins), following a bounty hunter. Format highlights include: Meat The Family, which sees four meat-eating families welcome an animal they frequently eat into their homes, before learning close up about animal welfare; and Beat The Channel, in which two presenters are given the chance to win a 15-minute live broadcast slot.

MEDIAWAN RIGHTS DRAMA series The War Is Over (8 x 52 mins), from producer Palomar and brought to MIPCOM by France’s Mediawan, begins when young survivors from extermination camps return home. For some, there is no family waiting for them and the story follows some of these children and adolescents, and also the brave adults who help them slowly return to their lives.

BEYOND TNC BEYOND TNC is launching Boomtown (1 x 60/90 mins) at MIPCOM, the story of Irish rock band The Boomtown Rats. Produced by Sideline Films for BMG Films, the special includes exclusive access to personal archive and interviews with the re-grouped members of The Boomtown Rats (Bob Geldof, Garry Roberts, Pete Briquette and Simon Crowe), as well as special guests, including Bono, Sting, Sinead O’Connor, Clem Burke, Dave Stewart and Jools Holland.

The Boomtown Rats

Dignity (Red Arrow Studios International)

POWER ENTERTAINMENT POWER Entertainment brings global rights for Joshua v Klitschko: Return To Wembley to MIPCOM, featuring world-famous boxers Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitschko. In the documentary they relive their dramatic April 2017 world-title fight and reveal what really happened in the ring that night in front of 90,000 people.

Joshua v Klitschko: Return To Wembley

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MIPCOM sees DRG launching a diverse new slate of history titles, led by The Last Journey Of The Vikings, a 4 x 60 mins docu-drama series produced by Mopar Studios for Viaplay and France Television. Featuring dramatic reconstructions, with commentary from leading academics, it charts the history of these warriors from the sixth century up to the Norman conquest of Britain in 1066. The slate also features: Titans Of The 20th Century (6 x 60 mins), including Churchill, Hitler, General Franco and Golda Meir; Jungle War (4 x 60 mins); and A Royal Tour Of The 20th Century (4 x 60 mins).

FRANCE’s Millimages is premiering the fourth season of Molang (52 x 5 mins) at MIPCOM, with a new concept and five-minute format.

Further animation series from Millimages include: Louie, Louie & Yoko Build (78 x 7 mins), featuring Louie’s busy toolbox; The Adventures Of Nasredin (21 x 5 mins), about an oriental character who can’t help mocking the absurdity of today’s world; and the first images of series in development Animacars (52 x 11 mins), about Jonny Toolbox, Molang (Millimages) a 10-year-old park ranger.

RAINBOW RAINBOW brings its animated series 44 Cats (52 x 13 mins) to Cannes, which launched in Canada through Corus Entertainment. The CGI series features music and themes of tolerance, diversity and altruism, positive values, action and comedy. The show follows the adventures of Lampo, Milady, Pilou, and Meatball, four adorable kittens who are part of music group The Buffycats.

The Last Journey Of The Vikings (DRG)

RAI COM RAI COM, the sales arm of Italian pubcaster RAI, brings a range of programming to Cannes. Heading the list is Commissario Ricciardi, set in 1930s Naples and following a young detective who can see ghosts of victims and hear their last thoughts. Other series include: family dramas Angela (3 x 100 mins), Live And Let Live (12 x 50 mins), Escape From Mafia 1-2 (6 x 50 mins), Ladies’ Paradise Daily 1-4 (380 x 45 mins); comedy The Nest (12 x 30 mins); and biopics Piaggio and Singing Mates. Documentaries include: travel tour of Italy Meraviglie (12 x 52 mins); crime investigation Narcotica (5 x 50 mins); Our Pope (1 x 72 mins), the story of Pope Francis; and environmental investigation series Unfiltered (6 x 50 mins). Rai Com also brings an extensive range of performance art programmes.

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44 Cats (Rainbow)

WORLD MEDIA RIGHTS

Commissario Ricciardi (Rai Com)

THE ROYALS In Colour (10 x 60 mins) charts the rise, fall and rebranding of royal families across the globe from the First World War to the present day.

From the murder of the Romanov family in 1918 to Prince Harry’s marriage to Meghan Markle in 2018, it uses previously unseen black and white archive that has been colourised. The UK company also brings Catching The Cold Killers (10 x 60 mins), featuring Rick Jackson and Adam Bercovici, two veterans of the LAPD Cold Case Unit, who re-open cases. Rick was the inspiration for Michael Connelly’s fictional character Harry Bosch in his best-selling series of crime novels.

ON A mysterious island live two magical families — the Stephen family (with daughter Vivi) and the Seven Hair family. In Little Vivi (52 x 11 mins) family members Vivi and Pai are forced to face a monster in order to protect the inhabitants and restore peace. The series is brought to Cannes by Suzhou Hong Ying Animation.

Little Vivi (Suzhou Hong Ying Animation)

The Royals In Colour (World Media Rights)

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NEW PROGRAMMING from Cologne-based Authentic includes: Berlin 1945 (3 x 50 mins), which uses fast-paced collage to create a narrative of how the war was won and lost; Geared Up (10 x 45 mins), in which a husband-and-wife team restores classic vehicles; and What Went Wrong (6 x 52 mins), looking into six catastrophic events that shook the world — all triggered by technological failures.

MONSTERS In The Forbidden City is a live show and CG animation franchise aimed at young adults, and brought to Cannes by Original Force. Teenage girl Rain obtains a magic gemstone earring and is thrown into the fantastic Shenshou-monster world inside the Forbidden City. Rain, along with teenage monster Carp Dragon and her eccentric classmate Nirvana, explore the magic world where Chinese traditional culture comes to life to solve the biggest crisis between the human and Shenshou world.

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Berlin 1945 (Autentic Distribution)

SPAIN’s Planeta Junior returns to MIPCOM with its three high-profile titles.

Gormiti (52 x 11 mins) is a new 3D CGI action and comedy series in which four kids discover the One Tower and create the Elemental Bracers, which allows them to call and fight with the legendary Gormiti. But the Tower revealed itself for a reason: the Darkans, ancestral enemies, threaten all living beings in Gorm. Squish (52 x 11 mins) is an animated comedy about amoeba school kids — their friendships, their parents, and their efforts to fit in. The company also highlights the third series of Pucca.

ECCHO RIGHTS ECCHO Rights is launching North Star to the international market at MIPCOM, the latest drama series in a long collaboration between Surec Film and Eccho Rights. North Star is about Kuzey, who turned his back on his rural home as a young man and moved to the city. Married, with three daughters and a great career, his move is justified until the day he loses his job and his wife leaves him.

Monsters In The Forbidden City (Original Force)

North Star (Eccho Rights)

HUACE MEDIA CHINA’s Huace Media’s MIPCOM catalogue is headed up by Le Coup De Foudre, a romance about high-school friends Zhao Qiaoyi and Yan Mo. They drift apart for four years until a school reunion. Another priority title is Mr. Fighting, in which Hao Ze Yu thought he was on his way to stardom after a successful talent competition, but fame proved fleeting for him. A decade later, he has all but left behind his dreams when things change quickly and a group of supportive individuals help him turn his career around.

TCB MEDIA RIGHTS SHIPWRECK Secrets (6 x 60 mins), produced by Like A Shot Entertainment, features teams of explorers, investigators and maritime experts from across the globe as they discover, identify and uncover some of the most fascinating wrecks on earth. From ships believed lost in the Bermuda Triangle, to the largest naval battle in history, the series uses cutting-edge underwater technology to piece the evidence together.

PROMISINGKIDS TECHNOLOGY CORP CHINESE educational content specialist PromisingKids brings Learn Languages With Beva to MIPCOM, a series of animations for kids, helping them learn foreign vocabulary while having fun. Aimed at the under-threes, it comes with multi-language versions, including English, Spanish, French and Chinese. In Hi Little Car, the first season of Learn Languages With Beva, the little beaver has adventures with 30 different vehicles, including a digger, a hot air balloon and a road sweeper. Future seasons will explore animals, insects and food, among other themes.

Gormiti (Planeta Junior)

Learn Languages With Beva (PromisingKids Technology Corp)

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ATRESMEDIA TOY BOY is a new thriller in which a stripper wakes up in the middle of the ocean after attending a wild party with the beheaded body of his lover’s husband on deck. Seven years later, a young attorney discovers irregularities in the original trial and manages to get him free, though full of revenge. Another title from Spain’s Atresmedia is Presumed Guilty which tells the story of Jon, a scientist who returns to his village after of the death of his father. He has to confront ghosts from his past and a mystery that was never resolved, the disappearance of his girlfriend.

GOQUEST MEDIA VENTURES GOQUEST Media Ventures brings two Russian crime dramas to MIPCOM, from Russian private broadcaster NTV. In Paper Pusher (16 x 48 mins) a normally quiet detective is transferred to a border town run by two rival clans. He is determined to clean up the town and find a way to Paper Pusher (GoQuest Media Ventures) stop the criminals. In The Policeman’s Wife (16 x 48 mins) Lera has to protect her family and her police officer husband Victor, who is strong on the surface, yet rotten inside. Victor wants to stop his illegal behaviour, but his wife’s illness pushes him to continue because she needs expensive therapy.

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HG DISTRIBUTION is launching new 4K documentary Cat Empire (1 x 68 mins/3 x 52 mins), a series that explores the bond between humans and cats. Further content from Quebec-based HG Distribution includes: 4K fantasy thriller Le 422 (13 x 22 mins), in which five youngsters discover a secret passage to a mysteri- Cat Empire (HG Distribution) ous world containing a priceless treasure; Wild Game (13 x 30 mins), which follows Top Chef Canada finalist Rich Francis, as he meets hunters and gatherers, farmers and fishermen to learn, catch and cook; and Adventure Guides (40 x 52 mins), which showcases the individuals who work as guides.

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NHK A PRIORITY for Japan’s NHK is drama An Artist Of The Floating World (1 x 89 mins/2K/4K/8K). In post-war Japan Masuji Ono is an ageing painter of considerable renown, and life in his lavish mansion unfolds peacefully. But tranquility is broken when he is told that his daughter’s marriage talks broke down because of him. Although he does not like to discuss it, Masuji had played a willing part in wartime, ultimately betraying his teacher and friends. As Masuji traces his past by visiting acquaintances, he discovers that memory is ephemeral and incomplete. Starring Ken Watanabe, the film is a dramatisation of a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.

BERLIN-based Quintus Media unveils No-Go Zones – The World’s Toughest Places (6 x 60 mins) at MIPCOM. The series features active criminal hoods, occupied blocks, red-light districts, neighbourhoods and areas that people avoid for their safety, where prostitutes, drug dealers, gang members, policemen and regular residents create an explosive cocktail. Quintus Media No-Go Zones – The World’s Toughest holds worldwide rights.

Places (Quintus Media)

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TWO TITLES are introduced to the international market at MIPCOM by China’s Steam Works. Annie And Lulu is a stop-motion feature film looking for investment and distribution. The story is about an incompetent devil who was ordered to murder a lonely girl who sells sweets on the street, but following the girl he discovers the beauty of human nature and decides to make a change.

Another stop-motion animation is Mini Town (104 x 7 mins) featuring a group of bears that live happily in the deep forest.

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DFW INTERNATIONAL, the new international sales division for Dutch film distributor Dutch FilmWorks, is debuting at MIPCOM. Two drama series head the slate. Women Of The Night (10 x 45 mins) is set in a world of high-class escorts and crime, as Xandra gets drawn into this violent scene, while trying to keep her husband and daughter out of it. Stanley (4 x 50 mins) is based on the life of one of the Netherland’s most infamous criminals, from ‘gentleman’ bank robber to hardened drugs criminal and through to his mysterious death in 2011.

GAD DISTRIBUTION PARIS-based GAD returns to MIPCOM with a wide-ranging catalogue of factual programming, including: Guarantors For Humanity (1 x 63 mins), focusing on the migration crisis; Shellfish, From The Sea To Our Plates (1 x 52 mins), looking at those working to meet the growing demand Guarantors For Humanity (GAD) for seafood; And There Was Music (1 x 52 mins), exploring the early sources of music; Lafayette In The Americas, The Search For A Destiny (1 x 90 mins); Ishinpo, The Healing Arts (1 x 52 mins), about the ancient text of Japanese medicine; and music performance shows Gioconda By Amilcare Ponchielli (1 x 170 mins), Turandot By Giacomo Puccini (1 x 180 mins) and Baroque Odyssey, A Birthday Concert In The Gardens Of William Christie (1 x 43 mins).

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MADRID-based Wild Stories presents its lighthearted exploration of the lives of animals — Wild Workers — at MIPCOM. Animals, like humans, follow a life cycle of birth, breeding, feeding, mating and reproduction, which often depends on a lifetime of dedication to work — including gathering, hunting, building and digging.

TWO ANIMATIONS top the priority list in Cannes for China’s Orange Entertainment. Flip & Flap (104 × 4 mins) features two cute and happy fish who live in a small aquarium. No matter what happens in their tiny world, they always try to help each other while having lots of fun. Romi & Dami (26 × 3 mins), about two friends, is a non-dialogue show with educational Flip & Glap (Orange Entertainment) and positive themes.

RTE PROGRAMME SALES HOW ANIMALS Work (4 x 30 mins), brought to Cannes by Ireland’s RTE Programme Sales, explores the behaviours, biology and mechanics of animals in natural habitats and under human control. The series includes dissection scenes to explain the inner workings of some of the animals and input from academics, zoologists and vets.

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Esports has gone from a blip on the entertainment radar to a multibillion dollar mainstream industry, complete with dedicated events, tournaments and professional leagues. No wonder the world’s media power players are eyeing up the esports market, writes Juliana Koranteng

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EDIAPRO Group, the international award-winning Spanish film, TV and video-games independent producer, has extended its media-and-entertainment portfolio to include esports, the next-generation content category based on competitive video-gaming.

“We are working on a new concept called ‘esportstainment’, which we think will become a new content trend,” says Maria Carmen Fernandez, Mediapro’s innovation manager. “To the DNA of a company like Mediapro, esports content is mainly about entertainment.”

Maria Carmen Fernandez:

“We are working on a new concept called ‘esportstainment’, which we think will become a new content trend” As TV producers, distributors and buyers seek new genres capable of attracting young consumers, it MIPCOM News 1 • 105 • 14 October 2019

is perhaps unsurprising that esports, with its massive millennial and gen-Z fanbase, is developing into a new content category. “Esports and gaming content is becoming a strong trend in the market of entertainment consumption”, Fernandez adds.

“TV networks and new OTT platforms have a real chance to compete in the market with this new category of content and, in so doing, also offer the audience different formats to be consumed whenever and wherever the consumer desires.”

To show its commitment to esports, Mediapro became the full owner of the Liga de Videojuegos Profesional (LVP), a leading Spanish organiser of esports competitions and live events, in May. This gives Mediapro access to original content for U-Beat, its interactive live-streaming platform covering esports contests. U-Beat is also available as a linear-TV network, targeting European and Latin America’s expanding gaming audience. And with centennials (also known as gen Z) and millennials as the main audience, both platforms are designed to be viewed via mobile devices as well.

Esports is also generating its own clan of famous personalities, such as US-based multi-millionaire Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins. There are popular teams,

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Mediapro’s Maria Carmen Fernandez

Ginx’s Michiel Bakker

AX Entertainment’s Daisuke Kobayashi

7Sports’ Stefan Zant

PwC’s Andy Fahey

ZDFE.unscripted’s Ralf Rueckauer

leagues, on-screen casters (as esports commentators are called) and broadcasters — the name for players who host their own esports shows on streaming platforms, sometimes from their bedrooms. Several have become fulltime professionals and celebrities, earning millions from endorsing brands. Their achievements and lifestyles are the subject of documentaries and other TV-content genres. U-Beat’s programmes, for example, include talent show Master Caster and a late-night chat show called Hoy No Se Sale aimed at esports enthusiasts, casual fans and anyone keen on quality on-screen entertainment.

Fernandez emphasises that content creators entering this sector must be prepared to collaborate with fans, YouTube and other online influencers, brand-owners and sponsors to act as ambassadors for their platform. “At U-Beat, we are collaborating with casters, gamers and influencers, creating 360-content experiences in our main shows and content,” she says. “We foresee a big opportunity in creating a more mainstream kind of content.”

Japanese powerhouse Nippon Television Network Corporation

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has formed its own in-house esports team, AXIZ, which will be the focus of content as it competes in tournaments worldwide.

Nippon’s dedicated gaming subsidiary, AX Entertainment, has already produced eGG (Esports Good Game), a 50-minute documentary following the team’s ambitions, plus other esports news.

Explaining the need to have its own team, AX Entertainment CEO Daisuke Kobayashi says: “It’s becoming increasingly costly to acquire the broadcasting rights to popular sports games everywhere in the world, thereby putting pressure on the bottom line of companies like ours. The most important components of esports, as well as any other sport, are the team itself and the players.

As such, we deemed it necessary to own a team in order to create a viable esports business.”

As a strategy, it is nothing new for Nippon, Kobayashi adds: “We have a proven history of leveraging our platforms to pave the

way for an in-house sports team to succeed. Nippon TV is a part of the Yomiuri Shimbun group, which established the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball team.” Yomiuri Shimbun is a Japanese national newspaper with a 140-year history.

In Europe, several broadcast-TV players have entered the international esports space. Notable among them is Ginx Esports TV, headquartered in the UK and backed by leading British commercial broadcasters Sky and ITV. The service, acknowledged as the world’s first global esports-dedicated broadcast TV network, is available in 55 million-plus homes in 50 territories. In addition to the coverage of esports competitions, Ginx’s in-house produced shows include The First Hour, Daily Download and Fornitely.

Ginx CEO Michiel Bakker says premium esports content as standard TV entertainment is inevitable. “Seeing Kyle Giers-

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dorf, the 16-year-old winner of the $3m Fortnite World Cup first prize, being interviewed by Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight Show a few months ago, tells you something about stories within esports becoming more interesting to mainstream TV networks,” he says. “Increasingly, the stories of sudden-found wealth of individual players such as Kyle, the extraordinary team performances like the back-to-back win by the team OG of the biggest tournament in esports (known as The International) and the ever-growing audience reach of esports as a whole, make it impossible to ignore.”

In the UK, Sky Sport, BT Sport, Eleven Sports and BBC Three are also among the networks that transmit and cover esports events.

In continental Europe, eSportsTV is another international esports-focused network operated

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U-Beat’s Hoy No Se Sale

dinavian broadcast giant that also owns some of the biggest esports events, including the ESL tournaments, DreamHack and the Intel Extreme Masters franchises.

Hot on eSportsTV’s heels as an esports-centric TV brand is France’s ES1, the satellite, cable and online operation that belongs to media organisation Webedia, a subsidiary of French conglomerate Fimalac.

Other leading European TV services to offer esports shows include Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 and Sport1, France’s Canal+ and Mediawan (formerly AB Groupe), Portugal’s RTP and Poland’s Gametoon HD. Over in North America, Turner, the broadcaster owned by WarnerMedia (formerly Time Warner), has formed a joint venture with Hollywood talent agency WME-IMG to launch Eleague.

This organises and covers live professional tournaments and creates accompanying TV shows, which are viewed on Twitch or Turner’s TBS channel.

The US national network ABC made esports history this year when it broadcast the semi-final and final of the inaugural Overwatch League tournament, which is considered the first truly professional competitive-gaming tournament.

Meanwhile, sports TV network ESPN, a sister network of ABC in the Walt Disney empire, has

added international esports TV coverage to its line-up, including events in the US, Brazil and India.

Video gaming is also hot in the Latin markets, as is demonstrated by investments by Spanish media group Mediapro, Universo, the US-based Hispanic network jointly owned by NBCUniversal and Telemundo, and Spanish-language DirecTV in Chile.

Over in Asia, broadcasters are expected to embrace esports, given the rapid growth of esports in China, Japanese regulators’ move to legalise professional esports last year and the inclusion of esports as a demonstration event in the Olympics-backed Asian Games.

Meanwhile, African fans can catch esports coverage via Ginx Esports TV, which is available on MultiChoice’s DStv platform.

German broadcast juggernaut ProSiebenSat.1 Media has been championing esports since 2016.

Via 7Sports, it creates and offers related content on linear-TV and digital platforms, including freeto-air service ProSieben Maxx. It cemented its commitment further by forming esports.com GSA, a joint venture with German esports portal esports.com, late last year.

“We believe it is essential to connect the digital world with TV. That’s why 7Sports takes a holistic approach, in which TV is only

one part of our esports ecosystem,” says Stefan Zant, 7Sports’ managing director. “Our approach is to create high-quality formats that educate our viewers about esports, aggregate relevant content and tell stories around that to reach the broad mass.”

He adds: “Esports has everything needed to be a real sport: competitions, emotions, tactics, skill, speed and much, much more. It’s not necessary to be a gamer to get excited about esports.”

Stefan Zant:

“Esports has everything: competitions, emotions, tactics, skill, speed… It’s not necessary to be a gamer to get excited about esports” Ralf Rueckauer, vice-president at ZDFE.unscripted, part of the German public broadcaster’s distribution division ZDF Enterprises, says the success of esports on platforms such as ProSieben Maxx or the French channel ES1 confirms the demand among young viewers. “The esports community is entering the

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linear world and apparently, it is enriching the overall audience instead of drawing viewers away from non-linear platforms,” he adds.

To that end, ZDFE will soon bolster its archive with the Global Masters live esports event, which takes place in July 2020, along with a host of factual esports shows made by ZDF Digital.

However, broadcasters need to understand the competitive-gaming community and how it interacts in real time with media, Rueckauer cautions: “Esports fans respond really, really fast to any action on the digital screen, and content creators and distributors must learn that.” This is crucial, as sponsors and advertisers see esports as the gateway to reach today’s fickle young digital natives, who are losing interest in traditional appointment-to-view TV. That said, the future of esports on TV looks bright, according to Andy Fahey, director and esports lead at PwC. The professional-services and research group forecasts global revenues will reach £1.38bn by 2023 from £755m in 2019. However, the potential revenue streams, including the value of media rights, need to be established.

Fahey says: “There are questions about where the correct home for esports coverage lies — on sports channels, entertainment channels or others? But the bigger question will be under what model will esports be shown? Will it be free to air [the esports community currently enjoys free coverage]? Will it be on a traditional subscription basis? Or will it be through one of the numerous streaming platforms now available?”

Esports is certainly the most dynamic new form of entertainment to emerge for gen Z and millennials — and Fahey believes the TV sector could become a significant part of it. “But trying to shoehorn esports into a particular box can be a tricky business,” he says. “Therefore, the answer may be to let esports be many things to many different people, and keep it out of a box altogether.”

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FEATURE: ESPORTS

Esports: the numbers Esports BAR, which aims to facilitate relationships between mainstream investors and esports businesses, is hosting several sessions are MIPCOM. The Reed MIDEM event, which launched in 2017 to tap into the growing esports phenomenon, takes place in Cannes and Miami annually. The next edition will be in Cannes in February 11-13, 2020

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LTHOUGH esports was established several decades ago within an underground community of mostly Asian video-game fanatics, esports as a professional mass-market entertainment sector has only taken hold only in the past few years. And Esports BAR’s mission is to introduce mainstream media-owners and brands to the millions of gen Z and millennial video-game players and fans who are prepared to pay good money to watch gamers compete against each other online and on-screen.

Research group Newzoo estimates there are more than 453 million dedicated and casual esports viewers worldwide and predicts $1bn-plus in revenues this year alone.

Esports entertainment is still a burgeoning sector, certainly compared to the global $135bn traditional video-game industry (according to Newzoo), let alone the $2.2tn global media and entertainment sector (PwC). However, its 27% annual growth rate is unheard of for such a newly professionalised commercial business.

At MIPCOM, delegates can learn more about how to tap into this

new form of interactive media and entertainment that appeals to some of today’s most difficult-to-reach consumers — young digital natives.

Today MIPCOM is hosting Why Brands Are More & More Investing in Esports? This will be followed on Wednesday by the session called Why Media Should Get Involved In Esports?

This is how esports, as competitive video-gaming is called, works.

Gamers can be watched going head-to-head playing popular titles such as Overwatch (by games publisher Blizzard Entertainment), League Of Legends (Riot Games), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (also known as CS:GO, co-created by Valve Corporation), Dota 2 (also from Valve) and Fortnite (Epic Games).

Tournament-sized competitions can be watched on-screen via live-streaming platforms including Twitch (a subsidiary of tech colossus Amazon.com), YouTube Gaming (part of the Google empire), Mixer (a Microsoft venture) and Facebook Gaming, plus their massive international rivals, which include Douyu TV and Huya, both partly owned by Chinese internet-media giant Tencent.

At MIPTV in April, Twitch’s sen-

Michael Aragon: “extensions yield 50% longer viewing sessions”

ior vice-president of content, Michael Aragon, spoke about how the live streaming-video platform is introducing TV content, including the superhero series Power Rangers, to the average 15 million visitors that log in daily to play or watch esports.

Michael Aragon:

“In 2018 alone, there were 30 billion interactions on Twitch” To promote the last Power Rangers film, Twitch initiated its first-ever Twitch Presents marathon, taking all 831 episodes of the show and airing them backto-back over four weeks. And the show was overlaid with emotes and live chats, giving it the feel of a communal experience. The Power Rangers marathon yielded 4.8 million unique viewers and 100 million community interactions.

The model also holds for sports.

NBA games are featured with video overlays of player stats and leaderboards. This type of content is

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called “extensions,” varieties of which number in the thousands on Twitch. “For younger, more engaged audiences, these things enhance experiences,” Aragon said during his presentation.

“People are twice as likely to return if an extension is used on content, and extensions yield 50% longer viewing sessions.

Already, major marketers including Coca-Cola, Toyota, Coty, AirAsia and Visa are among the non-endemic brands investing in esports. And Nielsen, the pioneering TV-audience measurement company, has set up an esports division to offer standardised transparent data to help brands and esports media rights-owners to work together.

Esports has been compared to traditional sports, because of the competitive element involving championship tournaments, leagues, teams and celebrity players; to live shows, because the tournaments, which include Intel Extreme Masters, the Overwatch World Cup and the Fortnite World Cup, are held in large stadiums and arenas; and on-screen content, because of the live and on-demand coverage of events on both streaming and TV platforms.

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FEATURE: SVOD AND DOCS

Posh Frock Shop (Banijay Rights)

Streamers face the facts H Having rewritten the rules of scripted, the streaming giants have now turned their attention to factual. And just as they raised the bar on drama, so they are raising budgets, ambitions and expectations in the documentary market.

Gary Smith reports

IGH-PROFILE documentaries such as Leaving Neverland, Inside The Real Narcos, Planet Earth, The Blue Planet, Surviving R Kelly and Wild Wild Country would seem to confirm that the SVOD platforms believe their audience wants more than just high-end drama. But is the current demand for factual just a blip? Or is there a robust and sustainable demand from an audience whose tastes are evolving?

What is clear is that the five classic doc categories — nature, the unexplained, space/science, modern history and historical figures/ events — remain the basic staple.

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But these days, a documentary of any genre also needs to be capable of creating Twitter traffic and to be produced in such a way that it gives rise to memes and gifs.

“The big streamers are primarily looking for feature docs that will make a lot of noise,” says NhaUyen Chau, founder and CEO of LGI Media (formerly Looking Glass International). “And they definitely do co-produce, mainly with established filmmakers who have unique access to a story and/or characters.”

She cites Fyre Festival docs, The Greatest Party That Never Happened and Fyre Fraud, which were made for Netflix and Hulu

FEATURE: SVOD AND DOCS

Cineflix Media’s Chris Bonney

respectively, both of which did good business. “Currently, it’s less about the big studio names and more about accomplished filmmakers and producers, such as Alex Gibney, Lightbox and Silverback, which did such an incredible job with Our Planet,” Chau adds.

Nha-Uyen Chau:

“The big streamers are primarily looking for feature docs that will make a lot of noise”

Banijay Rights’ Andreas Lemos

According to Chau, it is surprisingly easy to work directly with the streaming platforms if you have what they want: “If you have the right content, the door is open. In our experience, they have been very responsive to meetings and to working with a boutique distributor such as LGI Media. The current prevailing trend is for exclusive access and stories that travel globally. The trend for big spectacular doc series like Our Planet or incredible true stories is really resonating with the SVODs.” Banijay Rights has a history of licensing documentary titles to SVOD partners, including Netflix, Amazon and Hulu, either directly

LGI Media’s Nha-Uyen Chau

or via partners such as FilmRise.

But, says Andreas Lemos, the company’s commercial director of factual, Banijay is increasingly working in a more meaningful way with the streaming platforms: “Sundance Now became the exclusive first-run home in the US for two of our most prestigious documentaries: How To Die: Simon’s Choice from Minnow Films and Fabulous Fashionistas from Wellpark Productions.

The documentaries were branded Sundance Now Exclusives and, via this exposure, reached a huge new audience.”

Meanwhile, in the reality space, Hulu came on board as Banijay’s exclusive US partner for Channel 4’s bridal series The Posh Frock

Massive Engineering Mistakes (TCB Media Rights)

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Shop. “We’re obviously delighted about such a fun and frothy show sitting alongside other Brit hits like Love Island in the US,” Lemos says. “Going forwards, we’re looking to piece together more early-stage co-productions with the established SVODs, as well as new entrants such as HBO Max. We’re also experimenting with several AVOD players and, if revenues increase in that space as much as some are projecting, that could also become a viable route to co-production.”

Lemos sees commissioning trends as cyclical. He also says they vary between streamers: “Hulu is quite feature-doc orientated with prestige pieces such as Minding The Gap, but it also showcases British reality hits like Love Island and The Posh Frock Shop. Netflix also has its high-profile features, but its single-narrative documentary series, such as Making A Murderer and Wild Wild Country, are equally impactful and sit alongside licensed, mostly episodic, factual library content.”

So even on a single platform, the factual offer can be a mixed bag.

But regardless of subject matter or format, all the platforms are looking for factual content that resonates universally, Lemos adds: “If, for example, it’s a single-narrative crime series, it must feel relatable whatever the location. If it’s episodic, it needs multiple perspectives from different corners of the globe.”

At MIPCOM, Banijay has two

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FEATURE: SVOD AND DOCS standout series — Murder Case from Firecrest Films and World’s Most Secret Homes from Windfall Films — that encapsulate these qualities. Murder Case follows the investigation into the murder of Judith Reilly, who went missing from her Govan flat in March 2018, from the initial reporting of a missing person right up to the trial and conviction of the chief suspect. Meanwhile, World’s Most Secret Homes showcases 32 of the most stunning abodes on the planet, from hidden mansions in the Amazon rainforest to eco domes in the Arctic Circle.

German documentary-maker Autentic, a subsidiary of Beta Film, has produced a number of factual shows for SVOD platform CuriosityStream. These include Out Of The Cradle and The Body, for which the deals were finalised by NHK; and Woodstock Bus, for which Arcadia brokered the deal with Netflix. Also producing directly for Netflix, Autentic has delivered Terrorism Close Calls in a deal driven by KM Plus Media, and Australian production NSU, which was sold to Netflix directly by Autentic.

According to sales director

Mirjam Strasser, the streaming platforms represent a growing market for factual: “And now, there are new players joining the game — already this quarter in the form of Apple TV+ and Disney+. But for factual sales, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and CuriosityStream are the most interesting platforms at the moment. The sorts of titles that work well with SVOD platforms in our experience are crime factuals, such as Terrorism Close Calls, plus series or oneoffs with a catchy title like Bra Wars!, and our series Hot Roads, which worked very well. There’s also real demand for biographical shows about people of interest, like [mountaineer] Reinhold Messner, and for our series Vikings.”

But more important than all this, points out TCB Media Rights CEO Paul Heaney, is the strength of the story. “The genre is a secondary consideration,” he says.

“And now that the SVODs have a lot more subscribers, they are transitioning away from volume deals towards only taking shows that perform well. It’s something that TCB emphasises to producers at our annual Development Day, which takes place just be-

fore MIPCOM. Another factor that anyone wishing to work with the SVODs needs to take into account is that returning shows and re-makes of classic subjects have a much higher acceptance rate than new topics, which have a high — as much as 90% — failure rate.”

Paul Heaney: “

Anyone wishing to work with the SVODs needs to take into account that returning shows and re-makes of classic subjects have a much higher acceptance rate than new topics” While the proliferation of platforms potentially makes life easier for distributers, Heaney believes that it also heralds a new era of rights management: “It’s up to us to know what each platform wants and when they want it, because really that’s the dif-

ference between breaking even and making a profit. For a show to be profitable, you have to be fully in control of the windowing, to be able to arrange shorter windows across more platforms.

As a general rule, we still prefer to do our deals country by country, but around certain expensive, high-risk shows, we’ll cut a global agreement.”

TCB also briefs producers on what platforms are buying: “Shows that have come from linear broadcasters, like Border Patrol and Bondai Rescue, were established on linear and were then picked up by the SVODs. Conversely, shows like Money For Nothing debuted on SVOD, then went to linear.”

In the unscripted and documentary world, speed is essential.

“The trick with returning series is to keep up with demand, so you have to have a fast turnaround,” Heaney adds. “We currently have 15 returning shows in production, including How Did They Build That?, Shipwreck Secrets, Inside Phuket Airport and Lords Of The Ocean. On a basic level, when it comes to titles, we find using superlatives draws viewers’ attention when they’re searching for something to watch — and adding numbers to a title means the show comes up before the alphabetical list.”

Chris Bonney, CEO, rights, at Cineflix Media, agrees with LGI’s Chau that, in general, the platforms are looking for docs that create a buzz: “They’re looking for stand-out, noisy feature docs that match the ambition of their originals. This really is a growth market — there are a lot of established players, as well as ones new to the market and ones that are yet to launch — so at least there’s room to take your project elsewhere if you’re initially faced with a refusal. And a wide variety of topics seems to be in demand, from the more traditional specialist-factual genres like science, history and wildlife through to more edgy or entertaining docs.”

And like TCB’s Heaney,

Woodstock Bus (Autentic)

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FEATURE: SVOD AND DOCS

How Did They Build That? (TCB Media Rights)

Bonney observes significant change in how distributors are working in this emerging market: “We are facing significant adaptation. Windowing applies to many but not all markets and has definitely become much more sophisticated, particularly in the broadcast market, with networks more willing to share exclusivity and agree to shorter holdbacks than previously.”

He also observes that, with the SVOD platforms’ focus on originals, the importance of broadcaster relationships has become greater than ever from a distributor’s perspective. “But when an SVOD wants one of our titles, it’s usually a ‘global grab’, which puts the pressure on us to make a key decision right at the beginning of a title’s international roll-out,” he adds. “It often boils down to the business model that the individual title requires. We have to ask ourselves whether the SVOD offer meets our global sales forecast and what the cash inflow needs of the producer are.”

Chris Bonney:

“When an SVOD wants one of our titles, it’s usually a ‘global grab’, which puts the pressure on us to make a key decision right at the beginning of a title’s international roll-out” Elli Hakami and Julian P Hobbs, co-founders of Talos Films, are producing Family Reboot for Disney+. A direct commission from the platform, the series is a co-production with Milojo Productions. Each episode features a family with a relatable issue that is driving a wedge between them. With

the help of an expert, the family confronts the dilemma head on, with the aim of coming together to solve the issue and ‘rebooting’ their family life.

Both Hakami and Hobbs see the global doc market as expanding.

“Docs and, even more so, doc

series and mini-series seem to be a growth market,” Hakami says.

“We’re seeing interest in factual entertainment and formats as well, with a recognisable trend for unique ideas that have broad appeal and that fit the brand identity of the platform,” Hobbs adds.

PARROT SPEAKS RESEARCH from Parrot Analytics into the most-viewed docs on streaming platforms in the six months leading up to MIPCOM shows that the most in-demand documentaries across Europe, Asia and the US share certain characteristics. They are usually big, filmic reveals as exemplified by Leaving Neverland, Inside The Real Narcos, Surviving R Kelly and Wild Wild Country, or high-end science/ nature shows like The Blue Planet, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey and How It’s Made.

“My first impression looking at the figures was that there isn’t as much crossover as I would have expected, so regional variations remain important,” says Parrot Analytics’ head of partnerships, Courtney Williams. “But that also feeds into what may well be the next phase of growth in the global doc market: regional topics that have pan-regional appeal coming through globally. Plus I believe we’ll see more high-end docs that might start to compete with drama in terms of audience. I also believe that it’s a market with a lot of as-yet untapped potential in terms growth and fresh new ideas.”

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TECH TRENDS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE FUTURE

TECH TALKS: INNOVATION SHOW & TELL Followed by meet the speakers @Speakers Lounge

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MORTEN 12.00-13.00, Auditorium K Presented by Incredible Film

MISTER MAYFAIR 14.30-15.45, Auditorium K Presented by SPI International, Goldfinch, 365 Flix International

THE PLAGUE - SEASON 2 16.00-17.15, Auditorium K Presented by Movistar VISIT MIPCOM.COM/PROGRAMME FOR FULL INFORMATION

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COMING NEXT

TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTES

SCREENINGS

D2C TECH

PRODUCTION FUNDING FORUM

11.15-11.45 GRAND AUDITORIUM

9.00-10.15 AUDITORIUM K

9.00-9.40 AUDITORIUM A

9.00-9.15 ESTEREL

BIBIANE GODFROID, CEO

Presented by STUDIOCANAL

12.00-12.30 GRAND AUDITORIUM

10.30-11.45 AUDITORIUM K

9.45-10.15 AUDITORIUM A

9.15-9.35 ESTEREL

‘ON DEATH ROW’

NEWEN

STREAMING SERVICES: BEYOND THE GIANTS AVOD ON THE RISE

‘ARUANAS’

DARREN STAR,

CREATOR & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER (SEX AND THE CITY, BEVERLY HILLS 90210, YOUNGER...)

10.30-11.00 AUDITORIUM A

Presented by GLOBO 11.30-13.45 AUDITORIUM A

MIPCOM WORLD PREMIERE TV SCREENING: ‘THE RETURN‘

5G: THE PROMISE OF TRANSFORMATION COUNTRY FOCUS

A conference track supported by Dolby

FUNDING CREATIVITY: OPENING REMARKS FUNDING CREATIVITY: IN CONVERSATION WITH SK GLOBAL 9.35-9.55 ESTEREL

FUNDING CREATIVITY: IN CONVERSATION WITH YES STUDIOS 9.55-10.15 ESTEREL

Presented by SAMURAI DRAMA CHANNEL Followed by a Snack Lunch

FUNDING CREATIVITY: IN CONVERSATION WITH ENDEMOL SHINE Followed by meet the powerhouses @Foyer Esterel

16.10-16.50 GRAND AUDITORIUM

14.00-15.00 AUDITORIUM K

14.00-15.00 PARTICIPANTS’ LOUNGE GREEN

KAY MADATI, GLOBAL VP AND HEAD OF CONTENT PARTNERSHIPS

Presented by TVP Polish Public Television

14.45-15.00 ESTEREL

‘OUR CENTURY’

TWITTER

LEARN AND MEET WITH THE FUNDS

15.15-16.30 AUDITORIUM K

17.00-17.45 GRAND AUDITORIUM

FUNDING CREATIVITY: OPENING REMARKS

‘THE ACCIDENT AKA THE LIGHT’

15.00-15.20 ESTEREL

Presented by all3media international

PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR:

ROBERT GREENBLATT

CHAIRMAN, WARNERMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT AND DIRECT TO-CONSUMER

16.45-18.00 AUDITORIUM K

FUNDING CREATIVITY: IN CONVERSATION WITH ATRESMEDIA STUDIOS

‘BLACKOUT’

15.20-15.40 ESTEREL

Presented by Lagardère Studios

FUNDING CREATIVITY: IN CONVERSATION WITH VIACOM INTERNATIONAL STUDIOS AMERICAS 15.40-16.00 ESTEREL

FUNDING CREATIVITY: IN CONVERSATION WITH KESHET INTERNATIONAL Followed by meet the powerhouses @Foyer Esterel

INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT 8.45-9.45 VERRIÈRE CALIFORNIE

ULTRA HD TV NOW: SONY 4K&8K COUNTRY FOCUS

CRAZY FORMATS FROM JAPAN: NEW PARTNERSHIP AND FORMAT FROM TBS

In association with Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) Breakfast served 10.30-11.00 VERRIÈRE CALIFORNIE

MANGO TV PROGRAM SHOWCASE

COUNTRY FOCUS

Presented by the State Council Information Office, P.R.C., National Radio and Television Administration, P.R.C. & Mango TV 10.30-11.00 ESTEREL

9.30-10.15 SONY 4K/8K THEATRE

COMPELLING UHD FROM GERMANY

LIVE THE STORY: NHK 8K 11.30-12.30 NHK 8K THEATRE, LEVEL 3

8K TALKS: NATURAL HISTORY

10.15-11.00 SONY 4K/8K THEATRE

NETWORKING & EVENTS 9.30-10.15 VERRIÈRE GRAND AUDITORIUM

WHY BRANDS ARE MORE & MORE INVESTING IN ESPORTS? 11.00-12.00 PARTICIPANTS’ LOUNGE GREEN

MONETISING 4K/UHD

MEET-UP AFRICA

11.15-12.00 SONY 4K/8K THEATRE

FABULOUS FACTUAL FROM BLUEANT/LOVE NATURE 12.00-13.00 SONY 4K/8K THEATRE

DISCOVERY EMEA

NEW WAYS OF CREATING GLOBAL CONTENT: THE MEDIAPRO STUDIO’S ‘THE HEAD’ Presented by The Mediapro Studio 12.30-14.00 SALON CROISETTE

SNACK’N SCREEN ARGENTINA

COUNTRY FOCUS

Presented by INCAA, AAICI and Embajada de la Republica Argentina en Francia 14.00-14.30 ESTEREL

14.00-17.00 SONY 4K/8K THEATRE

BIG TALENT, BIGGER IDEAS

8K: THE LAST WORD IN IMAGE QUALITY

Presented by ITV Studios 14.30-15.10 AUDITORIUM A

17.00-18.30 NHK 8K THEATRE, LEVEL 3

ENCORE SCREENING ‘AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD’

COUNTRY FOCUS

TV FANTASY FROM SHANGHAI CHINA

MEET-UP EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE

GODZILLA: GENESIS LAUNCH Presented by TOHO Followed by a Cocktail

15.30-16.00 VERRIÈRE CALIFORNIE

OTT OPPORTUNITIES – LOCAL ALLIANCES AND GLOBAL BATTLE

18.00-20.00 MAJESTIC HOTEL

COUNTRY FOCUS

Presented by the State Council Information Office, P.R.C., National Radio and Television Administration, P.R.C. & Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism 15.00-16.00 SALON CROISETTE

HOW TO BE PART OF THE SPORTS OF THE DIGITAL GENERATION? 16.30-17.30 PARTICIPANTS’ LOUNGE GREEN

CHINA NETWORK AUDIO-VISUAL INDUSTRY FORUM 15.20-16.00 AUDITORIUM A

15.00-15.45 VERRIÈRE GRAND AUDITORIUM

FIRST TIMERS ‘HOW TO MIPCOM’ 8.30 PARTICIPANTS’ LOUNGE GREEN, PALAIS -1

NETWORKING BREAKFAST

9.30 PARTICIPANTS’ LOUNGE GREEN, PALAIS -1

J-CREATIVE PARTY

In association with Bureau International Drama Festival Tokyo 19.30 INTERCONTINENTAL CARLTON HOTEL

MIPCOM PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR GALA DINNER By invitation only

DISCOVERY TOURS ON DEMAND

19.30-21.30 CARLTON HOTEL GARDEN

10.00 & 15.30 PARTICIPANTS’ LOUNGE GREEN, PALAIS -1

Presented by IMDA Singapore By invitation only

ONLINE DATABASE DEMONSTRATIONS

ASIA IS NOW

Presented by Red Bee Media 17.30-18.30 SALON CROISETTE

HERCAI NETWORKING SESSION: Q&A AND COCKTAIL Presented by ATV

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ULTRA HIGH-DEFINITION MIPCOM 2019 TOP BILLING FOR 4K/HDR. 8K MAKING A RETURN AT CANNES The Excitement of 4K and 8K Ultra High-Definition

October 14-17 2019. AUDI I, Palais 4: The SONY 4K/8K UHD THEATRE Programme moderated by Chris Forrester, Journalist & Consultant

MONDAY OCTOBER 14

TUESDAY OCTOBER 15

09:30 OPENING SESSION AND MARKET OVERVIEW Eutelsat, France Sony Corporation, Japan Vivicast Media, USA Japanese Government

09.30 COMPELLING UHD from Germany ZDF- Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Germany

10.15 MONETISING 4K/UHD Travelxp 4K, India Telekom Deutschland, Germany T-2 Slovenia, Slovenia Telecom Slovenije, Slovenia

10:00 AROUND THE 4K WORLD, IN 30 MINUTES I H S Market, UK

11.15

10:30 China Media Group

Blue Ant Media, Canada Love Nature Programming & Development

CCTV

11:00

LATINO UHD from Colombia

12.00 DISCOVERY EMEA

Caracol TV, Colombia

Discovery Networks Int’l, UK CTVC, UK Beach House Pictures, Singapore

14:00 NHK’s UHD Showcase NHK, Japan

15:15

14.00 8K: THE LAST WORD IN IMAGE QUALITY

CUTTING EDGE 4K

Dori Media Distribution, Switzerland & Israel Visio Productions, Israel Saint Thomas Productions, France

16:00 OFF THE FENCE - AN AERIAL VIEW Off the Fence, UK/Netherlands Tile Films, Ireland Smithsonian Networks, US

16:45

FABULOUS FACTUAL from BlueAnt/Love Nature

NHK, Japan Harmonic Inc., US The French Open Tennis Travelxp, India Paramax Films, France The Explorers, France Saint Thomas Productions, France Golden Gate 3D, USA Minproduction, South Korea

QATAR’s UHD PLAN

Al Kass Sports Channels, Qatar

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 09.30 REVIVING ANIMATION INTO 4K

THURSDAY OCTOBER 17 10.00 SONY SIZZLE SESSION

TMS Entertainment, Japan

Continuous screenings of the best in UHD from our speakers

10.00 BBC STUDIOS: BUSY IN 4K BBC Studios, UK

11.15

14.00 14.45

SPECTACULAR MUSIC IN 4K

Stingray Music, Canada Eagle Rock, UK MTV, UK Paramax Films, France Polycast, Netherlands VIMN-UKNEE

COLOURFUL FASHION IN 4K

FashionTV, France

AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT IN 4K

Kansai TV, Samurai Drama Channel, Japan

16.00 4K PRODUCTION MASTERCLASS Sony Professional Solutions Europe

In partnership with Conference Partner:

Knowledge Partner : Event Partner:

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