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Monday 2 April 2012 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EMMY AWARDS The International Digital Emmy Awards winners were announced at a ceremony last night, held during MIPTV’s Opening Party See page 10

DRAMA COPROXCHANGE The Drama CoProXchange yesterday kicked off MIPTV’s series of events to benefit producers and facilitate co-production deals See page 16

FASHION STAR

Supermodel Elle Macpherson, executive producer and host of Electus’ Fashion Star, presents a Keynote Showcase today in the Grand Auditorium at 12.20

MEDIA MASTERMINDS

In the Grand Auditorium today, AMC Networks’ Josh Sapan gives a Media Mastermind keynote address at 16.15. Then follows Coca-Cola’s Jonathan Mildenhall at 17.15, a keynote that is part of today’s Branded Entertainment series of conferences

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The official MIPTV daily newspaper Monday 2 April 2012 Director of Publications Paul Zilk Director of Communications Mike Williams EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor in Chief Julian Newby Deputy Editor Debbie Lincoln Sub Editors Clive Bull, Sarah Kovandzich, Joanna Stephens Reporters Marlene Edmunds, Andy Fry, Emelia Jones, Juliana Koranteng, Max Leonard, Rachel Murrell, Gary Smith, Chris White, Nigel Willmott Deputy Technical Editor in Chief Frederic Beauseigneur Graphic Designers Muriel Betrancourt, Veronique Duthille, Marie Moinier, Carole Peres Head of Photographers Yann Coatsaliou / 360 Media Photographers Christian Alminana, Georges Auclaire, Olivier Houeix, Michel Johner Editorial Management Boutique Editions.

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PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Publishing Director Martin Screpel Publishing Co-ordinators Nour Ezzedeen, Emilie Lambert, Amrane Lamiri Production Assistant, Cannes Office Eric Laurent Printer Riccobono Imprimeurs, Le Muy (France).

MANAGEMENT & SALES TEAM Director of the Entertainment Division Anne de Kerckhove Director of the Television Division Laurine Garaude Sales Director Sabine Chemaly Director of Market Development Ted Baracos Conference Director Lucy Smith Marketing Director Stephane Gambetta Programme Directors Tania Dugaro, Karine Bouteiller, Cathie Laven Managing Director (UK/Australia/New Zealand) Peter Rhodes OBE Sales Manager Elizabeth Delaney Vice President Sales and Business Development, Americas Robert Marking Vice President Business Development, North America JP Bommel Sales Managers Paul Barbaro, Nathalie Gastone, Samira Haddi Regional Sales Director Fabienne Germond Sales Executives Liliane Dacruz, Panayiota Pagoulatos, Cyril Szczerbakow Digital Media Sales Manager Nancy Denole New Media Development Manager Bastien Gave Australia and New Zealand Representative Natalie Apostolou China Representative Anke Redl CIS Representative Alexandra Modestova English Speaking Africa Representative Arnaud de Nanteuil India Representative Anil Wanvari Israel Representative Guy Martinovsky Japan Representative Lily Ono Latin America Representative Elisa Aquino Middle-East Representative Bassil Hajjar Poland Representative Monika Bednarek South Korea Representative Sunny Kim Taiwan Representative Irene Liu Germany Representative (Digital Media Sector) Renate Radke Adam ADVERTISING CONTACT IN CANNES Christine Mendes 01 41 90 49 89 christine.mendes@reedmidem.com Published by Reed MIDEM, BP 572, 11 rue du Colonel Pierre Avia, 75726 Paris Cedex 15, France. Contents © 2012, Reed MIDEM Market Publications, Publication registered 2nd quarter 2012. ISSN 1967-5178.

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International Digital Young stars honoured Emmy Awards T A GALA presentation last night during the MIPTV Opening Party at the Martinez, the winners of the seventh annual International Digital Emmy Awards were announced.

Shujaaz.FM, created by Well Told Story, the first Kenyan Emmy nominee of any kind, won the Children & Young People award. Endgame Interactive: Facebook Episode, from Secret Location, Shaw Media and Thunderbird Films won in Fiction. Live From The Clinic, by Maverick Television for Channel 4, won the Non-Fiction category.

All the nominees had been presented with medals earlier in the day. Speaking at the event, Reed MIDEM’s Paul Zilk, emphasised the importance of the International Digital Emmys to MIPTV. “The core of the MIPTV Opening Party is the seventh International Digital Emmys, it’s a privilege for us to be hosting it,” he said.

Bruce Paisner, president and CEO of the International Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, congratulated the nominees, who had been selected from

contenders at 23 events in 18 cities around the world. He also highlighted the range of Emmy activity, which will include the first International Emmy Kids Awards, in February 2013. “It’s a way for us to recognise kids programming in a way we haven’t been able to before,” he said.

And Paisner hailed the ever-increasing quality of television production, as shown by the 10% increase in entries to the International Emmy Awards key programme categories, to be awarded in New York in November. “One of the many sea changes we’re seeing in global television is the increasing levels of quality production,” he said.

“We’re very excited about the level of enthusiasm the Emmys are generating around the world.”

James Milward and Chris Harris winners for Endgame Interactive: Facebook Episode (Fiction category)

Steph Harris and Dan Jones, winners for Live From The Clinic (Non-Fiction category)

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Daniel Muli and Bridget Deacon, creators of Shujaaz FM (Children & Young People category)

Harry Tordjman of Myboxprod (top left), Micho Marquis-Rose of Zieuter.tv (top right), Pauli Kopu of KLOK (bottom left), and Olmo Figueredo GonzalezQuevedo of La Claqueta (bottom right)

HE NEXT generation of producers were honoured at MIPTV’s Creative Party on Saturday night at the Martinez. The four young talents, selected by MIPTV delegates, will be the stars of the market’s new Producers’ Hub this year. The Hub provides a dedicated space to facilitate producers’ meetings.

Andalusian producer and founding partner of La Claqueta, Olmo Figueredo GonzalezQuevedo, spoke of his delight to be in Cannes. “Coincidentally this opportunity marks the 10th anniversary of my company,” he said. “After our latest ¿lm was nominated for a Goya Award For Best Documentary, FAPAE (Federation Of Spanish Audiovisual Producers Association) nominated me for this commendation.

I have learnt very quickly that networking is a fundamental part of producing and it’s so important to be surrounded by

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like-minded, talented people.”

In France, Myboxprod’s Harry Tordjman was put forward

by Canal+ following the high ratings for new hit series Bref, comprising two-minute episodes that reveal inner dilemmas affecting thirtysomethings.

Pauli Kopu of KLOK emphasised his interest in the everconverging world of TV and web, and the exciting process of creating dynamic content that services both mediums.

“Currently people are still thinking of making television and then doing something online — but this will change and I’m looking forward to creating original content for all platforms right from the start.”

New media producer Micho Marquis-Rose found success with interactive web series Zieuter.tv, a 12-episode murder mystery that features multi-character perspectives broadcast concurrently.

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people On the red carpet Limos, gowns, crowds and cameras — it was wall-to-wall glamour at last night’s seventh annual international Digital Emmy Awards, held at the Hotel Martinez during the MIPTV Opening Party. From Oscar-winning screen writer Julian Fellowes to French legend Jean Reno, from Femme Fatales to Miss World, MIPTV party-goers were treated to a vintage Cannes moment

Miss World Ivian Sarcos

Reed MIDEM’s Paul Zilk (left) with Le Grand’s Jean Reno and show runner Rene Balcer

Titanic writer Julian Fellowes (left) with stars Celia Imrie, Glen Blackhall and Geraldine Somerville Femme Fatales Tiffany Brouwer (left), Christine Donlon, Nikki Grif¿n, Shani Pride, Catherine Annette and Madison Dylan

Celebrity chef Chuck Hughes

Jersey Shore’s Vinny Gaudagnino and Deena Nicole Cortese

Copper stars Tom Weston-Jones and Franka Potente

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Partnerships are way forward for content-hungry Amazon MAZON vice-president Anthony Bay used his Media Mastermind Keynote to send contentowners and creators a very clear message: “If you’re not already working with us, you should be.”

In Amazon’s ¿rst-ever presentation at MIPTV, Bay said that the company is keen to develop content partnerships in both North America and Europe. “From books and DVD through to video streaming, our business has always been about selling and marketing other people’s content,” he said. “Partnership is at the heart of what we do. We think we can be a great partner.”

In terms of Amazon’s corporate ethos, Bay added: “We always start from the customer and work backwards… We want to be the most customer-centred company on the planet. Our business is all about providing them with the broadest selection of content at the best value and greatest convenience.”

Bay did not give much away, but he did make two key points. First, the company’s customer focus means it wants to get content out across all platforms. Second, it also wants to

A DISCOVERY GOES BOLDLY FORTH INTO DIGITAL UNIVERSE DISCOVERY Communications’ chief digital officer, Jean-Briac Perrette, gave MIPTV delegates a fascinating insight into the way the world’s largest non-fiction content company is taking its video IP into the multiplatform universe.

Summarising his priorities, Perrette said: “Number one, more video.

Specifically, I’m really looking to see if we can do more made-for-digital.”

Also critical is delivering content at all times and in all the forms that audiences want it — which explains Discovery’s recent deal to supply content across Amazon’s US service Prime.

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be involved in content marketing and retailing at every stage of the consumer journey.

Through IMDb, Amazon and LOVEFiLM, the company is involved in content discovery, purchase, rental and subscription, Bay explained.

Angry Birds set to fly in 360 directions

In parallel, he sees scope for more content that can support the company’s TV franchises and events: “It’s ultimately continuing to develop our franchises and the stories coming off our franchises.”

“We are well into [the mobile and tablet] space already,” Perrette said.

“We have released several apps recognised by Apple... But now, trying to make all our franchises available on all platforms is going to be a big key. Also, testing out some of these two-screen apps, but less on a show-by-show basis and more on an always-on kind of basis, beginning with a couple of brand franchises.”

Amazon’s Anthony Bay: “If you’re not already working with us, you should be”

Rovio’s Nick Dorra: rolling out “on all possible devices”

NGRY Birds is a phenomenon — something that Rovio head of animation Nick Dorra does not take for granted.

Speaking to MIPTV delegates during his Media Mastermind Keynote, Dorra said: “Everything has gone in a huge, huge bigger direction than we ever thought it would be going in. To think our game means so much to [fans] — it just makes us work

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harder and harder.”

In terms of headline numbers, more than 700 million people have downloaded the Angry Birds games, with the latest version — Angry Birds Space — notching up 20 million in its ¿rst week this month. At the same time, Rovio has sold more than 25 million plush toys and licensed 20,000 branded products.

The company has also been working hard to create a deeper world around its core concept.

“There is very little room in our app game where you can expand on the story,” Dorra said, who has overseen the re-imagining of Angry Birds as a YouTube animation franchise. “We are going to roll out a weekly short-form animation series later this year.

Animation is a great way to connect with our existing fans to give them more and keep them engaged, but also for acquiring new fans. We’re going to roll it out on all possible devices.”

Rovio is also working on a feature ¿lm as part of its plan to turn the Angry Birds into a 360-degree property: “Angry Birds is not just about the gameplay, and it will be in the future less and less about the slingshot and more and more about the characters.”

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Making her bid for industry recognition of remix as a marketing tool at an Innovation Agora session on SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act), the US law that would restrict use of copyright material, she said that the producers of Mad Men had made no challenge to the clip.

It was taken down by YouTube because its robots cannot distinguish between fair use of programme clips and straight unedited sequences, she said. It is now available on Vimeo.

Under fair use in the US short portions of material can be taken, without permission of the copyright holder, for comment, homage, education, archival and similar uses.

Swedish filmmaker Simon Klose has been making a documentary on the founders of file-sharing site Pirate Bay in traditional verite style, but which is opened up by using the open source Popcorn.js to add links to the film — whether social media, articles, video or audio.

In a fully open version he plans for the audience to be able to add its own links — which could also create legal problems if they are sites that would be outlawed by SOPA, he said.

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New collaboration ideas explored at Drama CoProXchange Summit ome 50 commissioners, broadcasters, producers, and deal brokers came together yesterday at the Majestic hotel for the closed door launch event of the first Drama CoProXchange Summit.

The Summit is aimed at speeding up the process of drama co-production at the beginning stages, where many of the critical creative, production, design, development and funding decisions are made.

There was a special presentation on creative collaboration and talent sharing from Peter Benedek, co-founder and board member of United Talent Agency (UTA).

“More and more of our clients are frustrated with the way the normal process works in the US, including the increasingly cookie cutter subject matter of projects,” Benedek said. “If studios put up the development money, they want to own the rights.”

Media Programme’s Virve Indren also gave a presentation on drama co-production funding opportunities tied to the EC.

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UTA’s Peter Benedek

In two round-table debates, Summit attendees talked about creative and business hurdles, including dealing with the expectations of the different cultures both in funding discussions and in creative input.

Ben Donald, executive producer, international drama, BBC Worldwide, said after the Summit was concluded that it was useful and something that could grow.

“It’s great to see MIPTV alive to the huge opportunities that inter-

national co-production offers,” he said. The Drama CoProXchange continues today with several case studies including the tricontinental drama co-production Top Of The Lake and a look at Scandinavia’s latest drama coproductions, including the next edition of The Killing.

Producers are invited to visit the Producers’ Hub for more sessions advice and networking opportunities

Chinese animation is stepping up “THE ERA of simply outsourcing animation work to China is over,” said Ciwen Kids’ vicepresident, Sean Chu, at the New Animation Studios From Asia session yesterday. “Chinese producers are now originating

Ciwen Kids’ Sean Chu: Moving up the value chain

their own IP [intellectual property]. We’re moving up the value chain, and you’ll see increasing numbers of us at MIP in the future.”

Chu described the drivers for growth in simple terms.

“Our currency is strong, domestic demand is strong and we have the IP. However, there are no direct subsidies in China.

That’s why we’re seeing more and more Chinese animation companies coming to MIP,” Chu said.

“With no soft money at home, they need international co-production partners. And these Chinese companies are prepared to put considerable amounts of money on the table.”

Chu acknowledges that some people still have doubts about the creative quality of Chinese animation. To ensure the product works in the international marketplace, Chinese producers are hiring Hollywood writers, or working with international partners.

Ciwen’s newest series, preschool animation Mr Dragon’s Park, is being made with Hollywood writer Carter Crocker and producer Bruce Johnson.

And Ciwen is working with Title Entertainment (Canada) and Moody Street Productions (Australia) on Meeka’s Iceberg.

Other speakers at the session were Lena Ni of Fantawild and Rose Zhang of GDC.

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And, apart from selling our own content in 18 to 19 languages, we will be marketing and syndicating productions from other producers under the Zee Bollyworld brand,” he said.

Zee’s Bharat Ranga

APPXPLORE HAS IOS GAMEPLAN NEWLY-formed Malaysian games development studio Appxplore has released its first iOS game, Lightopus, worldwide.

Executive director and co-founder Adam Ham said that the company is one of a small number of Malaysian game producers, and one of the very few set up to create and own its own IP. To succeed, he said: “The content should be of the highest quality for global standards, localised and well represented by an international publisher/ distributor. Our deal is with leading French/US publisher BulkyPix. They represent over 100 games and applications, and Lightopus is the first Malaysian title to be on their books.”

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Sony shows its commitment to improving the 3D experience ONY Corporation has returned to Cannes as industry partner of MIPTV 3DTV Focus, showing a continued commitment to supporting innovative 3D content. Sony’s senior general manager, Akira Shimazu, highlighted Sony’s new 3D technological advancements — which mean 3D ¿lming is no longer the preserve of Hollywood studios.

“3D is less of a burden now to the customer and the industry,” said Shimazu. “Technology is improving the 3D experience both for the consumer and those in production. We are about to launch new 3D, ultra-lightweight glasses in May and we also have professional camcorders on the market that really simplify 3D production.”

Shimazu mentioned how channels such as ESPN 3D and BSkyB’s Sky 3D continue to use the latest technology to provide excellent 3D content in sports programmes, movies and entertainment.

“In 2011 there was big jump of 3DTV sales — the industry recorded a cumulative shipment of 20 million sets internationally to date,” said Shimazu. “3DTV penetration is higher and there is more good content available.”

Shimazu was keen to emphasise how Sony has triggered the focus on 3D at MIPTV and continues to actively support 3D content creation with four Sony 3D Technology Centers worldwide: “We opened our latest trai-

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Sony ’s Akira Shimazu: “enlarging the industry and maintaining standards”

ning centre in Beijing last month,” he said.

“Our aim is to both enlarge the industry and also maintain high production standards.”

Sony has also launched its free 3D Experience channel, available to all customers with a 3D-enabled Sony TV, featuring trailers of all the best content available in 3D. The channel already has in excess of 12 million viewers around the world — a good indication that 3D is here to stay.

Global goal for filming in Malaysia THE MALAYSIAN Economic Council this week announced a major new government initiative designed to make Malaysia a global ¿lming destination.

The government will pay a 30% cost rebate to foreign and Malaysian companies producing or post-producing in the country from January 1, 2013. Foreign companies will need to demonstrate a minimum production spend in the country of $1.66m (€1.24m). Malaysian producers must spend $1m. And for post-production, the threshold is $500,000.

“Many countries restrict their subsidies to visiting feature-¿lm companies, but ours extends to television and animation producers as well,” said N Balaraman, director of planning and research at the National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS).

“The intention is to boost investment in our industry, build skills and spur the growth of our content industry. This resonates with

the government’s €100m investment in the Pinewood Iskandar Malaysia Studios in the state of Johor, to be completed in May 2013, and with the Kuala Lumpur Communications and Content Industry Market.”

FINAS’ Balaraman: boosting investment, building skills and spurring growth

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Simultaneous global release for One Day On Earth film Brandon Litman: “A conduit for people who want to give”

LOOKING back at the inaugural MIPCube, Stephane Cardin of the Canada Media Fund (CMF) is impressed by the quality and diversity of the work that was showcased.

“We partnered with MIPCube as it was an opportunity to showcase leading-edge digital projects, and recognise Canadian creativity in the digital realm,” said Cardin, CMF’s vice-president of strategic policy planning and stakeholder relations. “Also, our support role includes advisory and industry intelligence, so seeing the business models and content development somewhere like MIPCube is important.”

Since it was established in April 2010, the Canada Media Fund has helped to fund around 100 different projects, through its Experimental and Convergent Streams. Those it was showing at its Snack And Screen Event, from the Experimental Stream, are some of the first to hit the market, and included apps, narrative web series, gaming and software development projects.

Micho Marquis-Rose of Zieuter.tv, one of the MIPCube New Producers To Watch, is supported by the CMF. But Cardin also pointed to Canadian representation in the International Digital Emmy Award nominees, and some collaborative work with the NFB as proof that Canadian talent has strength in depth.

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HE ONE Day On Earth feature film launches on April 22, 2012 in every country in the world,” said Brandon Litman, cofounder and executive producer of One Day On Earth.

The movie is the result the world’s ¿rst simultaneous ¿lming event to occur in every country in the world, and it offers a unique record of the world on a single day.

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“We’re not crowd-sourced,” said Litman, addressing the Collaborative Creation Keynote at MIPDoc. “We work with over 30,000 professionals in every country. The project is a conduit for people who want to give.”

In exchange, participants get free access to the entire archive for non-commercial use, and a way to connect with like-minded peers around the world.

THE GULF Cooperation Council’s Joint Programme Production Institution (GCC JPPI), this week unveiled the unit’s first production, The Gulf: The World’s Energy Reservoir (8 x 52 mins), at a screening event at MIPDoc. “We commissioned the series to explore the social, economic and cultural development of the Gulf states, and to correct some of the perceived misconceptions about the region,” GCC JPPI’s Abdulmohsen Albannai said. “The timing is perfect because recent events have focused the attention of the world on us.”

Pictured at the launch from left to right: Reed MIDEM’s Ted Baracos, Jassim Al-Gharib, chair of the Arab Information Centre (Kuwait), Abdulmohsen Albannai, executive director GCC JPPI, Reed MIDEM’s Bassil Hajjar based in UAE, and Abdul Hamid Al-Zaidi of the GCC JPPI

New social media tool for TV ONE OF MIPTV’s most popular conference sessions is Fresh TV, in which The Wit’s managing director Virginia Mouseler provides a round up of emerging TV format trends around the world.

This week, Mouseler is hosting an additional session, Fresh TV: The Top TV Shows In Social Media tomorrow at 09.15, Esterel, in which she will showcase the capabilities of The WitSpotter, a ground-breaking analytical tool that tracks social media activity around TV shows.

Talking to MIPTV News, Mouseler said the new tool offers three benefits. “The first is content discovery. The WitSpotter can identify new shows which are attracting interest online but which might slip under the radar of traditional TV ratings.”

The second, she explained, is its ability to provide broadcasters and advertisers with a better appreciation of the value that can be added to a show through a more engaged audience.

“The WitSpotter also allows us to monitor audience feedback, so it’s like having a great big research focus group,” Mouseler said.

As for her usual Fresh TV slot, a packed MIPFormats audience heard Mouseler pick out three trends in the world of formats.

“The really big trend was with shows like The Audience and Honey You’re Getting Fa t , w h e r e professional coaching is re-

placed by peer-to-peer coaching.

Friends and neighbours helping people tackle a problem or issue,” she said. “Other trends are more shows that have community interaction at their heart and shows about people covering other people’s songs.”

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neWs Jersey Shore stars enjoy a new sea view and celebrate TF1 Group deal ANNES may be a transatlantic flight away and a different scene from the one they’re used to, but there’s very little that fazes Deena Nicole Cortese and Vinny Guadagnino from MTV’s Jersey Shore.

After presenting a Digital Emmy last night, today they take part in this morning’s Keynote Showcase on Jersey Shore and will be on the Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) stand this afternoon.

Although the pair are only on a flying promotional visit, the show will stay longer as VIMN has signed a deal with TF1 Group that will see Jersey Shore air on the DTT channel NT1. NT1 has also acquired the format option, and so may localise the show.

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series, which will deliver the same blend of partying and strife that has endeared them to millions.

“We don’t really plan,” Vinny said.

Vinny and Deena: just living their lives

FremantleMedia sets out MIPTV line-up FREMANTLEMEDIA and its commercial division FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) have unveiled a wide array of deals and partnerships this MIPTV. FME CEO David Ellender highlighted a new ¿rst-look deal with drama producer Justin Bodle and new sales to Australia, New Zealand and Israel for Paul Abbott’s drama series Hit And Miss. There are also plans to develop TV series for the US with New Zealand ¿lm producer Pukeko Pictures, famous for its pivotal role in The Lord Of The Rings franchise.

Ellender also outlined FME’s ambition to become the world’s “biggest independent produ-

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“It’s reality — always just what happens right there on the spot.”

How do they explain the appeal?

“I think people just appreciate

seeing us living our lives and not really caring what people think,” Deena said. “You know, I think they kind of look up to us.”

Vinny added: “People in Jersey are interesting. It’s different from any other part of America. We have our own accent, our own look — but I never thought it would be so widely exposed.”

cer of kids and family entertainment”, with 15 series in production or development including Monsuno and Max Steel, poised for 360 degree international roll out.

In formats, FremantleMedia president of worldwide entertainment Trish Kinane À agged up interactive cooking show Recipe To Riches, kidsversus-adults family show Little Goliaths and Hidden Talent, a UK format which uses scienti¿c tests to identify people with untapped talents.

“We’re also seeing support for heritage shows, three of which — Man-O-Man, Blockbusters and Play Your Cards Right — are back in produc-

tion this year,” said Kinane.

FremantleMedia CEO Tony Cohen said this would be a tough year but three trends gave him cause for optimism: “The first is the inexorable acceleration of the formats business, the second is the rise of social TV and the third is that

Google/YouTube, NetÀix and Hulu all recognise that highquality video content is crucial for their growth plans. All are good news for FM.” FremantleMedia’s Tony Cohen (left) and Trish Kinane, and FME’s David Ellender

Spotlights "Spring ZDF Enterprises Spotlights “Spring Feelings” and “Nature Now!” at Sundowner Event Alexander Coridass, President and CEO of ZDF Enterprises, welcomed his guests by drawing their attention to the firm’s steadily growing romance collections, and to a new library of high-budget wildlife documentaries. He also announced a new partnership between ZDF Enterprises subsidiaries Gruppe 5 and Studio Hamburg DocLights with documentary-film giant and Emmy Award winner Steve Burns.

Alexander Coridass, ZDF Enterprises’ President and CEO (right) with Tapaas Chakravarti, Chairman and CEO of coproduction partner DQ Entertainment, and Stefanie Fischer (ZDF Enterprises' Sales Manager “English- and Spanish-speaking countries, Latin America and Nordic countries”).

Kristina Hollstein, ZDF Enterprises’ Director Coproductions and Development / ZDFE.factual (second from right) with Elvira Lind (Spiegel TV), Philippa Kowalsky (Cinephil Israel), Barbara Biemann (NDR) and Ettore Botta (Space Wow).

Susanne Frank (Junior PM Video and Home Entertainment, ZDF Enterprises), Swetlana Winkel (Managing Director, polyband Medien) Connie Wesche (Marketing Manager, Edel Germany) and Oliver Grundel (Project Manager Merchandising, ZDF Enterprises).

Arne Lohmann (second from right, ZDF Enterprises’ Director Coproductions and Development / ZDFE.junior) with Sylvie Mahe (Directrice Financière, Mondo TV France), Steven Andrew (Creative Director, Zodiak), Nicole Keeb (ZDF) and Eve Baron (General Manager, Mondo TV France).

In love with the animation series "Michel" and the cute merchandising products: Arne Lohmann (ZDF Enterprises’ Director Coproductions and Development / ZDFE.junior), Virve Schroderus (Acquisition Executive, YLE) and Oliver Grundel (Project Manager Merchandising, ZDF Enterprises).

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Feelings" and "Nature Now!" at Sundowner Event

Enjoying the ‘Sundowner’: YLE’s Acquisition ladies Elisa Tynkkynen, Nina Tuominen and Mari Koivuhovi.

Sebastian Krekeler (ZDF Enterprises’ Sales Manager German speaking territories / ZDFE.drama, ZDFE.junior) with Red Bull Media House’s Head of Acquisitions Sylvia Schmöller.

Francesca Dandolo (Program advisor series, France Télévisions), Julien Mencière (ZDF Enterprises’ Sales Manager “French-speaking territories, Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and Middle East”) and Isabelle Péchou (Fiction Programs Scouting, France Télévisions).

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OON Jean Reno takes on the lead role in Atlantique Productions’ highconcept policier Le Grand. For the moment he is playing the part of corporate team player for the programme’s launch here at MIPTV. But there remains a glint in his eye which suggests mischief, if not a full Leon the Cleaner outburst, could happen any moment.

“It was the ambition of the project that ¿ rst attracted me. Paris evidemment, but also the stories, which are universal, as relevant in Marseille or Shanghai,” Reno said, but added for good measure: “Just look at that German guy” — Atlantique’s Klaus Zimmermann — “When he looks at you, you’re happy. He’s got those deep blue eyes.”

Which, perhaps, is Reno already in character for the role of hard-drinking, womanising Jo Le Grand, a 20-year veteran of the Paris serious crime unit, who has a heart attack three months before the eight-episode series opens, but has no intention of giving up his bad habits — at least to start with.

It will be Reno’s ¿rst appearance in a television series, though he claims to have done some TV when he was young – “around 1904-1905”. And he brings the qualities of worldwide recognition, of an actor at ease in Paris and in working in English. “My wife is English and we speak in both languages at home and with the kids.”

Combined with the proven talents of creator Rene Balcer, showrunner for the Law & Order series, Atlantique hopes that what it claims is the ¿rst English-language TV series set in Paris will command a global audience.

That global reach will not detract from its French-ness. As Balcer revealed: “Je suis Quebecois. I grew up immersed in French culture from Tintin to Simenon. Though you may not realise it, when you are watching Law & Order, you are watching a French cop series.”

But Leon/Reno grabs the last word: “We’re gonna have beautiful women, handsome men, some nudity, people falling from windows — and good food.” A sure¿re winner.

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Minister supports creative focus as Flanders returns to market LANDERS is back at MIPTV after a couple of years away, its delegation led by Ingrid Lieten, the minister responsible for broadcasting and the media. Returning to Cannes is part of her policy to support TV production in the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium and increase its international reach.

“We want to show everybody that we are investing in creativity in Flanders,” Lieten said.

She will also be taking the temperature of the market to see how the sector is evolving. “I want to learn, both from our people who are here in a group and from the international people,” she said. “I want to see whether our policy is accurate now or if we still have to change it for the challenges that lie ahead.”

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FRENCH programme maker Christophe Sirchis is at MIPTV with a six-part documentary series Colour Wars: The Story Of Colour Television.

Sirchis said: “We purchased a latest generation HD camera and went across the world filming passionate people who bring back to life these vintage technologies, and others who restore the recordings of the very first programmes, which are extraordinary.”

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would like to have new productions adapted to bigger markets.”

This has happened recently with series such as Benidorm Bastards, which is being developed for the US, UK and German markets, among others.

Meanwhile co-production remains a goal for more ambitious drama series. “Our people in the creative sector are well-organised internationally and they are certainly seeking that,” she said.

GLOBOSAT has acquired from Prime Entertainment Group a package of 13 episodes of the series Close Up (65 x 26 mins). The series is enjoying considerable success in Latin America — on Cosmopolitan TV for all Latin America, and on Globosat in Brazil.

Prior to MIPTV, episodes of Close Up have also been sold to Sony AXN Germany, Sky Italia, and to the distributor Pride Eye for several African territories.

Prime has started production of another 40 episodes with the target of 104 episodes within the next 18 months. Pictured are David Freydt of Prime Entertainment Group and Felipe Garcia of Globosat

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The series, due for completion in mid-2012, moves from the first plans to use colour in 1939, through the launch of colour programmes in the US in the early 1950s, to its adoption in Europe in the mid-1960s.

Part of that policy has been the creation of a €6.5m ($8.7m) Media Fund supporting the production of new TV series, documentaries and animation.

“Production has become more dif¿cult in recent years because of the economic crisis, and also because the budgets of the networks were limited,” Lieten said. “We want to keep this creativity alive.”

Lieten said that the cultural speci¿city of Flanders makes it dif¿cult to pitch international co-productions, making format sales a priority. “We are a small market and I understand that it’s not so easy for big foreign producers to take the risk from the beginning,” she said. “I think it’s more about seeing that successful programmes created here are picked up by foreign networks who

CGI series unites Alphanim and DQE GAUMONT Alphanim has inked a co-production deal with DQ Entertainment (DQE) for the CGI TV series Lanfeust, based on the long-r unning French language comic series Lanfeust Of Troy.

Alphanim is producing the series and is in charge of all creative aspects, as well as pre- and postproduction. DQE will handle animation production on the series.

Global territories and back-end revenues from all sources of income will be shared by Alphanim and DQE. M6 and Canal J are the

French broadcasters on board.

“We’ve worked together before and collaborating with Alphanim is a privilege,” said Tapaas Chakravarti, chairman and CEO of DQ Entertainment. The workÀow between production teams has always been seamless.”

Gaumont Alphanim managing director Pierre Belaisch added: “The quality of CGI animation is of utmost importance on this project so we’re happy to be working with a company that has the kind of credentials and track record that DQE has.”

Gaumont Alphanim’s Pierre Belaisch (left), M6’s Morgann Favennec and DQE’s Tapaas Chakravarti

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Anniversary gives TV Asahi 55 reasons to do business V ASAHI is celebrating its 55th anniversary at MIPTV by having meetings with 55 companies and attempting to make 55 deals.

Now established as one of Japan’s format specialists, the broadcaster is bringing ¿ve new formats to MIPTV. Titles include the hit show Bazooka, currently airing in Japan, in which contestants have to identify transvestites among a selection of supposedly beautiful women, as well as spot which guests are father and daughter or a married couple with a big difference in age.

Failure results in a blast of carbon dioxide from a bazooka gun.

The broadcaster has launched an international business division grouping all its international activities in one department. According to Yasuo Kawashima, deputy general manager of TV Asahi’s content division, it is also looking for partnerships in order to develop new products for the international marketplace.

Kawashima said: “We believe it is crucial for

T Lagardere Active’s Antoine Villeneuve: “stronger leverage”

LAGARDERE ACTIVE AND SWITCHOVER FIND STRENGTH IN UNITY DIGITAL terrestrial TV (DTT) technology has provided Francebased Lagardere Active and Italy’s Switchover Media with the foundation upon which to build a Europe-wide acquisitions powerhouse to compete against the global media groups.

Thanks to DTT, Lagardere Active’s niche channels, including its kids’ services Gulli and TiJi and Switchover’s family services K2 and Frisbee, already reach more than 40 million DTT homes in France and Italy. Moreover, Gulli and TiJi are also available in Russia.

Now, the two niche-channel operators have formed a partnership “that gives us stronger leverage when competing for the best content properties”, said Antoine Villeneuve, Lagardere Active’s CEO. Currently, both operators feel restricted when challenging media groups capable of offering international hit programmes to hundreds of countries.

TV Asahi’s Yasuo Kawashima: seeking partners

Brad and George are in the house CABLEREADY is celebrating its 20th anniversary at MIPTV with an exclusive, inviteonly party and a slate of new and established shows, including the latest series of Inside The Actors Studio featuring Brad Pitt and George Clooney.

The company is also arriving in Cannes with the popular Deals From The Dark Side, Esther Extraordinaire and Saw Dogs, plus the recently acquired series Outcast Custom and Shooting Stars.

Lagardere Active and Switchover are now inviting other DTT channels with extensive reach in their respective countries to join the alliance.

“To be able to do this, you need to have critical mass in your respective country,” Villeneuve said. “Combined, we are able to assure distributors of powerful shows that we can offer distribution in much more than just our individual countries.”

In addition, the alliance’s greater resources will also enable its participating partners to offer clients a larger geographic reach for licensed merchandise deals.

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us to have partnerships with major companies that have proven results, as well as strong ties with major broadcasters in Europe and the US. We recently signed a format co-development deal with Warner Bros. International Television. And negotiations are also under way with other major companies to form partnerships on a format-by-format basis.”

Gary Lico, CEO and president of CABLEready, said: “Although we are not in the party business, we intend to make sure that our celebration of 20 years in the business is a memorable one. But most importantly, the market generally is looking good at the moment. There are new channels springing up and, perhaps most signi¿cantly, we have recently been involved in some pretty large agreements, including the sorts of output deals that are more normally associated with the big studios. Deals like those have been very rare for a company like CABLEready in the past, but I see this as a logical development in a maturing market.”

CABLEready signed Inside The Actors Studio — one of its signature shows, with sales to over 200 countries — in 1994 as the result of a chance meeting.

“The show’s inventor and anchor, James Lipton, is a friend of a friend and, when he mentioned the show, I went along to check it out,” Lico said. “I loved James’ style — and it seems that a lot of other people do too. Inside The Actors Studio has been, and continues to be, a very important show for the company. We have now got to the point where actors approach us asking to be on it, which is very gratifying.”

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The sitcom stars Sheen as an irascible anger management therapist in his first serialised television role since leaving Two And A Half Men a year ago and is loosely based on the 2003 film of the same name. FX debuts the series in June, and has committed to an initial order of 100 episodes, subject only to the first 10 episodes exceeding a certain ratings level.

Lionsgate International has already sold the series in Canada, Latin America and Germany.

CAVEMEN DEAL SPAIN’s Neptuno Films has signed a coproduction deal with Evergreen Entertainment in the UK to develop 52 x 7 mins episodes of animation series Crazy Cavemen. The series is described as physical slapstick comedy, inspired by classic 1950s Hollywood cartoons and updated in CGI.

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X-Files’ Spotnitz shines in high-tension drama Hunted RANK Spotnitz, writer of the X-Files and now screen writer and show runner of Kudos Film & TV’s spy thriller Hunted, is in Cannes to launch his latest series, distributed by Shine International.

“I had a lot of fun writing this show, partly due to the high-tension nature of it, and partly due to the fact that I grew up watching spy series, so ¿nding something new to say about that situation was extremely challenging but rewarding,” Spotnitz said.

Ironically Spotnitz ¿nds himself involved in a series clearly aimed at being a primetime appointment show. It is a highly competitive market that, through the relentless quality of X-Files, he

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“Everyone involved in X-Files was extremely ambitious, and that ambition has carried through for Hunted. TV has to have resonance, and its audience has to care about what happens, and that is about having a conversation with the viewers,” Spotnitz said. “It is equally crucial that we, the producers, take into account what the audience needs, and if that means moving scenes around to better make a point, then so be it.”

Alongside Spotnitz’ script, the show also boasts a rash of stunning locations across Europe and North Africa. “Even though it’s more expensive to shoot entirely on location, we aren’t using any sound stages at all,” Spotnitz said.

Melissa George (The Slap, Grey’s Anatomy, In Treatment) stars as a private intelligence officer in Hunted

“And we are able to do that thanks to the fact that the BBC and HBO came on board early as broadcasters, for which we are extremely grateful.”

Scripps proving popular for Passion MARCH has, according to Passion Distribution CEO Sally Miles, been an amazingly busy month. “This is shaping up to be a strong year for us, and it’s one of the reasons that we are all so delighted to have renewed our deal with Scripps,” she said.

“Their content is doing so well, plus they have some very strong, well-established channel brands that are getting excellent ratings

thanks to the global interest in lifestyle programming.”

A shift in viewer tastes is also reflected in several other new Passion-distributed shows such as Push Girls and Abby & Brittany. “The opening shot of Push Girls shows a room full of the most beautiful young women but then it pulls back to reveal that they are all in wheelchairs,” Miles said. “And what follows

are the stories of some amazing, brave and inspiring human beings. Likewise with the third season of Abby & Brittany, about conjoined twins at college who are getting on with life as students.”

Passion has brought 500 hours of new programming to MIPTV including the series Dynamo and shows from the Travel Channel.

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Starz’s Magic City set to follow in Spartacus’ global footsteps Shaftesbury’s Christina Jennings with Smokebomb’s Daniel Dales

DIGITAL RICHES IN TREASURES SHAFTESBURY and The company P are developing a transmedia drama series entitled Treasures (8 x 60 mins) in partnership with the European Broadcasting Union.

Treasures tells the story of a group of adventurers who are thrown together in a global treasure hunt that could change the course of civilisation. Offering a participatory 360-degree experience, the series will integrate scripted drama content with interactive online, mobile and social-media content, and live events.

“Fans of the show will be able to look for clues and what happens at the live events will influence the following episode,” said Christina Jennings, chairman and CEO of Shaftesbury.

“Our digital assets are now front and centre, thanks to the integration of Smokebomb Entertainment’s inspired approach to digital media in our shows.”

Shaftesbury and Smokebomb are also casting State Of Syn (10 x 5 mins), a digital sci-fi series starring Jewel Staite (Firefly; LA Complex) and David Hewlett (Stargate SG-1).

“This is content that is not driven by TV,” said Daniel Dales, CEO and executive producer of Smokebomb Entertainment. “We are the digital arm of Shaftesbury, but we are first and foremost storytellers. State Of Syn combines the best of sci-fi with eye-popping animation and the sort of immersive user experience that only digital platforms can offer.

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TARZ Media’s latest TV drama, Magic City, premieres in the US this week and the series — which is being launched internationally at MIPTV — is already set to go into production for a second season.

“It’s a tremendous vote of con¿dence, both in the quality of creator Mitch Glazer’s writing and in the high standard of acting,” said Gene George, Starz Media’s executive vice-president of worldwide distribution.

“MIPTV is the ideal launch platform for Magic City internationally and it has got the series off to a very strong global sales start.

Magic City is set in Miami Beach in 1959. Ike Evans’ luxurious Miramar Playa Hotel is ‘the’ place to be, with the Kennedys, the mob and the CIA all

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holding court there. But all is not what it seems and Evans’ world is threatening to implode.

George added: “We are con¿dent that Magic City will repeat the tremendous worldwide success of Spartacus, which ¿rst premiered three years ago and has now gone into its third season.”

Starz Media has also brought several other TV movies to MIPTV, including family ¿lms 12 Wishes Of Christmas, Christmas Magic, Unstable and Jersey Shore Shark Attack.

“The emphasis is on top-quality programming that has international appeal,” George said.

“With the ongoing success of Spartacus and now the launch of Magic City, Starz is forging partnerships with top domestic and international broadcasters, and further strengthening its global distribution pipeline.”

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HESTON Blumenthal is in Cannes today to promote his DRG-distributed series How To Cook Like Heston.

The celebrity chef will be holding a photocall at the Majestic at 15.15 and later attending a cocktail reception on the Carlton Beach.

Interest builds in constructed reality ALL3MEDIA International and its German subsidiary Filmpool are in Cannes with a slate of constructed-reality formats that have already worked well in Germany and Eastern Europe and are soon to break on French television networks.

Filmpool’s business development manager Felix Wesseler said: “We have six titles, three of which are new to the market and three of which have been produced in volume for German, Russian, Polish

and Ukrainian broadcasters.”

The three new titles are The Trovatos, Just Sue Me and Day & Night. The last is the ¿ rst of Filmpool’s constructed-reality series to directly target a youth audience. “It’s about eight young people living together in Berlin and trying to get a career break. It already has 1.5 million Facebook fans [although it only] launched recently.”

The constructed reality genre casts amateur actors in semi-

scripted true-life scenarios. By doing so, it combines dramatic storytelling with the authenticity of observational factual ¿lm-making.

The export of the formats is managed by Stephanie Hartog, All3Media International’s executive vice-president of format sales, who con¿rmed that M6 in France is set to take one of the shows. Other French broadcasters are planning local versions of Day & Night and Just Sue Me.

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PROGRAMMING highlights to be found on the Finnish Film & Audiovisual Export (FAVEX) stand include Angry Birds, Dibidogs, The Underworld Trilogy, The Happiness Project, Misadventures and The Dudesons, as well as feature-film titles, and merchandising brands such as Rare Exports and Iron Sky. FAVEX — the association that facilitates the promotion, marketing and sales of Finland’s audiovisual content and services — has doubled the size of its stand space at MIPTV, and moved to a prime new location in the Palais.

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LOVEFiLM acquires 300 hours of ‘iconic’ BBC programming BC WOR L DW I DE has closed its ¿ rst ever deal with LOVEFiLM Germany. From today, 30 0 hou rs of BBC content will be made available to subscribers of the Amazonowned on-demand service.

The deal was brokered by BBC Worldwide’s head of Germanspeaking territories Isabelle Helle, who said the 300 hours included high-pro¿ le dramas, natural history, comedy and travel-based documentaries,

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“A few years ago, we made the decision to invest in Germanlanguage versioning of our shows and this is paying off with deals like the LOVEFiLM one,” she said.

LOV EFi LM Deutsch la nd’s commercial director, Er nst Trapp, added: “The BBC is synonymous with top quality TV. This new partnership with BBC Worldwide means our customers can watch iconic BBC programmes anytime,

instantly and on demand.” The LOVEFiLM deal is the latest in a number of innovative partnerships that BBC Worldwide has forged with German on-demand partners.

“Our other digital partners in Germany include Spiegel, Vod afone, Vide oloa d a nd iTunes,” Helle said. “As long as we don’t do anything that affects our TV partnerships, we can be Àexible in terms of the deals we do in digital and on-demand.”

EVERY Cloud producers Fiona Eagger (left) and Deb Cox introduce the new All3Media drama detective series, The Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries, to MIPTV. All3Media has signed the ¿rst deals for the 13 x 60 mins series with Russia’s Mauris Corporation, DR Denmark and Kanal 9 Sweden. Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is produced

by Australian independent Every Cloud Productions for ABC Australia, where the ¿rst ¿ve episodes all topped the TV ratings. A further 13 episodes are in production.

Titanic logs sales to 95 countries ITV STUDIOS Global Entertainment has signed further deals for Julian Fellowes’ Titanic, which has now sold to 95 countries.

The latest deals for Titanic will see it air on Mediacorp’s okto in Singapore, TV Azteca in Mexico, SBS channel Veronica in the Netherlands, VRT in Belgium, BBC Entertainment in Africa and Manoto1 in Iran, via satellite broadcaster Marjan TV Network.

China’s Shanghai Joy Network,

one of the territory’s largest online content providers, has also picked up the series.

Following the screening of episode one of the major co-production, Fellowes — who won an Oscar for Gosford Park in 2001 and an Emmy Award for Downton Abbey in 2010 — took part in a Q&A session yesterday in the Grand Auditorium. He will be accompanied by the shows’ stars, Celia Imrie, Glen Blackhall and Geraldine Somerville.

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KAMA JANCZYK, SUPERVISORY BOARD MEMBER, BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION, POLAND “BRIGHTSIDE Foundation was established to support production, promotion and distribution of Polish feature films and TV productions with a special focus on documentaries and animation. It also acts as a liaison between Polish and foreign producers looking for co-production partners and broadcasters.

“We came to MIPDoc with 15 documentaries, ranging from current affairs (Gorbachev – The Man Who Changed The World and Afghanistan: The 8th Gate) to documentaries showing political and cultural changes in Polish society in a series called Guide To The Poles, and other documentaries reflecting on social responsibilities such as We Will Be Happy One Day and Blinky And Me. Our focus is to help Polish producers in finding sales agents and broadcasters for their documentaries and animations.

“We chose MIPDoc and MIPTV to launch as we see them as a major hub for valuable contacts. We have also brought several documentary projects in development, specifically one in current affairs, on international terrorism and the freedom movement in Chechnya. We are focusing on finding a broadcaster who would join the project.

“We want to build a strong presence of Polish documentaries that until now have rarely been available, many that are successful at festivals. We want to fill the gap and be a major ‘shop’ for buyers looking for documentaries on Polish subjects and by Polish filmmakers.”

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A2E2 seals Mighty deal with Stan Lee’s POW! and Archie Comics SQUARED Elxsi Entertainment (A2E2) has announced a deal to develop stories across multiple platforms and formats based on the new Stan Lee’s Mighty 7 comic series.

A2E2 is a joint-venture between A Squared Entertainment and Tata Elxsi. The deal is the result of a partnership between A2E2, Lee’s POW! Entertainment and Archie Comics.

Stan Lee’s Mighty 7 comic strip introduces a new group of extra terrestrial superheroes, with Lee, creator of Spider-Man and X-Men,

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“Today’s multi-format, multi-channel entertainment world offers us a unique opportunity to create a truly immersive storytelling experience ¿t for the next generation of superheroes, including Stan himself,” said Andy Heyward, A2E2 founder and co-president.

In addition to the production of original animated and live-action programming, A2E2 will lead the global licensing of the property including toys, digital and entertainment products, and books.

Video solutions from thePlatform AMONG the toughest challenges facing broadcasters, rights owners and advertisers is how to deploy video across a growing array of digital devices. But one company that can smooth the way is thePlatform, a stand-alone division of Comcast that is showcasing its capabilities to potential partners at MIPTV. “It’s not just a question of getting your video content on to Xbox, iPad and all the other screens,” said Marty Roberts, senior vice-president sales and marketing at thePlatform. “There are also all those complex business considerations – things like security, monetisation, windowing, geo-blocking and presentation.”

ThePlatform was set up to tackle all of the above, said Roberts: “We were bought by

Comcast six years ago. That was a great tie-up because they are such a sophisticated player in the ‘TV everywhere’ business, but allow us to operate independently.”

ThePlatform is well-established in North America through the work it does for the likes of Comcast, PBS and CBC Canada, so Europe is more of a priority while in Cannes.

“We have set up a London office and are already working with the likes of UPC, HIT Entertainment and adidas but MIPTV is a great opportunity to showcase our capabilities and share knowledge,” said Roberts.

“From user authentication issues through to the optimal ad load that a company should run on digital platforms, we’re able to help.”

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BEST BOY SELLS DOCS AND KIDS BEST Boy Entertainment has sold a second window of the docu-drama series Pet ER (26 x 30 mins/HD) to Animal Planet Canada. The series features families struck by life-threatening pet medical emergencies and the race to save the lives of these beloved family members.

Trinity Broadcasting Network’s Smile Of A Child children’s TV network has purchased the first three seasons of Mickey’s Farm (91 x 15mins/HD), and DirecTV Pan Americana has purchased The Skinny Dip (8 x 30 mins/HD) and Soccer Shrines (13 x 30 mins/HD).

MORE SUCCESS WITH EPISODES HAT TRICK International has pre-sold the second series of UK/US comedy drama Episodes to 150 countries worldwide. The primetime show, which stars Matt LeBlanc playing an outrageous version of himself, has been acquired by leading broadcasters around the world including in Asia, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Russia, Turkey, New Zealand, Benelux, Israel, Norway, Portugal and Sweden.

NAS’s Masakazu Soeda (left), Kayo Kurita and Naoki Miura, NHK’s Kazumasa Iida and NAS’s Hirohisa Ishikawa

NHK launches new animation timeslot with NAS co-pro HK has announced the creation of a new timeslot for what it is calling ‘breakthrough animation’. Its first title Galaxy Kickoff!! is a coproduction between NHK, NHK Enterprises and Nihon Ad Systems (NAS), and features kids who overcome a number of challenges to realise their dreams on the soccer ¿eld.

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production, programme development centre, added: “This is the ¿rst animation slot we’ve had on our main channel in six years and it was created speci¿cally for Galaxy Kickoff!!. In other words, we considered this new co-production so breakthrough that we wanted to create a special slot for it. We hope it will be the first of a number of breakthrough animations to follow in that slot.”

Veria Living on health kick in Cannes

FORMAT DEALS FOR ZODIAK ZODIAK Rights, the international division of Zodiak Media, has agreed three format deals in Latin America. Brazil’s TV Globo has signed for and will produce a local version of Oblivious, a hidden camera game show. TVN Chile has also picked up the format rights to True Talent, a primetime format that focuses on actual talent rather than appearance or personality. SBT in Brazil has ordered another 13 episodes of Sing If You Can.

said NAS producer Naoki Miura.

“However, we particularly liked this one because usually animation has a lot of special effects but this one focuses on real soccer and the real nature of the game.

There’s no magic, no special effects. Instead, it’s both boys and girls together on the playing ¿eld focused on real teamwork and not just getting the goal.”

Kazumasa Iida, NHK head of international acquisition and co-

Veria Living’s Ray Donahue: in search of healthier lifestyles

VERIA Living, the health and wellness channel launched by media mogul Subhash Chandra, is at MIPTV furthering its plans to develop as a global brand, and spread the message about the bene¿ts of healthy lifestyles. Ray Donahue, senior vice-president, programme sales, said that Veria Living is

producing 700 hours of new programming during 2012, and now has ¿ve of¿ces around the world, but is seeking further expansion.

“We are looking to appeal to those in search of healthier living, not just females in the 1854 target market, but also men with aspirations to lead healthier lifestyles. Veria is not here to preach its message but does want to educate viewers about the importance of their health and wellbeing in an interesting, positive, and entertaining style.”

Chandra, founder of Zee Entertainment in India and chairman of the Essel Group, has committed a $250m fund to expand

Veria’s presence in the international marketplace.

“He has a very hands-on approach, and is pleased with the way it has been going,” added Donahue. “He has made a major commitment, and sees Veria Living as a way of giving back to society what it has given to him.”

Veria now has its own dedicated studios for programme production and will continue to build its rapidly expanding catalogue.

“The programming is not speci¿c to any one culture and has a wide international appeal,” Donahue said. “Veria Living is committed to growing the brand across all platforms.”

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neWs TV5Monde has 21st Century news for French viewers FRENCH-language version of United Nations Television’s (U NTV) monthly news show 21st Century has been launched at MIPTV. The show is produced by broadcaster TV5Monde and presented by renowned French journalist Charlotte Le Grix de la Salle.

Speaking in Cannes yesterday, Caroline Petit, chief of the partnerships unit in the UN’s news and media division, said the move would make 21eme Siecle, the French version of the show, available in the 220 million households worldwide that receive TV5Monde.

“This is important for us at TV5Monde because the humanitarian values the UN defends and promotes are values we share,” said Jean-Luc Cronel, the company’s director of marketing. “Also, French is spoken in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and of course

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Africa, which is where many UN stories come from, so it is important that the show is available in those territories.”

Although this is the first time this multi-award winning programme has been produced in a language other than English, it won’t be the last.

“We are now looking for a partner with similar global reach to TV5Monde with whom to make a Spanish-language version,” said Petit. “We also hope to ¿nd a partner to make an Arabic version.”

In a separate move, Petit is talking to leading quiz show producers about supplying them with a bank of questions and answers relating to UN issues. “Questions such as ‘Which celebrities serve as UN Messengers of Peace?’, might be appropriate for a show such as FremantleMedia’s Questions Pour Un Champion, the French version of Going For Gold,” she said.

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K-pop and Korean drama tops KBS content chart

KBS’s Dong-Soo Keum: “the time is right”

DONG-Soo Keum, managing director of Korean Broadcasting System’s (K BS) Global Strategy Center is in Cannes to underscore the Korean public broadcaster’s new strategy to take Korean drama and Korean pop music (K-pop) content to the next level.

Keum points out that the expansion of Korean content in Japan and South East Asia was the ¿ rst phase of the Korean Wave. The second has been the advance into European, and North and South American markets.

He said that the current global online demand for Korean drama has encouraged KBS to not only showcase the latest in Korean drama and K-pop music programming but also to increase its focus on co-production and Korean format production.

He points out that Korean drama has gone from appealing to mainly middleaged women when its Àagship drama series Winter Sonata first began in

2002 to a wide appeal to both men and women of all ages. It has also widened its sub-genre appeal to romantic comedies, fusion epic dramas, action, suspense and political dramas. There is, in addition, a conscious effort to cast Korean stars with international appeal, such as Geun-Suk Jang and Yoon-a in the drama Love Rain, in efforts to increase global awareness of Korean talent. .

K-Pop’s already wide appeal in Asia increased after hot girl group Wonder Girls performed in Cannes in 2010, said Keum, and interest in Korean programming and music soared. “We’ll be using Cannes as a platform in the future for raising the pro¿le of Korean pop stars as well,” he said.

KBS, as part of its new strategy, will launch a premium drama and entertainment channel in the second half of this year in Asia. “The time is right and certainly, the demand is there,” said Keum.

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Dancing On The Edge: exploring a world of music, money, power and privilege Stephen Poliakoff: “It’s a whopping story”

T’S EPIC, exuberant and examines a society hurtling towards self-destruction.

And it’s “the most ambitious thing” that award-winning writer-director Stephen Poliakoff has ever done.

Poliakoff, whose credits include The Lost Prince and Close My Eyes, is talking about BBC Two’s major new series Dancing On The Edge, brought to MIPTV by ITV Studios Global Entertainment. The six-part drama chronicles a black jazz band’s rise to fame in the divinely decadent world of 1930s London.

The Louis Lester Band is the hottest ticket in town — until the death of one of the band members exposes the violence and prejudice below the gilded surface.

“But it’s not just a story about race and class and celebrity and show business,” Poliakoff said. “It’s also about people being tested and facing moral choices. Some of the characters you expect to behave badly don’t — and some you don’t do. It’s a whopping story about an up-tight society liberated by

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extraordinary music.”

The music in question consists of 15 original songs written for the series by Adrian Johnson, who has scored several TV ¿lms for Poliakoff.

Five years in gestation, the Ruby Film And Television production stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (American Gangster), John Goodman (The Artist), Matthew Goode (A Single Man) and Jacqueline Bisset (Bullitt) in a cast that mixes established international actors with “incredible up-and-coming talent”, Poliakoff said. “And all the actors are really singing,” he added.

Dancing On The Edge was shot entirely on location. “There are absolutely no studio sets, so it has an extraordinarily authentic texture to it,” Poliakoff said. “I achieved a big look by using the best locations I could ¿nd in Britain.”

So is Poliakoff pleased with the result? “Yes, I am. It’s the most ambitious thing I’ve ever made but I hope it’s also one of the most purely enjoyable. For me, everything is lost unless you can tell a cracking story.”

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The Content 360 New Transmedia Concepts In Fiction prize was awarded to Benjamin Faivre of Telfrance Serie for Anarchy

Aral Balkan wins TV Hack Day with his Grab Magic! application. The award was presented by Reed MIDEM’s Sarah Hemar (left) and Louisa Heinrich of Fjord

Mehdi Jacques Aminian of Jilion accepts the MIPCube Lab Vivendi Coup De Coeur awards for Sublime Video from Sandrine Dufour of Vivendi. Sublime Video, a versatile video player, also won the MIPCube Lab award, which was presented by Dr Ralph Eric Kunz of Catagonia Capital and Consulting

MSN’s Geoff Sutton (left) and Reed MIDEM’s Ted Baracos (right) congratulate Tom Jenkins of The Connected Set for Crash Test Dummies, which won the Content 360 Videos That Create Global Buzz, sponsored by MSN

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VANESSA JIANG, PRESIDENT, NEW CHINA MEDIA NTERNATIONAL, CHINA “NEW CHINA Media International is a Chinese production and distribution business. We distribute over 4,000 hours of documentaries, series, animations and films each year to stations and new media platforms in China.

“Also, we provide local services for co-productions of films and documentaries in China.

“We position ourselves as a unique media company in China that bridges the West and the East. We are currently working with well established UK and US companies, to distribute their content in China.

“While we are growing our market in China, we are expanding our need for different types of content, and we would like to introduce more great content to Chinese audiences, and new formats of shows, such as 3D content.

“We are looking for content partners to build up the China market together.

New China Media International is providing an opportunity for foreign content to come into the China market with a reliable, proven and professional company.

“We respect the ways that western people do their business and provide opportunities for them to enter the Chinese market.

China is opening up for more licensing of shows that have proper copyrights.

The market is starting to regulate itself and because of this, we are able to reach out to more stations and platforms, to license content with copyrights and to monitor their use of the content.”

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Worldwide Rights deal brings JSBC dramas to Latin America ANGSU Broadcasting Corporation (JSBC) has signed a deal for Latin America with Wordwide Rights Corporation for its TV dramas Beauties Around and Elite’s Game.

“Beauties Around showcases modern women and men in China in their careers and in their personal lives. We believe Latin

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audiences will be interested in this fresh look at Chinese life and the beauty of that life,” Zhou Li, president, Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation said.

Worldwide Rights Corporation managing director Jose Escalante said that his company was opening the Latin American market for Chinese production for the ¿rst time. “Beauties Around and

Elite’s Game represent the kind of hiqh quality content we are looking for, and will be looking for in the future.”

JSBC has also sold its animation series Happy Father, Happy Son to Jordan’s Media Marketing and Production, and drama Perfect Match to Malaysia’s Media Prima Berhad for NTV7 and Singapore’s Media Corp.

Worldwide Rights’ Jose Escalante and JSBC’s Zhou Li.

Korea’s KT Skylife focuses on 3D titles KOREAN broadcaster KT Skylife is reporting strong buyer interest in its slate of high-end 3D productions at MIPTV this week.

Top titles include award-winning Forest Of Bandi: FireÀies 3D, a stunning stereoscopic production which explores the battle for survival of ¿reÀies on the beautiful Mount Deogyu in Korea.

Other titles in the portfolio include The Spirit Of Great China, Soul Of Seoul, 3D Panorama Korea, 3D Art Theatre

and DMZ 3D, the ¿ rst ever 3D exploration of the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea. There are also two 3D titles aimed at children, Dooby Doobop’s Pirate Adventure and 3D Science Ooh-La-La, and a golf instructional series called 3D Real Golf Lesson in which everything from grips to strokes are demonstrated by professional golfers.

KT Skylife runs a number of channels including Sky 3D. As such, it is currently a world-leader in 3D stereoscopic content.

LANDMARK DEAL FOR CHINA AND MYANMAR CHINA-based production house Beijing Jingdu Century Culture Development Co, together with Yunnan Broadcasting Group have inked a deal with Myanmar’s Skynet and MPPE to produce a 40-episode drama series called Myanmar Dancing Queen. The series focuses on a traditional story and the historical relationship between China’s Tang Dynasty and Myanmar’s Pyo Dynasty. Jindu’s president You Xiaogang said: “This production marks one of the first TV deals between China and Myanmar, and we look forward to continuing to develop projects in this growing market.”

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The Mendoza Films format is re-launched at MIPTV by Banijay International. The company also brings: The All-Star Dog Show, where four celebrities compete in pairs with their pet dogs; Power Of Music, which sees musicians who have suffered tragedy get a life-changing second chance; dating show Fools For Love; Star Save Our School and Celebrity Knockout.

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The show is already a hit on German public network ARD. Helicopter Rescue (8 x 45 mins) is a documentary series focusing on the real-life dangers threatening mountain-rescue teams in Bozen, a geographically hazardous area in Italy’s South Tyrol.

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HORROR thriller Living Dark: The Story Of Ted The Caver is among a catalogue of crime-themed dramas on the slate of titles from US-based New Films International at MIPTV. The 112-minute film, based on the now famous Ted The Caver blogs, is currently in production.

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PORTFOLIO International is riding the Eighties wave with a new live-action series for tweens called Julie And The Phantoms. The show centres on a wannabe teen rock star called Julie, who accidentally brings an Eighties rock band back to life while playing some forgotten vinyl. The fact that only she can see the band makes her friends wonder if Julie has finally lost it. Also from Portfolio is You Gotta Eat Here!, a cooking show in which food-obsessed comedian John Catucci tries to find out what makes cooks’ signature recipes so good.

SPANISH media strategy company Nottingham Forest is offering a new service, PLAYyourBRAND, to help kids’ producers enrich their brands by adding digital and real-world games. The company’s latest campaign is for Desafio Champions (known internationally as Sendokai Champions), the new show from Spain’s Kotoc. The first episode is being launched at MIPTV. Nottingham Forest represents shows including Laland (Kotoc), JokeBox (Kotoc), Mouk (Millimages) and Ciudad Arco Iris (Rainbow City).

Hello K3 (Studio 100 Media)

HELLO K3 (39 x 25 mins) is a live-action sitcom for six- to 11-year-olds about the lives of three members of K3, the successful girl band behind the phenomenon of toddler pop in the Benelux. The series follows three band members — Kristel, Karen and Josje — as they try to balance normal life with being superstars. The girls share their lives with their friendly neighbour Marcel, handsome Bill who lives upstairs and Rosie, the owner of the coffee bar downstairs. Produced by Studio 100, the live-action series is distributed internationally by Studio 100 Media.

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Julie And The Phantoms (Portfolio International)

Sendokai Champions (Nottingham Forest)

AUSTRIAN distributor ORF Enterprise Content Sales International has broadened its offer of documentaries and edutainment series to include a feature film. Reality XL is a thriller about the disappearance of the night shift operating CERN’s particle accelerator. The film, which is directed by Tom Bohn, stars Heiner Lauterbach, Max Tidof, Annika Greta Blendl and Godehard Giese. And in Baked Beans, bestselling author and director Gabriel Barylli poses the question of whether or not it is possible to live in a partnership of equals.

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INDEPENDENT production and distribution company WestWind Pictures is in Cannes with a raft of titles and just-inked deals. Among them are lifestyle programmes Designer Guys, The Mix and The Party.

WestWind is currently involved in scripted series, including Little Mosque On The Prairie, as well as documentary films and children’s content.

The company announced a string of deals just prior to MIPTV, including the sale of its original series GoldMind to Wealth TV in the US. In GoldMind, mentalist Haim Goldenberg hosts thirteen half-hour episodes of mind-bending stunts.

BEYOND Distribution is in Cannes with Chuck Hughes to launch a selection of titles including Chuck’s Week Off: Mexico. The 8 x 30 mins HD series has Chuck looking for culinary adventures in Mexico, while Chuckmas is an HD 60-minute programme in which Chuck tries to pull off a unique Christmas celebration.

Beyond Distribution is also launching World’s Weirdest Restaurants (13 x 30 mins/HD), and The Twitch (13 x 30 mins/HD), a thrilling children’s tale of myth and magic.

World’s Weirdest Restaurants (Beyond Distribution)

RIVE GAUCHE TELEVISION US FACTUAL & REALITY NAKED FLAME PRODUCTIONS AUSTRALIA ENTERTAINMENT

ROBB Demarest, star of US channel Chiller’s Real Fear: The Truth Behind The Movies, and Naked Flame Productions are in Cannes looking for pre-sales of new paranormal series The Dark Side.

Demarest will be bringing together a team of paranormal professionals from around the world to investigate reports of paranormal activity in Australia, where The Dark Side will be set. Demarest is the former lead investigator for Syfy’s Ghost Hunters International.

RIVE Gauche Television is in Cannes with a slate of new titles, including Happily Never After (10 x 60 mins), a crime show that gives new meaning to the words ‘till death us do part’. Interviews and dramatic re-creations reveal true tales of matrimonial murders and heartbreaking crimes of love gone horribly wrong.

River Gauche is also showcasing reality show Operation Osmin, an extreme weight loss show starring a character who puts ordinary people through blood, sweat and tears in an effort to get them in shape.

TURNER CONTENT SOLUTIONS US KIDS’ & FILM

TURNER Content Solutions has brought a raft of new programming to Cannes.

Kids’ highlights include all Ben 10 series and Ben 10’s first made-for-television CGI animated movielength feature Ben 10 – Destroy All Aliens. Also being showcased is The Amazing World Of Gumball, now into its second season, and LazyTown.

Turner’s general entertainment slate includes Mystery Night Movies, a collection of mystery thrillers from TNT, featuring talent such as Anne Heche, Bill Pullman and John Corbett, and based on bestselling crime novels.

The Amazing World Of Gumball (Turner Content Solutions)

Happily Never After (Rive Gauche Television)

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THE HA Ha Hairies are a delightfully hairy family who live a life of fun and laughter in Hairyland.

These are the central characters of Adastra Creative’s pre-school series Ha Ha Hairies (52 x 12 mins), commissioned by Turner Broadcasting and brought to market by DHX Media. The live-action show with animated elements combines clowning and mime routines with music and dance to tell ‘moral fairytales for the modern world’. The liveaction cast is supported by two animated Hairy Fairies, who serve as the show’s narrators.

CHILDREN’S ANIMATION/LIVE ACTION

MIA AND Me, produced by Lucky Punch, Rainbow and March Entertainment, is a live-action/ animation series with a cast of unicorns, pans, elves, evil queens and noble princes. Mia is hurled into this fantasy world via a high-tech portal and becomes embroiled in a mission to save the once idyllic kingdom. Brought to MIPTV by M4E, Mia And Me won the 2011 MIPJunior Licensing Challenge and has now been sold into more than 50 territories.

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TWO RISING stars of Polish cinema — Agnieszka Grochowska (The Magic Tree) and Mateusz Kosciukiewicz (All That I Love) — head the cast of TVP’s latest drama Shameless, billed as a sensual and erotic tale about forbidden love. TVP’s MIPTV slate also includes the award-winning documentary Argentinian Lesson by Wojciech Staron, which examines a young boy’s integration into a new culture when his parents move from Siberia to Argentina. Argentinian Lesson was named one of the top-five European films of 2011 by CineEuropa.

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BETWEEN 1942 and 1945, 18,000 Jewish children were deported from The Netherlands and murdered by the Nazis. This is the harrowing subject of Remembering A Murdered Child by the Dutch Emmy Awardwinning director Willy Lindwer. Based on Guus Luijters’ recently published book In Memoriam, the film tells the story of nine anonymous Dutch children, illustrating their stories with the generic memories of classmates, neighbours and friends. Former cabinet minister Frits Korthals Altes remembers a 13-year-old school friend, who was killed in Auschwitz; actress Nelly Frijda recalls baby Edje van Sijes, who was murdered in Sobibor. But most of those 18,000 children died anonymously, leaving no photographs or memories behind them.

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A FRESH take on hip hop and a glimpse of a rarelyseen culture is offered in Mongolian Bling (1 x 56 mins and 1 x 89 mins/HD), which shows how Mongolian rappers are breaking through tradition and forging a new musical identity for themselves.

ABC’s factual slate also includes Dicing With Debt (1 x 45 mins/HD), a forensic examination of Ireland’s financial disaster; and Baseclimb 3: No Ceiling (1 x 55 mins HD), which follows a young mother’s 2,338day journey from inexperienced adventurer to altitude BASE-jump world record holder.

Mongolian Bling (ABC Commercial)

FRIENDSHIP, overcoming obstacles and the will to live are the central themes of The Red Band Society, which tells the story of six kids who meet in a children’s hospital. Unlike most medical dramas, the series puts the doctors to one side and focuses on the sick children. Shot through with humour and tenderness, The Red Band Society shows how the children deal with their lives inside hospital and how their situation affects those around them — family, friends and medical staff.

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ISLAMIC Economics from factual specialist Accent Films International throws the spotlight on the United Arab Emirates 40 years after the federation’s establishment in 1971, and asks what makes this rich and powerful region tick. Olympic host London is one of the cities featured in The Fear That Has A 1,000 Eyes, which examines security in the world’s mega-cities. And the history doc A Road Not Taken looks back at the 1979 oil crisis, when US president Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House.

DOCUMENTARY/DRAMA

FLANDERS Image is showcasing Off World’s three-part documentary Red Star Line, which looks at the shipping company that transported more than 2.7 million emigrants from Antwerp to New York between 1873 and 1934. Meanwhile, the Brussels-based producer Caviar is working on a 6 x 50 mins mini-series about the same shipping line, to be directed by Frank van Passel. Both productions will tell the story of the emigrants from across Europe who fled civil war, famine, poverty and persecution to start a new life in America.

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IN THE Shangri-La (3 x 60 mins), Korea HD Broadcasting — at MIPTV under the auspices of KOCCA — delves into the legend of the lost Himalayan paradise, exploring both the past and present of the minority races that live in these mysterious mountains. Also on Korea HD Broadcasting’s slate is The Three Kingdoms Of China (4 x 60 mins), which revisits the literary classic, reinterpreting its message for modern audiences and analysing the political heroes that existed in the period of the Three Kingdoms.

The Shangri-La (Korea HD Broadcasting)

Islamic Economics (Accent Films International)

DORI MEDIA GROUP ISRAEL DRAMA/ENTERTAINMENT

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DORI Media Group comes to MIPTV with a slate of original drama productions, including the daily crime series New York, produced by Dori Media Darset for Israel’s yes. The action centres on the son of a notorious crime boss, who arrives in New York in an effort to escape his past and build a new life for himself. Teen TV series Galis (60 x 30 mins) tells the story of three foster-home kids who find themselves in an elite summer camp — and in the middle of a magical, mythological mystery.

GERMANY TECHNOLOGY

VAST Media is launching the TV@Web Database, which claims to be the first B2B tracking service focusing on television brand extensions. Updated daily, the database contains hundreds of TV shows and their related online extensions, ranging from multiplatform campaigns to format-related apps, online games and web apps. The database’s powerful search engine enables classification by category, format, broadcaster and country, allowing for the quick filtering and group of search results.

Red Star Line (Flanders Image)

GRETECH TV@Web Database (Vast Media)

SOUTH KOREA E-SPORTS

WITH a fan base in over 180 countries, Global StarCraft II League (GSL) claims to be the world’s largest e-sports event. Launched in September 2010, the GSL offers a yearly prize pot of some $1.5m, competed for via 2,717 games, broadcast on 210 days. The content is provided in English, Chinese and Korean, with Swedish, German, French and Russian currently in preparation. The GSL is broadcast on TV and various new-media channels, including smartphones and tablets.

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BALEUKO is presenting its latest CGI feature, The Wish Fish (74 mins), to the international market.

The film follows the adventures of Opil, a nineyear-old boy who doesn’t like eating fish. His mother tries to tempt him with a special dish — the wish fish — but Opil no longer believes in fairy tales. “I wish some mutant aliens would take away all the fish from the planet,” he says. It turns out to be the worst wish in history. Baleuko is also unveiling two animated TV shows: Blackie And Company (26 x 11 mins), based on the 3D stereoscopic feature film Blackie And Kanuto; and the eco-adventure series Smolitoon (52 x 11 mins).

A TENSE intercontinental thriller, Flight Of The Storks, is headlining TF1 International’s MIPTV slate. Based on the best-selling novel by JeanChristophe Grange, the plot revolves around the mysterious disappearance of high numbers of migrating storks. A young English academic is called in to investigate — and uncovers a trail of grisly murders and a gruesome secret. Directed by Jan Kounen, the English-language mini-series stars Harry Treadaway (Lone Ranger), Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner) and Perdita Weeks (Titanic series).

PERSONAL stories, social dynamics and tough physical challenges are the key ingredients of Strix Television’s new reality format Over The Top (11 x 45 mins). The series, which is currently airing in Norway, sees 16 participants pit themselves against nature, each other and their private demons. From episode to episode, duels and eliminations tear the contestants apart, testing their loyalties and forcing them to establish new relationships. The result is an emotional journey as intense and challenging as the physical hike of a lifetime.

Flight Of The Storks (TF1 International)

Over The Top (Strix Television)

PILOT PRODUCTIONS The Wish Fish (Baleuko)

UK TRAVEL/DOCUMENTARY

PILOT Productions’ MIPTV slate includes the 15th series of the award-winning series Globe Trekker (23 x 52 mins/HD). Shot on location in some of the world’s most exotic destinations — including Puerto Rico, the Papua New Guinea Islands, Uruguay and Paraguay — each episode transports the viewer into a new world, introducing them to fascinating people, cuisines, cultures and landscapes. Pilot is also offering The Making Of Globe Trekker, a onehour HD documentary; and Historic Walks (6 x 26 mins), which follows in the footprints of history.

PLANETA JUNIOR SPAIN ANIMATION

PLANETA Junior’s latest TV productions include the animated series Magiki (52 x 11 mins), Camille (78 x 7 mins) and The Wizard Of Oz (104 x 11 mins), alongside the TV classics Maya The Bee (104 x 30 mins) and Heidi (52 x 30 mins). The company is also representing Cromosoma’s portfolio internationally (excluding the US, Canada and Latin America), which includes The Triplets — now translated into more than 35 languages — Lila, Juanito Jones, Asha and The Bored Witch.

Globe Trekker (Pilot Productions)

FOOTHILL ENTERTAINMENT US REALITY

BIZARRE Bazaar, Foothill Entertainment’s latest live-action reality series, celebrates the quirkier side of life. “We bring the tent; you bring the talent” is the catchphrase of the 60-minute roadshow format, which invites the public to demonstrate their most bizarre talents — including peculiar pet tricks — to a panel of three judges. If selected, the contestants go on to compete for the title of Most Bizarre of their city. The US version of Bizarre Bazaar, for which the worldwide rights are available, is hosted by celebrity DJ Scott Topper.

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PITBULL (31 x 48 mins) may be a crime drama, but each episode is based on a true story that has generated headlines and shocked the public. The series, which follows five members of a criminal investigation team, is brought to market by ATM Grupa. Also on the Polish company’s slate is The Taste Of Revenge (13 x 48 mins), which tells the story of Marta, an ostensibly successful businesswoman. But Marta has a terribly secret — and now, after 20 years, it’s time to face the truth.

Pitbull (ATM Grupa)

BETA FILM GERMANY DRAMA

COPPER (10 x 60 mins) — a gripping crime series set in 1860s New York City — is the latest project from Tom Fontana, whose papal period drama Borgia has just been commissioned for a second series. Copper centres on Kevin Corcoran (Tom WestonJones), a rugged Irish-immigrant cop, who struggles to maintain his moral compass in a turbulent world. Beta Film’s MIPTV roster also includes Arctic Air (10 x 60 mins), which follows on a team of pilots working for a private airline based near the Polar circle; and Grand Hotel (25 x 1.5 hours), in which a man poses as a valet in a luxurious hotel after his sister, a chambermaid, mysteriously disappears.

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ELASTIC Rights is seeking mechandising and licensing opportunities for Lua’s World (No Mundo Da Lua), a series of musical clips for children aged from two to six. Lua’s Go To Bed clip has traditionally closed RTP 2 Portugal’s children’s programming. Now, RTP will feature Lua in a Wake Up musical clip, which will begin greeting Portuguese children from May. Elastic Rights is also prioritising Champs 12 (120 x 45 mins), a teentargeted telenovela that chronicles the turbulent relationship between Charlotte, whose passion in life is dance, and Conzalo, who dreams of becoming a professional footballer.

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JAVA FILMS FRANCE DOCUMENTARY

COMBINING animation, interviews and archive footage, 30 Years Of Darkness tells the story of Manuel Cortes, one of the hundreds of Spanish ‘moles’ who spent up to 38 years in hiding from Franco’s dictatorship. After the Civil War, Cortes, a former mayor, had no chance to escape from Spain.

He succeeded in making it home to his wife, who warned him of the firing squads in the village. So they opened up a small hole in the wall where Cortes could hide — a hole that become his personal prison for the next 30 years.

THE CHANCE to pull of the ultimate heist and walk away with a life-changing fortune is the powerful formula at the heart of The Bank Job, Endemol’s multiplatform game show that has now been commissioned for two series on Channel 4 UK. Having battled it out online to secure a place on the show, rival players enter a bank vault filled with real money, where they play a high-jeopardy game of knowledge and judgement. The Bank Job’s accompanying online game has so far been played over eight million times by over 324,000 players.

Lua’s World (Elastic Rights)

TEAMTO FRANCE KIDS’ COMEDY

LEGEND becomes reality for the teen heroes of TeamTO’s new action comedy series Jade Armour (52 x 13 mins). The series is set in a world full of monsters — cute little house pets called Beasticons with the ability to morph into huge, elemental creatures when called upon to fight. TeamTO is also launching what it claims is the first animation series to deal with the serious subject of climate change in a light-hearted way. Plankton Invasion follows the adventures of microscopic marine creatures with a mega mission: to conquer the Earth.

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MEXICO

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CANADA

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DOCUMENTARY

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AZTECA, one of the world’s largest producers of Spanish-language television programming, this week launches a new telenovela Quererte Asi (Loving You) (120 x 60 mins). The story is about a young woman’s struggle to hold onto the profitable hotel chain she inherited from her dying grandfather in the face of ruthless opposition from her scheming family and fiance. The series stars Aura Cristina Geithner, Bernie Paz and Gabriela Vergara.

It premieres this quarter on Azteca 13, and distribution is by Comarex.

KOREAN distributor EBS is launching two new documentary series that use CGI to bring complex scientific theories engagingly to life. History Of Life (5 x 50 mins) explores evolution by resurrecting the ancient creatures that once ruled the Earth and chronicles their rise and fall. Math And The Rise Of Civilization (5 x 50mins) explores the role of maths from ancient Egypt to the modern world. Computer graphics make mathematical formulae accessible and interesting, and the show also uses dramatic historical re-enactments.

NEW PRE-SCHOOL series Trucktown rolls into Cannes as part of the Nelvana Enterprises line-up.

The animated series about a group of friendly vehicles is based on Jon Scieszka’s million-selling books. Also available are: Detentionaire (Seasons 1 and 2), in which a boy is falsely accused of pulling a prank at school and then tries to discover the identity of the real culprit; second series of sitcom Mr Young, about a precocious young science student who returns to his old school as a teacher; preschool show Franklin & Friends; Beyblade: Metal Fury; and Beywheelz.

Quererte Asi (Loving You) (Azteca)

History Of Life (EBS)

Trucktown (Nelvana Enterprises)

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SUBMARINE/WALKING THE DOG

CANADA

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OLIVE The Ostrich (52 x 5 mins), the latest preschool show from UK animation producers Blue-Zoo, brings the viewer into the heart of the production process. The show’s eponymous hero, an inquisitive ostrich, invites viewers to send in drawings — and then integrates them into the show. Distributed by Distribution360, Olive The Ostrich premiered on Nick Jr. in the UK in September, and is rolling out on Nick Jr. channels across Europe, Asia and Latin America.

INTERACTIVE property ZOOks is a show about a world in which people hate and mistrust nature. It uses television, an online game and both real-life and augmented zoo visits to engage a family audience in issues about conservation. When a woman goes missing, her young daughter defies the hated Bureau of Nature Control and goes into the nearby forest to find her, unintentionally reengaging with the natural world. ZOOks is developed by Sancta Media and the Zoo of Antwerp, with VRT’s Ketnet channel.

PICNIC With Pie, the picture book by awardwinning illustrator The Tjong-Khing, is to be made into an animated TV series by Submarine and Walking The Dog. The story, about the theft of two pies from a community picnic, is told in 24 episodes as each different character gives their own view of what happened. Picnic With Pie has already been sold to several European territories, including VRT’s Ketnet (Belgium) and KRO (The Netherlands).

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ZOOks (Sancta Media)

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FRANCE 24 FRANCE ARTS/CURRENT AFFAIRS

FRANCE heads to the polls soon for the country’s most important election in five years, with at least a dozen presidential hopefuls jostling for a position in the race to the Elysee presidential palace. In a series of dedicated programmes, En Route To The Presidency, France 24 will follow and analyse all the major issues at stake during the campaign, taking an in-depth look at the players.

Also launched at MIPTV is a weekly culture show Vice Versa that invites English-speaking TV viewers to discover French authors of every genre.

SHORELINE Entertainment has several new programmes for international launch at MIPTV including Sal which follows the story of Sergio, who travels to the rural deserts of Chile where he becomes trapped in a local desert community and is mistaken for a marked man. In the middle of a heated dispute Sergio must fight for his life and learn to walk in the shoes of a real outlaw in order to escape. Other Shoreline titles include Father’s Chair, Yakel and Pablo. Blending documentary and animation elements, Pablo is narrated by Oscarwinning actor Jeff Bridges.

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DOCUMENTARY

ONLINE kids channel Toon Goggles is showcasing ToonGoggles.com, its free portal where children can enjoy an ever-growing library of entertaining programming that is determined to be safe and appropriate for young viewers under the age of 13.

International producers have provided animated features, programmes, series, clips and trailers to the library. As well as gaining exposure, content providers also receive valuable feedback. Toon Goggles is at MIPTV looking for additional kidfriendly programming.

ALMOST two decades ago Pierre Culliford — better known as Peyo, and remembered as the man who created The Smurfs — died. Last year his little blue creations made their first appearance in 3D in theatres worldwide in The Smurfs film and the characters’ big screen adventures will be continuing in 2013 with the follow-up movie. IMPS, the worldwide licensor for the Smurf characters, and production company Nexus Factory have now delved into the magical world of Peyo with a documentary film, From The World Of Peyo To Planet Smurf.

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NEW FLEMISH PRIMITIVES

CANADA

BELGIUM

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THE TOUR (De Ronde), a nine-part drama series about how a sports event is able to fascinate an entire population, first aired in 2011 on Flemish public broadcaster VRT and generated top ratings. An elderly couple and their nationalistic neighbour, a softhearted anarchist, a midget jack-of-all trades, and a man on a particularly malodorous quest, all share a passion for the Tour of Flanders cycle race. International distribution is being handled by New Flemish Primitives.

COOKIE Jar Entertainment has arrived at MIPTV with a full slate of programming including 26 new episodes of action-comedy hit Johnny Test, new series Mudpit, Caillou, Hurray For Huckle!

(Busytown Mysteries), Sonic The Hedgehog and Sabrina, The Teenage Witch. Johnny Test, aimed at kids between 4 and 11, has 26 new episodes in production, and has been picked up by Teletoon and Cartoon Network in multiple territories. Mudpit (26 x 22 mins) is a half live-action, half CGI animated series revolving around four real-world teens who form a virtual band called Mudpit and become rock stars while playing their favourite online music game.

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BEST Boy Entertainment, the Canadian producer/ distributor of HD lifestyle, documentary and kids entertainment, comes to Cannes with a portfolio of programmes led by Pet ER. The 26 x 30 mins docu-drama series covers the lifeand-death situations of family pets and the race to save their lives.

Also from Best Boy are Mickey’s Farm, a pre-school series blending live action, animation and original music. The Skinny Dip is a travel series, The Horse chronicles the history of this versatile animal, while Soccer Shrines follows fanatical devotees of the beautiful game.

UK DISTRIBUTOR Cineflix Rights brings its biggest ever slate of third-party programmes to MIPTV, headed by The Human Body In 3D. The 2 x 60 mins documentary by Touch Productions combines live action, real-life sequences and CGI to give a rare HD3D view of human anatomy.

Animal Airport (13 x 30 mins) features entertaining anecdotes of the various creatures, including giant octopuses and elephants, passing through London’s Heathrow Airport.

Cineflix is also showcasing Timothy Spall – Somewhere At Sea, a travelogue by Bargepole Productions starring the popular UK actor and his wife.

UK INDEPENDENT distributor DRG brings a brand new format and a very worthy cause to MIPTV with Million Dollar Neighbourhood. Covering 10 weeks in the lives of 100 families in one neighbourhood, this social experiment shows the sacrifices and adjustments required in hard economic times to raise their collective worth by $1m. With the help of a financial expert and a psychologist, the participants learn how to live within their means and gain the chance to win thousands of dollars in cash prizes.

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OHM:TV, the German production company, is launching a new TV format called JobAct, which aims to boost the confidence of unemployed young adults.

Based on an actual initiative by ProjektFabrik, the German independent educational organisation, JobAct melds social work and theatre creativity to help the next generation of employees learn how to find work when all seems hopeless.

The challenges thrown at participants include learning how to produce and stage a theatrical play from scratch within five months.

OMNI Film Productions is kick-starting its MIPTV offerings with Arctic Air, a drama series that follows the adventures of the eccentric people operating an unconventional airline.

It is accompanied by Pyros, a documentary series illustrating the risks taken by pyrotechnicians to create some of the world’s most striking firework displays.

Fantasy/action series Primeval: New World continues the hit series in which scientists investigate the appearances of prehistoric animals and creatures from the future.

CALIFORNIA-based Vision Films brings non-stop thrills and action to Cannes with three titles. The Illusionauts is a 3D animation about the time-travel adventures of a group of kids who must stop villains distorting the narratives of true historical events. 7 Below features Val Kilmer, the star of Hollywood blockbusters Heat and Batman Forever, in a sci-fi thriller set in a house haunted by an evil entity. US rapper Pitbull co-stars in Blood Money, a martial-arts film about a hitman out to destroy drug cartels in the US, Hong Kong and Australia.

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ANIMAL Planet is showcasing 17 hours of new Whale Wars programming, once again chronicling the experiences of Captain Paul Watson and his controversial Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Before Whale Wars: At The Edge Of The World is a two-hour documentary serving as a prequel to Animal Planet’s hit series. It follows the efforts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as it attempts to stop a Japanese whaling fleet. It will be followed by a new spin-off series, Whale Wars: Viking Shores, and the fifth season of Whale Wars.

PGS ENTERTAINMENT FRANCE KIDS’ ANIMATION

PGS ENTERTAINMENT has brought 81 half-hours of fresh programming to MIPTV. Titles include The Little Prince, Marsupilami, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, and The League Of Super Evil. The second series of The Little Prince, based on Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic children’s stories, is available as 26 new half-hours or 13 mini-movies.

Animated series Marsupilami has 26 episodes in production, which will bring the total to 78, while Iron Man is available as 26 x 30 mins, and League Of Super Evil as 13 x 30 mins.

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CRIME & Investigation Network, the real crime channel of A+E Networks, has commissioned True North to produce When Life Means Life (6 x 60 mins). More than 87,000 prisoners are currently held in British jails, but a small percentage of them are deemed so dangerous or depraved that they have been given life sentences without parole. Some of the names are well known in the UK but When Life Means Life will focus on the lesser-known killers, with each episode featuring detectives, forensic scientists and victims’ families. Forensic psychologist Kenny Daynes attempts to unlock the minds of the killers in each episode.

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THE FREMANTLE Corporation is expanding its family-friendly line-up of classic programming by securing a deal with Keller Entertainment for several of their iconic adventure series.

The deal includes Keller’s Tarzan (75 x 30 mins), adventure series Conan (22 x 60 mins), Tarzan, The Epic Adventures (22 x 60 mins) and Acapulco H.E.A.T. (48 x 60 mins), a cross between Charlie’s Angels and Baywatch.

The Keller library also includes 14 films including family titles Women Of Valor, starring Susan Sarandon, and Wes Craven’s Summer Of Fear.

ONE OF the world’s largest independent classic film libraries, headed up by the revered film Citizen Kane, has been acquired by BoPaul Media Worldwide. The 720-title RKO catalogue, owned by Paris-based Aries, also features such iconic films as the original King Kong, Gunga Din, Bringing Up Baby, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Suspicion and the original Mighty Joe Young. Among the actors in the collection are Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart and Laurence Olivier. The library includes films directed by John Ford, David O Selznick, Alfred Hitchcock and George Cukor. Of the 720 films, only 10 are in the public domain.

CORIMA PRODUZIONI ITALY ENTERTAINMENT

A NEW version of the Italian game show Lunch Is Served is being launched at MIPTV by Corima Produzioni. Altogether 2,721 episodes were broadcast by Mediaset’s Canale 5, including evening editions under the title Dinner Is Served.

Corima is also in Cannes with Stripcom, an original sitcom based on comic-book language and structure.

Stripcom has a cartoon black-and-white set on which real actors play and exchange gags on their own life experiences. After each scene the cartoon strip set moves to make room for the next one.

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AARDMAN Rights has partnered with Channel 4 as international TV distributor for the brand new sequel to the Christmas classic, The Snowman.

Channel 4, in its 30th year of broadcasting, will transmit the production in late 2012 — marking the 30th anniversary of the original film. The Snowman 2 will use the same traditional 2D hand-drawn animation technique as the original.

Aardman has secured the global TV distribution rights (excluding UK and Ireland) and DVD rights for the US and Japan.

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We can do anything you can do The dynamics of the international television industry are changing. Andy Fry considers the emerging markets that are challenging the dominance of the US and Europe

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HE EUROPEAN Union and US continue to grapple with their debt crisis, but that doesn’t

mean the entire world is in a slump. Drill down on a region-by-region basis and you soon see that there is plenty of dynamism in the international TV business.

This is particularly noticeable in the four big BRIC economies — Brazil, Russia, India and China — which are sending more and more delegates to MIPTV as they become increasingly active in co-production and formats. But beyond this block, there is another tier of territories that is proving signi¿cant for distributors of completed shows and formats.

Within Eastern Europe, for example, Russia’s neighbour Ukraine stands out. With its economy growing at around 4%-5% per annum and its highly competitive TV landscape, it is a hot market for formats, says Luci Burnley, Banijay Entertainment sales and acquisition executive: “For the last two to three years, about six major channels have been competing for the next big show. We’ve sold Tempted to TET TV and Honey, Pack The Bags! to Novy Network.”

Burnley’s experience is echoed by Lisa Higginson, manager of international distribution at Shine International, who says her company has been busier in Central and Eastern Europe than ever before. In the case of Ukraine, recent format sales include Tough Love and Date My Mom to TET TV and Identity to Novy.

Others to have bene¿ted from Ukrainian growth include Mistral Production, which sold Intercities (aka The Biggest Game Show In The World) to ICTV; Sony Pictures Television (SPT), which sold Dancing Nation to 1+1; and DCD Rights, which licensed Penn & Teller:

Fool Us to STB Ukraine.

Zodiak Rights’ London managing director, Jane Millichip, has also seen strong results in Ukraine, where all of her company’s top formats, whether studio-based or factual, have sold. In addition, Millichip says, Zodiak has bene¿ted from the close cultural connection between Ukraine and Russia. Usually, this results in Russian content travelling into Ukraine — but the reverse can also happen. For example, Millichip reports that Zodiak licensed Wife Swap to 1+1 three years before it was picked up by CTC Russia.

Not only that, but the ¿fth season of 1+1’s version has just been acquired by Russian broadcaster Peretz.

We have to be prepared for the day the bubble bursts. There’s so much buying that you have to question whether it’s sustainable

While Banijay’s Burnley is enjoying the Ukraine’s predilection for high volumes of episodes, she sounds a note of caution: “I think we all have to be prepared for the day the bubble bursts. There is so much buying that you have to question whether it is really sustainable in the long term.”

By contrast, she points to Turkey as a Luci Burnley market that has a much more durable look to it — and she’s not the only one.

Lionsgate International’s managing director of international television, Peter Iacono, also singles it out as a territory where all the conditions for a dynamic TV market are falling into line. He points out that Turkey is experiencing exceptional economic growth — approximately 10% in 2011 — which is having a positive impact on the TV business. “The free-to-air sector is

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very competitive and so is the pay-TV arena, where Digiturk has done a great job of building the sector,” Iacono adds.

Notwithstanding the presence of SPT’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on free channel ATV, Turkey — like Russia and India — is more of a scripted than an entertainment formats market, Millichip says, pointing out that it is both an importer and exporter of drama. In the case of Zodiak, she adds, a key deal was the sale of Being Human (the US version) to Media Vera.

If there is a trend of note in Turkey, it is the fact that the country’s top broadcasters are now turning to scripted formats as a way of securing a competitive advantage.

Around MIPCOM 2011, Kanal D became the first broadcaster in EMEA to sign up for a localised version of Disney’s Desperate Housewives — Umutsuz Ev Kadinlari. Previously, Disney sold Hope & Faith into Turkey, while SPT has also broken into the market with Married With Children.

Nevertheless, Banijay’s Burnley believes that “there are signs of a pick up in the entertainment format business too. We have licensed formats like My Parents Are Going To Love You, Hold On To Your Seat and Liar Liar to partners in the territory.”

The growth of pay TV has paved the way for both event programming sales and volume deals, with DigiTurk and rival D-Smart both active in the ¿eld. The former has acquired the Disney/ABC drama Missing, while the latter has picked up My Strange Addiction from Rive Gauche Television.

Bryan Gabourie, director of international sales for Rive Gauche, adds his voice to those who see Turkey as a high-impact market: “As one of the cornerstones of the region, Turkey has always been important for Rive Gauche. We have been very fortunate to develop valuable relationships in the country, while establishing many of our long-running series. It’s exciting to see that the market for strong programming is on the rise in Turkey.”

Underlining the importance of Turkey’s pay-TV platforms is Passion

Lionsgate’s Weeds, selling well into emerging markets

Distribution’s success with both D-Smart and Digiturk. The former has picked up Ask Oprah’s All Stars, Crashers and Iconoclasts, while Digiturk has acquired a slate of Passion-distributed titles for its lifestyle channels. These include All On The Line from Sundance Channel and Ingredient Fix from Scripps.

Shifting focus to Asia-Paci¿c, the most established markets are Japan, Korea, Greater China and Singapore.

“You couldn’t classify Korea as an emerging market because it is so technologically advanced,” Lionsgate’s Iacono observes. “But it has always been a dif¿cult market for outside distributors to break into. In that sense, it’s an emerging market, because we need to explore ways of getting our content into Korea via its broadband market.”

As for a more traditional interpretation of the term ‘emerging market’, execs have started forging deals in territories such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and, more recently, Vietnam.

Historically hamstrung by its conÀict with the US, the period since 2010 has seen a steady Àow of channel launches and format deals in Vietnam. Proof that the US-Vietnam conÀict is a thing of the past came when the iconic American brand MTV launched a service in Vietnam in 2011. But it would be wrong to suppose the US dominates the content market in this nation of 85 million.

The format giants FremantleMedia and Endemol have both sold formats into Vietnam, usually via broker deals with advertisers or marketing agencies. The most recent involved Endemol’s The Kids Are All Right, which was licensed to Blue Ocean Communication Advertising Corp for three years. Blue Ocean has subsequently sold the show on to VTV3 for use in a

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Another heavyweight western company working with VTV3 is BBC Worldwide, which licensed Dancing With The Stars to the channel. “There’s potential for localisation [with this show], because many Asian countries have a tradition of local dance,” says Joyce Yeung, general manager and senior vice-president for BBC Worldwide sales and distribution in Asia.

Also active in Vietnam is Japan’s NHK, which has earmarked the country as a growth market. The French are also present. In 2010, for example, Canal+ launched a pay-TV platform in partnership with public broadcaster VTV. Meanwhile, Mistral’s The Biggest Game Show In The World has also been reversioned for the local market.

Olivier Charpentier, co-president of Mistral Production, reports that the show aired successfully in Vietnam on VTC9 from November 2011 to February 2012.

He adds: “Vietnam is a country we are interested in when we look at the opportunities in Southeast Asia.

There is a demand for localised content with international standards.”

However, Charpentier goes on to caution that Vietnamese budgets are modest. “So at this stage, we need several countries to spread the cost of production,” he adds. In the case of Biggest Game Show, Mistral created a pan-Asian version involving teams from different countries. This went on the air in the Philippines (TV5), Indonesia (RCTI), Thailand (Ch5/Kanata) and Egypt (El-Mehwar/Imagic), as well as Vietnam.

Turning to Latin America, a lot of attention is currently being paid to Mexico, Brazil and the Miamibased pan-regional networks, according to Lionsgate’s Iacono.

“Mexico is particularly interesting because, as well as to its own audience, it offers access to the Hispanic US and pan-regional markets,” he says. “We have an alliance with Televisa designed to create ¿lms for all of those different sectors.”

Disney/ABC’s Missing, acquired by Digiturk

Another LatAm territory attracting distributor attention is Chile. Like Ukraine, it is growing fast — circa 6% a year — and has a bunch of networks in the mood to buy. Coming into 2012, for example, Sheila Aguirre, FremantleMedia Enterprises’ senior vicepresident of sales and development for Latin America, Caribbean and Hispanic-speaking US, announced several completed show and format deals with four Chilean networks. These included the comedy series My Babysitter’s A Vampire to Canal 13, and 1000 Ways To Die and Benny Hill to UCTV. As for formats, Aguirre reports that state broadcaster TVN has renewed The X Factor, while Canal 13 has bought Don’t Stop Me Now. Another leading player, Chilevision, has secured the rights to Idol and will launch season three of Got Talent.

It is not just the iconic formats that work well, however.

“What is interesting about Chilean channels is that they tend to be very independent in their buying decisions,” Banijay’s Burnley says. “They acquire the big formats, but they don’t just follow the trends in other countries.”

Chile’s willingness to experiment is reÀected in several recent deals. Chilevision, for example, was the ¿rst LatAm broadcaster to pick up the format for Zodiak’s Psychic Challenge and is making 13 80-minute episodes of the factual format. Similarly, TVN is the ¿rst channel in the world to greenlight Secret Diary Of A Call Girl, an ITV UK drama being reinterpreted locally

by Endemol Chile. Other buyers in Chile include Mega TV (SPT’s Dr Oz Show).

We need to explore ways of getting our content into Korea via its broadband market Peter Iacono

Mistral Production’s Intercities, aka The Biggest Game Show In The World, which sold to ICTV

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Part of the skill of being a distributor lies in spotting markets on the rise — and one up-and-coming territory that deserves serious attention is Egypt. Among the possible reasons not to do business with Egypt include the tendency for content-owners to sell Arabicspeaking rights pan-regionally and the recent political unrest. But these factors need to be weighed against the strength of the country’s production sector, its transition to democracy and the signs that it is about to embark on a period of growth (forecast at 4% in 2012 and predicted to be higher beyond that).

Not to be overlooked, either, is the recent launch of entertainment channel CBC, which has just poached pan-regional broadcaster MBC’s director of content, Badih Fattouh. A speaker at MIPCOM 2011, Fattouh has the kind of credentials that could transform Egypt’s content commissioning scene.

Among the international companies that have placed their bets on Egypt is SPT. After making a tentative entry into the market back in 2009, when it sold the formats for Pyramid, 50-50 and Russian Roulette to ERTU, SPT Arabia has now signed a territory-speci¿c deal for Wheel Of Fortune with Hayat TV. Episodes of the show, which is to be shot in Cairo, will be scheduled daily. SPT Arabia has also sold the format for Everybody Loves Raymond to Dream TV in Egypt.

Echoing the situation in other major territories, SPT is going toe to toe with Endemol for business. Having done a deal with Hayat TV for Fear Factor in 2009, Endemol has now followed up with a deal for The Money Drop, 48 episodes of which are scheduled to air in primetime on broadcaster Al Mehwar. Banijay has also sold 71 Degrees North and My Parents Are Gonna Love You into Egypt.

While the above are all distinct cultural markets, are there any general observations that can be made? Maria Kyriacou, managing director of ITV Studios, Global Entertainment, has seen formats such as Come Dine With Me, Four Weddings, Coach Trip and May The Best House Win sell across dozens of emerging markets.

Her assessment is that many broadcasters want to move into format development: “But, for formats to work, you need them to be simple and inexpensive, with a good turnover of strong stories.”

In addition, Kyriacou adds, it makes sense for buyers to look at the track record of the format distributor, on the basis that repeated success in this arena brings a higher level of experience and expertise to the production process.

Another interesting trend is the way cash-strapped economies are looking for proven programming from the international market. It is no coincidence, for example, that markets such as the US and the UK are increasingly open to format ideas from the likes of Israel, Korea, Argentina, Colombia, Australia and Scandinavia.

Argentina is a particularly interesting market. Although it is not a major buyer of content, the last decade has seen it become a leading exporter of both entertainment shows and telenovelas, thanks to players including Endemol, Dori Media and Telefe.

In Endemol’s case, there have been two key developments under Martin Kweller, managing director of Endemol Argentina and creative director for Latin America. The ¿ rst is the idea of centralised format production, whereby the company has created numerous different international versions of Wipeout, XXS and 101 Ways To Leave A Gameshow from bespoke production hubs. The second is Endemol’s expansion into telenovelas, which Kweller calls “a key growth opportunity” now that the telenovela is “no longer just a Latin American phenomenon”.

A classic illustration of Kweller’s approach is The Successful Mr And Mrs Pells, which aired in Argentina on Telefe. Subsequently, Endemol and Telefe International created a Mexican version for Televisa using the same set, then sold on the format to other markets. Other divisions of Endemol have gone on to make Polish, Greek and Turkish versions, the latter airing on Kanal D as Mukemmel Cift.

As for Israel’s Dori, it has built a successful international business around telenovelas originating in both Israel and Argentina. In the case of Argentina, it recently sold the formats for Amanda O and Mannequins to China, and Cupid: The Business Of Love to Russia.

Under the latter deal, Endemol-owned WeiT Media took the series and reversioned it for TV3.

According to Dori CEO Nadav Palti, the deal for Cupid “reinforces our belief that the demand for cost-ef¿cient telenovelas is increasing, particularly in growth markets such as Russia”.

There is a demand in Vietnam for localised content with international standards Olivier Charpentier

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It’s getting hot up north The Nordic brand has never been cooler nor its content hotter. So what’s going on up North? Marlene Edmunds investigates

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CANDINAVIA’s wave of new crime thrillers

— the Millennium trilogy, The Killing, Wallander, The Fjallbacka Murders, Nobel’s Last Will, Lilyhammer, Those Who Kill, Headhunters — is but the tip of the iceberg. When it comes to lineage and quality, especially in drama, companies such as Egmont, Nordisk Film, Zentropa, Bonnier, Svensk Filmindustri (SF) and Sonet could not have better credentials.

The 134-year-old Egmont Group is the mothership for a group of media companies, including 106-year-old Nordisk Film. Nordisk Film is, in turn, the 50% owner of Zentropa, founded by Lars Von Trier and Peter Aalbaek Jensen 20 years ago. Zentropa now has a network of outlets in 13 European territories.

The 208-year-old, family-owned Bonnier Group has a string of 175 companies in 17 countries and is 93-yearold SF’s parent group. SF is, in turn, the 100% owner of Sonet Film, which has just announced the launch of a high-quality TV drama division.

“We have a lot of well-known brands from feature ¿lms that we are planning to take to the small screen,” says SF’s CEO, Rasmus Ramstad. At press time, the Swedish ¿lm director Lasse Hallstrom (Chocolat; The Cider House Rules) was shooting crime thriller The Hypnotist.

SF was one of the earliest players to begin aiming feature-¿lm packages at both TV and the big screen. Currently being edited into a TV series are three feature ¿lms based on the children’s books of Lasse Maja. “It’s

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the ¿rst project in Europe to be entirely shot on green screen,” Ramstad adds. SF is also behind the production and distribution of six new ¿lms based on Henning Mankell’s Wallander series, ¿ve of which have already been aired. The sixth is set for theatrical release in 2013. SF also has a pack of major projects on the front burner at its subsidiaries in Norway and Denmark.

On the leading edge of the Nordic crime wave is Sweden’s Yellow Bird, now part of the Zodiac Media Group, which produced some 26 ¿lms based on Henning Mankell’s Wallander series and, more recently, six TV ¿lms and three feature ¿lms based on Stieg Larsson’s feted Millennium trilogy. It is also behind Liza Marklund’s Nobel’s Last Will and Jo Nesbro’s thriller Headhunters.

Also in Sweden, Tre Vanner Produktion is now half way through production on the ¿rst instalment of The Fjallbacka Murders (5 x 90 mins, plus a 1 x 110 mins theatrical version), based on the best-selling novels of Camilla Lackberg.

The next instalment will again consist of a 5 x 90 mins series for TV and one feature.

“Strategically, the decision on how to split a project between ¿lm and TV has always been based on book rights,” says Tre Vanner Christian Wikander executive producer Michael

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Hjorth. “When you have book rights, it’s worth a lot more on the TV market and, when ¿lm is involved in the mix, you are able to tap some of the available ¿lm support as well as share the costs of pre-production, casting and locations.”

Tre Vanner has also picked up the rights to all of Norwegian queen of crime Karin Fossum’s books featuring Konrad Sejer. “Fossum is a sensitive and mature writer. Her books are really amazing in their focus on the characters behind the crime,” Hjorth says.

There is no question that there is groundswell of interest in Nordic content — but why now? Industry veteran Christian Wikander, head of drama and entertainment at Swedish public broadcaster SVT, puts it down to the success of the Millennium trilogy and to a decade-long run of Emmy Award-winning Danish TV series.

“For the ¿rst time, producers from the western world are calling our indie producers to ¿nd out what they have in development,” Wikander says. “Practically speaking, the question, ‘Does this have international appeal?’ gets put on the table at a much earlier stage than it used to.”

For example, the remake rights to the sci-¿ series Real Humans, a co-production between Matador Films and SVT, were bought by News Corp-owned Shine Group two months before SVT began airing it.

At MIPTV, Wikander is talking up the major transmedia project The Artist, a drama series and live event

Norwegian broadcaster NRK has a long history of producing in-house drama, but commissioning independent producers is a relatively recent departure.

NRK’s Lilyhammer, produced by Norway’s Rubicon TV, is an eight-episode, ¿sh-out-of-water series that drew nearly one million viewers — or one ¿fth of the Norwegian population — when it premiered in January.

Reruns are also drawing record-breaking figures, reports Tone Ronning, NRK’s commissioning editor for drama and arts in the independent sector. NetÀix, which has taken the rights for North America and Latin America, streamed eight episodes in early February.

It is now on-board as co-producer for the second season of the series, which stars The Soprano’s Steve Van Zandt as a New York mobster relocated via a witness protection programme to rural Norway.

Down in Cannes, Ronning says she is looking for coproduction and/or ¿ nancing partners for two international projects — one of which is a six-hour series with the working title The Battle For Heavy Water. Produced by Filmkamaratene, the Second World War story about the commando raid on Norway’s Norsk Hydro plant has never been told before. “NRK will now, for the ¿ rst time ever, dramatise the whole story of the Nazi struggle to create the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb, and the desperate Allied effort to stop them from doing so,” Ronning adds.

NRK’s second project is an eight-episode TV series based on Norwegian author Jo Nesbo’s Occupied and produced by Yellow Bird. Nesbo’s Headhunters is being adapted by Summit Entertainment in the US.

Rabbit’s martial-arts travel show Kill Arman

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MAN OF PEACE FINNISH public broadcaster Yle comes to MIPTV with a raft of documentary, drama and format titles, including One Man Peace, distributed by Nordic World. The documentary tells the story of Somali-born Abdullahi Farah, a corner shopkeeper from Espoo in Finland, who sets out on an unlikely mission: to bring peace to his former home country.

“It gives a rare insider’s view of the difficulty of taking on such a task and the petty politicking that can often be part of trying to get something like this accomplished through different aid organisations,” says Tuija Snellman, head of sales for Yle. In 2013, Yle will move from a license-fee to a tax-based funding system.

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expected to be broadcast simultaneously in the third quarter by its partners in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, France and Belgium.

Nordvision, the 53-year-old co-production exchange and support programme for the ¿ve public broadcasters in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, is believed to be among the oldest co-production organisations in the world. Both Nordvision and Nordisk Film & TV Fond, which launched in 1990, have become integral to the co-production rhythm of the Nordic territories.

The Killing and Millennium were backed by Nordivision, among other titles. Series three of The Killing, The Fjallbacka Murders and Occupied are among the projects on Nordisk Film & TV Fond’s current slate Morten Aass, CEO of NICE (Nordic Independent Creative Entertainment) Group, is among the new breed of independent players whose lineage dates back to the beginnings of commercial TV in the Nordic region, but who feels more at home on the creative edge.

Aass began working as managing director for the Norwegian subsidiary of Wegelius TV in 1993, moved up to become CEO of the Wegelius TV group and spent six years as managing director of TV Norge, formerly owned by SBS and now by ProSieben. He has also found the time to run the Norwegian digital ad agency Dinamo, launch the media producer and consultancy InfoCom Bonnier, and originate Brain Station, SBS’ brainstorming workshops that brought together Scandinavian production companies with commercial ¿lmmakers, advertising agencies, art schools and other creatives to generate new format ideas.

“After I left TV Norge, I continued to look at our business to see what could be improved on and I recognised that, despite being in the digital age, our industry hasn’t really changed the way it works,” Aass says.

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“I felt it was time to develop the next generation of production houses.”

The resultant “Scandi production-hub model” cuts costs, increases ef¿ciency and encourages the development of local ideas across all genres by clustering creative and support services. “In this model, producers can focus on development and sales, while NICE offers them the production services they need to bring their ideas to fruition,” Aass adds. “We make it possible for them to leave the production headaches to us and, at the same time, we keep our core production units busy at all times.”

Last year, NICE Group — which consists of Monster and Limelight Film & TV from Norway, Titan, Baluba and NICE Drama from Sweden, Moskito from Finland and Gong from Denmark — produced more than 100 series, almost 70% of which were original concepts.

The rights stay with the people that come up with the ideas, Aass says, adding: “This is a policy that we’ve

found produces a much higher volume of production and ensures we are always working with top-notch people across all genres.”

Over in Finland, Moskito’s CEO, Roope Lehtinen, is one of the founders of the NICE concept, formerly known as Northern Alliance Group. Lehtinen says that CapMan, the private-equity group that owns 65% of NICE, is very open to drama. Recent titles by Moskito include Hidden Tracks, which debuted to impressive ¿gures on MTV3 Finland in February; and Easy Living, which has optioned for North American by Warner Bros and US production company Warner Horizon.

FAVEX (Finnish Film & Audiovisual Export) is at MIPTV with more than a dozen independent companies, as well as the Finnish public broadcaster Yle. According to FAVEX CEO Petra Theman: “The Finnish spirit is very independent and very cutting edge.

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DARING TO EXPERIMENT NORDISK Film TV CEO Jacob Houlind believes the next generation of reality formats will be focused on ethics, morals and contestants’ personal stories.

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“One of my first aims when I became CEO was to put creativity first and foremost,” Houlind says.

“Now, at least 2% of our turnover, which has increased organically from €20m to €70m in the last five years, is invested in creativity — and that is considerable, as budgets go.”

The format Origins Of Love, being launched at MIPTV, is an example of what can come out of that 2%. “The original idea was quite different from what it ended up being,” Houlind says. “But the fact that we have a budget for this kind of trial and error process allowed it to develop. The end product, which our Norwegian affiliate is now making, is a format that sees women going to the US to find partners that have Norwegian roots. This is a fantastic show with universal appeal — due to the love interest — but that also builds on a heritage we share with the US.”

out games like Angry Birds, which is now a worldwide mobile sensation. So you can imagine the kind of energy that is producing that.”

That energy has also driven the success of Rabbit Films, whose slapstick, Jackass-style stunt show The Dudesons has sold to more than 150 territories. The company is now working with YouTube’s Nerdist Channel.

“At MIPTV, we are looking for executive production talent to team up with from the US,” says Jukka Hilden, partner in Rabbit Films.

He adds: “We are in the business of creating miracles and selling passion. To that end, we produce everything hands-on and always aim to build brands that touch a mark in time, in place and with people.”

Rabbit’s martial-arts travel show Kill Arman has been sold to more than 100 territories by DRG’s iD Distribution. “We have two seasons of Kill Arman at MIPTV and we are looking for additional broadcasters for a third season,” Hilden says.

Also on the digital edge is Dionysos Films’ Click Me (12 x 45 mins), a drama series about ¿nding love on the internet. Dionysos is at MIPTV to sell Click Me, as well as to look for remake partners.

Click Me’s 41-year-old protagonist, Ella, has three children from two different fathers, works as an interior designer and is too busy with her job and her family to look for love in the old-fashioned way. Dionysos producer Riina Hyytia says: “The internet provides the vehicle for telling a story about the drama and humour that sometimes accompanies ¿nding love online.”

Anna Carrfors Brakenhielm, CEO of the new Bonnierowned Scandinavian Studios, has played a pivotal role in the development of the Nordic region’s format industry. In the mid-1990s, while working for Strix, Carrfors Brakenhielm picked up a paper format in Cannes called Expedition Robinson. That format came to be known as Survivor — and the rest is history.

Scandinavian Studios, which launched last year, is still in the development stage with many of its formats. “We know what we want to do, and also what we don’t want to do,” Carrfors Brakenhielm says. “We are moving more in the direction of workplace reality, character building and, possibly, knowledge- or education-based content. People want a challenge. Some of the dumbing down that has been occurring recently is something that we don’t think is necessary or even wanted.”

Back in the Strix camp, current CEO Calle Jansson says that the company still prides itself on formats that make a difference. A prime example is Stalkers, one of the new titles on Strix’s MIPTV slate. “Stalking is a growing problem, especially in the digital age,” Jansson says. “Kids are being stalked and stalking each other through their computers and mobile phones. This can include threatening notes or just saying things that are damaging.” Stalkers is in production in both Sweden and Denmark, with options sold to other territories.

“This is not an entertainment format,” Jansson insists.

“We have a team of psychologists and other professionals looking at the problem from the point of view of the stalker and the person being stalked, and trying to solve it by confronting the stalker.”

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