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Michelle Phan, the leading digital entrepreneur in lifestyle and beauty is in Cannes for today’s Endemol Shine Beyond showcase

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Red Arrow’s Henrik Pabst

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German delegates joined the MIPTV inauguration ceremony yesterday to mark Focus On Germany, a series of conferences taking place this morning

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Richard Dickson of Mattel, MIPTV’s Brand Of The Year, gives a Media Mastermind Keynote today at 11.45 in the Grand Auditorium

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8 Opening Night Party; stars walk the red carpet; keynotes and conference reports; market news

PRODUCT NEWS 50 A round-up of what’s for sale in Cannes

MIPDOC AND MIPFORMATS BY NUMBERS • MIPDoc and MIPFormats participants:

1,890 — up 5% on last year

• Total number of screenings at MIPDoc:

22,398 — up 6% on last year

• The most-watched programme at MIPDoc was The

Story Of God With Morgan Freeman (Fox)

• The most-watched genre at MIPDoc was current

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FEATURES 72 Reality, only better The first examples of VR content are appearing on the global market

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79 Taking a leap into the future MIPTV brings together innovators, futurologists and tech pioneers

The official MIPTV daily newspaper Tuesday 5 April 2016

Director of Publications Paul Zilk Director of Communication Mike Williams

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The MIPTV Newsroom is located on level 3 of the Palais des Festivals

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Editor in Chief Julian Newby Deputy Editor Debbie Lincoln Sub Editors Neil Churchman, Nigel Willmott Reporters Ben Cooper, Neil Crossley, Andy Fry, Emelia Jones, Juliana Koranteng, Max Leonard, Rachel Murrell, Gary Smith, Joanna Stephens, David Wood Editorial Assistant Hannah Stephens Editorial Management Boutique Editions Technical Editor in Chief Herve Traisnel Deputy Technical Editor in Chief Frederic Beauseigneur Graphic Designers Veronique Duthille, Nour Ezzedeen, Carole Peres Head of Photographers Yann Coatsaliou / 360 Media Photographers Christian Alminana, Olivier Houeix, Patrick Frega, Phydrass Haidar, Michel Johner.

PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT Publishing Director Martin Screpel Publishing Manager Amrane Lamiri Publishing Co-ordinator Yovana Filipovic Production Assistant Eric Laurent Printer Riccobono Imprimeurs, Le Muy (France).

ADVERTISING CONTACT IN CANNES Christine Mendes: christine.mendes@reedmidem.com / +33 (0)7 78 35 38 45 Reed MIDEM, a joint stock company (SAS), with a capital of €310.000, 662 003 557 R.C.S. NANTERRE, having offices located at 27-33 Quai Alphonse Le Gallo - 92100 BOULOGNEBILLANCOURT (FRANCE), VAT number FR91 662 003 557. Contents © 2016, Reed MIDEM Market Publications. Publication registered 2nd quarter 2016. ISSN 1967-5178.

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Michalina Olszanska, star of Channel One Russia Rock Film Studios’ Mathilde

Opening Night Party After the MIPTV World Premiere TV Screening of Roots, stars and industry executives walked the red carpet to the MIPTV Opening Night Party.

The MIPTV News photographers were there to meet them

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anna Paquin (middle) and Anika Noni Rose star in A+E’s epic series Roots, this year’s MIPTV World Premiere TV Screening

Reiko Takashima stars in NHK’s fantasy series Moribito - Guardian Of The Spirit

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Alican Yucesoy (left), Belcim Bilgin and Ibrahim Celikkol are in Cannes as stars of Endemol Shine’s romantic drama Intersection, set in Istanbul

Private Eyes, a series brought to Cannes by eOne, stars Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson

Football legend Ronaldo scores with the fans and with MIPTV, as a guest of Brazil’s Globo TV

YouTube icon Michelle Phan is attending MIPTV with Endemol Shine Beyond for MIP Digital Fronts

A number of YouTube sensations took to the red carpet in Cannes before turning the cameras on the photographers

Richard Coyle (left), Mamie Gummer and Tom Riley are in Cannes to promote BBC Worldwide’s haute-couture drama series The Collection

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NEWS Germany focus marks growing role in the global TV market

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IPTV 2016 is hosting a special Focus On Germany, which will provide TV professionals from around the world with a unique opportunity to discover new German programming, meet top-level executives from the German TV industry, and forge new alliances with German producers.

In addition, lead sponsors ZDF Enterprises and Red Arrow International host conference sessions on the international production and co-production of scripted and non-scripted TV shows. Other leading German media sponsors

include Deutsche Welle, Global Screen and WDR mediagroup.

Alexander Coridass, president and CEO, ZDF Enterprises said: “ZDF Enterprises is the largest distributor of German-language programmes, a valued co-production partner of international broadcasters and producers, as well as a major investor in audiovisual content, both domestic and foreign. Being a global player with a German home base, we are delighted to take the opportunity of the Focus On Germany to present the German market’s many exciting facets on the international stage.”

Henrik Pabst, managing director,

Red Arrow International, added: “It is great to be participating in MIPTV’s Focus On Germany.

Red Arrow’s business now extends far beyond our original home country, with 13 production companies in six countries. Focus On Germany is a great opportunity to celebrate our industry’s domestic and international success.”

Germany is the world’s second biggest television market, with more than 40 million TV households. In terms of international profile, German companies have the fourth biggest presence at MIPTV and MIPCOM and this country focus will underline the

international reach of the German TV industry.

One notable recent trend has been the growing success of Germanlanguage drama on the international market. Following on from hits such as Generation War and Deutschland 83, this MIPTV market will see a screening by ZDF Enterprises of Ku’damm 56 – Rebel With A Cause.

Beta Film will also be showcasing the mini-series NSU German History X. Other Focus On Germany initiatives include a showcase of innovative media disruptors and a dedicated MIPTV supplement about the German TV industry.

An enlarged German Pavilion this year features exhibitors including AG Dok, ARRI Media, German Films, Sola Media, Spiegel TV, and Your Family Entertainment.

MIPTV officially opened yesterday with the help of the mayor of Cannes’ office and VIPs from German exhibitors, to mark MIPTV’s Focus On Germany. Pictured are: Semec’s Claire-Anne Reix (left); Dr Frank Chikli, Cannes deputy mayor for economic development; Telepool/ Global Screen’s Dr Thomas Weymar; Reed MIDEM’s Paul Zilk; ZDF’s Fred Burcksen; DW Transtel’s Maria Winzen; Reed MIDEM’s Jerome Delhaye; WDR mediagroup’s Michael Loeb; Red Arrow International’s Henrik Pabst; and Reed MIDEM’s Laurine Garaude.

Boost for future of kids programming REED MIDEM has set up a ninestrong Kids Buyers Advisory Board to offer guidance on strategy and content development for future kids’ programming projects related to Reed MIDEM’s television events, including MIPTV and MIPCOM. Modelled on the successful Drama Buyers Advisory Board set up in January, the Kids board will meet several times a year, including at MIPJunior on 15-16 October 2016.

“We are delighted to bring together this international group of highly influential and talented executives to help us continue to anticipate new industry needs in

the rapidly evolving kids market,” said Reed MIDEM television division director Laurine Garaude.

“With their expertise to guide us, we are looking forward to developing new concepts and projects across all our MIP markets.”

Board member Adina Pitt, vicepresident content acquisitions & co-productions, Cartoon Network (US), said: “I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to work with good friends and international colleagues to help kids acquisitions executives and commissioners produce and curate the very best quality content across all regions and platforms.”

Fellow board member Tiphaine

de Raguenel, executive director of France 4, director of children and youth activities (France), added: “Demand for high-quality programmes for kids from all over the world is exploding.

Buyers, acquisition executives and commissioners have a more challenging task than ever in delivering what audiences want.”

Other board members are: Jules Borkent, senior vice-president, global acquisitions and international programming, Nickelodeon, Viacom International Media Networks (US); Deirdre Brennan, vice-president content, Corus Kids (Canada); Jackie Edwards, head of BBC children’s acquisi-

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tions and independent animation (UK); Hitoshi Furukawa, senior producer, global content development division, programming department NHK (Japan); Luca Milano, executive deputy director and head of marketing and animation production, Rai Fiction (Italy); Karen Miller, vicepresident, worldwide programming strategy, acquisitions and co-productions, Disney Channels Worldwide (US); and Janine Weigold, head of children’s content, Super RTL (Germany).

As part of its commitment to quality kids content, Reed MIDEM is hosting a three-hour invitation-only summit on the Future Of Kids TV today in the Carlton. The event kicks off with a breakfast at 8.30.

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NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA GIVE DOCS MORE IMPACT DOCUMENTARIES are having more impact on society and affecting more change than ever before, the head of sales and acquisitions for a London-based distributor has said.

Sideways Film head of sales and acquisitions Kazz Basma said that the “outreach and impact” of documentary had been exponentially increased by the advent of social media, which has enabled viewers to engage on a far greater level.

He added: “Documentary is being used to effect social change in ways that were unthinkable a few years ago.

It’s about changing passive audiences into active audiences. Social media is a huge part of that; people can react and engage to effect change.”

Basma and the Sideways team are in Cannes to showcase their catalogue of documentary content and make contact with potential partners for co-production and collaborative projects.

The company has recently made the move into co-production as well as distribution, and is seeking opportunities for further collaborations in the international market.

Sideways Film’s Kazz Basma (left) and Juan Solera

Panelists seek ways to harness growing power of the superfan

DigiSay’s Ahmed Abbas

Shotglass Media’s Kat Hebden

Victorious’ Sam Rogoway

HE MONETISING power of YouTube stars was a core theme at yesterday’s The Power Of Fans Superpanel. Sam Rogoway, CEO of Victorious, cited YouTube stars Bethany Mota, Pentatonix, Tyler Oakley and Grace Helbig as prime examples of individuals with brand extension potential. He highlighted Bethany Mota’s partnership with fashion retailer Aeropostale, which has generated $80m in sales.

As superfan engagement becomes more of a currency, Rogoway said, a trend will emerge of distinguishing active subscribers from total subscribers. “I think they need to dive deeper into the numbers. It’s not just about if you have 10 million subscribers, because it’s easy

to hit the subscribe button, but a lot of people never hit unsubscribe.

So you have to look at the level of engagement, and the creators who have a high level of engagement have more active communities that can drive more return on investment across different platforms.”

It was a point echoed by Kat Hebden, managing director of Shotglass Media, who predicted a much higher use of data.

“Brands become less interested in just views, because it’s just so passive,” she said. Hebden talked about the importance of creating digital communities around “passion points”. Content must be authentic, she said and she highlighted the importance of “cutting through the noise” to identifying the good content. “It’s

all about authenticity and it has to be multi-directional,” she said.

“Don’t talk about fans as viewers, talk about them as family.”

Ahmed Abbas, founder of DigiSay described how the Arab Spring had made Middle East fans feel more like individuals, with a right to express themselves, and hungry for content.

But he sounded a cautionary note, citing Dubai TV’s swift axing of reality series The Queen, after fans took to social media to object to the arrogance of pop star host Ahlam Ali Al Shamsi.

“If you listen to the fans carefully and give them what they want they will be superfans and they will love you,” he said. “If you don’t, they will hate you — beware of their wrath.”

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eSports are game on for big growth

ESPORTS, the fast-growing live gaming tournaments, are part of an evolution taking place where interactive media and broadcasting media meet, panel speakers said on Monday. In eSports, The Next Big Content Play?, specialists said eSports’ emergence should not be described as revolutionary. Instead, its gradual emergence in the 1990s coincided with the growth of online gaming on computers (as opposed to only consoles).

It was the 2011 launch of Twitch, a live-streaming platform dedicated to covering all things related to playing video games, including videos of online tournaments, that hinted at eSports’

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potential massive reach.

Media groups started to take notice after Amazon.com acquired Twitch for a record-breaking $970m in 2014, when some games sessions could reach more than 55 million registered viewers.

“Growth was massive, we had a platform for people to quit their jobs and become full-time gamers,” said James Glasscock, senior vice-president at Machinima,

the games-themed YouTube MCN. “eSport is an evolution of multiplayer online games,” added Laurence Jones, commercial director at Endemol Shine UK, which has started producing eSport content for videos, apps and live events.

“It is only now that people in general have noticed its popularity.”

According to research company Newzoo, as a competitive activity, there is much room for growth in eSports. For every $60 spent by a fan of American football’s NFL games, an eSport fan spends $5.69 in the US and only $1.02 in China. It predicts revenues should grow to $1.07bn in 2019 from $194 million in 2014.

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MCN chiefs set out rival visions of new multichannel landscape

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WHY VIEWERS ARE THE NEW KINGS OF CONTENT YEARS of evolution and emerging technologies have put viewers in the driving seat of content styles and genres, a senior ratings expert has said.

Speaking at a panel session to kick off MIPTV 2016 yesterday morning, Frederic Vaulpre, vicepresident of Eurodata TV, said that the viewer has become the “king of content” in modern television, a fact that producers and broadcasters need to be aware of as they plan their future strategies.

Addressing a packed auditorium for the International TV & Content Trends session, Vaulpre said: “After 10 years of constant change and digitalisation the question we need to ask ourselves as an industry is, ‘what can we do?’. We need to understand the new consumer and new usages, and we need more new metrics to understand them.”

Vaulpre was speaking on stage with Sahar Baghery, also of Eurodata TV, and Michael Puopolo, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution’s senior vice-president for international television research.

HE REGIONAL Digital Fronts: MCNs From Around The World panel presented diverse views of how this market might mature. Because as Daniel Batista of MiTu, the MCN for millennial Latinos in the US, pointed out, the margins offered by YouTube are easily beaten elsewhere.

Routes included native advertising with brands, branded content, selling to linear TV and creating an app or proprietary service.

“When we were a true MCN we were building the creators’ brands, we were the guy behind the guy. Now we’re focusing on becoming a media brand for young Latinos,” he said.

Joona Haatainen’s Tottoroo has 20 million monthly views — relatively big numbers in the small Finnish media landscape — but it has focused on intimate relationships and developing its creators’ talents. “We want to do things with anarchy and change the media business. I don’t want to be the biggest but we want to be the best,” Haatainen said.

Kaswara Al-Khatib of Saudi Arabia’s Uturn Entertainment said licensing and co-production were interesting avenues, while Natasha Khitrova of Russia’s X-Media Digital was sticking with AVOD — with 11 billion views for Masha And The Bear, the numbers for pre-school content could be very interesting.

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Quality is the key to dramatic revival DRAMA’s formidable strength in building audiences was the central theme of yesterday’s Channels Talk, hosted by World Screen’s group editorial director Anna Carugati. “The renaissance of drama includes a lot of dark and morally compromised characters, but equally family dramas are also very popular,” she said.

“There is a vast array of highly addictive drama series available, and the thing that unifies it all is

its extremely high quality, and that is because audiences demand the best and only the best.”

Tara Ellis, executive director of scripted content at Canadian state broadcaster CBC, said drama was a way to stand out: “A really strong show can be part of the brand of a channel, and we use great drama such as The Murdoch Mysteries to differentiate ourselves,” she said. “We broadcast everything from long-running

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shows that deliver year after year through to mini-series and madefor-TV movies.”

Highlighting the importance of long-running drama to the Ivory Coast audience, RTI distribution manager Sandra Coulibaly explained that it was a case of the longer the better: “Our audience likes appointment TV, whether it’s stripped daily or weekly, it forms an important part of the social life of the country.”

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RTL’s de Posch rises to the challenge of the tech giants

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U I LLAU M E de Posch, co-CEO of Europe’s biggest broadcast conglomerate RTL Group, confessed on Monday that video networks operated by tech giants like Google, Yahoo! and Facebook pose a genuine threat to the company’s traditional business.

During Monday’s Media Mastermind Keynote, de Posch said RTL’s established strategy of localising content via subsidiary FremantleMedia and its TV network brands in each country was still robust, contributing the significantly largest share of 2015’s revenue of $6bn.

But he admitted RTL cannot ignore the relative ease with which Facebook and Google’s YouTube, for example, can introduce content globally to their combined 2.5 billion-plus registered users.

This partly explains the com-

pany’s heavy investment in digital studios such as the YouTube multi-platform networks StyleHaul and BroadbandTV and advertising technology system SpotX, which offers automated programmatic ads to marketers.

“Technology has become a key component of our business,” de Posch said. “Four years ago, we decided to invest in this new world.

We used to rely only on broadcast signals distributing our content.

Also, selling advertising online in an automated manner wasn’t something we understood. And the quickest way to learn was to acquire the skills and assets at SpotX.” Investing in digital tech is paying off with RTL boasting more than 11 billion monthly video views.

In response to the digital tech overhaul, RTL Group has been divided into three divisions: Broadcast, which is still a high cash generator; Content, via Fre-

RTL Group’s Guillaume de Posch

mantleMedia and other production subsidiaries; and the Digital Hub, which incorporates all digital and tech activities.

Sharing the risk for quality drama

LEADING players in the drama business gathered in the Carlton hotel yesterday for the latest MIPTV International Drama CoProduction Summit, sponsored by the Canada Media Fund, Telefilm Canada and United Talent Agency.

The key message to come out of the invitation-only event was that demand for drama is as strong as ever — and that co-production is a critical part of the industry’s funding profile.

“Key players like Morgan Wandell of Amazon and Anne Mensah at Sky told us they are still looking for great content — despite the number of excellent shows already out there,” said Donna Wiffen, managing director of Duchess Street Productions and host for the day.

“But if you want to make shows that stand out, like the BBC’s The Night Manager, then you need to

find co-production partners to share the financial risk.”

That said, the pursuit of production budget should not be at the expense of the story, said Wiffen: “We’ve seen that very local stories (like Happy Valley) can do well internationally. If you get the story right, a lot of the other elements will then fall into place.”

The Co-Production Summit provides an opportunity for executives to network with their peers and listen to talks from industry experts. Speakers this year included Tandem Productions CEO Rola Bauer, Federation Entertainment president Pascal Breton, writer/ showrunner Anthony Horowitz, Shaftesbury/Smokebomb chairman and CEO Christina Jennings, Lookout Point joint CEO Simon Vaughan, Amazon Studios head of drama development Morgan

Wandell and Fisher King Production’s director and scriptwriter Miikko Oikkonen.

Oikkonen wrote and directed Bordertown, one of the 12 shows selected as part of the first-ever MIPDrama Screenings. Speaking in the last session of the day,

“However, it is all about video; our core business is to produce, aggregate, distribute and monetise videos,” he said. he said the show, a co-production with Federation Entertainment of France for YLE Finland, was a good indication of the new partnerships being formed in the business.

Wiffen agreed: “The drama industry is very comfortable with the international co-production model these days. And in terms of the kinds of partnerships we are seeing — anything goes.”

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NEWS Japanese market on course for defining decade in 4K take-up

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ALF of Japanese viewers will be watching 4K TV by 2020 with a potential for 100% penetration by 2025, a leading government figure has said.

Speaking at a special session to discuss the latest developments in the rollout of 4K and 8K television, Mabito Yoshida, deputy director general of the Information and Communications Policy Bureau at the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, said he was confident that viewers would continue to embrace the technology.

Addressing a packed conference session, Yoshida underlined the

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government’s commitment to support 4K and 8K television, and highlighted a range of potential uses for the technology beyond entertainment.

“It has lots of uses including for security and surveillance, and for medicine,” he said. “4K can be used for remote diagnosis to improve healthcare in rural areas with a shortage of medical resources, and can help increase accuracy in surgery.”

Yoshida was joined on stage by Yoshiharu Kashima, senior manager in the programming department at the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), who is at MIPTV to showcase the broadcaster’s latest 4K Ultra HD content. He presented an extended trailer of NHK’s latest production, Moribito: Guardian Of The Spirit, a major drama based on the fantasy novel series of the same name, written by Nahoko Uehashi.

HDR TRIALS PAVE WAY FOR TECH REVOLUTION SPACE, opera, wildlife are three dramatic subjects now in 4K incorporating high dynamic range (HDR) video trials, delegates were told at a technology session yesterday.

“UHD and HDR have moved on significantly in the last six months,” said Andy King, BBC Television technology controller, adding that the HDR clips on display in the Sony 4K Ultra HD Theatre this market would not have been possible at MIPCOM 2015. “Standards are beginning to shake out at last ­— both for cameras and consumer displays,” he said, and he warned that any prevailing system would have to be backwards compatible with consumer screen technologies.

Tech innovations do not win over the public, however: stories do.

Drama, alongside sport, is seen as key to gaining ground for UHD HDR. Tony Followell of the UK’s Royal Opera House presented some test footage of a recent production of La Traviata that had used a new camera, the HDC-4300. The Royal Opera House regularly broadcasts live to 1,500 cinemas in 40 countries.

The Royal Opera House production of La Traviata [© ROH/Tristram Kenton]

How 4K changes the pace in sport ULTRA HD experts have underlined that the fast developing world of 4K sport is forcing producers to come up with new ways of handling sports production.

Speaking at a MIPTV session focused on 4K in sport, Raymundo Barros, chief technology officer at Brazilian broadcaster TV Globo, said: “4K is a much more im-

mersive medium and cutting a lot is not the way to make the most of it, compared to HD pictures where the norm is to expect a lot more [cutting]. In 4K sport 85% of the time you are going to stay with camera one.”

Daniele Gauna, senior consultant at sports marketing company InFront Sports & Media in Italy,

said that the experience with Serie A football had provoked a lot of debate about how to produce in 4K. “Two or three years ago the style in Italian football was for jump cuts and slow motion. In 4K one has to think a little bit differently to take the real story to the audience. 4K is producing different

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ways of telling stories.”

Both speakers agreed that there were still issues to be resolved in 4K sport, from finding the best camera and sports lens combinations to the question of finding room at sporting venues for extra camera positions.

Sports productions could also potentially use the same kit to produce both 4K and HD images, as well as adopting higher frame rates to make the most of the pictures.

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ZDF Enterprises celebrates its MIPTV highlights with over 400 guests at ‘Sundowner’ ZDF Enterprises’ Sundowner again proved to be a highlight event for industry VIPs and market professionals. This year, ZDF Enterprises was even the lead sponsor of the main country feature FOCUS ON GERMANY. Sundowner focused on the top spring highlights. Buyers showed great interest in KU’DAMM 56 – REBEL WITH A CAUSE, the social drama set in post-war Berlin. THICKER THAN WATER II and THE FALL II were other exciting programs with great contents.

The junior series WOLFBLOOD and the stylish comedyhorror extravaganza SCREAM STREET met with strong interest too. In the factual sector, the documentaries WHY SIZE MATTERS, THE LESSER CAUCASUS and especially FIRST FLIGHT – CONQUEST OF THE SKIES attracted everyone’s attention. The entertainment family feature YOU CAN’T FOOL ME!, a believe-it-or-not game show, rounded off the range.

Heike Hempel (Head of the Main Editorial Department TV Movies and Series II, ZDF), Annette Hess, Author of Ku’damm 56, and Benjamin Benedict, CEO, UFA FICTION, are proud to be among the 12 top international drama series to be nominated for the MIPDrama Screenings for Ku’damm 56.

Wolfgang Bergmann (CEO ARTE Germany and ZDF Coordinator for ARTE, right), Markus Nievelstein (Directeur de l’Unité – Connaissance, ARTE) with Autentic’s Managing Director Patrick Hörl and Dagmar Biller.

ZDF Enterprises’ Executive Vice President and COO Fred Burcksen and Sylvia Brucker (Vice President ZDFE.entertainment, ZDF Enterprises) with Rolf Hellgardt (CEO, Riverside Entertainment), Johannes B. Kerner, German TV presenter (viereins.tv) and Norbert Himmler (Executive VP Programs of ZDF German Television).

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Reinhold Elschot (Head of Drama, Senior VP Programming, ZDF, second from left), Heike Hempel (Head of the Main Editorial Department TV Movies and Series II, ZDF), Oliver Berben (CEO and Producer, Moovie the art of entertainment, second from right), Donald Jenichen (Head of Production Management, ZDF, right) and Manfred Haus-Pflüger (former Head of Production Management, ZDF).

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Arne Lohmann, VP ZDFE.junior at ZDF Enterprises (left) with Caterina Vacchi (Head of Production Department, Atlantyca), Pedro Citaristi (Head of Distribution, Atlantyca), Frauke Bräuner (Editor Children’s Programs, ZDF, second from right) and Christophe Goldberger (Executive Director Spain Office, ZDF Enterprises, right).

Ralf Rückauer, VP ZDFE.factual at ZDF Enterprises (center), with Margarita Garcia (Director ZDFE.factual / DACH, ZDF Enterprises, left), Kathrin Palesch (Director Finance History Channel, second from left), Alexandra Kling (Director On-Air + Programming, History Channel) and Sanna Stibitz (Senior Program Manager, History Channel).

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Fred Burcksen, Executive Vice President and COO of ZDF Enterprises, with Nico Keeb (Head of International Coproductions and Acquisitions Children and Youth, ZDF), Sarah Muller (Head of CBBC Acquisitions & Drama Development, BBC Television), Arne Lohmann (VP ZDFE.junior, ZDF Enterprises, second from right) and Katharina Pietzsch (Director ZDFE. junior, ZDF Enterprises, right).

Susanne Frank (Director ZDFE.drama, ZDF Enterprises, second from left), Gonzalo Fernandez (Head of Latam Content Acquisitions, Telefonica), Andrea Roskosch (Director ZDFE.factual, ZDF Enterprises, third from right), Clara Pflug (Chargée des Aquistions, Canal+), Laurent Sicouri (Directeur des Acquistions, Canal+), Layani Basseg (Chargé des Acquistions, Canal+).

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Kristina Hollstein (Director Acquisitions and Coproductions Documentaries ZDF, ZDF Enterprises, center) with Christine von Preyss (Senior New Business + Coproduction Manager, Sky Vision) and Marco Dreyer (Acquisitions + Sales Manager, Spiegel TV).

Sarah Eichenlaub (ZDF Enterprises’ Director ZDFE.drama, left) with Ben Butterworth (Producer, Snapper Productions), Jan-Frederik Maul (Manager ZDFE.junior, ZDF Enterprises and Caterina Vacchi (Head of Production Department, Atlantyca).

NEWS New Yorker ‘scales the brand’ in Amazon link

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HEN The New Yorker, one of the most venerable titles on the newsstands, announced a content partnership with Amazon Studios, sometimes characterised as the bete noire of the traditional publishing industry, some eyebrows were raised. But the resulting collaboration, Amazon’s first unscripted content available to Prime subscribers in the US, U K and Ger many, has

Developers call for longer stories for Virtual Reality

maybe raised the bar.

Select directors, including Eugene Jarecki (Why We Fight) and Steve James (Hoop Dreams), were given access to the entire archive of New Yorker stories — subject to the writer’s permission — and the results are available, two every Tuesday, on the Prime platform.

Joe Lewis, Amazon’s head of half-hour programming, told MIPDoc the story of the brand’s transition from print to SVOD: “The New Yorker is not the 70100 pages given to you, it’s a style of writing,” he said, adding: “This is a way to scale a brand rather than create an extension of the magazine.”

On the subject of big data, Lewis said Amazon did not overly mine its users’ information to make programming decisions: “We can look at book sales, but if you’re trying to do ideas that haven’t been done before, like Transparent, there’s not a piece of data out there to tell you to do it,” he said.

He added that Amazon would be experimenting with formats and distribution patterns. In the meantime, though, it was also backing Woody Allen’s new film that will be opening the Cannes Film Festival in May.

“THIS is a new medium but actually it is an old dream,” said Thomas Wallner of Deep, at the Virtual Reality: From Storytelling To Storyliving MIPDoc session. His Edge Of Space 360° production had taken inspiration from a lithograph from 1900 that showed a similar production with 360° film cameras and a hot air balloon.

His broadcast partner, Wolfgang Bergmann of ARTE, said of his first VR experience: “I felt like the last apache on a horse seeing an ICE train speeding past.

Immediately I understood this was something new and thought, after the ‘oh my God feeling’, how can we use this new medium?”

Deep has developed VR software Liquid Cinema to help

producers and distributors work with the new medium.

The other panelist at the session, Anthony Geffen, talked of proprietary technology his company, Atlantic Productions, has developed to lock several people into the same experience.

Geffen said that the new technology faced challenges to entry: “It’s a difficult thing to cost at the moment and that frightens people.” He added: “What we need to get this thing alive is longer stories.”

But is “broadcast” really the word? There was a sense, here, from all panelists, that VR and 360° video were a new medium, distinct from TV. However, “anything that stimulates storytelling is good for television”, Geffen said.

Anthony Geffen (left) and Thomas Wallner

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took part in the second annual International Coproduction Summit & Breakfast. The session was designed to promote closer collaboration, an airing of the issues facing broadcasters and a frank exchange of views.

Among many topics raised were: the conflicting demands of globalising and localising content; and the roles of public and commercial broadcasters faced with an increasing challenge from OTT services including Netflix, which in the past year had made strong moves in factual programming.

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ANIMALS A STRONG TREND IN THE WILDEST FORMATS VIRGINIA Mouseler’s Fresh TV formats showcase yesterday provided MIPTV delegates with a snapshot of the future in the form of 25 of the weirdest, wildest and most wonderful entertainment shows on the planet.

And wild was certainly a key theme in The Wit CEO’s presentation.

“Animals are a strong trend at the moment,” Mouseler said, speaking to MIPTV News after her session.

“There are a lot of shows out there either involving animals or comparing human skills to animal skills. I think, in a world where humans are increasingly overwhelmed by technology, people are feeling the need to reconnect to the animal within.”

She cited Sky Vision’s Dogs Might Fly, her personal favourite — “as a dog lover and a pilot” — which delivers exactly what its title promises; and Fox International Channel’s Mygrations, in which a herd of elite humans emulate wildebeests and attempt to migrate across Africa. “Many don’t make it,” Mouseler said.

When curating her showcase, Mouseler said she looked for shows that “were ahead of curve and would inspire, amaze and stimulate the imagination”. She added: “That’s why I sometimes include shows that are a bit extreme — I passionately believe people need to be given creative shocks. I don’t want Fresh TV to be a showcase of catalogues. I want it to confront people with raw creativity.”

ACHINIMA, the video gamesfocused, pioneering YouTube network that now describes itself as a “many2many programming service”, tapped into this year’s MIPTV theme — The Power Of Fans.

Chad Gutstein, CEO of Machinima, which was the first digital studio to unveil a slate of new content at this year’s MIP Digital Fronts, said during his Machinima Heroes Rise presentation: “Gaming is a cultivator of fandom.”

Unlike specific entertainment and lifestyle genres such as music, sports, fashion and film, which have always been measured by the quantity of consumption, “there is a unique cultural shift with fans of gaming”, Gutstein said.

“Our customers measure their engagement, not by the number of likes or by consumption. It is about being so much into something, you get off your arse to do something about it, such as upload a game or play one. Gamers represent the most engaged pillar of popular culture.”

Among the new web series Machinima presented at the MIP Digital Fronts is Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, based on the Street

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Fighter arcade-games franchise that has sold more than 37 million units worldwide. Another new Machinima title, Transformers Combiner Wars, is based on Hasbro’s Transformers toy franchise.

“What we do is also about the eSports phenomenon, which has about 300 million fans globally. This is about as mainstream and global as it gets,” Gutstein said.

The awesome power of Generation Z “GEN Zs don’t just consume culture, they create it,” said Margaret Czeisler, chief strategy officer of US research company Wildness, at Monday’s Media Mastermind Keynote. “And they’re creating it in unprecedented ways, at a younger age than ever before,” she added.

Czeisler was presenting research into 3,000 US Generation Zs — the cohort of people born after the Millennials — and she maintains they are changing the world through the power of fandom.

Media owners need to recognise this, she said. “Listen to the Gen Zs and they’ll help you build a better product. If you don’t, they’ll build their own. And they will surpass you.”

Gen Zs engage actively with their favourite Wildness’ Margaret Czeisler

celebrities — and their fellow fans — and expect their favourites to interact with them online. And they value perceived sincerity.

According to Czeisler, the internet stars who manage their fan relationships well reap the rewards in terms of reaching new outlets. The AwesomenessTV MCN drama Expelled beat the young adult movie The Fault In Our Stars to number one on the iTunes store because of the fanbase of its young stars.

Gen Zs’ viewing habits are new too. One in 10 watches YouTube every day, 70% prefer streaming to cable, and increasingly they prefer SVOD to AVOD. And if you asked them to choose, they would dump their TV over their smartphone.

They also compulsively create content, using platforms like Soundcloud, Instagram and Wattpad to write and share original poetry, music, magazines and books. And unlike the more materialistic Millennials, they value uniqueness, self-expression, independence and adventure.

“Twenty-seven per cent of our respondents create and share a video every week,” said Czeisler. “That’s more per week than most adults create ever.”

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Co-founders of Final Twist: Harlan Coben and Nicola Shindler

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ESTSELLING thriller writer Harlan Coben is in Cannes to follow up on the launch of his US independent company, Final Twist, formed in partnership with Nicola Shindler, founder of Manchester-based Red Production (Last Tango In Halifax, Happy Valley). StudioCanal will be handling international distribution.

StudioCanal’s collaboration with Final Twist is part of the pan-European film and TV production-

distribution company’s acquisition spree, announced at a private press launch in the Palais on Monday.

StudioCanal has taken a giant leap into TV production with a 33% stake in Spanish company Bambu Producciones and 20% in Londonbased indies Urban Myth Films and SunnyMarch TV (co-founded by actor Benedict Cumberbatch).

Bambu has a slate of more than 10 original, high-quality and internationally ambitious series, including Refugiados, Gran Ho-

tel and Velvet.

Urban Myth Films brings together a team of international producers and screenwriters behind hit series Merlin and Misfits.

The investment in SunnyMarch TV solidifies the relationship between StudioCanal and Cumberbatch, who took the lead role in two of its most iconic films, The Imitation Game and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. StudioCanal acquired Shindler and Coben’s first original thriller series, The Five, in September and brings the 10-part drama, originally developed for Sky1 in the UK, to buyers at this market.

“We are delighted to be involved with such a well-known novelist who has real international appeal,” StudioCanal’s new chairman and CEO, Didier Lupfer, said of the link with Coben. “We were very early partners — it was always clear that the series captured our brand’s DNA; our future is working with such talented production partners.”

Harlan Coben said the great experience working on The Five with

Shindler paved the way for Final Twist. “We quickly realised that we had a talent-match and it would be exciting to develop that further by creating different thriller series with an American sensibility and story at its core,” he said.

While in Cannes, Coben also gave a Media Mastermind Keynote, during which he discussed the creative difference between writing a novel and a TV series: “The Five was originally an idea for a novel, but then I saw it on a bigger canvas because of the number of characters involved,” he said.

“But I think it’s like a novel on TV. The 10 episodes are like 10 chapters — there’s a beginning and a real end; no cliffhangers at the end, because that’s not fair on viewers.”

Coben also discussed the importance of fans: “The thing that annoys me most is when writers say they write for themselves. Writers need readers and audiences because what they do is about communication. I want people to see or read what I do. A writer without an audience is like someone talking to themselves.”

This was not the same, however, as allowing fans to lead the creative process, which Coben believes results in creative and commercial failure. “My job as a writer is to take people where they don’t know they want to go,” he said.

Horowitz brings New Blood to the BBC BBC WORLDWIDE is at MIPTV with New Blood, a bold new crime series, created and written by Anthony Horowitz, and made by London-based Eleventh Hour Films.

Horowitz is in Cannes this week to promote the series, which is something of a passion project for the author and screenwriter.

“Most crime series focus on a middle-aged detective — usually with a drink problem. But New Blood is about the junior detectives in the background, the so-called Generation Y. These are young people who are worse off than their parents and are involved in a struggle just to hold on to their jobs.”

In Horowitz’s series, two of these young detectives, Stefan and

Rash, contend with white-collar crimes involving vested interests in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, property and charity.

“They face serious challenges,” said Horowitz, “but because they are young, they are also lighthearted. So there is a distinctive tone to the series.”

The two detectives come from different parts of the police force — so the opening part of the story is about them getting to know each other, added actor Ben Tavassoli, who plays Rash.

“Rash comes up through the police force, wants to be a detective — at the start he gets six-month probation as a trainee — and then he and Stefan meet through unrelated investigations that turn

out to be the same case.”

There are seven episodes in the first series, divided into three separate stories. All are shot in London — but not the picturepostcard city tourists are familiar with.

Jill Green, head of Eleventh Hour Films, said: “This is a multi-cultural 21st-century London, an energised, dynamic capital city.”

Horowitz agreed: “London is the third character. But it’s not the London of John le Carre, James Bond or Disney.”

Adding to the excitement is that Stefan is from a Polish background and Rash is of Iranian origin, underlining the diversity that is a celebrated part of life in London.

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Mark Strepan, who plays Stefan, said this opened up interesting new angles for the show: “I use my Polish heritage to access parts of London at a basic level.

It means I can pose as a typist or talk to the builders. Being Polish is quite helpful in London because there are so many connections, so that’s my sort of angle.”

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WHAT THE PITCH DOCTOR ORDERED IT WAS standing room only at Pitch Doctor Paul Boross’ traditional Making It At MIP session on Sunday, in which he gave 200-plus Cannes newcomers crucial tips on how to connect with potential business partners in the frenetic days ahead.

“MIP can be a daunting experience for first-timers,” said Boross, who runs a UK-based training company.

“There are lots of people who know each other. You feel like an outsider.”

Boross helps his clients to break down barriers by priming them for the scenarios they are likely to meet.

“I give people a simple set of psychological techniques to get them into the right state of mind to maximise the opportunities they will encounter,” he said, speaking to the MIPTV News after his session.

“Some 85% of your success is down to the quality of your relationships, so you need to make those crucial first three seconds of an encounter work for you.”

Lujza Bubanova, CEO of Slovakian company Divano, welcomed Boross’ guidance. “I’ve seen people do these talks before, but Paul is different.

His approach is simple but effective.

I was blown away.”

OUTUBE star, make-up guru and digital maverick Michelle Phan joins Endemol Shine Beyond’s MIPDigital Fronts panel this morning to share her experience of working alongside the digital production and distribution studio to launch a new multichannel premium-lifestyle network, Icon.

Phan made her name online with a YouTube beauty channel that has grown to 7.6 million subscribers and nearly 1.1 billion lifetime video views. The Icon network targets a multi-cultural demographic of females aged 18-34 with a slate of original programming spanning beauty, fashion, wellness, DIY, food and travel.

Featuring digital talent that has collectively generated more than 2.4 billion views on YouTube, Icon’s anchor outlet is YouTube. However, the network’s content will also be available on other partner platforms, including Dailymotion, Roku and Pluto TV, as well as through its own mobile apps for iOS and Android devices and popular social-media services.

“It is the destination for the coolest up-andcoming lifestyle creators in each territory.

In France, Icon gained an incredible 75,000 subscribers within 24 hours of launch. There is a huge appetite out there for this style of channel,” said Wim Ponnet, Endemol Shine Group’s group director of strategy and commercial development.

Online star Michelle Phan: targeting a multi-cultural demographic of females

Endemol Shine Group has rolled-out the channel in five key markets since its launch last year, using its global ground operations to tailor local versions of formats for different territories.

Ponnet added: “Our recent Icon launch in Germany, FLiP – Powered by Icon, was part of a ground-breaking multiplatform project with Viacom International Media Networks, which also included the first-ever TV deal for the channel. In addition to the YouTube channel launch, there’s a weekly linear broadcast featuring the YouTube content alongside original and exclusive content for the television broadcast.”

IATAS honours Shonda Rhimes

THE INTERNATIONAL Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (IATAS) has announced that Shonda Rhimes is the winner of this year’s International Emmy Founders Award.

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Rhimes, whose production powerhouse Shondaland is behind TV blockbusters including Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder, will receive the award on November 21 at the International Emmy Awards Gala in New York.

“Shonda Rhimes is in a league of her own,” said IATAS president/CEO Bruce L Paisner. “Not only does she have an entire night of primetime on ABC in the US, but her ground-breaking shows and iconic characters are avidly followed by over 300 million viewers worldwide.”

Referring to tonight’s International Emmy Kids Awards, being held for the first time in Cannes, Paisner said: “It used to be only one kids award, then we created six categories a few years ago. But it took place in February [in New York] and every year there was a blizzard. So it made geographical sense to move the Kids Emmy here.”

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New sales confirm that Bob’s popularity continues to build

Tinopolis’ Chris Brogden and Passion Distribution’s Elin Thomas

ROBOT WARS REBOOTED TINOPOLIS-owned Passion Distribution is re-launching long-running format Robot Wars as a co-production between Mentorn Media Scotland, SJP Media and the BBC. The entertainment show, which was a hit on BBC Two UK between 1998-2004, returns to the public-service channel in a new 6 x 60 mins series to be aired in primetime.

The new format, to be hosted by Dara O Briain and Angela Scanlon, remains faithful to the original show. Teams of friends, families and workmates enter their home-designed robotic fighting machines into the Robot Wars contests. Over five qualifying episodes, a total of 40 robots fight in a series of battles and head-to-head bouts, all hoping to become Robot Wars champion.

The rebooted series will also see the return of some favourite house robots from the show’s original run, including a new and updated Sir Killalot, Shunt, Dead Metal and the legendary Matilda.

Tinopolis creative director of entertainment, Chris Brogden, said: “Having seen the power of the new robots and the reaction of the live audience, we are confident the updated version will prove to be more popular than ever.”

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ATTEL Creations, the newly formed theatrical, TV and digit a l contentcreation division of MIPTV’s Brand Of The Year, Mattel, has finalised deals with broadcasters in Australia, Portugal, Norway, Russia and Turkey for the new incarnation of Bob The Builder series. There is also an upcoming film titled Bob The Builder: Mega Machines – The Movie slated for TV and DVD release next year.

“Bob The Builder continues to build momentum across many new markets and Bob The Builder: Mega Machines is a testament to this,” said Christopher Keenan, senior vice-president of content and executive producer at Mattel Creations. “The film tells the

story of Bob’s biggest build yet and introduces three new megacharacters who help reinforce the show’s themes of teamwork, perseverance and optimism.”

Josh Scherba, DHX Media senior vice-president of distribution, said DHX was delighted to be worldwide distributor of “a tremendous kids’ brand”. He added: “The new Mega Machines movie will be a terrific addition to the franchise.”

Mattel Creations also announced a new feature-length special for Fireman Sam for next year, starring multi-award-winning Scottish actor David Tennant.

Tennant, best known for playing the 10th doctor in the BBC series Doctor Who, will voice the character of humorous villain Buck Douglas in Fireman Sam:

Alien Alert, currently being produced by Mattel subsidiary HIT Entertainment.

Keenan said: “Alien Alert is an action-packed Fireman Sam adventure for pre-schoolers, and we’re delighted to have the talented David Tennant on board as the voice of Buck. The special stays true to core Fireman Sam values — bravery, loyalty, heroism, community and teamwork — but takes us to new levels of excitement with a sci-fi slant that includes new characters, rescue vehicles, locations and plot twists.”

Mattel Creations has also just green-lit Wellie Wishers, a brand new 2D animated series for five- to seven-year-olds from the American Girl brand. It is premiering the new series at MIPTV.

Rai Com strong in docs and drama RAI COM, the commercial arm of Italian public broadcaster Rai, reports strong interest in its slate of drama series and documentaries.

Head of international sales Mattia Oddone said: “We are very happy with the response to our new crime series Close Murders, which we have just shown to buyers. We are already finalising a deal with French-German network ARTE.” He added: “A big difference for us is that Rai is no longer just commissioning drama for Rai 1.

Close Murders is for Rai 3, which means it can be a younger, edgier, psychological drama. That kind of style appeals to international buyers and means we have expanded the number of broadcasters that we are talking to.”

At the same time, Rai Com continues to promote popular Rai 1 primetime series, such as Inspector Montalbano and The Young Montalbano, both of which have

Rai Com’s Mattia Oddone: “younger, edgier, psychological drama”

new series. “We also have other new dramas coming through, such as Palermo Police Squad, The System and Lampedusa, all of which are attracting interest,” Oddone said. “Another of our headline shows at MIPTV is the period drama Luisa Spagnoli, which attracted eight million viewers when it aired in Italy. It tells the story of the famous female entrepreneur who created

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Perugina chocolate and her own fashion brand.”

Rai is also investing more in documentary after its success last year with distributing opera programming. “The audience for the two is similar,” Oddone said.

“We have an excellent documentary called Pope Francis, Cuba And Fidel. We also did well with S Is For Stanley, an intimate look at Stanley Kubrick.”

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CCLAIMED Northern Ireland actor James Nesbitt stars in Hat Trick Productions’ new three-part crime drama series The Secret, based on a book about a real-life double murder by former Ireland editor of the Press Association, Deric Henderson.

Nesbitt plays convicted murderer Colin Howell, a successful Baptist dentist in Ballymoney, who embarked on a passionate but destructive love affair with a Sunday-school teacher and devoted member of the Coleraine Baptist Church, Hazel Buchanan (Genevieve O’Reilly). The illicit relationship culminated in an elaborate plot to kill both of their partners, who were discovered in a fume-filled car in County Londonderry in 1991 — close to where Nesbitt grew up as a child. The police initially believed it was a double suicide and that the couple had been unable to cope with the discovery of their respective partners’ infidelity. It was Howell, after a crisis of conscience, who walked into a police station almost 20 years later and confessed to the murders.

“This is a story very close to home,” Nesbitt said. “My sister used to attend Hazel’s coffee mornings and her cleaner also worked for the Howells. Colin Howell was even my brother-in-law’s dentist.”

Nesbitt said that the combination of Henderson’s rigorous research, the trial reports and his local knowledge gave him a distinct advantage when researching the part: “The access to both private and public information was a privilege. During the shoot, I actually felt the camera was my audience — we were documenting events, finding new information and piecing together a story as we filmed.”

What struck Nesbitt most forcibly was the story’s mix of extraordinary and ordinary — the chaos of the secret affair and murder, set against the banality of the culprits’ day-to-day lives. “Howell was such a deeply respected and religious man in our community,” he said. “He was also very charming and charismatic. I think he actually created God in his own image, in the sense that he was delusional.”

One of the 12 titles selected for the inaugural MIPDrama Screenings, The Secret was commissioned by ITV and written by BAFTA-winning writer Stuart Urban (An Ungentlemanly Act). The series is directed by Nick Murphy (Occupation; Prey) and produced by Jonathan Curling (Holy Cross; The Government Inspector) in association with Northern Ireland Screen.

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NEWS FACTORY’S FURRY FUN THE UK’s Factory Media launched a distribution arm last year and is at MIPTV with its first third-party slate. Headlining the catalogue is Animal Antics (13 x 30 mins), commissioned by MTG’s Viasat Nature and produced by Woodcut Media. Made by former Rude Tube producer Nick Mavroidakis, the series has a different theme for each episode and features humorous animal clips. Also, comedians, wildlife experts and animal vloggers countdown their 20 favourite clips.

Netflix set to stream Marcella in global deal with Cineflix Rights

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RTL TANGOS WITH TALPA TALPA Media’s Dance Dance Dance, the format featuring celebrities re-enacting famous dance performances, has been snapped up by free-to-air network RTL Television in Germany. The sale comes shortly after the show became a hit on RTL4 in the Netherlands, where it has been renewed for a second season. The format is also going to China where it will be produced by Zhejiang Tangde, which has a multi-million dollar joint venture TV formats deal with Talpa.

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VOD platform Netflix has acquired the exclusive worldwide streaming rights to Marcella, the new English-language crime drama from Hans Rosenfeldt, acclaimed writer of The Bridge.

The series, produced by Buccaneer Media for ITV, delves into the psychology of a troubled detective investigating a serial murder case.

It was filmed in and around London and cocreated by Hans Rosenfeldt and Nicola Larder (The Tunnel).

The show premiered yesterday in the UK on ITV and will be available globally, outside of the UK and Ireland, on Netflix from July.

The deal was done by Cineflix Rights, which

Blim grabs slice of Cake content KIDS entertainment specialist Cake has announced a 200-hour volume deal with blim, Televisa’s brand new SVOD service — which is currently rolling out across multiple territories in Latin America.

The deal, finalised by Cake senior sales manager Bianca Rodriguez, covers 800 episodes and includes Total Drama, Poppy Cat, Wanda And The Alien, Trunk Train and The Sparticle Mystery.

Ed Galton, chief commercial officer and managing director at Cake, said: “We are very ex-

cited to be working with Televisa, blim is a great platform for Cake’s titles and we wish them every success.”

Carlos Sandoval, general manager at blim said: “Having premium content for children is one of bliḿs goals, as it provides entertainment for the entire family, especially kids who are heavy users of our service. It is great to have Cake as content partners.”

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Larry Tanz, vice-president global television at Netflix, said: “We got involved with the series early on in the process to gain the opportunity to bring Hans’ great storytelling to our members around the world — right after its initial UK broadcast on ITV.” Glen Salzman, co-founder and co-CEO of Cineflix Media, added: “Netflix is the perfect international home for Marcella. Created by an exceptionally talented team, Marcella is the perfect example of the kind of premium scripted content that Cineflix will be looking to distribute going forward.”

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NEWS FEDERATION IN DEAL FOR THE BREAK FEDERATION Entertainment, the Paris-based production company, has finalised a deal with Belgian producers Ella Productions and Helicotronc for 10 x 52 mins crime series The Break. Federation has worldwide distribution rights, with Ella retaining rights for Benelux and France.

Commissioned by and co-produced with Belgian public broadcaster RTBF, The Break is produced by Anthony Rey from Helicotronc, and directed by Matthieu Donck, who also co-wrote the series, along with Stephane Bergmans and Benjamin d’Aoust.

Following on from the successful launch of series one on RTBF, the broadcaster has already re-commissioned series two, which is currently in development.

ARMOZA ON THE RUN WITH SOHU ARMOZA Formats and China’s Sohu are launching new 30-minute lifestyle format The Running Show at MIPTV, which begins production later this month and will air on streaming service TV.Sohu in early summer.

Chinese and international pilots are available for the high-energy talk show, which is the first project to flow from Armoza and Sohu’s recent co-development deal. The format’s hook is that it happens — literally — on the run, as the host and celebrity guests run and chat simultaneously.

Armoza Formats’ Avi Armoza (left) with Sohu’s Yi Wang

Sky Vision lands global rights to US robot show BattleBots

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KY VISION, the international distribution arm of European broadcaster Sky, has acquired the global programme and format rights to hit US Sundaynight primetime show BattleBots.

Series one (6 x 60 mins), which launched on US network ABC in 2015, is available immediately, with the second series (11 x 60 mins) available later this year.

Whalerock Industries and BattleBots Inc co-produce the US version of the show.

In the latest series, BattleBots follows 48 of the world’s biggest, fastest and strongest homemade robots, built by enthusiastic amateurs and robot professionals, as they battle against each other in an intense knockout tournament to be crowned overall champion.

“There is a huge following for the US tournament globally and the production values of the ABC show are second to none, making this very much the market leader in robot entertainment,” Barnaby Shingleton,

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director of factual and entertainment at Sky Vision, said.

Sky chief executive Jeremy Darroch added: “Sky Vision is now a business of quality and scale across their production and distribution divisions. This

is epitomised by the acquisition of BattleBots. It’s fantastic to see a US primetime show in the catalogue, alongside our homegrown entertainment which has been performing so well internationally.”

Thunderbirds Are Go for third series UK PRODUCTION house ITV Studios and New Zealand’s Pukeko Pictures have been commissioned by Children’s ITV (CITV) to make a third series of Thunderbirds Are Go (26 x 30 mins), the latest reinvention of the iconic children’s television show.

Thunderbirds Are Go has also been acquired by Canada’s DHX Media in a deal with ITV Studios Global

Entertainment (ITVS GE), ITV’s distribution arm, and will premiere on DHX’s Family CHRGD and Family Channel later this month.

In the US the series will debut on Amazon Prime Instant Video on April 22, with a sneak preview special on April 15.

ITVS GE has already sold Thunderbirds Are Go to more than 40 countries worldwide, including New

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Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands. The show is also a licensing success, with more than 75 licensees on board the global consumer products programme.

Steve Green, executive vice-president, kids’ content and distribution at ITVS GE, said: “Thunderbirds Are Go goes from strength to strength, with this third series’ commission and Canadian sale. It is proving to be one of the most popular new brands in the international marketplace and we’re looking to build on this success with new and existing partners this year.”

DHX Media has also announced that it is making a second series of the new Teletubbies with the BBC children’s channel CBeebies in the UK. There will be 60 episodes from London-based producer Darrall Macqueen.

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NEWS NEW BEGINNING FOR THE END IN DUTCH DEAL ECCHO RIGHTS has licenced The End to Column Film, which will make a local version of the popular Turkish drama for the Netherlands.

“The End has a solid base for adaptation. The cleverness of the scripts and the universal appeal of the storyline make the series suitable for audiences across the world, including in western Europe,” Chantal van der Horst, producer at Column Film, said. Katja Schuurman, the Dutch actress and presenter, will play the lead. The End was the first Turkish drama piloted in the US, when Sander/Moses produced a pilot for ABC under the title The Runner. It was also the first Turkish drama to air in western Europe on Swedish public channel SVT.

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DOGS HAVE THEIR OWN TV HOUR DOGTV, the TV network dedicated to content targeted at dogs and their owners, brings The DOGTV Hour to the international market. It will broadcast on Animal Planet and Discovery Family platforms in 105 countries. DOGTV, which is partly owned by Discovery Communications, features original shows developed to provide 24-hour content for stay-at-home dogs DOGTV’s CEO, Gilad Neumann, said: “Launching in new territories will allow DOGTV to provide the two networks with an opportunity to cater to the growing demand for shows for and about dogs.”

Peace Point star Anna Olson looks to Asia for inspiration in new show

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FTER the global success of Bake With Anna Olson, which has been seen in 192 countries, the TV chef and bakery specialist is now moving out of her comfort zone with a new series called Inspired With Anna Olson.

“Bake was hugely popular in Asia where it went out on Scripps AsiaPacific, so we wanted to make a show that built on that popularity,” Les Tomlin, president and executive producer of Canada’s Peace Point Rights, said. “So she traveled through 10 countries in Asia where she met leading chefs, with each one teaching her a classic

dish. Then at the end of each episode she takes what she learned and creates a dish of her own.”

As with Bake, the show is filmed in 4K format: “We were a bit slow on HD and so with UHD we decided to commit early. It is a future-proof format and on top of that the food just looks amazing,” Tomlin added. “We’re also preparing a cook book based on Bake, which will come out later this year, and we’ve just finished the second In Space documentary which will be ready for broadcast in June.”

Peace Point Rights’ Les Tomlin: “With UHD we decided to commit early”

Living Universe greenlit

CURIOSITYSTR EAM and ARTE have pre-bought the Essential Media and Zed co-production The Living Universe. The series features a 90 mins documentary and a 4 x 60 mins series inspired and informed by some of the world’s most brilliant scientists and engineers. The show is directed by Dr Richard Smith, with a French version to be directed by Vincent Amouroux.

The project will be shot in some of the most remote and stunning

locations on the planet to help the audience gain a new understanding of our planet.

The series will be executive produced by Essential Media’s Chris Hilton and Alan Erson, along with Zed’s Christine Le Goff.

Essential Media CEO Chris Hilton said: “After 30 years in documentary production this is one of the most exciting and ambitious projects I’ve worked on. And it’s an honour to be working with the likes of ARTE, CuriosityStream and Zed.”

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up to its name, placing presenter Hugo Girard in some of the US’ most dangerous neighbourhoods in order to uncover the hidden stories behind the crime and poverty.

“It’s about visiting and interacting with people in their own environment in Baltimore, Camden in New Jersey, Chicago, Detroit, Oakland and Albuquerque among others,” he said. “And of course my size gets me respect, but to make a great show you have to respect them as well and find a balance so they co-operate and we get the real stories.”

A second series has been commissioned, and the show is distributed by Lagardere Studios Distribution.

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Picasso specials for Ovation aim to paint the real picture

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UBALDINI WANTS MORE PEOPLE TO GET ON THE BIKE FOLLOWING a successful launch of the Bike channel in the UK on Sky and Virgin Media, chairman and CEO Filippo Ubaldini is now looking to expand the service further: “We are hoping to see Bike launched in around 25-30 territories in the next two years,” he said. “We’re principally targeting France and Germany plus the US and countries where English is widely spoken.”

Currently Bike acquires content from companies and organisations including Red Bull, ASO, UCI and IMG; covers around 80 days of racing each year; and also creates its own content.

“Our coverage is about 70% road bike and around 30% mountain bike, including downhill racing, and we broadcast documentaries such as Where The Trail Ends and Race Across America,” Ubaldini said.

“We also make our own shows including Great Climbs, with Giro d’Italia winner Paolo Savoldelli, and The Coach, where two amateur riders are paired with two professionals who mentor them, and then in the sixth episode the two amateurs go head to head.”

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S ARTS network Ovation TV has picked up two 52-minute Picasso documentaries from French distributor Terranoa, one of which was co-written by the legendary Spanish artist’s grandson, Olivier Widmaier Picasso.

Picasso, The Legacy, directed by Hugues Nancy, explores the tortuous estate settlement that followed the artist’s death in 1973.

Widmaier Picasso’s unprecedented access to family members and archives provides a uniquely personal look at both the man and the cultural icon.

“This is the first time that a film has shown the dedication of my grandfather and his constant state of creative process,” Widmaier Picasso said. “He was at once a talented genius creating modern art and a man comfortable with his recomposed family, which was very avant-garde in his day.”

Scott Woodward, Ovation TV’s executive vice-president of programming and production, added: “The big thing about Picasso, The

Artful deal: Olivier Widmaier Picasso (left), Ovation TV’s Scott Woodward and Terranoa’s Isabelle Graziadey

Legacy is that it’s the most inside story you’ll ever get of Picasso.”

Widmaier Picasso said his HD documentary was based on “real fact, real testimonies and real documents”, rather than the conjecture and speculation that surrounded Picasso during his lifetime.

“There were so many rumours that he was difficult,” he added.

“I always say he wasn’t easy, which is different. Basically my

grandfather was an explorer in many areas, from his art to his personal life — including his women.”

Ovation has also acquired Picasso: A Museum Reborn as a companion piece to Picasso, The Legacy. Both films, which will air on Ovation later this year, were co-produced by Terranoa sister company, Gedeon Programmes, ARTE and Olivier Widmaier Picasso’s Welcome.

MY way into North American market NEW YORK-based indie MY Entertainment has closed a raft of funded network development, option and co-development deals with producers from Norway, France, Israel and Spain, driving forward its recently launched international strategy to pursue co-development of original ideas with independent producers and distributors around the globe.

MY Entertainment has closed a second option deal with DR Denmark for Messing With Your Mind, which was named as Denmark’s best new entertainment format. MY Entertainment is partnering with Mission Control Media to pitch the format featuring renowned mentalist Jan Hellesoe into the North American

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market. A similar deal has been signed with Tedy Productions in Israel for Seance: Live, a series of live-event specials.

“We provide our international partners with a conduit to the US networks. We supply direction, contacts, reputation and re-

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sources; they supply great ideas,” Michael Yudin, CEO of MY Entertainment, said.

“As these deals confirm, it is not just a powerful formula and one that’s unique to MY Entertainment, but it is working,” he added.

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NEWS DEALS GIVE TAC NEW CONTENT OUT OF AFRICA US-BASED African entertainment network The Africa Channel (TAC) has closed content and channel partnership deals with leading African channel creator and content distributor AfricaXP. Under the terms of the agreement, AfricaXP will serve as the exclusive agent for supplying content to TAC from African producers. AfricaXP will also play a content sourcing and development role for TAC and will manage all aggregation, quality control and delivery logistics.

In addition, the companies will partner in launching a premium African Entertainment channel for Africa, leveraging TAC’s impressive HD content library and AfricaXP’s extensive catalogue of African content.

AfricaXP will build, manage, playout and deliver the feed for the new joint venture channel to broadcasters in Africa and globally over IP from the Cloud, making regionalised and international channel feeds possible without having to incur additional satellite delivery costs.

“AfricaXP’s on-the-ground presence and experience with content aggregation logistics significantly streamlines our content acquisition and development operations in a dynamic but fragmented and challenging environment,” said Narendra Reddy, executive vice president of content and global operations at TAC. “By partnering with AfricaXP on a premium channel launch in Africa, and having access to their cloud-based system, we will be able to expand by focusing our investment on developing African content assets — which is where we really want to play.”

Bernard Azria hails exciting new era for African market

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FRICAN television is going through a boom time with exciting new content emerging and standards of production steadily improving, the head of the continent’s biggest distributor has said.

Bernard Azria, chairman and chief executive of Ivory Coastbased Cote Ouest, told MIPTV News that the African market has “drastically changed” over the past 20 years, during which time both the quality and quantity of productions has increased exponentially.

He said: “Africa is the fastest growing market in the world, and the French-speaking countries in particular are growing dramati-

cally. There’s a really strong demand for content and the quality of production is improving every day. There is a lot of demand for local content. Television is the mirror in which people see themselves and, more and more, African people want to see themselves on screen.”

Azria, who is in Cannes to meet potential partners for investment and co-production projects, said that globalisation and Africa’s increasingly outward, connected nature had driven up domestic standards.

He said: “It’s become clear that the quality of African content cannot be poor any more; it’s always now compared with what people see from the rest of the

Cote Ouest’s Bernard Azria

world. That’s also affecting the quality of content that is being broadcast to the big African diaspora around the world.”

Food Safari leads tasty sales for DCD SOUTH African food blogger and cook Sarah Graham is in Cannes with executives from DCD Rights, distributors of Sarah Graham’s Food Safari, a series produced by Okuhle Media for M-Net. Following its pre-sale to the Cooking Channel in the US, the series (20 x 30 mins), has attracted a pan-regional acquisition from AMC Networks International (Central Europe), alongside pick-ups from Bloomberg HT (Turkey), Foxtel (Australia), HRT (Croatia), Kuchina+ (Poland) and Li TV (Asia).

Set against an epic South African backdrop, the new cookery show explores the continent’s most interesting and exciting food.

“I think people love the unique angle of the show,” said Graham.

“We’re cooking outdoors in the bush and it has a very authentic safari feel about it. We’re sharing food against a beautiful backdrop, which is a special thing.”

DCD Rights brings two other cookery series to Cannes. Sicily With Aldo & Enzo (20 x 30 mins) follows Sicilian chef Enzo Oliveri

Lisa Hale of DCD Rights (left); food blogger and chef Sarah Graham; Louise McClelland, executive producer of Food Safari; and Lianna Pim of DCD Rights

as he takes Italian mainland chef Aldo Zilli on a culinary tour of Sicily. The series has been signed

by Bloomberg HT (Turkey) and HRT (Croatia).

A Cook Abroad (6 x 60 mins), from BBC Productions, features cooks such as Rick Stein and Hairy Biker Dave Myers embarking on a tour of the world’s most inspiring food cultures. Deals announced for this series include

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Prima TV (Czech Republic), SIC (Portugal), TV Ontario (Canada), RUV (Iceland), Globosat (Brazil), Bloomberg HT (Turkey) and Kuchina+ (Poland).

Nicky Davies Williams, CEO at DCD Rights, said: “We’re delighted to announce this diverse range of new deals which highlights the continued strong international potential for high quality content in this genre.”

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NEWS LOOKING GLASS AND AUTENTIC GET TOGETHER GERMANY-based Autentic Distribution and Australia’s Looking Glass International are joining forces to help each other boost business in their respective regions.

Autentic will be offering a catalogue of Looking Glass International’s factual programmes to potential buyers in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland.

In turn, Looking Glass International is licensed to market Autentic’s slate of documentaries and other non-fictional content in Asia.

Anne Hufnagel, Autentic’s general manager, said: “This affiliation establishes a strategic partnership between two strong brands and will optimise the use of each other’s networks [of content owners].”

Autentic represents a network of national and international producers in German-speaking Europe, while Looking Glass International does something similar with its offices in Australia, China and the UK.

Autentic’s Anne Hufnagel

Cottonwood and ZDF partner up for big-budget teen ballet drama

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O T T ON WO OD Media, ZDF and ZDF Enterprises are to co-produce liveaction, teen drama series Paris Opera. The show features Lena Grisky, a time-travelling ballet dancer from early 20th century Russia trying to navigate her way through the perils of adolescence in modern-day Paris.

The high-budget show will be produced at the world-renowned Paris Opera, where the international cast will work with the establishment’s choreographers to make the dance element of the production as authentic as possible.

The production team so far includes showrunners Jill Girling and Lori Matter Welch (creator of Nickelodeon series Ride), producers Pascal Breton (founder of Cottonwood parent company, Federation Entertainment, and the producer of Netflix’s first

Arne Lohmann (left) of ZDF Enterprises, ZDF’s Nicole Keeb with Zoe Carrera and David Michel of Cottonwood Media

French drama series, Marseille); and Cottonwood founders Zoe Carrera, Cecile Lauritano and David Michel.

“It’s an honour for us to work with ZDF and ZDF Enterprises on our first international live-action co-production,” said David

Michel, president of Cottonwood Media and head of Federation Kids and Family.

“ZDF has a fantastic history in commissioning the best teen drama series in the last decade, and we look forward to creating yet another quality show.”

Ovation wins rights to Versailles series OVATION has acquired the US premiere rights to the first series of upscale historical drama, Versailles, starring George Blagden (Vikings).

Commissioned by French payTV giant Canal+, the series was penned by David Wolstencroft (The Escape Artist) and Simon Mirren (Criminal Minds).

Promoted as one of Canal+’s most ambitious series as well as France’s biggest-budgeted show, Versailles navigates the first years of Louis XIV’s ‘Grand Century’, when the young Sun King makes the strategic decision to move his court to Versailles — a palace that was a better symbol of his power and influence in Europe.

Filmed in extravagant French locations, the English-language show has now been sold to 136 territories worldwide.

“Canal+ really wanted to pro-

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duce a series that could travel the world,” said Zodiac Rights’ Caroline Torrance. “We are thrilled that Ovation joins us as we embark on series two.”

Ovation’s Scott Woodward said Versailles was the right fit for an independent television and digital media company dedicated to

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celebrating all forms of arts and culture: “It has our DNA; the wonderful costumes, locations and edgy, contemporary themes really spoke to us,” he said.

Zodiak Rights holds world distribution rights to both series excluding Canada, where it’s sold

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Cannes rebuilds after October flash floods:

Mayor calls for solidarity

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n Saturday, October 3 last year on the eve of MIPCOM, Cannes and the surrounding region were hit by a devastating flashflood causing loss of life, massive damage to residential homes, businesses, rail and road infrastructure, public buildings and sports facilities.

As the city continues to rebuild, estimates are that the cost of reconstruction will be around €40m, including €13.5m for non-insurable public assets.

In just two hours, 1,500,000 sq m of rain poured into sectors of the city and its suburbs, the equivalent of 1,000 Olympic swimming pools. Five Cannes inhabitants lost their lives, 1,000 business were damaged — including 300 that were completely decimated — and hundreds of houses and apartments were flooded.

“This was a terrible drama for the hundreds of people who, in the space of one night, lost their houses, their family souvenirs and their livelihoods,” Mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, said.

Faced with an unprecedented situation, the Mayor took the innovative step of calling for donations to help finance the reconstruction work.

“Like many French cities, Cannes finds itself in a tight financial situation. Thanks to rigorous and creative management, we have reduced debt and continued investment without raising local taxes. In order to meet the additional costs of the floods, without destabilising the city’s financial equilibrium or penalising local taxpayers, we need help. This is why I decided to call for an act of solidarity from all those who have a link with Cannes by creating the #HelpCannes

Mayor of Cannes David Lisnard joins volunteers in the post-flood clean-up

donation fund,” Lisnard said.

To date, donations from individuals and companies total over €960,000. Priority reconstruction work is targeting road infrastructure, two heavily-damaged schools, an apprentice training facility and the city’s Grand Bleu aquatic centre that is inoperational due to a mudslide caused by the flood.

As a partner of Cannes for over 50 years, Reed MIDEM is donating

€50,000 to help rebuild a local school. “Reed MIDEM is an historic partner of Cannes, based on mutual respect and a win-win model of working together. For me, Reed MIDEM and Cannes are as one,” Lisnard said.

With 11,000 television executives attending MIPTV, the city is hoping for support from the international TV community.

“The people of Cannes are proud to welcome MIPTV delegates.

Cannes is wounded. I hope that those who appreciate Cannes, its hospitality and charm, will contribute, however modestly, to help us return the city to its original state. It was thanks to an unprecedented effort within the Cannes community that the city got back on its feet following the catastrophe,” Lisnard added. “I am convinced that acts of individual solidarity will contribute to the reconstruction of Cannes.”

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AT MIPTV FremantleMedia International is introducing documentary Serena (1 x 20 mins) from the US-based Film45, a documentary that gives a glimpse into the life of athlete, businesswoman and one of the greatest sports icons of this generation, Serena Williams, during her historic 2015-2016 season.

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PENGUINS And Pastry (8 x 25 mins) — which is nominated for an International Emmy Kids Award — features eight-year-old Kadir and his father Umut, a talented pastry chef. Since Kadir’s mother passed away, he notices that his father is having difficulties coping with the loss and is determined to make him happy again.

Other MIPTV priorities for Dutch public broadcaster NPO include: Along The Banks Of The Yangtze (6 x 43 mins), a trip from Shanghai, a westernised area of China, to the historic Shangri-La, to gauge the impact of the economic progress of recent years; Sunny Side Of Spirit (3 x 45 mins), in which Sunny Bergman travels to Ghana, Taiwan and Brazil to find out how people from different cultures deal with depression and stress; and Borderland: From Latvia To Kazakhstan (8 x 44 mins).

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RAYDAR MEDIA

NEW FACTUAL titles from Raydar Media include: Reggie Yates: Extreme UK (2 x 60 mins), an exploration of aspects of British society; Bestsellers (5 x 60 mins), looking at shopping trends; Project Children (1 x 75 mins), a profile of Nobel Peace prize nominee Denis Mulcahy; Stetsons & Stilettos (6 x 30 mins), about the Irish Country-music scene; and Sport Of Kings (1 x 90 mins and 6 x 60 mins), looking at the elite and glamorous world of the international polo circuit.

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NOW IN its 27th year, 30-minute drama series Fair City is the most popular soap on any channel in Ireland, and for the first time it is available to the international market. Brought to Cannes by Irish national broadcaster RTE, the series has storylines reflecting the values and mores of community life across Ireland.

CLEO is a series that features a young puppy, the narrator of the series, and her everyday adventures with her best friend Irma, whose drawings serve as landscapes for the stories in this cut-out animation.

Another priority for Spain’s Imira is Bat Pat which follows the spooky and comical animated adventures of Bat Pat and his friends Martin, Leo and Rebecca Silver as they unravel mysteries and cross paths with supernatural creatures of the night. A coproduction with Atlantyca Entertainment, Imira is currently looking to secure financing for the show in Germany, Spain, and Latin America.

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TWO PRIORITIES for Starz at MIPTV are The Girlfriend Experience and series Ash Vs Evil Dead, based on classic horror film The Evil Dead.

The Girlfriend Experience, is a 13-episode series inspired by Steven Soderbergh’s 2009 film, starring Riley Keough as a second-year law student and new intern at a prestigious firm, who is introduced to the world of transactional relationships. Ash Vs Evil Dead is the 10 x 30 mins first season of the series about Ash, the chainsaw-handed monster hunter.

LONDON’s TCB Media Rights is at MIPTV with reality series The Cruise (6 x 30 mins/ 3 x 60 mins). Produced

by Wild Pictures for ITV in the UK, the series features cruise liner The Regal Princess and follows it as it travels from Copenhagen to St Petersburg. While 4,000 passengers enjoy their cruise the cameras go behind closed doors to see what it takes to keep everything working smoothly.

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THE NEW factual line-up from New Docs includes nature series The Secret World Of Herbs (5 x 45 mins), an exploration of various herb-growing regions including Provence, the Alps, the Balkans, Latin America and India. Another show from the Cologne-based distributor is current affairs special Water Crisis In Brazil – Is The Country Running Dry? (1 x 45/28 mins), co-produced by Kobalt Documentary with 3Sat, which investigates the causes of Brazil’s worst-ever water crisis.

FORMATZONE, a new UK producer and content syndication company, is launching a joint venture with design expert and presenter Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen at MIPTV. The debut format from the UK company is Laurence Of Suburbia, a home makeover show which is currently in production. Llewelyn-Bowen has been a successful European interior designer and is well known in Asia for Star’s show The Apartment.

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THE US’ GRB Entertainment returns to MIPTV with: cooking shows Hayden Quinn (13 x 30 mins) and BBQ Rules (3 x 30 mins); crime series One Bad Choice (9 x 60 mins); lifestyle advice show Secret Guide To Fabulous (14 x 30 mins); clip-show Ain’t That America; movie Bad Night (1 x 92 mins); reality series Judge Jenkins (145 x 30 mins) and FBI Takedowns (6 x 60 mins); and documentaries Meet The Hitlers (1 x 90 mins), about people linked by that name, and Nelson Serrano: I’m Innocent (1 x 60 mins), about a man on death row.

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LONDON-based animation studio The Flying Circus brings Silly Seasons (26 x 24 mins), a CGI series aimed at eight- to 12-year-olds, to MIPTV. The comedy centres on four girls, who each represent a season, living in the fantasy world of Sillyville, which is inhabited by a wacky cast of eccentric animals and flowers.

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TOPPING the MIPTV drama priorities for NBCUniversal are: Shades Of Blue (13 x 60 mins), starring Jennifer Lopez as a charismatic single mother and resourceful detective at the heart of a tight-knit crew of Brooklyn detectives, led by Matt Wozniak (Ray Liotta); Heartbeat (10 x 60 mins), a medical drama based on the real achievements of heart surgeon Dr Kathy Magliato; The Path (10 x 60 mins), a drama about a cult movement in upstate New York; Game Of Silence (13 x 60 mins), about an Atlanta attorney who shares a dark secret with a group of childhood friends who reappear after 25 years; and Hunters (13 x 60 mins), part gritty crime drama and part sci-fi thriller.

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FRED Media, the distribution arm of Australian production company WTFN, is bringing Vet On The Hill to Cannes for its international launch.

The 10-part series, which debuted on the UK’s More4 channel earlier this year, follows the highs and lows of daily life in the London clinic of TV vet and passionate animal advocate Dr Scott Miller. Born in Australia, Miller has lived in London for more than 10 years and has become an expert commentator in the media in that time. The series is the first UK production for WTFN and has already been sold to Nine Network (Australia), SIC (Portugal), PCCW (Hong Kong), pay-TV broadcaster Prime (Czech Republic) and French-language network Casa TV (Canada).

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TORONTO’s Distribution360 returns to MIPTV with 200+ hours of new programming. Highlights include: Messages From Spirit (26 x 30 mins), a series featuring author and medium Colette Baron-Reid; classical musical show The Concert Series (26 x 30 mins); and IdeaCity (60 x 60 mins), featuring talks by thoughtleaders including Margaret Atwood and environmentalist Robert F Kennedy Jr. D360 has also acquired its first 4K series, Tales By Light (6 x 30 mins), featuring five world-renowned photographers.

TWO NEW acquisitions are brought to Cannes by Eccho Rights. Turkish drama series Black Heart tells the story of a brother seeking justice for the murder of his journalist sister who discovered evidence exposing a powerful media tycoon. To get his revenge, the brother exploits an orphaned girl who needs his help to save her dying sister. The Stockholm-based company also brings Korean drama Who Are You, which it recently sold to ITV Studios in the UK.

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GOOD friends Dan Churchill and Hayden Quinn continue their gourmet surfing adventure around Australia, meeting food producers, and turning fresh ingredients into simple and healthy recipes in Surfing The Menu: Next Generation (13 x 25 mins), brought to MIPTV by Australia’s ABC Commercial.

Other highlights include: SplashDance (26 x 4 mins/ HD), a live-action pre-school series that encourages imagination through movement; How To Save The World (1 x 60 mins/HD), in which reporter Eric Campbell crosses continents to discover what is being done to cut carbon pollution; and Afghanistan: Inside Australia’s War (3 x 57 mins/HD), featuring never-before-seen helmet-cam battle footage.

Surfing The Menu: Next Generation (ABC Commercial)

PEEKABOO ANIMATION

BARCELONA-based producer and distributor Peekaboo Animation is executive producer and distributor of Mironins (13 x 11 mins), a coproduction between Cornelius Films and Wuji House in collaboration with Miro Foundation. A pilot episode is in production and Peekaboo is at MIPTV looking for partners. The Mironins are colourful paint droplets who live inside Miro paintings.

When the museum closes the Mironins come out of the paintings to live adventures full of fantasy and creativity.

Black Heart (Eccho Rights)

STAND BY ME

ITALIAN company Stand By Me is launching five new series at MIPTV. Reality series Children In Time (320 x 30 mins), with a fifth season in production, sees kids aged between eight and 12 tell stories about themselves, family, parents and friends from their point of view. A Weekend With The Grands, follows a granny and nephew who spend two days together exchanging experiences and getting a better understanding of each other.

Dating format Love Test sees four strangers tested in a process of self-discovery. Another dating show Sleeping With The Enemy (10 x 60 mins) sees two singletons with opposite personalities living together for a week, in order to win a trip for two.

Factual crime series My Own Flesh And Blood (15 x 60 mins) profiles cases of brutal murders committed within families.

Mironins (Peekaboo Animation)

NOVOVISION

SPECIALIST producer-distributor of clips and non-verbal comedy shows, Novovision, has recently launched divisions dedicated to the emerging virtual-reality industry. Eyes In The Box will produce and VR Distrib will distribute VR programmes from Eyes In The Box and other companies. Eyes In The Box is currently shooting three series — a drama, a comedy and a candid-camera prank show — with pilots available at MIPTV.

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CANADIAN producer and distributor Incendo has plans this year to produce five made-for-television movies, and will begin filming the second season of Versailles, a co-production with CAPA Drama and Zodiak Fiction. Incendo’s priorities for MIPTV include drama series Versailles (10 x 60 mins); Ice and Los Juniors (both in development); and TV movies Swept Under, Amber Alert, Crossfire, Brace For Impact and Run To Me.

FRANCE’s Xilam is introducing a range of new shows and seasons at MIPTV, including: Floopaloo, Where Are You? (104 x 13 mins/52 x 30 mins), about two cousins and their friends who search for a mythical creature who makes dreams come true; Zig & Sharko, Reboot! (156 x 7 mins/52 x 30 mins), about a starving hyena on a desert island with one obsession, to devour the mermaid in the lagoon; and If I Were An Animal… (39 x 7 mins/13 x 30 mins), a wildlife documentary written as fiction and told by kids for kids.

Run To Me (Incendo)

ZIG ZAG PRODUCTIONS

ACTRESS and presenter Amanda Holden fronts I’ve Got Something To Tell You (6 x 60 mins), brought to Cannes by the UK’s Zig Zag Productions. The reality format is filmed in an English country retreat and features ordinary people making extraordinary confessions over dinner, drinks or cups of coffee.

Watching from the sidelines, Amanda Holden offers support as friends, partners and relations break lifechanging news to loved ones before the cameras.

M4E

M4E’S latest production, CGI-animated pre-school series Wissper (52 x 7 mins) premiered on the UK’s Milkshake! strand before its international rollout. Wissper, created around the theme that children want to communicate with animals, was created by UK animation studio Absolutely Cuckoo and m4e AG, Telegael (Ireland), Discreet Art Productions (India) and Germany’s Bastei Media.

Run To Me (Incendo)

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ZDF ENTERPRISES (ZDFE)

TEEN show Wolfblood (52 x 26 mins) and its companion series Wolfblood Uncovered (10 x 12 mins) are part of the kids’ catalogue for ZDFE that includes: comedy horror Scream Street (52 x 11 mins); Coconut, The Little Dragon (104 x 12 mins), for pre-schoolers; and Peter Pan – The New Adventures (52 x 22 mins).

Drama titles include: Thicker Than Water II (20 x 60 mins), set in the Swedish archipelagos; crime series The Fall (11 x 60 mins); movie The Girl In The Marsh (1 x 90 mins); What A Team! (58 x 90 mins); and Ho Ho To You Too! (1 x 90 mins). The factual slate includes First Flight - Conquest of the Skies (1 x 50 mins); Why Size Matters (2 x 50 mins/4K or 10 x 50 mins); and The Lesser Caucasus (1 x 50 mins). Entertainment shows include You Can’t Fool Me! (1 x 90 mins) and The Game Begins! The Big Show For 3 To 99 (1 x 180 mins).

Wissper (m4e)

RO*CO FILMS

THE MIPTV slate for California’s ro*co films includes: Hooligan Sparrow, about activist Ye Haiyan in China who protested the case of six school girls abused by their principal; Newtown, about the aftermath of the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in New England; Norman Lear: Just Another Version Of You, about how a poor Jewish boy from Connecticut became one of the most successful TV producers; Salero, about life in the highlands of Bolivia; The Islands And The Whales, about the Faroe Islands; Trapped, about controversial abortion laws in the US; and Containment, about radioactive waste.

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BOAT ROCKER MEDIA

GERMANY’s Autentic Distribution is at MIPTV with series Mafia Queens, a four-hour portrayal of the lives of female Mafia bosses. The distributor also brings four-part series Children Of Dictators; natural-history documentary Magical Moors; The Citadel, shot in 4K and featuring mountaineering with breathtaking scenery; and Berlin From Above which gives an aerial view of the city.

NEW PROGRAMMES at MIPTV from Spain’s Veralia include: Shall We Dance, an entertainment show in which people give messages to loved ones by dancing; Hacker World, a magazine show featuring the dangers of cyber hackers; and kids show Magic Mania. Veralia has also just begun production of a new show for Spanish public channel TVE, called What About You, which brings together estranged loved ones.

Mafia Queens (Autentic Distribution)

Shall We Dance (Veralia)

YOUNG Drunk Punk is an original comedy about the trials of growing up on the fringes of society and about two young rebels determined to stay true to themselves and fight against conformity in Calgary, in Canada, in the Eighties. Other highlights from Boat Rocker Media (formerly Temple Street Productions) include: Ollie! The Boy Who Became What He Ate, about an energetic young boy whose play is interrupted by the challenge of eating new food; Taking The Next Step, an 11-part series that follows young UK dancers as they audition for a role in dance show The Next Step; The Next Step Live – The Movie, a film of the stage show; and factual shows Xploration Awesome Planet, Xploration DIY SCI, Xploration Nature Knows Best and Xploration Outer Space.

A+E NETWORKS

A+E NETWORKS offers a growing catalogue of new and returning formats at MIPTV. 60 Days In sees a group of innocent people locked up as convicted criminals to see if they can survive life in jail. Seven Year Switch features four couples at breaking point who agree to swap partners to see if absence really makes the heart grow fonder. The Rap Game follows a music executive acting as a mentor, trainer and judge to a group of emerging young artists, and includes celebrity guest appearances. Fit To Fat To Fit follows a trainer and a client as they take on the physical and mental challenge of getting in shape.

PLANO A PLANO

INSPIRED by real events, La Verdad (The Truth), currently in production, is Plano a Plano’s new thriller drama series that follows a young woman claiming to be a girl that disappeared more than a decade ago. She refuses to talk to anyone but a charming — yet inexperienced — police officer who, despite the disapproval of many, is put in charge of a case that soon proves to have many hidden layers. The series, broadcast on Telecinco, is brought to Cannes by Spain’s Plano a Plano, which handles international rights with Mediaset.

Xploration DIY SCI (Boat Rocker Media)

DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS

NEW HD content at MIPTV from Discovery Communications includes: ecological documentary Racing Extinction (1 x 90 mins), featuring covert operations that reveal a blackmarket trade; Alaskan Bush People (5 x 60 mins), about an isolated family who refer to themselves as a “wolf pack”; Tricks Of The Restaurant Trade (4 x 30 mins); series one to three of Dates From Hell (28 x 30 mins); Ocean Mysteries With Jeff Corwin (96 x 30 mins); and One Punch (1 x 60 mins), about serious head injuries caused by violent assault. Discovery formats include: 90 Day Fiance (6 x 60 mins); Something Borrowed, Something New (58 x 60 mins); The Undateables (22 x 60 mins); Man, Woman, Wild (22 x 60 mins); and Tethered (6 x 60 mins).

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HIGHLIGHTS from French distributor 100% Distribution include: a new 90-minute TV movie Don’t Leave Me!, which tackles the subject of religious radicalisation among young people; I Married A Murderer, a 90-minute action thriller shot in the Marseille area and starring Anthony Delon; Beautiful Loser, a half-hour comedy series about an adolescent-minded thirtysomething who discovers he is the father of a young teenager; Northern Lights, a 52-minute documentary that tells the story of two adventurers who decide to film the northern lights in 3D; and a line-up of live music performances.

AFL PRODUCTIONS

RUSSIA– and US-based AFL Productions is highlighting the latest production from filmmaker Ilya Rozhkov at MIPTV. Dying To Live tells the story of a man who, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, bonds with a much older patient who teaches him that there is no time like the present to live his dreams. AFL also brings his first film We Are Enemies to Cannes, and has just signed a three-picture deal with the young director.

AFL also brings two Naked&Funny formats created for late primetime.

Dying To Live (AFL Productions)

DEMENSEN

BELGIAN production company deMensen is highlighting its first fiction productions, Brothers United and Beau Sejour at MIPTV. In order to produce features and TV drama the company acquired Stromboli Pictures, a Brussels-based fiction producer for the French-speaking audience, and Skyline Entertainment, a producer of mainly Flemish-spoken drama. Skyline is currently developing a third season of crime series Professor T. and is shooting the second season of thriller series Salamander. Also, deMensen and fellow Flemish TV production companies Woestijnvis and De Filistijnen have created a new distribution company for formats and finished programmes called The New Flemish Primitives.

BRB INTERNACIONAL

TWO SPECIALS based on the Filly Funtasia animation series, launched as teasers for a new series, are brought to Cannes by Spain’s BRB Internacional. Filly Butterfly and Filly Stars, both 75 mins and 3D, are set at the Magic Royal Academy of Funtasia. BRB Internacional holds rights for Filly Funtasia worldwide excluding Germany.

Don’t Leave Me! (100% Distribution)

LINEUP INDUSTRIES

DUTCH distributor Lineup Industries is debuting format Radio Gaga at this year’s MIPTV. The show follows two hosts who travel in their converted caravan studio through the country, stopping to set up camp in various small communities, including a prison, a trailer park, a psychiatric hospital and a maternity ward. They then spend the next 48 hours running a radio station for the locals, taking everything from song requests to confessions. In the process members of the community get to know each other better and the show includes short video portraits of selected contributors.

Filly Funtasia (BRB Internacional)

FZ ENTERTAINMENT

Radio Gaga (Lineup Industries)

CHINA’s FZ Entertainment is at MIPTV with a range of animation series, including: The Nutz (26 x 7 mins/HD), about a bumbling family of four; preschool series in a watercolour-style Our Friend Remy Bear (52 7.5 mins/HD), which follows the bear and his friends as they learn how to make new friends; The Family Of Green Wood (26 x15 mins), a stop-motion animation series set in a fairytale world that includes a chameleon traffic signal and a maggot car; and Magic Time (26 x 20 mins/HD), a fantasy series aimed at six- to 12-year-olds.

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PRODUCT NEWS PBS INTERNATIONAL

PBS INTERNATIONAL’s new HD slate for MIPTV includes: Munich ’72 And Beyond (1 x 45 mins), about the terrorist massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich; The Secret History Of ISIS (1 x 60 mins), about how US policy-makers ignored the warnings surrounding the growth of ISIS; Trading History (6 x 60 mins), a look at history through stories in an auction house; and The Boys Of ’36 (1 x 60 mins), about how nine working-class boys from the University of Washington took a rowing gold medal at the Olympics in Berlin.

HANGZHOU STEAMWORKS CREATIVE

CHINA’s Hangzhou Steamworks Creative is at MIPTV with a stop-motion animation roster including: Little Devils (30 x 5 mins), set in a pre-industrial Chinese town where three naughty but kind little devils live; Mini Town (52 x 5 mins), a pre-school series featuring a bear family with three baby girls; Fearless Dinosaurs (52 x 3 mins), featuring a delivery company operated by four dinosaurs and a lizard; and Alien 0902 (30 x 1 mins), where aliens visit earth to find new energy.

THE POKEMON COMPANY INTERNATIONAL

POKEMON The Movie: Volcanion And The Mechanical Marvel (1 x 90 mins), follows hero Ash who meets the Volcanion when it crashes from the sky, creating a cloud of dust and a mysterious force that binds the two of them. Volcanion tries to get away, but is forced to drag Ash along to the city of cogs and gears, where a corrupt minister has stolen the Artificial Pokemon Magearna and plans to use its power to take control of the mechanical kingdom. Ash and Volcanion work together to rescue Magearna.

Munich ’72 And Beyond (PBS International)

SONAR ENTERTAINMENT

NEW YORK-based Sonar Entertainment brings a roster of series and TV movies to Cannes, including: South Of Hell (8 x 60 mins), a supernatural thriller about exorcist-for-hire Maria Abascal; fantasy series The Shannara Chronicles (10 x 60 mins); Taboo (8 x 60 mins), a dark mystery set in London in 1814; The Son (10 x 60 mins), a family drama against the backdrop of a Texan oil empire; Mr. Mercedes, a series based on the novel by Stephen King; Breakup Nightmare (1 x 120 mins), following a mother’s revenge after nude pictures of her daughter are posted on the internet; bigamy thriller The Other Wife (1 x 120 mins); and 120-minute romantic comedies Unleashing Mr. Darcy, Love On The Sidelines and Anything For Love.

Little Devils (Hangzhou Steamworks Creative)

COMERCIAL TV

SPAIN’s Comercial TV, in co-operation with 7A Media, is highlighting a line-up of new programming at MIPTV. Included on the slate are a couple of telenovelas: Corazon Traicionado, the newest title from RCTV, a story depicting love, crime and betrayal; and Wild Skin, a battle between love, hate and a secret that will transform the lives of those who vowed to remain in silence. The company also brings Hollywood News, a weekly show about movies and celebrities, and Escandalos, a scripted series inspired by tabloid headlines.

Pokemon The Movie: Volcanion And The Mechanical Marvel (The Pokemon Company International)

UNION MEDIA

THE UK’s Union Media returns to MIPTV with Lupus Film’s We’re Going On A Bear Hunt, which follows the adventures of siblings Stan, Katie, Rosie, Max, the baby and their dog, who go on an adventure in search of bears. The film is set to air on the UK’s Channel 4 later this year, followed by a cinema release. We’re Going On A Bear Hunt has sold to ABC in Australia, SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway and YLE in Finland.

South Of Hell (Sonar Entertainment)

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BOOMERANG TV brings its newest drama series Merlin to MIPTV. Merlin is a new philosophy teacher who has an unconventional personality. His motto is “teenagers aren’t stupid, they’re simply asleep”, and his objective is to wake them up. The Madrid-based company also highlights its roster of other series including The Avatars, Plastic Sea, The Secret Of Old Bridge and Acacias 38.

Merlin (Boomerang TV)

LANDMARK MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

MORE than a dozen golf legends and current touring pros, including Greg Norman, Tom Watson and Graeme McDowell, appear in Golf Courses Of Great Britain And Ireland, a project brought to MIPTV by Landmark Media Productions. Based on the 1910 book by Bernard Darwin, the 4 x 60 mins 4K series is a CanadaUK coproduction between Title Entertainment and Big Baby Productions, with Landmark Media Productions. The series will showcase over 20 courses that remain popular with international golf tourists and includes anecdotes and stories from some of the leading names in golf.

TERRANOA

AMONG the specials brought to Cannes by Parisbased Terranoa are: Saudi Arabia: Dangerous Liaisons (1 x 52 mins), examining the internal and foreign affairs policy of the monarchy, with unique access and insights from experts; Megastadium: A Tour De France (1 x 52 mins), a review of the most innovative stadiums built to host the UEFA Euro football competition; and The New Lascaux: Saving Cave Art, which is shot in 4K. Later this year visitors will be able to see the 18,000-year-old paintings again, as the largest palaeolithic cave replica ever built opens in southwest France.

Saudi Arabia: Dangerous Liaisons (Terranoa)

CORUS ENTERTAINMENT

SECRET Lives Of Animals (12 x 30 mins) is a series in which each episode reveals themed littleknown facts about a group of animals, from ferocious hunters to the weirdest-looking creatures.

Other shows from Toronto’s Corus Entertainment include: My Baby’s Having A Baby (10 x 60 mins), a series about women whose teenage daughters have babies; Worst Is First (12 x 60 mins), follows families who renovate the worst house in the best neighbourhood; property lifestyle series Masters Of Flip (26 x 60 mins) and Buying The View (26 x 30 mins); and Cheer Squad (10 x 60 mins), a behind-the-scenes profile of a champion cheer team.

Secret Lives Of Animals (Corus Entertainment)

MILLIMAGES

FRENCH producer Millimages is in Cannes with a new 3D CGI preschool series Pirata And Capitano (52 x 11 mins), about the neverending quest for treasure with pirate Pirata and her best friend Capitano. The company has announced pre-sales in Nordic and Eastern European territories as well as with French broadcaster France Televisions and Rai in Italy.

Pirata And Capitano (Millimages)

NEWEN DISTRIBUTION

ON THE drama slate for Newen Distribution comes Beyond The Walls (3 x 52 mins), a fantasy about a young woman who inherits a mysterious house.

Other drama titles include: Ouro (8 x 52 mins), a modern-day thriller set in the Amazonian jungle; and the fourth series of police series Candice Renoir (38 x 52 mins). Kids’ shows include Loopdidoo (260 x 7 mins), and at MIPTV the company launches five unscripted formats — daily game show On Fire (26 mins); family adventure Tahiti Quest (50 mins); and daily dating shows The Best Matchmakers (26 mins) and Welcome To My Life. Documentaries from the French distributor include: Terror Studios (1 x 52 mins); Tchernobyl (1 x 52 mins); High Tech Borders (1 x 52 mins); Words Of Migrant Children (1 x 52 mins); and The Roads Of The Kalachnikov (1 x 52 mins).

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DISTRIBUTOR francetv distribution brings a range of programming to MIPTV, including: Criminal Games (14 x 90 mins), an off-the-wall reimagining of Agatha Christie stories; Hitler’s Champions (2 x 52 mins and 1 x 102 mins), a documentary that traces the intertwined fates of the major sports figures of the Third Reich between 1920 and 1940; the second season of drama Accused, bringing the number of episodes available to 12 x 52 mins; the third season of animation series Rabbids Invasion; and the second season of animation The Owl & Co.

MADRID-based Onza Distribution is highlighting two titles from its MIPTV catalogue. Jungle Planet (26 x 26 mins) is a natural-history series shot in 4K looking at the ecosystems of the best preserved jungles and forests around the world. The Department Of Time (21 x 70 mins) is a Spanish series mixing comedy and drama about a task force that prevents time-travelers from altering the past.

Criminal Games (francetv distribution)

Jungle Planet (Onza Distribution)

US DISTRIBUTOR Rive Gauche returns to Cannes with format The Natural. The competition involves five regional tryouts, then the top 25 men and 25 women battle it out in a series of competitions combining skills from a multitude of sports to be crowned as the greatest athlete. The company also brings Droned (10 x 30 mins, which follows a familyowned drone customisation and aerial filming company, called Pigeon Vision. The series includes aspects of innovative technology, celebrity clients and travel adventures.

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FRANCE’s Zed comes to MIPTV with a strong History line-up, including: After Hitler (2 x 45 mins), a look at the reality of the post World War II years, based on recoloured archives; Ireland, A Long Road To Peace (2 x 52 mins), which recounts the political conflict from the Easter Rising in 1916 to the years that followed the Good Friday peace agreement; Nadia Comaneci, The Gymnast And The Dictator (1 x 56 mins), retracing the destiny of the exceptional athlete after the moment that propelled her to glory; and 52-minute specials Inside The Spanish Civil War; After The Holocaust; Apollo-Soyuz: The First Handshake In Space; Hitler’s Secret Son; Naachtun, The Lost Mayan City; and WW2, The Secret Race To The Atomic Bomb.

CANADA’s XII Tribes Entertainment brings a slate of drama series, feature films, factual, reality and kids’ shows to MIPTV. The company is in the process of raising capital to expand its production activities especially in primetime scripted drama and children’s programming, and a priority for MIPTV is corporate boardroom drama Signs.

ELECTUS INTERNATIONAL

ELECTUS returns to MIPTV with a varied slate. Highlights include: Separation Anxiety (14 x 60 mins), a game show for couples with a twist. One half of the couple thinks they’re playing a small internet game show where they are playing for a top prize of $2,500, but their partner is on the main stage with the host and the audience knows that the prize is really $250,000; Winsanity (40 x 60 mins), a game show in which every time a contestant wins a prize, so do members of the studio audience; David Blaine Specials (2 x 60 mins and 8 x 60 mins), featuring the high-profile endurance-stunt specialist; 9/11: 15 Years Later (1 x 120 mins); Fameless (series one, 18 x 30 mins; series two, 12 x 30 mins), a prank show featuring wannabe stars who think they’ve been cast on an actual reality show.

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TWO TITLES are highlighted by India’s Madhu Entertainment, from their vast catalogue. Animation series Malgudi Days (English version 13 x 23 mins/ Tamil version 50 x 23 mins/Hindi version 54 x 23 mins) is based on the stories of author R K Narayan and is based in a fictitious town in South India.

Perariyathavar (Names Unknown/1 x 111 mins) is a film that profiles the marginalised people in India through the story of a father and his eight-year-old son. The father and his friend collect garbage from the city streets and take it out of the city, and sometimes the father takes his son with him.

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ITALY’s Gruppo Alcuni brings pre-school animation Mini Pet Pals (52 x 6 mins) to MIPTV. Created by Gruppo Alcuni and co-produced with Rai Fiction, the series is a prequel to the company’s Pet Pals series. Mini Pet Pals explores the emotions and daily discoveries of young children.

Malgudi Days (Madhu Entertainment)

DHX MEDIA

NOVA Scotia, Canada-based producer and distributer DHX Media is in Cannes with new 2D 40 x 11 mins animation series Chuck’s Choice, aimed at six- to 11-year-olds. For 10-year-old Chuck, life is all about making choices, and some turn out better than others. Currently in production at DHX’s Vancouver studio for YTV Canada and picked up by Turner Broadcasting in France (for its Boing channel), Chuck’s Choice is distributed worldwide by DHX Media.

Chuck’s Choice (DHX Media)

Mini Pet Pals (Gruppo Alcuni)

THE TELEVISION SYNDICATION COMPANY (TVS)

AHEAD of MIPTV, Florida-based TVS acquired feature film, Moving Mountains (1 x 104 mins). Starring Theresa Russell and based on a true story, the film follows the story of Trish Bragg, an impoverished coal miner’s wife who stood up to a billion-dollar coal company and government bureaucracy when a deep mine destroyed her neighbours’ water wells. Moving Mountains also features Michael Alban and Tina Alexis Allen, and is based on the book written by Penny Loeb, who is the executive producer of the film. Other titles on the slate include documentaries The Lost Treasure Fleet Of 1715 (1 x 60 mins) and Thirst: Mission Liberia (1 x 90 mins); and reality series 5 Days 5 Dollars (13 x 30 mins).

Moving Mountains (TVS)

DRG

TOPPING the slate at MIPTV for DRG is six-part documentary Race For The White House. Produced by Raw TV and Trigger Street Productions, the series premiered earlier this year on CNN and was executive produced by Kevin Spacey, who also narrates. Each episode tells the story of one famous presidential campaign, featuring interviews with the candidates, key political players, historians and expert commentators.

The London-based company also brings: Britain’s Bloody Crown: War Of The Roses (4 x 60 mins), presented by historian Dan Jones; The Queen’s Worst Year, a special that chronicles the scandals and setbacks that plagued the British royal family in 1992; and The Secret Photos Of The Duke And Duchess Of Windsor.

GAD DISTRIBUTION

DOCUMENTARIES brought to MIPTV by French distributor Gad include: Arkeo (20 x 26 mins), revealing the latest findings about the Rapa Nui people of ancient South Africa; 10 Days Inside ISIS: The Muslim Position On Terror (1 x 52 mins), featuring Juergen Todenhoefer who spent 10 days in Islamic State territory with his son; and Mosquitoes On The Rise (1 x 52 mins), which examines four types of mosquitoes in Brazil, Africa, southeast Asia and southern Europe. Music and arts programming includes: a 70-minute 4K show, Kazuki Yamada Conducts Escaich, Saint-Saens And Ravel With Edgar Moreau; opera Lucia Di Lammermoor By Gaetano Donizetti - Gran Teatre Del Liceu (1 x 140 mins); and First Steps At The Opera (6 x 26 mins), featuring young artists. A history priority for Gad is Lafayette In America: The Wind Of Freedom (1 x 90 mins).

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Reality, VIRTUAL REALITY

Get ready to be immersed in VR this year. Not only is there now a headset and app for the pioneering technology, but the first stabs at VR content are also appearing on the market. Juliana Koranteng reports

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dustry admits are still the early days of Virtual Reality (VR) technology’s commercial evolution, MIPTV is bringing you a comprehensive package of VR-related events. These include VR Creators Making Waves In Canada, the Virtual Reality Experience Showcases and Feed The Passion, Engage Your 360º Fans.

“With the technological developments in the smartphone space and several big players such as Facebook-owned Oculus VR, Samsung, HTC and Valve currently launching their virtual-reality devices for the mass market, we are entering a very exciting phase now,” says Matthias Puschmann, managing director of Berlin-based Vast Media, a digital strategy consultancy for the international TV industry. “These initial releases are likely to attract mostly early adopters. Headsets are still quite expensive and some require additional

hardware. But with more and more attractive content being produced for VR devices, mainstream consumers might also consider making purchases.”

Puschmann, who is among those speaking about the technology at MIPTV, has seen a host of TV broadcasters and producers take their first steps into VR-content production and marketing. They range from Discovery Communications to Fox Sports.

Analysts say video entertainment will be a key driver in the future business of VR. UK-based Futuresource Consulting predicts VR content alone, led by movies and games, will generate $8.3bn in revenues by 2020.

When marketing, e-commerce, theme parks and other commercial niche uses are added, Silicon Valley-based Digi-Capital predicts revenues of up to $30bn by 2020.

Among the new generation of tech companies specialising in VR content development and distribution (including live streaming) is US-based NextVR, which

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only better raised more than $30m last year from investors with TV interests, including Comcast Corporation and Time Warner. Meanwhile, PAVR, from Los Angeles, has coproduced VR content on baseball for Fox Sports Live.

Jaunt’s financial backers include The Walt Disney Company, UK satellite TV giant Sky and German broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1 Media. And Californiabased Wevr, which specialises in distributing VR content via its technology and has been described as the “YouTube of VR”, has worked with Hollywood independent studio Lionsgate and Adult Swim, the Time Warner US cable network.

“Users as well as producers first have to find out more about VR’s potential and areas of application,” Puschmann says. “It also requires a completely different form of immersive storytelling, which

makes it challenging to produce content at this stage.

At the same time, VR has the potential to radically change the way consumers experience media and entertainment content.”

Orange, the French telecoms giant and one of the country’s pay-TV operators, is also showcasing its VR activities in Cannes. The company’s funding unit, Orange Digital Ventures, is an investor in Wevr.

Orange recently unveiled plans to set up a VR channel via New Livebox, the latest version of its set-top box, which is now able to transmit high-resolution video content produced in Ultra HD. Orange has also partnered with Mauritius Telecom and US-based VR software developer EON Reality to create an educational and entertainment VR and 360º video platform aimed at African mobile subscribers.

VR has the potential to radically change the way consumers experience media and entertainment content Matthias Puschmann

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FEATURE Toronto-based Deep is one of the go-to VR companies courted by screen entertainment producers. Its package of proprietary technology, called Liquid Cinema, includes software for making 360º videos and VR immersive content. Franco-German broadcaster ARTE and TVOntario are among the TV ventures using Liquid Cinema.

“This is the first of a new medium, not an extension of an old one like 3D. For the first time, we have a medium that eliminates the distance between the observer and the observed,” says Thomas Wallner, Deep’s cofounder and CEO. He is in Cannes to inform delegates that the technology for VR production exists. He cites a recent 11-minute VR documentary called Edge Of Space, which involved Deep, ARTE, US-based creative agency Koncept VR and the Canadian Space Agency.

Two 360º camera systems (featuring a combination of more than 20 cameras) were attached to a hot-air balloon to capture “the highest spherical film of the Earth” as it ascended into the upper stratosphere. And viewers can experience what it would have been like to be inside the ascending balloon by downloading the app via the ARTE360 platform.

“Traditionally, we’ve had cameras that shoot scenes frame by frame,” Wallner says. “Now we have a camera that can look in all directions simultaneously to capture an entire moment in time. And broadcasters have the ability to tell their stories in this new medium. This is not science fiction — it is here now and it’s going to be huge.”

We have a camera that can look in all directions simultaneously to capture an entire moment in time. This is not science fiction — it’s here now and it’s going to be huge Thomas Wallner

Wallner advises creators of VR content to be prepared to invest in new skills for both VR production and postproduction. For example, a director must find a way to hide all crew members during a shoot, as 360º shots will include even those standing behind the cameras.

Also, once the VR footage has been gathered, postproduction requires expertise in “stitching”, whereby different shots have to be digitally sewn together to achieve the panoramic feel of being immersed inside the scenes. “The end result can deliver an emotional depth that standard online video content rarely reaches,” Wallner adds.

Anthony Geffen, CEO and creative director at UKbased Atlantic Productions, is not waiting for the TV industry to become fully immersed in VR production before investing in the technology. “We set up one of the largest non-gaming VR companies [Alchemy VR] about two years ago, because we believe VR is not competing against TV and film — it is complementary,” he says. “Although it is still the Wild West and early days, we decided to build our cameras and train producers.

We’re after the eyeballs that don’t watch traditional TV.” Among Atlantic Productions’ VR projects to date is

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David Attenborough’s First Life, based on the BBC TV documentary of the same name. Jointly created by Alchemy VR and London’s National History Museum (NHM), the experience offers visitors to the museum a 15-minute immersion into prehistoric oceans based on how life would have been 540 million years ago.

One of the ancient creatures met during the VR trip is the Opabinia, which has five eyes and a trunk, and the Anomalocaris, one of the first creatures to have evolved a mouth.

Also at the NHM is Atlantic’s David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef Dive, where the revered British broadcaster accompanies you on an exploration of the ecosystem inside the world’s largest coral-reef system.

Meanwhile the headsets required for VR, Augmented Reality or other holographic 3D experiences have started to go on sale. Based on data provided by UK research consultancy IHS, 77% of VR funding during the past two years has been for entertainment-related VR companies. And an estimated $1.7bn will be spent worldwide this year on the headsets, compared to $535m on VR games. However, IHS notes that the headset sector is already fragmented.

Pre-orders for Oculus Rift, the headset made by Facebook subsidiary Oculus VR, began late last year. It is competing against Samsung Electronics’ Gear VR, which came free for anyone pre-ordering the company’s new Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 edge smartphones before March 18. Alternative headsets include the HTC Vive, Sony PlayStation VR, Microsoft’s HoloLens and Google Cardboard. Even Nokia, once the world’s largest mobile-phone maker, has entered the VR fray to manufacture to OZO camera for shooting content for 360º live VR broadcast.

To experience VR entertainment, users have to download the content via an app from a VR platform (effectively a dedicated website) on to their smartphones and then plug their headsets into the phone to enter the virtual world.

One reason why mobile VR is ready to go mass market this year is because headset manufacturers say they have eliminated the cause of the nausea that many wearers, unable to see their physical environment, suffered from during the early experimental phases.

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FEATURE Virtual reality entertainment: Bubble or next big thing?

Although it is still the Wild West, we decided to build cameras and train producers. We’re after the eyeballs that don’t watch traditional TV

Consumers evolved use of connected devices and entertainment means the market conditions for the introduction of VR are better than ever before 77% of VR funding and acquisition deals in the past two years have centred on entertainment-related VR companies.

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WHAT is TV doing to prepare itself for what could be the future of onscreen entertainment?

The following are some current examples: • Discovery Communications launched its own Discovery VR platform last year for fans to access its VR productions. It recently linked up with Toyota produce a 10-episode immersive VR series called Let’s Go Places: Austin, which enables viewers to take virtual car rides throughout the Texan city.

• CNN invited viewers to wear Samsung Electronics’ Gear VR headset and experience a front-row view of the recent US Democratic presidential candidate debates.

• Fox Sports has joined forces with NextVR to live stream a series of Premier Boxing Champions matches, NASCAR motor-racing events and golf matches in the US. • LeBron James, the NBA basketball superstar, and Facebook’s Oculus VR collaborated with Canada’s Felix & Paul Studios to produce Uninterrupted, a 12-minute VR film on James’ training methods.

• Via its Syfy Labs division, NBCUniversal and its international cable network Syfy International are working with Canadian digital production house Secret Location to create Halycon, a 15-part short-form scripted series that includes five VR episodes.

• In Asia, A+E Network’s History channel co-produced a VR version of Alone, its reality survival series, to promote the show in the region. Via Oculus Rift headsets, fans were invited to an event where they could experience a virtual version of living in the jungle.

• ARTE adopted the Liquid Cinema technology developed by Canada’s Deep to create the ARTE360 app last December. Users are able to watch ARTE-made content in both 360º video and VR. The project follows another successful collaboration, Polar Sea 360º, which launched last October and involved ARTE, TVOntario and Canada’s Knowledge Network.

• UK-based Barcroft Media is to co-produce and develop content exclusively for California-based Jaunt, one of the fastest growing cinematic VR platforms. Barcroft is also working with filmmaker Drew Gardner to produce a series of 360º documentary shorts for Barcroft’s YouTube and Facebook channels.

● Tech is more advanced ● VR smartphone adaptor headsets start from $6 ● VR video emerges ● Start-up critical mass ● Big tech investment ● Market and industry conditions are more suitable

● Entertainment related ● Other industries

However, content companies will have to deal with a fragmented headset market and in fact more will be spent on VR hardware than content in the early years

The VR headset installed base share in 2016 showcases the level of fragmentation and competition in the market 3

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To find out more about IHS' virtual reality research visit: https://technology.ihs.com/550973/ihs-covering-the-emerging-world-of-virtual-reality Sources: IHS

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Augmented reality as demonstrated by Magic Leap

Taking a leap into the future Fresh Innovation: Tech Rocks Content; What’s Next? Futurologists Talks; The Innovation Show: The Start-ups To Come — these are just some of the MIPTV panels dedicated to the new, the inspiring and the surprising. Juliana Koranteng looks at the face of innovation in 2016

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T IS increasingly critical to watch the emerging technology players,” says Ben

Keen, vice-president of consumer, media, telecoms and displays at UK research group IHS Technology, which is contributing to the MIPTV Innovation debates. “Only 10 years ago, YouTube was a startup. One of the most eagerly watched startups right now is Magic Leap, which is working on technology to beam holograms directly on to the eye. Over the 10-year horizon, we will certainly see profound changes in the way that video is produced, distributed and experienced.”

Florida-based Magic Leap is among the futuristic ventures that are very likely to be discussed during this year’s MIPTV series of innovation-themed panels.

Magic Leap aims to add significant advances to the already revolutionary augmented reality (AR) technology by working on systems that will one day enable viewers to watch any audiovisual content without the need for a screen. And impressed investors, including YouTube owner Google, Hollywood’s Warner Bros., Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group Hold-

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ing and venture-capital giant Andreessen Horowitz, which co-funded Airbnb, BuzzFeed, Facebook and Skype, among others, have already tipped $1.39bn into Magic Leap’s coffers. And it has not even launched yet.

Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox is among the global media and entertainment conglomerates not waiting for future technology to come to its door. Instead, it is working with US-based futurist Ted Schilowitz to examine where it should be focusing its attention on tomorrow’s entertainment today.

“Imagine a future where the physical screen in front of you is removed. That will be possible because we’re already using the [digital] devices to move in and out of entertainment, production, communications — they all blend because the technology is so powerful,” Schilowitz says. “Even a term like ‘filmed entertainment’ is becoming antiquated because the technology we touch is becoming cross-divisional.”

Among the projects that Schilowitz and Fox are working on is virtual reality (VR) entertainment. The Martian VR Experience is based on The Martian, the

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FEATURE Fox movie starring Matt Damon and created by Oscar-winning director Ridley Scott. Jointly developed with Scott’s RSA Films, Fox Innovation Lab and Los Angelesbased VR content-maker The VR Company, The Martian VR Experience uses immersive tech to take viewers right on to movie’s version of Mars.

Ben Keen Once inside, they will see nothing of their physical surroundings, only an exact simulation of the adventure that Matt Damon’s astronaut character undertakes in the film version of life on the Red Planet.

To take part, viewers need a Samsung Electronics’ Gear VR headset and a smartphone to download the app. Once the headset is plugged into the smartphone, they will be participating in the 20-minte narrative that Schilowitz describes as “the first commercial VR entertainment by 20th Century Fox — and it’s very ambitious”.

On the one hand, Schilowitz notes, what VR tech is doing today is similar to Walt Disney’s original vision for his theme parks back in the 1950s. This was to take visitors inside a virtual fantasy (as opposed to watching it on screen from a distance).

“Since then, there have been many simulations, including theme parks’ 4D theatres. It shows Disney had a good grasp of where to take entertainment. Today, this is now more portable and accessible. Instead of you going there, we’re bringing that immersive experience to you.”

Another entertainment experience in which Schilowitz is involved is VR cinema as created by Barco, the Bel-

gian multinational most famous for manufacturing cinema projectors.

The Barco Escape technology uses ultra-wide multi-screen theatres to entertain headset-wearing cinema audiences with a panoramic threescreen film. It has been described by experts as “movies on steroids”, with each spectator feeling he or she is right inside the movie.

Fox has created Barco Escape editions of The Maze Runner, its youngadult action-film franchise. Australia-based Franklyn Street Films has produced a five-and-a-half minute short in Barco Escape called Touching Heaven. Scott Waugh, another Hollywood director, is reported to be developing the first movie shot entirely in the Barco Escape format.

It’s increasingly critical to watch the emerging technology players. Only 10 years ago, YouTube was a startup

But the MIPTV Innovation Talks are not all about escapism technology taking viewers into another dimension. Other speakers are discussing enhancements to tech formats already in existence, but believed to be close to commercial availability.

Scheduled to contribute to that dialogue is Eric Scherer, France Televisions’ director of future media.

His company is one of Europe’s most inventive public broadcasters when it comes to offering the new and innovative. Scherer, who is appearing on April 5’s What’s Next? Futurologists Talks panel, is known for his authoritative views on VR technology and its prospects for TV broadcasters.

Another technology set to influence TV’s future is 4K Ultra HD (cinema-quality sound and vision) video production, which has started to impact upon an industry continuously raising the bar when it comes to image resolution. Also speaking at the Futurologists Talks is Bill Baggelaar, senior vice-president, of postproduction technologies at Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), who will be unveiling details about SPE’s recent developments in this field. The company’s plans include the introduction of the first movies in the 4K UHD Bluray format this year. eSport, the new competitive activity that sees digital gamers compete against each other in online videos as well as on mega video screens inside large venues, is also at MIPTV via French eSports platform Glory4Gamers. The company, which is participating in April 5’s The Innovation Show: The Start-Ups To Come panel, is among several next-generation online entertainers carving out a share of the rapidly growing international eSport sector.

Globally, live-streamed, pre-recorded and venue-based eSports generate a reported $748m annually. They are forecast to grow to $1.9bn a year by 2018, according to SuperData Research. Almost 490 million people watch online eSports every year.

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France-based Afrostream is another startup using online and mobile devices to fill a recently acknowledged chasm in global digital entertainment: content for the African diaspora. Focusing on movies from the African, the Afro-Caribbean and the African-American territories, Afrostream is currently reaching the world’s Francophone markets. It is scheduled to launch in English-speaking Africa before this year ends.

Orange Digital Ventures, part of the French telecoms giant, led a round of investment for an undisclosed amount in Afrostream last October. The funds will be used for international expansion. The platform is already winning business deals with major contentrights owners, including a multi-year contract with the UK’s ITV Studios Global Entertainment, as well as

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agreements with leading French commercial network TF1, Viacom subsidiary BET France and Sony Pictures Television.

As IHS’ Keen notes: “Broadly, there are developments that will be more obvious to viewers and others that will be less visible, but still influential in shaping the future of the video experience.” In the former category, he talks about the accelerating development of hyperrealistic TV with both more pixels (as in 4K and even 8K resolutions) and “better” pixels. These advances, he says, are part of the wider availability of high-quality video-capture technology inside consumer devices such as smartphones.

“This dramatically lowers the barriers to entry for production, opening the way to an explosion of crowdsourced video,” he adds. “For example, there are more video minutes of the Syrian war online than the war’s actual duration.”

Keen also observes that there is an uncompromising disaggregation of the traditional TV channel as a result of the direct-to-consumer platforms like HBO Now. Other disruptive developments include the emergence of the so-called “skinny bundle”, designed to appeal to cord-cutters, and “virtual” pay-TV operators like Sony’s PlayStation Vue. “We are only just beginning to witness the resulting ramifications for the economics of production, distribution and platform ownership,” he says.

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Bite-sized entertainment The original web series as a commercial format might still be in its early stages. But, with its own dedicated events at MIPTV this year, it looks as if it’s here to stay. Juliana Koranteng reports

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URING the MIPTV Showcase The Best Of Web Series, MIPTV delegates can discover how far this video category, designed to grab audiences’ attention during snappy 10- to 15-minute episodes, has come. And at the panel that follows — Why Web Series Will Be The Nouvelle Vague In Fiction — speakers debate why the format should no longer be treated as the poor cousin of the traditional 30-minute or one-hour TV series.

Once associated with quirky user-generated content (UGC) at worst and TV show trailers at best, these snackable short-form series are turning into premium scripted-entertainment brands.

“They will help TV make its transition to the digital age because these short programmes are perfect for reaching the audience using tablets and smartphones,”

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says Joel Bassaget, the Web Series Mag journalist who is curating the Best Of Web Series showcase. “They offer TV entertainment to enjoy at any moment of the day. Also, they allow networks to reach specific niche viewers by offering them unusual genres. And finally, they can be built into a fantastic catalogue of emerging talent, constantly updated with new ideas, new styles and new stories coming from young creators from all over the world. This is probably where TV will find its future writers and successes.”

Among the (mostly independently produced) web series that Bassaget cites in terms of having made an international impact are the award-winning High Road from New Zealand, Anna Kerrigan’s The Impossibilities from the US, El Partido from Spain, and Australiabased More Sauce Production’s Low Life.

FEATURE GROWTH BY OSMOSIS PARIS-based Anne Santa Maria, producer and founder of Taronja Prod (part of the Telfrance Network), is making history in Europe with Osmosis, the first serialised web shorts commissioned by ARTE, the Franco-German public-TV network, for its online platform ARTE Creative. In addition to speaking at MIPTV, Santa Maria is also promoting Osmosis, a sci-fi mystery, in Cannes. The series is sold via Newen Distribution.

“The financing of short-form projects is still not at the same level as traditional fiction formats, but OTT platforms are investing more and more and the appetite for these new style of comedies and dramas is growing,” Santa Maria says.

“When it comes to distribution, each buyer [SVOD or OTT platform] has its own strategy. The more they invest, the longer the exclusivity and the more territories they request. The exclusivity is usually for one to two years, although it could be longer for premium platforms, depending the territories.”

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Numerous high-level developments in the production and distribution of bite-sized web series confirm Bassaget’s views. The US’ Warner Bros. Television Group launched Blue Ribbon Content in 2014 as a studio dedicated to short-form series. Its most recent projects include commissioning a serialised web version of cult comedy movie Beerfest for distribution on its US mobile app CW Seed.

US telecoms giant Verizon Communications, meanwhile, has launched a millennials-dedicated mobilefirst platform called Go90, which is devoted to web series. It has commissioned a spate of content from AwesomenessTV, Blue Ribbon Content and a new subsidiary called Verizon Hearst Media Partners, a joint venture with media conglomerate Hearst Corporation.

Hearst and its international TV subsidiary A+E Networks are direct investors in YouTube multi-channel networks (MCNs) including Vice Media and AwesomenessTV, which are making fortunes creating and distributing popular short-form content.

Even BuzzFeed, the international online publisher partly owned by NBCUniversal, has been happy having its viral videos picked up by several third-party digital platforms worldwide. In February, it launched its own dedicated mobile app featuring a proprietary video player so that it can reach consumers directly for the first time.

UK public broadcaster BBC has converted its BBC Three network into an online-only brand targeting young viewers. And the recently published NOTA (New On The Air) report by Eurodata TV Worldwide shows how popular YouTube shorts are being extended

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to linear TV. Examples include Klaes The Roommate’s move to Denmark’s young adults channel TV 2 Zulu, and Lolywood, which can also be seen on France’s Canal+ Group’s D17.

Thanks to the internet’s growing bandwidth and speed, the emergence of multiplatform streaming-video platforms, the ubiquity of YouTube channels and improvements in smartphone technology, there is increasing digital shelf space for high-quality short-form videos.

Their concise and compact size makes them flexible for inserting into existing digital services. They can be experiments for unconventional concepts. They have become validated sources for discovering new talent.

And advertisers have gained an appetite for being associated with them.

ABI Research predicts revenue from short-form video could reach $13bn by 2019 —and the web series is expected to be a key driver of that growth.

Fear The Walking Dead: Flight 462 provides a case study of how seriously AMC Global, the international network present in more than 115 markets, takes the web series. Originally conceived as a companion to the record-breaking apocalypse horror series Fear The Walking Dead, the 16-part Flight 462 went live last October, between the end of Fear The Walking Dead’s first season and the start of the second this April. Each webisode is less than one minute long. Not only does it retain the suspense and tension of the original series, but it can also be seen as a standalone show. Now a Flight 462 character is set to join Fear The Walking Dead’s season two.

“We’re utilising Flight 462 in a number of ways,” says Harold Gronenthal, executive vice-president of programming and operations at AMC/Sundance Channel Global. “This includes offering it in an exclusive window to AMC Global affiliates, as well as on AMC Global’s websites and social-media channels. The rollout has been planned closely with affiliates in each country to complement the overall marketing. We’re hoping it will help attract new audiences to the upcoming season.”

New Form Digital hit the floor running when it launched in 2014 to offer cinema-standard web series to its own YouTube viewers and to buyers of its online content.

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“We believe that, in the future, most if not all video content will be viewed online or on mobile phones,” says Alla Salehian, CEO of Tima Film, Tima’s new global production arm. “Understanding the nature of user demand and engagement on these platforms is crucial in providing compelling content.

Content for online platforms has tended to be shorter in length and tightly edited, as the general view was that long-form video content does not play well online. We still provide short edited versions of our video content for online and mobile platforms, which require specific editing skills and knowledge. But we are increasingly being asked to send the same package to linear and online users.”

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Backed by Discovery Communications and Hollywood hotshot producers Brian Grazer and Ron Howard, it had a lot to live up to — and it is already delivering. It has been commissioned to make six original web series, including the 12-episode The Fourth Door, for Go90.

The company has a catalogue of 19 web series, including Oscar’s Hotel For Fantastical Creatures by YouTuber KickthePj (real name PJ Liguori) and Shitty Boyfriends, which is executive produced by Lisa Kudrow, of the classic sitcom Friends. They are also available on

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online platforms including Vimeo On Demand, fashion and lifestyle website Refinery29 and the subscriptionfunded YouTube Red. “This mobile-friendly format will become increasingly important for distributors on TV and digital platforms internationally,” says Kathleen Grace, chief creative officer of New Form Digital. “In the US, for example, [OTT] platforms like Watchable and Seeso are where audiences are consuming such content. Also, the social online and YouTube influencers who produce these

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shows have a direct relationship with audiences and, because they know how to use Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Vine and Snapchat, they go where the audiences are. It’s about knowing how to navigate social platforms in a smart way.”

UK-based Little Dot Studios creates YouTube-distributed shorts based on 90 established TV shows for clients that include international media companies (such as Scripps Networks Interactive and Channel 4), producers, distributors and marketers (such as PepsiCo and Samsung Electronics). Combined, they generate more than 500 million views monthly. It also produces for its own original YouTube channels — Daily Mix for millennial girls, Tonic for female adults, comedy platform Dead Parrot and culinary channel Crumbs Food.

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Dot Studios was commissioned by the BBC to produce the documentary Rise Of The Superstar Vloggers because of its partnerships with the influential online celebrities who produce web series around-the-clock for their insatiable generation Z viewers.

“The viewing has a broad age group, but you’ll find young audiences consume much more of it,” says Andy Taylor, co-founder and CEO of Little Dot Studios. “You’re producing for an environment with unlimited bandwidth.

It calls for different skills. You need to grab the viewer’s attention in the first minute, while at the same time look for hooks that make the video shareable.”

While YouTube — now with more than 1 billion registered users — first made its mark by appealing to amateur UGC creators and supported by advertising, Vimeo positioned itself as an advertising-free platform devoted to professional video producers. It targets filmmakers who pay a monthly subscription to use its proprietary high-end technology and ultra-HD digital player. Today, Vimeo boasts more than 1 billion monthly views, 200 million-plus unique viewers and more than 30 million registered users. The subscription-funded Vimeo On Demand platform offers them opportunities to monetise their works.

Vimeo is also an investor in original web shorts, some of which have attracted international TV-industry attention. It funded the second series of US-based Janky Clown Productions’ comedy High Maintenance following its popularity with viewers. US cable giant HBO has now picked up the series for a third season.

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“The web series has been gaining recognition and traction in the industry,” says Vimeo’s Sam Toles, head of global content acquisitions and distribution. “It has led to a new generation of content started by amazing creators who realised they didn’t need a Hollywood agent or a connection with a TV network.”

Toles adds: “We are also approached by big-name talents who have a story to tell that doesn’t necessarily fit into a TV half-hour or an expensive 47-minute drama.

They use Vimeo to extend their creativity.”

A+E Networks, famous for the linear brands History, Lifetime, Biography and Crime + Investigation, has made its US cable and satellite network FYI home to online and on-air short-form series.

FYI is aimed at young audiences that would otherwise be paying attention to online entertainment only. Its most popular web series include the digital-only extensions of shows such as the social-reality TV series Married At First Sight, Nicole And Jionni’s Shore Flip and Lifetime’s Dance Moms. A+E Networks’ linear channel History also offers serialised comedy shorts in With Dan Harmon online and during Night Class, the channel’s late-night TV slot.

“Web series offer a great new way to reach an audience that may not be reached on linear TV,” says Paul Greenberg, executive vice president/general manager of FYI. “It’s also terrific for making content available on social media. In addition to the web series, you can also add two-minute virals, six-second Vine videos and Snapchat’s Stories.”

Bigballs Media began creating online fictional shorts for Bebo, one of the first social-media platforms, back in 2007. Since then, it has been producing a variety of hit video entertainment, including its co-production of Hollywood comedy drama You, Me And The Apocalypse. But its short-form videos, which include global football YouTube channel Copa90, remain a core business.

Tom Thirlwall, CEO of Bigballs Media, has also noted that the genre is attracting a new set of investors: telecoms companies. “The main driver has been the mobile — the TV screen in your hand that the average person looks at 30 times a day,” he says. “The amount being spent by mobile networks on commissioning [short-form] content is only just beginning because it is proving valuable to them. This is opening up a world to talent that previously had no outlet. With shorts, the quality of audience engagement is crucial. There’s no point having a billion views of a film if people only watch 10% of it.”

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