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ROCH-Olivier Maistre, president of French media regulator the CSA (Conseil Superieur de l’audiovisuel) spoke on Monday about the CSA’s plans to address the imbalance of responsibility for production between traditional broadcasters and the new platforms.

“It’s clear that the old rules which passed into law in 1986 are obsolete,” he said. “So, in order to guarantee the continued growth of an industry whose turnover is around €3bn per year, as well as an even broader and richer content offer, we intend to make it obligatory for new platforms operating in France to both broadcast a percentage of local productions, and also to participate in the financing of productions by French companies.”

The CSA is also developing legislation that will cover the fair remuneration of creators whose work is shared on social-media platforms, and around the issue of fake news.

A LINE-UP of industry and city VIPs officially inaugurated MIPTV on Monday afternoon, with the mayor of Cannes, David Lisnard, cutting the ribbon. Participating in the launch were: ClaireAnne Reix, president SEMEC (left); Jerome Delhaye, director of entertainment division, Reed MIDEM; Gilles Pelisson, CEO of TF1 Group in France; Stephane Courbit, CEO of Lov Group; David Lisnard, mayor of Cannes; Aurore Berge, deputee assemblee national, commission des affaires culturel; Paul Zilk, CEO Reed MIDEM; Roch-Olivier Maistre, president CSA; Delphine Ernotte Cunci, CEO France Televisions; Herve Michel, president, France TV International; Pascal Breton, Picture Perfect Federation; Laurine Garaude, director of TV division, Reed MIDEM; Benoit Louvet, director of CANNESERIES. Bruce Paisner (right), president & CEO of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, presented each Kids Emmy nominees with their medal and certificate on Monday. The winners will receive their Emmy at the International Emmy Kids Awards@MIPTV ceremony today, at the Carlton hotel. Every year, the world’s leading producers of children’s television compete to be recognised at the International Emmy Kids Awards, the world’s pre-eminent platform for global excellence in television. Emmys for kids content are presented across seven categories annually at MIPTV, at a ceremony attended by over 300 international executives from all segments of the industry.

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La French Touch Opening Party marked the start of MIPTV and the celebration of France as this year’s MIPTV Country Of Honour. The event was hosted by Reed MIDEM in partnership with Banijay Group

Four leading industry professionals received the MIPTV Medaille d’Honneur from Reed MIDEM CEO Paul Zilk at a special ceremony last night. The honourees are: French entrepreneur and chairman of Banijay Group Stephane Courbit; CEO of EbonyLife Media Mo Abudu; creator of Showtime series The L Word, showrunner Ilene Chaiken; and managing director of Sky Vision Jane Millichip

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Reed MIDEM shares 2019 highlights and teases new concepts for 2020 REED MIDEM reported on Monday that it expects some 9,500 delegates from 100 countries registered for its 2019 edition, including 3,300 buyers and commissioners and 40 new exhibitors. The figures were revealed by Laurine Garaude, director of Reed MIDEM’s television division, during an early press conference on the first day of MIPTV. Garaude also reported strong MIPDoc and MIPFormats numbers with 1,600 professionals and a successful fourth edition of the MIPDrama Buyers Summit with 450 buyers attending. This in addition to a strong opening for the second CANNESERIES with the joint MIPTV-CANNESERIES premiere, Fremantle’s Beecham House, playing to a “packed house”.

Garaude introduced France as

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Country Of Honour for 2019, adding that as a French company Reed MIDEM was “proud to introduce an unprecedented line-up” of industry luminaries from France.

In the face of greater demand from companies to access content at the earliest stages of development, Garaude said MIPTV had been addressing this, notably with the introduction of In Development last year.

In Development has been expanded at this year’s MIPTV, fully integrated at the heart of the event and is now addressing the drama, kids and documentary genres.

Today, MIPTV offers the “complete chain” of content development, from the incubation of ideas through the discovery of talent, to production and the finished programme.

For the numerous pitching events across the six days of MIPDoc, MIPFormats and MIPTV, some 800 submissions had been received by the events’ organisers.

“Now, MIPTV is two markets in one,” Garaude said. “One that addresses its core business of distribution, and the other that focuses on content development.”

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Turning to the future, Garaude teased plans for MIPTV 2020 and beyond. Garaude revealed that Reed MIDEM has been consulting with its clients over the past few months to better understand their evolving needs in this rapidly changing environment.

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“Feedback shows two important points. Content development is key to buyers, distributors and producers and is central to the development of MIPTV,” Garaude said. “The other point is the need for more flexible solutions for exhibitors and visitors to meet their changing needs.”

As part of these plans, Garaude announced that Reed MIDEM executive Lucy Smith has taken the newly created position as deputy director of the television division, reporting to Garaude. In this capacity, Lucy will have the primary responsibility of piloting these new MIPTV developments.

Smith said that, among options being considered, are new discovery opportunities with more screenings, pitches and showcases, curated matchmaking and, above all, a new format including a reimagined exhibition experience.

“We are very excited about our plans and will be making concrete announcements in the coming months,” Smith said.

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‘Our definition of success will evolve’ ARMANDO Nunez, president and CEO of CBS Global Distribution Group and CBS chief content licensing officer, received Variety‘s International Achievement in TV Award on Monday at MIPTV. The Award is Nunez’s second high-profile MIPTV honour after his Medaille d’Honneur in 2013.

The Award celebrates a career during which Nunez has overseen the distribution of global drama hits including CSI and NCIS, the emergence of Showtime as a premium international drama label, and the current global rollout of CBS’s direct-to-consumer business.

However, he was quick to share the plaudits saying: “This industry is not about individuals.

At CBS we have a great team that has done an incredible job of monetising our content for many years.”

Asked whether CBS might have another CSI-style hit in the future, he said Bull is get-

ting a lot of traction: “But with changes in the way content is utilised, our definition of success will evolve.”

Arguably the biggest challenge facing Nunez is how to manage the company’s direct-to-consumer/streaming business — currently limited to the US (via CBS All Access), Canada and Austral-

ia. He said it was unlikely that CBS would just “flick the switch” and launch a global streaming business like rival Disney.

Instead, he said, “we will pick and choose where it makes sense to launch direct-to-consumer. And when we do we have the luxury of going with either the CBS All Access brand or Showtime. It’s important to remember that the traditional distribution business is still strong.”

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Variety’s Stewart Clarke (left), CBS’s Armando Nunez and Reed MIDEM’s Paul Zilk

Game changers of the world unite for Ilene Chaiken WHEN Ilene Chaiken walks on stage to give her Game Changers Keynote this afternoon, expect a collective sigh of appreciation from the lesbians in the room. And the feminists. And the people of colour.

Everyone, basically, from a minority that used to be ignored by primetime drama and first saw themselves on screen in a show written, directed, produced or executive produced by Chaiken.

But there will be other fans in the room too. Because when Chaiken takes on issues, she doesn’t just make the show for

the people who are in it. She makes it for everyone.

Chaiken co-created The L Word, Showtime’s series about a group of lesbian friends in 2004, that broke many stereotypes of gay women who were often portrayed in fiction as difficult and downbeat. The show ran for six seasons and spawned numerous spin-offs and a devoted fanbase.

She co-executive produced the first four seasons of Empire: epic and unmissable drama set in a feuding family in America’s black-music industry.

In 2016, she helped turn The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s terrifyingly dark novel about a misogynist dystopia from a 1985 must-read-butwish-you-hadn’t into Hulu’s single most thrilling and empowering series — which inspired numerous women who had never before been on a protest to don a red cloak and a white headdress and take to the streets to protest misogyny in the wake of the #MeToo. Game Changers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but boring drama.

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‘€420m a year on drama, factual and animation’ THE OPENING Game Changers Keynote yesterday featured CEO of France Televisions

Delphine Ernotte Cunci, who talked about the state broadcaster’s future.

“We know we need to invest to attract a younger audience and we are also well aware that some

France Televisions’ Delphine Ernotte Cunci: “optimistic”

‘Serious, but not too serious’

ARTE’s Regine Hatchondo: “looking to please a younger demographic”

THE GAME Changers Keynote by ARTE director general Regine Hatchondo provided a glimpse into the changing priorities of one of Europe’s most respected broadcasters.

Hatchondo admitted that ARTE faces the challenge of an ageing audience that does not necessarily want to embrace online viewing. “We have strong brand recognition, but the average age of our linear audience is 60,” she said. “On the other hand, our online audience is 30 to 35, but they are only 20% of our viewers at the moment. So our challenge is to develop online viewing across the whole

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of the shows we produce will be for online consumption only,” she said. “For example, [teen web drama] Scam simply doesn’t work in the traditional linear environment, so there are no synergies there, but it does work brilliantly in the online world.”

Overall, France Televisions sees the future as an opportunity to be at the centre of French creative excellence. “We are committed to spending €420m a year on drama, factual and animation projects, and this will also include working with fellow public broadcasters, including ZDF and Rai. We are also open to working with online [players], especially now that we have made a new deal with French producers to secure the rights to the productions we invest in for three years. That change gives us a bargaining chip in dealing with online platforms like Netflix.”

France Televisions is also keen to forge new alliances, such as the SVOD platform Salto, which is being launched by France Televisions, TF1 and M6. “Between the three of us, we produce around 80% of France’s TV content, so we’re optimistic about the project,” Ernotte Cunci said.

of Europe. We are looking to forge new kinds of shows and new ways of writing them, all while maintaining independence and quality, and defending our brand.”

ARTE has long been at the forefront of technological innovation — it was, for example, the first channel in Europe to introduce an online catch-up service in 2007 — so new technology will continue to play a big role in the channel’s future. “We are developing several VR projects and looking for ways to be more immersive and engaging,” Hatchondo said.

“But we are also looking to please a younger demographic. We are aiming to remain a serious, but not too serious, channel.”

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‘We have taken bets on key shows and talent’ TF1 CEO Gilles Pelisson used his MIPTV France Country Of Honour Keynote on Monday to argue that a strong emphasis on content has been the secret of the French broadcaster’s resilience in the ratings.

TF1’s market share is in excess of 20%. Pelisson said: “We have added more personality to our portfolio of channels and taken bets on key shows and talent. That has generated profits we can reinvest in content — so it becomes a virtuous cycle.”

Scripted series have been a big focus, with around €160m a year spent on French-produced titles. Recent highlights have included Pour Sarah, La Part Du Soupcon and Le Bazar de la Charite, which has been licensed on to Netflix.

Quizzed about TF1’s international ambitions, he said a series of strategic acquisitions have given the company a footprint in 10 countries.

In particular, he talked of the role of Newen, a production/distribution entity

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that functions independently from TF1.

Key issues he wants to see resolved at home include audience

measurement, which he believes is underestimating the reach of his channels — particularly in mobile. He also wants Salto, the

proposed SVOD platform joint venture with France Televisions and M6, to be operational by the end of 2019.

Streamers ‘are persuading people to pay for content’ CANAL+ chairman and CEO Maxime Saada provided MIPTV delegates with a wide-ranging assessment of his company’s ambitions during a keynote to celebrate France’s status as Country Of Honour.

On the channel and platform front, he said the company currently has 16.2 million subscribers across 23 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. Most of these are in French-speaking territories, but Saada is targeting growth in non-Francophone markets such as Ethiopia.

On the content side, he discussed the international strength of production arm StudioCanal in both film and television: “Half of our turnover comes

from outside France and that can get as high as 70-80% in some years.”

At group level, Canal+ has done licensing deals with both Netflix and Amazon, and also allows its subscribers access to Apple TV. Saada said he was comfortable working with the new wave of streamers because “they are persuading people to pay for content at a time when piracy is the number one issue for us”.

Another issue facing Canal+ is the regulatory restrictions that exist on French broadcasters owning rights. Saada said: “We need to have some ownership, because we are in a position where we are financing drama but not controlling the rights.”

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Banijay Group bosses put focus on expansion goals STEPHANE Courbit, Marco Bassetti, and Francois de Brugada of France-headquartered Banijay Group took the stage for a keynote that outlined the strategic and creative ambitions of the production and distribution powerhouse.

As CEO of Banijay Group, Bassetti, who was formerly the president and CEO of Endemol Group, wanted to highlight that everyone from senior executives to the creatives on the ground, was “talking the same language”.

Banijay chairman Courbit, for instance, began as an independent producer before forming Endemol France in 1998. But while he later created Banijay Group, the world’s largest independent production and distribution company with around €1bn annual revenue, he es-

Marco Bassetti (left), Stephane Courbit and Francois de Brugada

chewed a top-down bureaucratic approach — underlining the group’s fast expanding production of quality scripted and format content.

The approach has paid off, with CEO of Banijay France, De Brugada, noting that 35 million people in France watch a Banijay show every week.

Dandelooo draws up future plans EMMANUELE Petry Sirvin, head of creative development and international distribution at French animation firm Dandelooo, predicts a rosy future for France’s domestic industry, while hatching big plans “to help young talented international animation companies to find homes for their projects”.

Speaking at this afternoon’s French Animation: Talent To Watch, Petry Sirvin is known for uniting her passion for books with the world of animation through projects such as the Emmy Award-winning series The Treehouse Stories.

Petry Sirvin said she was driven in part by the strength of French animation, which is aided at national level by “fantastic animation and illustration schools, top children’s book companies and a great writing school in

the CEEA”. The latter, she said, “helps us compete with American writers”. A subsidy system, the CNC, also provides “welcome support”, she said.

Alongside partners Jean Baptiste Wery and Marion Claret, Petry Sirvin is currently producing the

third season of The Treehouse Stories, and plans to shoot the live-action footage in the city of Nice. “We are also in full production on the comedy Stinky Dog and a project called Panique!,” she added. Dandelooo is also developing Billy The Cowboy

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But also fueling this growth has been a focused expansion strategy founded partly on IP acquisitions such as global hit Castaway and mergers including with Zodiac Media. Bassetti emphasised the need to further scale up through expansion in English-language markets, including North America (Banijay’s second biggest market) with shows like The Blast, a multiplatform, digital-first entertainment brand featuring an all-star roster of journalists.

“Other countries where we have room and space to grow are Spain and Germany,” Bassetti said. On that note, Banijay announced yesterday it was set to produce a local primetime version of Shipwrecked for RTL2 in Germany.

But when moderator Anna Carugati-Guise of World Screen asked if there was any truth to rumours that Banijay would be acquiring Endemol Shine, the response was brief: “We have nothing to say,” Courbit said.

Hamster, a pre-school series for France Televisions, based on the successful books by Catharina Valckx.

“We are also starting to develop a new series for eight-plus viewers about a fantastic adventure/ love story/quest for Canal+, based on one of the most fascinating books I’ve ever read,” Petry Servin added.

Referring to Dandelooo’s international goals, Petry Servin said: “It may seem paradoxical, but one of our ambitions is to help young talented international animation companies to find homes for their projects. With the help of our super sales team, Melissa Vega and Rino Romano, we find ‘jewels’ for distribution.”

Recent successes include Royals Next Door, Hungry Bear Tales and Petit. “In this challenging world, we believe that kids want more — and need more — than just pure entertainment,” Petry Servin added.

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Streamer explosion is ‘a boon’ for 4K and UHD filmmakers

THE GROWING number of OTT and VOD platforms — with Netflix, Apple and others leading the way — is good news for creative 4K and UHD filmmakers, the audience in the Sony 4K Ultra HD Theatre was told during a busy day of screenings and discussions about the future vof 4K and 8K technologies.

“With the rise in streaming services, there is a move towards higher quality cinematic-style content,” said Peter Chang, director and cinematographer at Golden Gate 3D. “I think, for content creators, it’s a boon. There are more options and more demand for varied content.”

That sentiment was echoed by Olivier Chiabodo, team leader of The Explorers, a French content-creation collective, who pointed to The Explorers

app as a new portal for UHD adventures.

Paul Gray, research director at IHS Technology, also saw reasons to be cheerful in the

consumer market for 4K: “We expect a huge surge in the Japanese 4K market in the coming months around the Olympics and around UHD. There

Paul Gray, IHS Technology: “a huge surge in the Japanese 4K market”

is going to be incredible price compression per screen size over the next few years. We’re going to see the market change dramatically. The pricing of 4K televisions is not going to be an obstacle for consumers in the future.”

However, Gray sounded a note of caution about the cost of 8K and the relative paucity of content. And Wolfgang Bergmann, CEO of ARTE Germany, said that transferring UHD’s large data payloads remained a logistical worry.

On the content side, travel, culture, nature and extreme-adventure subjects predominate.

ARTE showed clips of Equus, which looks at humankind’s long relationship with horses, while France Televisions previewed China Express (6 x 52 mins). The latter is a co-production, with China’s CGTN supplying the camera expertise and French company Etoile Noire Production providing the editorial direction.

Insight TV’s future is crystal clear INSIGHT TV , the international 4K/UHD broadcaster and production company, is holding on tight to its reputation for pioneering TV technology by bringing some of its first crystal-clear 8K shows to MIPTV. Among the first 8K titles in Insight’s catalogue is Supercar Blondie, a fast-paced automotive show hosted by the high-profile social-media influencer of the same name. In keeping with the Amsterdam-based company’s motto of taking viewers on an adventure, Supercar Blondie follows the exploits of the car-fanatic digital-media star, who has more than 638,000 YouTube subscribers, five million-plus Facebook followers and 2.4 million fans on Instagram.

“We tend to work a lot with talent who are social influencers, because they can engage directly

with young audiences,” said Natalie Boot, Insight’s director of media sales.

Boot admitted that 8K technology, which offers four times the quality of standard HDTV screen imagery and twice the resolution of 4K’s ultra-high-definition pictures, is not yet ready for mass-market TV sales. Its massive files can be too much for broadcasters’ bandwidth. However, shows produced in 4K and its high-dynamic range (HDR) images should be consumer-ready in two to three years’ time, Boot added.

She said: “4K could be the standard in two-and-a-half years and we plan to be the market leader as we already have more than 500 hours of 4K HDR content, and produce more than 200 hours a year.”

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SCIENCE SERIES WINS INFLIGHT SECOND RUN GLOBALIVE Media has secured early secondrun sales for its Beyond Innovation factual science and technology series (26 x 30 mins), with in-flight content providers Global Eagle Entertainment and Inflight Dublin.

Beyond Innovation reveals how the world’s new and emerging technologies are changing the way we live and do business. The show’s debut season featured guests including Duolingo co-founder Luis von Ahn; Stanford professor David Cheriton, an early investor in Google; and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly.

Facilitated by UK-based distribution partner A Tall Order, these deals will put Beyond Innovation into the programming line-ups of a range of airlines in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

“People are inherently fascinated by the technologies and scientific advancements touching their lives and we’re happy to give them a true insider’s look in an engaging format,” Michael Bancroft, who hosts, and also created and executiveproduced, the series, said.

“Because we’re speaking with entrepreneurs and startups from all over the world, this series provides an excellent snapshot of innovation on a global scale, clueing viewers into the potential impact on world markets,” added cohost Anthony Lacavera.

Beyond Innovation co-hosts Michael Bancroft and Anthony Lacavera

Zed’s ‘original, relevant’ film wins the current affairs MIPDoc pitch FRENCH producer-distributor ZED beat off fierce competition to win this year’s MIPDoc project pitch for current affairs and investigation. Its film, The Doubt Makers, pitched by Chloe Persyn-Preljocaj, Zed’s head of sales and acquisitions, looks at how corporates systematically discredit scientific research that threatens their profits.

“This project brings new insights in ways that are original, relevant and have high production values,” juror Martin Pieper, head of current affairs and contemporary history at ZDF/ARTE, said.

“Some of its case studies have been touched on before, but this gives the whole picture.”

Other finalists included House Girls, pitched by Jolaoluwa Ayeye of Salt & Truth, examines Nigeria’s insatiable demand for illegal child labour — and the ways in which Nigerians seek to justify it.

Genoa 11:36am, pitched by executive producer Laura Guglielmetti of Italy’s 42° Parallelo, is based on harrowing witness footage of the aftermath of the

collapse of the Morandi Bridge in Italy in 2018.

The Affair Vanessa, pitched

by Francesca Dziadek of State of Change, is a 90-minute film about Vanessa, a young Cameroonian woman whose baby was stolen from the delivery ward, and has not yet been recovered. Baby theft is a common crime in Cameroon, and this young mother will interview high-profile Cameroonians about why.

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day Productions, takes five celebrity environmental activists to the fastest-warming place on Earth. While the jurors recognised that celebrities widen the audience, Axel Arno, commissioning editor SVT, argued that the film needed at least one climate-change denier to create tension.

Juror Akul Tripathi, chief operating officer of new factual streamer DocuBay — commended the global appeal of The Doubt Makers. DocuBay also sponsored the session.

Zed’s Chloe Persyn-Preljoca (centre), with the other finalists at the MIPDoc current affairs and investigation pitch competition

Bilibili a ‘Swiss army knife platform’ AT SUNDAY’s MIPDoc Content Strategy session, Bo Zhang, senior content producer at Chinese video-sharing website Bilibili, described the company as a “swiss army knife platform”.

He added: “We host production houses, broadcasters and individual YouTubers and we help them monetise their content and grow their fanbase.”

Zhang described the platform’s viewers as “highly educated, internet savvy, creative, caring and the first generation brought up with a willingness to pay for content”.

Bilibili started out specialising in animation, comic and games

content, but has expanded into other genres, including documentary. “We have 8,000 hours of quality factual content,” Zhang said. “For the next stage,

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we are looking for top-notch titles based on analysis of our users’ behaviour.”

Zhang said Bilibili could invest 10-30% of the overall budget.

“We co-produce big shows like China’s Hidden Kingdoms with National Geographic, and we comb international doc festivals for small but beautiful hidden gems such as Pailin Wedel’s feature-length documentary, Hope Frozen.”

Zhang said that Bilibili’s self-produced content is highly customised for its Gen-Z audience, but it doesn’t commission politics, religion, current affairs or social issues.

In Development pitch gives creators chance to be heard CONTENT creators got a chance to pitch their shows to potential backers and co-producers at a special session dedicated to pre-school kids at MIPTV yesterday.

Six finalists were selected to take part in the pitching session held as part of the wider In Development programme, a content development forum which puts producers and project scouts together.

Each project holder had a short period in which to introduce their ideas for a show aimed at kids aged between three and six, present a short clip to delegates, and face questions from a jury sat in the front row.

The finalists came from all over the world, and presented a range of concepts, from The Coop Troop, a whacky comedy about

farmyard animals who go to the rescue of other animals in trouble, produced by UK and Ireland-based Sixteen South, to Korean fantasy project ShaSha,

the concept from Pingo Entertainment, featuring a magical cat capable of turning into a girl.

Also presenting were Canadian producers Buffalo Gals Pictures,

whose project, Time Out Tess, addresses issues around ADHD, and Boomons, produced by Anima Kitchent Media, from Spain.

Among the jury members were Tiphaine de Raguenel, director of young audiences & animation at France Televisions, and Cartoon Network vice-president, content acquisitions and co-production, Adina Pitt.

Creators got the chance to pitch their pre-school kids shows to potential supporters at the In Development session

Knight offers Masterclass in A-list screenwriting

Steven Knight: “alone at my keyboard”

A PACKED crowd of Peaky Blinders fans squeezed into the In Development Drama Creative Room on Monday to hear the show’s creator Steven Knight give a frank and illuminating Masterclass about the life of an A-List writer who will direct if a project demands it, but would rather not “because it is hard on the feet and tough emotionally”.

Knight began his career writing scripted comedy which he says is “a great proving ground because it is so precise and definite — you have to get it right”. He then segued into format creation for a while before devoting himself fully to movies and TV series.

His breakthrough was cult BBC drama Peaky Blinders, which has just completed shooting on the fifth season. Along the way, the prolific writer has penned MIPTV News 2 • 21 • 9 April 2019

Tom Hardy drama Taboo and a new version of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol for the BBC. He told delegates he plans to produce several Dickens novels for TV — a kind of career “legacy”.

In terms of his writing process, Knight prefers to complete all scripts before a show goes into production. But he doesn’t always know the direction of the plot when he starts writing — preferring to be guided by the characters. He has tried writing rooms, but is more comfortable “alone at my keyboard”.

On film versus TV, he prefers TV “because it is more simple and solid. TV doesn’t have to prove itself on the opening weekend. Peaky Blinders had a few bad reviews at launch and peole were slow to find it. So it probably wouldn’t have made it if it had been a movie.”

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Jensen and Bauer: why going it alone is no longer an option TODAY sees two of the most respected names in drama — Nordic Entertainment (NENT) Group president and CEO Anders Jensen and Studiocanal TV managing director Rola Bauer — take to the Debussy stage to talk about pushing boundaries and forging new commercial partnerships in the era of ‘peak TV’.

NENT Group and Studiocanal TV have four original series in the pipeline, including Shadowplay, and are currently collaborating on Svensk Studios’ The Lawyer and SAM Productions’ Pros And Cons. Both series are among the most successful on NENT Group’s premium Nordic streaming service Viaplay — and both are notable for their “standout quality, novel approach, interesting characters and ability to expand into new seasons”, Jensen said, speaking to MIPTV News ahead of his keynote and on-stage conversation with Bauer. “It’s that

NENT’s Anders Jensen and Studiocanal TV’s Rola Bauer: “better together”

classic combination of a great script, great production quality and great actors.”

For Bauer, Studiocanal TV’s relationship with NENT Group epitomises the theme of Anders’ keynote, which he described as “staying unique by working together”.

“In order to push boundaries, we need to work better together, create better together and show greater respect for each other’s vision and cultural differences,” Bauer added.

Pros And Cons, which centres on an ostensibly normal couple who are actually notorious con

OTF and ZDFE sign doc legend Kohler WHEN the news broke in January that veteran Dutch factual producer-distributor OTF was becoming a 100% subsidiary of Germany’s ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE), it was like hearing that two old friends were getting together in middle age.

One, principled and creative, the other, establishment and well-funded. This would be mutual support in the face of their noisy new neighbours, the Amazon-Netflixes.

But when Ellen Windemuth, founder of Off the Fence (OTF), and Ralf Ruckauer, president of ZDFE, took to the stage at MIPDoc to discuss their plans, they had some breaking news. Industry legend Walter Kohler of Terra Mater Factual Studios was joining the party.

Kohler’s documentary The Ivory Game tackled the ivory trade, and his new film Sea Of Shadows looks at how the vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is being driven to extinction by the Mexican and Chinese mafias. Terra Mater’s

250-strong catalogue will be distributed by OTF. Windemuth is something of an innovator herself. OTF partners with brands to bring new money into the business, allowing her to make projects such as Colombian documentary Magia

OTF’s Ellen Windemuth

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artists, is also an example of the lighter, brighter drama coming out of the Nordic region. “We’re calling it Nordic Light,” Bauer said. “The series’ humour, plus the fact that it’s about people wanting to redeem themselves, is very appealing to audiences in today’s crazy world.”

That craziness extends to the rate of technological change, Jensen added — a theme he will also explore in today’s keynote: “Streaming is everything today.

If you don’t engage in streaming, you’re going to have a big problem in the future. In fact, if you haven’t already engaged in streaming, you’ve already got a big problem. It’s totally changed the rules of engagement and you can’t fight it.”

He uses an ice-hockey metaphor to reinforce his point: “You need to play where the puck’s going. And the puck is moving very, very quickly at the moment, leading to great opportunities but also great challenges. So forget about the past — the future is here and that future is about forming new partnerships. Nobody can do it alone anymore.”

Salvaje, PBS-backed Gorongosa Park, and Europe’s New Wild, made with the group Rewilding Europe. Her latest doc, My Octopus Teacher, is about a filmmaker befriended by an octopus.

“This partnership allows us to self-commission more shows to avoid the commissioning delays we had been facing from broadcasters,” Windemuth said. “Also, we can now launch Waterbear Network, our interactive VOD platform that allows viewers to watch documentaries and then interact with eco-activists, campaigns and sustainable travel partners. It allows us to make every film a call-to-action.”

This is a way to reach the coveted younger audience, but also to make change. “We are about more than just television,” Kohler said. “The kids want to act. And if we can help that with our films, we want to do that.”

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ZDF Enterprises kicks off MIPTV with its traditional ‘Sundowner’ on the beach Fred Burcksen, President and CEO of ZDF Enterprises, during his welcome speech at the ‘Sundowner

The company has travelled to Cannes with several remarkable productions in tow: the Canadian thriller series Victor Lessard (30x60’), based on the bestselling novels by Martin Michaud, the Colombian series Wild District (10x60’), the family drama Beyond Appearances (6x52’) and the wickedly offbeat contemporary murder mystery series Queens of Mystery (3x90’) are among this spring’s drama highlights. Among the factual novelties are the history documentary The Greatest Race (2x50’), the animal and nature series Just Animals (10x50’), and the breathtaking Planet of Volcanoes (1x50’). New series for youngsters include the third season of the blockbuster The Worst Witch (39x28’), the new live action highlight #Like Me (13x26’) and the animated pre-school series Bobo (26x7’).

Karoline Meichsner-Sertl, ZDF Enterprises’ recently appointed Executive VP and CFO, with Oliver Castendyk (Lawyer, German Producers Alliance).

Mirela Nastase (Director ZDFE.drama, ZDF Enterprises) with FILM.UA’s Kateryna Vyshnevska (Head of Development and Co-Productions) and Olesya Lukyanenko (Creative Producer), the creators and producers of the upcoming drama series HIDE AND SEEK.

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Norbert Himmler (CCO, ZDF, right) with Al Munteanu (CEO, Squareone Entertainment) and Ellen Windemuth (Founder and CEO, Off the Fence).

Véronique Le Sayec and Sophie Labesse (both SODEC) with VICTOR LESSARD’s Executive Producer Nicola Merola (President, PIXCOM) and author Martin Michaud.

Simone Emmelius (Senior VP Feature Films, ZDF) with Frank Doelger (Executive Producer and Director, GAME OF THRONES).

Sarah Eichenlaub (Director ZDFE.drama, ZDF Enterprises) with Frauke Bräuner (Commissioning Editor Children’s Programs, ZDF) and Suzanne Ryan (CEO, SLR Productions).

Christian Franckenstein (CEO, Bavaria Film), Dagmar Biller (CEO, Tangram) and Oliver Vogel (CCO, Bavaria Fiction)

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Nikolas Huelbusch (Director ZDFE.unscripted, ZDF Enterprises, second from left) with Daisy Carolath (Impossible Factual), Rudolf Runge (Runge TV), Isabelle Helle (Helle Media), Jonathan Drake and Ben McGrath (Impossible Factual).

Bavaria Fiction’s General Managers Manfred Haus-Pflüger (left) and Jan Kaiser (right) with Florian Kumb (Executive Assistant to ZDF’s CCO) and Michael Lehmann (Chairman of the Management Board, Studio Hamburg Production Group).

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VIEWING FIGURES STRONG ON BACK OF TIMESHIFTING TIMESHIFTING TV — and in the UK, pre-broadcast VOD — are helping TV viewing figures remain strong, according to experts at the One TV Year In The World: Cracking Audience Trends data download session.

The worldwide daily viewing average, according to Eurodata TV Worldwide’s Frederic Vaulpre was 2 hours, 55 minutes, down just a minute on last year. Among young adults it was 1 hour, 56 mins, down two minutes.

Timeshifting was growing: it represented 8.3% of the total viewing. But in the UK it was possible to drill down further with newly available “pre-broadcast” figures. For Killing Eve, only 29 % of the total audience watched on broadcast: 37% of viewers watched the show beforehand, with another 25% timeshifting their TV viewing and an additional 9% (700,000 people) watching online.

Eurodata’s Avril Blondelot picked out relationship shows, health shows and political dramas as trends that might travel in 2019 and beyond, as well as The Masked Singer, a talent show concept from Korea which had aired in the US. It was also tipped by Paul Youngbluth of TAPE Consultancy — it had elements of mystery akin to “guessing who is a murderer in a crime drama”, he said.

Eurodata’s Avril Blondelot

BBC chief offers top tips for winning a production deal THE SECRETS to getting a live-action series greenlit were revealed in a lively session led by Cheryl Taylor, head of content, BBC Children’s.

Taylor revealed she was commissioning from a budget of £100m for the broadcaster, before describing her top 10 tips for winning a production deal.

“It’s very important that you prepare and translate your passion for the project,” Taylor said. “If you can afford to write a script, write a script, and really develop the idea to its full potential.”

She warned about not overlooking the basics: “First, check that no one else has had the idea. We often hear pitches of shows that we’ve already seen before, or are even already on the channel.”

Taylor’s second and third key tips included defining who the audience is for the project, and working out the best home for your idea. “At the BBC, both in our factual output and our comedy-drama, we like shows that have a stealth learning aspect,” she said.

Equally, it’s worth researching

broadcasters inside out. “See if you can identify a really popular franchise which is coming to an end, and which could perhaps be replaced,” Taylor said.

Other tips included knowing who you are pitching to, planning and rehearsing your pitch, and taking your strongest people in with you.

“Take in a maximum of four people, and make sure everyone has a job to do,” Taylor added.

She recommended the use of “ripomatic” films to help paint a clear and compelling picture of your world. “Editing together material from existing films to communicate tone and mood can be really powerful,” Taylor said.

She advised programme-makers to also be mindful of the less enjoyable aspects, including being clear about budgets, and staying calm in the face of a negative response. “Don’t outstay your welcome if the pitch isn’t going well,” she said. “But stay in love with your idea. Your belief in the project can make all the difference.”

Cheryl Taylor, head of content, BBC Children’s

Setting up a content pipeline in China AIMED at producers who find the Chinese market difficult and confusing, How To Realise WinWin Co-Production With China featured both Chinese and foreign experts offering advice and encouragement.

“It’s a huge market that is also hugely competitive,” Sarah Chen, producer and host at Dragon TV, part of the Shanghai Media Group, said. “Plus, it is growing so fast and consequently it is getting harder for both established players and newcomers. But the good news is that all those facts combine to mean that truly great content is more valued than ever.”

Sandrine Roustan-Bondi, head of international business development, iFormats, said: “What

you have to bear in mind about China is that it had no set broadcast media model like many other countries so on the one hand that can seem quite bewildering, but on the other it’s a place of opportunity and there’s an all-pervasive can-do attitude.

“Chinese people are very entrepreneurial,” she added. “But you also have to bear in mind that there are rules and certain restrictions which need to be understood.”

Perhaps the most inspiring aspect of China’s media landscape is that there are 1,700 channels, seven OTT platforms, 1.4 billion viewers and only one time slot for the whole country. “You can sell shows, but ideally you’d have a content pipeline with content coming in,

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but also heading out. At that point you could be on to something very exciting,” added Shanghai Media Group’s Wang Lijun.

Shanghai Media Group’s Wang Lijun

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Basic instincts exposed as new thriller makes debut in Cannes

Instinto cast members: Ingrid Garcia Jonsson (left), Oscar Casas, Silvia Alonso and Mario Casas

A POWERFUL drama series exploring the hidden depths and duplicities of human relationships will be screened in Cannes today, the first time the show has aired outside of its native Spain.

Instinto, which will make its international debut this morning, reveals an undercurrent of eroticism, paranoia and intrigue running beneath the respectable surface of society’s powerful elites.

The series stars Mario Casas in the lead role as Marco Mur, a super-rich young tech entrepreneur who secretly explores underground erotic clubs as a release from a haunting traumatic childhood experience. As the show unfolds, Mur is forced to confront a past that is steadily catching up with him.

Today’s screening follows a cast and crew press conference on Sunday, with leading actors

from the show. Casas appeared alongside cast members Ingrid Garcia Jonsson, Silvia Alonso and Oscar Casas, and joint executive producers Teresa Fernandez-Valde of Bambu Producciones, and Domingo Corral of Movistar+.

Jonsson said: “It’s about the interconnected relationships between people and people’s darker sides. It comes across as being about sexuality but I think it’s more about human behaviour.

It’s a different type of show from what you normally see.”

The six-part series is set for release in Spain next month. Studiocanal is distributing the show in all markets apart from Latin America, where Amazon Prime Video has the rights, and the US where it has been acquired

by Lionsgate and Hemisphere MediaGroup’s Spanish-language streamer Pantaya.

Spanish partners for Game Of Talents FREMANTLE has formed a partnership with Mediaset Spain for new entertainment format, Game Of Talents. Combining the spontaneous play-along aspects of a classic game show and the excitement of a talent show, the format follows a contestant paired with a well-known celebrity, as they work together to figure out the specific, surprising and sometimes bizarre hidden talents of 10 mystery performers. After a short introduction, contestants must guess the performers’ talent from a list of 11 possible answers, based only on their appearance, personality and a few clues. Can the contestants spot the fire-breathers from the opera singers or the parkour runners from the belly dancers?

“Game Of Talents is a unique concept with huge family appeal

VICTIM SELLS WELL FOR SKY VISION SKY VISION, the production/distribution division of UK satellite-delivered network Sky, has unveiled a significant number of sales deals worldwide for The Victim, its new four-part legal drama series.

Set in Scotland, the storyline focuses on an offence seen from the plaintiff and the accused’s points of view, The Victim aims to leave viewers wondering who is the true injured party.

Originally aired in the UK on BBC One, the series had already been pre-bought by France 2 during the production’s early stages.

Other buyers for international territories now include pay-TV platforms DBS Israel, Cosmote Greece and BBC Australia, as well as public broadcasters NPO Netherlands, YLE in Finland, RTP Portugal and Greecebased Hellenic Broadcasting. Meanwhile, Dazzler Media has acquired the UK DVD rights.

“This series is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the BBC, STV and Sky Vision. We are looking forward to closing more deals for The Victim at MIPTV,” said Sky Vision’s director of sales Leona Connell.

Fremantle and Mediaset’s Game Of Talents

that audiences at home will love playing along to,” said Nathalie Garcia, CEO of Fremantle Spain. “We’ve had a lot of fun producing the show in Spain, which created some hilarious

and surprising moments, all while showcasing some fantastically talented people. We have high hopes for this format and can’t wait to introduce it to our global partners in Cannes.”

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Sky Vision’s Leona Connell

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Finnish-Chilean co-pro tells story of Pinochet-era heroes POLITICAL thriller Invisible Heroes (6 x 52 mins), based on the true story of refugees being protected by Nordic ambassadors during the 1973 Chilean coup, had an international preview screening at MIPTV. Focused on Finnish diplomat Tapani Brotherus, who secretly secured refuge in Europe for 2,000 Chilean citizens targeted by the brutal Pinochet regime, the series was co-produced

by Kaiho Republic in Finland and Parox in Chile for Finnish broadcaster YLE. Shot over nearly six months in Chile in 2018, the finished episodes will premiere on YLE later this month, and on Chilevision in Chile later this year. Eccho Rights is handling international distribution, with the high-end drama already having been sold across all the Nordic territories and drawing global interest as it headed to MIPTV, according to Liisa Penttila-Asikainen, executive producer at Kaiho Republic.

Invisible Heroes is a forgotten story that has contemporary

relevance in an era of multiplying refugee crises, said Finnish director Mika Kurvinen. “The subject is something that everyone easily relates to, it’s really important to bring these kind of

stories alive in the world we are living in right now.”

He added, that the subject matter demanded a more cinematic approach as opposed to an episodic, cliffhanger narrative arc.

Director Mika Kurvinen (back left): “it’s really important to bring these stories alive in the world we are living in right now”.

With Kurvinen are: actors Mikael Persbrandt (back right), Nestor Cantillana (seated left), Sophia Heikkila and Pelle Heikkila

Cannes gets first look at The Feed

Guy Burnet in The Feed

Pelle Heikkila plays Brotherus, while his wife Lysa Brotherus is played by real-life wife Sophia Heikkila. “The thought did cross our mind, what would we have done?,” Heikkila said of playing one half of the diplomatic duo who offer both sanctuary and an escape route to political refugees who were also friends.

“I wish I would have acted in the same way,” she added.

THE FEED, All3Media International’s new series from creator Channing Powell, produced with Amazon Prime Video and Liberty Global, will have its MIPTV World Premiere TV Screening as part of the CANNESERIES Official Competition today, at 19.00 in the Grand Auditorium of the Palais des Festivals.

Based on the novel by Nick Clark Windo, The Feed is a near-future dystopian thriller in which people’s brains are directly connected to The Feed — a software implant which allows every interaction, emotion and MIPTV News 2 • 28 • 9 April 2019

memory to be shared instantly.

The story centres on Tom and Kate, a millennial couple who are trying to resist their addiction to The Feed. Tom’s father invented The Feed, but Tom fears it, especially when he learns of his father’s plans to expand it. Then, something — or someone — starts accessing people’s minds through The Feed and taking them over.

Produced by Studio Lambert and directed by Carl Tibbetts, the 10-hour series’ ensemble cast includes Guy Burnet (Counterpart) and Nina Toussaint-White (Bodyguard) — both of whom will attend the — Michelle Fairley screening ­ (Game Of Thrones) and David Thewlis (Fargo).

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9.40-10.40 OH MY PITCH: DRAMA PRODUCERS’ PITCH 11.00-11.30 CREATIVE MASTERCLASS: COMEDY IN DEMAND 11.45-12.15 CANNESERIES INSTITUTE: THE CLASS OF 2019

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OFFICIAL CONFERENCE & SCREENINGS HIGHLIGHTS MIP GAME CHANGERS During Keynotes on MIPTV’s main stage, visionary leaders and creative masterminds reveal how they push boundaries to create compelling content and reach global audiences.

CREATIVE MASTERCLASS: COMEDY IN DEMAND

10.40-11.10, Debussy Theatre Followed by a conversation with:

ASH ATALLA, Managing Director, Roughcut Television Credits include: The Office and The IT Crowd

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OH MY PITCH: DRAMA PRODUCERS’ PITCH 9.40-10.40, Drama Creative Room

ROLA BAUER Managing Director STUDIOCANAL TV

ANDERS JENSEN President & CEO Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group)

10 BULLETS Produced by plays2place (Greece, Serbia)

A GOOD YEAR Produced by Mockingbird Productions (Belgium)

FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILD Produced by United Studios of Israel (Israel)

ICE VALLEY Produced by Cinenord (Norway)

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TWINKY DOO’S MAGIC WORLD Produced by i Licaoni Digital Studio (Italy)

IN A FOREIGN TOWN Produced by Butcher Bird Studios (USA)

CAFÉ PRIMO Produced by Assaf Machnes (Israel)

INTERWORLD Produced by MACCHIATO PICTURES (Germany)

HOMOSCOPE Produced by Bridges-Eric Pellegrin (France) PASCAL BRETON Founder & CEO Federation Entertainment

PATRICK WACHSBERGER Founder & CEO Picture Perfect Entertainment

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IN DEVELOPMENT CREATIVE KEYNOTE DAVID LYNN CEO Viacom International Media Networks

LIFE XP Produced by: EBNERDS Multi Media Entertainment (Canada)

REBECCA GLASHOW Co-Head Awesomeness

ANARCHY ANDERSON Produced by: Mosaic Entertainment. (Canada) LADY ADA’S SECRET SOCIETY Produced by: Coconut Effect Productions (Canada) SUPER HUU Produced by: Sublimate Entertainment (Australia)

THE STRAND Produced by: Magpie 6 Media Entertainment (Ireland) YALLA! YO! Produced by: Studio 100 NV (Belgium)

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ILENE CHAIKEN Writer/Executive Producer Credits include: The L Word, Empire, and The Handmaid’s Tale

MIPTV WORLD PREMIERE TV SCREENING AS PART OF CANNESERIES OFFICIAL COMPETITION: “THE FEED” From 19.00, Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière Presented by All CANNESERIES Screenings are open to MIPTV badge holders.

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14-15-14.30, Esterel FRANCE: MARKET OVERVIEW 14.30-15.10, Esterel FRENCH KIDS ON THE BLOCK 15.10-15.30, Esterel FRENCH ANIMATION: TALENT TO WATCH 15.45-16.25, Esterel DRAMATIC SAVOIR-FAIRE: LIBERTY, CREATIVITY & GLOBAL AMBITION 16.25-16.45, Esterel FRENCH DRAMA: TALENT TO WATCH 17.30-18.00, Kids Creative Room FROM ‘OGGY AND THE COCKROACHES’ TO ‘MOKA’: A MASTERCLASS IN SLAPSTICK COMEDY

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EVENTS INTERNATIONAL EMMY® KIDS AWARDS @MIPTV 19.30-22.00, Intercontinental Carlton Hotel The Best in Children’s Programming from Around The World

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11.00-11.30 THE FUTURE 100: TRENDS AND CHANGES DISRUPTING BEHAVIOUR IN 2019 In partnership with JWT Intelligence

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14.30-15.00 UNPACKING NEW PRODUCTION MODELS IN EASTERN EUROPE: ‘THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE’ 15.15-15.45 CREATIVE MASTERCLASS: INTERNATIONAL CONTENT STRATEGIES 16.00-17.00 OH MY PITCH: DRAMA PRODUCERS’ PITCH Followed by Winners’ announcement

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Top Billing for 4K/HDR. 8K Making its Debut at Cannes April 8 -11 2019 AUDI I: The SONY UHD THEATRE (level 4) Moderator: Chris Forrester, Journalist & Consultant

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transmissions around the globe. They will screen a selection of their latest productions, and all in 4K/HDR. Rupin Dang is an acknowledged Himalayan explorer, wildlife conservationist, tree planter, farmer and documentary content archivist on India.

Greymatter Entertainment, founded in 2009, is a young media company that offers 360-degree media solutions. Ashraf Abbas (Food Looking) is producing award-winning factual programming around food and was a part of the core team that launched India’s first Food Channel FOODFOOD. Sumant Bahl, Managing Director/Europe, Travelxp; Rupin Dang, Wilderness Films; Chanfdradev Bhagat, Founder, GreyMaytter Entertainment; Ashraf Abbas, Founder, Food Looking

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are shooting in 8K, and have just returned from filming the Japanese Hayabusa 2 spacecraft landing on the Ryugu asteroid in February.

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Factual, Travel, Science and an update on 4K and 8K. NHK will showcase clips from their current portfolio of Factual, Cultural and Drama productions, and update delegates on their 4K and 8K strategy.

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are making considerable investment in 8K, including a feature film, plus jazz and music concerts. Clips will be screened from “Music Hole” and a Michel Legrand tribute concert.

Amos Rozenberg, Producer, Paramax Films, France is a world-class producer of documentaries focusing on our planet. The Explorers are just back from Tahiti, in French Polynesia with magnificent 8K footage.

Olivier Chiabodo, Director and producer, France , will screen 8K footage taken in and from the International Space Station that is simply out of this world.

Joel Marsden, Executive Producer, NASA TV UHD/Harmonic Video Network

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Kansai TV is the leading commercial broadcaster in the Kansai region. Kansai TV will screen their first 8K footage “to make”, a beautiful short film that looks at the affection that is woven with hands and hearts into clothing.

Kazuhiro Sato, head of International Sales, Kansai TV, Japan

has moved COLD CASE from Philadelphia to Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan for season 2.

Makiko Okano, producer of Cold Case Japan, WOWOW are producing extensively in 8K for the giant screen industry with a portfolio of more than 70 movies. Delegates will see K2’s stunning ‘Volcanoes’ plus a clip from (acclaimed director) Stephen Low’s ‘Rocky Mountain Express’. Mark Kresser, President, K2 Studios, US (GG3D) and with spectacular 8K productions will showcase CUBA, San Francisco Flow, and VENICE: La Serenissima Peter H Chang, Director, GG3D, US

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ENDEMOL SHINE’S TALENT CO-PRO WITH HUNAN TV ENDEMOL Shine Group has announced the creation of Acting Up, the first show to result from Endemol Shine China’s co-production deal with local content producer and broadcaster Hunan TV, which was announced at MIPCOM last year.

Acting Up is a fresh talent format where up-and-coming actors compete for roles in real Chinese scripted-drama films. The pilot is currently in pre-production with a targeted release for the second half of 2019. It is the first programme to be announced from a pipeline of original non-scripted television formats being codeveloped by the companies for the Chinese linear broadcast market.

William Tan, managing director of Endemol Shine China, said: “It is great to see the progress we have made in co-developing shows with Hunan TV, with an exciting first format already entering the next stage of production just months after our partnership was announced.

Such long-term strategic partnerships are key for us in China as they deliver exciting and innovative content for both local and international markets.”

Endemol Shine Group’s creative networks CEO, Lisa Perrin said: “China is an exceptionally dynamic, inspiring and flourishing market and there couldn’t be a better time for us to be working alongside Hunan TV.”

Endemol Shine China’s William Tan

YoBoHo and Cyber Group team up for toddlers and pre-school CYBER Group Studios and kids’ content producer and digital media company YoBoHo, have joined forces to co-produce and distribute key original content, aimed at toddlers and pre-schoolers, across digital and traditional media outlets.

YoBoHo and Cyber Group Studios will co-produce direct-to-digital content with YoBoHo managing the online distribution worldwide. Cyber Group Studios will adapt and co-produce the digital formats for television, including Cap-

Celebrating the deal: YoBoHo’s Hitendra Merchant (left); Cyber Group Studios’ Pierre Sissmann and Raphaelle Mathieu; Cyber Group Studios USA’s Richard Goldsmith; and Cyber Group Studios’ Olivier Lelardoux and Pierre Belaisch

tain FunTime, YoBoHo’s upcoming digital 3D animated galactic comedy. The programme, along with other series, will be distributed worldwide by Cyber Group Studios.

This new partnership will also see YoBoHo provide content management services for Cyber Group Studios’ vast catalogue. With more than 1.5 billion monthly views, 90 owned and operated channels, and a library of 15,000 children’s videos, YoBoHo is among the top educational networks on YouTube for kids from pre-school to high school.

Cyber Group has also entered into a partnership with Future Today, the multi-platform video distribution company to launch YayToons, Cyber Group Studios’ free app featuring fun and safe animated content for threeto eight-year-olds. Nearly 300 episodes are available in the US on Amazon Fire TV, Roku and Apple TV.

Gedeon cooks up new show with Planete+ IF YOU can make it as a chef in France, you can make it anywhere, but the stars of the Gedeon Programmes and Planete+ co-produced Planet Chef are bringing something extra — culinary influences from their homelands.

In the show, a France-based chef from another country — for example, Japan or Brazil, or in the case of Michelin-starred Jan Hendrik, South Africa — takes a trip to their homeland and relives intimate scenes from their culinary upbringing.

The 8 x 52 mins first series aired on Canal+ and has sold to Canada and Taiwan, and the four-episode second series has been attracting strong interest at MIPDoc, said Emmanuelle Jouanole, general manager of its

distributor, Terranoa. And, while the producers stress it is a more classical documentary than unscripted format, the concept has been sold for local production in the UK and Germany.

Christine Cauquelin, Canal+ Group’s executive vice-presi-

dent of documentary and factual, and head of documentary channels, thought the show also presented a sympathetic alternative take on immigration. “It’s a positive way of looking at people who move to find their dreams,” she said.

Terranoa’s Emmanuelle Jouanole (left); Canal+ Group’s Christine Cauquelin; and Gedeon Programmes’ Stephane Milliere

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Beat The Rooms reinvents the ‘whacky’ physical game show NIPPON TV (NTV) and Red Arrow Studios are in town to launch Beat The Rooms, the first format to be co-created and co-produced under their development partnership, which launched in 2015.

The exhilarating physical game show, which challenges players not to react when confronted with physical and mental obstacles, was commissioned straightto-series for NTV’s main channel in Japan, where it is four episodes into its first run. “It’s been very well received by Japanese viewers,” said Tom Miyauchi, NTV’s

head of international business development. “There haven’t been that many game shows on Japanese television in recent years, but we’re hoping that Beat The Rooms will bring them back into fashion.”

Nina Etspueler, Red Arrow Studios’ group creative director, said the volcanic success of Korea’s The Masked Singer has piqued global interest in Asian formats in general. Moreover, in today’s turbulent world, there is also a growing desire for feel-good formats that are “light and easy to watch”, she added. “And that’s

Nippon TV’s Tom Miyauchi (left), Red Arrow Studios’ Nina Etspueler, Nippon TV’s Fusako Nagashima and Red Arrow Studios’ David Barber

exactly what Beat The Rooms delivers. It’s pure entertainment and pure fun and the sort of show that the whole family can sit down and watch together.”

In terms of the challenges of co-producing across geographical and cultural divides, language and time differences were the only real negatives, Miyauchi said. “Other than that, we share a general understanding of what we like and what we don’t like,” Etspueler added. “Although we did learn it’s important to write everything down and be very clear.”

Meanwhile, NTV and Red Arrow are now working on another physical game show, Block Out, which has already been sold ‘off paper’ to Thailand’s Zense Entertainment for Channel 7, where it will roll out in July. The deal confirms that there’s a real appetite for the sort of “whacky physical shows with visual impact and lots of action” that have become a Japanese speciality, Miyauchi said.

Make way for Strange Creatures…

TV STUDIO Gaumont and pan-European production company Tinker Group have joined forces to co-produce Strange Creatures (26 x 30 mins), a live-action series targeting young adult/family audiences.

Based on a series of novels by Italian author Alberto Melis, Strange Creatures follows the adventures of Valiant and Violet Twist, two teenagers who discover the headquarters of a secret association that protects legendary creatures such as the yeti, the unicorn and the Loch Ness monster. They soon become embroiled in a series of adventures aimed at thwarting the plans of Marmaduke Blackbat, a cunning billionaire who is

a collector of all things money can’t buy.

Vanessa Shapiro, president of worldwide TV distribution and co-production at Gaumont, said: “Strange Creatures promises thrilling storytelling with exciting adventures and mythical creatures set in a world of magical science that audiences everywhere will love.” She added that discussions are already under way with potential broadcasters and platforms for a targeted 2020 delivery.

The books are being adapted for TV by Phil Ford, co-creator of Wizards Vs Aliens and lead writer on Doctor Who. Mark Mertens, executive producer at Tinker Group, said:

“We are thrilled to have Gaumont on board. From day one, they have been steadfast champions of Phil’s amazing writing talent and the potential these books harness.”

Tinker Group’s Mark Mertens and Gaumont’s Vanessa Shapiro

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NEW LIFE DOWN UNDER FOR AN ORDINARY WOMAN CINEFLIX Rights has sold Russian drama series An Ordinary Woman to SBS Australia and TVNZ New Zealand.

A 1-2-3 Production and Look Film for TV3 Russia, An Ordinary Woman is the story of 39-year-old Marina who runs a flower shop. Her life looks perfect but dark secrets lurk under the surface. Marina is not actually a florist — she runs a WhatsApp network of prostitutes.

Julien Leroux, Cineflix Media’s senior vice-president of global scripted co-productions, said: “An Ordinary Woman combines an exceptional cast of characters with a taut, multi-layered plot, which is perfect for binge-viewing or linear transmission.”

Bridget Ryan, acquisitions manager of scripted at SBS, praised Anna Mikhalkova’s captivating performance as Marina. “We’re delighted that An Ordinary Woman is the first Russian drama series to be acquired for SBS On Demand,” she added.

Juliet Peterson, general manager of digital content at TVNZ, said An Ordinary Woman will premiere on TVNZ OnDemand in May. “We know our viewers are going to love following Marina’s wild ride as the stakes get higher and higher,” she added.

An Ordinary Woman (Cineflix Rights)

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FOCUS ON TOKYO’S WILD SIDE DISTRIBUTOR ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) and Oxford Scientific Films (OSF) have teamed up with Japanese pubcaster NHK for Wild Tokyo, a 4K natural history documentary.

The timing of the partnership is partly to do with the fact that Tokyo will host the Summer Olympic Games in 2020.

Masa Hayakawa, executive producer at NHK, said: “With OSF’s help I’m confident this film will reveal wildlife and behaviour rarely seen in Tokyo.”

From the mountainous forests of Tokyo’s Okutama region, along the Tama River, through the wild sanctuaries of Tokyo’s city centre and out to its volcanic islands, the one-hour production will reveal a previously unseen side of Japan’s capital city. Ruth Berry, managing director of ITVS GE said: “As the world’s media turns its interest to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, Wild Tokyo offers context about the area’s landscape and wildlife for potential visitors. Wild Tokyo is a great indication of what’s to come as we ramp up our non-scripted portfolio in line with global demand.”

Clare Birks, CEO of Oxford Scientific Films added that ITVS GE’s support “is confirmation of this genre’s increasing commercial appeal”.

MARS MISSION TAKES OFF SIX-part sci-fi series Children Of Mars, currently in development, has been picked up by German broadcaster ZDFneo.

Produced by Neuesuper, with Beta Film helping on financing and handling world sales, the high-budget series is set in a near future when an eccentric tycoon leads a mission to colonise Mars. Frank Zervos, ZDF senior vice-president films and series, said ZDF is looking forward to working with Neuesuper to “continue our joint mission to deliver high-end fictional TV made in Germany”.

GoQuest embarks on crime spree with Golden Pen unit GOQUEST Media Ventures, the India-based independent distribution company, has launched Golden Pen Productions, its new writers-first unit.

A joint venture with crime novelist Hussain Zaidi and producer Jaspinder Kang, Golden Pen will specialise in the crime-thriller genre, creating content for TV broadcasters and online platforms, as well as movies and podcasts. And to ensure a regular flow of original stories, the new operation has clinched a strategic deal with Amazon’s Indian publishing subsidiary Westland to co-publish books by established authors and emerging writers mentored by Zaidi.

“The move into production has been an evolutionary process for us,” said Vivek Lath, GoQuest’s co-founder and managing director. “Crime thrillers have seen

great growth, especially in India.

And since Hussain is an authority in that field, we chose to specialise in that genre.”

He added: “We’ve come to Cannes to introduce our new activities and to tell the industry about our plans to develop a diverse body of quality content “We’re focusing on development with production partners, including the India division of one of the largest global media companies.”

Meanwhile, GoQuest has made a strategic seed investment in Digibooster, a South Asian shortform video content platform.

Aimed at buyers seeking professional short-form videos for their websites, influencer-marketing campaigns, Facebook, YouTube and other digital services, Digibooster will use GoQuest’s funding to build both its business and technology.

GoQuest’s Vivek Lath

Poorhouse in step with American Tap POORHOUSE International is in town with a powerful new documentary that, in the words of director Mark Wilkinson, “unpacks what it means to be American”.

American Tap, produced by Annunziata Gianzero for Ivy Films, uses the history of tap dancing to illustrate and examine the US’ vibrant cultural melting pot. “At a time when America is struggling with its cultural identity — when anti-immigration and nativist sentiment boils over into outright racism and xenophobia — we are compelled to look inward,” Wilkinson said.

Also on Poorhouse’s MIPTV roster are three 52-minute films about Hollywood power couples: Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli and Ali MacGraw and Steve McQueen.

Bergman gave up her husband, daughter and a stratospheric film career to work and live with Rossellini, while Garland’s relationship with Minnelli came to an abrupt end when she found

American Tap (Poorhouse International)

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her husband in bed with the chauffeur. MacGraw and McQueen fell in love on the set of Getaway, but their relationship imploded under the weight of drugs, alcohol and violence.

SUCCESS STORIES FROM CREATIVE EUROPE MEDIA STAND Creative Europe MEDIA aims to strengthen competitiveness and diversity of the European audiovisual industry with the following support measures: training of professionals; development of film and video game production projects and companies; distribution of cinematographic works; support for cinematographic festivals, professional meetings and markets; audience development projects. It also includes measures to support cooperation between European and international audiovisual professionals.

Raw Cut Distribution Raw Cut Distribution has announced a content deal with TV4 Sweden for 79 hours of ‘Police Interceptors’.

The popular, long-running Channel 5 commission is now in its 16th series, following the highly trained and elite officers from forces around Britain who are tasked with bringing criminals to justice.

The deal was brokered by Raw Cut Distribution’s Senior Sales Manager, Alex Colebeck who said “we are absolutely delighted to partner with TV4 Sweden to bring our longest-running series to Swedish audiences. We’re confident of adding new fans in this new territory for the show.”

TV4 Sweden added “The seven seasons of Police Interceptors that we have acquired from Raw Cut will do a perfect job for our channel TV12 and as catch-up on our platforms. We are looking forward to the premiere in April”.

Taskovski Films Taskovski Films was benefiting through the years by being present at Media Stands. It is our favorite meeting point with documentary buyers and producers.

We appreciate this opportunity to catch up with our standard clients twice a year, but also to discover new platforms and possibilities. Last MIPCOM was successful for our films Children of the Snow Land, Bruce Lee and the Outlaw or Gift as they have been sold to territories such as France, Germany, South Korea, Sweden, Denmark, Poland and UK. We are looking forward to exploring possibilities with new digital platforms and to establish a partnership with them as well as finding out about fresh, sharp and edgy projects from production companies from all around the world.

Children of the Snow Land

Raw Cut Distribution is a division of independent and forwardthinking London based production company, Raw Cut Television, that has been producing dynamic and exciting factual programmes for British broadcasters over the past seventeen years. In addition to production and distribution, Raw Cut also has its own in-house archive and content development divisions.

Taskovski Films is a London based sales agency of independent documentary films. Its international team has a passion to discover new talent and authorial stories in fields of arts, culture, history, social issues and current affairs, while still maintaining high criteria when it comes to production value, content and form.

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KESHET SNAPS UP RIGHTS TO NTV DRAMAS KESHET International (KI) has secured the international distribution rights to three dramas from Russian commercial broadcaster NTV; Beyond Death, The Crow and Schubert. The deal continues a partnership between the two companies that previously saw KI’s espionage drama False Flag adapted into Russian for NTV. Commenting on the deal, Keren Shahar, KI’s chief operating officer and president of distribution, said: “We’re really impressed with the quality of storytelling coming out of Russia, and these three compelling dramas in particular. We think they will complement our extensive slate of foreign-language titles really well, particularly Israeli series like Autonomies, Stockholm and Sleeping Bears. Given the growing interest in high-quality foreign language, it’s an exciting time to be diversifying.”

Beyond Death is a paranormal/science hybrid which has just been renewed after a strong first season. The Crow, meanwhile, is a thriller with a strong female lead.

Schubert, which tells the story of a man whose unique hearing gift allows him to solve intricate crimes, has already been picked up by Chinese streamer BiliBili.

NTV general producer Timur Weinstein called this “a new stage in our partnership with Keshet International,” adding that “each of these dramas achieved excellent ratings and received multiple accolades and awards”.

NTV’s Beyond Death

All3Media unveils Yes DBS deal and new Van Der Valk INDEPENDENT distributor All3Media International has sold more than 60 hours of content to Israeli satellite service Yes DBS, including a raft of Bafta-nominated shows.

“Many of these fantastic titles are in hot demand in a number of territories, which is driving strong competition among broadcasters,” said Kelly Shek, sales manager, EMEA south at All3Media International.

The package includes drama series Mrs Wilson (3 x 60 mins) starring Ruth Wilson, Keeley Hawes and Iain Glen, from Snowed-In Productions, which was recently nominated for three BAFTA Awards, plus Blood (6 x 60 mins), a psychological thriller from Company Pictures, starring Adrian Dunbar and Carolina Main.

Two more BAFTA-nominated dramas — Informer (6 x 60 mins) and Kiri (4 x 60 mins) — also head to Israel, made

by Neal Street Productions and The Forge respectively.

A trio of Two Brothers Pictures’ latest thrillers have been acquired — Baptiste (6 x 60 mins), starring

Tcheky Karyo, Tom Hollander and Jessica Raine; Cheat (4 x 60 mins), starring Katherine Kelly and Molly Windsor; and Strangers (8 x 60 mins) starring John Simm, Emilia Fox, Anthony Wong and Dervla Kirwan.

In related news, Company Pictures, an All3Media company, announced this week that detective drama series Van Der Valk will be going into production, in partner-

ship with All3Media.

Written by Chris Murray (Agatha Raisin, Midsomer Murders), the drama will once again centre on the investigations of Dutch detective Piet van der Valk in and around the city of Amsterdam. Based on novels by Nicolas Freeling, it is inspired by the eponymous crime drama produced by Thames Television in the 1970s.

Two Brothers Pictures’ Baptiste

Cannes Confidential spans genres DRAMACORP is developing Cannes Confidential, a 10-part romantic procedural series that blends comedy, mystery and crime detection with a love story. Dramacorp has signed UK writer Chris Murray, behind the revival of classic British detective series Van Der Valk, and a regular writer on hit Acorn/Sky comedy-drama Agatha Raisin.

Murray is also the creator of the BBC’s all-time most successful daytime drama Doctors, now in its 19th season.

Dramacorp has been granted exclusive access to film in the city of Cannes. The partnership is being marked by a signing ceremony with the Mayor of Cannes,

David Lisnard, at MIPTV today.

The executive producers of Cannes Confidential are Patrick Nebout and Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, who recently joined Dramacorp from Nice Drama.

“I don’t think it’s too much to say that Cannes Confidential has echoes of the iconic Moonlighting in terms of its wit and charm, The Night Manager in its scale and ambition, and La La Land in terms of its look and tone. As his credits prove, Chris Murray has a genius for creating deeply loved and witty characters and stories that run and run,” said Patrick Nebout, founder and executive producer of Dramacorp.

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Chris Murray, writer of Cannes Confidential for Dramacorp

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Dangerous Moms wins buyers’ award for Mediaset Espana A DARK Spanish comedy based on the lives of “real women” has scooped the prestigious MIPDrama Buyers’ Coup de Coeur award at MIPTV. Dangerous Moms, a blackly humorous story of a group of women who find themselves with a corpse to dispose of, was chosen for the award after a special screening during the MIPDrama Buyers’ Summit on Sunday.

The show was produced jointly

by Mediaset Espana and Producciones Mandarina, and is being distributed by Mediterraneo Audiovisual, a division of Mediaset Espana.

Accepting the award on Monday were Arantxa Ecija, head of drama at Mediaset Espana, Silvia Cotino, head of international sales at Mediaset Espana, and Gloria Salo, head of international markets at Mandarina.

Ecija said: “We are very proud

to receive an award for this comedy. The story is local but also has international appeal.

It’s about real women. It’s hard when it’s a Spanish comedy with English subtitles; we weren’t sure what the reaction would be and whether the jokes would work. But straight away at the screening we realised that

the audience got it and they were laughing.”

Dangerous Moms is due to make its debut in Spain this year. It tells the story of a single mother, Mayte, who along with three other women, gets trapped in a spiral of bizarre illegal acts while covering up for an accidental murder.

Winners of the MIPDrama Coup de Coeur award: Mediaset Espana’s Silvia Cotino (left) and Arantxa Ecija, with Producciones Mandarina’s Gloria Salo

Hat Trick claims rights to Magnus HAT TRICK International has secured worldwide rights to the off-beat comedy drama Magnus, which is currently in competition at CANNESERIES. Produced by Viafilm, producers of international hits Norsemen and Lilyhammer, Magnus is created by award-winning comedy performer Vidar Magnussen (Side

By Side) and directed by Lilyhammer’s Geir Henning Hopland.

A sci-fi crime and comedy thriller set in Norway, Magnus — played by Magnussen — an eccentric genius and former detective, tries to solve a murder rooted in Norse mythology by teaming up with a suicidal police partner and a young neighbour.

The three outcasts embark on an adventure that gets increasingly strange as the story un-

folds, and as Magnus gets closer to solving the case, the world changes, as mythical creatures trickle out from the wintry forests of Norway.

“To call Magnus purely a comedy would do it an injustice, this is more like a “strangedy”. We have shied away from parody and tried to create real drama,

built around a growing line-up of absurd and unexpected characters,” Anders Tangen, CEO Viafilm said.

“We are extremely pleased to have placed the international rights to our show in the safe hands of Hat Trick International with its exceptional comedy distribution credentials.”

Hat Trick International’s Sarah Tong (left); creator Vidar Magnussen; Viafilm’s Anders Tangen; Hat Trick International’s Hana Zidek; and executive producer Christina Rezk Resar

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ITV SEALS DEALS ON GOLD DIGGERS AND THE BAY ITV STUDIOS Global Entertainment has announced the first raft of pre-sales of Tall Story Pictures’ crime drama The Bay, and deals for Mainstreet Pictures’ character-driven thriller Gold Digger.

“Outstanding British drama is in our heritage and the Spring 2019 slate, including The Bay, Gold Digger and The Virtues, has yet again raised our game,” Ruth Berry, managing director of ITV Studios Global Entertainment, said.

The Bay, which is currently airing on ITV, has been snapped up by France Televisions, Seven Network in Australia, TVNZ in New Zealand, KT Corp in Korea, Virgin Media Ireland, TV4 in Sweden, NRK in Norway, DR in Denmark and YLE in Finland.

Advance sales of BBC One’s up-coming Gold Digger include France Televisions, Seven Network for Australia and TVNZ for New Zealand.

Meanwhile, other ITV Studios Global Entertainment deals include six-part Swedish-language drama Hunters, from SF Studios and Harmonica Films, which has been acquired

by KT Corp in Korea, ARD in Germany, NPO in The Netherlands and VRT in Belgium.

Norwegian drama Kieler Street from Anagram Norway will air in Sweden on SVT and KT Corp in Korea.

English- and Swedish-language crime thriller, Rig 45 from Mopar Studios has sold to Starzplay for the US, UK, Germany and France, African SVOD service Showmax, KT Corp in Korea, U-NEXT in Japan and VRT in Belgium.

Berry added: “As the tastes of global viewers adapt, non-English-language drama is increasingly important.”

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TALESMITH DOC STARS LONE WOLF UK FACTUAL producer Talesmith and producer/ distributor Cineflix are coproducing Takaya: Lone Wolf, a documentary special for BBC4, CBC, and ARTE which explores humankind’s relationship with wolves.

Takaya: Lone Wolf (1x 60 mins) tells the story of a wolf and its close bond with wildlife photographer Cheryl Alexander. The documentary is set on a remote island archipelago off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.

Despite being a highly social pack animal, Takaya lives a life of quiet isolation, existing entirely on a marine diet.

Martin Williams, CEO and creative director of Talesmith, said: “Takaya: Lone Wolf is an inspirational story of one animal’s resilience, survival, and adaptability. But it’s also a story of how people interact with wolves, both through Cheryl’s relationship but more widely about how humans can coexist with an animal perceived by some as a threat.”

Andre Barro, executive producer, Cineflix added: “We’re thrilled to be collaborating with Talesmith on this unique Canadian story.

We’re expanding our coproduction business at Cineflix Media and Takaya: Lone Wolf is a great example of an exciting partnership that combines expertise and resources to bring engaging content to viewers.”

Takaya: Lone Wolf

Forecast is good for Latini’s climate-change superheroes AN ITALIAN weatherman who dreamt of using his knowledge of meteorology to motivate the world’s children to tackle climate change is at MIPTV to unveil the animated superhe-

ro series he helped create. Luigi Latini, CEO of Italy’s Meteo Operations Italia (MOPI), came up with the idea for a cartoon about six climate-change fighting superheroes who combat

MOPI’s Luigi Latini (right) with Mondo TV’s Luana Perrero

environmental disasters inspired by real stories of climate change. He enlisted the support of Italy’s ministers of education and the environment, and his brainchild, MeteoHeroes (52 x 7 mins), is introduced at MIPTV. Latini has ploughed his expertise, and his money into making the series happen. Development and production are being handled by Italian animation company Mondo TV, whose series Robot Trains and Yoohoo To The Rescue prove they know a thing or two about making action-adventure-comedy that appeals to kids.

An animatic of the first episode will be ready in May, and Luana Perrero, Mondo TV’s head of content sales, is promoting the show to broadcasters in Italy and beyond.

Zoomin.TV expands Gen-Z offering A RESTRUCTURED Zoomin.

TV, the Amsterdam-headquartered digital venture famous for its short-form videos for young Gen-Z audiences, comes to MIPTV with new CEO Roger Lodewick.

Zoomin has also started adding Gen-Z-targeted long-form shows, some of which have been commissioned by Facebook Watch, Chinese media-and-tech giant Tencent Holdings, and 4K broadcaster Insight TV. Among Zoomin shows brought to Cannes is Local Heroes (8 x 25 mins), which explores real-life issues that concern Gen-Z viewers, who are mostly under the age of 24.

Another is Esports Revolution (8 x 25 mins), which focuses on professional competitive video-gaming, a fast-growing new entertainment format loved by Gen-Z consumers.

“We’re at MIPTV to look for partnerships and buyers for both our short- and long-form content,” said Lodewick, who was appointed a year ago after MTG, part of the Scandinavian broadcast group once known as Modern Times Group, expanded its stake in Zoomin to 100%.

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Lodewick also said Zoomin will be able to tap into MTG’s significant investments in esports, including international esports events organiser ESL and the international DreamHack events.

“We can create character-driven stories and other activities in the esports ecosystem,” he added.

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C4 picks up series charting the discovery of ancient fleet THE UK’s Channel 4 has acquired a two-part documentary series about the discovery of an ancient fleet of Greek and Roman ships sunk in the Black Sea. Distributed by UK’s Drive, Lost Worlds: Deeper Into The Black Sea (2 x 60 mins) uncovers an incredible shipwreck graveyard in a rare marine environment.

According to Ben Barrett, joint managing director of Drive, the immaculately preserved vessels are “something unique”. He added: “The waters are highly anoxic in that part of the Black

Drive’s Ben Barrett and Channel 4’s Polly Scates

GUESS How You’re Getting Married Tonight?, an idea created by Isabel Duran of Spain’s Atresmedia (left), proved the winning format in MIPFormats’ One Minute Pitch contest. The concept follows a wedding ceremony planned by the bride under hypnosis — leaving her with no idea about what is going to happen. The winning formula was selected by industry veteran Peter Fincham.

Sea which means that organic matter doesn’t disintegrate.

Ancient ships were found with the ropes still hanging off the sides.”

What Barrett describes as “the largest ever single maritime archaeological expedition” is covered in a full two hours, “because it would have been impossible to fit it into one hour”.

A moment of jeopardy divides the first and second parts, as mission leader Professor John Adams prepares to tackle a dangerous 90-metre dive.

“We thought the series was perfect for More4,” Polly Scates, acquisitions executive for Channel 4, said. “History is a clear draw and we loved the discovery element of Lost Worlds.”

Channel 4 expects to broadcast the series later this year.

PERFECT pitching at Monday’s It’s A Match With Buyers And Commissioners event in the Drama Matching Room, part of the In Development: The Cannes Drama Creative Forum. This bookable matchmaking event was set up to give producers an opportunity to develop relationships with top international buyers and commissioners, understand what they’re looking for, and cement new partnerships.

Stars advocate for legal drama Honour THE STARS of Swedish crime thriller Honour (Heder) have come together in Cannes to promote the new eight-part Viaplay series created by Sofia Helin (The Bridge), Alexandra Rapaport (Gasmamman), Anja Lundqvist (Alex) and Julia Dufvenius (Modus).

The series stars Alexandra Rapaport, Anja Lundqvist, Julia Dufvenius and Eva Rose (Maria Wern) as the four partners of

Swedish law firm Honour, who are committed to defending the victims of injustice and sexual crimes in particular.

However, the firm comes under pressure “when a routine case has unforeseen consequences, as the four women’s common past comes back to haunt them”, said Dufvenius.

Rapaport added: “The story is also about who is a victim and who is a predator, and how you

can sometimes be both.”

While the development of the drama precedes the #metoo controversy, Dufvenius said that the concept’s themes made it very much a vehicle of our time. “These kinds of issues are not black and white any more, there are lots of shades of grey,” she said.

“The drama represented a long overdue opportunity for us all to work together,” said Rose. “Audiences have been waiting for this.”

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Julia Dufvenius (left), Alexandra Rapaport and Eva Rose star in Honour

news WHEN screenwriter Michael Hirst says he is “passionate” about a new project, it’s worth taking note — especially if that project is Boris Pasternak’s classic novel Doctor Zhivago.

The creator of Emmy Award-winning series Vikings and The Tudors is in town with Foz Allan of Bryncoed Productions and distributor Wild Bunch TV to launch his adaptation of Pasternak’s epic novel about love and loss in the Russian Revolution. Produced by Hartswood Films in association with Bryncoed, the 8 x 52 mins series is executive produced by Beryl Vertue, Sue Vertue and Foz Allan.

Hirst said that, when Beryl Vertue told him she could get the TV rights to Doctor Zhivago, it was a “jackpot” moment. “It’s an eternal, immortal love story, but it’s by no stretch of the imagination a conventional love story,” he added. “Zhivago and Lara are soul mates and, in an ideal world, they would have had a happy life together. But they were caught up in catastrophic times and they, and their love, were doomed.”

For Hirst, Pasternak’s genius lies in his ability to capture those “moments of great emotion and intensity” that define lives and sear themselves into memory.

This chimes with his own approach to his work: “I want to write about things that are real and have meaning and significance. And in that endeavour, I don’t recognise any difference between the past and the future. Doctor Zhivago has total resonance in our contemporary world, because it’s about how humans are destroyed by revolution and chaos and social disintegration, and those things haven’t gone away.”

As to who will play the lead roles, Foz Allan said it would be actors of “similar status and talent” to Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, who immortalised Zhivago and Lara in David Lean’s 1965 film. “But it will be an extraordinary challenge for any actor,” he acknowledged.

Hirst, however, is unfazed by the challenge ahead of him: “I genuinely hate to blow my own trumpet, but I’ve done two successful TV shows, one of which — Vikings — is in the top three shows just about everywhere in the world. So the fact that I’m passionate about Doctor Zhivago makes me feel we can probably create something extraordinary.”

‘It’s an eternal, immortal love story’

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DANCING LEDGE TO MAKE LEE CHILD SERIES DANCING Ledge Productions has announced a partnership with best-selling novelist Lee Child to produce Lee Child: True Crime, a series which dramatises the stories of real-life men and women who have been driven to stand up and put their lives on the line, fighting for justice in the face of great danger, stories that have the same mythic compulsion as Lee Child’s novels, which include the Jack Reacher series.

Lee Child is published in over 100 territories worldwide and translated into 40 languages.

A Jack Reacher book is sold globally every nine seconds and he is the only mega-brand author to have increased sales year-on-year over the last decade.

The films of his novels have made $400m at the box office and his latest novel, Past Tense, was a number one best-seller simultaneously in the UK and US. The company and author are currently discussing the project with potential showrunners. “We all read thrillers and watch movies where an average person goes to extraordinary lengths to defend a family or tribe, or to seek justice. It turns out that reality goes even further — we have some amazing stories to tell, some of them barely believable, but they’re all true,” Child said.

Best-selling author Lee Child

Reinvent Studios in Cannes on the crest of a new Nordic wave REINVENT Studios was established by industry veterans including CEO Rikke Ennis, former CEO of TrustNordisk, last year to package, finance and sell Nordic content, with Helene Auro also joining the team as sales and marketing director.

During 20 years at DR, Auro oversaw the sales of high-end Danish dramas like The Killing and Borgen. “Rikke and I go back to the beginning of Nordic Noir, and we are still riding that wave,” Auro told MIPTV News, referring to acclaimed Scandinavian crime series including The Bridge. She added that the region is now producing a much broader range of scripted TV series and feature films that Reinvent is ready to package and sell globally.

Having announced an output deal with Sweden’s legendary SF Studios, who in addition to features produce around eight TV series annually, Reinvent is coming to MIPTV with a raft of content that it is also co-creating.

In addition to presenting two new Icelandic series — the

dramedy Ordinary People, and relationship drama Happily Never After — Reinvent is at MIPTV to pitch a crime series called Trom, set in the Faroe Islands, which it is developing with writer Torfinnur Jakupsson, and which has already generated a lot of interest.

“It’s the essence of Reinvent, because it starts out as a tiny project from a scriptwriter with a lot of talent,” Rikke Ennis told MIPTV News, before the concept is tweaked, packaged and marketed. As a result, Trom has quickly generated interest from the Benelux, France and Germany.

Reinvent Studios’ Rikke Ennis (left) and Helene Auro

DQ and Red Square ink Jungle Book deal DQ INTERNATIONAL, producers of The Jungle Book for TV, this week signed a deal with Russian production company Red Square to co-produce a theatrical movie based on the series.

“Following the success of our three TV series of The Jungle Book, it makes sense to go up the value chain and make a theatrical movie,” said DQ chief executive Tapaas Chakravarti. “We’re also extending the target audience from kids to family, and ageing up Mowgli accordingly.”

“We’re very excited to be working with Red Square,” said chief operating officer Manoj Mishra. “DQ will handle the writing and much

of the animation, and Red Square will bring some of the finance and more CGI.” Red Square is

the first of several co-production partnerships DQ hopes to sign for this new project.

Celebrating The Jungle Book film deal in the Palais: DQ’s Manoj Mishra (left) and Tapaas Chakravarti, with Red Square CEO Maxim Lysov

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ARMOZA Formats is in Cannes with new Israeli drama Muna, that follows a successful and free-spirited Arab-Israeli photographer who is chosen to represent Israel at a prestigious international photography exhibition. Set in a time of war, she is torn between two worlds and must choose with whom her true loyalties lie, with both Israeli and Arab societies turning against her. The story is based on the experience of the series’ writer Mira Awad, the Palestinian-Israeli who represented Israel at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009. Israel’s leading newspaper Haaretz has called Muna “one of the best original drama series from recent years”.

Muna tackles difficult issues. What drove you to create the series?

When I was a contestant in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest, together with Israeli singer Noa, it was the first time a Palestinian citizen of Israel represented Israel in the contest, and the first time that Israel’s submission featured Arab lyrics. Unfortunately, as we were preparing for the journey, a war broke out. It was a devastating time, and a very complex reality for me to be representing my country, while being torn between two societies.

I faced criticism from both sides with Israelis seeing me as an enemy from within, and Palestinians feeling as if I was a sell-out who was choosing sides — just like Muna is seen in the series.

After coming back from Eurovision and reflecting on all that I had been through, I realised that no one else would ever be able to tell the story of this complex identity struggle. I wrote a short movie called Muna, that was based on my journey, and later turned it into a drama series.

What is the message that comes out of the series?

Muna places a strong emphasis on liberalism vs conservativism, which is a global concern nowadays. I think all countries worldwide are facing the same debate. You can find this debate on every level of Muna’s story and in the way she struggles with her identity through these conflicts. One of the most obvious ways that this struggle is shown in the series is through Muna’s attempt to be a young feminist rebel standing up to her patriarchal community, while respecting the values of her traditional family and the village she originates from. We also see this as she attempts to find her place in Tel Aviv, as a Palestinian in the Jewish state. Though this all used to feel like a burden to me, in a lot of ways this has become my identity and encourages me to share my story.

‘Nothing is as black and white as it seems on the news’

Where was Muna filmed?

In order to provide the true backdrop and feel for the show, the whole series was shot in Israel. Muna focuses on three main locations in Israel: The first is Tel Aviv — the cosmopolitan centre of Israel where the main characters live. The second focus is on Muna’s hometown — a Palestinian village in the north of Israel. The last main location is a town in the south of Israel, close to the border with Gaza, where Muna’s boyfriend Yaniv comes from.

What are your hopes for Muna at MIPTV? I would love for Muna to be watched internationally. The story of the Arab minority within Israel is seldom told and it’s important to me that people understand the complexity of the reality.

Nothing is as black and white as it seems on the news — instead it is a wide spectrum of greys that needs to be carefully tread between and I think this is something that Muna achieves.

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RUSSIA’s AA Studio is showcasing two projects in Cannes. The Princess And The Dragon is about a princess who finds a magic book that transports her to a wonderland where she finds adventures and new friends. Squad Go Wild features three teenagers sent to the scout camp in a wild forest. They learn new skills, though it looks like they need to be saved themselves.

The Princess And The Dragon (AA Studio)

CHINA’s Youku brings a line-up of varied programming to MIPTV. The Great Shokunin is a mini-documentary series about crafts people across the world.

Three seasons are available, with a fourth in production. Dunk Of China is a basketball talent competition with NBA players and Chinese celebrity players acting as coaches. Sweet Dance Of China is a dancing competition show in which four celebrity dancers build their own team from over 400 candidates.

All For One is a talent show featuring 100 male contestants who are judged on their singing, rapping, dancing, songwriting and image. The winning contestants form a boy band.

ZEPTOLAB GAMING specialist Zeptolab brings a number of shows to Cannes based on its brands. The company is working on 40 new episodes of its pre-school animated series, Om Nom Stories: Super-Noms. In 2018 the company also launched Learn English With Om Nom on YouTube, and there are plans to scale the production in 2019. Two new projects in pre-production are: Om Nom & Friends, a series for the youngest children, where the main characters learn the importance of friendship, kindness and compassion; and Om Nom & Jackie Jam, for the over-fives about a creative duo working for a big media corporation.

The Great Shokunin (Youku)

MIDWINTER FILMS AUSTRALIA’s Midwinter Films brings a 5 x 5 mins comedy series to Cannes, created by Adele Vuko and Chistiaan Van Vuuren. Over And Out is about two young parents fervently trying to raise their children right, while they are stuck in the middle of the two most stressful things to do ever — raising toddlers and surviving the end of the world — which includes metal-clad gangs, ravenous zombies, disfigured mutants, cannibals, dehydration, disease and starvation.

Om Nom Stories: Super-Noms (Zeptolab)

AVALON COMEDIANS Watching Football With Friends is a new comedy format produced for Sky One in the UK. In the show comedians watch two of the big, televised weekend matches with their friends. Each game is recorded in two sitting-room style studios simultaneously, with a live audience of partisan fans adding to the atmosphere. Two comedians and one celebrity super-fan offer their thoughts on the game — or anything else — as the action unfolds.

CYBER GROUP STUDIOS FRANCE’s Cyber Group Studios returns to MIPTV with James The Littlest Giant (52 x 11 mins), a pre-school animated CGI series, a co-production with Canada’s CCI. James is smart, brave with a big booming voice. He’s small for a giant and he lives in Bridgeville where giants are big huge grumps. James, with his friends — Lily, half-pixie halfelf, Boo the monster that wouldn’t hurt a fly and Hector the troll who doesn’t stink — try to do everything they can to help people live happily ever after.

The company also brings pre-school animation Orange Moo Cow (78 x 7 James The Littlest Giant mins).

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Over And Out (Midwinter Films)

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ARMOZA FORMATS ARMOZA brings a range of formats to Cannes. Muna (8 x 30 mins) is a drama based on the true story of an Arab-Israeli photographer chosen to represent Israel at a photography exhibition, though her father sees this as a betrayal of her roots. My Life In 60 Seconds (18 x 30 mins) is a comedy about Zvikah Hadar, the real-life comedian who loses his job hosting a primetime TV show. Sixty-minute format The Conflict sees two actors voicing real people’s opinions on opposing sides of an issue. Thirty-minute format Mind-Blowing features mentalist Nimrod Harel as he reveals age-old secrets that help him read minds.

ARTE Distribution is launching 40 new titles at MIPTV. Corleone, Mafia And Blood is a fiveyear investigation of the Sicilian mafia with testimonies of repentant gangsters, lawyers, prosecutors and policemen, who explain how godfather Toto Riina violently took control of the Cosa Nostra in the 1970s. Hitler’s Evil Science ex- Corleone, Mafia And Blood (ARTE Distribution) plains how some of the greatest minds of the 20th century twisted science in the service of Nazi ideology. Women Of Isis collects first-hand testimony from women who played an active role in the terrorist organisation. Tracking Russian Hackers explores the Russian cyber world to understand the mercenaries who wage an invisible war that is destabilising the world.

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Muna (Armoza Formats)

RUSSIA’s Soyouzmultfilm brings Orange Moo Cow (78 x 7 mins) to Cannes, a new pre-school animated series about family, friendship and love. The co-production with France’s Cyber Group Studios is already available on YouTube in Russia. The partnership is also planning to work on Captain Kraken at Soyouzmultfilm Studio.

Orange Moo Cow (Soyouzmultfilm)

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A PRIORITY for France’s Terranoa in Cannes is Planet Chef (8 x 52 mins), which premiered on Planete +. The series features a new generation of chefs whose version of French Cuisine meets with the flavours of their homeland, reflecting Brazil, Lebanon, Japan, South Africa, Sweden and Italy. A second season is in production. The company is also searching for pre-buys for Pompeii Rising (2 x 52 mins/1 x 90 mins), co-produced by France Televisions, AT Prod, RTBF, Curiosity, ZDF, NHK and SVT.

SINKING Ship Entertainment brings Just Add Magic (39 x 22 mins) to Cannes, a kids’ live-action mystery series produced by Amazon Studios. When Kelly and two friends stumble on her grandmothers’ mysterious cookbook in the attic, they discover the recipes inside are magical. Working together they unlock a world of enchanted ingredients and mysterious powers with every dish they make.

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THE SCRIPTED catalogue from Fremantle includes: Baghdad Central (6 x 60 mins), a crime thriller set against the backdrop of the city’s occupation by the US-led coalition forces; Beecham House (6 x 60 mins), a drama set in late-18th-century Delhi, before British rule; La Jauria (8 x 60 mins), a Spanish-language psycho- Baghdad Central (Fremantle) logical thriller; The Luminaries (6 x 60 mins), a story of love, murder and revenge in 19th-century New Zealand; and Dublin Murders (8 x 60 mins), a psychological murder mystery.

Non-scripted highlights include: Enslaved (6 x 60 mins), in which Samuel L Jackson retraces the harrowing sea voyages that brought millions of Africans to a life of slavery; documentary series Punk (4 x 60 mins); and Expedition With Steve Backshall (10 x 60 mins).

NEW VANCOUVER-based distributor and developer And Now Global is bringing a new acquisition of 45 retouched Harold Lloyd titles to MIPTV, including 16 features, 28 short films and a compilation film starring the comic star of early cinema. Titles include Grandma’s Boy (1922), Safety Last! (1923), Girl Shy ( 1924), The Freshman (1925) and The Kid Brother (1927). A number of the films have not been syndicated internationally for over 20 years, while others have never been broadcast.

JUST FOR LAUGHS JUST for Laughs is at MIPTV with new episodes of its most popular series. A new season of Just For Laughs Gags is in production, launching later this year. This 20th anniversary season will feature pranks from over 20 years in 20 half-hours. It will also be available as 13 half-hours with new content. The Just For Laughs Stand-Up catalogue features over 150 hours of performances from the Just for Laughs Festival. Just Kidding is a live-action comedy series of 65 half-hours, featuring boys and girls William H Macy, Just For Laughs Stand- between eight and 14.

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RTVE PRIMETIME series The Hunt. Monteperdido (8 x 70 mins) is the story of the mystery of the disappearance of two 11-year-old girls from a village in the Pyrenees, and how five years later one of the girls returns. Spain’s RTVE also highlights: Promises Of Sand (6 x 70 mins), about an aid worker in Libya; Valle Norte Hospital (10 x 70 mins), featuring the lives and loves of a surgical team in a university hospital; and daily series Derecho A Sonar (130 x 50 mins), a drama set in a major law firm.

The Hunt. Monteperdido (RTVE)

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MILLIMAGES FRANCE’s Millimages has begun production on a new concept and format of its well-known brand Molang (52 x 5 mins), which in its fourth series sees Molang and Piu Piu go time travelling from the stone age to the Versailles court and ancient Greece. Other programmes on the roster include: Truck Games (52 x 5 mins), featuring four mini-trucks and their Grandpa; The Adventures Of Nasredin (21 x 5 mins), about a cult oriental character who mocks the absurdity of today’s world; and new second seasons of Paper Port (26 x 11 mins) and Rainbow Chicks (78 x 7.30 mins).

Molang (Millimages)

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UNEXPLAINED: Caught On Camera (8 x 60 mins) is an entertainment clip show that shines a light on remarkable and unexplainable footage captured every day by the general public. Whether it’s poltergeist activity caught on a mobile phone, a ghostly apparition that manifests on CCTV or a mythical creature captured on the dash-cam of a car, a team of specialists provide their expert opinion as they try to explain the seemingly unexplainable. The series is brought to Cannes by London-based Boat Rocker Studios.

A SECOND season of Bo Bear (26 x 5 mins) is brought to MIPTV by Paris-based Superights. The live-action series comes back with a cast of new children and new environments. Other programmes on offer include: Clay Time (30 x 3 mins + 30 live tutorials), featuring activities using modelling clay; Pat The Dog (78 x 7 mins); Zibilla (1 x 26 mins), about a young zebra’s arrival at a new school; edutainment series Ralph And The Dinosaurs (26 x 5 mins); and Doopie (26 x 7 mins), about a plush toy who lives in a store and ventures out into the world full of enthusiasm.

Bo Bear (Superights)

POKEMON IN POKEMON The Series: Sun & Moon—Ultra Legends, Ash has completed three of his four trials in the Alola region, and more adventures await as he and his classmates acquire new Z-Crystals, make new Pokemon friends, and learn how to Mantine Surf. In their role as Ultra Guardians, the Pokemon School students take on an important mission to protect Wela Volcano.

Unexplained: Caught On Camera (Boat Rocker Studios)

MEDIATOON DISTRIBUTION PARIS-based Mediation is showcasing a new series of Martin Morning (52 x 13 mins) at MIPTV. After previous 2D series (104 x 13 mins), this season is produced with a new 3D design. Martin is a 10-year-old boy who wakes up every morning in the body of a new character. He could be a basketball player, an astronaut, or even a knight. Other showcased titles include: the third series of superhero series Minimighty Kids (78 x 8 mins); The Fox-Badger Family (52 x 12 mins); the second season of Bobby & Bill (52 x 12 mins); and the second season of Lucas Etc (27 x 7 mins).

Martin Morning (Mediatoon)

Pokemon The Series: Sun & Moon—Ultra Legends (Pokemon)

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RIKI GROUP RUSSIA’s Riki Group is in Cannes with its series Tina & Tony, which reached over one billion views on the YouKu platform in China in less than four months since its launch last November. Riki Group has signed a deal with Alibaba Culture Group for distribution of the first season of Tina & Tony in mainland China. The second season is planned for production in this year.

CANADIAN producer and distributor Incendo’s film priorities for Cannes include: thrillers Radio Silence, Thicker Than Water and The Sisterhood; romantic comedies Love Blossoms, Love On Safari and Love, Romance & Chocolate; and drama series in development, Disasterland.

Tina & Tony (Riki Group) Thicker Than Water (Incendo)

TVN POLAND’s TVN presents three new primetime mini-series at MIPTV: Insiders.

Dads And Daughters (8 x 60 mins), a crime series and format; The Six (6 x 60 mins), a drama series and format; and The Disappearance (7 x 60 mins), a crime series adaptation of a novel from Polish writer Remigiusz Mroz, about a charismatic counsellor, who with her intelligence, stubbornness and wit can succeed in every legal duel. The TV station also brings the fourth season of Diagnosis (52 x 60 mins) – a medical drama and format with a crime twist.

GMA NETWORK PHILIPPINES-based GMA brings its newest primetime series Sahaya to MIPTV. The series tells the inspiring story of Sahaya, a young woman who belongs to the Badjaw, an ethnic group in the Philippines known as ‘sea gypsies’. The drama aims to capture the richness of Philippine indigenous culture through Sahaya’s struggles to rise above life’s challenges. To accurately depict the Badjaws, GMA hired consultants and researched the community’s culture and traditions. Growing up in a war-torn province, Sahaya is displaced and decides to move to the city. She quickly realises that the city is no kinder than the place she escaped from.

Sahaya (GMA Network)

The Disappearance (TVN)

ABC COMMERCIAL A HIGHLIGHT for Australia’s ABC Commercial is comedy series 600 Bottles Of Wine (8 x 9 mins/4 x 18 mins), from Cockatoo Co.Lab, which premiered on BBC Three in the UK and on 10 Peach in Australia last year. Based on writer Grace Rouvray’s blog The Island Of The Dead, the series follows the love-life of Claire, a 20-something who, after breaking up with her boyfriend of five years is back in the world of dating. 600 Bottles Of Wine is now set to premiere on YLE’s FVOD streaming service in Finland.

600 Bottles Of Wine (ABC Commercial)

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PASSION Distribution is bringing a slate of factual titles and formats to MIPTV. Paradise Hotel is a format in which 11 singles pair up and compete for a life-changing cash prize in a tropical resort. Entertainment format Mums Make Porn (3 x 60 mins) sees a group of mothers with teenage children given the tools to write, direct and produce their own porn film. The Sex Clinic (6 x 60 mins/format) features experts who tackle young people’s sexual health issues. Also on the slate is: The Customer Is Always Right (15 x 60 mins/format), featuring aspiring entrepreneurs; My Family Secrets Revealed (15 x 60 mins/ format); Miriam’s Deathly Adventure (2 x 60 mins), following actress Miriam Margolyes’ exploration of ageing; documentary series World’s Deadliest (13 x 60 mins); Grime And Punishment (6 x 60 mins); My House And Other Animals (2 x 60 mins); and Best Christmas Food Ever (10 x 60 mins).

TWO ROYAL-themed documentaries top the roster for Wag Entertainment.

The release of both will be timed to include footage around the birth of the UK Royal couple’s first child. Harry And Meghan – A New Royal (1 x 60 mins) follows the fortunes of the couple since their wedding. Duchess Of Style (1 x 60 mins) considers Meghan Markle’s style and her transition from A-list actress to HRH, The Duchess Of Sussex. Wag Entertainment holds international rights except Italian-speaking territories, which will be handled by Full Board Media.

APPLE DRAMA LEGEND Of The Phoenix (43 × 45 mins), brought to Cannes by Apple Drama, is set in East Liang Dynasty and tells the story of Ye Ningzhi, who one day performs in the imperial palace with the Baixi Acrobatic Group. Unexpectedly, she is tricked by the princess, but a sympathetic counsellor comes to her rescue.

Two years later she enters the palace again as a maid for the Queen, and after witnessing many miscarriages of justice, she decides to speak up for those in the lowest hierarchy and therefore comes up against powerful officials.

Miriam’s Deathly Adventure (Passion Distribution)

ADD CONTENT ISRAEL-headquartered ADD Content has signed a scripted format deal with Channel One in Russia for its drama Sirens (Betulot), which is due to air this year. Sirens is a thriller about a policewoman investigating the murder of her younger sister. In the Russian adaptation the action takes place in a Black Sea resort where the local policewoman finds the dead body of her twin sister.

Produced by Amedia Production and Sreda Production Company, the Russian version of Sirens will star Leva Andrejevaite, Pyotr Fyodorov, Darya Moroz, Merab Ninidze, Vera Voronkova and Mikhail Gorevoy.

D’OCON FILMS SPAIN’s D’Ocon Films is pre-launching the new version of The Fruitties (52 x 11 mins/4K), nearly 20 years after it debuted the original series in Cannes, the first animated show produced and painted with its own digital computer system, created and patented by Antoni D’Ocon. The Fruitties, a community of peaceful and cheerful fruits that live in a volcano, work together as a team and learn the values of friendship and equality, regardless of shapes, colours or gender.

The Fruitties (D’Ocon Films)

Legend Of The Phoenix (Apple Drama)

OCTOPUS TV AT MIPTV Octopus TV is showcasing Andrew Eborn’s Head To Toe Of Health/ Securing Mental Wealth, an HD series produced in association with leading medical institutions. From eating disorders, Asperger’s, autism and PTSD to general physical and mental health, Eborn explores the facts and provides a survival guide, including traditional and alternative treatments. Another priority is KTT’s Question Everything, a series in which Eborn and RJ Gibb, (son of the Bee Gees’ Robin Gibb) examine various controversial topics.

Head To Toe Of Health/Securing Mental Wealth (Octopus TV)

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JAM MEDIA JAM MEDIA is bringing its new co-production with Amazon Studios, Jessy & Nessy (40 x 11 mins), to MIPTV. The mixed-media pre-school series is about a curious little girl and her best friend, a five-and-a-half-thousand-year-old sea monster. Jessy has magical ‘Inspectacles’, which allow her to see and talk to animated characters, including Nessy, who lives in a fountain.

PANO: Youth For Climate (1 x 42 mins), follows teenagers from all over the world who have been skipping school to fight for a more robust climate policy, focusing on the founders of Belgian organisation Youth for Climate. Around The Northsea (10 Pano: Youth For Climate (NPO Sales) x 45 mins) explores the coastline of a sea that connects the Belgians, the French, the English, the Scots, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Germans and the Dutch. Another title from Netherlands-based NPO Sales is Backlight’s India In Time Of Anger (1 x 50 mins) looking at the problems India has had in its aspirations to grow its economy.

THE TELEVISION SYNDICATION COMPANY (TVS) TVS BRINGS several new series to MIPTV. Collector’s Call (13 x 30 mins), features some of the world’s biggest collectors of pop culture memorabilia.

Justice Rules (20 x 30 mins) investigates stories of crimes that changed lives, including those of serial killer Ted Bundy and mobster Whitey Bulger, following the people determined to seek justice and truth.

Jessy & Nessy (Jam Media)

AMC STUDIOS THE AMC Studios line-up includes: Unspeakable (8 x 60 mins), a drama about the 1980s tainted blood scandal; horror series The Terror: Infamy (10 x 60 mins), about the haunting of a Japanese-American community; The Close (13 x 30 mins), a relationship drama featuring a deaf couple; mockumentary series Documentary Now! (21 x 30 mins); light-hearted drama Lodge 49 (20 x 60 mins); documentary Ministry Of Evil: The Twisted Cult Of Tony Alamo (4 x 60 mins); comedy Brockmire (32 x 30 mins); travel documentary Ride With Norman Reedus (24 x 60 mins); supernatural series NOS4A2 (10 x 60 mins); and Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America (6 x 60 mins).

Collector’s Call (TVS)

PBS INTERNATIONAL ON THE Cannes roster for PBS International are: Woodstock (1 x 90 mins/98 mins/HD), which turns the camera away from the stage, toward the crowded field at the 1969 music festival and the impromptu city that grew up overnight; When Whales Walked: A Deep Time Journey (2 x 60 mins/1 x 120 mins/HD), exploring where whales, birds of prey, crocodiles and elephants come from; Rise Of The Rockets (1 x 60 mins/HD), looking at if the new era of space exploration is more than hype; and Something In The Air (1 x 60 mins/ HD), investigating the problem of pollution.

Woodstock (PBS International)

EONE EONE’s MIPTV highlights include the new Foxtel and Sky Atlantic drama Upright (8 x 30 mins) starring Tim Minchin, a bold and moving story of two misfits thrown together by chance, forging the unlikeliest of bonds in their quest to get a precious piano across Australia; and a slate of premium new factual series including the CNN Original American Style (4 x 60 mins), looking at culture and shifts in history from the 1940s to the present day through the lens of fashion; Fyre Fraud (1 x 90 mins), the Hulu documentary that investigates the Fyre Festival, featuring an exclusive interview with the convicted festival creator; and Inside The Crown (4 x 60 mins/working title), chronicling the life and times of the British monarchy, featuring exclusive archive and home-video footage, and interviews with experts, historians and employees.

Upright (eOne)

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