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LATIN AMERICA
The Boom of Biopics
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JAPAN
A Tradition of Looking Forward
Xavier Aristimuño, SVP of Business Development and International Digital Media at Telemundo Internacional
More Originals in Latin America _/122
It’s Raining Formats _/52
The Art of Good Stories _/148
An Integral Transformation _/60
Fidela Navarro, Director of Content and Network Distribution at TV Azteca
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Quality Over Quantity _/64
Mayra Bracer, Sales Consultant, Latin America at A+E Networks Ricardo Ehrsam, Global Director of Entertainment Formats at Televisa Internacional
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Edgar Spielmann, VP and COO at FOX Networks Group Latin America Raphael Corrêa Netto, Executive Director of International Business at Globo
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Chris Ottinger, President of Worldwide TV Distribution & Acquisitions at MGM Television
todotvmedia Fernando Barbosa @BarbosaBox: “When we were negotiating with Don Alberto Aguilera (Juan Gabriel) he said: #Hasta que te Conoci will be the last big project of my life.” (Tweet from the SVP of Distribution and Production at Disney Media Networks Latin America when Juan Gabriel’s death was announced).
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Interviews
Empowering the Viewer _/24 Michael Peters, CEO of Euronews
SPT Unveils the Magic in Co-Production _/30
EXECUTIVES
LISTINGS Mipcom 2016
INTERNATIONAL EMMYS 2016 Brazil Leads International Emmy Nominations _/08
Drama Takes Center Stage _/54
DISTRIBUTION RCN Televisión’s Global Quest _/28
Henrik Pabst, Managing Director at Red Arrow International
Katrina Nylon, EVP International Sales & Marketing at Studiocanal
The One True Global Language _/58
Feel the Drama _/52
A Fortunate Discovery _/98
The Game Show Renaissance _/174 Rob Clark, Director of Global Entertainment at FremantleMedia International / Coty Cagliolo, Creative Director at FremantleMedia Mexico
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Compelling Stories Win Big _/51
Angélica Guerra, SVP and General Director, Production, Latin America and US Hispanic at Sony Pictures Television Kerim Emrah Turna, International Sales Executive at Kanal D
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Chris Knight, President and CEO of Gusto Worldwide Media Katerina Dmitrieva, CEO of MK Media Group
The Best of Both Worlds _/126 Ariel Tobi, President of Snap TV
Television That Educates _/127
RTVE Brighter and Stronger than Ever _/32 POL-KA PRODUCCIONES International Co-Production Alliances _/34 DISTRIBUTION Telefe: Transmedia Fiction in Cannes _/56 TWOFOUR RIGHTS Entertainment Across Borders _/84
Andrew Semchenko, CEO of the English Club TV Group
AUDIOVISUAL FROM SPAIN Spain Takes its Ideas to the World _/116
Telefilms Expands Its Film Business _/147
ECCHO RIGHTS Turkish Dramas are Here to Stay _/118
Tomás Darcyl, President of Grupo Telefilms
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INTERNATIONAL EMMYS 2016
Brazil Leads International Emmy Nominations With a total of seven, six for Globo, Brazil is the country with the most nominations for the 2016 International Emmy awards. Winners will be announced on November 21, 2016 at the Hilton New York Hotel.
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he International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences revealed the nominees for the International Emmy awards, with a vast selection of productions from Latin America. The region had a total of 10 nominations from Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, with Brazil as the clear leader holding the most nominations, not only in Latin America, but the competition in general. In total, Brazil got seven nominations, six of them for Globo.
The nominations include Best Male Performance for Alexandre Neto in ‘A regra de jogo’ (Globo); Best Female Performance for Grazi Massafera in ‘Verdades Secretas’ (Globo); best comedy for ‘Zorra’ (Globo); Best Non-Scripted Program for ‘Adotada’, by Formata Producoes and Conteúdo, aired on MTV; Best Telenovela for ‘A regra do jogo’ and ‘Verdades Secretas’ (both by Globo); and Best TV Movie or Miniseries for ‘Os experientes’, by Globo and O2 Filmes. In Colombia, ‘Gabo’ by Justin Webster Productions, Discovery Networks Latin America and Caracol Televisión, was nominated in the Arts Programming category.
Argentina is competing for Best Documentary with ‘Madres de Plaza de Mayo - La Historia’, by El Perro en la Luna, TV Pública, Canal Encuentro and Asociación Madres de plaza de Mayo; and for Best Drama for ‘La casa del mar’ by OnDirectv, produced by Cisne Films and StoryLab. There are 40 nominees across 10 categories and 15 countries. Winners will be announced at a black-tie ceremony on November 21, 2016 at the Hilton New York Hotel. In addition to the presentation of the International Emmy Awards for programming and performances, the Academy will present two special awards. Shonda Rhimes, the writer, executive producer and creator behind global hit series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Scandal’, ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ and ‘The Catch’ will receive the International Emmy Founders Award. And Maria Rørbye Rønn, the Chief Executive Officer & Director General of Danish Broadcasting Corporation, which pioneered and drove the success of Nordic Noir drama around the world, will receive the International Emmy Directorate Award.
INNUMBERS
EVENTS
Reed Midem Launches MIP China
34 million
dollars is how much pay TV ad sales will generate in Peru in 2016, says Causa Media.
75%
of pay TV service providers have IP-connected set-top boxes in Latin America, says NAGRA.
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months is how long Telecinco has been the leading network in Spain as of September 2016.
2.3 million
unique users around the world currently consume 4K content and will grow to 189 million by 2021, says Juniper Research.
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100 million subscribers is how many Netflix will have by 2018, according to IHS Markit.
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Adriana Cisneros, CEO at Cisneros Group
Adriana Cisneros to Chair 44th International Emmy Awards Gala Adriana Cisneros, Chief Executive Officer of Cisneros, the parent company of Cisneros Media, which includes Cisneros Studios, Cisneros Media Distribution and Venezuelan TV network Venevision, Miss Venezuela and Mobius.Lab; will serve as Gala Chair for the 44th International Emmy Awards, which will take place on Monday, November 21, 2016 in New York City. Ms. Cisneros will preside over the Gala, during which the International Academy will recognize programming in ten program categories and present Special Awards to Shonda Rhimes, the Writer, Executive Producer and Creator behind global hit series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘Scandal’, ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ and ‘The Catch’ (Founders Award) and Maria Rørbye Rønn, the CEO & Director General of Danish Broadcasting Corporation, which pioneered and drove the success of Nordic Noir drama around the world (Directorate Award).
Reed Midem, organizer of Miptv/ Mipcom, announced the launch of MIP China Hangzhou, the first ever MIP in China. The new event is designed to foster content development between Chinese and International production companies, as well as provide an intensive educational forum for Chinese media professionals to learn more about international TV markets and trends. MIP China Hangzhou will run May 23-25 in Hangzhou, the lakeside city that hosted the G20 Summit in September 2016. MIP China Hangzhou is organized in partnership with China Media Management Inc (CMM-I), official representative for Miptv/Mipcom in China, and Zhejiang MegaMedia, organizer of the Zhejiang Provincial pavilion at the MIP markets in Cannes. MIP China Hangzhou will combine two formats into one event: the Partnership Forum and a gold-standard professional training conference.
VIRTUAL REALITY
The VR Society is Born In an effort to accelerate the success of virtual reality content production, the Advanced Imaging Society (AIS) announced the formation of The VR Society, a new division within the parent association, backed by major players like Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., DreamWorks Animation, Sony Entertainment, Intel and Phillips. The new group will provide research, hands-on seminars, and best practice recommendations to help facilitate the creation of high quality VR content. “Our consumer research shows a remarkable public awareness and excitement for VR content and products,” said AIS and VR Society President Jim Chabin. Chabin will serve as President of The VR Society, and entertainment veteran Mark Lieber will be the organization’s new Head of VR. The staff also includes Nick Urbom, SVP Marketing and Awards, Irena Cronin, Editorial Director, and AIS SVP, Karen Tobin.
MARKETWATCH Discop Johannesburg is Sold Out The event’s expanded floor plan is now 100% sold out, and is set to welcome close to 250+ global and regional sellers of feature films, television content, adaptation rights and packaged channels. English Club TV Arrives in Latin America Since September 1, 2016, the channel for English-language learning is available for viewers in the region from the Hispasat 30W-5 (Hispasat 1E) satellite. ‘The Ministry of Time’s’ producers sue NBC and Sony over ‘Timeless’ El Confidencial Digital assures that the producers of the Spanish series have sent a written summons to NBC and Sony Pictures Television accusing them of “plagiarism” for their show ‘Timeless’. Dates Confirmed for SPORTELAmerica 2017 The event will be held at the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami from March 14 through the 16, 2017.
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Movistar+ Announces New Original Production Shot in Spain and Argentina, the series will adapt Julia Navarro’s hit novel, Dime quién soy. It’s one of the 20 fiction projects the Spanish platform is currently developing. Twitter Goes After YouTubers The social network is expanding its creator revenue programs, offering a tempting share: 70% for creators and 30% for themselves, surpassing offers from other platforms like Facebook or YouTube.
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DISTRIBUTION
All3media Signs Deals with Cee Broadcasters Independent distributor all3media International has signed more than 180 hours of factual and factual entertainment programming to broadcasters in Central and Eastern Europe. Russian pay TV broadcaster First HDTV acquired North One Television’s ‘Speed With Guy Martin’ (S 1 and 2), and ‘Gadget Man’ featuring Richard Ayoade (S 3), for its Eureka and Outdoor TV channels, as well as a raft of titles fronted by Monty Don; among others. In Poland, free TV channel Fokus TV has signed hit CBS reality series ‘Undercover Boss USA’ (S 6 and 7), produced by all3media America. TVN Poland has picked up factual entertainment titles for its TVN Style and TTV channels, including ‘Will My Crash Diet Kill Me?’ (Optomen Television), ‘Travel Guides’ (Studio Lambert) and one-hour specials ‘Rise of the Superstar Vloggers’ (Little Dot) and ‘Britain’s Weirdest Council Houses’ (Studio Lambert). In addition, ‘The Great Interior Design Challenge’ will premiere in Croatia on HRT, along with ‘Love Your Garden’ (S 2-5) and series two of ‘Travel Man: 48 Hours In…’ (North One Television). Finally, ‘Love Your Garden’ and ‘The Secret History of the British Garden’ (Lion Television) have been picked up by Estonian Public Broadcasting.
SOCIAL NETWORKS
Facebook Thrives on Video Growth Facebook presented its financial results for Q2, 2016, surpassing analysts and investors’ expectations. With US$ 6.436 billion in Q2 revenues, Facebook grew 59% from the same period last year. Mobile represented 84% of its ad revenue. In addition, the social platform generated US$ 2.06 billion in net income in Q2, up 186% from the period last year (US$ 719 million). Facebook also added almost 222 million monthly users, growing 15%. By the end of June, 1.710 billion people use Facebook every month, and 1.1 billion use it every day. The number of mobile users rose 20% to 1.57 billion. And the average revenue per user was up 38.4% to US$ 3.82, topping expectations for US $3.58. “We see a world that is video first, with video at the heart of all of our apps and services,” said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook. According to Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg, users are creating and sharing nearly three times more video on the platform than they did last year. Thus, video is the reason why people are spending more time on Facebook, which logically draws in more advertisers who are willing to pay more in order to stay in the game.
Liliam Hernández, CEO, and Gema López, COO of Universal Cinergía Dubbing
DUBBING Universal Cinergía Is Ready for Mipcom Universal Cinergía Dubbing is arriving in Cannes to extend its presence in the region. Liliam Hernández, CEO, and Gema López, COO, will be joined by Elisa Aquino, Sales representatives for the African and Asian markets. The company will soon open new offices in Doral, Miami, to join its current headquarters. Universal Cinergía Dubbing has 28 dubbing studios equipped with technology, using close to 300 voice talents, translators and directors. The company offers services to international producers, networks and global distributors; offering dubbing in French, Portuguese, Neutral Spanish and English. The company’s portfolio includes film, TV series, animation, documentaries, telenovelas, corporate presentations, infomercials, commercials and new media content.
ttv / Q&A Mayra Bracer, Sales Consultant, Latin America at A+E Networks
A Year of Firsts Closing a “year of firsts” in Latin America, with new territories conquered by its internationally successful productions, A+E Networks is gearing up for the new year by making a splash at Mipcom, presenting a varied catalog of series and formats, and several productions dubbed into Spanish. By Carolina Mussio / @carolinamussio / cmussio@todotv.tv
A “2016 year will be remembered as “a year of firsts”, when we were able to put programming in places that we hadn’t done before.”
+E Networks has set the stage for a commanding presence at Mipcom 2016 with an exciting lineup of talent from some of its strongest new and returning programs, and a newly designed exhibit booth to present over 650 hours of new programming. Mayra Bracer, Sales Consultant for Latin America; and Ellen Lovejoy, Vice President of International Content Sales; spoke to ttv about the company’s success in 2016, their goals for the event in Cannes, and what’s in store for the near future.
ican Pickers’ and ‘Pawn Stars’ in Colombia, which are very established franchises that had never premiered in free-to-air in that country. We were also able to sell ‘Pawn Stars’, ‘Storage Wars’ and ‘Bad Ink’ in Chile, another major free-to-air market. We also have a catalog of premiere lifestyle programming coming out of our US network, FYI. We’ve brought that into Latin America and did a lot of business with Globosat in Brazil, for instance. We are going to be doing another FYI sale with another Latin American Spanish-language channel, which we will announce soon.
How has business been for A+E Networks in 2016? Which sales or deals would you highlight?
On the scripted side, we are very excited that ‘Roots’ is going to be premiering on History in Latin America in October. Also this year, ‘UnREAL’ premiered on Lifetime and was very successful. We have sold a three-part miniseries called ‘And Then There Were None’, to both Globosat and Directv.
As we close out our year, we’ve done things we’ve never done before. We’ve signed many deals in Latin America. We sold ‘Amer-
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“The free-to-air window for ‘Roots’ opens in 2017, which coincides with the 40th anniversary of the premiere of the original series.”
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Ellen Lovejoy, Vice President of International Content Sales at A+E Networks
“One of our goals for 2017 will be to identify potential partnerships with broadcasters and producers in Latin America.” So this year will be remembered as “a year of firsts”, when we were able to put programming in places that we hadn’t done before. In sales, you have to have the right content, but also be at the right place, at the right time. What titles will you be presenting at Mipcom?
LOCALLY PRODUCED PROGRAMMING WITH INTERNATIONAL APPEAL “We are very excited this year because we have a fantastic new slate of scripted series and movies we’ll be launching at Mipcom,” said Ellen Lovejoy, Vice President of International Content Sales at A+E Networks. “We have really become a factual leader in the last ten years, especially in areas like crime, factual and big-event history specials. In addition, we have this really disruptive, buzzy new programming like ‘Born this Way’ and the ‘60 Days In’ franchise. And to have produced something with the quality of ‘Roots’, that was a really proud moment for A+E Networks as a whole.” “I think the great thing about A+E Networks is it’s really willing to push the boundaries. We operate under the principle of “authenticity”, because that really allows you to see the quality of the storytelling. We have really amazing brands that have gone on for hundreds of episodes and really connected with audiences, both domestically and internationally.”
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We will also be presenting two new dramas: ‘Six’, the story of a brotherhood of an elite Special Forces unit, and ‘Knightfall’, that chronicles the actual events surrounding The Knights Templar, one of the most powerful entities in history. What are your expectations for the event in terms of Latin American buyers? In terms of Latin America, Mipcom is very important because a lot of Latin Americans have stopped going to Miptv, but they do attend this event. It’s the first time that we can really have conversations about the plans for 2017. At Mipcom we begin conversations that we continue at MipCancun and through Natpe. What programming trends do you find in Latin America? ‘60 Days In’ is a hugely successful format in the US and we had some really interesting conversations with people in Latin America, who want to know we made it and got that authenticity. It’s so real, so intense, let’s talk about it, let’s see how to develop it locally. The quality and integrity of our storytelling is so strong, that I think that’s why there’s a new interest in Latin America to see how these formats are made. How have digital platforms affected your business? In Latin America, our channels have their own digital strategies and are moving very aggressively into that world. It’s important to be able to find viewers everywhere. We are very lucky in the sense that we have such a large catalog, so we have the ability in content sales to work directly with digital platforms across a number of levels. We need to be in every platform that we possibly can. We are talking to Blim, to people in Brazil. It is a very important part of our strategy. ttv
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“One of the themes we’ve really been following is the success of locally produced programming. So one of our goals for 2017 will be to identify potential partnerships with broadcasters and producers to not only partner on selling our own formats into the region, but also look for original content that we could export and sell outside of Latin America.”
One of the big titles we are very excited to be taking to Mipcom is ‘Roots’; ‘Raíces’ in Spanish. It’s a title that premiered in the US in May of this year and is premiering on the History channel in Latin America in October. What’s exciting for Mipcom 2016 is that the free-toair window opens in 2017, which coincides with the 40th anniversary of the premiere of the first ‘Roots’. So it’s perfect, because freeto-air networks across different countries in the region can premiere it and celebrate the anniversary. Because back then, the original series premiered all over Latin America, everybody knows it and knows who Kunta Kinte is. We are going to be presenting it at Mipcom, dubbed into Spanish. The series made its international debut back at Miptv, but for Latin America, Mipcom will be the big platform.
Another important title for Mipcom is ‘Born This Way’, which recently won an Emmy. It’s a very different, unique reality about teenagers and young adults with Down syndrome. It’s the first reality that portrays them as regular people, living in society, following their triumphs, romances and adventures. It’s something we’re very proud of in Latin America. We will also me presenting it dubbed into Spanish for the first time.
ttv INTERVIEW Angélica Guerra, SVP and General Director, Production, Latin America and US HISPANIC AT SONY Pictures Television
SPT Unveils the Magic in Co-Production By Carolina Mussio / @carolinamussio / cmussio@todotv.tv
Through co-production, Sony Pictures Television perfected the formula to develop fiction series and formats with guaranteed success. “The magic lies in understanding what our partners want and translating it into content that’s relevant to their audience,” said Angélica Guerra, who shared the keys behind the success of SPT’s most recent local productions.
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“In terms of fiction, our goal is definitely to continue building a strong original production catalog.”
ith over 800 hours of fiction and several entertainment formats developed in Latin America over the last few years, it’s clear Sony Pictures Television has fully embarked on a journey of original productions and co-productions.
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“For our entertainment catalog, we’ve consolidated a strong team, who’s developed successful formats for clients like Canal Sony, Discovery, MTV, Caracol, RCN and TV Azteca,” Angélica Guerra, SVP and General Director of Production for Latin America and US Hispanic, said to ttv, highlighting this as one of the “most important strategic areas for SPT, which positions it as an integral producer in the market.” Along with entertainment formats, SPT has dived head-first into original fiction series production in Latin America. “The goal when it comes to fiction is definitely to continue building a strong original production catalog, creating stories that impact viewers, delivering quality to our partners and always innovating with each new project we take on,” Guerra explained.
“This is the best time to be producing television in Latin America.”
THE PERKS OF INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION. Through co-production and alliances, SPT has developed hundreds of ours of fiction over the last three years, totaling 11 series shot in Colombia and Mexico with the main channels in the region. And when it comes to choosing the right partner, she said it’s all about maximizing the content’s potential. “The most important thing for us is always content,” she explained. “That’s where we believe the magic lies: in understanding what our partners want and translating it into content that’s relevant to their audience.” This content-first approach to co-productions has allowed the company to develop some of the most successful fiction series in the region, like ‘Lady, la vendedora de rosas’, which was “a resounding success in Colombia and the international market,” Guerra said, citing other examples of internationally successful series like ‘Metástasis’, ‘Anónima’ and ‘Señorita Pólvora’. “They are powerful, original stories, with memorable characters, made of flesh and bones, that allow our audience to feel, me moved and dream,” she said. “We look for universes that can be found in our own cities; that feel real. Our obsession is to translate strong characters into power-
SPT BETS ON BIOPICS As part of its original production strategy, Sony Pictures Television is also jumping on the biopic trend, with the series ‘El Comandante’, based on the life of former Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, starring Colombian actor Andrés Parra (‘Pablo Escobar: el patrón del mal’) in the lead role. “Biopic is a winning genre for the audience and a pleasure for us as producers, because it’s the perfect excuse to recreate historic periods, universes and iconic characters who changed history,” said Angélica Guerra. The series will have a total of 60 hours and filming has already begun.
SPT PREMIERES ‘THE HALCYON’ AT MIPCOM
Sony Pictures Television is inviting delegates at Mipcom 2016 to an exclusive screening of its highlyanticipated, new period drama series, ‘The Halcyon’, at the Palais des Festivals on Sunday, October 16. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the producers of the show. Produced by Left Bank Pictures and commissioned by ITV in the UK, the eight-part drama is set in 1940, and tells the story of a bustling and glamorous fivestar hotel at the centre of London society at the start of World War Two. It shows life in the capital through the prism of war, and the impact it has on families, politics, relationships and work across all social strata, set to a soundtrack of the music of the era.
ful content that makes our audience vibrate,” she added. LATIN AMERICA IS OPEN TO ORIGINALS. In this scenario, the executive explained SPT will continue to develop content in the region, seeing as this “is the best time to be producing television in Latin America.” “First, broadcast TV channels, which traditionally produced most of its content in-house, are opening their doors to innovative ideas from independent producers; second, cable networks now see the need to include local production in their lineup; and third, new OTT platforms in the region have multiplied the need for local content in Spanish, as well as new genres and formats,” she explained. As far as the future goes, SPT is currently producing ‘Blue Demon’, ‘Rosario Tijeras’, ‘El Comandante’ and ‘Paquita la del Barrio’, “and an additional three series we will announce soon.” “Next year we will have a similar number of fiction production and we are already working on pre-production for several entertainment formats, which will air in late 2016 and early 2017,” she concluded. ttv
SPT DEVELOPS MEXICAN VERSION OF ‘ROSARIO TIJERAS’ Partnering with Mexican giant TV Azteca, Sony Pictures Television is co-producing ‘Rosario Tijeras’, the local adaptation of the Colombian series premiered in 2010. “We felt that a strong story like ‘Rosario Tijeras’ deserved to be told again. It’s a universal story that could organically be adapted in any country, and that’s what we did,” Angélica Guerra said. Filming started the first week of June in Mexico, with executive production by Daniel Ucros, directed by Chava Cartas and Alejandro Lozano.
SPT AND TELEVISA PRESENT ‘BLUE DEMON’
“Our obsession is to translate strong characters into powerful content that makes our audience vibrate.”
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Sony Pictures Television and Televisa are co-producing ‘Blue Demon’, the series based on the life of Alejandro Muñoz Moreno, a wrestler who was born poor and became one of the biggest icons in Mexican wrestling. “‘Blue Demon’, will offer audiences an intimate look at one of the most renowned legends in wrestling,” said Angélica Guerra. The 65-episode series will air in Latin America through multiple platforms owned by Televisa and be jointly distributed worldwide by both companies. Production began in April in Mexico City.
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Empowering the Viewer By Luis Cabrera / @luis_cabreram / lcabrera@todotv.tv
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raditional journalism is not dead. It’s just the way it presents itself that has evolved to keep pace with technology advancements and new trends in consumers’ habits. It might look different, but at its core, true journalism is more relevant and necessary than ever. “People have never been as informed as they are now, but because of this world of noise that we live in today, people have never been as badly informed either.” That affirmation by Michael Peters, CEO of Euronews, functions as the starting point to understand the ‘All Views’ ideal, one that is leading the company in its quest of offering unbiased journalism, where everyone’s version is represented, to its 40 million daily viewers.
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“The duty of a news editor is not to impose its own perspective, but to treat consumers like adults and give them the keys to reach their own opinion.”
Everyone’s version fairly represented should be the basis of journalism, but Peters believes that is not the common representation nowadays. “When you look at the landscape of international news players, it is quite easy to appreciate that the base majority of them, if not the immense majority, are here to deliver their own perspective,” says Peters. “That’s their reason for being; they have been created by a state or by an individual to deliver one perspective of the world.” But Euronews is different. “(We are) due to our history, due to our multicultural DNA, with 25 shareholders from 25 different countries and 40 different nationalities,” explains the CEO. “We speak and edit our content in 30 different languages. We are a European channel were the majority owner is Egyptian.” As a multi-platform news organization headquartered in Lyon, France, Euronews broadcasts news in 30 different languages and maintains news bureaus in Athens, Brussels, Budapest, Doha, Dubai, Istanbul, London,
“Our duty must be to empower the people. ‘All news’ is a concrete derivation of that.”
Proud of its multicultural DNA, Euronews aims to bring unbiased reporting into the chaos of noise through which people struggle to get information. Under the “All Views” banner, the news organization keeps on growing its linear and nonlinear offers with a clear concept of how to do journalism in an ever-changing digital landscape.
ttv Interview Paris and Washington D.C. Just this year, the company launched Africanews, expanding its presence in the continent. “All of that makes Euronews multicultural and, without our shareholder imposing any political agenda, the mission statement for an enterprise like us is to say to the people: ‘if you consume us, we will give you all possible views’,” says Peters. “This is really a unique selling point: when you consume Euronews you will get ‘All Views’, many different perspectives of the same news to make your own opinion.” “This is the duty of a news editor: not to impose its own perspective, but to treat the consumers like adults and give them the keys to reach their own opinion. Our duty must be to empower the people. ‘All news’ is a concrete derivation of that,” explains the executive. In that sense, the launch of Africanews under a new brand, instead of just making it Euronews Africa, becomes relevant, a statement of the ideal of giving Africa a voice, instead of just examining the continent’s news wearing European lenses. “We wanted to give a voice to the African continent and Africanews is meant to do that,” explains Peters, who hopes that the company is able
to expand the formula for other regions, like Asia or Latin America. IN NEWS, CONTENT IS ALSO KING. One of the go-to phrases of the new “Golden Age of TV” is that, independently of the number of screens available, content is still king. According to Peters, the same applies to news. “What we have tried to do is to understand that everything comes from the content,” explains the executive. “And then to understand that this content has to be displayed in all kind of platforms. This is probably one thing in which Euronews is a little bit particular. We don’t have departments, we are more centralized [and work] around the idea that the content has to be distributed everywhere.” Euronews works with the idea that there is no reason to have different content depending on the platforms, dividing the output into linear and non-linear products, with the added advantage of having built a structure that from the get-go has mostly avoided anchors, making its products way more flexible and suitable for the present media context. “The idea is to go beyond the multiscreen strategy,” remarks Peters. “The key turnaround now is to understand that we need to deliver two offers: one linear and one non-linear. It’s useless to speak about TV versus Internet because you can watch a linear offer in a mobile app or websites and non-linear contents, like VOD, on your connected TV screens.” “These two offers correspond to different user experiences and the big challenge for the industry is to be able to reorganize themselves to offer these two options all the time, in all screens, without increasing the costs too much,” adds Peters. “Euronews has evolved to provide content that can be displayed in the two different kinds of offers, contrary to our competitors that have to redesign their offer for a more digital audience.” ttv
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A GROWING PRESENCE IN LATIN AMERICA In Latin America, Euronews’ presence achieved a growth spurt in 2016, climbing up to 32.2 million households after closing new deals with TV Alphaville, TV A Cabo, Cablecom, Telecable and Gigared. The deals with TV Alphavile and TV A Cabo allowed the channel to be broadcast 24/7 in Brazil, available in Spanish, Portuguese and English. The deals with Cablecom and Telecable strengthened Euronews’ position in Mexico, adding 300,000 households to their distribution in the North American country, where the company already had partnerships with Cablemás, Cablevisión, Canal 44, TVI and Dish. Finally, Gigared became the third pay TV operator to carry the channel in Argentina, following Cablevisión and Supercanal. Gigared has over 60,000 suscribiers, 12,000 of them belonging to their digital offer, which allows Euronews to reach over 1.1 million of subscribers in the country.
BREAKING GROUND ALONGSIDE GOOGLE The fast development of Euronews’ digital products and an avid desire to keep itself on the crest of the wave when it comes to new technology, has put the company on a giant like Google’s radar, with whom Euronews has worked on different projects. “We have a strong core partnership with Google in a general way,” affirms Peters. “When Google opened its funds for innovation, we identified that Virtual Reality and 360º videos were things that would become huge in the industry. So we talked about that, created a business and editorial plan to try and produce content in 360º. Always with the same spirit: we won’t produce this for any specific platform or audience; we will include this content among the content we are producing.” With Google Digital News Initiative’s support, Euronews became the first international newsroom to fully incorporate 360 degree interactive multilingual videos into its regular news production workflow. The pilot test were 360 degree video about the Euro 2016, in which viewers were able to position their digital devices in whatever angle they wanted to appreciate the video. The partnership will also see Euronews take steps into VR versions of Euronews’ flagship ‘No Comment’ format.
“Euronews has evolved to provide content that can be displayed in linear and non-linear offers, contrary to our competitors that had to redesign their products for a more digital audience.”
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TRADESHOWS
Over 100 Buyers
Confirmed for MipCancun 2016
Reed MIDEM announced the third edition of MIPCancun has already sold over 50% of its marketfloor. A few months ahead of the event, 70 distributors have already registered, including A&E Networks, All3Media International, BBC Worldwide Americas, Caracol Televisión, Comarex, Discovery Networks, FremantleMedia, Fox Latin American Channel, Globo, ITV - Inter Medya, RTI - Mediaset Group, Paramount Worldwide Television, Televisa Internacional, Telemundo Internacional, Sky Vision and Viacom International Media Networks. Over 100 buyers from 23 countries in Latin America are expected to attend, including Fox Networks Group Latinoamérica, Disney Latinoamérica, Telefónica, Telefe, Turner, Grupo Bandeirantes, Azteca, Blim, Televisa, Canal 22, TV Unam, A&E Networks Latinoamérica, AMC Networks International, BBC Latam, Google/YouTube, HBO, NBC Universal and Nickelodeon Latinoamérica. The 2016 edition of MIPCancun will take place at the Grand Fiesta Americana Hotel in Cancun and will include two new summits during the event: Digital Minds and Creative Summits, specifically designed for programming and production executives.
TECHNOLOGY
Nielsen Launches its Digital Content Ratings
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Louise Pedersen Returns to All3Media as CEO Louise Pedersen returned to All3Media International as Chief Executive Officer, in replacement of Steve Macallister. Pedersen previously spent ten years leading the super-indie distributor before making a move to Playground Television to set up their UK division in January 2015. Pedersen’s role at Playground Television has seen her focus on high end British drama alongside its co-production slate. During her tenure as All3Media International Managing Director, Pedersen was responsible for leading the growth of the business to become the sixth largest distribution business in the UK with a turnover of £49 million per year generated from 6750 hours of programming. Prior to joining All3Media International Pedersen spent 14 years at Carlton International as Sales Managing Director.
Louise Pedersen, CEO of All3Media International
Nielsen launched its new metric, Digital Content Ratings, for its clients on Friday, September 30. The tool measures audiences across desktop and mobile devices for all content, including video, audio and text. This way, media agencies and advertisers can compare online audiences using similar metrics to television. The launch is part of the company’s Total Audience Measurement tool, designed to measure media consumption across all platforms in a consistent way. The syndicated clients involved with digital content ratings include A+E, ABC, BuzzFeed, Discovery, Mashable, Vice, Freeform, AOL, Gawker, Kik, PopSugar and TasteMade. “This is the next step in the transformation of measurement as we know it,” said Megan Clarken, Nielsen’s president of product leadership. The new ratings are similar to Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings, which are not a syndicated product because it’s specific for campaigns and have exclusive information about the brands. According to Nielsen, the Digital Content Ratings will help digital and television publishers monetize video launches, live coverage and other moments, while agencies and advertisers can incorporate that data into their media plans.
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RCN Televisión’s Global Quest By Sebastián Amoroso / @sebamoroso / samoroso@todotv.tv
RCN Televisión has over 150 productions spanning across telenovelas and series, adding up to 15,000 hours of high-quality content, that this year have made it to new corners of the world. The company is presenting this impressive catalog at Mipcom, led by titles like ‘Ruled by Love’, ‘Galy Galiano’s Story’ and ‘A Thread of Blue Blood’.
audiences,” María Lucía Hernández, International Sales Director at RCN Televisión, said to ttv. The executive explained that RCN Televisión has four strategic deals in Latin America (Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras and Panama). “In Ecuador and Honduras we have volume deals. There’s is high demand for products freed by other clients inside each territory.” In addition, she continued, countries like Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic, “are markets where there’s always interest in premiere products, and even reruns.” The executive also highlighted the success of the biopic ‘Celia’ in Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.
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CN Televisión has found great success with its international distribution division this year, boosted by the vast and varied catalog of high-quality productions offered by the Colombian producer and distributor. The company currently has over 150 productions spanning across telenovelas and series, which add up to 15,000 hours of high-quality content. “Our catalog’s diversity and our productions’ success, allows us to reach different screens across many territories with products, sharing our national success with international
Paraguay, Panama, Dominican Republic, the US and Uruguay; and will soon be available through a pan-regional network. Another example is ‘Diomedes, el Cacique de la Junta’, sold in Latin America in Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, Dominican Republic, the US and Uruguay. The executive also highlighted “mystery and drama” titles, such as ‘¿Quién mató a Patricia Soler?’, sold in Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, Dominican Republic, the US and Hungary. In addition, ‘Regálame la vida’ (locally called ‘Contra el tiempo’ in Colombia) and ‘Hilo de sangre azul’, sold in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. “Classic telenovelas are another genre that make our reruns air over and over again in different screens across Latin America,” she said. A good example of this is ‘Yo soy Betty, la Fea’ (‘Ugly Betty’), licensed in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic. “We are also licensing in many countries in Latin America products like ‘Café con aroma de mujer’, ‘Hasta que la plata nos separe’, ‘La hija del mariachi’, ‘Las Juanas’ and ‘En los tacones de Eva’, among others.” “Lastly, we see that series like ‘Chica Vampiro’ has registered excellent results in the last two years, both in audience and in derived products, mainly in Europe, where the tween genre is notably popular,” she concluded. ttv
RCN Televisión has strengthened its presence in countries that traditionally didn’t consume Latin content like the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Hungary; and in countries like Italy, France, Israel and Portugal with the success of ‘Chica Vampiro’. “This year we also extended our presence in Africa, where we’ve licensed over five productions and opened a very important market we hope to consolidate in the short term,” Hernández said. RCN TELEVISIÓN’S LEADING GENRES. “Biopics continue to spark interest and are in great demand from Latin American buyers especially,” she said. A good example is ‘Celia’, based on the life of the mythical Cuban singer, Celia Cruz, already sold in Latin America in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru,
María Lucía Hernández, International Sales Director at RCN Televisión
“Biopics continue to spark interest and are in great demand from Latin American buyers, especially.”
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Feel the Drama By Valentina Vinaja / @vvinaja / vvinaja@todotv.tv
Under this motto, Turkish distributor Kanal D is arriving at Mipcom with new products, led by its highly-anticipated drama ‘Wounded Love’, starring none other than the famous love duo from ‘1001 Nights’. A mere 24 hours after its announcement, the new title already caused international buzz, thus Kanal D’s expectations for Mipcom 2016 are sky high.
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“There will be more surprises for our clients at Mipcom.”
Now, Kanal D is arriving at a new Mipcom in Cannes with a catalog full of new, exciting dramas for the international market under the motto “Feel the drama”. As the star of the lineup, the distributor is presenting one very
special title that’s been highly-anticipated ever since its announcement back in June. Reuniting the stars of ‘1001 Nights’, Halit Ergenç and Berguzar Korel, ‘Wounded Love’ is Kanal D’s flagship drama for Mipcom 2016. “This is the greatest production of the Turkish television era,” Kerim Emrah Turna, International Sales Executive at Kanal D, said to ttv. “Everyone is expecting to see the first images and the lucky ones during Mipcom will be able to see them at the event,” he added. Barely a week after confirming the production the new drama, Kanal D announced the first international sale, closing a deal with
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“’Wounded Love’ is is the greatest production of the Turkish Television era.”
Croatian broadcaster RTL, which has already aired other Turkish dramas like ‘1001 Nights’ and ‘Magnificent Century’, both staring Halit Ergenç and Berguzar Korel. “RTL Croatia was the first pre-sale closed in less than 24 hours after we announced it to our clients,” Emrah Turna said. “There are almost 15 pre-sale deals so far and probably there will be many more ahead of Mipcom,” he revealed. Production started in August by O3 Turkey. The leading couple teamed up with Yagmur and Durul Taylan as creative producer and director. Along with ‘Wounded Love’, Kanal D is launching many new titles in this upcoming fall and winter season. “There will be more surprises for our clients,” he said. Kanal D is also presenting ‘Waiting for the Sun’, a drama series starring Demet, a self-sacrificing woman who raised her daughter Zeynep by herself. Everything starts changing with the closure of Demet’s shop. While dealing with financial difficulties, she receives a helping hand from her best friend Jale who offers Demet and Zeynep to move in to İstanbul.
‘WOUNDED LOVE’ One of the most beautiful, epic romances ever told is coming to touch the hearts, and deliver the glow of true love that is tested against the toughest conditions of all. Set in the unique picturesqueness of Aegean coasts, this is the love story of a man and a woman whose memorable faith in each other will go through a grave crisis. A powerful portrayal of timeless human emotions, strong characters, a breathtaking romance, a penetrating script, glimmers of grandiose locations unfolding along the beauty of the Aegean coastline, and the highest production quality ensured by the directors of ‘Magnificent Century’. ‘Wounded Love’ is the story of a devoted mother who struggles to keep her family together during the most difficult times a woman can encounter; a mother who is doomed to make a choice between her family and her repressed womanhood. This is the story of one of the most tragic heroes of his times; a hero who is condemned to face the ruination of his family while he can do nothing to stop it. A man in love, who is doomed to witness his beloved one slip through his fingers for a cause that he cannot oppose. Yet, he will not recede from his lie, on behalf of the oath he took, the oath that is so close to his heart. This man, brave enough to dare death without any hesitation, accepts to reject every single part of his life that he cherished. The woman whom he has left behind will tear him apart when she has no choice but to accept a marriage proposal, while pregnant with his child. For what reason would a man allow this to happen to him? Who is one’s most sinister enemy? How can the most apparent truth bear the most tragic lie? Can love be against pride and honor? Can love stay unwounded in the face of betrayal?
In addition, the distributor is introducing ‘Flames of Desire’, in which Bayram and his only friend, his blood brother, Salih, try to forget their dispute between each other by agreeing to engage their children Melek and Kerem at an early age, continuing to live in different cities until their children reach the age of marriage. Other titles featured in Kanal D’s catalog for the event are ‘Sweet Revenge’, about Pelin, a woman unlucky with her love life who finally decides to marry the man of her dreams who gets lost at her wedding day; and ‘For my Son’, in which Poyraz Karayel, a former police officer is suspended unjustly because of a crime he didn’t commit; along with ‘War of the Roses’, ‘Crossroads’, ‘Love of my Life’ and ‘Family Secrets’.
“Even though 2016 has been a hard year globally, we are here to entertain the global audience,” he concluded. ttv
“RTL Croatia was the first pre-sale closed for ‘Wounded Love’ in less than 24 hours after we announced it to our clients.”
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Having already landed important partnerships in the region this year, such as the one with Somos Distribution, which distributes the five Kanal D titles ‘Mercy,’ ‘Gumus,’ ‘Outsiders,’ ‘Sunshine Girls’ and ‘Matter of Respect;’ the company will be present at Mipcom “looking for new opportunities such as co-productions and digital,” Emrah Turna said.
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Brighter and Stronger than Ever RTVE’s international division is packing a catalog full of fiction titles, proving the company is “starting one of the brightest stages in terms of production and distribution.” With premiere titles and new seasons of its iconic series, the company is arriving in Cannes to continue its expansion across the globe. By Josefina Mezzera / @ttvmedianews / jmezzera@todotv.tv “We’re starting one of our brightest stages in terms of production and distribution.” The Silence Sonata Series
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TVE is arriving at Mipcom in Cannes with two clear goals: to extend its number of markets by reaching new countries with its productions and strengthening its relationships with those where it’s already present. Boosted by the success of its fiction series, over the last few years the Spanish pubcaster’s programming has travelled easily to international markets, even making its way into several SVOD offers. However, this didn’t come easy for the company. Rafael Bardem, Deputy Director of Program Sales and Licensing at RTVE, explained local programmers’ interests are not always the same as the international demand. “Combining both interests is the hardest task for our commercial teams,” he said.
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“Fortunately, we’ve been able to advance notably over the last few years and we’re starting one of our brightest stages in terms of production and distribution,” he added. Premieres and New Seasons. Leading its catalog for Mipcom 2016, RTVE is presenting ‘The Silence Sonata’ in Cannes, a new series set in Spain in the 40s. It’s a nine-episode thriller that tells the story of two generations trying to make a difference in a world that imposes social behaviors and very rigid morals. The Spanish pubcaster’s catalog this year also features new seasons of its emblematic series, which have been renewed by the network. One of the highlights is the ninth and last season of ‘Águila Roja’, which premiered its second raft of episodes back in September and certainly didn’t disappoint: the final half of the season premiered to an impressive 16.6% market share, which translated into 2.58 million viewers. RTVE also locked down seasons 18 and 19 of ‘Cuéntame cómo pasó’, the longest-running and most awarded series in Spain. Produced by Ganga, it made its debut in 2001 and since then has been sold in over 20 countries.
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In addition, the company is presenting new seasons of ‘Olmos y Robles’, ‘Víctor Ros’, ‘Acacias’ and ‘Seis hermanas’; as well as the third season of ‘The Department of Time’.
Deputy Director, Program Sales and Licensing at RTVE
‘The Department of Time’ Returns with a Bang. Produced by RTVE in collaboration with Onza Entertainment, ‘The Department of Time’ is the jewel in the Spanish pubcaster’s crown. Created by Javier and Pablo Olivares, the story imagines a government organization in charge of protecting the nation’s history, with a group of time-travelers that embarks on fantastic adventures in the past, reliving key moments in the country’s history.
What’s the key to this phenomenon? “For me, the success lies in the creators’ brave development and the challenge taken on by RTVE’s heads of fiction,” Bardem said. “It was a very innovative format that came at a time when creativity was stagnant.” After months of uncertainty, recently RTVE’s Administrative Councul approved the re-
newal of ‘The Department of Time’ for a third season of 13 episodes. And they even took it a step further, announcing that “the new season will entail a jump in quality from the previous two, and have important improvements in production and post-production, with more locations and special effects, infographics and 3D.” All this promises to improve the expectations for its international sales, which has already traveled to multiple territories. “The series is selling well in America. We just signed a deal in Brazil with Globosat, which joins Mexico, where it was acquired by Canal 22 and will also air on Televisa’s platform, Blim. These deals also join the long list of countries that have acquired it,” he concluded. ttv
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The series’ main success was among its fans: baptized as “ministéricos”, they’ve moved in mass on social media and through interactive products, taking the series to the top, with awards that can be counted by the dozen.
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“’The Department of Time’ was a very innovative format that came at a time when creativity was stagnant.”
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International Co-Production Alliances By Rodrigo Ros / @r__ros / rros@todotv.tv Silencios de Familia Series
During filming for ‘Silencios de familia’, Pol-ka Producciones’ most recent production for El Trece in Argentina, ttv spoke to Adrián Suar, who shared details about some of the company’s current and future international projects. In addition, Pol-ka Producciones announced another deal to develop the new original series, ‘El jardín de bronce’, with HBO Latin America Group. Lastly, Suar noted that his producer is constantly active in both the local and international markets: “There are times when we’re busier and times when things settle down. We are now lucky to be creating great things at the producer,” he concluded. ttv
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After four intense months, the actors and production teams finished the series’ production phase. Starring Adrián Suar, Julieta Díaz and Florencia Bertotti, the show is directed by Daniel Barone and written by Javier Daulte. “We are very excited. It’s a special show that has elements that all of us working on it really like. When we put the series together a year ago, we thought about this somewhat dysfunctional family, with complex characters and great empathy with the viewers, who live everyday things that people can relate to,” Suar said.
Suar also spoke about other titles in the horizon for Pol-ka Producciones: “We are excited about the deal with Televisa to develop telenovelas. We already started with ‘Divina’ and we will also do ‘Simona’ later on,” he said about the alliance with the Mexican giant. In this sense, the executive highlighted the strong relationship between his company and Turner Latin America, as well as its co-productions with The Walt Disney Company Latin America, especially the internationally successful ‘Violetta’, which catapulted the Argentine producer to a new level. “With ‘Violetta’, something very important happened for the producer, which was being able to develop the show. We are now doing two other things with them which are such a pleasure. It positions us on a new level that’s so important for this humble producer,” he said.
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actor and producer, Programming manager of El Trece, and artistic director and founder of the Argentine company, about Pol-ka’s international projects.
“We are happy with the deal we have with Televisa to develop telenovelas.”
FERNANDO BLANCO STEPS DOWN AS PRESIDENT OF POL-KA In a press release sent on July 12, Pol-ka Producciones announced Fernando Blanco is stepping down from his role as president, remaining as a shareholder. According to the announcement, Blaco is leaving the company for “personal reasons” and “in agreement with his partners.” Adrián Suar, Artistic director and founder, will be in charge of the local and international management of all the company’s projects. In addition, Roberto Lorenzi, who’s currently Administration and Finances Manager, has been named General Manager.
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Faith in Their Formula By Luis Cabrera / @luis_cabreram / lcabrera@todotv.tv
Following ‘Moses and the Ten Commandment’s unprecedented international success, Record once again bet on an epic biblical production. With astounding production values, ‘The Promised Land’ is walking down the same success path as its predecessor.
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f it’s not broken, don’t fix it. Or, in Record TV’s case, do it even bigger. That’s the premise behind the Brazilian network’s current production strategy, as it continues to find great local and international success through its biblical productions.
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This year, the network premiered its latest title in the genre, ‘The Promised Land’, the telenovela that continues the story from ‘Moses and the Ten Commandments’. ‘The Promised Land’, which premiered in Brazil on July 5, is a biblical super production, with 130 episodes and an average budget of US$ 200,000 (650,000 reales) for each one.
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Record and production house Casablanca Content, decided to raise the bar on a genre that has resulted in so much success and recognition, especially since ‘Moses and the Ten Commandments.’
“The audience has approved these productions. People seek the word of God. They want to sit in front of the TV as a family and relax, with quality programming they can watch with their kids and that provides a message of hope. This doesn’t happen only here in Brazil, but also overseas. ” Anderson “What we have in storeSouza, for the next few months for our channels -especially when it comes to original director of Drama Record. is really amazing.” productions in LatinatAmerica-
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BIG SCREEN FUTURE The high point in Record’s road through epic biblical productions was achieved by ‘Moses and the Ten Commandments’, a telenovela that travelled past Brazil’s small screen to become a groundbreaking international success, and a boxoffice record in Brazil, thanks to its film adaptation. And now, ‘The Promised Land’ now stands as its successor.” “It was a great idea to take ‘Moses and the Ten Commandments’ to the big screen and it was also right to produce a musical that will travel across Brazil. ‘The Promised Land’ will follow down the same path. We will create several sub-products, including never-before-seen scenes that will be exclusive to the film versoin,” Souza said.
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“Production must be praised, because it’s an incredibly high investment, with thousands of professionals working round-the-clock, a wonderful cast and great directing by Alexander Avancini.” - Renato Modesto, screenwriter of ‘The Promised Land’ “It was a great idea to take ‘Moses and the Ten Commandments’ to the big screen and it was also right to produce a musical that will travel across Brazil. ‘The Promised Land’ will follow down the same path.” Anderson Souza, director of Drama at Record.
A WORD FROM ITS STARS Sydney Sampaio, actor who plays Joshua
The premiere of ‘The Promised Land’ averaged 18 rating points, spiking up to 19 at times, and a 24% market share in San Pablo. Three months later, the telenovela is now scoring 15 ratings points and reaching a 19% market share in San Pablo, and 20 points and 15% share in Rio de Janeiro, where it averaged an 18.3 rating during the first weeks on air.
“Without a doubt, this is the best role of my life and the most important of my career. It’s a great honor to have this role, especially after the success of ‘The Ten Commandments’, which was a milestone in Brazilian drama.”
“The audience has approved these productions,” Souza said. “People seek the word of God. They want to sit in front of the TV as a family and relax, with quality programming they can watch with their kids and that provides a message of hope. This doesn’t happen only here in Brazil, but also overseas.”
Paloma Bernardi, actress who plays Samara
But that’s not all: ‘The Promised Land’, which is an adaptation of The Book of Joseph, the leader of the Jewish people after Moses’ death, brings passion and action to the already engaging combination of romance, drama and epic events.
“This character was a challenge for me. I had to ride a horse and train with swords, because she was an excellent swordswoman. We shot some scenes in Angola, the Namib deserts, a very beautiful place. We had a wonderful time in an inspiring place. The people there are very happy. It was truly perfect.” Felipe Folgosi, actor who plays Hebrew warrior Eliber “We have action, romance and a great deal of heart. My character, called Eliber, is well-rounded. The values of the Jewish people who conquered the Promised Land. Those intimate things, ethical matters, will be there and that makes it a very unique production that will not only entertain but also provoke thought.” Raphael Vianna, actor who plays Hebrew warrior Tobias “Those who watched ‘The Ten Commandments’ will see a continuation of that story, but with a new plot and new characters. It’s a telenovela that has a fast dynamic, with events happening every week. I am sure that whether you saw ‘The Ten Commandments or not’, you will love it.”
“’The Promised Land’ is a bigger challenge than ‘Moses and the Ten Commandments,” said Anderson Souza, director of Drama at Record, at a press conference hosted during the series’ presentation in San Pablo, Brazil. “It’s a story that’s not so well known to the general audience, but also has epic elements, such as war, great battles and major events.”
“All throughout the telenovela there are major events, like the crossing of the Jordan river, the fall of the Jerico wall and battles with thousands of soldiers,” said Renato Modesto, screenwriter. “They’re biblical events that the audience will adore.” Modesto took on the challenge of adapting a new part of the Bible, respecting the themes in it and searching for the relation to current events. “The adaptation must be done with great respect to the elements in the Bible, but at the same time, it has to appeal to current audiences, with modern themes. So for instance, the show deals with a very current thing like immigration,” he added. FROM RIO TO ANGOLA. Production for ‘The Promised Land’ was the most ambitious of its kind. Record and Casablanca shot it in their studios in Rio de Janeiro, but also in Angola and Israel, for a total of 43 locations. They invested greatly in special effects, a cast of 80 actors, thousands of people both in front and behind the camera, and hours of training for its stars, who learned to ride horses and fight with swords. The production’s quality is already evident in the trailer, proving why many compare ‘The Promised Land’ to HBO’s massive series, ‘Game of Thrones’. “Production must be praised, because it’s an incredibly high investment, with thousands of professionals working round-the-clock, a wonderful cast and great directing by Alexander Avancini,” Modesto said. “As an author, this gave me great freedom, because it allowed me to write a substantial number of events, trusting that everything would be done with great care. It truly is an amazing production.” ttv
ttv TELENOVELAS / Q&A Joshua Mintz, Advisor for TV Azteca’s General Management
Time to Reinvent the Stories
The Advisor for TV Azteca’s General Management spoke to ttv about the Mexican TV landscape and shared his thoughts on the narratives that will dominate the screen. By Enrique de la Rosa
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V is going through important changes. Companies are joining efforts to provide quality productions, in addition to reinventing their stories, which, according to Joshua Mintz, Advisor for TV Azteca’s General Management, could derive in the Golden Age of Mexican television. The executive, who joined TV Azteca back in January of this year after a long track-record at Telemundo in the US, spoke to ttv about his vision of the current TV landscape and referenced the alliance with Televisa to collaborate in content.
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What’s happening with modern television? Television is changing fast, platforms are multiplying, which is an important sign for the market; major companies working together is the start of high-quality production. People can’t think about producing big events by themselves. We are going to have to meet with important producers to offer products that the audience is used to seeing; high-quality products with innovative stories.
“We are going to have to meet with important producers to offer products that the audience is used to seeing; highquality products with innovative stories.” “Television is going through a Golden Age in many countries and I think we will be experiencing the Golden Age of the new Mexican television.” JOSHUA MINTZ,
ADVISOR FOR TV AZTECA’S GENERAL MANAGEMENT Is television evolving? I feel like Hispanic television in the US is a pioneer in this change, by innovating with formats that were made there and realizing there was a certain type of television audiences no longer connected to. In the US, things premiere earlier, but once they do they almost immediately travel to Mexico as well. I was lucky enough, with over 20 years of experience of working in Mexico, to see it in the US and then return to TV Azteca, ready to reinvent what will be Mexican television. Is it part of the globalization? When you speak globally you speak to everyone in the world. Television is going through a Golden Age in many countries and I think we will be experiencing the Golden Age of the new Mexican television. Everything always has to be for the audience, none of the producers must develop things they want to watch, be-
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ttv TELENOVELAS / Q&A cause it’s not necessarily what the audience is demanding. They’re the ones we work for, but it does give us quality standards of where we want to go. What do you think about drug-dealing stories? They are part of our culture. They don’t date back five years, they’ve been around since drug-dealing started. If you look back at movies from the 70s, everything was based on that world. I don’t think innovative stories involve drug-dealing, I think what happened is that innovation comes from certain stories that coincidentally address the subject, but they have a new quality standard, filmed on location with action scenes and an incredible visual quality. How must content be to fit this new Golden Age of Mexican television? Television will enter a Golden Age in many countries, where several TV productions have the same quality and budget as major feature films, and us at TV Azteca will chase the possibility to invest in more productions and offer high quality to our audience. How will new platforms affect the traditional TV industry? I don’t think that platforms, or even the cable system, will kill broadcast TV, which will continue to be massive. Television becomes the local medium and everyone wants to be connected with our own stories. Broadcast television has its window and will continue to be extremely big. I can’t even visualize a scenario in which broadcast TV succumbs to the weight of new platforms; they are complementary. ttv
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“I don’t think that platforms, or even the cable system, will kill broadcast TV, which will continue to be massive.” “TV Azteca will chase the possibility to invest in more productions and offer high quality to our audience.”
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Bandits
What Women Keep In Silence
ATV Barbaros Bulvari, Cam Han No:153 34349 Besiktas – Istanbul – Turkey Tel.:+90 212 381 2848 Email: info@atvdistribution.com Website: www.atvdistribution.com Satnd: P-1.K63
Executives Attending
Emir Duzel, Content Sales Executive Yasin Elmaci, Content Sales Executive Muge Hanilci, Content Sales Executive Serra Batus, Acquisitions Executive Havva Mizrak, Acquisitions Executive Metin Ergen, General Manager
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Ramón Salomón, Operation Content Director Jessica Fernández, Sales Content Manager Andrés R Payá, Marketing Manager Juan Antonio Fernández, Sales Representative, Medio Oriente y Europa Yonatan Ornelas, Sales Representative, Latinoamérica, REP Berta Orozco, Sales Representative, España, África y Asia, REP
(Drama – 40 X 120’)
(Drama – 50 X 120’)
Young girl who lost her dad when she was a child; Eylül lives with her mother and step-father. Her step-father’s abuses unsettles her and her mother believes him over her daughter. Eylül finds herself in front an orphanage. Eylül now has to live around the glamour of rich people’s lives in an orphanage. While every bad days are ahead of her, she still manages to form good friendships.
WEDLOCK
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(Drama – 26 X 120’) A lie told by a desperate mother for her child, pulls everyone in the same swirl. Their lives get upside down. Within the psychological between husband and wife, she only had two choices; either she will surrender to bondage or fight with courage, and build a new life for her children and herself.
SHE WAS PRETTY
(Drama / Romantic – 10 X 120’) Childhood love couple finds each other after years and complicated love game series start with a variety of coincidence. The story of innocent love and childhood memories.
150 Alhambra Circle. Suite #1250. miami, FL, 33134 USA Tel.: 305-960-2018 Fax: 305-960-2017 Website: www.caracolinternacional.com Suite: Booth P0.B1
Executive attendings
Maria Estrella, Sales Executive Asia Jesus Iriepar Murillo, Sales Executive for Easter Europe and Middle East Paloma Garcia, Sales Executive for Western Europe and Africa
WHAT WOMEN KEEP IN SILENCE (Drama – 2271 X 60’)
‘What women keep in silence’ is about the difficulties that women must face every day: family conflicts, violence, addictions, disease, handicaps and food disorders, among other things. In a format that can be adapted to anywhere in the world, each episode dramatizes the situations women have to live through in their social environment and offers information about centers and institutions that can help them solve their problems. A series that was created and inspired by real stories of courageous women who have dared to break the silence.
IRON LADY
(Drama loaded action - 80 X 60’) “It is not revenge. It’s full justice.” When her father is murdered by the most-wanted drug dealer in the country, a woman begins to restlessly pursuit the murderer, using every weapon at hand as the “iron prosecutor”. On the day she graduates as an Attorney, Silvana Durán witnesses the brutal murder of her father. Years later, while working for the General Attorney’s office, she tackles the challenge that will determine the rest of her life: to capture the country’s most wanted drug dealer, who had her father killed. This story is based on a real-life story.
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Executive attendings
Cristobal Ponte, Exclusive Independent Representative for Europe, Africa & M.E.
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Cristobal Ponte, Exclusive Independent Representative for Europe, Africa & M.E.
Lisette Osorio, Vice-president of International Sales
Fidela Navarro, Content and Pay TV Distribution Director
BANDİTS
ORPHAN FLOWERS
Just Looking
CARACOL TELEVISION
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Ziyad Varol, Head of Digital & License
The story of Hizir Cakirbeyli, who climbs the top of the gangland in which he entered while he was a child, and his family... A series full of love, action, revenge. Their lives can end with one bullet but their freedom depends on government. Can Cakirbeyli protect his family and loved ones from gangland?
Against Our Destiny
AGAINST OUR DESTINY
JUST LOOKING
(Telenovela - 60 X 60’)
(Drama Series- 120 X 60’)
Based on the successful novel from Mario Vargas Llosa, ‘The Discreet Hero’ is the parallel story of Felicito Yaneque and Ismael Herrera. Felicito is a brave businessman who opposes a dangerous criminal group that tried to blackmail him. And, Ismael is a rich man who wants to teach his children a life lesson after he finds out they wanted him to die so they could inherit his fortune. What these two men have in common is that they are both married to two sisters, Gertrudis and Armida, who were separated since a very young age because of a terrible fire. Each one of them continues with their life unaware of the fact that the other one also survived, until 20 years after when destiny brings them together to fight against powerful enemies that will try to steal their fortunes.
An innovative and dynamic format that can either be a telenovela or a drama series, it follows five couples who fall in love in different ways: at first sight, at the first laughter, at the first compliment after years of indifference, after the first divorce, and even during the first hip fracture. These lively and spontaneous characters meet or are reunited when they move into the same building – not knowing a psychopath has installed hidden cameras in every apartment.
DIGGING FOR LOVE
(Telenovela - 60 X 60’) ‘Digging for Love’ is a fun story for all the family. It narrates the life of two neighbor families: The Murcias and the Oteros, who have had the best relationship they fight, and as destiny would have it, that day something unexpected occurs: The Murcias discover a treasure buried in the ground between both houses. From that moment on, a series of failed attempts to unearth it will make way for countless entertaining and dramatic situations. What both families are unaware of, is that the original owner of the desired treasure is about to be released from jail and will come back to recover his fortune at any price.
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Ruled By Love (Working Title)
The Promised Land
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Globo
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RECORD TV NETWORK
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Nicola Söderlund, Managing Partner Barbora Susterova, Head of Latin America and Iberia Handan Özkuban, Head of Istanbul Office Nixon Lim, Head of Asia Pacific Dorit Schilling, Independent TV Sales Manager & Consultant
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Fredrik af Malmborg, Managing Director
Executive attendings
Raphael Correa, Executive Director of International Business Daniel Djahjah. Head of International Sales Bruno Assumpcao, Sales Executive Eastern Europe Carolina Krambeck, Sales Executive Eastern Europe Rodrigo Vilela, Sales Executive Africa, Middle East & France Roberto Cabrini, Sales Executive Asia / Oceania Thiago Ferreira, Sales Manager Europe
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Cristina Palacio, Creative and Product VP Maria del Rosario Iregui, VP of Strategic Business Ricardo Cruz, Acquisitions Director Maria Lucia Hernandez, International Sales Director Lina Maria Waked E, International Sales executive Carolina Lozano, International Sales Executive
Gabiel Reyes Copello, President
When Sarp’s brother disappears and is presumed dead his mother hangs onto his memory for dear life. Sarp blames himself for having lost him and is still haunted by the loss. Just as Sarp is to graduate from the police academy he is assigned to infiltrate the mafia syndicate run by the mob boss, Celal Karabaş. He believes by succeeding with his mission he will finally find peace in his mind and soul.
BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL (103 x 45’)
‘Brave and Beautiful’ is the launch of the season on Star TV in Turkey with Tuba Büyüküstün and Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ in the leading roles. Tahsin is head of the Koroglu family, his wealth and great influence in society makes him feared and respected by everyone. There isn’t a place or person in town that he does not control. Tahsin has two children; his son Korhan is a big disappointment to his father, but Sühan, his smart and beautiful daughter, he loves dearly.
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(Series – 123 x 60’)
(Telenovela - 120 X 60’) This modern fairy tale tells the story of a homeless girl who dreams of helping out her family and finds her big chance of turning her life around in a fashion modeling contest - but the way to winning it and becoming a star will be a lot harder than she originally envisioned.
TIME AFTER TIME
(Telenovela - 100 X 60’) Livia and Felipe are in a forbidden love story doomed to end tragically. A century later, they both have a new chance to make their love real again. ‘Time After Time’ is an innovative romance set in two different eras in which characters hold the opportunity to make up for their mistakes, come to terms with the past and write themselves another story
BOOGIE OOGIE
(Telenovela - 90 X 60’) After a tragic plane crash, two young women of opposite personalities and social classes meet and end up fighting for the love of the same man. What they don’t know is that their destinies were tied long before, when they were exchanged at birth. This secret will change the lives of all involved in this story of love and revenge set in Disco’s golden years.
Delmar Andrade, International Sales Director
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‘Ruled By Love’ is a story which takes place in a successful family law firm with lawyers who are experts in family law, experienced in separations, divorces, couple´s conflicts and family problems in general. This group of lawyers will face in their personal lives similar situations than those of their clients, which will make them confront their own feelings.
GALY GALIANO´S STORY Series – 100 X 60’)
The story of Carmelo, a humble and unattractive man who became famous by accident. His main objective was find love with the woman of his dreams, but ended up catching the attention of many women with his romantic music, making the difference on the music trends of the time. Inspired by love, Carmelo aka Galy, created a music band named “Los Diamantes del Cesar” with whom he lives the most funny and comic adventures. As he became famous, he starts traveling abroad and it is in his artistic tour in Mexico, Los Angeles and different parts of the world where he will meet the mother of his daughters, and will start having again new struggles in life to survive the fame, the groupies and all the ups and downs on the music market.
After Moses’ death, Joshua is the new leader of the Hebrews. He is an experienced warrior, gifted with courage, determination and a powerful faith. But it is no easy task to lead the people to its new destination. With his closest and trusted allies, Joshua must fulfill a difficult mission ordered by God: to command the twelve tribes of Israel in their conquest of Canaan, the promised land.
THE SLAVE MOTHER
(Soap Opera – 15 X 60’) Some stories are so striking they span generations. Such is the case of ‘The Slave Isaura’. The life story of the light-skinned slave girl who was obsessively pursued by Mr. Leôncio, won the world through page and screen. But every story has a beginning, and none of her story would have come about without the characters and plot of ‘The Slave Mother’.
MOSES AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Soap Opera – 240 X 60’)
An epic soap opera that retells one of the most famous parts of the Bible: the story of Moses, from his birth to the arrival of his people in the Promise Land, through the Red Sea crossing and the encounter with God on Mount Sinai.
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‘Wings of Love’ is the new hit series on Fox Turkey, launched in September 2016 with very strong ratings, and currently the Nº1 series on Friday nights. Leyla has been in a miserable marriage in Germany for years and in hope of making a better life for her son Rüzgar, gets a divorce. She turns to her father for support but he and his new family want nothing to do with her. Instead her father convinces her to accept the marriage proposal of his old friend Haşmet, a respected and successful businessman, and move with him to Istanbul.
RULED BY LOVE (WORKING TITLE) TOTAL DREAMER
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(Soap Opera - 130 X 50’)
Ricardo Scalamandré, Head of International Business
(108 X 45’)
Edson Pfutzenreiter Mendes, International Sales Manager
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Sunshine Girl
Educating Nina
La Doña
Somos DISTRIBUTION
TELEFE
2601 s. Bayshore Dr. Ste, 1250, Coconut Grove, Fl 3313 Tel.: +1-786-220-04-40 Email: fvillanueva@somosdistribution.net Website: www.somosdistribution.net
Prilidiano Pueyrredón 2989, 2nd floor (B1640ILA) Martinez, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: (5411) 4102-5994 Fax: (5411) 4587-4349 Email: sales@telefeinternational.com.ar Website: www.telefe.com.ar Booth: R9.A20
Executives Attending
Francisco Villanueva, Vice President & COO, Vice Presidente y COO Mariana Villanueva, Sales Manager, Gerente de Ventas Luis Guillermo Villanueva , COO Jose Antonio Espinal, Vicepresidente & COO, Vice Presidente y COO
TOP eXECUTIVE Luis Villanueva, President and CEO, Presidente y CEO
Executives Attending
Daniel Otaola, Content Distribution Manager Guillermo Borensztein, VP of Coproductions & New Business Development Maria del Rosario Cosentino , International Business Executive Diana Coifman, International Business Senior Executive Diana Coifman, International Business Executive Meca Salado Pizarro, Head of Marketing
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TELEMUNDO INTERNACIONAL 2555 Ponce de Leon Blvd., 4th Floor Coral Gables FL 33134, USA Tel.: (786) 394-1210 Fax: (305) 774-7372 Email: Olimpia.DelBoccio@nbcuni.com Website: www.telemundointernacional.tv Stand: P4.C14
Executives Attending
Xavier Aristimuño, SVP of International Business Development & Digital Media Esperanza Garay, SVP of Sales & Acquisitions, Latin America Melissa Pillow, VP of Sales, Europe Olimpia Del Boccio, VP of Marketing, Press & Promotions Yari Torres, Sales Planner, Asia Elena Aguirre, Sales Planner, Europe
TELEVISA INTERNACIONAL Av. Vasco de Quiroga 2000, Col. Santa Fe, México DF, 01210 Tel.: +1 (786) 265 2500 Website: www.televisainternacional.tv Booth: R9.A2
Executives Attending
Carlos Castro, General Sales Director Ricardo Ehrsam, General Director of Entertainment Formats of Televisa Internacional Claudia Sahab, Director of Europe Mario Castro, Director of Sales Asia, Africa and Middle East Claudia Silva, Director of the Southern Cone Cecilia Galeana, Director of Central America Silvia García, Director of Sales CIS and Middle East Douglas Welch, Director of Sales Africa
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TOP eXECUTIVE
Tomas Yankelevich, International Business Director
SUNSHINE GIRL
The Three Sides Of Ana
Fernando Pérez-Gavilán, VP Televisa Internacional
Marcos Santana, President
(Turkish Drama – 117 X 45’) Güneş, is a 35-year-old woman with three daughters, who are opposite characters of each other. One day a businessman from İstanbul named Haluk Mertoğlu’s bumps into Güneş. Each daughter has a different reaction to the relationship her mom has with Haluk. The life of Mertoğlu family is not as perfect as it seems. When both families meet, all the secrets will come to light and nothing will be the same.
(Comedy – 120 X 60’)
The Mayer’s fortune is in danger after the arrival of an impostor. He will try to seduce the true heir Maria Mayer.
‘Educating Nina’, the new comedy produced by Telefe and Underground, starring Griselda Siciliani (Nina and Mara) and an important cast, had a successful premiere in Telefe prime time, in Argentina, on April 11th. Since then, it has kept a 40% of TV home share, becoming the undisputed leader in its time-slot. (Source: Ibope) ‘Educating Nina’ is the story of twin sisters who are separated at birth. They lead very different lives, and they ignore the existence of the other. Their lives radically change when Nina is forced to live her sister’s life.
39 AND A HALF
DEAR DADDIES
(Polish Telenovela – 39 X 45’)
(Comedy – 130 X 60’)
A story that includes drama and comedy and talks about a crisis everyone will face sooner or later: the “40 year crisis”.
This adaptation of the original comedy ‘Dear Daddies’ produced by Telefe, was first aired on last June at 10.30 p.m. on Mega. It reached an average of 24.8 points on television rating and a peak of 28, thus achieving an average of 35.5% points on television share. The first episode of “Dear Daddies, thank God for mothers… and fathers” beat its competition for over 10 points on this very competitive Prime Time, and it kept this tendency in subsequent episodes, turning the comedy into the new success of the TV channel.
ROSA FOGO
(Portuguese Telenovela – 164 X 60’)
STOLEN DREAMS
(Greek Telenovela – 125 X 45’)
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EDUCATING NINA
Two very different guys compete for the love of the same woman. They both go to the same university. What they don’t know though, is that the things they have in common are far more dangerous than what keeps them apart. Well-hidden secrets from the past will influence them both and their families.
LA DOÑA
(Telenovela – 120 X 60’ HD) ‘La Doña’, starring renowned Mexican actress Aracely Arámbula, is a story of revenge, betrayal and ambition, but also of redemption, justice and love, which follows the life of Altagracia, a woman of striking beauty who lost her parents to a fatal car accident, and who at a young age suffered the abuse of a group of young men. These rich depraves known as the Porquis violated her innocence while being protected by the impunity that their high social position gives them. Since then, Altagracia becomes a ruthless and ambitious woman, an unfeeling mother who abandoned her daughter at a young age and uses her charms to amass an empire that allows her to impose law and take justice into her own hands. Despite her considerable success, Altagracia is missing something: love. And, she discovers it for the first time when she meets Saul, an attorney who defends the victims of gender violence and young women fighting for a way out of unemployment, poverty and overpopulation. But Saul has already captivated Monica, a lovely young woman of humble beginnings, with a compassionate and optimistic attitude toward life. She is Altagracia’s estranged daughter. Altagracia will now be confronted by the two feelings she had previously avoided: love for her daughter and love for a man.
THE THREE SIDES OF ANA (Traditional – 120 X 60’)
In the past, a serious accident left triplets Ana Lucía, Ana Leticia, and Ana Laura marked by pain as it took away their parents’ life and also separated Ana Lucía from her family. Ernestina, the triplets’ grandmother, and Ramiro, their uncle, look for Ana Lucía, but they can’t find her. Years later the search for Ana Lucía continues. Ana Laura longs to find her sister but Ana Leticia doesn’t, since it would mean sharing her inheritance and the love of those around her. This is why, when her husband Marcelo is about to find Ana Lucía, she hires someone to kill him in order to solve the problem all at once… but Marcelo survives and just loses his memory; then, a woman helps him and gives him a new name: Santiago. Santiago’s and Ana Lucía’s paths meet, but both of them ignore their past and what they have in common.
ALONG CAME LOVE
(Traditional – 120 X 60’) After being deported and her father died, Luciana travels to the US to meet again with her mother and brother, but when she arrives to the vineyard where they work and meets David, the landowner, she also bumps into an unexpected thing: love. Despite their differences, they both immediately feel an attraction for each other, but this situation also alerts all those who don’t want that a new relationship may help David recover the desire to live.
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Compelling Stories Win Big Combining third-party productions and original content, Red Arrow International is arriving at Mipcom to continue building on the success it enjoys with its productions, while opening the doors for new partners and collaborations. By Sofía Vanoli / @Soph_VB / svanoli@todotv.tv
across a mix of genres; and to be the home for world-class scripted talent,” he added. With that in mind, the company is arriving at Mipcom with an offering spearheaded by two major productions: ‘Mata Hari’, an epic English-language drama that charts the extraordinary life of the infamous spy; and ‘Look Me in the Eye’, a social experiment that puts the power of eye contact to the test, by attempting to reunite divided friends and families. “We have already had considerable international enthusiasm from several buyers from around the world,” highlighted Pabst, who also commented on the company’s strong
interest in the North American, European and Asian markets. The catalog is completed by scripted shows like action-packed thrillers ‘Farang’ and ‘Pregau’, the return of crime drama ‘The Romeo Section: Assassins’, and web comedy ‘The Glory is Gone’. In the movie arena, the highlight is the event movie ‘Jack the Ripper’. In addition, formats also remain a key priority for Red Arrow, with the company presenting shows such as ‘The Decision’, ‘Streetlab’, ‘Match Factor’ and ‘Kiss Bang Love’, which will join ‘Look Me in the Eye’. “Our formats slate at this year’s Mipcom highlights our commitment to working with some of the world’s top creative talent across entertainment, reality and comedy,” the executive said. The formats will also be accompanied by a growing catalog of factual entertainment content that, which like many of the shows in the lineup, are an interesting balance of third-party productions and original content; an approach that has served the company well. “I think that in order to be a distributor with wide appeal to clients in all regions it is important to build a diverse catalog. That means putting together slates of shows that come from both our in-house companies, and also tapping into the creative energy of third party production partners around the world,” Pabst concluded. ttv
“In order to be a distributor with wide appeal to clients in all regions, it is important to build a diverse catalog.”
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Managing Director AT Red Arrow International
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“The demand for original, well written drama with characters that really cut through is fundamental,” the executive explained. “Our aim is to deliver ambitious, international drama with well-written, character-driven stories
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ed Arrow International has had a long tradition of hit formats and drama series, but what is the key to its success? According to Henrik Pabst, Managing Director of the company, it all comes down to listening carefully to the broadcasters’ needs and delivering content that puts an emphasis on production values and creativity.
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It’s Raining Formats By Valentina Vinaja / @vvinaja / vvinaja@todotv.tv
Years after making a name for itself as one of the main providers of Hispanic fiction content, Televisa delved into the entertainment formats market, a genre that allowed it to reach new, key MARKETS WHERE IT hadn’t been before.
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t’s safe to say Televisa’s division, Televisa Formats, has truly become one of its strongest in terms of content distribution. The company was able to take its relationships with traditional buyers across the globe to the next level, commercializing a new product, entertainment formats, and even taking them to brand new markets where its content wasn’t present yet.
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“It’s a very important milestone for Televisa to have closed a deal for ‘Stand Up for Your Country’ in Holland, because it opens up new opportunities in other territories.”
The result? Over the last three years, Televisa Formats managed to sell dozens of formats in every continent and hit the spot with offers that are easily adapted to all cultures. For instance, ‘Generation Gap’ and ‘Assembly Game’, are two formats that have been registering good results and are on its way to reach 14 new international territories. “Our game show timeslots with ‘Generation Gap’ and ‘The Assembly Game’, Televisa’s daily one-hour offer for canal 2 in Mexico, has many countries inquiring for the format while others have already signed deals for it,” Ricardo Ehrsam, Global Director of Entertainment Formats at Televisa Internacional, explained to ttv. Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Poland and Portugal are some of the countries currently evaluating the option to acquire these formats, in addition to France and Italy, now in advanced negotiations. “This just happened this past summer. We are in negotiations
“’Domus’ is a reality show where we incorporate all the elements as if it was taking place on Mars.”
with at least 13 or 14 countries eager to sign this year, and we hope to do so at Mipcom.” And in the case of ‘Los González’, a fiction with pranks that resembles a sitcom, the format has been adapted with success in Italy and Spain, and Televisa is expecting sales to multiply in Latin America with a Mexican version that premiered in September. ‘STAND UP’ ARRIVES IN HOLLAND. After traveling across several countries in Europe with excellent ratings results, ‘Stand Up for Your Country’ made it all the way to Holland, one of the countries with the longest tradition of entertainment formats and the homeland of some of the most relevant non-scripted content in the international market. The Televisa format was adapted as ‘Jij & Ik’ and made its debut in July on the NPO 1 network. The version reached a 17% share in its premiere, seen by more than 928,000 viewLos González Ficition
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ers, which is a 25% increase in the traditional audience for this type of specials in Holland. In addition, the format surpassed the show airing in the same timeslot the previous week by 3.7 points. “It’s a very important milestone for Televisa to have closed a deal for ‘Stand Up for Your Country’ in Holland, because it opens up new opportunities in other territories. We were on the air with the first gala in the summer and we will have an entire season by 2017,” Ehrsam said. FOR THIS MIPCOM EDITION. The creativity and development team at Televisa doesn’t rest. For this edition of Mipcom edition, the distributor is arriving with a fresh offer in different sub-genres that promise to draw in buyers from all over the region. The catalog’s main highlight is ‘My Next Me’, which in Mexico has been named ‘La apuesta’. “It’s a singing talent show. It went on the air in October in Mexico, it’s our star format. We presented it in Mipcom last year and now it’s a reality. It’s the new talent show, the new format the market is waiting for,” he said.
“We will continue to invest resources and creativity in content and innovation.”
For this format, Televisa is looking for co-development partners to create the first version. “We still haven’t decided where the first version will be made. It doesn’t necessarily have to be in Mexico. It will be a deeper development process and only then we will see which country we will do it in. We are open to any network who wants to join the project.” Lastly, the executive mentioned another original format it will showcase at Mipcom, named ‘Cuenta conmigo’: “We are bringing to life a bold concept and new business model through this program which incorporates the science of numerology with a world-renowned specialist who helps people discover who they are, and help them find their true essence and bring them to the life path they must truly be on,” Ehrsam said. With all these projects in store and the good results obtained this year, Ehrsam is arriving at Mipcom with very high hopes: “The global entertainment formats division has become a very important area for Televisa that has led us to position ourselves in an aggressive, collaborative and resourceful way, always thinking about best ways to bring solutions to our clients and partners around the world. For that reason we will continue our commitment to invest resources and creativity in content innovation worldwide,” he concluded. ttv
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In addition, the company is daring to bet on groundbreaking formats like ‘Domus’, described by Ehrsam as “a survival reality show on Mars.” He said: “It’s a reality show where we incorporate all the elements as if it was taking place on
Mars. Many of the challenges take place inside the Domo house and many outside, with different activities that make the contestants feel like they’re on Mars.”
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Drama Takes Center Stage Studiocanal is gearing up for this year’s Mipcom with an exciting lineup of high quality programming that promises to engage and excite audiences. In addition, the company is focusing on strong alliances that will keep up with audiences’ demands. By Sofía Vanoli / @Soph_VB / svanoli@todotv.tv
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The Hispanic market is an important one for us and we are eager to show broadcasters of all kinds that our content would be a great addition to their lineups,” that, as stated by Katrina Nylon, EVP International Sales & Marketing at Studiocanal, represents the company’s main goal as it heads to Mipcom 2016. Continuing what has been a successful year of growth and drama production, the company has a few surprises in store for the event, including a brand new series based on a true by creators Mårlind & Stein and an idea by Henrik Jansson-Schweizer and Patrick Nebout. “We’re delighted to showcase ‘Midnight Sun’, a high concept thriller set in a small mining community in remote northern Sweden where a series of brutal murders conceal a secret conspiracy,” the executive said to ttv.
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“We find that good, top-quality programming, with a unique and compelling story, will interest broadcasters.”
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To complete the lineup, Studiocanal is also presenting new highly produced event TV series including ‘Section Zéro’, a political sci-fi thriller from Olivier Marchal; Harlan Coben’s ‘The Five’, a ten-part thriller which is the first original story Coben has written exclusively for the screen; and eight-part drama series, ‘Baron Noir’, a suspenseful drama that follows a French politician and his thirst for revenge. “Broadcasters are looking for defining content that is unique and intriguing. Event seThe Five Thriller
ries that will captivate audiences and ensure they tune in again and again or binge watch,” highlighted Nylon regarding the company’s catalogue. “This type of international drama is our hallmark and we are seeing a growing demand for our series.” “Our content is extremely well made, with complex and innovative storylines and performances by award winning talent. We know Latin American audiences want to see high quality programming on their screens that engages and excites them,” she added. In addition, the executive focused on the company’s partnerships with many European production companies, and other partners worldwide, which allows for Studiocanal to consolidate its position as a go-to studio in the global market for stand-out event drama programming. “There are lots of European stories to be told and our European partners are creating content which resonates with large audiences; but collaborating and developing relationships with like-minded partners in the US is extremely important to our business too,” explained Nylon. “We find that good, top-quality programming with a unique and compelling story will interest broadcasters, and ultimately viewers, wherever they are situated. We prefer to inhabit a world without defining borders and look to produce high energy content with broad appeal,” she concluded. ttv
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Telefe: Transmedia Fiction in Cannes
The Argentine producer and distributor is presenting its most recent fiction production at Mipcom 2016, the telenovela ‘Love After Love’: a transmedia experience that will extend the main plot onto different platforms and allow users to become more involved in the story. By Sebastián Amoroso @sebamoroso samoroso@todotv.tv
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TELEFE PREMIERES ADAPTATION OF ‘MAD ABOUT YOU’ On September 5, Telefe premiered ‘Loco por vos’ in primetime, the adaptation of the Sony Pictures Television sitcom, ‘Mad About You’, aired in the US between 1992 and 1999 on NBC. The romantic comedy (66x40’) made its debut on Telefe at 9:15pm, dominating the timeslot, Mondays through Thursdays. Produced by Telefe, production lasted six months, directed and developed by Carlos Luna (‘Resistiré’, ‘Aliados’, ‘El elegido’). ‘Loco por vos’ is the fourth project Telefe has developed with Sony, after ‘The Nanny’, ‘Bewitched’ and ‘Married with Children’. Same as in the original version, the series revolves around a marriage between a PR expert (Julieta Zylberberg) and a documentarist (Juan Minujín). They’ve been married for a few months and slowly the two characters start to discover the challenges of living together.
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rior to its premiere in Argentina, which is scheduled for 2017, Argentine production and distribution company Telefe is launching its new fiction series at Mipcom 2016: the telenovela ‘Love After Love’, “a story of love and pain in two times,” as its tagline says. Starring renowned Argentine actors Mariano Marínez, Isabel Macedo, Eleonora Wexler and Federico Amador, ‘Love After Love’ is based on the forbidden love story that starts from a friendship between two marriages. The story recalls the accident a couple suffers in the highway, which sparks a lot of doubt and questions. Three years prior to it, Raquel (Isabel Macedo) and Damián (Federico Amador), wealthy businessmen, and Carolina (Eleonora Wexler) and Santiago (Mariano Martínez), a temperamental housewife and a construction worker. The four of them have no idea that when the families meet, an inevitable attraction will happen. The telenovela is shot entirely in 4K technology, with a great cinematographic quality, that meets the standards required to distribute the product in the international market, meeting their demands and using the value of Telefe’s technical resources for this type of challenges. TRANSMEDIA EXPERIENCE. The Argentine network announced the new telenovela will be a transmedia experience, extending the plot’s main subject to different platforms, allowing users to get involved in the story even more. ‘Love After Love’s digital experience will have a blog and a webseries with original content, that will let users see different points of view of the main story. The webseries stars Laura (Manuela Pal), the wife of detective Godoy (Michel Noher), who’s affected by a deep depression, but will slowly find a way out through the case her husband is working on. In this sense, Laura will start a parallel investigation, based on her intuition as a writer, hiding it from detective Godoy.
Their story will change radically when they’re forced to live each other’s lives. Mara was born in a privileged world. Shallow, lazy and spoiled, she never had to worry about working, doesn’t take orders from anyone and is only motivated by having a good time.
“The ‘Love After Love’ premiere in Argentina is scheduled for 2017.” “The telenovela is filmed entirely in 4K technology.”
Telefe is also presenting ‘The Return of Lucas’ (60x60’), a co-production with América TV in Peru, which tells the story of a wealthy family that loses its eldest son, 4-year-old Lucas, at the beach. Elena, her mother, is obsessed with finding him because she believes he’s still alive and will never stop searching for him, neglecting her other kids and her husband Reynaldo, who took care of the family and their company. After 20 years, the mother receives a photo of her son. The new clew gives her new hope of finding Lucas after all. ttv
“The ‘Love After Love’ digital experience will include a blog and a webseries with original content.”
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In each episode, the webseries will reveal a new clue that Laura will unveil in her investigation. The blog -in literary novel form- will be the space where Laura will tell the passionate love story between the lovers.
MORE TELEFE FICTION IN CANNES. In addition, Telefe will present other new series in Cannes, including the comedy ‘Educating Nina’ (80x60’), which tells the story of twin sisters, separated at birth, who don’t know about each other.
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The One True Global Language With over 80 hours of entertainment content in 4k, Gusto Worldwide Media has solidified its position in the international market as one of the biggest producers of Ultra HD content in the world. Now, backed by its partnership with Bell Media, the company is looking forward to increasing its output of innovative and high quality shows. By Luis Cabrera / @luis_cabreram / lcabrera@todotv.tv
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hat is it about cooking shows that makes them so universally compelling? Well, for starters, we all have to eat. “Food and cooking is the one true global language,” said Chris Knight, president and CEO of Gusto Worldwide Media (GWM). “No matter your postal code, age or socio-economic status, chances are when you go home tonight, you’re going to share a meal”. With almost 20 years in the business, Knight has become a staple producer of food programming and in 2013 he took upon himself to reinvent the genre for a new generation with the launch of Gusto TV. “Our content is produced for global consumption, as we believe food is the one true international language. Our shows feature food and cuisine from Thailand, India, Italy, Japan, Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Venezuela. I think what sets us apart from the others is that we’re foodies and we love our content,” he explained.
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The early success of Gusto TV caught the attention of Bell Media, Canada’s largest media company, which acquired the rights to the Gusto brand earlier this year, relaunching the channel in September and securing a production arrangement with Gusto World-
wide Media in the process. Knight’s company supplies exclusive programming for the network, while keeping the show’s rights for international distribution. “Thanks to Bell Media, we are now the biggest producer of 4K/UHD content in the world, all available for international distribution. That’s pretty cool,” said the executive. ALL AROUND HIGH QUALITY. Besides the obvious advantages of having its shows produced in what is expected to become the new resolution standard for audiovisual content in the next few years, GWM’s shows have been highly praised by bringing innovation to a populated genre. Gusto TV has been nominated two years in a row in the Channel of the Year category of the Content Innovation Awards and shows like ‘One World Kitchen’, the company first original series, have fulfilled their goal of conquering markets and distinguishing the Gusto brand from the competition. “We wanted our first show to be a shout-out to the world that we were different than the other guys,” said Knight. “’One World Kitchen’ features 5 passionate articulate young women who celebrate their native cuisines and cultures: Thai, Japanese, Argentinian, Italian and Indian.” At Mipcom, GWM will be highlighting other 4k productions like ‘A is For Apple’ (54 x 30’), ‘Fish the Dish’ (30 x 30’) and currently in production shows like ‘La Cucina Latina’ (24 x 30’) and ‘The Gourmet Vegetarian’ (15 x 30’). “We’ve sold many of our shows into numerous territories in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The good news is that we’re making so much new content there is lots of programming available for literally every market in the world,” Knight said. The company will close 2016 with about 80 hours of 4k content, all with full digital assets, and is looking to increase that number to 100 hours next year. “We would very much like to launch Gusto TV in new territories, whether OTT or on more conventional platforms,” he concluded. ttv
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An Integral Transformation After making its international debut at Miptv, Azteca’s new international division, AZ Contenidos, disembarks at Mipcom with a boosted content catalog and the goal of extending the Mexican company’s footprint as a global distributor and co-producer. By Luis Cabrera / @luis_cabreram /lcabrera@todotv.tv
Led by Fidela Navarro, director of Content and Network Distribution, together with Ramón Salomón as head of Operations; AZ Contenidos made its international debut back at Miptv 2016. “We wanted to change the business model entirely,” Navarro said. “We don’t sell only taped content anymore, but rather look for co-productions, pre-sales, and offer new acquisition and alliances formulas. More content, more partners, more companies, more possibilities.” What does the new TV Azteca Internacional entail? The international division is now called TV Azteca Internacional. It integrates two business units: the channel distribution under the AZ TV de Paga brand and the content distribution as AZ Contenidos; and the service division, Acquisitions. This way, we’ve repositioned the company, strengthening the international front and working as a team, considering new formulas, strategic alliances and business models, which translates into more opportunities for everyone.
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“It’s been a fullsteam-ahead kind of start, very strong. We created a new internal structure, a different team of commercial representatives across all territories, a more varied content catalog and a new brand.”
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016 has been a year of transformation for TV Azteca’s organization and general strategy. One of the changes made by the company, now led by Benjamín Salinas, was to end the years-long relationship with the distributor Comarex, which led to the creation of TV Azteca Internacional. The company’s new international division integrates AZ Contenidos -the content distribution area-, an acquisitions division and AZ TV de Paga, which distributes the group’s pay TV networks.
How has AZ Contenidos been working these last few months? It’s been a fullsteam-ahead kind of start, very strong. We created a new internal structure, a different team of commercial representatives across all territories, a more varied content catalog and a new brand. We are ready to end this year of fine-tuning and start a 2017 filled with new business formulas and new content. What can you tell us about the executives the company has added to its team in this area? I’ve set up a team of professionals with different profiles, ages and styles. A complementary diversity, based on proactivity, flexibility and the ability to understand and generate adaptive leaderships. Only this way one can reinvent and change the way to sell content, to win.
Thinking about the company’s transformation. What’s does this entail for the content distribution area? What are your goals? The ability to change the business model in an integral way. We don’t sell only taped content anymore, but rather look for co-productions, pre-sales, and offer new acquisition and alliances formulas. More content, more partners, more companies, more possibilities.
Fidela Navarro,
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What was the experience like at Miptv, the first event you attended as AZ Contenidos? We launched all the new elements (team and brand) and it was our first direct contact with current and potential clients as the TV Azteca team. We went back on the road in our new positions and started establishing new contacts to create strategic alliances and formulas. With some of them we’ve already started breaking the mold, such as the pre-sale to Blim (Televisa) of one of our original series, which will be premiered jointly in Mexico. Boxing has been a very successful content for the company. Why do you think that is? Both boxing and wrestling are entertaining content, and when it comes to wrestling, also very original. The success has come from offering them in an exclusive complementary content package, with a concept and graphic identity ready to be integrated and adapted to any screen in the world. So far we’ve presented it in advance, and at this market we are ready to offer the network and the entire package available. What titles will you be presenting at Mipcom 2016? Four original series that represent TV Azteca’s new phase, led by Joshua Mintz as director of Fiction and produced independently: ‘Entre correr y vivir’, ‘Nada es personal’, ‘La fiscal de hierro’ and ‘¿Quién era
Olivia Zamora?’. They’re series between 40, 80 and up to 120 episodes, full of action, mystery, love, intrigue and suspense, with a new narrative, style, actors and production quality. What are the advantages of leading the network and content distribution, and acquisitions divisions? They’re businesses and actions that converge. There are platforms that require both networks and content, and in terms of content rights’ strategies for all types of windows, we must maximize the possibilities. Business models are more sophisticated now and nobody just buys or sells, but rather each action leads or impacts another one. An integral business vision in every sense forces you to be more creative when it comes to the models and achieving a team result. ttv
“We don’t sell only taped content anymore, but rather look for co-productions, presales, and offer new acquisition and alliances formulas.”
THE AZ CONTENIDOS TEAM In order to take on the restructure of its international division, Azteca went on a quest to find talented professionals, and put together the team that made its debut in Cannes back in April and is now returning to Mipcom. Supervised by Navarro, AZ Contenidos has Ramón Salomón in charge of the operation and a sales team integrated by Berta Orozco (Africa, Asia and French-speaking countries), Yonatan Ornelas (South and Central America) and Juan Antonio Fernández (Europe and the Middle East); Pedro Lascuráin in Acquisitions and Jorge Gutiérrez leading the Pay TV networks.
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In August, TV Azteca premiered two series that engaged Mexican audiences: ‘Any Given Day’ and ‘Among Us’. ‘Among Us’ tells stories of faith from ordinary people, who fight against demons and temptations every day. The series shows how the divine presence manifests itself to help people deal with these situations. ‘Any Given Day’ offers the viewers a game: each episode tells three stories, two of them are recreations of real events that happened in Mexico, and the other one is completely false. The host, Alberto Casanova, invites the audience to guess which ones are which. “We presented these titles as a preview in other markets and they premiered in August in Mexico with great results,” said Navarro. “Many operators have shown interest and we will soon announce new deals.”
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Defying the Mind
E By Alex Lagomarsino * alex@mediabiz.com.ar
“The systematic exercise of defying our own minds and our work teams’ minds, will allow companies to redefine their visions, elaborate new strategies and thus increase their value.”
(*) MediaBiz’s Partner and CEO, an entertainment business agent dedicated to developing the industry in America.
ven though I’ve been working in the entertainment industry for over 25 years, I had never experienced the feeling of entering a new era. Through the years I’ve seen new business models and technologies appear, generating changes in the way entertainment works and especially in how content is consumed. That’s why I want to analyze the situation and at the same time, offer my thoughts on how to navigate the future we face. I would like to refer to this as a tsunami; a tsunami that’s dragging companies, people, and especially paradigms and ways of thinking. Every day we see and read about executive changes; professionals who leave big companies to take on new challenges and others who simply disappear from the media industry. Now it’s necessary to redefine companies’ tactics at least once every four months and their strategies at least once a year. By this I mean we must constantly adapt and evolve as businessmen in the new entertainment industry. Once you are able to understand the new situation, it ceases to exist, which forces you to reinterpret a new scenario and once again understand it, and redefine the course of action. The way the current business works will never exist again as such. This theory is not accepted by traditional executives, those who used to have all the power and believed they were able to -and they did it through the big companies they worked in- mark the way and establish the rules of the market.
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Executives and professionals insist in generating business and providing services -rights’ sales, production services, ad sales, business design- in the same way they’ve been doing so for the last 10 or 20 years, and insist that this is the way they will stand strong and resist the tsunami. Now, those companies feel threatened by new players coming from new places, breaking the codes, invading their turf and defying their business. It’s enough to see the how new technology companies and networks that entered the entertainment business, have managed to become leaders and referents in less than 7 years. These companies have a new way of thinking, they do things differently and redefine themselves every day.
A recent investigation by Parks Associates says 23% of homes led by millennials in the US are only subscribed to an OTT service. Further proof of the change are ratings’ measurements, where traditional content’s ratings have decreased by half, but the audience is still there, watching content and often with better quality. It’s not just about adapting and redefining costs or structures. It’s a new business. This forces and challenges the mind to think inside a new business scheme. It’s necessary to evolve the way we think. Same as man adapted to climate changes and new eras, it’s mandatory to be ready for what’s coming next. It doesn’t cease to amaze me how species adapt to their environment and as Darwin explained, manage to develop new skills and evolve to adapt to the changes. These changes and evolution come from a need to survive and it’s, in the case of the human being, the most evolved species, through thought and knowledge that it adapts and evolves. The new way of thinking is mandatory because it’s no longer possible to find the right path if one continues to think like they used to, or worse, if one can’t break free from traditional business models. The entertainment business is facing challenges and needs challenging people, strong personalities who know how to live in constant change, and adapt their companies and strategies as the industry evolves, since the right path is not clear as we walk it. Talent is the pure essence of this industry. Without it there’s no valuable content; without it there’s no valuable creation; no future, no business. Talent -in whatever shape it comes- is the key element to achieve success. The business must merge with the talent to work on creating new entertainment formulas, developing innovative ideas, and make the industry evolve and grow. Being able to see the world that’s coming is the basis to build the future, because our job -and that of each one in this industry- is to focus on searching for a vision and making it a reality. The road ahead is challenging and exciting at the same time, that’s way it’s necessary to work on the future and think about it to be able to -through overcoming the obstacles and challenges- achieve the vision. ttv
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Quality Over Quantity By Sebastián Amoroso / @sebamoroso /samoroso@todotv.tv
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Telemundo Internacional knows that when it comes to international content distribution, high quality is essential to ensure productions can travel across borders and adapt to multiple cultures, such as the slate of top-tier titles the distributor is presenting at Mipcom, including ‘Rich in Love’, ‘Without Breasts There Is Paradise’ and ‘The Acero Dynasty’.
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n the following interview with ttv, Xavier Aristimuño, SVP of Business Development and International Digital Media at Telemundo Internacional, shared details about NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises’ distribution company’s latest endeavors and its catalog for Mipcom 2016. What challenges do you face with content distribution? These days the main challenges we face are content quality, audience globalization and territory restrictions for the different platforms. Now more than ever, having high quality content, from the script
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to the end production, is essential. Keeping high quality levels in such a changing industry is no easy feat, but Telemundo Internacional works tirelessly to offer a catalog of innovative productions that tend to every detail. The audience is increasingly global, which poses the challenge of offering productions that deal with multi-cultural issues, taking into consideration the limitations that come with talking to such a broad audiences and regions where content is censored. Lastly, we find another important challenge is the exclusive territory requirements platforms have these days, for which we must
find effective alternatives that don’t affect the content distribution. Telemundo Internacional has a team that specializes in each of these issues and we work closely with our clients for these challenges to turn into new consumption opportunities. What’s your outlook on the current linear TV market in relation to the boom of digital platforms and the changes in audiences’ consumption habits? In our case, those changes have been very relevant because the distributor was a pioneer in offering its clients very complete and sophisticated digital content, putting together strategies that
complement the linear offer, in addition to supporting the launch and development of the digital platform and social networks. Where is Telemundo Internacional’s strategy aimed towards? Our strategy is all about tending to our clients’ specific needs across all areas and platforms, which makes us an ideal partner for the launch of high-quality digital content. One of the elements that makes Telemundo Internacional stand out is having created the “super series” concept… Super series have proven to be the most demanded product across Latin America and international digital platforms. On the other hand, due to their strong themes, reduced number of episodes -in comparison to traditional telenovelas- and multiple seasons, our international clients and traditional platforms have identified opportunities to program them. ‘Lord of the Skies’ is one of the super series we can say has had the best results in several international platforms. What do you think about the region’s growing interest in biopics? Programming continues to evolve and Telemundo Internacional is always one step ahead of the pack with captivating stories that are relevant for the audience. Undoubtedly, the life of famous characters, who are admired and beloved by the audience, is always a winning formula. What opportunities are there now for the sale of international formats? Telemundo Internacional has been a pioneer, not only in selling formats around the world -including original stories in Chile and entertainment formats in Spain-, but also in offering a very committed service to our buyers to develop and produce their adaptations. Our classic and more modern series, like ‘The Return’, ‘Pasión de Gavilanes’, ‘Missing’, ‘Second Chance’ and ‘Herederos del Monte’, among others, have been produced internationally in territories across Asia, Africa, Middle East and Europe.
What opportunities do digital platforms offer for Telemundo Internatcional? Telemundo Internacional has been working with the leading digital platforms in Latin America and the world for several years now. Our strategy has been very clear
SVP of Business Development and International Digital Media at Telemundo Internacional
from the start: expanding our global presence, looking for strategic alliances that have a sophisticated reach and projection. At the same time, we’re working with other smaller platforms that are carrying out very interesting business models. ttv Without Breasts There Is Paradise Telenovela
“Telemundo Internacional is always one step ahead of the pack with captivating stories that are relevant for the audience.” “Now more than ever, having high quality content, from the script to the end production, is essential.” “Telemundo Internacional has always been a pioneer in offering its clients very complete and sophisticated digital content.”
TELEMUNDO’S LINEUP FOR MIPCOM 2016 For this edition of Mipcom, Telemundo Internacional is presenting some of the most popular titles from the US network, which have catapulted it to the top of the charts among Hispanic channels in primetime. The lineup includes ‘Rich in Love’ (8:00pm), ‘Without Breasts There Is Paradise’ (9:00pm) and ‘The Acero Dynasty’ (10:00pm). In addition, the distributor is presenting titles from HBO Latin America Originals to be distributed in Europe and Asia, with series such as ‘Psi’ and ‘Dios Inc’, among others. And as always, Telemundo Internacional is presenting fictions and format from Mega in Chile, such as ‘Eres mi tesoro’ and ‘Te doy la vida’.
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How has Telemundo Internacional performed in Africa? Telemundo’s pay TV network in Africa, run under a strategy consolidated with NBCUniversal International Networks, has been notably successful. Africa now represents one of the continents with the highest growth and opportunities for our advertisers, with an audience that’s been captivated by our content.
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INNUMBERS 162 billion
dollars is how much revenue for virtual and augmented reality will be in 2020, says Data Corporation.
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hours a week is how much time consumers spend in front of their ‘screens’, according to The Diffusion Group.
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of bilingual Spanish-language households have a pay TV subscription vs 84% of average households in the US, says Parks Associates.
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is how many video subscribers, cable, satellite and telco operators lost in Q2 2016, says SNL Kagan.
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dollars is how much Juniper Research estimates revenues from SVOD services will generate in 2016.
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of TV viewers are able to recall half or more advertisers seen, ahead of 47% for tablet viewers, says Hub Entertainment Research.
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Dates Confirmed for SPORTELAmerica 2017
Emilio Azcárraga Jean, CEO at Grupo Televisa
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Emilio Azcárraga Explains Plans for Televisa Having re-launched El Canal de las Estrellas, the CEO of Televisa Group, Emilio Azcárraga, was present during the last show of Joaquín López-Dóriga’s newscast, to talk about the future of his company. He said his vision for Canal 2 is for it to stop being seen as a simple broadcast TV channel, but rather as part of the multiplatform offer Televisa will become. He revealed there will be new content and invited young producers outside the network to start developing formats with them, more according to viewers’ new tastes. “There’s a lot coming. Televisa already made a notable change in ‘97. Back then I was 28. Now I’m 48 and technology has changed radically in the last 20 years. We see that content consumption is completely different from what it was 20 years ago, even from what it was five years ago,” he said. “We see technology has advanced so much as far as devices are concerned. The way in which young viewers are accessing information, content, the speed in which they want it, the quality. Evidently, it’s an unstoppable change. And at Televisa we don’t want to be left behind,” he added. He said there’s a major change coming for Televisa and he’s leading it. “I will always bet on change. We will create new shows and try to make them great.” Lastly, the executive invited everyone to connect with the new Canal 2 programming. “Canal 2 is no longer a channel, it’s a platform. Evidently, it will have fixed timeslots, but the challenge is how we get those shows available whenever. I see it with my kids, primetime is no longer an important time for them. So we must generate content that can be seen at any time.”
Laurent Puons, CEO of Sportel, announced the 2017 edition of Sportel America will be held at the JW Marriott Marquis in Miami on March 14-16. “!It’s been important past two years for SPORTEL and its development. Thanks to you SPORTEL has grown in importance and size. SPORTELMonaco has doubled in exhibition space,” said Amparo Di Fede, General Manager. “SPORTELAsia was a sensation and SPORTELAmerica 2017 promises to be an explosion of new business opportunities,” he added. The organization also highlighted the Sportel crew has worked hard to develop more and new opportunities in the territories of the Americas: “After recent events in Brazil, the world has become more aware of new sport opportunities and properties Latin America has to offer, but also the seemingly endless variety of sports out of the Americas makes this convention one of the sexiest of 2017.” Before SPORTELAmerica takes place, the next event is SPORTELMonaco 2016, which is taking place at the Grimaldi Forum on October 24, 25, 26 and 27.
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Mediapro Appoints New Head of International Content Mediapro announced the appointment of Laura Fernández Espeso as the new Head of International Content. From her new role, she will be responsible for the group’s international strategy, including co-productions, home and foreign productions, distribution (Imagina International Sales) and worldwide partnerships. She will report to Mediapro’s Head of Content, Javier Méndez. With over 15 years of experience in the audiovisual industry, she joined Grupo Imagina in January 2009, and since then has worked as Head of International Development and Head of Feature Films for Globomedia. She has extensive international experience in the production of movies, such as Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’, ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’ and ‘Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona’. Laura Fernández Espeso, new Head of International Content
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FremantleMedia Latam and Ideas del Sur Sign Production Deal Through the DEAL, the companies will create, develop and produce non-scripted content for Latin America. “Ideas del Sur is the ideal partner to develop and produce content in line with the clients’ needs. We are very excited to be working with Marcelo Tinelli’s company and making the most of partnering with one of the most emblematic people in Argentine TV to improve our future projects,” said Adrián Santucho, CEO of FremantleMedia, US Hispanic, Mexico and Pan-Regional. The deal with Ideas del Sur comes after the co-development alliance previously announced between FMLA and Argentine network Telefe.
FORMATS
‘Born To Be A Chef’ to Launch at Mipcom Armoza Formats announced its new prime time cooking competition, ‘Born To Be A Chef’, will have its international debut during this year’s Mipcom. The show is already set to air on Canada’s TVA network and has been commissioned for a second season prior to the first broadcast. “We’re thrilled to be launching ‘Born To Be a Chef’ and to be bringing this competition to the international market. This is a cooking competition that takes emotions to the extreme,” said Avi Armoza, CEO of Armoza Formats. Produced by Productions Déferlantes, ‘Born To Be A Chef’ sees two acclaimed chefs who will each lead a team of ten young apprentices, pushing their budding talents to the limit, while both kids and mentors compete to prove themselves. Each week, the lowest scoring apprentices will have a chance to redeem themselves in the play-off challenge, while two will be eliminated from the competition.
ADAPTATIONS
‘Stand Up For Your Country’ Breaks Records in Spain Premiering on a new day (Monday instead of Saturday), ‘Levántate All Stars’, the VIP adaptation of the global entertainment format by Televisa and La Competencia, ‘Stand Up For Your Country’, once again was the leader of prime time. The new day on Telecinco’s lineup allowed the talent show to reach its best rating in the season: 18.7% share. ‘Levántate All Stars’ was the most-watched entertainment show in Spain, broadening the gap with its main rival, Antena 3, which reached 14.3% share with the finale of its series ‘La embajada’. In addition, the semifinal generated great buzz on social networks. The hashtag #Levantate7 was once again a trending topic in Spain during the broadcast. The success of ‘Stand Up For Your Country’ has already reached Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Poland, Russia and Holland, which recently premiered the first special show of a complete season that will start soon. Televisa announced the format will continue its international journey with France, Italy, China and Vietnam in the list.
FORMATS
VIP 2000 TV Launches VIP Formats Division The distributor, led by Roxana and Rosalind Rotundo, is arriving at Mipcom with a new venture: formats for international adaptation. The offer joins the company’s strong catalog and its star product, Zap Novelas. “They are great literary classics adapted into modern stories and reduced to five, one-hour episodes,” said Roxana Rotundo. “This genre was created with IDEA Audiovisual, the production company owned by Tony Rodríguez and Jhonny Pulido. VIP 2000 TV’s first ZAP Novela is ‘Wuthering Heights’, a production done entirely in 4K, followed by ‘Cyrano de Bergerac’, ‘La Dame aux Camélias’, ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’, ‘The Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Othello’ and ‘La Celestina’. These new products will be presented at Mipcom along with the company’s original series, which have had great success in Latin America and the international market.
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The Right Mix By Carolina Mussio @carolinamussio cmussio@todotv.tv
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Known for its gripping dramas and love stories, ITV Inter Medya is present at Mipcom with a vast slate of internationally successful drama series, joined by an exciting lineup of game shows that answer the international market’s demand for entertainment formats.
By now, very few markets around the world are yet to fall under Turkish drama’s gripping spell. Drama series produced in Turkey have taken over the world in the last few years, and continue to score notable ratings in every new market and platform they reach. As one of the main players responsible for the growing popularity of Turkish content around the globe, ITV Inter Medya has conquered international audiences through enthralling dramas like ‘Black Money Love’, ‘Resurrection’ or ‘Filinta’, and is now present at Mipcom to continue extending its catalog’s footprint. The Turkish distributor is showcasing its new drama, ‘Hayat’, produced by Bi Yapim, which
joy life. Their worlds come together through the indestructible bridge of love. In addition, ITV Inter Medya is presenting its hit drama series ‘Endless Love’, which was introduced at the last edition of Mipcom and has already travelled to multiple territories. ‘Endless Love’ is set in a seaside neighborhood of Istanbul and tells the story of two young people from separate worlds who fall in love. From a middle class family, Kemal is one of three children, and his only aim in life is to make a living and survive. But his world turns upside down when Nihan comes into his monotonous life. She comes from a wealthy family and lives in an affluent area of the neighborhood.
‘Join Instant’ is an online interactive quiz elimination game show with a second screen technology that enables viewers at home to participate in the live show. tells the story of a man and a woman from opposite worlds: Murat, the handsome, cool, perfectionist young man who took over the responsibility of big company at an early age; and Hayat, a clumsy, irritable but joyful beautiful young girl who knows how to en-
Last but not least, ITV is presenting its successful drama series ‘In Between’, featuring Neriman, a young traditional woman who lives with her father Faiz and her aunt Gülter in the suburbs, and her troubled relationship with Şinasi, an educated, decent young man, who proclaims his love for Neriman at every chance he gets. Back at Mipcom 2015, the company disrupted the market by delving into a new genre, adding formats to its successful drama slate. And now, ITV Inter Medya is back in Cannes to showcase its hit game shows. The list is led by ‘Join Instant’, an online interactive quiz elimination game show with a second screen technology that enables viewers at home to participate in the live show. Home audiences often identify themselves with the game show competitors, challenging themselves and cheering for their favorites. In addition, the distributor is presenting ‘Oasis’, a brand new endurance-reality show with a buddy system that provides three different conditions. The show presents two teams named “Bedouins” and “Nomads” with 14 couples in total. Depending on the couples’ performances, their home may become a rough desert with limited food and water, a platform on the rolling sea or one of the most luxurious Oasis ever designed. The winning team will have the chance to rest and recover, while the losing team will be able to train for the next task. ttv
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ttv FORMATS / Q&A Maarten Meijs, Managing Director OF Talpa Global
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alpa has made a name for itself as a quality format provider, offering shows that are not only unique and engaging, but that can also connect to audiences via multiple screens, making the best of new technologies. In an interview with ttv, Maarten Meijs, Managing Director Talpa Global, talked spoke about what’s next for the company, and what it takes to make a hit.
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This has been a great year for Talpa, what are the plans for the future? We’ve worked hard at building big brands with worldwide recognition, of which ‘The Voice’ is a premium example. We’ve gotten great traction on various formats this year, with our third Emmy win for The Voice USA proving the long-lasting success of our key formats.
Aiming to create content that appeals to both viewers and broadcasters alike, Talpa is ready for this year’s Mipcom with a slate that offers unique and challenging formats, with a strong presence of interactive elements and multiplatform opportunities. By Sofía Vanoli / @Soph_VB / svanoli@todotv.tv
Dance Dance Dance Format
As the TV industry is continuously developing, there’s still one aspect of our business that’s the key to success: it’s still all about content. And that’s always been what Talpa stands for: content. We’re focused on creating new content and further developing our existing slate. In addition to that, we’re also still rolling out our successful and proven formats, both new and existing ones. This year also consolidated the alliance between Talpa and ITV, how has that been working out? What’s the next step? We’re excited to explore our cooperation even further. Right now we’re introducing our first creative co-creation ‘5 Golden Rings’; a new connected game show in which players get five rings to correctly answer five levels by putting rings on the interactive floor. With an interactive game-
“We’re focused on creating new content and further developing our existing slate.”
play, the viewers get to play on their phone and can even win a big prize, making them truly part of the experience.
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In addition, we’ve also teamed up with ITV Studios to simultaneously reinforce our global network, offering both catalogues under one roof such as the Netherlands, Middle East, and more. This year you’ll be attending Mipcom, which products will you be taking? What are your expectations for the event? ‘The Next Boy/Girl Band’, a talent competition in which two top record labels will take each other on to create the next boy/girl band is one of our biggest introductions; and as mentioned before, we’re incredibly excited to introduce ‘5 Golden Rings’ in combination with ITV Studios. ‘The Story Of My Life’ is also a fantastic addition to our slate. It’s a talk show with a twist… because celebrity couples get a makeover to see what they’ll look like at two different stages of their future! Paired with some risky, deep, and emotional questions, the transformation of a lifetime is sure to touch hearts like never before. Based on your experience, what do you think makes Talpa’s formats such a hit both locally and internationally? The Netherlands is the perfect testing ground, with both viewers and broadcasters welcoming experimentation, resulting in the ability to test formats at a more frequent rate. This allows the local format industry to be very active and provide a large catalogue of proven formats to the international market.
What would you say is the perfect recipe to create a hit? In today’s fragmented market, it’s increasingly important for broadcasters to have strong formats that can attract both traditional viewers and millennials. Our connected formats do exactly that. By offering content across multiple platforms and anticipating trends and developments in the audience’s viewing habits, Talpa is able to create strong content that connects the new masses via multiple screens.
Formats with a unique twist and original content are always in demand. The success of ‘The Voice’ is a prime example, with 65 local productions seen in over 180 territories, ‘The Voice’ shows us that a strong show with unique and refreshing elements can be successful in any territory. What does the Latin American region represent for Talpa Global? Are there any specific markets you’ll be focusing on? Latin America is extraordinarily successful in creating scripted entertainment. Our aim is to bring quality non-scripted to the local market, maintaining our well-established connections. With entertainment being a huge part of the television industry in the region, we’re excited to be able to introduce new formats next to popular hits. Shows like ‘The Next Boy/Girl Band’, ‘5 Golden Rings’, ‘Dance Dance Dance’, and ‘Cannonball’ are all big, unique entertainment shows we’re certain will appeal to the regional market. ttv
“We aim to create content that triggers viewers and broadcasters alike.” “Talpa is able to create strong content that connects the new masses via multiple screens.”
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We aim to create content that triggers viewers and broadcasters alike, from the passive to the active, the young to the old. Talpa has transitioned from a traditional content creator to a multi-faceted company with an infrastructure that is ready for the evolution of content. By activating the audience across multiple touch points we’re able to create tailor-made business propositions for our partners. Our slate exists solely out of high-quality formats we truly believe in, with our partners worldwide expecting nothing less.
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One Size Doesn’t Fit All By Sofía Vanoli / @Soph_VB / svanoli@todotv.tv Manbirth Reality
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his year, Keshet International is taking Mipcom by storm with one of the biggest catalogs the company has ever presented. All in all, they’re taking 20 new shows that are an eclectic combination of home-grown productions and third-party acquisitions, to offer stories with different viewpoints that have seldom been explored before.
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“The reason we’re bringing such a variety is because we realized that there is no format that fits all markets and we want to be able to provide a menu of options for our clients, so that we can match their needs,” Kelly Wright, Head of Latin America at Keshet International, said to ttv. Among the highlights is ‘Welcome to the Wild: Amazon’, an Israeli adventure reality show that drops contestants into the edge of the jungle, where they will have to interact with indigenous people and overcome obstacles to make it to the other side; and ‘Manbirth’, an innovative show from Singapore that uses a high-tech pregnancy suit
to show men whose partners are expecting, just what it feels like to be pregnant. Keshet’s strong belief that there are no “one size fits all formats” has also lead to several co-development deals in Latin America, one with Telefe, which will see a new show on screens this year, and most recently one with Telemundo, which is looking for both companies to work together in a way that is a little bit more creative than adapting an existing format. “The main idea behind the co-developments is to really create something which is very local but also, through Keshet’s participation, has a potential to break out of the regional box,” stated the executive. “This is kind of an experiment and I feel very excited to be pioneering in this, especially with Telemundo and Telefe, who are the most excellent partners.” As for future plans, Wright mentioned further co-development deals that will be announced by the end of the year between
Kelly Wright,
Head of Latin America at Keshet International
“We realized that there is no format that fits all markets.”
With twenty new shows coming to Mipcom, Keshet International is aiming to present clients with a wide variety of options that cater to their specific needs, but also to surprise them with new, fresh content they didn’t know they were looking for.
REDEFINING SPANISH TELEVISION Perla Farias, Senior VP of Scripted Development for Telemundo Studios also commented on the deal, highlighting it as a testament to how both companies continue to raise the bar in productions: “Working together we can now co-develop new breakthrough ideas and formats that come as new and innovative content.” Keshet and very specific partners, with the company being very selective in its choice of partners. “When you develop something together you have to share the same temperament, the same style and DNA, but be different enough that you challenge each other to develop something that you normally wouldn’t have come up with on your own,” she explained. “With Telemundo, they really like what Keshet has been doing in the US with shows like ‘Homeland’, which are similar in genre and in tone, to some of the super series they are known for. It’s an affinity that we share, and it makes sense for us to work on something together,” she concluded. ttv
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Police Operation
ARMOZA FORMATS 16 Ha’Arba’a St., 3rd Floor, Tel Aviv 6473916, Israel Tel.: +972-3-5408333 Email: info@armozaformats.com Website: www.armozaformats.com Stand: R8.B3
Executives Attending
Amos Neumann, COO Shay-Lee Barcan, Sales Executive (Latin America & US Hispanic) Anat Lewinsky, Sales Executive (CIS, W. Europe, Middle East, India) Salomé Peillon, Sales Executive (France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands) Sharon Levi, Sales Executive (English speaking territories, Asia) Ronit Shuler, Head of Productions Yael Phillips, Head of Strategy & Marketing
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Executives Attending
Cristobal Ponte, Exclusive Independent Representative for Europe, Africa & M.E.
TOP eXECUTIVE
Cristobal Ponte, Exclusive Independent Representative for Europe, Africa & M.E.
TOP eXECUTIVE Avi Armoza, Founder & CEO
The Best Of All
POLICE OPERATION
DORI MEDIA
ITV Inter Medya
Seefeldstrasse 133, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland Tel.: +41-43-817-7050 Fax: +41-43-817-7055 Email: sales@dorimedia.com Website: www.dorimedia.com / www. dorimediadistribution.com Booth: P-1.F50
Valikonagi Caddesi 26/3, Nisantasi, 34367 Istanbul, Turkey Tel.: (+90 212) 231 0102 Fax: +90 212 231 8929 Email: info@itv-intermedya.com Website: www.itv-intermedya.com Stand: C16.E
Executives Attending
Ahmet Ziyalar, Managing Director
Leora Nir, CEO, Dori TLV Revital Basel, VP Sales, Dori Media Group Elena Antonini, VP Sales, Dori Media Distribution Argentina Pauline Ick, VP Sales, Dori Media Distribution Maria Perez Campi, Sales Manager, Dori Media Distribution Argentina Camila Premet, Junior Sales, Dori Media Distribution Argentina Yair Sklan, CEO, Dori Media Spike Givon Snir, CEO, MeMeMe Studios Tali Fink, Director of Acquisition, Dori TLV Einat Borovich-Naim, Marketing Director, Dori Media Group
(Reality – 42 X 60’)
CURVY SUPERMODEL
(Prime Time / Reality Competition - 60 X 120’) This new prime time reality competition is set to change how we define beauty, in a nationwide casting show that searches for catwalk potential among the prettiest curves. Now airing on Germany’s RTL2, 40 aspiring “plus-size” models will be selected out of thousands of hopefuls looking to find a place in the tough and discriminative modeling industry. Each week they will face new challenges, while an expert jury will mentor them on their path and choose who has what it takes to continue to the next episode. And while all of them will defy society’s strict beauty stereotype, only one can be chosen to win the title and the modeling contract.
BORN TO BE A CHEF
(Prime Time / Cooking Competition – 10 X 60’)
RICA FAMOSA LATINA (Reality – 42 X 60’)
Step aside Beverly Hills, New York and Atlanta! These ‘Housewives’ are rich, famous, successful, and Latinas. They broke through the glass ceiling of immigrant triumph, but the traits that launched them to the top are the same qualities that create barriers to developing true friendships.
TOP eXECUTIVE Nadav Palti, President & CEO, Dori Media Group
Executives Attending
TOP eXECUTIVE Can Okan, President / CEO
JOIN INSTANT
(Game Show Format) ‘Join Instant’ is an online interactive quiz elimination game show with a second screen technology enabling viewers at home to participate live to the show. Home audiences often identify themselves with game show competitors, challenging themselves and cheering for their favorites.
OASIS
(TBA - Game Show Format)
THE BEST OF ALL
(Shiny Floor Game Show) The theory states that the average of the answers to a question of a large audience will be a more precise evaluation of quantity than any one opinion even that of a professional. ‘The Best of All’, a new shiny floor game show, is there to find out if the “Wisdom of the Crowd” theory really works? How many people make a “Crowd”? It depends... There is no one answer... In ‘The Best of All’, a large group of hundreds of people compete against studio participants. All the questions in the game are amusing visual factor, questions that WOW questions (video segments), questions with a are fun to watch even if you’re not participating in the game.
‘Oasis’ is a brand new endurance-reality show with a buddy system that provides three different conditions. There will be two teams named « Bedouins» and « Nomads» with14 couples in total. Depending on the performances of the couples, their home may become a rough desert with limited food and water, a platform on the rolling sea or one of the most luxurious Oasis’ ever designed. The winning team will have the chance to rest and recover, while the losing team will be able to train for the next task.
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A dramatic prime time and tension-filled cooking competition that captures the whole family! Two acclaimed chefs will each lead a team of ten young apprentices, pushing their talents to the limit, while both kids and mentors compete to prove themselves! The chefs will challenge the trainees with culinary assignments, keeping on only the creators of the greatest dishes. Each week, the lowest scoring apprentices will have a chance to redeem themselves in the play-off challenge, while two will be eliminated from the competition. Between the pressure, tears and laughter, which apprentice will win the fight for his mentor and become the best young chef?
The first police reality show in Brazil- it goes behind the scenes to show the day-to-day routine of the Brazilian police force, including cops on the beat, detectives and the forensics team. The program covers the entire spectrum of police operations: fighting the war on drugs, car theft, gangs, prostitution, intellectual property theft, grafting the public health system, and much more.
Join Instant
Cops On The Block
Welcome To The Wild: Amazon
The Stream
Kabo INTERNATIONAL
KESHET INTERNATIONAL
Nippon TV
Nordic World
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-6-1, Higashi - Shimabashi, Minato-Ku, 1057444, Tokyo Tel.: (81) 362153036 Fax: (81) 362153037 Website: www.ntv.co.jp/english Stand: R7.K5.
Karl Johans gate 14, 0154 Oslo, NORWA, Tel.: +1 646 403 2496 Email: post@nordicworld.tv Website: www.nordicworld.tv Booth: R7.E58
Executives Attending
Atsushi Hatayama, President, International Business Development Sue Fujimoto, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, International Business Development Shigeko Cindy Chino, Senior Director, International Business Development Taro Ozawa, Senior Director, International Business Development Fusako Nagashima, Sales and Licensing, International Business Development Yukiko Katie Nakano, Sales and Licensing, International Business Development Sayoko Iwasaki, Sales and Licensing, International Business Development
Executives Attending
Elsa Pielot, International Sales
TOP eXECUTIVE Arabelle Pouliot-Di Crescenzo, Managing Director
Keren Shahar, President, Distribution Kelly Wright, Head of Latin AmericaNelly Feld, Sales Director Rose Hughes, Senior Sales ManagerPaula Cohen, Sales ManagerCherry Lu, Sales Manager Kelvin Ko, Sales Manager
TOP eXECUTIVE
COPS ON THE BLOCK
Alon Shtruzman, CEO
(Scripted Comedy Format - 19 X 44’) ‘Cops On The Block’ is a scripted comedy format that revolves around the hilarious antics of the police captain and his motley crew of cops as they try to enforce law and order in their town. When it comes to fulfilling their day-to-day duties, the over-enthusiastic team of recruits seem to lack experience and miss the mark when it comes to judging certain situations, resulting in some hilarious outcomes. Launching in fall 2016.
OUR CRAZY FAMILY
(Scripted Comedy Format - 200 X 30’ + 3 X 52’)) ‘Our Crazy Family’ is a hilarious comedy that focuses on a multi-generational family and follows their various antics, as they face the complexities of three generations all trying to get along. The format is based on one of the company’s most unique products – the ‘Pick’n Mix’ sitcom format, which is comprised of thousands of individual comedy sketches that can be assembled in any order.
CIAO DARWIN
(Entertainment Format - 83 X 90’) Prime time entertainment format where each week two different teams of 50 people who fit certain opposing stereotypes, such as Conservatives vs Liberals, Social Media Addicts vs Off The Grid, Executives vs Laborer’s, Old vs Young, and more, compete in a series of 7 challenges to determine which team is considered fittest for the survival and evolution of the human species. 7 seasons broadcast so far.
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Burning Questions!
Executives Attending
TOP eXECUTIVE
WELCOME TO THE WILD: AMAZON
Kimio Maruyama, Senior Executive Operating Officer
(Adventure Reality – 22 X 75’)
The first season of ‘Welcome to the Wild’ which takes place in the Amazon sees 18 contestants enter the world’s largest and most extreme jungle, to undergo a cross river competition, each one determined to be the first to emerge from the other side as the winner. During this wild adventure, they will face a thrilling obstacle course along the banks of the mighty Amazon River. At each leg of the race, a challenge inspired by the ancient culture of a different hidden tribe reveals itself.
BOXED
(Entertainment - Format) Outside the box is a mediator, who tells us he believes that all human conflicts are basically similar, and that all of them can be resolved. To resolve them, he developed the box, in which he will place people who are in the midst of a serious conflict, to help them reach an agreement.
BURNING QUESTIONS! (Format - 60’)
Nippon TV’s format, ‘Burning Questions!’, is the ultimate true or false quiz show where there’s no shortage of intriguing, bizarre, and sometimes risqué questions to. It’s all about good fun and new discoveries for players and viewers alike in this studio game show where celebrity contestants battle it out to see who can rack up the highest number of points. The player who does so gets a shot at winning a fabulous prize.
THE CHARACTER (Format - 60’)
In the new format 2D characters are the ultimate manifestation of their creators’ dreams and imaginations. Nippon TV’s futuristic hit show ‘The Character’ gives anime-aficionado celebrities the opportunity to develop characters that will spread love and joy to the world for ages to come. Combining their fresh ideas and passion with cutting-edge Japanimation technology, these anime gurus bring to life two-dimensional characters that they nurture from concept to creation.
Executives Attending
Ann Christin Siljan, VP Acquisition Paulina Eklund, VP Sales Simone de Pruyssenaere de la Woestijne, Associated Sales Agent Jan Salling, Associated Sales Agent
TOP eXECUTIVE Espen Huseby, CEO
THE STREAM
(Music Competition - 18 X 90’) ‘The Stream‘ is a brand new music competition reflecting today’s way of discovering new talent. Artists like Justin Bieber and Adele both started their career online, before signing with a record company! ‘The Stream’ gives ordinary people and new talent a chance to be discovered in the exact same way - through the Internet and social media. Audition from the comfort of your home, upload video to ‘The Stream’ website and watch the public stream and share your video. The winner of ‘The Stream’ is the most streamed artist - discovered and chosen by the public. In a new era that demands new stars, ‘The Stream’ takes talent shows to the next level and speaks the language of our generation.
CASH OUT In ‘Cash Out’ we meet ordinary people with big dreams. And with the help of a team of experts; on management, motivation, startups and economy, we create that perfect moment. To make even the biggest dreams come true; if you are willing to go all in. Our experts go through the contestant assets, challenges and finances, and when they have a full overview, we ask the big question: Are you willing to sell all your belongings to realize your dream?
Super Combat Teams
Five Golden Rings
This Time Next Year
Altard
SMALL WORLD
TALPA GLOBAL
TWOFOUR RIGHTS
Zee Entertainment
19 Heddon Street, London, W1B 4BG, UK Tel.: +44 (0) 207 851 6500 Tel.: +1 661 254 3535 Website: www.smallworldift.com Stand: Stand C15.A6
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Executives Attending
Executives Attending
18th Floor, Marathon Futurex, N M Joshi Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400013, India Tel.: +91-22-71061234 Email: zeecontent@zee.esselgroup.com Website: www.zeebollyworld.com Stand: P1- K51
Colleen Crescenti, Managing Director Tara Gaule, VP of Format Sales & Development Henny Adolfsdottir, Sales Executive Frank Sutera, Production Advisor
Gepke Nederlof, Head of Global Licensing
TOP eXECUTIVE
Executives Attending
Melanie Leach, Twofour Group Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie, Twofour Group Chief Creative Officer Anthony Appell, Director of Twofour Rights
TOP eXECUTIVE
Maarten Meijs, Managing Director
TOP eXECUTIVE
Eniela Bella, Senior Sales Executive
Tim Crescenti, President
Executives Attending
Sarah Coursey, Head of Syndication – Americas Janice Strangward, Head of Syndication, Europe Sandeep Hardasmalani, Regional Head, APAC Nitin Michael, Regional Head, MENAP Vishan Yaduvanshi, DVP, Business Development, International Business
TOP eXECUTIVE
Sunita Uchil, Chief Business Officer, International Ad Sales, Global Syndication & Production
FIVE GOLDEN RINGS
(Connected Game Show – 8 X 45’)
SUPER COMBAT TEAMS (Game Show)
In ‘Super Combat Teams’, competitors, comprising a diverse range of world champions and record holders, compete in the most thrilling challenges and stunts to prove themselves the best! Each episode features five spectacular challenges, such as ‘Fly Over Cars’, ‘Cross Fires’ and ‘Beat Gravity’. ‘Super Combat Teams’ is the first stunt battle format to invite its audience to be part of the show – with viewers at home guessing the result of each challenge in real time via an interactive platform, with cash prizes up for grabs to those that predict the correct winners.
CRIME SCENE (Game Show)
‘Crime Scene’ is a studio based mystery game show where all the players are suspects! Through a mixture of role-play and raceagainst-time competition, six people are tasked with finding the real “criminal”. The mystery unfolds in re-enacted crime scenes where the players discover various clues and the one player who is the real “criminal” must try and mislead the others. If five contestants correctly identify who the actual perpetrator is, they walk away with the prize. However, if the “criminal” successfully deceives the rest of the group – they alone take home the money.
THIS TIME NEXT YEAR
‘Five Golden Rings’ is the iconic and unique connected game show in which every pixel counts. A huge interactive LED floor projects amazing animated pictures that are the base of each question. You’ll get five rings to correctly answer five levels by putting the rings on the interactive floor… how hard can it be? But the rings become smaller throughout the game, making it more challenging! And with a refreshing connected gameplay, viewers get to place their rings on their phone and win money straight from their couch… where would you place your Five Golden Rings?
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THE NEXT BOY / GIRL BAND
EXTRAORDINARY ANIMALS
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In this brand-new talent competition, two top record labels will take each other on to create the next boy/girl band. Starting off with the looks and moves, the talents must have what it takes to be part of the next pop phenomenon. If they’ve got the looks and the moves, the next challenge begins... can they sing? Because they’ll need the full package to secure a spot! The record labels keep looking for the biggest talent until the last moment... the talents are never safe! Offering a unique social media experience, the competition engages the young demo like never before. Who will make the cut? And which band will be victorious? The boys… or the girls?
The award winning producers of Meerkat Manor are back with a mesmerizing new primetime show, delving beneath the surface of animal behaviour across the globe.
THE PERFECT PICTURE (Competition – 7 X 45’)
EXTREME CAKE MAKERS
(Factual Entertainment - 16 X 30’ HD) Baking is back and bigger than ever, from a solar-system made of sponge to edible steel statues, this is the cutting edge of cake.
IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING (Factual – 12 X 60’ HD S3)
Mind-blowing modern engineering structures and incredible historical inventions are revealed in this revolutionary series.
THE HOME GAME
(Factual – 10 x 60’ HD) The form breaking new home makeover series that cuts out the transformation process allowing big impact immediate reveals.
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(6 X 60’ HD) Fitness and nutrition experts work with a bride and groom separately to shape up, and the next time they’ll see each other is at the altar. Their wedding day may be approaching fast, but these overweight couples are determined to make one big change – lose weight – before walking down the aisle. Twelve weeks before their nuptials, the future bride and groom are paired with trainers and begin their transformation. But of course, there’s a twist that no one will see coming!
FINDING FIDO (6X30’ HD)
In Each episode of Finding Fido, canine expert Seth Casteel helps an enthusiastic dog owner-to-be find the perfect companion for his or her lifestyle. Whether a sociable dog that can help owners overcome shyness, an active dog that encourages exercise, or even a dog that can help detect the onset of an owner’s epileptic seizure, Seth matches each participant’s specialized needs and criteria to his or her new best friend.
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In ‘The Perfect Picture’, seven celebrities with a passion for photography compete against each other to show they have what it takes to step away from the spotlight and move behind the camera! Do they have the best eye for a great shot? During several assignments, the celebs use their technical and creative skills to show they can take the perfect picture. Let yourself be inspired by the incredible pictures, each with their own stories… and challenges!
Showcasing hit after hit of instant jaw-dropping real life transformations and already in production in nine territories, ‘This Time Next Year’ is the fastest selling format of 2016.
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FOX’s PrimeTime, Available on Live Streaming With the goal of maximizing its reach with audiences, on Monday, July 12, FOX started offering its entire prime time through live streaming. The network’s new strategy began with ‘So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation’ and will run seven nights a week, making it the first network in the US to offer this service for free. While other networks like CBS already offered live streaming on their apps, a paid subscription was required or there were market limitations. But with FOX, users must only identify a subscription to the pay TV network, making the live streaming for its prime time available to a potential 96 million homes across 210 markets in the US. Broadcasts will be available through FOX.com and the Fox Now app. Sports broadcasts will be available on Fox Sports Go. FOX’s live streaming system will allow local affiliates to introduce their own ads on screen. Their views won’t be included in Nielsen’s ratings, although FOX will make the numbers public.
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Grupo Secuoya names New General Content Director Grupo Secuoya has announced the appointment of Jaime Guerra as the new General Content Director for the company. Guerra, who worked as General Director for Zeppelin TV, will be in charge of content direction in order to commandeer a strategic area for the group. He will perform his task through production companies Doble Filo, Pulso and New Atlantis. Since March 2011, Jaime Guerra became General Director for Zeppelin TV, a role he has held until his recent move to Secuoya. Jaime Guerra, General Content Director at Grupo Secuoya
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Breaks New Ground in Brazil As part of HBO’s 25th anniversary in Latin America, the company launched the new version of HBO GO, the digital entertainment platform offered in the HBO/MAX package, in Brazil on September 28. In March of this year, HBO Latin America revealed its plans to launch HBO Go as an independent OTT service in Brazil and Argentina before the end of the year, same as it did in Colombia and Mexico. For the time being, the new version is available as a complement, with no additional cost, of the subscription for the Premium HBO/MAX package offered by pay TV operators in Brazil. The update is a “necessary step” to make the online SVOD service a reality, said the company in a statement. Last month, it took the same step in Uruguay and Argentina. “The growth of VOD platforms in Brazil has been astounding, with 82% of Brazilians consuming content on them. This new version of HBO GO gives users the option of enjoying exclusive HBO content anytime, anywhere, with a practical and userfriendly interphase,” said Francisco L. Smith, EVP of Media Distribution and Development at HBO Latin America.
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With no official ratings numbers in most digital platforms, multiple techniques have emerged to “guess” the popularity of streamed shows. One of which, created by Parrot Analytics, measures the shows’ demand from mentions on social networks, video websites, blogs, Tumblr, Wikipedia entries and others. Using this technique, the Mip organization monitored the demand for original shows on digital platforms across 44 European markets in the month of April, 2016. The list is led by Netflix’s original series ‘House of Cards’, which ranked as the most-demanded series in 20 of the markets. In second place, ‘11.22.63’ by Hulu led in eight markets, while ‘Daredevil’ landed in the number three spot, leading in 6 markets. One thing’s clear: Netflix’s impressive leadership, with seven series among the eight most-demanded. Being the only platform present across all 44 territories monitored, the results make sense. Other titles on the list are ‘Narcos’, leader in Spain; ‘Jessica Jones’, leader in Malta; ‘Making a Murderer’, leader in Ireland; and ‘Fuller House’, in Latvia. The study separated results per regions, dividing Europe into four: North, South, East and West. ‘House of Cards’ was the most demanded in the four sections, while ‘11.22.63’ and ‘Daredevil’ are part of the Top 5 in all of them.
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This is a special Mipcom for British distributor Twofour Rights, which is unveiling its new studio entertainment show ‘This Time Next Year’, already in production in nine territories, and debuting a new home just outside the Palais des Festivals, at the ITV Studios House. By Josefina Mezzera / @jmezzera / jmezzera@todotv.tv
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wofour Rights, Twofour’s inhouse distribution arm, has had a record-breaking 12 months. With a catalog now containing over 900 hours of exclusive Twofour Group content, the company arrives in Cannes ready to unveil it all in a new space shared with ITV Studios.
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Eniela Bella, Senior Sales Executive at the company, spoke to ttv about the catalog’s new additions, which include a full roster of new entertainment, factual and lifestyle programming. Brand new shows. “Format sales are growing at record speed, driven by brand new studio entertainment show ‘This Time Next Year’,” she explained. Ahead of its first transmission in the UK, this format is already in production in nine territories making it the fastest selling new format in the world this year. Bella describes it as “a unique primetime series showcasing ordinary people who transform their lives in extraordinary ways.”
Another notable production in Twofour Rights’ original content catalog is ‘The Home Game’, a brand new property series which showcases a number of properties, interiors and exteriors in ‘before and after’ instant reveals. In addition, the company is presenting ‘Impossible Engineering’, a 12-hour show where new mind blowing modern engineering structures and incredible historical inventions are revealed. Bella also highlighted the launch of a brand new show titled ‘Extreme Cake Makers’ where a creative group of cake makers goes out to produce the world’s most breath-taking creations turning cakes into works of art. This title joins ‘Inside Mandarin Oriental’ and ‘World’s Most Expensive Toys’: “They have already generated a great appeal before the launch.”
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“And I should mention that ‘The Real Marigold Hotel’ (also known as ‘Indian Dream Hotel’) just won the Rose D’Or for Best Reality and Factual Entertainment Series, so it’s really exciting to have a new series of that show and the spin off show ‘Last Tango’ to bring to Mipcom,” Bella added. Guarantee of Success. Present in the main territories across Europe, Latin America, Australia and Asia, Twofour Rights’ content has proven they’re adaptable to any region. “For example, ‘Impossible Engineering’ and ‘Posh Pawn’ have both been sold in more than 100 territories,” she said. In this context, Latin America continues to be a key territory for the company. “We have secured over 100 hours of lifestyle and factual programming sales recently, and our aim is to continue strengthening those relationships both on a regional and pan regional level,” Bella added. “Mipcom also represents a great opportunity for Twofour to expand their formats presence in the region,” she concluded. ttv
“’This Time Next Year’ is already in production in nine territories, making it the fastest selling new format in the world this year.”
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The Boom of Biopics Betting on series based on renowned Latin American characters has become a solid trend in Latin America. From feared drug dealer Pablo Escobar, to the recently deceased Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel. From the controversial politician Hugo Chávez, to mythical stars Celia Cruz or Joan Sebastian. From boxing champion Julio César Chávez, to singing sensation Roberto Sánchez (“Sandro de América”), and the biggest star in soccer, Diego Maradona. In the following report, ttv analyzes the genre’s biggest trends and most recent productions.
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he biographic series or “biopic”, same as the movie, is a TV genre that consists of the TV dramatization of a person’s -or group of people’s- real life events. Since the characters portrayed are real people, whose actions and characteristics are well-known, biopics are considered to be one of the most popular genres in modern television, as they focus on people beloved by audiences, historically relevant or controversial enough to spark their interest. In Latin America, the characters chosen speak for themselves: world famous drug dealer Pablo Escobar, Mexican singer-songwriters Juan Gabriel and Joan Sebastián, controversial former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, beloved singer Celia Cruz, boxing champion Roberto Sánchez (Sandro), and iconic soccer star Diego Armando Maradona, among others.
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All of them, one way or another, are popular characters, either beloved or controversial, making them appealing to international audiences from multiple regions. These super productions have one common denominator, in addition to all being biopics: the finished products meet the notably high quality standards and international potential that the current TV industry is demanding for the global market. In addition, all the series are developed by many production companies, which share the risks while ensuring an array of broadcast windows across the region’s main markets, which makes its international distribution easier and guarantees good results. “The more human they are, the more identification they generate. Music and cultural relevance are the best ways for audiences to recognize and connect with them through empathy and curiosity,” Mario Morales, TV expert, recently said to El Tiempo newspaper in Colombia, about biopics.
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The Pablo Escobar Effect While the genre is not exactly new in the region, producing biopics has become very popular in many territories in Latin America, the US Hispanic and Mexican markets; and several countries in Central America, the Andean region and the Southern Cone. If one were to pinpoint the exact moment when this trend started, it could be the premiere of ‘Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord’, the major production developed by Caracol Television, based on the life of the most dangerous drug deal in history, which became one of the highest-rated series in Colombia. Biopics have been a staple for the Colombian production network ever since, bringing other iconic characters to life in series like ‘The Voice of Freedom’, based on the life of Colombian singer Helena Vargas; ‘Football Dreams, a world of passion’, based on the “golden generation” of the Colombian national soccer team, led by Carlos “El Pibe” Valderrama; or ‘Laura, an Extraordinary Life’, inspired by the life of Colombian missionary Laura Montoya. ‘Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord’, the 74-episode fiction series, was an international distribution success. A solid story and main character, an impeccable cast and production design, and high-quality artistic and technical development, made the series an international hit.
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“This production has an enormous cast, because it recreates many years in Pablo Escobar’s life. Everything that happens and everything he touches. It’s the story of the politicians, the police officers , the army men who face him and fell victims to his drug empire,” Juana Uribe, VP of Caracol Television and General Producer of the series in 2012, said to ttv. “It’s a very ambitious story in terms of narrative, because it intends to give a new dimension to the way drug-dealing stories are told,” she added. Dago García, VP of Production at Caracol Television, recently shared his own views about the biopic genre: “There is a certain curiosity for knowing details about a famous character’s life that audiences have somehow connected with and feel close to. The pleasure is not in the surprise but in the recognition. Everyone knows what’s going to happen and that’s appealing.”
Disney Sets Its Own Style Disney Media Distribution made a name for itself in the biopic genre with ‘Hasta que te conocí’, the 13-episode series based on the life of Mexican singer-songwriter Juan Gabriel, a.k.a. “el divo de Juárez”, co-produced
with Somos Productions and Juan Gabriel himself. “’Hasta que te conocí’ got started in my apartment in Vedado, on the 27 and N, Habana City, about eight years ago on a Sunday night. I was alone with my mother in law, Alicia, and we were watching that big, iconic, Bellas Artes concert from the early 90s on TV Cubana. My mother in law, who was sick and a major Juan Gabriel fan, and I, we were both in tears. And at that very moment the light bulb went on in my head,” Fernando Barbosa, SVP of Distribution and Production at Disney Media Distribution Latin America, said via Twitter. The series premiered on Telemundo in US Hispanic, TV Azteca in Mexico, RCN Television in Colombia, and on pay TV network TNT (Turner Broadcasting System Latin America) on a pan-regional level, with excellent results.
tools or takes them away. History shaped him and the sensitivity he showed as an adult has a lot to do with the context in which he was raised. Our family defines us and this one has a lot of stories to tell, it’s quite unique.” In addition, this year Disney Media Distribution Latin America announced from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the production of a new 26-episode biopic called ‘El César’, based on the life of Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez, co-produced by TV Azteca and BTF Media. “We’ve been focused on finding relevant stories of big personalities, idols like Juan Gabriel and Julio César Chávez, who are iconic Mexican stars. We’ve been blessed to be able to land these two projects,” said Fernando Barbosa.
Meanwhile, in Mexico, the premiere broke all types of records, reaching 12.7 million viewers and surpassing Televisa with a drama series for the first time in ten years.
“We are getting started, we are in pre pre-production. We hope to have it complete within a year, that’s the big starting point. Production will take place in Mexico, Sinaloa, Culiacán, DF; we are ready to start this beautiful adventure,” he said.
At the time of this report, the series has also premiered on Chilevision in Chile, Latina in Peru, TVN in Panama, Esmitv in El Salvador, and it will soon premiere on Teleamazonas in Ecuador and Telemundo in Puerto Rico.
As of now, the series will air on pay TV network Space (Turner Broadcasting System Latin America) on a pan-regional level, on Telemundo in the US Hispanic market and on Azteca 7 in Mexico.
“This series about my life, I’m doing it with a lot of love and appreciation for every single person that walked besides me through the years. I want it to be a beautiful memory, that’s my main wish,” said Juan Gabriel, who passed away on August, 28 in Los Angeles, US.
“It’s a story that has been fought over by many studios and producers for years. We made the right connections at the right moments. We were there the right day and we got it,” said Leonardo Aranguibel, Director of Production at Disney Media Distribution Latin America.
“It was Fernando Barbosa’s dream to represent the life of the great Juan Gabriel. Connecting with him through his good friend Mary Black-Suárez made it happen. We wanted it to be Don Alberto himself who told the moving story, a kind of audiovisual autobiography,” said Leonardo Aranguibel, Director of Production at Disney Media Distribution Latin America.
“It was hard to accept this project because I didn’t want to reveal too much about my private life, but I think this is going to be a great example of life for young people, for new talents who want to rule the world, for them to realize what it takes to fulfill a dream, how one can fall prey to drugs and alcohol, and how one bounces back from that,” said Julio César Chávez at the presentation.
“The premise is clear: Juan Gabriel wouldn’t have been who he was without his parents and his life,” Aimetta said. “Like everyone, we are shaped by our context. It gives us
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Sony Pictures Television (SPT) is also delving into the biopic genre with the series ‘El comandante’, based on the life of former Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The series will have 60 hours and filming has already begun. It will air on Telemundo in the US and on TNT in Latin America. Playing the lead role of Hugo Chávez will be renowned Colombian actor Andrés Parra (‘Pablo Escobar: The Drug Lord’). “It’s thrilling for audiences to discover the behindthe-scenes of the most interesting characters. What was their personal life like, where did they come from, what road did they travel to make it to where they did, what were their dreams, what was their family like, their dark side,” Angélica Guerra, SVP and General Director of Production at Sony Pictures Television, Latin America and US Hispanic, said to ttv. “The biopic is a winning genre for the audience and a pleasure for us who produce it, because it’s the perfect excuse to recreate periods, universes, milestones, characters who influences entire countries and regions, and many who changed their country’s history,” she added. “It’s a bigger challenge that any other type of project, because it is incredibly complex to stay true to the actual story, but at the same time, build fictions plots and situations that entertain and engage audiences,” she concluded. There are still no potential premiere dates or screens for the series, which will definitely make waves both in Latin America and the rest of the world, given its star character.
Televisa Showcases Another Mexican Idol Another one of the biopics that have premiered this year is ‘Por siempre Sebastian’, Televisa’s bioseries made up of 18 episodes, which tells the story of another one of the most important singer-songwriters in Mexico: Joan Sebastian. Carla Estrada’s production presents some of the most important events in the life of the unforgettable songwriter from Jiliantla.
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Alejandro Aimetta, the series showrunner, explained to ttv that “the idea wasn’t to share what everyone already knows. There’s a big different between Juan Gabriel and Alberto Aguilera Valadez. We told the story of the man behind the professional success. We explained why Juan Gabriel is Juan Gabriel, where he came from and how those origins definitely created the identity he later showed.”
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Production for ‘Celia’ included over 8,000 extras between actors, dancers and musicians; and was shot on locations in Los Angeles, New York, Puerto Rico and Colombia.
In this sense, thanks to the success obtained with its premiere in August, Televisa aired the production again through the Las Estrellas network. Its re-broadcast began on September 3. And backed by the experience gained with the series on digital platforms, the company also started broadcasting the episodes on “second screen” simultanously through the official website televisa.com/porsiemprejoan, offering subscribers exclusive behind the scenes video, pictures and a few confessions through the Televisa Television app.
time difference- two biopics about their most popular singers.
Celia Cruz On The Small Screen RCN Television in Colombia is also betting on biopics, starting with its series ‘Celia’, based on the life of the mythical Cuban singer Celia Cruz, which also premiered in several countries and presents an impressive period reconstruction.
The biopic is also available on Blim, Televisa’s digital platform, including two special episodes with details about filming and the characters’ creative process, as well as fun moments during filming.
‘Celia’ is produced by RCN Television and FoxTelecolombia, and recreates over seven decades of Celia Cruz’s life. Production included over 8,000 extras between dancers, musicians, filming on locations like Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, New York and San Juan in Puerto Rico, as well as several locations in Colombia.
This way, a very interesting phenomenon is taking place in Mexico: the two leading channels -Azteca and Televisa- are programming, in the same year -and with very little
The 80-episode series was directed by Víctor Mallarino and Liliana Bocanegra, with scripts by Andrés Salgado (‘El Joe, la leyenda’) and Paul Rodríguez; executive pro-
NETFLIX BETS ON A BIOPIC
THE SERIES THAT BECAME A MYTH
While it’s not strictly a biopic, Netflix’s original series ‘Narcos’, tells the story of Pablo Escobar and the DEA’s fight to bring him down. Created and directed by Brazilian director José Padilha and starring its fellow countryman Wagner Moura as Pablo Escobar, ‘Narcos’ is produced by Gaumont International Television for Netflix. The streaming platform announced the series will have a third and fourth season.
The death of Juan Gabriel on August 28, ironically coincided with the final episode of its biopic ‘Hasta que te conocí’ on Azteca in Mexico. Since then, channels across Latin America have been broadcasting specials, marathons and homages to remember the singer-songwriter. It premiered all across Latin America this year on TNT, while it also aired on broadcast TV in Mexico (TV Azteca), Chile (Chilevisión), Colombia (RCN Televisión), Peru (Latina) and Panama (TVN). Soon it will also air in the US and Puerto Rico on Telemundo. Starring Colombian actor Julián Román as Juan Gabriel, the series was filmed in over 100 locations in Mexico and the US, with more than 250 actors and around 3,000 extras.
MARILYN BIOPIC BOOSTS LIFETIME IN LATAM The premiere of ‘The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe’ on Lifetime in Latin America, boosted the network to the top, with a 5.0 rating, becoming the number one channel among women 25-54 on pay TV, and the number two network among adults 18+ on pay TV. The miniseries aired on August 3 and 4 on Lifetime, exposing the secret life of the mythical Hollywood actress in four hours. Based on the book by J. Randy Taraborrelli, ‘The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe’ tells the story of the sex icon, who reinvented herself to become a symbol in America.
duction by Nelson Martínez and music by Alfredo De La Fe. Jeimy Osorio and Modesto Lacén star as a young Celia Cruz and Pedro Knight. Aymée Nuviola and Willie Denton play the couple as adults. In the US, ‘Celia’ became the strongest primetime premiere of the last for years for Telemundo. It also premiered in Puerto Rico, Chile and Uruguay; while Honduras, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Peru and Paraguay also acquired the series. “Biopics continue to spark great interest and are in great demand from Latin American content buyers, especially,” said María Lucía Hernández, International Sales Director at RCN Televisión. In this sense, ‘Celia’ has already been sold in Latin America in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Peru, Paraguay, Panama, Dominican Republic, the US and Uruguay. “It will son premiere on a pan-regional network in Latin America, as well as other countries,” Hernández said. The genre that precedes the bioseries are narco-novelas or narco-series. Still, they are also biopics in the sense that they tell the story or the biography of real people,” said Fernando Gaitán, VP of Content and Product at RCN Television.
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Dago García
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Fernando Barbosa
“There is a certain curiosity for knowing details about a famous character’s life that audiences have somehow connected with and feel close to.”
SVP of Distribution and Production at Disney Media Distribution Latin America I was alone with my mother in law, Alicia, and we were watching that big, iconic, Bellas Artes concert from the early 90s on TV Cubana. My motherin-law, who was sick and a major Juan Gabriel fan, and I, we were both in tears. And at that very moment the light bulb went on in my head.”
María Lucía Hernández
International Sales Director at RCN Televisión “Biopics continue to spark great interest and are in great demand from Latin American content buyers, especially.”
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President of The Magic Eye “Sandro is a strong character for all of Latin America. Based on that story and with his music, we will relive his times, the dramas and the hits.”
“Bioseries as we know them today, came from that premise that the real characters’ life could have a similar impact as narco-series, but with the enormous difference that they are more common stories; stories of challenges and success among the popular classes,” he added. “Bioseries have definitely brought new life to drama series and a new genre that revitalizes broadcast television in its fight for survival in the new media landscape,” he concluded.
Biopics In The Southern Cone
During the 2016 LA Screenings, Telefe and The Magic Eye, Grupo Telefilms’ new production company, closed a co-production deal to develop a new biopic series called ‘Sandro de América’, based on the life of Argentine singer-songwriter Roberto Sánchez, better known as Sandro.
SVP and General Director, Production at Sony Pictures Television, Latin America, US Hispanic “The biopic is a winning genre for the audience.”
Tomás Yankelevich Content Director at Telefe
“It’s an incredible challenge as a producer to think about taking the life of the best soccer player of all time to the small screen.”
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VP of Content and Product at RCN Television “Bioseries have definitely brought new life to drama series”
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Biopics have also been developed in the Southern Cone, which confirms the trend across the region with two major characters: Sandro and Diego Armando Maradona.
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“’Sandro de América’ is based on Sandro’s life. From his birth to his death, and everything in between.”
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“The project is in the process of writing and we believe we will be filming it by mid-October, for it to be ready to premiere when Telefe wants to in 2017. We are evaluating the possibility to film in other countries in Latin America. Sandro is so strong in the region that we are analyzing the possibility to film in Chile or in Mexico,” he said.
In Mid-July, Telefe announced a deal to develop a series -still unnamed- based on the life of the international soccer star, Diego Armando Maradona, for which the Argentine network is already looking for co-production partners. “We are happy with the deal because of what Diego Maradona represents around
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Also called “Sandro de América”, the singer won over thousands of hearts with his music and frenzy, becoming “the Argentine Elvis.” He is known as “the forerunner of national rock”, since he introduced the music genre with songs from iconic international artists, dubbed in Spanish. The ‘Sandro de América’ series will recreate his life, with all the vertigo, passion, mystery, incredible success, along with the hardship and loneliness, all of it accompanied by the unconditional love of his fans: those who stood by him through the worst times in his life.
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The series will have 18 episodes, with songs to represent and illustrate each stage in his life. Development for the project will start in the upcoming weeks, aiming for a 2017 premiere, and his widow Olga Garaventa has granted the rights to develop the series. It will air in Argentina on Telefe, and its international distribution will be jointly managed by Telefe and Telefilms. “The miniseries is based on Sandro’s life. It’s a typical biopic, from his birth to his death, and everything in between. Sandro is a strong character for all of Latin America. Based on that story and with his music, we will relive his times, the dramas -he asked for a transplant on national TV- and the hits. We are sure it will be an excellent product for every market,” Juan Parodi, president of The Magic Eye, said to ttv during the 2016 LA Screenings.
the world. We are thankful for Diego’s trust in us. It’s an incredible challenge as a producer to think about taking the life of the best soccer player of all time to the small screen. He’s probably the most famous person in the world,” said Tomás Yankelevich, Content Director at Telefe. “We think of it as an unprecedented super production and so we are looking for partners to join us. We have high expectations to develop a global product, with no frontiers,” he said. Diego Armando Maradona said: “Every month in my life has enough stories to write 100 episodes. Everything I lived is
more than any fiction series. I am so happy and excited that Telefe is developing this project for the world. It’s the story of my life.” Curiously, at press time, BTF Media, Dhana Media and Latin World Entertainment (LatinWE) announced a biopic project about Diego Armando Maradona, which is completely independent from the one announced by Telefe. “Maradona’s representative called us interested by the work we did with ‘Hasta que te conocí’. We’re now in a pre-production stage, researching and interviewing people, and we’ll shoot on 2017,” mentioned to ttv Francisco Cordero, CEO for BTF Media. ttv
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A Tradition of Looking Forward
Japan is a country of contradictions: a territory with an ageing population, yet full of earlyadopters avid to look towards the future of television. In Cannes, Mipcom will offer an opportunity to celebrate Japanese animation, get an in-depth look at other genres and provide a first-hand look at how far ahead the country is when it comes to TV’s new technology. By Luis Cabrera @luis_cabreram lcabrera@todotv.tv
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he opportunity to be celebrated in Cannes as the Mipcom 2016 Country of Honor seems to come at the right time for Japan’s TV industry. In the midst of taking another technology leap, far ahead of the rest of the world, the industry wants to showcase its known international success (animation), push forward less heralded genres (dramas) and awe the world with its work in 8k resolution. While Japanese animation needs no introduction (it represents 62% of Japan’s TV programming exports), Japanese dramas welcome the chance to improve their stands before the eyes of international market. Japanese dramas have not been able to travel as well as animation or formats have. In
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2013, only 16.4% of the TV industry exports were dramas. Even worse, Japanese dramas have watched enviously how the “Korean Wave” has taken the world –and even the local market- by storm. One caveat is that with a strong local currency, Japan is struggling mightily to sell most of its products in the international market. A sluggish economic growth (0.2% on the second quarter) is not helping the cause, but Japan is still the world’s third-largest economy and is bound to bounce back. In the local TV market, the non-linear consumption is rapidly becoming the norm, even among an ageing population that continues to show a declining birth rate. According to government data, 44.8% of average daily media contact time comes from PCs, tablets and mobiles devices, proving
that Japan taste for new technology is way more than a stereotype. GOING FOUR TIMES FURTHER. Japan is on the brink of a 4k explosion. According to study conducted by Mitsubishi Research Institute, penetration of 4k television sets in Japan will jump from 6% to 50% over the next four years, putting the country at the forefront of the 4k revolution. However, by 2020, Japan might already be looking at a new frontier: 8k. With a definition of approximately 33 million pixels (7,680 x 4,320), 8k has 4-times more resolution than 4k and 16-times the number of pixels of the current HD (1,920 x 1,080). NHK is pushing forward the 8k resolution with its sights set on the 2018 Summer Olympic Games, to be held in Tokyo. The broadcaster will be discussing everything about 4k and 8k at Mipcom during the “NHK’s Rapid Progress to UHD” panel, which will be held on October 17th. NHK’s senior producer Yoshino Masashi and senior manager Kashima Yoshiharu will discuss the company’s role in the evolution towards “Super Hi-Vision” and showcase shows shot in 4k. To put NHK’s role as the flag-bearer of Ultra-HD (4k) and Super Hi-Vision (8k) in perspective, one just needs to review the steps already taken by the company, like the public screenings of about 100 hours of Rio 2016 coverage in 8k, the 8k test-transmissions programmed for this semester or the recent agreement with the Louvre museum.
COUNTRY OF HONOR HIGHLIGHTS JAPAN: MARKET OVERVIEW 17 Oct 2016, 09:30 - 10:00, Auditorium A, Palais 3 Mitsubishi Research Institute shares its in-depth research about the vibrant Japanese content market. TREASURE BOX JAPAN 17 Oct 2016, 10:10 - 11:00 Auditorium A, Palais 3 Treasure Box Japan, a regular must-attend event at MIPFormats, as one of the Japan Country of Honour flagship events. TV Tokyo, TBS, ABC, YTV, TV Asahi, Fuji TV, Nippon TV and NEP/NHK will be the featured companies. KAZOU HIRAI – MEDIA MASTERMIND KEYNOTE 17 Oct 2016, 11:30 - 12:00, Grand Auditorium, Palais 1 The president and CEO of Sony Corporation will bring the first Media Mastermind Keynote of Mipcom 2016. The company is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year.
The agreement with the Louvre allowed NHK to produce a series in 8k about nine of the world’s greatest pieces of art, using the full-spectrum of features that includes the new technology, like wide color gamut (WCG), high dynamic range (HDR) and 22.2-multichannel sound, for example. Is the first international co-production made entirely in 8k. Visitors at Mipcom will also be able to see a 10-minute edited version of the show.
JAPANESE DOCUMENTARY SHOWCASE 18 Oct 2016, 14:00 - 14:40 Auditorium A, Palais 3 Tokyo Docs, a pitching forum for documentary projects, presents a selection of documentary programs by broadcasters and works by productions companies and independent filmmakers.
How far ahead is NHK from the rest of the world? Well, the 8k experience is comparable to the HD one. In 1980, 10 years before it became mainstream, NHK was already broadcasting content in High Definition.
JAPANIMATION OUT OF THE BOX 18 Oct 2016, 14:45 - 15:25 Auditorium A, Palais 3 An analysis of the past, present and future of the beloved Japanese animation.
According to Advanced Television, the trio will be overseen by NHK and it is expected that chip-set developer Socionext (itself formed by a merger between Fujitsu and
JAPANESE DRAMA BEYOND BORDERS 18 Oct 2016, 15:30 - 16:10 Auditorium A, Palais 3 Two experts in Japanese drama will showcase some shows that have succeded on the international market and brand new international launches.
Trying to keep pace with NHK’s investments in 8k transmission, Sony and Panasonic announced their goal to start selling 8k-ready TVs by 2020. Both companies are working together to meet that goal. This year, Sony also introduced the industry’s first demodulator and tuner models that can handle Japan’s ISDB-S3 transmission system. A UNIQUE STYLE. Japan’s early-adopter mentality hasn’t left any area of the entertainment industry untouched, yet, at its heart, Japanese animation has the same “hand-drawn” unique art style that conquered audiences all-around the world. Indeed, some process of the animation production has been greatly sped up by the digital evolution, but the genre is still as easily recognizable for the whole world as it has been since 1960, when Osamu Tezuka, the “father of manga”, gave the finishing touches to its first drawing of ‘Astro Boy’”. Tezuka, also known as the “Japanese Walt Disney”, fathered a style of drawing that has become inseparable from Japanese manga, and therefore, animation. ‘Astro Boy’s big round eyes were a first in 1960, but rapidly became one of the genre’s defining characteristics. Inspired by -but not limited to- the prolific work of manga’s authors and aided by incremental forays into dubbing and cheap selling price, the animations soared in popularity around the world during the late 70’s and 80’s with titles like ‘Heidi’, ‘Mazinger Z’ and, later, ‘Dragon Ball Z’, becoming a genre on itself, known as “anime”. Anime’s (short for “animēshon”, the Japanese word for animation) popularity has grown steadily around the world and today Japan has close to 430 anime production studios. A varied offer of subgenres –as is the case with manga, anime is classified in Japan according to its target demographic, which could include age, gender and social status- has allowed anime to become the most important Japanese production, accounting for a 70% of the DVD market sales and 75% of the programming investment of the local TV stations. ttv
According to a study conducted by the Mitsubishi Research Institute, penetration of 4k television sets in Japan will jump from 6% to 50% over the next four years.
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Furthermore, NHK has joined forces with Sony and Panasonic to cooperate in order to further develop the 8k technology, including TVs capable of handling those video broadcasts.
Panasonic’s chip divisions) will be involved in developing a ‘next generation’ chip-set for use in 8K.
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A “Good Caliber” Distributor SOMOS Distribution is arriving at Mipcom 2016 with more than 20,000 hours of content, spanning across a variety of genres, including dramas, series, movies, variety, documentaries, sports and formats. By Sebastián Amoroso / @sebamoroso / samoroso@todotv.tv
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OMOS Distribution arrives in Cannes with a renovated and varied content catalog, led by the biopic ‘Hasta que te conocí’, about the life of mythical Mexican singer-songwriter, Juan Gabriel. Luis Villanueva, president and CEO of SOMOS Distribution, spoke to ttv about the company’s new endeavors. What results has SOMOS Distribution obtained during the first few months of 2016? The first quarter of the year was very productive for us. Juan Gabriel’s ‘Hasta que te conocí’ has broken all ratings records and the new Turkish dramas we added to our catalog gave us a solid boost in both sales and in leads, which we will keep an eye on to close more deals before the end of the year. Everything we’ve done in the first half of the year will be showcased at Mipcom, with a number of new products we added to our catalog, which we hope will be embraced by our clients.
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What can you tell us about the experience of working on ‘Hasta que te conocí’? This experience with Disney has been extremely positive for us, in the sense that this is another prestigious company that has found top-tier partners in SOMOS Productions and SOMOS Distribution, as some of the best partners for production and distribution. We’ve backed each other up in these two areas and the results are evident, both in the market and for each of the companies that worked in the project. The quality and suc-
NEW TITLES FOR MIPCOM 2016 SOMOS Distribution is present at Mipcom 2016 with the Polish series ‘39 and a Half’, and the Turkish dramas ‘Matter of Respect’ and ‘Sunshine Girls’. These titles join ‘Recipe for Life’ (Poland), ‘Rosa Fogo’ (Portugal), ‘Stolen Dreams’ (Greece) and ‘Strange Love’ (India), among others. The company is also presenting a new catalog of independent movies for Latin America and US Hispanic, product of an alliance with Ousider Pictures. And of course, the internationally successful series ‘Hasta que te conocí’, about the life of mythical Mexican singer-songwriter, Juan Gabriel.
cess registered with audiences and in the commercial aspect have certified that we do quality television, and that the synergies we created with the companies are a successful business model in the TV industry. What does the company’s distribution catalog contain? SOMOS Distribution’s content catalog features productions in a wide variety of genres, focused on the basis of any programming slate, with quality dramas, series and movies. Still, our clients can find variety shows, documentaries, sports and formats. We’ve made a great effort in the drama genre to offer our clients the best in a globalized genre that works well with audiences that learned to appreciate good production values and stories that surpass local limitations. In this sense, we can see that thanks to these dramas, traditional producers have reacted by offering new content that are not as similar to traditional formats. We have over 20,000 hours of content. What companies do you represent in Latin America? During this first semester, we’ve focused on increasing our content sources, signing distribution deals with important international producers like Kanal D in Turkey, TVN in Poland, J.K Produ in Greece and GoQuest in India, which have given us a volume of innovative dramas that we will present at Mipcom. We also represent products from Portuguese company SIC, TV3 in Catalunya, Expressive in Spain, La Mega in the US and Nickelodeon Latin America, among others. In terms of movies, we have access to a strong independent film catalog, product of our alliance with Outsider Pictures. ttv
“SOMOS Distribution offers content in a wide variety of genres.” Hasta que te conocí Series
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A Fortunate Discovery Inspired by the work of the most powerful TV players, MK Media Group boosted its business with a renewed passion that has seen its productions transition from short programs into full-length projects, like its newest gems, ‘Unfortuity’ and ‘TerraByte’. By Luis Cabrera / @luis_cabreram / lcabrera@todotv.tv
derstood that our team was ready,” the executive explained. Dmitrieva admits that the road travelled with the docudrama ‘Unfortuity’ was difficult, but the end result makes the company proud. “We have aligned production process and our own vision how to present the original story,” she said. ‘Unfortuity’ (13x26’) recreates the lucky accidents that have led to some of the most important discoveries on the history of humankind. As an example: the first episode of the show uses graphics, footage and acting to recreates the discovery of penicillin in 1928 by Alexander Fleming. While MK awaits the opinions of potential buyers at Mipcom with anticipation, the
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volution is a necessity and for MK Media Group it translated into taking a logical step forward from the short programs they were producing at the time. Now, at Mipcom, the Ukrainian company will showcase its newest shows: ‘Unfortuity’ and ‘TerraByte’. “From the start of DMart Production, when we were creating short programs, we always knew that after some time and a huge amount of practice we would be able to impress the market with full length content,” said Katerina Dmitrieva, CEO of MK Media Group. “Our production team was inspired by the content of the most powerful TV players (and) it became a part of the MK’s business process.” “Every new trailer issued by a leading TV network, especially documentary dramas, was met by me with big passion and the understanding that I wanted to do big weighty projects for the international market. After a big amount of short programs I finally un-
first impressions have already been very positive, particularly regarding the show’s high quality. CONNECTED THOUGHTS. As if imitating Fleming’s moment of realization, Dmitrieva started to elaborate the idea for ‘TerraByte’ in a pinch. “Once we had finished the first episode of ‘UnFortuity’, I read the article about a lack of ideas in the cartoon world,” she explained. “As a CEO I saw a big potential in the cartoon market. The next push was a brainstorm with my production team that showed that we had a lot of good, unusual ideas for children.” From that brainstorm came ‘TerraByte’ (13x11’), a 2D cartoon that tries to answer a hard question “how does the internet work?” and its derivations in a way that can
“The next big step for MK Media Group is to become a strong international player in producing deserving and qualitative documentary content and cartoons.”
AROUND THE WORLD IN 2016 During the last few months, MK Media Group has been very actively working with international partners around the globe, closing deals with Inflight Dublin (Ireland), Da Vinci Media (Germany), VOD platformWatch4 (Switzerland), KimMedia (South Korea), Beity TV (United Arab Emirates), Digiturk (Turkey), Hachi TV (Malaysia), Kanal 11 (Estonia), Tricolor 4K (Russia), DigitalRussia, 1TVCH (Russia) and others. “We provided them with the rights for our short programs ‘InfoToy’, ‘Tasty Morning’, ‘Re:Art’, ‘Carving Day’, ‘Little Foodies’, ‘Paintings of the World’ (HD and 4K), ‘Spirit of the Place’ and much more,” Dmitrieva said. “Almost all these titles were sold worldwide and we hope that our docudrama ‘UnFortuity’ and cartoon ‘TerraByte’ will have even more success!”
be understood by an audience of 4 to 8 year olds. “The cartoon is about a planet, TerraByte, which is an embodiment of the internet that we use every day. Across the main entertaining line we show to children how to use internet in a very simple and funny way. ‘TerraByte’ is full of adventures, investigations, emotions and entertaining learning,” explained Dmitrieva. “Honestly, it was a challenge for us,” executive said. “These projects have been prepared for almost 2 years. We united all stages of production into a strong chain to achieve very important goals for the company, producing content that follows the trends and creating new ideas.” “The next big step for MK Media Group is to become a strong international player in producing deserving and qualitative documentary content and cartoons,” Dmitrieva concluded. ttv
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‘Educating Nina’ Premieres in Paraguay ‘Educating Nina’, the hit series by Telefe, continues to premiere around the world. The series premiered in Paraguay’s Unicanal on September 15, airing Monday through Fridays at 9:30pm. Produced by Telefe and Underground, the show is the undisputed leader on its primetime slot at 9:45pm in Argentina, and has been one of the main reasons Telefe has been able to close this first trimester as the network with the largest audience. ‘Educating Nina’s sale in Paraguay joins the deals reached in Colombia, where Caracol will premiere the show this semester, and Ecuador, where it premiered on Teleamazonas. ‘Educating Nina’ tells the story of twin sisters separated at birth, both of which lead opposite lives, completely unaware of each other’s existence. It’s a story of social class, opposite cultures and how love can conquer all.
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HBO Doubles Original Production in Latin America
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Netflix Unveils Original Production Plans With 30 original shows between dramas and comedies, 35 kids’ series, 60 documentaries and around 12 movies, the unscripted world is the next frontier for Netflix, which is currently in different stages of production for 20 original shows in the genre. The number was revealed by Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer at Netflix, who shared details about the new endeavor at a press conference in London. The executive once again highlighted the fact that the company will invest US$ 6 billion in content in 2017 and double the number of original productions. Sarandos also confirmed the recent statements made by the company’s CFO about Netflix’s plan to have 50% of its catalog be original content. Lastly, he referred to the company’s film strategy, which seeks to end with the pay TV window, considered “absurd” in the era of the internet. The plan now is to invest in high-budget films like ‘Bright’, starring Will Smith and Joel Egerton, as well as ‘War Machine’ by Brad Pitt and ‘Mascots’ by Christopher Guest.
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Oficina Burman and Mediapro Strike Co-Development Deal
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With deals with Globo and Netflix, Argentine producer Oficina Burman, by renowned filmmaker Daniel Burman, has slowly become one of the “it” companies in Latin America. Now, according to Variety, the producer landed a new deal with Spain’s Mediapro, with whom it will co-develop high-budget series for the international market. The deal establishes a minimum of three series during the first year. Mediapro will cover the expenses, holding the right to produce the series to come out of the deal. The announcement comes right after Mediapro opened new offices in Buenos Aires and the imminent launch of ‘The Young Pope’, which Mediapro will co-produce with HBO and Sky.
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HBO Latin America announced it’s expanding its original production in Latin America and Brazil, doubling the number of titles produced last year. The company announced the production of new seasons, more local stories, new formats and new markets like Colombia or Argentina. “We are extending our original content like never before,” said Luis F. Peraza, president of Networks at HBO Latin America. In Brazil, HBO announced a new original series, ‘A vida secreta dos casais’, a drama that joins new season of ‘O Negocio’ and ‘Magnifica 70’. In Mexico, HBO introduced new seasons of ‘Sr. Ávila’, developed new stories with Dios Inc. and invested in new formats like ‘Chumel con Chumel Torres’. ‘Guerras Ajenas’ was HBO’s first original production in Colombia, and ‘Jardín de bronce’ marked its return to original production I nArgentina.
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‘Stranger Things’ Makes a Splash By Sofía Vanoli / @Soph_VB / svanoli@todotv.tv
Netflix aimed to switch it up this season with the release of an original series that plays on viewers’ nostalgia, combining a classic story with a surprising twist. And the move paid off as ‘Stranger Things’ became an overnight sensation with millions of fans worldwide. The consulting firm estimated an overall score 43.6 million -from July 31 to August 5- of what they call demand expressions, which is the total cross-platform audience demand. In digital originals, ‘Stranger Things’ ranked first, coming on top of other Netflix shows like ‘Orange is the New Black’ and ‘Bojack Horseman’.
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The numbers are good, but they get even better when compared to overall TV scores, which include traditional linear shows. In it, the show came in second, scoring above others like ‘Preacher’, ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Mr. Robot’. The number one place was filled by ‘Game of Thrones’, with just 4.5 million demand expressions more than the Duffer brothers’ creation.
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s there any show that can go toe to toe with the powerhouse that is HBO’s big-budget series ‘Game of Thrones’? The answer is yes, and strangely enough, it comes in the form of Netflix’s latest and most unusual original production: ‘Stranger Things’, a love song to the 80’s cult classics from brothers Matt and Ross Duffer. Since the show’s debut on July 15 of this year, it has become an overnight sensation, propelling its young cast into stardom and being named the most demanded digital show in the US, according to a ranking made by Parrot Analytics, which monitors blogs, social media and video platforms in search of the most buzzed about topics.
But what makes audiences come back for more? The answer lies in a compelling story about the disappearance of a young boy and a mysterious creature on the loose, combined with a backdrop that strongly plays on viewers’ nostalgia by bringing back well remembered elements and references from every 80’s cult favorite like ‘E.T’, ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ and ‘Jaws’, to name a few. And an extremely talented cast doesn’t hurt either. ‘Stranger Things’ is not only Winona Ryder’s return to television, but also the introduction of young talents Millie Brown, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo and Finn Wolfhard to international viewers worldwide. One need not look further than the 2016 Emmys to see how much of an impact the show and its cast has made, in spite of not being launched in time to be considered for the nominations. VIEWERS WANT ‘STRANGER THINGS’. With little to no advertising, the show explosively took over the internet, being the most demanded content and, according to Goo-
ttv FILMS&SERIES / NETFLIX platforms, confidently states that ‘Stranger Things’ is among the most popular content on Netflix. In fact, the firm places it as the third most popular season of an original series to debut in the last year under ‘Fuller House’ and ‘Orange is the New Black’. Furthermore, the numbers published by SymphonyAM show that in the first 16 days since becoming available for streaming, the show was seen by 8.2 million people in the US with a 5.94 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. This means that ‘Stranger Things’ has sneaked its way to the top, next to shows from traditional television. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes also weighed in, showing that the series reached a 95% “fresh” rating overview,
NETFLIX TRIES ITS HAND AT VR CONTENT ‘Stranger Things’ also gave way to Netflix’s first virtual-reality content: an eerie promotional segment for the show that places viewers in a dark house with a malevolent being on the loose. The 360-degree video is available on YouTube for users with Google’s Cardboard virtual-reality attachment.
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The show brings back references from 80’s cult favorites like ‘E.T’ and ‘Jaws’.
making it one of the best reviewed series of 2016 thus far. With those impressive achievements under its belt, is no surprise that the show has already been renewed for a second season that will be coming to Netflix on 2017 with nine new episodes, one more than the show’s eight-episode first season.
An estimate of 8.2 million people in the US watched the show within the first 16 days.
“We wanted it to feel like a big movie, so we wanted to resolve that main tension of where Will went and what happened to him,” said series creator Matt Duffer back at the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour. “But there’s a bigger mythology behind what happened, and there’s a lot of dangling trends at the end,” he added. gle, the most searched item for at least the last two months. But viewership numbers remain somewhat of a mystery, given that Netflix is known for not disclosing rating numbers. However, SymphonyAM, a firm that specializes in disclosing “ratings” for digital
However, the show will come back with a few changes in structure and feel: mainly, a slow buildup to the drama as opposed to starting with a more intense and dramatic event. Still, genre fans need not be worried, the shows’ love affair with the 80’s will go on and the little winks to some of the most beloved high-concept blockbusters will come back stronger than ever. ttv
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The Transformation of Azteca Mauricio Majul, director of Estudio 13, highlighted the success registered by the biopic ‘Hasta que te conocí’ and explained the keys to Azteca’s renovation: co-production, good content and tending to audiences’ demands. By Enrique de la Rosa
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fter almost three years of preparation, the July 10 premiere of ‘Hasta que te conocí’ on TV Azteca registered historic results for the network, surpassing Televisa with a drama for the first time in ten years.
miere and, other than the rating, the important thing is we were leaders in the timeslot with the highest share on TV that Sunday. It’s safe to say the alliance with Disney and TNT was very positive… This production was developed in partnership with Disney and TNT. It aired on TNT first, reaching record ratings on pay TV, and now it surpassed all expectations on broadcast TV in a surprising fashion, proving how massive broadcast TV can be.
Azteca now seeks to replicate the formula for success, searching for new alliances with Disney Media Distribution Latin America, as well as other international producers. Mauricio Majul, director of Estudio 13 at TV Azteca, spoke to ttv about the company’s quest to find quality content that are demanded by audiences. “We are investing notably in studies to be close to the audience and see what viewers want. Programming is then developed according to that demand,” he said.
It was a long-term vision. It’s worth mentioning Rodrigo Fernández, my colleague at Canal 7, who had been preparing this with Fernando Barbosa at Disney for over three years. They were able to pull the co-production off very successfully, with great preparation and a long pre-production process. Having a good product, with a good advertising campaign and a good timeslot, led to excellent results in the end.
How did the success of ‘Hasta que te conocí’ make you feel? We are very happy. ‘Hasta que te conocí’ was a highly-anticipated product for us. It took three years for it to come together, but in the end, we had a very well-rounded production, which translated into a big success: 14 rating points in its pre-
Are you working on other projects at Disney? Yes, we are working on other projects,
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“’Hasta que te conocí’ was a very highly-anticipated product for us.”
Director of Estudio 13 but nothing we can reveal just yet. Disney is a strategic ally. The relationship we have with them is something we intend to continue growing, because it’s a fantastic alliance. To have good products we must develop them with other partners, so we can offer our audience something with great quality and that’s part of the vision. To be producers and co-producers of content and opening up to the different producers in the market. While for many years we were only producing content in-house, our new vision has us looking for partners; production houses and content creators with whom we can work jointly and bring better products to the market. An example of this is ‘Rosario Tijeras’ with Sony Pictures Television… It’s a co-production with Sony which we are already filming. We are very happy to bring another great producer with a wonderful alliance
ttv FILMS&SERIES / Interview “The term telenovela is somewhat outdated and what we are doing is producing new formats. The format is evolving, we are talking about new concepts like ‘Rosario Tijeras’, which is a super series.” “TV Azteca’s new vision is to invite every content producer. There are no exclusivities or vetoes.”
and extraordinary story. We hope to have it on the air in a couple of months. This type of content and new series is a great part of Azteca’s new strategy, which is trying to have great content. Who else are you planning to partner with? With everyone. Azteca’s new TV vision is to invite all content producers. There are no exclusivities or vetoes here. There’s a total opening to any producer who can bring good ideas and good scripts. Everyone is welcome at TV Azteca, both internal and external producers. What’s important is to develop good content, no matter where they come from. We can sponsor them, invest in them or see different production models, always focusing on taking the best content we can to our audience. How true is the statement that “TV Azteca will no longer produce telenovelas”? The genre has changed. The term “telenovela” is somewhat outdated and what we’re doing is producing new formats. The format is evolving and we are talking about concepts like ‘Rosario Tijeras’, which is a super series, where we talk about an 80-episode story with a different dynamism. People and audiences engage with content in different ways and content
must evolve accordingly. More than talking about a specific genre, what we have here is an evolution of the genre and what audiences are demanding now are shorter, more precise stories. So that’s what we are doing, what the audience is demanding from us. And how do you know what the audience demands? We are investing notably in studies to be close to the audience and see what viewers want. Programming is then developed according to that demand. Could you explain the reasons behind the alliance with Blim? We are producing content and we can distribute it on any OTT. More than a specific brand, we are content producers and we can sell it to any OTT. It’s all about supply and demand. How do you intend to position yourselves now with the birth of a new channel in Mexico? By being close to our audience and knowing what it wants. And developing the content they demand. We won’t worry about the competition, but rather tend to our audience’s needs. We are focusing on what they want to watch and creating that content. There is no better way to do it that tend to the audience. ttv
THE FUTURE OF TV, ACCORDING TO SEGÚN BENJAMÍN SALINAS
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“This series we are presenting today paved the way in this new process of reinvention at TV Azteca. What does this mean? That we can no longer only produce content in-house, we are now open to independent productions and new casts. This is the future of television. The future is collaboration.” With these words, Benjamín Salinas Sada, General Director of TV Azteca, officially started filming for ‘Entre correr y vivir’. The new series will air on Azteca 7 and Televisa’s platform Blim, starting Octover 17, Mondays through Thursdays at 10:00pm. Directed by Raúl Quintanilla and produced by Julián Antuñano, ‘Entre correr y vivir’ will be shot entirely in HD, ensuring a great image quality. Filmed in Mexico, TV Azteca will present it as a super series, with 2, 20-episode seasons.
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(Miniseries – 8 X 60’) This new series is inspired by the real missions of Seal Team Six, the unit best known for killing Osama Bin Laden and popularized by hit films like ‘Lone Survivor’ and ‘Captain Phillips’. With a former Special Operations team member ensuring authenticity and accuracy while preserving secrecy of classified missions, ‘Six’ is the story of a brotherhood of an elite Special Forces unit – the best at what they do. This series depicts the emotional truths of what it means to be in Seal Team Six including making the life and death decisions that protect the United States. The key members of the team are the cynical ladies’ man, Caulder, the deeply religious Graves, family man Ortiz, and Taggart the veteran leader of Seal Team Six.
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‘Roots’ is a historical portrait of slavery recounting the journey of one family’s will to survive, endure and ultimately, carry on their legacy despite enormous hardship and inhumanity. Spanning multiple generations, the lineage begins with young Kunta Kinte, who is captured in his homeland of The Gambia and sold into slavery. Throughout the series, the family continues to face adversity that reveals powerful truths about the universal resilience of the human spirit.
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(Series – 16 X 60’) Cameras follow the lives of young men and women born with Down Syndrome, as they pursue their passions and lifelong dreams, explore friendships, romantic relationships and earn a living, all while defying society’s expectations. The series also gives voice to the parents, allowing them to talk about the joy their son or daughter brings to their family, and the challenges they face in helping them live independent lives.
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Cristobal Ponte, Exclusive Independent Representative for Europe, Africa & M.E.
FLEABAG
MGM STUDIOS 245 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, USA, 90210 Tel.: +1 310-449-3000 Fax: +1 310-586-8865 Email: BGurstein@mgm.com Website: www.mgm.com Booth: R9.A30
Executives Attending
Charles Farmer, SVP and Managing Director, International TV Distribution EMEA Paul Bischoff, SVP, Subscription TV & Sales Strategy Matt Vassallo, SVP, International TV Distribution, Free TV Sales & Strategy and Latin America Lesley Drukker, Vice President, International TV Distribution, Northern Europe Deblina Chakrabarty, Director, International TV Distribution EMEA Marcio Ferreira, Director, International TV Distribution Latin America
TOP eXECUTIVE
(Drama / Comedy - 6 X 30’) The extremely talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge (‘Broadchurch’, ‘Crashing’) writes and stars in this new genre of scripted content. Not a comedy and not a drama, this is a hybrid. ‘Fleabag’ is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman trying to make sense of the world. ‘Fleabag’ gives a voice to young females around the world, with an unprecedented honesty and emotion that’s rarely spoken.
THE MISSING SERIES 2 (Series – 8 X 60’)
When a young woman walks back into the town she was abducted from 11 years ago, it is revealed that she holds vital clues about another missing girl. French detective Julien Baptiste becomes embroiled in the mystery when he races across Europe to pursue a 12 year-old case. ‘The Missing Series 2’ dramatizes a thrilling chase for a missing girl, whilst exploring the truth of what happens when a missing child returns.
NATIONAL TREASURE (Drama – 4X 60’)
‘National Treasure’ follows Paul Finchley, an ageing, beloved comedian, after his arrest following allegations of rape dating back to the 90s. The drama follows the story from arrest through to verdict and focuses both on the investigation and the effect of the case on Paul and his family. ‘National Treasure’ is a story that goes behind the headlines to look at the human and emotional impact when a whole life is called into question.
MARY FOR MAYOR
Chris Ottinger, President, International TV Distribution & Acquisitions
(Dramedy – 14 X 30’) Set in a fictional Southwestern town where divorce is forbidden due to a 150-year-old superstition, Mary finds herself in an unhappy marriage and runs for mayor to change the law, sending residents into a frenzy. But just as Mary is about to put an end to her marriage, she begins to fall back in love with her husband, who is in fact an imposter hired by the town’s incumbent mayor as part of a conniving plan to win the election.
JUST LOOKING
(Drama Series- 120 X 60’) An innovative and dynamic format that can either be a telenovela or a drama series, it follows five couples who fall in love in different ways: at first sight, at the first laughter, at the first compliment after years of indifference, after the first divorce, and even during the first hip fracture. These lively and spontaneous characters meet or are reunited when they move into the same building – not knowing a psychopath has installed hidden cameras in every apartment.
THE SEX SENSE
(Drama Series - 13 X 60’) This original story by Luis Fernandez presents four very distinct couples on the brink of breakup, struggling to survive. Considering that monogamy is not natural and traditional values have not served to make them happy, these couples try to redefine their relationships through sex, trial, and error, to establish new values that are more in harmony with reality and more useful in building stronger relationships that are open, honest, different, and undoubtedly objectionable to some, but envied by all.
FARGO
(Drama / Comedy – 30 X 60’) Season 3 will air on FX in 2017. The show, which was nominated for 18 Emmys in season 2, will jump in time in season 3, taking place in 2010, featuring the trademark ‘Fargo’ tone of rich, layered characters, humor, and of course, murder.
VIKINGS
(Drama – 69 X 60’) ‘Vikings’ revolves around the Norsemen who raided, traded and explored during the dark ages and follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok as he rises to become king of the Viking tribes.
HANDMAID’S TALE
(Drama – 10 X 60’) Based on Margaret Atwood’s classic novel, a young woman struggles for freedom in a futuristic society where women are forced into surrogate motherhood.
Ruled By Love (Working Title)
RCN Televisión Ave. Americas # 65 – 82 Tel.: (57)1 4269292 Website: www.rcnventasinternacionales.com Booth: P1 – F26
Executives Attending
Cristina Palacio, Creative and product VP Maria del Rosario Iregui, VP of Strategic Business Ricardo Cruz, Acquisitions Director Maria Lucia Hernandez, International sales Director Lina Maria Waked E, International sales executive Carolina Lozano, International sales executive
Mata Hari
Victor Ros
Notorious
RED ARROW INTERNATIONAL SECUOYA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION Medienallee 7, 85774 Unterfoehring, Germany Tel.: +49 89 9507 2320 Website: www.redarrowinternational.tv Email: info@redarrowinternational Stand: P4.C10
Executives Attending
Bo Stehmeier, SVP Global Sales Amelie von Kienlin, SVP Scripted Acquisitions and Coproductions Harry Gamsu, VP Format Acquisitions & Sales
TOP eXECUTIVE
Crta. Fuencarral-Alcobendas km 3,8 Edif.3 Centro Empresarial Arbea, 28108, Alcobendas, Madrid Tel.: +34913717569 Email: sales@secuoyadistribution.com Website: www.secuoyadistribution.com Stand: R7J11
Executives Attending
Vanessa Palacios, Content Manager Ana Estévez, Sales Manager
TOP eXECUTIVE
Henrik Pabst, Managing Director
TOP eXECUTIVE
José Miguel Barrera, Head of International
Gabiel Reyes Copello, President
MATA HARI
(Scripted Series / Drama – 12 X 60’)
RULED BY LOVE (WORKING TITLE) (Series – 123 x 60’)
‘Ruled By Love’ is a story which takes place in a successful family law firm with lawyers who are experts in family law, experienced in separations, divorces, couple´s conflicts and family problems in general. This group of lawyers will face in their personal lives similar situations than those of their clients, which will make them confront their own feelings.
GALY GALIANO´S STORY (Series – 100 X 60’)
THE ROMEO SECTION: ASSASSINS (Scripted Series / Thriller - 10 X 60’)
A stylish, dangerous, and high-stakes thriller from acclaimed showrunner Chris Haddock.
PREGAU
(Scripted Series / Crime Drama – 4 X 120’)
From award-winning writer and director Nils Willbrandt, comes this edgy thriller about a small Austrian town that has terrifying underbelly of lies, corruption and violence.
10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232, USA Tel.: +1 (310) 244-4000 Fax: +1 (310¬) 244-1874 Website: www.sonypicturestelevision.com Booth: C 12
Executives Attending
Zack Van Amburg, President, Sony Pictures Television Jamie Erlicht, President, Sony Pictures Television Andrea Wong, President, International Production Amy Carney, President, Advertiser Sales & Research Andy Kaplan, President, Worldwide Networks Alexander Marin, Executive Vice President, International Distribution Angelica Guerra, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Production, Latin America and US Hispanic
TOP eXECUTIVE
VICTOR ROS
(Fiction / Series – 8 X 70’)
Keith Le Goy, President, International Distribution
After the resolution of the major case of his career, inspector Victor Ros is required to investigate the theft of the gold reserves of the Bank of Spain.
CHE, THE SURVIVORS
(Drama / Series – 10 X 50’) This ambitious and exciting television series project tells how the Che Guevara guerrilla survivors escaped in Bolivia after his death. A real thriller based in the survivor’s testimonies.
REMEMBER WHEN
(Fiction / Series – 300 X 90’) This prime time series chronicles the evolution of the Alcántara family through various decades in a Spain that goes from a dictatorship to a democracy.
MARTIN$
(Fiction / Series – 60’) “Someday, my son, none of this will be yours”. A dark comedy about honor and money.
NOTORIOUS
(Drama – 13 X 60’) ‘Notorious’ follows the professional and personal relationship between a charismatic attorney and a powerhouse television producer as they attempt to control the media, the justice system, and ultimately, each other.
TIMELESS
(Drama – 13 X 60’) ‘Timeless’ follows a group of unlikely heroes thrust into the adventure of their lives. Chasing a mysterious group of criminals through time and encountering some of the most seminal moments in history, the group attempts to thwart a dark conspiracy that is a threat to all of humanity.
BLACKLIST: THE REDEMPTION (Drama – 8 X 60’)
‘The Blacklist: Redemption’ follows undercover operative Tom Keen who has been recruited into Grey Matters, a secret and lucrative private military organization that executes the impossible assignments that governments and corporations must otherwise disavow. Grey Matters is headed by mysterious leader Susan “Scottie” Hargrave.
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The story of Carmelo, a humble and unattractive man who became famous by accident. His main objective was find love with the woman of his dreams, but ended up catching the attention of many women with his romantic music, making the difference on the music trends of the time. Inspired by love, Carmelo aka Galy, created a music band named “Los Diamantes del Cesar” with whom he lives the most funny and comic adventures. As he became famous, he starts traveling abroad and it is in his artistic tour in Mexico, Los Angeles and different parts of the world where he will meet the mother of his daughters, and will start having again new struggles in life to survive the fame, the groupies and all the ups and downs on the music market.
‘Mata Hari’ is an epic new drama that charts the extraordinary life of exotic dancer, courtesan and infamous spy Mata Hari. To her audiences, Mata Hari was the notorious performer and dancer. To her wealthy lovers she was the charming yet mysterious seductress. To both the German and French Intelligence Services she was an invaluable and trustworthy informant who was exposed as a double agent. But few saw Margaret Zelle, the real woman behind the legend of Mata Hari.
SONY PICTURES TELEVISION
Midnight Sun
Bad Moms
Dios Inc.
Studiocanal
Telefilms
Eagle House, 50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ Tel.: +44 20 7534 2700 Email: sales@studiocanaltv.com Website: www.studiocanaltvseries.com Booth: P1.A.1
Carlos Pellegrini 1427, Piso 7, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: +33 4 92 99 8284 Email: telefilms@telefilms.com.ar Website: www.telefilms.com.ar Stand: P-1.C 2 Hall/Level: Palais -1
Executives Attending
Executives Attending
Katrina Neylon, EVP Sales & Marketing
TOP eXECUTIVE
Katrina Neylon, EVP Sales & Marketing
Ricardo Costianovsky, CEO Alfredo Andreotti, Sales Manager Humberto Delmas, Sales Manager Alejandro Carballo, Sales Manager Nicolas Zumaglini, Adquisiciones
TOP eXECUTIVE Tomás Darcyl, President
MIDNIGHT SUN
TELEMUNDO INTERNACIONAL
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION
2555 Ponce de Leon Blvd., 4th Floor Coral Gables FL 33134, USA Tel.: (786) 394-1210 Fax: (305) 774-7372 Email: Olimpia.DelBoccio@nbcuni.com Website: www.telemundointernacional.tv Stand: P4.C14
P.O. Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213-0900, USA Tel.: 310 369.1000 Fax: 310.369.8877 Email: Mahnaz.Landers@fox.com Website: www.foxfast.com Booth: P3.A1
Executives Attending
Xavier Aristimuño, SVP of International Business Development & Digital Media Esperanza Garay, SVP of Sales & Acquisitions, Latin America Melissa Pillow, VP of Sales, Europe Olimpia Del Boccio, VP of Marketing, Press & Promotions Yari Torres, Sales Planner, Asia Elena Aguirre, Sales Planner, Europe
TOP eXECUTIVE
(Crime Series – 8 x 60’) A French police officer travels to remote northern Sweden to investigate brutal serial murders concealing a secret conspiracy. From creators Märlind & Stein.
HARLAN COBEN’S THE FIVE (Thriller Series – 10 X 60’)
Original thriller series by Harlan Coben, ninetime #1 NY Times bestselling author. Four friends are united by a terrible childhood event. Screenplay by Danny Brocklehurst.
SECTION ZÉRO
(Drama Series – 8 X 60’) A dark, edgy and violent political, sci-fi thriller from César-nominated writer and director, Olivier Marchal (Braquo) and starring Pascal Greggory and Ola Rapace.
(Comedy – 1 X 100’)
¿QUÉ CULPA TIENE EL NIÑO? (Comedy Romance – 1 x 105’)
Maru, after becoming pregnant from a drunken one night stand with an immature young unemployed bachelor, is determined to follow tradition and marry him anyways.
LION
(Drama – 129’) A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
HAWCKSAW RIDGE
(Biography, Drama, History– 131’)
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Marcos Santana, President
BAD MOMS
When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
The Exorcist
Executives Attending
Marion Edwards, President, International Television, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution Gina Brogi, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Pay Television & SVOD, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution Scott Gregg, Executive Vice President, Worldwide All Media Sales, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution Kristen Finney, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Pay Television & SVOD, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution Evan Scheffel, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Pay Television & SVOD, Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution
TOP eXECUTIVE Mark Kaner, President
DIOS INC.
(Series – 12 X 60’ HD) When he attempts to publish his work and recover his family, whom he left behind when her embarked on his journey of discovery, he learns that his work has been plagiarized and manipulated by Adolfo Heredia, the owner of an old printing press, who now goes by the name of Askar Hyrum, and is the leader a sect called “The Sons of Indra”. Together with his teacher’s grandson, Salvador will do what he can to unmask this cult, before it is declared an official religion and spread throughout the country, with the approval of the State.
THE EXORCIST
(Drama – 10 X 60’) A modern reinvention inspired by William Peter Blatty’s original 1971 book, ‘The Exorcist’ is a propulsive, serialized, psychological thriller. The series narrative follows two very different men, who tackle one family’s case of horrifying demonic possession and find themselves confronted by the face of true evil.
THE ACERO DYNASTY
24: LEGACY
The beautiful and tough tempered Vicenta Rigores is one of the most respected and feared “coyotes” of the border between Mexico and the United States. While U.S. officials have a warrant for her arrest, the other coyotes competing against her for business want her dead. One Homeland Security official in particular is following her path very closely. His name is Daniel Roberts. This honest, noble and rigorous man has one thing is common with the notorious coyote who risks her life daily to guard the individuals she helps across; he too defends his territory and fulfills his duty to those he protects.
The clock ticks again with ‘24: Legacy’, the next installment of the groundbreaking and award-winning drama franchise, 24. Told in the same real-time format that propelled the original series, ‘24: Legacy’chronicles a new adrenaline-fueled race against the clock that sees military hero Eric Carter (Corey Hawkins) working with CTU to stop a potentially devastating terrorist attack on United States soil.
(Series – 80 X 60’ S3 HD)
(Drama – 12 X 60’)
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ANIMATION
Toei Takes ‘Sailor Moon’ to Germany
TECHNOLOGY
RTL2 has signed the rights to the 5 original seasons of the German-dubbed version of ‘Sailor Moon’, nearly 20 years after it first aired in Germany in 1997 on RTL2, becoming an instant hit in the country. The cult series is now back since September 4 on RTL II YOU, RTL2’s free online channel targeting the 15-24 demographic. The channel already offers classic Toei Animation hits such as ‘Dragon Ball’ and ‘One Piece’. ‘Sailor Moon’ tells the story of a 14 year-old schoolgirl who discovers that she is actually Sailor Moon, a guardian with magical powers. With the help of the other teenage guardians, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Mars, Sailor Jupiter and Sailor Venus, she will fight against the evil forces threatening the Earth. Queen Beryl keeps trying to get the Silver Crystal by all means and endanger the inhabitants of the Earth.
to Lead VR Revolution
Asia and US
Just now taking their first steps, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are about to become the stars of the entertainment and technology world. A new report by Data Corporation (IDC) indicates both technologies will deliver revenues of US$ 162 billion by 2020. The number is currently US$ 5.2 billion, thus it’s expected to have a compound annual growth rate of 181.3%. IDC predicts 50% will be generated from hardware sales. Meanwhile, software sales will grow 200% in 2016, but will quickly be overtaken by services revenues in the middle years of the forecast, as logistics and manufacturing demand enterprise-class support. In terms of regions, Asia-Pacific, US and Western Europe will represent three quarters of the revenue generated, with a similar share in 2016. By 2020, the US will have a comfortable lead. Because AR/ VR technology is still in the early stages of adoption, every region is expected to see annual growth of more than 100% throughout the forecast period.
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TECHNOLOGY
NHK, Pioneer in 8K Technology Japanese public network NHK has started its trial broadcasts in Ultra HD 4k and 8k. The goal is to perfect the technology ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. With this, NHK becomes the world’s first network to do a trial broadcast in 8k, the superior form of HD: it has a resolution of 4.320 pixels (33.2 megapixels), which is 16 times more than the HD standard. According to the network, broadcasts will take place in its satellite channels, and the idea is for the UHD technology to be the normal standard by 2018. NHK intends to broadcast the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 games in 8K, as well as the swimming competitions and races. Viewers won’t be able to watch in 4k and 8k with conventional STBs, so in order to promote the new technology, NHK is planning to install the necessary devices in its headquarters and public places in Japan’s main cities. Japan was one of the first countries to develop it through NHK, in collaboration with companies like Sony, Sharp, Panasonic or Toshiba.
EXECUTIVES
Mr. Atsushi Hatayama has been appointed as the new President of International Business Development at Nippon Television Network Corporation. Coming from Nippon TV’s News Department and based in Tokyo, Hatayama will replace Ms. Yukiko Kimishima who will take on the position as President of Nippon TV International Corporation and will relocate from Tokyo to New York City beginning July 1st. In his new position, Hatayama will be dedicated to strengthening relationships with overseas partners in an effort to continue the growth of Nippon TV’s international businesses, as well as establishing new ties in more countries to embark on enhanced business opportunities. Hatayama assumes his new role with the mission of maintaining Nippon TV as a formidable presence throughout the TV and digital worlds.
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Nippon TV Names New President of IBD Mr. Atsushi Hatayama, new President of International Business Development at Nippon Television Network Corporation
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Spain Takes its Ideas to the World Audiovisual From Spain arrives at Mipcom ONCE AGAIN, WITH 24 COMPANIES PRESENTING THEIR NEWEST dramas, formats, documentaries and animated series. By Gonzalo Larrea @glarrea / glarrea@todotv.tv
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ame as every year, Spain will be one of the best represented countries at Mipcom, with over 250 companies attending, 75 of them under the Audiovisual From Spain umbrella, and 24 exhibiting their content in stand R7J11 at the Palais des Festivals, backed by ICEX, España Exportación e Inversiones. New dramas, formats, documentaries and animated series will be part of the Spanish companies’ renovated lineup for the event, which seek to continue the success Spanish titles are having around the world. Up next, a summary of the companies’ main announcements and offers: Prointel Producciones. Prointel is arriving in Cannes with two big new cooking formats: ‘What’s For Dinner?’ and ‘Recording The World… Cooking With Julius’. The first is a cooking game show to be offered as a format, in which contestants must eat all types of bizarre ingredients in order to win. The second, a docu-reality offered as a format and a tape, presents chef Julius Bienert and his trip around Southeast Asia in search for new flavors and traditional dishes. “Both formats are perfectly exportable because of the genre,
the production and the theme, since they are both very popular in the international market, with current topics and themes,” said Melisa Moya Martín, head of Content. Phileas Productions. Phileas is presenting two entertainment formats at Mipcom: the game show ‘Crush’ and the dating show ‘Love Is In The Group’. “’Crush’ is a new fun game show for which we developed a full pilot in September and will present at Mipcom as a Phileas-Mediapro format, distributed by Imagi na International Sales and Phileas,” said Javier Martínez, executive producer, format development at Phileas. “It’s a game show for all audiences, with a simple mechanic that’s fun and exciting until the end.” ‘Love Is In The Group’, is a factual entertainment show. “We found an innovative formula based on a scientific study about what they call the ‘Cheerleader effect’, which makes it fun, different and easy to roll out.” Medina Media 4K. 4K productions once again make Medina Media stand out at Mipcom, with the series ‘Popular Celebrations In Spain, in 4K-UHD’ as the star of its catalog. “This series presents Spain’s popular celebrations that every year attract millions of tourists: the Carnival of Cádiz, the Holy Easter Week in Andalucía and El Rocío. For the first time, viewers can enjoy them in the highest quality possible, 4k, UHD,” said Medina, 4K-UHD Project Manager.
Anima Kitchent. Anima Kitchent will present kids’ content like ‘Piny – Institute of New York’ (52x11’), a comedy premiered on Disney Channel in Spain and Portugal; and ‘Cleo & Cuquin’ (52x7’), an adventure series co-produced with Televisa. “With ‘Piny’, we signed with Gulli (France), Frisbee (Italy), Carousel (Russia), Televisa (Mexico) and with Disney Channel for Portugal and Spain. We signed a co-production deal with Televisa for ‘Cleo & Cuquin’, and with several licensers in Mexico,” said Ángel Molinero, Managing Director of Anima Kitchent. “In both cases, they’re properties with ambitious transmedia brand strategies, complemented by toys and licenses. We are looking for deals with global OTT platforms (global and local), kids’ TV networks and licensers in different categories.” Factoría Plural. Two docu-realities in genres as popular as cooking and running are leading Factoría Plural’s catalog for Mipcom, with titles like ‘Born to Run’ (8x45’), to air on TVE; and ‘Mother Chef’, which has a 52-minute pilot. “Running is a worldwide phenomenon, with more and more fans. This show teaches viewers how to start running in a healthy and safe way. Its interest for viewers and easy sponsorhip make it an interesting production,” said Pedro Olloqui, President of Factoría Plural. “Cooking shows are working all over the world. With ‘Mother Chef’, we offer another angle through Miche-
lin Star chefs, who invite us into their kitchens in a unique way.” It’s OK. Cooking is also a key part of It’s OK’s offer, with titles like ‘Food Go’, a show that combines factual, lifestyle and game show. “We are a very young company and this is our second Mipcom. While we haven’t done any international production yet, we are signing international distribution deals for our new format ‘Food Go’, with companies in the UK,” said Santiago Pascual, Creative director of It’s OK. The company is also presenting Sociopath 2.0. “Their ability to be adapted in different territories makes them ideal for the international market,” he said.
Mediaset España. Mediaset España’s offer for Mipcom is all about dramas: ‘The Truth’ (two, eight-episode seasons) and ‘I Know Who You Are’ (one, 16-episode season). Both are still awaiting their premieres and have received a lot of interest from the international market due to their plots. “We’ve gotten a lot of interest for ‘The Truth’, to adapt it and for the tape. And we’ve closed several deals for ‘I Know Who You Are’, both adaptation and the tape,” said Silvia Cotino Estornell, International Sales executive. “They both have a great level of production and are very international stories we believe can work on every market.”
Atresmedia. Atresmedia will also bet on drama at Mipcom, with the launch of ‘Lifeline’, a 10 70-minute episode series that’s yet to premiere in Spain, about a renowned
surgeon who receives a heart transplant and starts having terrible nightmares about the donor’s murder. “Set in an urban location and with high production values, ‘Lifeline’ is moving emotionally with a strong plot that leads to a dilemma: Does a heart have memories? The audience will sympathize with the torment of the main character, whose new heart will be a guide to the truth about the death of his donor,” said Diana Borbón Cuchí, sales manager at Atresmedia Internacional. The company is also presenting the second season of ‘Plastic Sea’ (13x70’). “After the successful first season, ‘Plastic Sea’ comes back with a new murder that will alter again the life of the inhabitants of the little village and will surprise the viewers. Visceral, full of action and visually stunning.” Prisa Producciones de video. ‘The History Warriors’, a documentary shot for Movistar, #0 channel, leads the company’s offer. In 6 episodes and with a format that combines travelling with a focus on heritage protection, through the eyes of three presenters: a reporter, who portrays the souls of the people who live and work there; a movie director who picks up on the beauty; and a paleoanthropologist, which documents the historic importance of the group. “We visit places with great beauty, some well-known like Pompey, Granada or Angjor Wat; and others more surprising like Lalibela in Ethiopia, Misiones in Paraguay and Argentina,
and the Huacas in Peru,” said Carina Pardavila, general manager. Fuillerat Partners Animazing. The 52-episode 3D animated series, ‘Animukis’, is one of the titles to be presented by Fuillerat Partners Animazing at Mipcom; company that arrives at the market to find co-production and distribution partners. “’Animukis’ presents simple and fresh themes, teaching kids about emotional intelligence. Each episode revolves around a particular emption and helps identify it and channel it correctly,” said José Fuillerat, director of Fuillerat Partners Animazing. ‘GLOB!’ -which combines puppets, and 2D and 3D animation- “is about
a group of characters who travel the world, based on curiosity and discovering new things like other cultures and languages.” Grupo Veralia. The format, ‘The Red Seat’, will be Veralia’s main title for Mipcom. “’The Red Seat’s mechanism works for any type of talent format. We present the format to be adapted to each country’s typical music genre. Our version for Canal Sur is with Sevillanas, and we understand this music genre is very much ours and difficult to export. It has original elements, from the voting system to the elimination process. These elements have already been tested in other shows like ‘A tu vera’ (Castilla La Mancha TV) or ‘Se llama copla’ (Canal Sur), with great success. Next year we will have a Kids version of ‘A tu vera’,” said Carmen Bodega, director of the International Content Division. Comercial TV. The 12-episode docu-reality ‘Latins over the world’, and the documentary ‘FC Barcelona: Passion & Business’, lead Comercial TV’s offer for Mipcom. “’Latinos por el Mundo’ has been sold to OTT and pay TV platforms in Latin America, and we are in negotiations with several other clients in the region. ‘FC. Barcelona’ was sold to Directv in Latin America and US Hispanic, and other pay TV networks in the region in El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras; and online platforms in Europe, in Hungary, Poland, Portugal y Russia,” said Rocío Giménez, Sales executive. ttv
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Onza Distribution. After opening doors across several markets with ‘The Department of Time’, Onza is presenting nature docu-series ‘Jungle Planet’ (26x26’) and the telenovela ‘The Pretender’ (150x50’, 2 seasons). “’Jungle Planet’ will be complete early next year and ‘The Pretender’ just premiered in Portugal in early September with excellent results. They are very new titles so we haven’t closed deals yet, but we’re excited about the interest show for them in the international market,” said Jessica Ortiz, Sales director at Onza. “We believe ‘Jungle Planet’ is ideal for the international market, because it’s one of the first 4k nature series. ‘The Pretender’ is a very strong fiction that can surely work wonderfully in the international market, especially in Latin America.”
Grupo Secuoya. The second season of the ‘Victor Ros’ series (eight episodes), produced for TVE, is the company’s star title for Mipcom. “It’s a series set in Spain in the XIX century, in which inspector Ros deals with hard cases. It will soon air on TVE,” said José Miguel Barrera, director of Secuoya’s international division. “We will also present ‘La vega’, which is a reality for TVN in Chile. They’re 12 installments. It hasn’t premiered yet, it’s being filmed,” he added.
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Turkish Dramas are Here to Stay
Eccho Rights is set to take Mipcom by storm. After announcing a landmark agreement with Ay Yapim, and several other deals, the company is presenting a lineup that confirms its position as one of the most trusted distributors of Turkish dramas in the Latin American market. By Sofía Vanoli @Soph_VB / svanoli@todotv.tv
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ccho Rights is rounding up 2016 on a big note. Right on the heels of Mipcom the company announced a landmark agreement with Ay Yapim to represent their next five series, including ‘Wings of Love’, which has already premiered in Turkey; ‘Insider’, which will come in September; and two more series that will come later in the winter. This deal, according to Fredrik af Malmborg, Managing Director of Eccho Rights, confirms the company’s position as the most trusted distributor for the biggest production house in Turkey, in addition to signaling that Turk-
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ish dramas continue to be stronger than ever in the international market. “Out of the Turkish dramas in Latin America, I think that the series stand out, at least more than half of them, so they have an amazing track record, and they’re always a great production quality,” highlighted the executive. “Going hand in hand, we’re also looking to go deeper into our operations with certain broadcasters in the region, to have a stronger partnership.” “And it’s interesting to point out that for Latin America, Ay Yapim productions are a label of quality, whatever Ay Yapim sells, they go
The success of Turkish shows in the Hispanic markets is also reflected in the numerous Spanish adaptations of some of Ay Yapim’s titles including the show ‘The End’, the story of a woman whose life drastically changes once she believes her husband has died. The show’s Dutch version, ‘Flight HS13’, premiered with great numbers, while production is underway on a Russian version, and a deal is in place for a Spanish remake too. “With the quality of all the series we expect them to be as successful as the previous Ay Yapim series, but we are also looking forward to strong broadcast partners all over Latin America so as to continue on with the success of Turkish dramas,” remarked the executive.
Fredrik af Malmborg,
Barbora Susterova,
“We are also looking forward to strong broadcast partners all over Latin America.”
“For Latin America Ay Yapim productions are a label of quality.”
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straight for it and it gets received really well,” added Barbora Susterova, Eccho Right’s Sales & Acquisition Director for Latin America & Iberia, who also spoke to ttv. Among the successful Turkish productions the company has introduced in the Latin American market, the highlight is ‘Elif’, a comedy-oriented series that was launched on Caracol Colombia a few months ago and has already cemented itself as one of Caracol’s top shows, getting a consistent 30% share in its time slot. “After the launch in Colombia it launched in Peru a week ago, and it will be launched in Costa Rica as well. It works very well wherever you sell it, so we’re expecting to continue with the good results. We’re also hoping to sign up a few more countries for the show after the markets in Mipcom and MipCancun,” explained Susterova.
Together with these main events, Af Malmborg also highlighted ‘Brave and Beautiful’, “which will have a huge launch on Star TV with two really big stars, and is a brand new Turkish production that we’re looking forward to very much.” “And after this third show in the deal, there will come two more series, ‘Heart of The City’ and ‘FI, PI, CI’, rounding up to five.”
“They have been very good in taking universal stories and subjects that often deal with family values and morality; they stick to pretty good moral values and I think that appeals, because people maybe get a bit tired of slightly more cynical productions or big stories, sometimes big parts of the audience want to keep or closer to real life,” explained Af Malmborg. Another thing audiences want is behind the scenes content, something the executive says they’re keen on offering given the appetite to learn about their favorite shows, the locations and get to know the actors. In fact, the company has a gossip TV magazine show titled ‘Hi Istanbul’, which they’re trying to place in some countries around the world. There is no doubt that Turkish dramas are here to stay; however, in addition to important overall and co-production deals with major Turkish companies, Eccho Rights is also focusing on growing on the Eastern Block by recruiting more people, and strengthening its business on some of the different major drama hubs around the world, including Latin America, Korea and India. “Next up we’re announcing an output deal with Star TV in India and we’re also working closely with partners in Korea, so our business is very much to focus on the new markets and to expand around the world; we’re also very keen to work with Latin American producers also, so we are in quite far discussions for a number of series to take from this region to the world,” concluded Af Malmborg. ttv Brave and Beautiful Drama
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In addition to looking for new markets to place ‘Elif’, Eccho Rights is bringing a broad catalog to Mipcom, which is spearheaded by the first two series from the Ay Yapim deal: ‘Wings of Love’, a story about a woman looking to find a better life for herself and her child only to fall into an even more complicated situation that only love can save her from; and ‘Insider’, a complex drama about a police officer that is assigned to infiltrate the mafia syndicate, a mission he believes will help him find peace in his mind and soul.
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But what makes Turkish dramas so appealing? According to both executives, it’s all about production values, a good and clear storytelling and a combination of genres that focus primarily on a strong female story with added ingredients of more male driven stories that are often reflected on complex subplots.
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AT&T Says Directv Now Will Be its Primary Video Platform Directv Now, the OTT that will be launched this very year, will turn into its primary video platform in the next two to three years, surpassing AT&T U-verse and Directv’s satellite service. That, at least, according to a report by Bloomberg, citing sources close to the company. Yet to be launched, but revealed last month by Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, Directv Now will be an online pay TV service with more than 100 channels and a “very aggressive” price. Stephenson said that it’s possible for Directv Now to “cannibalize” the main service, although he said the company’s plans are more about drawing in the 20 million cord-cutters and cord-nevers in the US. If it’s confirmed, Bloomberg’s report reveals that Directv Now is more of a long-term investment the company’s making for its own future, Randall Stephenson, rather than simple bait for cord-nevers. CEO of AT&T The platform’s initial competitors will be PlayStation Vue by Sony, with a price of around 40 dollars for 60 channels and 55 for over 100; and Sling TV, which costs 20 dollars for 28 channels and up to 40 dollars for 48 channels.
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After 65 Years, the NCTA Ends its Iconic Cable Event The INTX (Internet & Television Expo), called The Cable Show until 2014, is closing its doors for good. The announcement was made on September 28 by the National Cable and Telecommunications Association in the US (the NCTA, renamed last month as “The Internet & Television Association”). “The change was made to reflect the dramatic changes that are underway in the marketplace, in technology, in the way consumers access their digital life and in the products and services our industry delivers,” said president and CEO of the NCTA, Michael Powell, on the company’s website. “Ending INTX gives us a clean slate and we are excited to explore presenting our industry in new and different ways,” he added. The upcoming edition of the INTX was scheduled Michael Powell, for April 2017 in Washington DC. President and CEO of the NCTA
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More Originals in Latin America By Sebastián Amoroso / @sebamoroso / samoroso@todotv.tv
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FOX Networks Group Latin America continues to raise the bar in terms of original production in Latin America, with titles like ‘2091’, ‘Llámame Bruna’, ‘Sitiados’, ‘Uno contra todos’ and ‘Run Coyote Run’; and entertainment formats like the successful ‘Escuela para Maridos’ and its spin-off ‘Escuela para suegras’.
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“What we have in store for the next few months for our channels -especially when it comes to original productions in Latin America- is really amazing.”
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Thus, the pan-regional programmer is now adding impressive fiction titles to its catalog, as well as non-scripted formats, that promise to continue raising the bar in terms of quality productions for the region. Edgar Spielmann, VP and COO of FOX Networks Group Latin America, spoke to ttv about the company’s new lineup of premieres for the next few months. What new original productions will FOX Networks Group Latin America be presenting in the near future? What we have in store for the next few months for our channels -especially when it comes to original productions in Latin America- is really amazing. Among the new titles we’ve already greenlit for a second season is ‘Uno contra todos’, our first Premium fiction series produced in Brazil. The first season premiered on FOX in Brazil with the goal of promoting our Premium service and the result was remarkable, becoming the second highest-rated series in FOX’s history after ‘The Walking Dead’. We will be premiering the second season next year. What other projects developed in Brazil will you premiere next? Continuing with Brazilian productions, on October 9 we will launch the series ‘Llámame Bruna’ on FOX Premium, based on the real story, and the book and movie by Bruna Surfistinha. What about the rest of your original productions in Latin America? The other news for our Premium service is that we’ve greenlit production for a second season of ‘Sitiados’ and that this time we will be taking the story from South America to Cartagena de Indias in Colombia. This new production will be produced by FOXTelecolombia and have an A-list cast.
Lastly, another important announcement for our FOX network is the fiction series ‘2091’, which inaugurates a new type of series that comes within FOX. I think ‘2091’ is an amazing production; maybe the most innovative of all time. It’s a fiction series made in Latin America with a great script, a multinational
FOX Networks Group Content Distribution (FNGCD) is present at Mipcom 2016 with a raft of new content added to its vast catalog of productions and formats form National Geographic, FX and Fox Networks Channels. Leading the catalog is the international premiere of ‘Mars’, the highly-anticipated epic National Geographic series. Directed by Evarardo Gout and produced by award-winners Ron Howard and Brian Grazier, the series (6x60’) will premiere on Monday, October 17 at 4:00pm at the Auditorium A in the Palais des Festivals, followed by a Q&A with the cast and producers. In addition, on Tuesday 18, the company will offer a special event to celebrate Turkish drama, premiering the new Ay Yapim fiction, ‘Wings of Love’, with the presence of its executive producer Karem Catay and stars Kadir Dogulu and Seda Bakan. FNGCD is in charge of the drama’s global distribution, except in the MENA region. The group will also present the fourth season of the Turkish drama ‘That is My Life’, joined by the stars Keremcem, Ezgi Asaroglu, Ceren Moray and Oya Basar. Other titles in FNGCD’s catalog for Cannes include ‘Killing Reagan’ (1x120’), drama based on the book by Bill O’Reilly; the Leonardo Di Caprio documentary about climate change ‘Before The Flood’ (1x90’); ‘Atlanta’ (10x30’); ‘Continent 7: Antarctica’ (6x60’); ‘Facing’ (7x60’); the second season of ‘Wayward Pines’ (10x60’); the second season of ‘Years Of Living Dangerously’ (8x60’); and ‘Safari Brothers’ (6x60’).
“I think ‘2091’ is an amazing production; maybe the most innovative of all time.” A-list cast and of course, never-before-seen special effects produced in Latin America. What projects does FOX Networks Group Latin America have for non-scripted content? In the case of non-scripted content, we announced the spin-off of ‘Escuela para maridos’, which is called ‘Escuela para suegras’, and will start filming in November to premier during Q1, 2017. It’s a very dynamic format, very flexible and interesting. In addition, we will continue to produce ‘Escuela para maridos’ because after the success registered by its versions in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil, we’re very excited to continue developing the format. We believe this is the type of content that FOX offers and has to offer to its fans, and it’s the content that now lives on FOX along with international productions with great quality, and that mainly are innovative for FOX’s DNA. Lastly, what can you tell us about international premieres? In a global lever, what we’re premiering in September is ‘The Exorcist’, the new production for FX with locations filmed in Mexico and while it’s a second exorcism story when compared to ‘Outcast’ -which is our second exorcism product-, they’re radically different ways of dealing with the issue. Then we have two very interesting productions for NatGeo: one is a documentary by Leonardo di Caprio and Martin Scorsese, which will premiere in late October; and the other is the premiere of ‘Mars’, an innovative fiction title that has factual elements. ttv
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In addition, we also started filming the first original series for FX called ‘Run Coyote Run’ and it’s a co-production directed by Mexican director Gustavo Loza. This fiction series will be produced in the US and Mexico, and it’s a current dramedy with all the ingredients of the border.
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“On October 9 we will launch the series ‘Llámame Bruna’ on FOX Premium, based on the real story, and the book and movie by Bruna Surfistinha.”
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An Alterative for Hispanic Viewers The Azteca América network continues to consolidate its position in the US Hispanic market through programming that offers an alternative for its audience, with entertainment formats, dramas, series and Mexican soccer. By Sebastián Amoroso / @sebamoroso / samoroso@todotv.tv
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2016 has been a very good year for Azteca,” Manuel Abud, President and CEO of Azteca América, said to ttv. The reason? “Viewers are searching for alternatives, something that’s evident when you see Telemundo’s audience has decreased 9% and Univision’s audience has decreased 31% in primetime so far this year.” In this sense, Azteca’s primetime programming offers these alternatives and -according to Abud- has increased its audience by 15% among viewers 18-49, making Azteca “the fastest-growing Hispanic network this year” in that demo. Mondays through Fridays, the network schedules game shows at 7:00pm, adventure realities at 8pm, its magazine ‘Al extremo’ at 9:00pm and drama series at 10:00pm.
In addition, on weekends the network offers sports and is the only one that starts the weekend by offering soccer on Fridays. In this sense, ‘Liga MX’ always registers excellent results for Azteca. “In 2016, we had over 7.3 million viewers for ‘Liga MX’, 2 million of which are between 18 and 34 years old, and 3.9 million between 18 and 49,” he said. “We have also added boxing and wrestling on Saturdays,” he added. When there is no soccer on Saturdays, the network offers movies. “And on Sunday night, we offer series like ‘Extranormal’ and news magazines like the series ‘Asesinos seriales’.” When it comes to entertainment formats, Abud says the network “has been able to engage an important audience with game shows that allow us to entertain the entire family at 7pm, and at 8pm offer the realities that have been a successful adventure with ‘Desafio’ and ‘La isla’.” In terms of deals with international producers for the genre, “for our game show slate we have Sony with ‘Escape perfecto’, Armoza with ‘Still Standing’ and ‘Todo o nada’ with FremantleMedia,” he said. “And ‘Desafío’ is a production with Caracol that has granted us good results.” Lastly, Manuel Abud highlighted the enthusiasm for the drama series ‘Rabia’, which will premiere in November. “It’s a Spanish series produced by Isla Audiovisual, and the plot will appeal to audiences looking for an action, suspense and horror genre,” he concluded. ttv
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“In 2016, we had over 7.3 million viewers for ‘Liga MX’.”
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The Best of Both Worlds Snap TV continues its effort to diversify its content by offering a catalog that is not only a unique combination of genres, but a showcase of the company’s latest venture: the production of films for the English-speaking market. By Sofía Vanoli / @Soph_VB / svanoli@todotv.tv
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ccording to Ariel Tobi, President of Snap TV, 2016 has been an uncertain year for the market, but, in spite present circumstances, the future looks bright for his company, as they work on new projects for the upcoming year. “We’re developing projects that relate to new media and the digital universe. We’re also enhancing our movie catalog and acquiring different genres to try and reach new clients and expand Snap’s business platform,” Tobi said to ttv. Thus, in an effort to diversify its catalog, the company is bringing to Mipcom a slate that combines comedy movies, with action features and children’s programming, aiming to enthrall viewers from all demographics.
Among the highlighted titles is ‘Cup of Love’, about the love story between a wary scientist and a coffee plantation owner; ‘Jessica Darling’s It List’, a family feature about navigating middle school and dealing with popularity; ‘Perfect Weapon’ and ‘Asian Connection’ two action films starring renowned actor Steven Segal; and ‘The Christmas Dragon’, which takes family into a journey to restore magic and save Christmas. Out of these, ‘Cup of Love’ comes as part of a co-production between Caracol TV, MarVista and Snap TV, the second project produced in English for the English speaking market. According to Tobi, the project was well received by audiences and is a trend they will be expanding in the future. “Our co-production project will continue going forward, and we’re exploring new productions for 2017. We will be launching the third movie with Caracol TV and Marvista on Natpe and we’re very excited,” mentioned the executive. Focusing on this side of the market, explains Tobi, is a way to offer the Anglo market a kind of content than can make an impact on local Hispanic audiences, by combining elements from both cultures, and as such, offer productions that are far more appealing and relevant. “We’re also looking forward to continue to add territories and partners to further grow this area of English-speaking movies produced in Latin America. There is some high quality production in several Latin countries and there are also many partners open to new challenges,” he concluded. ttv
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Television That Educates English Club TV is presenting its newest shows and networks at Mipcom 2016, with almost 150 hours of content aimed at teaching English in multiple platforms, without ceasing to entertain. By Gonzalo Larrea / @glarrea / glarrea@todotv.tv
“English Club TV is a unique educational channel that enables its viewers to learn English while relaxing in front of the TV screen. The channel has become popular among great numbers of people all over the world and its viewership is constantly increasing,” Andrew Semchenko, CEO of the English Club TV Group, said to ttv. “We strive to reduce inequality in educational opportunities, providing our viewers with an affordable tool for learning English anytime and anywhere. We support our viewers while learning English by giving them innovative products that suit different needs, interests and levels. And, of course, we entertain our viewers in order to motivate them towards continuous studying,” he added.
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“We strive to reduce inequality in educational opportunities, providing our viewers with an affordable tool for learning English anytime and anywhere.”
“It is very important for us that each viewer, the owner of a personal computer or mobile phone, has an opportunity for all-round development and education. That is why we want to expand our partnerships in order to give them this opportunity,” Semchenko explained. The company has the rights to its content for all platforms, including OTT, Mobile, DTH, IPTV, WebTV and Terrestrial television. “That is why our programs can be used by any broadcasting company,” he said. As far as the offer goes, Semchenko explained that the company currently has 149 hours of edutainment programs for both
“As usual, we will present the updates of programs that have already become popular among our viewers. These are such programs as ‘Grammar Wise’, ‘Step by Step’, ‘City Grammar’, ‘The Language of Business’, ‘Yummy for Mummy’ and others. In addition, our company’s representatives will present our new TV programmes – ‘3Ways2’ and ‘English is the Key’ which will help our viewers to express their view and hold a conversation with native speakers,” he said. Together with English Club TV, the company is also presenting its new TV offer at Mipcom: the Classical Harmony channel. “It is all about the art, great painters and the world’s famous masterpieces. I think it is just what people need in today’s world of hectic deadlines, demands and action-packed movies. By watching Classical Harmony, viewers will be immersed in an atmosphere of true beauty and tranquility that is enhanced by classical music compositions,” he said. “I would also like to note that Classical Harmony is the only IPTV art channel in 4K (Ultra HD) format, that enables a viewer to observe the tinniest details of the paintings,” he added. According to the executive, it’s an offer designed for IPTV, while special packages can be created upon the request of partners, that would feature a certain genre, period, style, or cultural and religious aspects of the region in which they would be broadcast. “For example, we already have experience of developing special feed for the Middle Eastern region,” he explained. Adding Classical Harmony channel, the company is presenting a total of 12 products at Mipcom: the English Club TV channels (SD, HD, Kids), its 6 VOD packages (A-level, B-level, C-level, Grammar, Business and Travelling, Kids slot), the Classical Harmony channel in HD, as well as its content in HD and Ultra HD (4K). ttv 3ways2 Series TTV MAGAZINE/127
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lready present in 76 countries, 400 platforms and with a reach of 20 million viewers, English Club TV is arriving at a new edition of Mipcom to continue expanding its footprint, both through its flagship network, as well as finding new buyers for its catalog of almost 150 hours of content.
At Mipcom, the channel will look for new partnerships to continue expanding its distribution and taking its catalog to new corners of the globe, adding to its list of heavyweight partners, which includes Orange, Bouygues Telecom, Magyar Telecom, TurkSat in Europe; Canal+overseas, Blueline Madagascar in Africa; Matrix, LBN, ABN in Asia; and My-HD, Etisalat, Ooredoo in Middle East.
kids and adults, and is now presenting new seasons of its classic shows in Cannes, along with new launches.
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Multiplatform Content Conquers All With Mipcom on its sights, Smilehood Media has prepared a unique catalog that bets big on 360° content, and the power of productions with a worldwide appeal and a unique twist. The aim is to introduce audiences to a world of content like they’ve never seen before. By Sofía Vanoli / @Soph_VB / svanoli@todotv.tv
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or the current edition of Mipcom, Smilehood Media is all about 360° content. The company is arriving in Cannes with a product offering that has big potential for further licensing deals in other business areas, something that, according to Silvana D’Angelo, Head of International Sales for the company, appears to be the key to success when dealing with kids’ programing. “Smilehood is a company that, unlike any other, has all the business units that make up the 360° content business in the entertainment industry, and that is our biggest differential,” the executive explained to ttv. That particular way of doing business came with ‘Plim Plim’, an animated series that put Smilehood on the map, becoming its flagship international production and opening the doors for major licensing deals in other business areas. Now, the fiction format by Loli Miraglia from SDO Producciones, ‘Alchemy for Ana’, is picking up its trail.
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“Smilehood is a company that, unlike any other, has all the business units that make up the 360° content business.”
to become a mother overnight when her best friend dies and leaves her in charge of her children, is not coming to the market as just a series, but also as a book, which is set to act as a companion piece to the show; and as a movie, which is currently under production. “It’s a complete and beautiful 360° production for this wonderful story which will also offer online content,” detailed the executive. “We have always made an emphasis on having 360° content within our offering as we know how valuable these kinds of contents are.” Along with ‘Alchemy for Ana’, the company is taking other fiction and entertainment formats that fall under what D’Angelo calls a “boutique catalog”, in which every product receives personalized attention from start to finish during its journey through the international market; a trademark for the company. Other titles include dramatic comedy ‘Ultimatum’, where couples must decide whether to stay together or break up; sitcom ‘Animadores’, about party leaders who seem to do everything wrong; best-selling comedy ‘According to Roxi’; and game shows like ‘Dilemma’ from Marcos Gorban, where audiences must decide on the participants’ credibility; ‘Karaoke Fighter’ from Sebastian Mellino, where contestants compete not only with their voices, but through virtual avatars; and ‘Cooking at the Supermarket’, a Discovery Home and Health hit from Brazilian production company Movioca.
The comedy series that tells the story of a Ana, a carefree single woman who is forced
“We’re betting big on fiction content for all platforms, but we’re also looking at entertainment content that is specifically tailored for broadcast TV,” highlighted D’Angelo in regards to the company’s catalog. “It’s all about current formats with worldwide appeal that bring some kind of added value,” she concluded. ttv
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After financing the development and production of 1,400 television and digital media projects in the past fiscal year, the Canada Media Fund arrives at Mipcom to showcase the quality and variety of its funded projects and continue to look for co-development and co-production opportunities.
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he current year has already been filled with big news from Canada Media Fund (CMF), the non-profit organization that funds more than 1,400 TV and digital media projects a year as part of a strategy to generate steady growth for the Canadian media industry. With co-productions becoming a huge factor on the industry landscape, CMF states that “developing new co-production opportunities for Canadian producers continues to be a top priority.”
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“As consumers have growing access to content from all corners of the world, the production community benefits greatly from working on the international front and sharing expertise, talent and access to markets,” explained Valerie Creighton, President and CEO of CMF. “Maximizing the potential of co-productions is one of our goals for the current year. This is why we are developing and renewing partnerships with funding organizations similar to ours in countries around the world.” Among those partnerships developed or renewed during the current year are the ones with the Broadcast Authority of Ireland, the Directorate General Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism (Italy), NZ On Air (New Zealand), Screen Australia, Spcine (Brazil), and Wallimage (Belgium), all through networking and meetings at international events like Mipcom. “We are pleased that dedicated co-development and co-production funding initiatives developed last year have fostered mutually beneficial relationships and we’re seeing in-
THE WORK IN NUMBERS During the 2015-2016 fiscal year, Canada Media Fund contributed US$ 371.7 million to financing the development and production of 1,400 TV and digital media players. According to the CMF, that investment triggered US$ 1.4 billion in production activity across the country, an increase of US$ 100 million when compared to the previous year. “Every US$ 1 of CMF to new productions generated $ 3,87 in production activity,” explained Creighton. “Key performance indicators reveal that the CMF’s funding programs succeeded in providing valuable support for producers as they create compelling content for Canadian and world audiences. The CMF’s ongoing promotional efforts, coupled with our in-depth industry research on current and upcoming trends, have continually benefited Canada’s content producers by fostering a positive environment for Canadian productions and identifying future trends.” creased interest in working with us and with Canadian producers,” affirmed Creighton. If CMF has one goal –the growth of the Canadian media industry- their way of accomplishing it is manifold, going from money incentives to deep market and trends researches. “The CMF publishes CMF Trends, an analysis blog that helps readers better understand the ongoing changes happening in the world of digital media and technologies,” explained Creighton. “CMF Trends is a cura-
tor of information. Not only does the blog filter the news on market developments, it also synthesizes all the ‘noise’ created by the overabundance of available data.” “We also work closely with various partners by contributing to or commissioning research projects on a wide range of topics relevant to the industry,” she added. On the digital side, CMF funds innovative programs through the Convergent Stream, which require that producers include a digital media component in their TV productions, or via the Experimental Stream, a US$ 40 million initiative that looks for virtual reality, games and software projects. In Cannes, CMF looks forward to showcasing the wealth and diversity of the Canadian audiovisual content. “Canada has had considerable success in creating shows with universal appeal and we look forward to sharing our insight with Mipcom delegates,” said Creighton. ttv
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“We foster an environment where Canadian producers of innovative digital media content can develop and create projects that speak to Canadian and international audiences by their quality, creativity and innovation.”
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A New Frontier Armed with its very first live-action teen production, Mondo TV is arriving at Mipcom in Cannes with an extended content catalog, offering engaging titles for young viewers across the region. By Carolina Mussio @carolinamussio cmussio@todotv.tv
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ne of the biggest stories for Mondo TV in the first half of 2016 was the announcement, back at Miptv 2016, of ‘Heidi, Bienvenida a Casa’. Traditionally a distributor of animated series for kids, this live-action teen comedy series is the Spanish producer’s first production aimed at teenagers. “‘Heidi, Benvenida a Casa’ is our first big co-production of a live teen series. In fact it’s the first ever-made in the history of Mondo TV Group,” said Maria Bonaria Fois, General Manager of Mondo TV Iberoamerica. “The core target audience is teens but this series aims to appeal to the whole family.”
With 60, 45-minute episodes, ‘Heidi, Bienvenida a Casa’ reinterprets the classic children’s novel, “Heidi”, written by Johanna Spyri in 1880, adding comedy, humor and music, with some twists for a moving and charming story. It’s still the story of the friendly girl who moves from her rural home to the confusing environment of the big city, but with a difference: Heidi’s daily life, friendships and ad-
The executive revealed Mondo TV has already finalized a deal with a Latin-American pan-regional broadcaster for a TV launch in January 2017, which she will announce it in more detail during Mipcom. ‘Heidi’ is Mondo TV’s first live-action series, but certainly not the last. The producer is already working on ‘Candela, Una Chica Real’ (120x45’), a 360º business project, in which it is both agent and funding research partner, working as a co-producer alongside La Usina de Migré (an association that brings together some of the most important Argentinian authors) and CineCinco Productions. MONDO TV ARRIVES AT MIPCOM. Now, with a catalog led by this new ‘Heidi, Bienvenida a Casa’, Mondo TV is disembarking in Cannes to find new partners and continue with its international expansion plan. “We hope to find new partners to further strengthen our presence in Latin America and the Spanish-speaking US market, both of which we feel have enormous potential, now and in the longer term.” The distributor is presenting ‘YooHoo & Friends 3D’, the brand-new 52x11’ series based on the line of plush toys made by
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“‘Heidi, Bienvenida a Casa’ is our first big co-production of a live teen series. In fact it’s the first ever-made in the history of Mondo TV Group.” Aurora World, will reach screens in spring 2017. “There’s already been strong interest from broadcasters in the show, not least because awareness will be sky-high: more than 80 million ‘YooHoo & Friends’ plush toys have been sold since the worldwide launch of the line in 2007, driving enormous interest in the forthcoming animated version,” she explained. Mondo TV is also presenting ‘Sissi the Young Empress’ (52x26’). After the big success of the first season, the brand-new 26-episode series arrives in spring 2017 supported by a strong presence at retail for Sissi licensing products. ttv
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Based on an original idea by the legendary Argentinian writer Marcela Citterio, the series is a co-production by Mondo TV Iberoamerica and Alianzas Producciones. It will be available on free-to-air TV in the region from April 2017.
ventures take place in the modern world. “It is a classic adapted to modern times,” Bonaria Fois said. “There’s no direct reference to any known places or events, however, allowing the series to retain a timeless feel.”
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A Tradition of Inspiring and Entertaining With over 30 years and a catalog of more than 400 hours of programming, the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) is arriving at Mipcom with the best kids’ content from Australia, a country known for its great stories, clever scripts and high production values. By Gonzalo Larrea / @Gonzalolarrea / glarrea@todotv.tv
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nown for over 30 years as one of the most creative countries when it comes to kids’ content, the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) is present at Mipcom with the mission and challenge of presenting the best of Australia’s productions in the genre.
As a common denominator, Hegarty said Australian products are known for their creativity and ability to engage, inspire and make children laugh, something the ACTF has been promoting with its solid investments. “As a government funded non-profit organization the ACTF provides funding and support to independent Australian producers and writers of quality children’s programs. By helping these people develop new children’s programs, we remain true to our goal of creating programs that children, parents and educators can rely on to be engaging, entertaining, accessible, creative and innovative,” he said.
Its broad catalog includes one of the most successful series to come out of Australia in recent years: ‘Little Lunch’ (26 x 12’), which is now presenting a ‘Halloween Special’ (1x 24’) and a ‘Graduation Day Special’ (1x 24’). The distributor is also presenting the new pre-school animation series ‘Balloon Barnyard’ (26 x 7’), commissioned by Disney Australia, and the third season of the sketch comedy program ‘You’re Skitting Me’ (26 x 12’), boasting a totally new cast and a new shorter format.
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In addition, ACTF is raking a broad collection of titles, covering all ages from pre-school to teenagers, and presented in a range of formats and genres including live action comedy/drama series, animation, short-form, telemovies, and documentaries. “Australia has always been known for creating kids shows with great stories, clever scripts, and high production values. These qualities are found in Australian shows to this day, and for this reason broadcasters around the world know that a kids show produced in Australia is always worth looking at,” Tim Hegarty, International Sales Manager, ACTF, said to ttv. According to the executive, ACTF’s productions have resonated across several regions, especially Germany and Scandinavia, and the goal now is to continue extending their presence across the globe. “Like most distributors, the ACTF sees great potential in expanding its reach into Latin America, the Middle East, and China. Al-
Tim Hegarty,
International Sales Manager, ACTF though the ACTF has already sold many of its shows into Latin America, there is little doubt that there remains huge potential across its many territories and we look forward to increasing our business in the region in the years to come,” he said. As examples of Australian productions that travelled the globe, Hegarty highlighted its evergreen ‘Round The Twist’, a live action comedy series that’s aired in more than 120 territories since its launch 27 years ago, with four seasons already made. The executive also noted ‘Mortified’ (26 x 24’), launched in 2006, registered a similar success, reaching 120 territories and striking international deals with Netflix, as well as ‘My Place’ and ‘Little Lunch’.
“Australia has always been known for creating kids shows with great stories, clever scripts and high production values.” “We engage with Australian producers and writers at the earliest stages of development, investing small amounts across a broad range of projects. These projects are targeted for their demonstrable quality and their future potential. We also provide distribution advances to help independent producers create high quality children’s projects. And depending on the needs of the project we may, for example, participate in co-productions or help producers finance a series by acting as Executive Producer,” he concluded. ttv
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Growing Demand for Kids’ Content Looking to offer Latin American audiences the content they want to see, whenever they want to see it, 9 Story Media Group is presenting a diverse lineup at Mipcom, complete with exciting plans in the SVOD arena.
“We’re very excited to premiere this slate at Mipcom. It has always been one of our most important markets. It gives us a tremendous opportunity to meet with buyers, production partners and creatives from virtually every territory around the world,” Vargas explained. “For this year in particular we have three main goals which are: growing our distribution business internationally with a focus on key strategic partners and emerging markets, continuing to increase our European footprint, and seeing out new creative and production partners.”
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But with the sights set beyond the market, the executive also highlighted an overall goal to continue in its to keep nurturing its new and existing relationships, and to build its brand presence to bring young audiences top-quality content that is relatable and easy to engage with in all aspects. ttv
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atin America seems to be an ideal territory for children’s content and nothing rings truer for 9 Story Media Group. The company is taking 2016 to a close with the success of some of its tent pole shows, like ‘Camp Lakebottom’ and ‘Wild Kratts’, all of which have premiered new seasons, and great plans in the SVOD side of the business. “Our content continues to perform well in Latin America and on the SVOD side, we made significant inroads with regional players, including securing a large volume deal with Televisa’s OTT service, blim,” Federico Vargas, Director of Distribution, said to ttv. “Now we’re planning to expand the OTT sector by focusing on some of the important regional players,” he added.
Federico Vargas,
Director of Distribution at 9 Story Media Group
With this in mind, the company is presenting a dynamic slate at this year’s Mipcom, which includes shows in development, new seasons for existing series such as ‘Nature Cat’, ‘Peg + Cat’ and ‘Garfield and Friends’; and new shows in production like ‘3 Amigonauts’, a character-based comedy for kids ages 6 to 11 that follows three bumbling buddies attending the solar system’s most prestigious space academy. The show is presenting its very first episodes at the market.
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“An important factor in Latin America is the increased demand for kids’ content due to a proliferation of non-linear platforms. These platforms are competing over content to attract and retain subscribers, and kids’ content in particular, tends to be a major driver of customer acquisition and retention.”
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“We’re planning to expand the OTT sector.”
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Xilam Finds Untapped Ground in LatAm The French producer and distributor announced a restructure for its sales team, meant to optimize its content’s global distribution. Present in Cannes, Leyla Formoso, now in charge of expanding the company’s business in Latin America and Iberia, will showcase new seasons of ‘Oggy and the Cockroaches’ and other franchises.
in Spain and Portugal,” she said; “and a few deals with Cartoon Network.” Mipcom 2016 will be the first international market for Formoso to showcase the company’s potential to Hispanic executives. “I’ve realized that Xilam is not well known in Latin America and that’s why I’m promoting the series that it produces and distributes.” “There is no penetration in broadcast TV or in digital platforms, and I want to change that. There is untapped ground in Latin America. It’s fascinating to see how much sales potential Xilam’s catalog has in the region,” she added. Xilam’s content catalog includes 1,500 episodes (800 half hours of content), divided into 18 animated series and 3 feature films. For 2016/2017, the company has six shows currently in production (200 half hours).
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few months ago, French production and distribution company, Xilam, announced a restructure of its sales team, with the goal of optimizing its content’s global distribution, which includes several TV series, movies and even original productions.
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The company’s new executive team, always led by founder and president of Xilam, Marc du Pontavice; now has sales teams organized to cover different geographical regions. Leyla Formoso joined the company in April to strengthen the Latin American team as VP of Media Distribution in Latin America and Iberia. Her mission is to find more TV windows in Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries. Oggy and the Cockroaches Series
Leyla Formoso,
VP, Media Distribution in Latin America and IBERIA AT XILAM Born in Venezuela, Formoso was responsible for Nelvana’s sales in South America, Spain and Portugal from 1998 through 2005, before taking the plunge and start her own production company, Angel Eye Media. Now based in Paris, France, the executive spoke to ttv about Xilam’s expansion plans in Latin America. “I’m fully immersed to learn about Xilam’s production process. It’s a producer where nothing is left to chance; whether it’s the creative aspect, the finances or the distribution.” Xilam is a company that doesn’t co-produce, but it self-finances every project through the local content shares that TV networks must meet, as well as grants from the French government for production development. GREAT POTENTIAL IN LATIN AMERICA. Before welcoming Formoso, Xilam had a representation deal in the region with Spanish company Imira Entertainment. “I am looking through our history and there’s almost nothing about Latin America; just a few things
“It’s fascinating to see how much sales potential Xilam’s catalog has in the region.”
LICENSING AND MARKETING DEVELOPMENT Leyla Formoso highlighted the licensing development for Xilam’s brands in Latin America, through Marie-Laure Marchand, SVP Global Consumer Product & Media Distribution UK, USA and Asia Pacific. “With Marie-Laure we worked together at Nelvana and now we meet again working closely to develop audiovisual sales, as well as supervise licensing and marketing across the region.” At Mipcom 2016, the company will present new seasons of ‘Oggy and the Cockroaches’ (Seasons 5, 6 and 7 - 234x7’/78x30’), ‘Paprika’ (78x7’/26x30’) and ‘Zig & Sharko’ (Season 2 78x7’/26x30’). As far as new media and digital, Xilam manages 20 YouTube channels. The “Oggy” YouTube channel reaches almost 1 million subscribers and its Facebook page has 3.2 million followers. ttv
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Mirette investigates Animated Series
Eight new series, including a major production set up in Brazil, and its first feature film, on top of its current production slate, make 2016 one of the busiest and most rewarding years for Cyber Group Studios.
In this “fast changing environment,” the executive finds several notable trends in kids’ content: “comedy is always at its peak, but we also see action adventure coming back with a major story arch. This offers new writing possibilities to immerse the viewer in great sagas, as existed in the 80’s.”
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Another major trend taking over the entertainment industry, especially among younger viewers, is the rise of online platforms and digital content. And this year, Cyber Group Studios made a major announcement, with ‘Zorro the Chronicles’ launching on Hulu in the US.
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etting up new challenges and investing heavily in production, Cyber Group Studios has continued its growth path over the last eight months. This will result in the company producing simultaneously eight shows by the end of the year.
The list of new series includes ‘Gigantosaurus’ for Disney Junior worldwide, ‘Taking down Taffy’, a cartoon comedy for Turner; and ‘Pirates Next Door’ for France Télévisions. This comes on top of ‘Mirette investigates’, currently being delivered to TF1; the third season of its iconic property ‘Zou’; or ‘Gilbert&Allie’, Cyber Group’s co-production with Brown Bag films for the Disney Channel EMEA.
“We are dedicated to prime content, and great stories and visuals; and also a deep understanding of what the market needs,” Pierre Sissmann, Chairman and CEO of Cyber Group Studios, said to ttv about the producer’s vast catalog, highlighting its “insatiable curiosity in discovering new and exciting projects.” With its hands full, the French distributor is more than ready for Mipcom 2016, where it will present its new series, as well as new developments in the sports and super hero genres. “We are looking forward to meeting our clients and understand their needs in a fast changing environment,” Sissmann said.
“We are dedicated to prime content, and great stories and visuals; and also a deep understanding of what the market needs.”
“It is an immense pleasure for us, as a French company, to have been the one to put back on screen in the US this iconic hero which had disappeared for many years,” he said. “And it is great that Hulu has trusted us in our project. It is a huge satisfaction for all our team,” he added. The producer is currently working close with digital platforms, finding new opportunities and alliances. “It opens a new field for us, as they have different needs from traditional broadcasters in storytelling and how to approach audiences,” he said. Last but not least, Cyber Group is currently working on its first feature film co-production, which will be announced soon. The film takes its inspiration in the deep forests of the Amazon. “This is an exciting time and we have several major series and specials in development that we feel will perfectly fit a new way of looking at entertainment for kids and families,” he concluded. ttv
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Added-Value Television BBC Worldwide is presenting a varied slate of CBeebies kids’ content at Mipcom; high quality productions aimed at engaging audiences by both entertaining and educating, while also betting big on digital interaction to provide added value and an enhanced experience for the kids. By Sofía Vanoli @Soph_VB svanoli@todotv.tv
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ids’ content has become one of the most widely recognized programming areas for BBC Worldwide thanks to the productions put forward by the global CBeebies channels, which have become a synonym for quality content and beautifully crafted shows, aimed at preschoolers and children in their formative years. In that sense, the company has prepared for this 2016 edition of Mipcom, with a slate that focuses on bringing the little ones shows that have a strong narrative and characters they can really engage with, but that above all else, have some form of take out that encourages them to do and learn different things. Henrietta Hurford-Jones, Director of Children’s at BBC Worldwide, spoke to ttv and stressed the importance of a digital counterpart to lineal programming that serves as a complement to big shows and big franchises. “We are looking at how we use the new technology and new digital platforms to see how we can enhance that experience for children,” she stated. “We all know that they love to consume their favorite shows and characters in every way they can and I think that digital and interactive content based
Duggee’, which encourages physical activity and teamwork through storytelling.
Henrietta Hurford-Jones, Director of Children’s at BBC Worldwide
“I think that digital and interactive content based around our shows is going to grow.”
around those shows is going to grow and become more important.” Thus, the company is betting big on animated productions that allow for these interactions, like ‘Andy’s Baby Animals’, which will draw on the best of the BBC Natural History archive to present the world’s cutest animal babies; season three of ‘Sarah and Duck’, with characters that return for simple but exciting adventures; and season two of ‘Hey
But animation will not be the only thing taking Mipcom by storm: the company is presenting the reality-style drama series ‘The Next Step’, in its fourth series, as well as three ‘Horrible Histories’ specials that include ‘Sensational Shakespeare’, ‘Staggering Storytellers’ and ‘The Grisly Great Fire of London’, showcasing key aspects and moments of British culture. Armed with these productions, the next step is an effort to increase distribution: “We’re looking at how we can increase our distribution and our understanding of the US Hispanic market. Cebeebies has mainly focused on the Latin American side of the market but now we really want to grow here in the US Hispanic and with new linear and digital distribution,” said Hurford-Jones. “For us, this year is mostly about understanding the market and how we can, with our brand, which we believe has universal values such as learning through play and nourishing nutritional TV for preschoolers, best serve audiences through some of our bigger franchises but also other shows that are more educational perhaps, or informative,” she concluded. ttv
3 Amigonauts
Balloon Barnyard
9 STORY MEDIA GROUP 23 Fraser Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M6K 1Y7 Tel.: +1 416-530-9900 Fax: +1 416-530-9935 Email: distribution@9story.com Website: 9story.com Stand: R7.K28
Executives Attending
Natalie Osborne, Chief Strategy Officer Claudia Scott-Hansen, VP, Business Development Jennifer Ansley, VP, Marketing & Communications Natalie Dumoulin, VP, Creative Affairs Stephen Kelley, Director, Distribution Federico Vargas, Director, Distribution
AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S TELEVISION FOUNDATION 3rd Floor, 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia Tel.: +61 3 9200 5500 Email: info@actf.com.au Website: www.actf.com.au Stand: P-1.B8
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(Animated Comedy - 52 X 11’) Set in Earth’s far-flung future, ‘3 Amigonauts’ is a rocket-paced comedy about three bumbling buds who attend the solar system’s most prestigious space academy. Life is one big party for these delightful dingdongs as they super-size the smallest tasks into madcap intergalactic adventures!
NATURE CAT
(Animated Comedy - 80 X 11’) ‘Nature Cat’ follows a cat named Fred, who dreams of exploring the great outdoors. Of course there’s one small problem: he’s a house cat with no instinct for nature! With the help of his animal friends, Fred embarks on action-packed adventures that include exciting missions full of nature investigation and a healthy dose of humour.
GARFIELD AND FRIENDS
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(Animated Comedy - 121 X 22’) Based on the popular comic strip by Jim Davis, this animated classic series revolves around sarcastic Garfield, a lazy feline whose only desires in life are lasagna, catnaps and avoiding Mondays. Along with his not-too bright pooch pal, Odie, and gullible owner, Jon, Garfield coughs up a hairball of humour that every human will love.
Cyber Group
Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, W12 7FA, UK Tel.: +44 (0) 20 8433 2000 Website: www.bbcworldwide.com Stand: P3.B38
44B quai de Jemmapes – 75010 PARIS France Tel.: +33 1 555 63 232 Email: sales@cybergroupstudios.com Website: www.cybergroupstudios.com Stand: R7.E65.
Executives Attending
Executives Attending
Anna Gordon, Executive VP and General Director
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Anna Gordon, Executive VP and General Director
Roberta Di Vito, International Sales Manager
Dominique Bourse, Chief Operating Officer Olivier Lelardoux, Senior Vice-President Studio & Associate Producer Raphaelle Mathieu, Vice-President Sales, Acquisitions & New Media Silene Chaves, International Sales & Digital Content Manager Emmanuel Dereau, International Sales Executive
TOP eXECUTIVE Pierre Sissmann, Chairman & CEO
ANDY’S BABY ANIMALS BALLOON BARNYARD
(Preschool / Animation Series – 26 X 7’)
3 AMIGONAUTS
Zorro The Chronicles
BBC Worldwide
Tim Hegarty, International Sales Manager
TOP eXECUTIVE Vince Commisso, President & CEO
Andy’s Baby Animals
Join Pip and Squeak, as these everyday donkeys with superhero ambitions, find fun and adventure around the farm.
LITTLE LUNCH
(Live Action / Comedy Series – 26 X 12’ + 2 X 24’) Every episode takes place during that highly anticipated school day break – morning snack time! Plus two half hour special episodes set around Halloween and Graduation.
YOU’RE SKITTING ME
(Live Action / Sketch Comedy Series – 26 X 24’ + 26 X 15’) A fresh, funny and unpredictable sketch comedy show, starring a great cast of young talent and featuring a random mix of characters, parodies and animations.
READY FOR THIS
(Teen / Live Action / Drama series - 1 X 42’ + 12 X 24’) Six teenagers, all elite within their own field, come to live at Arcadia House in pursuit of their dreams.
(Children – 20 X 10’)
To survive, baby animals must learn many of the same skills as baby humans do…how to crawl, walk, climb, swim, play and make friends. In this series we’ll draw on the best of the BBC Natural History archive to showcase the world’s cutest animal babies as they embark on journeys of discovery.
ZORRO THE CHRONICLES
(Animation / Adventure / Comedy - 26 X 22’) The series introduces the extraordinary and most famous masked hero in his quest for justice!
ZOU 3
(Animation - 156 X 11’ HD CGI) Follow the daily life of the lovable 5-year-old Zebra Zou and his extended zebra family. Full of curiosity and love, Zou is an imaginative and inquisitive foal, and he’s now old enough to start becoming his own person!
MIRETTE INVESTIGATES
(Animation / Adventure / Comedy - 52 X 11’) Discover the first traveling detective comedy with Mirette, a girl with a passion for investigation, and her “catssistant” Jean-Pat, a lazy but extremely efficient ginger tomcat. Feel the thrilling adventures traveling with a dynamic duo from New York to Paris, via Beijing or Cairo.
MINI NINJAS
(Animation / Adventure / Comedy - 26 X 22’) Discover a new generation of 12 year-olds ninjas, trained by the wise (and rather eccentric) Ninja Master to defend the Land below the Clouds from the warlord Ashida.
3Ways2
Hogie The Globe-Hopper
TerraByte
ENGLISH CLUB TV GROUP
Imira ENTERTAINMENT
6, St David’s Square, Westferry Road, London, E14 3WA, United Kingdom Phone: +44 (208) 123 57 56 Fax: +44 (0) 2075156490 E-mail: a.semchenko@english-club.tv Website: www.english-club.tv
Calle Consell de Cent, 375, 3º - 2. Tel.: (+34)932 650 757 Email: sales@imiraentertainment.com Website: www.ImiraEntertainment.com Stand: R7.H14
Executives Attending
Gulshan David, VP Media Sales Begoña Esteban, Sales Manager Miguel Bosch, Sales Assistant
Andrew Semchenko, CEO of the English Club TV Group Luiza Brendel, Deputy CEO of the English Club TV Group
Executives Attending
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MK DISTRIBUTION / MK MEDIA GROUP Ukraine, 03680, Kiev, 86G Malevicha street, Office 404 Tel.: +38 067 236 55 73 Email: anna@mk-distribution.com Website: www.mk-distribution.com
Executives Attending
Artem Zapolskyi, Head of Sales Department Anna Verbovska, Acquisitions and Sales Manager (Latin America, Europe)
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Sergi Reitg, CEO
Andrew Semchenko, CEO of the English Club TV Group
Heidi Bienvenida A Casa
Kateryna Dmytriieva, CEO
Mondo tv Via Brenta, 11 - 00198, Rome, Italy Tel.: +36 0686323293 Fax: +39 06 86209836 Email: mondotv@mondotv.it Website: www.mondo-tv.com Stand: P-1.N1 / P-1.M2
Executives Attending
Orlando Corrad, President Paolo Zecca, Chief Production Officer Micheline Azoury, Head of TV Sales Alessandro Venturi,International Sales Manager Theo Kouroglou,International Sales Manager Maria B.Fois,GM of MONDO TV Iberoamerica Dimitri Papanikas,Sales Executive of MONDO TV Iberoamerica Valentina La Macchia,Director of Consumer Products Roberta Puppo,Marketing Manager Susanna MasinI, Product Manager
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HOGIE THE GLOBE-HOPPER 3WAYS2
(Edutainment – 5 X 15’) ‘3Ways2’ will help you to improve your communication skills by mastering different language styles. The programme presents 3 different ways to express the same idea, which correspond to formal and informal styles as well as slang. By watching ‘3Ways2’ on a regular basis, you can learn a lot of useful words and fixed expressions.
CITY GRAMMAR
(Edutainment – 50 X 9’) The programme ‘City Grammar’ promotes studying in a non-traditional way and provides a complete language immersion. Each episode takes you to a different location in London and completely covers a single grammatical topic. The host of the program explains various grammatical aspects with the help of common examples that surround us in our daily lives.
THE LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS (Edutainment – 23 X 13’)
A fun-filled globe-trotting series (52 x 11’) that explores the world around us, taking Hogie, a curious Tree Frog and his best pals Bernie the Dragonfly and Lorna the Duck in a hot air balloon to different locations in every episode where they meet and make new friends, and are introduced to food, culture, music, art, transport, language and heritage from many different landmarks around the globe. On their fantastical adventures they meet children of different cultures, and experiencing what makes us all special but essentially still the same. Hogie and his friends will inspire in children a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people!
DINOCORE
(Robot Action Comedy – 39 X 15’) The peaceful small Dino Island is under threat from the evil leader Darkno who comes from another planet in search of an ancient power that has found its way into the hands of a curious boy called Rex. With is friends, and the robots called Dino Cores, Rex will do everything he can to stop the evil Darkno and his accomplice from taking over the universe.
BADANAMU
(Preschool – 52 X 5’/ 24 X 5’ / 20 X 15’ / 12 X 2’) ‘Badanamu’ is a new learning method in which kids brains are activated through a series of learning activities while they play. The use of animation and adorable characters makes learning a natural experience and children learn from them as if they were friends or family members
TERRABYTE
Matteo Corradi, CEO
(Animation – 13 X 11’ S1) 2D cartoon ‘TerraByte’ is an answer to possible question of children “how the Internet works and who runs it”. It’s for sure a unique concept and a unique world that you have never seen before. The target audience is children 4-8 years old. The cartoon is about a planet TerraByte, which is an embodiment of the Internet that we use every day. Across the main entertaining line we show to children how to use Internet in a very simple and funny way. The cartoon ‘TerraByte’ is full of adventures, investigations, emotions and entertaining learning.
HEIDI BIENVENIDA A CASA
(Live Series - 60 X 45’ Full HD) ‘Heidi, Bienvenida a casa’ is based on an original idea by the legendary Argentinian writer and producer Marcela Citterio, whose vast portfolio of hits includes a number of international success stories such as Yo Soy Franky, Chica Vampiro and Patito Feo. This new 60x45’ series reinterprets the worldwide well – known classic Johanna Spyri novel from 1880 with a modern touch and it is featured with comedy and music. We rediscover the story we all know about and the universal values that drove the success of Heidi classic - kindness and freedom. The charming and friendly girl who moves from her rural home to the unfamiliar and confusing environment of the big city has now a difference: Heidi’s daily life, friendships and adventures take place in the modern world.
SISSI THE YOUNG EMPRESS (52 X 26’ Full HD)
Sissi, the charming young Empress of Austria, is one of the historical figures that most struck the public imagination. Elizabeth, by all called Sissi, lives happily in the charming Possi castle in Bavaria. she loves her family, as well as all animals and is a free and rebellious spirit. It all starts on the day that her sister Nene is convened by the Emperor’s mother, to become the bride of his son Franz, but instead Franz falls in love at first sight with Sissi. And so begins the most romantic love story of all times
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‘The Language of Business’ is the perfect choice for learners who want to refine their English skills and add depth to their vocabulary with business-related words and phrases. Each episode is based on authentic interviews with various entrepreneurs and business people from large financial centres like London and Paris.
(Preschool – 52 X 11’)
Panam & Circus
Jessica Darling’s It List
The Loud House
Smilehood
SnapTV
Francisco Acuña de Figueroa 1551, C1180AAF, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: +54 11 52359500 Email: sales@smilehood.com Website: www.smilehood.com Stand: P-1.C1
Zapata 286, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: +54 11 4775 7145 Email: info@snaptv.tv Website: www.snaptv.tv Booth: R9-A9
Executives Attending
Ezequiel Olzanski, Director of International Sales & Distribution
Lucas D´Amato and Agustín Fabregues, Sales executives
Executives Attending
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Ariel Tobi, Presidente
Silvana D’Angelo, Director
Oggy And The Cockroaches
VIACOM INTERNATIONAL MEDIA NETWORKS 1111 Lincoln Road, Floor 5, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA Tel.: +1.305.604.5366 Email: programsales@vimn.com Website: www.b2b.viacom.com Stand: R7.N7
Executives Attending
Renato Martinez, Americas Sales Team Emmanuelle Bon, EMEA Sales Team Marie Bariller, EMEA Sales Team Julie Mateille, Format Sales Emma Stow, Format Sales
XILAM ANIMATION 86-90 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris, France Tel.:+33 (0)1 40 18 72 00 Fax: +33 (0)1 42 77 85 60 Email: lformoso@xilam.com Website: www.xilam.com
Executives Attending
Leyla Formoso, VP Media Distribution Latin America & Iberia
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Leyla Formoso, VP Media Distribution Latin America & Iberia
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(Children musical series – 26 X 30’) ‘Panam and circus’ is a successful TV show which has been on air for over 15 years. Hosted by popular star Laura Franco, the episodes are plenty of music, video clips, dancing and circuses performers. Panam encourages play and imagination by addressing issues such as values, environmental care and recognition of family ties, among others.
PLIM PLIM, A HERO OF THE HEART (Educational animated series / Format – 60 X 7’ HD / 24 X 22’HD)
Plim Plim is a 2-D animation that gives a seal of prestige to broadcasters, while places special emphasis on teaching positive habits, the respect of the environment, and human values like cooperation, solidarity, kindness, responsibility, sharing and friendship. The episodes spin around the adventures of Plim Plim, a child who combines the features of a clown, a hero and a magician that accompanies his friends and teaches through setting examples, keeping a dynamic balance between learning and entertainment.
Adeline Ferro, Americas Sales Team
JESSICA DARLING’S IT LIST
OGGY AND THE COCKROACHES
(Family / Kids – 1 X 90’)
Premiere Disney Channel Latam / ‘Jessica Darling’ – a smart, witty, opinionated girl heading into 7th grade – was never too concerned about where she’d fit in the middle school hierarchy. But before her first day of school, her older sister - the super popular Bethany, now in college – decides to help out by giving her the “It List – a cheat sheet on how to navigate the middle school maze and rise to the top of the popularity chain. The instructions appear simple enough to follow, but, like life, nothing is as easy as it seems.
(Slapstick Comedy – 234 x 7’ S 5, 6, 7)
THE LOUD HOUSE
(Kids Animation – 40 X 30’) VIMN’s family is getting a whole lot bigger with Nickelodeon’s new animated series ‘The Loud House’, which follows 11-year-old Lincoln Loud (voiced by Grant Palmer) and his 10 sisters as he gives an inside look at what it takes to survive the chaos of a huge family. With his best bud Clyde (Caleel Harris), Lincoln always comes up with a plan to stay one step ahead of the chaos, but whether or not it works is where the adventures begin.
SCHOOL OF ROCK
(Kids Animation – 25 X 30’) A group of overachieving prep school students band together and learn to rock out when they meet their new, unconventional substitute teacher in Nickelodeon’s Emmy-nominated live-action comedy series School of Rock.
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RUSTY RIVETS (Preschool – 20 X 30’) VIMN is coming to MIPCOM 2016 with the inventive new original pre-school series ‘Rusty Rivets’. The show follows Rusty, a 21st century kid hero who always saves the day by relying on his imagination and incredible resourcefulness. Inspired by the DIY culture of the maker movement, ‘Rusty Rivets’ (26 half-hour episodes, debuting in the US in August 2016 and internationally in October 2016) helps preschoolers gain confidence and fuel their creativity with a strong focus on inventing, creating and problem solving.
Over four action-packed seasons and almost 20 years and 300 episodes, Oggy has relentlessly battled three horrible cockroaches. They not only squat his home, they squat his whole life! You think this is the battle of the modern era?! Think twice. In season 5, we discover the clash between Oggy and the cockroaches has been around forever! In seasons 6 and 7, we’ll find a mix of brand new episodes and full remake of classic stories from seasons 1 & 2, all produced in 4K.
PAPRIKA
(Preschool - 78 X 7’) Olivia and Stan are about as close as a brother and sister can get because… they’re twins! They share pretty much everything and though they’re totally different, they balance out to perfection! Stan is a brave little daredevil who puts faith in his instinct and his motorized wheelchair. Olivia is creative, efficient and brainy. But when it comes to having a ton of fun they’re both world champions! When the Paprika twins team up together, no hurdle’s too high! They take everyday life and turn it into a wonderful, colorful and zany adventure!
ZIG & SHARKO
(Slapstick Comedy - 78 x 7’ S02) On a desert island lives a starving hyena with one obsession: devour that delicious mermaid from the rock in the lagoon. Ah, but the lovely fish-girl’s best friend is a shark, a shark with a lot of muscle and who loves to sabotage the hyena’s every move. In season 2, the mermaid decides to set up house on the beach. And she invites all her deep-sea buddies to join her. But the stakes have been raised: now the hyena has to win back his own turf!
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Telefilms Expands Its Film Business The company led by Tomás Darcyl continues to bet on film production with its latest premieres ‘¿Qué culpa tiene el niño?’ (Mexico), ‘El lamento’ (Colombia) and ‘Pequeno Segredo’ (Brazil); as it opens its offices Diamond Films Bolivia and Diamond Films Spain. By Sebastián Amoroso / @sebamoroso / samoroso@todotv.tv
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rupo Telefilms continues to expand and develop the Hollywood movie distribution business, with rights to all platforms, in addition to film and local TV production. “We are very excited about the work we’re doing, expanding the business with 35 to 40 movies a year, big-budget Hollywood premieres, in addition to many film and TV productions in Latin America,” Tomás Darcyl, president of Grupo Telefilms, said to ttv.
FILM PRODUCTION IN LATIN AMERICA. The company’s first step in the movie production business was with the Mexican comedy ‘¿Qué culpa tiene el niño?’, with Mónica Lozano’s production company, establishing itself as the second highest-grossing film in the country’s history.
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On September 1, the movie ‘El lamento’ premiered in Colombia. It’s Telefilm’s second movie, co-produced with Caracol Televisión and Dago García Producciones, directed by Juan Camilo Pinzón and starring Marcela Carvajal, Humberto Zurita and Ricardo Vélez.
“’El lamento’ is the second movie we premiered. The first was ‘¿Qué culpa tiene el niño?’, which was a real success, becoming the third most important premiere in Mexican film history,” said Darcyl. “Now it’s this co-production’s turn with Caracol Televisión, which features Dago García,” he added. In addition, Telefilms is preparing the premiere of its third co-production titled ‘Pequeno Segredo’ for November, directed by David Schurmann. “The idea is to increase our movie production in Brazil and Mexico to four movies a year,” Darcyl said. DIAMOND FILMS ADDS SPAIN AND BOLIVIA. To further extend its movie distribution business, Diamond Films inaugurated an office in Santa Cruz (Bolivia), adding to the ones in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. And in addition, this year Diamond Films made it across the ocean to open Diamond Films Spain, which is operating with Gonzalo Claiman-Versini and Carles Montiel, a market where the distributor has already premiered titles like the movie ‘Bad Moms’. “Opening our office in Madrid has been a transcendental step for Diamond Films, with an excellent team of eleven professionals already working at full speed,” he said. THE MAGIC EYE’S TV PROJECTS. Aside from movies, Grupo Telefilms has launched the production company The Magic Eye, together with Juan Parodi, to develop TV content, starting with the fiction series ‘Sandro’, based on the life of the Argentine icon known as “Sandro de América”, in co-production with the Telefe network in Argentina. “We are currently developing the series ‘Sandro’ and we already have the entertainment format, ‘Desordenados’, on the air in Argentina’s Public Television, which we will present at Mipcom,” he said. Present in Cannes, the company will also showcase movie titles like ‘Bad Moms’, ‘Lion’, ‘Hawcksaw Ride’ and ‘A Monster Calls’, among others. ttv
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“Opening our office in Madrid has been a transcendental step for Diamond Films.”
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The Art of Good Stories Brazilian giant Globo is present at Mipcom 2016 with the best of its 2016 lineup, led by the miniseries ‘Alemão - Both Sides of the Operation’ and ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, among many others.
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“During the first half of this year, we granted licenses to 52 drama titles to 48 countries and translated them into 15 languages.”
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razilian giant Globo is arriving at Mipcom 2016 with its most recent fiction titles, to showcase several titles that are sure to surprise the international market with appealing stories and high-quality production. Raphael Corrêa Netto, Executive Director of International Business at Globo, spoke to ttv about the company’s current endeavors in the global market. Which are Globo’s main strategic lines in the international market? Globo acts
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across different areas: content licensing, international productions, international networks and sports right’s sales. Over the last few years, we’ve seen an organic growth, with solid foundations across all of our acting fronts. For instance, during the first half of this year, we granted licenses to 52 drama titles to 48 countries and translated them into 15 languages. We also added five new companies to our client base. In addition, when it comes to international production, we finished filming our first original series in Spanish, ‘Supermax’. Shot
in Globo’s studios in Rio de Janeiro, with great international actors, the series is now in post-production. We also have good news from our international channels. In Portugal, for example, we closed a deal with Vodafone TV. With that, Globo became part of one of the country’s leading operator’s basic package. Finally, in terms of sports, we’ve signed a deal with Econet Media in South Africa, to offer the best in Brazilian soccer in its Kwesé platforms. Which are the company’s main short and long term goals? Our biggest goal, and also our main calling, is to tell good stories. Now, tomorrow and forever. Stories that captivate, excite and have an impact in people’s lives, independently from the format, screen or platform they’re told on. We invest energy, passion and hours of hard work into this goal, making ideas come true. We keep an eye on society’s changes to find current themes and the best way to interpret them, both on broadcast TV and digital media. Where does Globo’s programming travel to the most? Our content travels to all continents, through our seven international channels or through our partners’ programming slates. We know there are fewer borders for our stories on broadcast TV, for our partners in Uruguay (Teledoce), Colombia (Caracol) and France (France Ô); cable networks in Israel (Viva and Viva Plus), Portugal (Globo); in the digital arena, as in South Africa, where Brazilian soccer will be offered on Kwesé’s digital platforms; and OTT in Europe and Latin America. What results have you obtained from your Spanish-language production, ‘Supermax’? We are very excited about the series. It’s an intense psychological thriller, very well constructed, that promises to captivate audiences completely. ‘Supermax’ has already been filmed and is now in the editing process. It doesn’t have an official premiere date yet. What was most notable about the project is the opportunity to work with talents from different countries, other cultures, which was truly enrichening. An experience like this takes us out of our comfort zone and encourages us to go out and find an exciting, transformative story. It’s oxygen for TV production.
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we find the perfect content for each situation, whether it’s in Europe, Asia or Africa. Which titles will Globo be presenting at Mipcom 2016? We will present our 2016 catalog, led by our miniseries ‘Alemão - Both Sides of the Operation’ and ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, as Globo’s big new shows. The first is an electrifying fiction about five undercover cops working in a violent area of Rio de Janeiro, fighting for survival after being discovered by the main local drug dealer. The story uses images produced by Globo’s newscast, which won an International Emmy Award in the News category in 2011. By mixing fiction and reality, the miniseries appears even more real and exciting.
“Our content travels to all continents, through our seven international channels or through our partners’ programming slates.” “When it comes to international production, we finished filming our first original series in Spanish, ‘Supermax’.
‘Dangerous Liaisons’ is a period production, inspired by the French classic “Les liasions dangereuses.” It tells the story of inmoral, narcisistic personalities, who hide under an elegant and refined mask. The miniseries stands out for the movie quality, with production and post-production in 4K, which helps the audience have a more exciting and compete experience. ttv Dangerous Liaisons Miniseries
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What plans does Globo have in markets as diverse as Europe, Asia and Africa? Each market is unique, with specific needs and cultures. For this reason, it’s important to really understand the audience and be in constant conversations with the partners there. There is no exact formula for it and thus we put together a great team. They always have their passports at hand to plan for the next trip. It’s in the day to day things that
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Dancing to the Beat of Success By Carolina Mussio / @carolinamussio / cmussio@todotv.tv
Owners of India’s biggest talent show, Dance India Dance, Zee Entertainment is arriving at Mipcom with this and other promising formats, both scripted and non-scripted, along with fiction series and dramas with international potential.
And when it comes to top quality content, there is no better example that Zee Entertainment’s format ‘Dance India Dance’, India’s biggest dance talent show, now in its 7th season. The format has been licensed in Thailand and will have a local version developed in Singapore. “We have created variants such as the kids, mom’s and the doubles versions, which are all doing well too,” Uchil said. “We have strong interest in these versions from several companies and hope to close some deals at Mipcom for other territories.” ‘Dance India Dance’ is only one of the many formats Zee Entertainment is presenting at Mipcom, a list that includes 6 formats, both scripted and non-scripted, to be showcased in a special formats screening area called “The Zee Bollyworld Preview Theater” at its booth. The list includes ‘Moksha’, a game show requiring strategy, luck & skill; the two comedy scripted formats ‘Hum Paanch’ and ‘Kareena Kareena’; a high octane scripted crime dra-
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“Zee delivers top quality, original content to viewers across the globe helping audiences to experience a wide range of human emotions.”
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ee Entertainment has enjoyed a successful 2016, with new content deals, strategic alliances and channel launches. The Indian company recently launched two new, major global channels: Zee One launched in August in Germany, a dedicated Bollywood movie channel for the German market; and Zee Mundo, launched in September for US Hispanic and Latin American audiences, in both Spanish and Portuguese languages. Now, Zee Entertainment reaches 1 billion viewers in 171 countries and its syndicated content reaches more than 62 territories around the globe. “Zee delivers top quality, original content to viewers across the globe helping audiences to experience a wide range of human emotions,” said Sunita Uchil, Chief Business Officer, International Ad Sales, Global Syndication and Production at Zee Entertainment.
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ma format called ‘The Eclipse Harvest’; and ‘Phantasmagoria’, a compilation of 12 wickedly-twisted short stories. Zee Entertainment is also presenting the lifestyle series ‘Altar’d’, in which fitness and nutrition experts work with a bride and groom separately to shape up before they see each other again at the altar; and ‘Finding Fido’, which follows canine expert Seth Casteel helps an enthusiastic dog owner-to-be find the perfect companion for his or her lifestyle. The Indian distributor’s catalog also features the drama ‘Kumkum Bhagya’, the social drama ‘Gangaa’. “This Mipcom our schedules are filling up, so we expect a robust sales season,” the executive said. “Mipcom is always one of Zee’s most important markets for the year and we are sure to enjoy a successful market this year,” she concluded. ttv
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Choose Your Own Story By Luis Cabrera / @luis_cabreram / lcabrera@todotv.tv
The fusion of two popular genres –TV shows and videogames- is the idea behind The Other Guys’ interactive series: to present a story that complements and expands TV content in videogame format, allowing the users to make decisions and shape the narrative.
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“We are huge fans of TV series and we wanted to create products that tell stories and generate the same range of emotions that great TV series do.”
or two decades the “Choose Your Own Adventure” gamebooks where the definition of an interactive story. The reader was able to make important decisions and then learn the consequences of that choice on the correct page. Eventually, the format was co-opted by videogames -mostly, but not exclusively, RPGs- which empowered the player even more. The recent spurt in popularity for adventure games, spearheaded by companies like Telltale Games and Pocket Gems, led to a popular intersection between those kind of games and TV series, now more in vogue than ever. Telltale has found success in presenting episodic adventure games created in the universe of shows like ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Game of Thrones’, while Pocket Gems exploded with their original content, delivered as free-to-play mobile games. The Other Guys, an Argentinian company founded by the same friends behind Three Melons, is taking the best of both offerings and adding their own ingredients to expand the formula.
Founded by Nicolás Cuneo, Pablo Mayer and Augusto Petrone after Disney’s acquisition of Three Melons, The Other Guys has already found success with two games, the original IP ‘Journals of the Unknown’ and a licensed ‘Sherlock Holmes: Lost Detective’, and are now ready to dwell deeper in a new territory. “After finishing ‘Sherlock Holmes: Lost Detective’ last year we wanted to step back from what is strictly a videogame and do something we are calling interactive stories,” explained Cuneo, CEO & Co-Founder of the company. “We are huge fans of TV series and we wanted to create products that tell stories and generate the same range of emotions that great TV series do,” he added. “We tested ourselves with ‘Journals of the Unknown’ and the result surpassed all our expectations.” With its episodic format and season-wide arcs, ‘Journal of the Unknown’ was a big hit, especially among adult women, and is the best example of The Other Guys’ formula: short episodic animated gaming experiences -5 to 8 minutes, “suitable for any leisure moment,” said Cuneo- that together tell a season-arching compelling story in which the user is able to make decisions and shape the outcome. The potential to adapt and complement already airing TV series, adding value to the brand, keeping the property present and the consumers engaged during the dreaded offseason, makes their proposal very alluring, and that’s why it’s no surprise that companies like The Walt Disney Company, FOX and Telefe, among others, are already working the details for future collaborations. The first content developed alongside a TV industry player is ‘Linda Brown’, an interactive telenovela created with Smilehood Media and Disney’s Jorge Edelstein. ‘Linda Brown’ will be available to download in December. Playable in many devices and available in 7 different languages, the game will be the first addition to the planned platform Thrillo, to be launched in March, which will function as a catalogue of The Other Guys’ interactive stories. “Our goal is to have our products available in as many platforms as it is possible,” said Cuneo. “That’s one of the biggest advantages of what we do: you don’t need to close deals with different broadcasters in each territory, our products are immediately available to the whole world.” ttv
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The Game Show Renaissance
Rob Clark and Coty Cagliolo from FremantleMedia say the game show genre is more popular than ever. Thus, the company is present at Mipcom to showcase several game show formats, in addition to all types of nonscripted content.
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“This year we are bringing a “Jekyll and Hyde” line up to Cannes, on the one hand it is our loudest and most controversial slate ever, but it is also packed with heartland FremantleMedia family formats; from bold and provocative reality, through to feel-good entertainment, along with impeccable gameshow classics.”
“Game shows are one of our priorities for Mipcom this year, and I think this is the most powerful entertainment pipeline we’ve had in years because game shows are experiencing a real renaissance.”
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remantleMedia International is arriving in Cannes to present new formats across a series of genres that fit with all types of programmers. Rob Clark, director of Global Entertainment, spoke to ttv about the distributor’s unique lineup for the event. “This year we are bringing a “Jekyll and Hyde” lineup to Cannes. On the one hand it is our loudest and most controversial slate ever, but it is also packed with heartland FremantleMedia family formats; from bold and provocative reality, through to feel-good entertainment, along with impeccable gameshow classics,” he said. Firmly in the Mr Hyde camp is ‘Get The F*ck Out Of My House’ which has been launched by BlueCircle for RTL 5 (Netherlands). The company is asking viewers to come and revel in the chaos of the human zoo as 100 complete strangers cram into an average sized suburban family home in the bid to become the last person standing and win a jackpot prize. “Stamina and determination will be pushed to the limit and our in-house reporters will be in there alongside contestants provoking, questioning, soothing and subverting,” Clark said.
ttv INTERVIEW In addition, the executive highlighted the formats ‘Celebrity Family Feud’ and ‘Match Game’, which scored excellent results in the US. “ABC in the US had their best summer Sunday for 10 years on the back of their Fun and Games Event scheduling with two of our iconic gameshows,” Clark said. “No other US network has ever scheduled gameshow formats in this way, and the combination of the slot and very clever casting contributed to attracting a young and broad audience.” The company is also showcasing two new reality entertainment formats, ‘Families Gone Wild’ and ‘100% Hotter’, from its partner Naked Entertainment. “These are the first of two titles to come out of the partnership with award-winning Simon Andreae’s company, and they are top notch.” ‘Families Gone Wild’, set to air on Channel 5 (UK), is a high-octane reality family drama set in the wilderness. Dysfunctional families in desperate need of an extreme remedy are marooned on a tropical desert island and must work together to rebuild their family harmony. ‘100% Hotter’ is the world’s first extreme make-under show and aired on 5STAR (UK) becoming their highest rated production in the last five years. As far as new game shows go, FremantleMedia is presenting ‘Cue the Music,’ commissioned by SVT, with its very own play along app; ‘Sidewalk Karaoke,’ ‘The Lie Detective’ and a spectacular mashup of baking and weddings with the competitive baking format ‘Wedding Cake Challenge’.
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“We work tirelessly to deliver brilliantly unique ideas and we’re confident this year’s attention grabbing slate features something for every network,” he said. FOCUS ON LATIN AMERICA. To talk more about the company’s business in Latin America, ttv spoke to Coty Cagliolo, Creative director of FremantleMedia Mexico, who spoke about how game shows are making a comeback in the international market.
“Game shows are one of our priorities for Mipcom this year, and I think this is the most powerful entertainment pipeline we’ve had in years because game shows are experiencing a real renaissance,” she said. In this sense, the executive highlighted the importance of the programming schedule for these shows: “Game Show scheduling has been pivotal in driving new audiences to classic formats, reinventing them for the modern viewer, and making them very attractive for the international markets.” Cagliolo also remarked the importance of the Argentine market, where FremantleMedia forged alliances with Ideas del Sur and Telefe, two of the biggest producers in the country. “We’ll be cementing our presence in Argentina looking to new exciting entertainment shows through our current co-development deals.” In regards to Mexico, Cagliolo said: “We signed with TV Azteca the amazing opportunity to produce ‘Cocineros Mexicanos,’ a Mexican adaptation of our partner Kapow’s classic cooking show ‘Cocineros Argentinos’ which has also a localized version in Chile; in addition, we also will be implementing a digital strategy for this show, which combine digital recipes, original content for social media, and online Live streaming.” “Finally 2017 for us is all about talent. We’ll be partnering with talent from across Latin America and across traditional and digital platforms. Along those same lines we continue to develop our partnership with Marco Antonio Regil,” she concluded. ttv Hear Me. Love Me. See Me. Format
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MGM Brings On the Drama By Carolina Mussio / @carolinamussio /cmussio@todotv.tv
Three brand new drama series lead MGM Television’s star-studded catalog for Mipcom 2016, along with new seasons of its hit shows, unscripted titles and a vast slate of critically acclaimed feature films. “We are coming to Mipcom with three, strong new dramas.”
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“We want to have a big film slate in Latin America, because it’s such a strong market.”
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and we love the tape. The show had a very big challenge with scheduling. We just never had the platform that we would’ve liked for that show. But it’s fantastic and we have a lot of interest in the tape and the format, so we have high hopes for it still. And then we have three dramas with confirmed green lights. We have ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, which is in production right now for Hulu; we have ‘Get Shorty’, which is in pre-production now for Epix; and we have ‘Condor’, in pre-production as well for DirecTV, based on ‘Three Days of the Condor’. Will you be taking these shows to Mipcom? Which other titles will you be presenting and what are your goals for the event? Yes, of course. We are going to be
ttv / Q&A doing what I call “the hyping process”. My main goals are to really do a strong soft launch of those three shows. In addition, we are doing a lot of work in the unscripted side so we’re hoping our international unscripted has a real shot in the arm at the market. We are also really excited to talk about the new film slate as well. ‘Ben-Hur’ underperformed for us, but ‘Me Before You’ came out in the early summer and has been just hugely over-performing. It’s been a massive hit, particularly in markets like Germany, Brazil, France, UK. It really has done a lot better than we thought it would. Then we have ‘The Magnificent 7’ coming. We will have a big premiere event. And we’re launching film sales on one of our smaller films, a horror thriller called ‘The Belko Experiment’, by James Gunn, which got into Midnight Madness at the Toronto Film Festival. There’s been a lot of activity on the film side. What’s MGM’s strategy for the Latin American region? What recent deals or projects would you highlight? We run our Latin American sales operation out of our Los Angeles office, so we are very close to it. I work very closely with Marcio Ferreira, our Head of Sales for Latin America. The special emphasis is feature film. We think the region is a really strong film market, obviously led by Mexico and Brazil. We are very active in the all-rights space, we acquire many movies. We want to have a big film slate in Latin America, because it’s such a strong market. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that the audience is still pretty young, still developing their taste for cinema and enjoy going to the movies. It makes it a very exciting and dynamic market. In Brazil we’re making two to four local movies a year. We’re very active in that space.
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We’re also active in unscripted and in drama, but our real emphasis is in the film space. We’re co-owners of Telecine in Brazil, along with TV Globo, Fox, Universal and Paramount, and it’s the leading pay TV service in the country being a film service. How important have digital platforms become the industry? Digital platforms are very important. They are driving the new ways of consuming TV content. The biggest impact we’ve seen from digital platforms is really the creation of the binge-viewing cycle. This didn’t exist until Netflix started buying shows like ‘Mad Men’, ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Breaking Bad’. Those three shows really started the binge-viewing habit. That was around 2011-2012. That’s become a global phenomenon. Audiences love to watch serialized drama, three or more episodes at a time. And that’s a new thing, totally created by the digital arena.
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What’s come from that is that audiences’ tastes and interests have clearly expanded to embrace serialized drama. There were shows like ‘Lost’ or ‘24’ in the early 2000s that were those types of shows and people binged on their DVDs. But to make that the core proposition of a TV offering is what’s new from the digital platforms. It has affected every corner of the business. It’s made it hard for broadcast TV to compete in the serialized drama space, because the viewing experience is better when you have all the episodes available. And it changed the kind of shows available, from procedural to more serialized. The impact of this new way of watching drama on TV has been incredible. How have they changed the company’s strategy? When we’re designing shows and thinking about what to greenlight and what to develop, we must consider if they’re shows that can live on a digital platform as well as in traditional television. We want shows that can live in both. For instance, ‘Vikings’ and ‘Fargo’ have both been able to live in both very successfully. That is absolutely our goal. To have productions that are broadcast TV friendly and also strong in the digital space. ttv Vikings Series
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MGM TAKES NEW DRAMA AND FILMS TO MIPCOM With a strong focus on drama series and feature films, MGM is present at Mipcom with three new drama titles: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ (10x60’), based on Margaret Atwood’s classic novel; ‘Condor’ (10x60’), inspired by the critically acclaimed feature film ‘Three Days of the Condor’ starring Robert Redford; and ‘Get Shorty’ (10x60’) a reimagining of Elmore Leonard’s best-selling novel about a mobster turned movie producer. The slate also features the third season of ‘Fargo’, the sixth and final season of ‘Teen Wolf’, and the fifth season of ‘Vikings’; as well as two unscripted shows: ‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ (13x60’), hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger; and Steve Harvey’s Funderdome (13x60’ yet untitled). On the feature film front, ‘Ben-Hur’ and ‘The Magnificent Seven’, along with four movies currently in pre-production: ‘Tomb Raider’, starring Alicia Vikander; ‘Death Wish’, starring Bruce Willis and directed by Eli Roth; ‘Sherlock Gnomes’, a co-production with Paramount produced by Elton John’s Rocket Pictures; and ‘Everything Everything’.
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(Animated Comedy - 52 X 11’) Set in Earth’s far-flung future, ‘3 Amigonauts’ is a rocket-paced comedy about three bumbling buds who attend the solar system’s most prestigious space academy. Life is one big party for these delightful dingdongs as they super-size the smallest tasks into madcap intergalactic adventures!
NATURE CAT
(Animated Comedy - 80 X 11’) ‘Nature Cat’ follows a cat named Fred, who dreams of exploring the great outdoors. Of course there’s one small problem: he’s a house cat with no instinct for nature! With the help of his animal friends, Fred embarks on action-packed adventures that include exciting missions full of nature investigation and a healthy dose of humour.
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(Live Action – 40 X 22) After winning a scholarship to the most prestigious culinary academy in the city, Monica has been given a chance to make her dream of becoming a top chef come true! But will she be able to keep up with the school’s haute cuisine training, so vastly different than the cooking style she’s grown up? And will she be able to get her musical daydreams under control?
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SIX
(Miniseries – 8 X 60’) This new series is inspired by the real missions of Seal Team Six, the unit best known for killing Osama Bin Laden and popularized by hit films like ‘Lone Survivor’ and ‘Captain Phillips’. With a former Special Operations team member ensuring authenticity and accuracy while preserving secrecy of classified missions, ‘Six’ is the story of a brotherhood of an elite Special Forces unit – the best at what they do. This series depicts the emotional truths of what it means to be in Seal Team Six including making the life and death decisions that protect the United States. The key members of the team are the cynical ladies’ man, Caulder, the deeply religious Graves, family man Ortiz, and Taggart the veteran leader of Seal Team Six.
ROOTS
(Miniseries – 4 X 120’) ‘Roots’ is a historical portrait of slavery recounting the journey of one family’s will to survive, endure and ultimately, carry on their legacy despite enormous hardship and inhumanity. Spanning multiple generations, the lineage begins with young Kunta Kinte, who is captured in his homeland of The Gambia and sold into slavery. Throughout the series, the family continues to face adversity that reveals powerful truths about the universal resilience of the human spirit.
BORN THIS WAY
(Series – 16 X 60’) Cameras follow the lives of young men and women born with Down Syndrome, as they pursue their passions and lifelong dreams, explore friendships, romantic relationships and earn a living, all while defying society’s expectations. The series also gives voice to the parents, allowing them to talk about the joy their son or daughter brings to their family, and the challenges they face in helping them live independent lives.
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(Drama / Comedy - 6 X 30’) The extremely talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge (‘Broadchurch’, ‘Crashing’) writes and stars in this new genre of scripted content. Not a comedy and not a drama, this is a hybrid. ‘Fleabag’ is a hilarious and poignant window into the mind of a dry-witted, sexual, angry, porn-watching, grief-riddled woman trying to make sense of the world. ‘Fleabag’ gives a voice to young females around the world, with an unprecedented honesty and emotion that’s rarely spoken.
THE MISSING SERIES 2 (Series – 8 X 60’)
When a young woman walks back into the town she was abducted from 11 years ago, it is revealed that she holds vital clues about another missing girl. French detective Julien Baptiste becomes embroiled in the mystery when he races across Europe to pursue a 12 year-old case. ‘The Missing Series 2’ dramatizes a thrilling chase for a missing girl, whilst exploring the truth of what happens when a missing child returns.
NATIONAL TREASURE (Drama – 4X 60’)
‘National Treasure’ follows Paul Finchley, an ageing, beloved comedian, after his arrest following allegations of rape dating back to the 90s. The drama follows the story from arrest through to verdict and focuses both on the investigation and the effect of the case on Paul and his family. ‘National Treasure’ is a story that goes behind the headlines to look at the human and emotional impact when a whole life is called into question.
Avi Armoza, Founder & CEO
CURVY SUPERMODEL
(Reality Competition – 60 X 120’) This new prime time reality competition is set to change how we define beauty, in a nationwide casting show that searches for catwalk potential among the prettiest curves. Now airing on Germany’s RTL2, 40 aspiring “plus-size” models will be selected out of thousands of hopefuls looking to find a place in the tough and discriminative modeling industry. Each week they will face new challenges, while an expert jury will mentor them on their path and choose who has what it takes to continue to the next episode.
WHO’S ASKING
(Studio Game Show – 30 X 60’) Soon airing in the US, ‘Who’s Asking?’ is a studio game show where it’s not about what the question is, but who asks it! Whether it’s the bus driver, your doctor, or a streetwise grandma – each has a question for the contestants! Instead of picking the type of questions the 2 pairs of contestants must select an “asker” from the faces on the screen in front of them. In the 1st round they will pick an “asker” for themselves, in the 2nd round they will pick for their opponents and in the 3rd and final round the finalists will face the celebrity pyramid. In a game show where looks do matter, who will follow their intuition to the grand prize?
Bandits
Balloon Barnyard
ATV Barbaros Bulvari, Cam Han No:153 34349 Besiktas – Istanbul – Turkey Tel.:+90 212 381 2848 Email: info@atvdistribution.com Website: www.atvdistribution.com Satnd: P-1.K63
Executives Attending
Emir Duzel, Content Sales Executive Yasin Elmaci, Content Sales Executive Muge Hanilci, Content Sales Executive Serra Batus, Acquisitions Executive Havva Mizrak, Acquisitions Executive Metin Ergen, General Manager
Nothing Personal
AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S TELEVISION FOUNDATION
AZTECA INTERNATIONAL AZ CONTENT
3rd Floor, 145 Smith Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065, Australia Tel.: +61 3 9200 5500 Email: info@actf.com.au Website: www.actf.com.au Stand: P-1.B8
Av. Periférico Sur 4121, Col. Jardines del Pedregal, C.P. 14140 Mexico City Tel:. (+5255) 1720 1313 Website: www.tvaztecainternacional.com
Executives Attending
Tim Hegarty, International Sales Manager
TOP eXECUTIVE Roberta Di Vito, International Sales Manager
TOP eXECUTIVE
Executives Attending
Ramón Salomón, Operation Content Director Jessica Fernández, Sales Content Manager Andrés R Payá, Marketing Manager Juan Antonio Fernández, Sales Representative, Medio Oriente y Europa Yonatan Ornelas, Sales Representative, Latinoamérica, REP Berta Orozco, Sales Representative, España, África y Asia, REP
TOP eXECUTIVE
Ziyad Varol, Head of Digital & License
Fidela Navarro, Content and Pay TV Distribution Director
BALLOON BARNYARD
(Preschool / Animation Series – 26 X 7’)
BANDİTS
Join Pip and Squeak, as these everyday donkeys with superhero ambitions, find fun and adventure around the farm.
The story of Hizir Cakirbeyli, who climbs the top of the gangland in which he entered while he was a child, and his family... A series full of love, action, revenge. Their lives can end with one bullet but their freedom depends on government. Can Cakirbeyli protect his family and loved ones from gangland?
LITTLE LUNCH
(Drama – 40 X 120’)
ORPHAN FLOWERS (Drama – 50 X 120’)
Young girl who lost her dad when she was a child; Eylül lives with her mother and step-father. Her step-father’s abuses unsettles her and her mother believes him over her daughter. Eylül finds herself in front an orphanage. Eylül now has to live around the glamour of rich people’s lives in an orphanage. While every bad days are ahead of her, she still manages to form good friendships.
WEDLOCK
(Drama – 26 X 120’) A lie told by a desperate mother for her child, pulls everyone in the same swirl. Their lives get upside down. Within the psychological between husband and wife, she only had two choices; either she will surrender to bondage or fight with courage, and build a new life for her children and herself.
SHE WAS PRETTY
(Drama / Romantic – 10 X 120’)
(Live Action / Comedy Series – 26 X 12’ + 2 X 24’) Every episode takes place during that highly anticipated school day break – morning snack time! Plus two half hour special episodes set around Halloween and Graduation.
YOU’RE SKITTING ME
(Live Action / Sketch Comedy Series – 26 X 24’ + 26 X 15’) A fresh, funny and unpredictable sketch comedy show, starring a great cast of young talent and featuring a random mix of characters, parodies and animations.
READY FOR THIS
(Teen / Live Action / Drama series - 1 X 42’ + 12 X 24’) Six teenagers, all elite within their own field, come to live at Arcadia House in pursuit of their dreams.
NOTHING PERSONAL
(Action thriller loaded – 40 X 42’) It’s nothing personal: if you want to survive, you have to kill. A story of action, political suspense and love tension. By chance, Mariana Aragón witnesses the murder of two young journalists. This puts her right in the middle of a conspiracy that she could have never imagined. A criminal organization frames her and turns her into an addict. For Mariana, fighting for her life means facing the most powerful criminal organization: one that operates legally, from within the State.
IRON LADY
(Drama loaded action - 80 X 60’) “It is not revenge. It’s full justice.” When her father is murdered by the most-wanted drug dealer in the country, a woman begins to restlessly pursuit the murderer, using every weapon at hand as the “iron prosecutor”. On the day she graduates as an Attorney, Silvana Durán witnesses the brutal murder of her father. Years later, while working for the General Attorney’s office, she tackles the challenge that will determine the rest of her life: to capture the country’s most wanted drug dealer, who had her father killed. This story is based on a real-life story.
BBC Worldwide Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, W12 7FA, UK Tel.: +44 (0) 20 8433 2000 Website: www.bbcworldwide.com Stand: P3.B38
Executives Attending
Anna Gordon, Executive VP and General Director
TOP eXECUTIVE
Anna Gordon, Executive VP and General Director
CLASS
(Drama – 8 x 45’) From the makers of ‘Doctor Who’ comes this epic young-adult series set in contemporary London. Written by award-winning author Patrick Ness and starring exciting new talent, ‘Class’ is scary, funny, and as painful and sharp as youth. Like all teenagers, the students at Coal Hill Academy have hidden secrets and desires. They are facing their own worst fears, navigating a life of friends, parents, school, sex, sorrow – and possibly the end of existence. The very walls of space and time are starting to thin. Something is pressing on the other side: something waiting for its chance to kill everyone and everything, to bring us all into Shadow. Fear is coming. Tragedy is coming. War is coming.
SS-GB
(Drama - 6 x 50) History is turned on its head in this gripping and intelligent series adapted from Len Deighton’s bestselling thriller. The Second World War’s Battle of Britain has ended in victory for Hitler’s Germany and the population of 1940s Britain struggles to adjust to life under Nazi occupation. Renowned London detective Douglas Archer is caught between his brutal new SS bosses and a ruthless British resistance movement as he investigates what looks like a black market-related murder. Getting closer to the truth about the killing, Archer finds himself drawn into a treacherous plot as ‘SS-GB’ rapidly merges crime drama with an intriguing spy tale, a compelling love story and a conspiracy thriller with global implications. With the world he once knew crumbling around him, Archer is determined to uphold the law and protect those he loves in the hope of a better future. But as he struggles between two sides prepared to go to any lengths to control the ultimate outcome of the war, which way will this decent man turn?
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Childhood love couple finds each other after years and complicated love game series start with a variety of coincidence. The story of innocent love and childhood memories.
Class
The Girl Named Feriha
Mary For Mayor
Calinos Entertainment Kavacik Mah. Ekinciler Cad. Necip Fazil Sok. Calinos Plaza No:6 Beykoz Istanbul - Turkiye Tel.: +90 216 999 49 99 E-mail: info@calinosentertainment.com Web: www.calinosentertainment.com Stand: P -1/J69
Executives Attending
Asli Serim, International Sales Director Ismail Dursunov, International Sales Director Emre Gorentas, International Sales Executive
TOP eXECUTIVE
Zorro The Chronicles
Cisneros Media Distribution 121 Alhambra Plaza, Suite 1400 Coral Gables, FL 33134 (USA) Tel.: +1 (305) 442.3411 Fax: +1 (305) 446.4743 Email: info@cisnerosmediadist.com Website: www.cisnerosmediadist.com Stand: P-1.C13
Executives Attending
Cristobal Ponte, Exclusive Independent Representative for Europe, Africa & M.E.
TOP eXECUTIVE
Besir Tatli, General Manager
Cyber Group Studios
Dori MEDIA
44B quai de Jemmapes – 75010 PARIS France Tel.: +33 1 555 63 232 Email: sales@cybergroupstudios.com Website: www.cybergroupstudios.com Stand: R7.E65.
Seefeldstrasse 133, CH-8008 Zurich, Switzerland Tel.: +41-43-817-7050 Fax: +41-43-817-7055 Email: sales@dorimedia.com Website: www.dorimedia.com www.dorimediadistribution.com Booth: P-1.F50
Executives Attending
Dominique Bourse, Chief Operating Officer Olivier Lelardoux, Senior Vice-President Studio & Associate Producer Raphaelle Mathieu, Vice-President Sales, Acquisitions & New Media Silene Chaves, International Sales & Digital Content Manager Emmanuel Dereau, International Sales Executive
Cristobal Ponte, Exclusive Independent Representative for Europe, Africa & M.E.
TOP eXECUTIVE
This heart wrenching drama tells the dreams and desires of a young girl who got stuck between two worlds. An aspiring scriptwriter Aysegul experiencing betrayals and hard times, but her life intersects with a handsome actor Can. Although he is in love with another beautiful girl, no one knows what the future holds.
LOVE, JUST A COINCIDENCE (118’)
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One September morning in 1977 in Ankara, a young man rushes his pregnant wife to the hospital for the impending birth. He crashes into another car, whose driver is another father-to-be. As a result of the accident, the woman in the car they hit gives birth prematurely, resulting in both babies being born on the same day at the same hospital. That accident becomes the first of many coincidences that will connect the fates of Özgür and Deniz, whose lives will continue to intersect throughout the rest of their childhood and teenage years in Ankara. Each time their paths intersect, the cause of the intersection greatly transforms both Özgür and Deniz’s lives. However, their lives never fully intertwine because whatever it is that brings them together manages to build a wall between until their next encounter, some 25 years on, in Istanbul.
Executives Attending
Leora Nir, CEO, Dori TLV Revital Basel, VP Sales, Dori Media Group Elena Antonini, VP Sales, Dori Media Distribution Argentina Maria Perez Campi, Sales Manager, Dori Media Distribution Argentina Yair Sklan, CEO, Dori Media Spike Givon Snir, CEO, MeMeMe Studios
TOP eXECUTIVE
Pierre Sissmann, Chairman & CEO
THE GIRL NAMED FERIHA
(Drama / Romance - 187 tv hours x 45’)
Dumb
Nadav Palti, President & CEO, Dori Media Group
MARY FOR MAYOR
(Dramedy – 14 X 30’) Set in a fictional Southwestern town where divorce is forbidden due to a 150-year-old superstition, Mary finds herself in an unhappy marriage and runs for mayor to change the law, sending residents into a frenzy. But just as Mary is about to put an end to her marriage, she begins to fall back in love with her husband, who is in fact an imposter hired by the town’s incumbent mayor as part of a conniving plan to win the election.
JUST LOOKING
(Drama Series- 120 X 60’) An innovative and dynamic format that can either be a telenovela or a drama series, it follows five couples who fall in love in different ways: at first sight, at the first laughter, at the first compliment after years of indifference, after the first divorce, and even during the first hip fracture. These lively and spontaneous characters meet or are reunited when they move into the same building – not knowing a psychopath has installed hidden cameras in every apartment.
THE SEX SENSE
(Drama Series - 13 X 60’) This original story by Luis Fernandez presents four very distinct couples on the brink of breakup, struggling to survive. Considering that monogamy is not natural and traditional values have not served to make them happy, these couples try to redefine their relationships through sex, trial, and error, to establish new values that are more in harmony with reality and more useful in building stronger relationships that are open, honest, different, and undoubtedly objectionable to some, but envied by all.
ZORRO THE CHRONICLES
(Animation / Adventure / Comedy - 26 X 22’) The series introduces the extraordinary and most famous masked hero in his quest for justice!
ZOU 3
(Animation - 156 X 11’ HD CGI) Follow the daily life of the lovable 5-year-old Zebra Zou and his extended zebra family. Full of curiosity and love, Zou is an imaginative and inquisitive foal, and he’s now old enough to start becoming his own person!
MIRETTE INVESTIGATES
(Animation / Adventure / Comedy - 52 X 11’) Discover the first traveling detective comedy with Mirette, a girl with a passion for investigation, and her “catssistant” Jean-Pat, a lazy but extremely efficient ginger tomcat. Feel the thrilling adventures traveling with a dynamic duo from New York to Paris, via Beijing or Cairo.
MINI NINJAS
(Animation / Adventure / Comedy - 26 X 22’) Discover a new generation of 12 year-olds ninjas, trained by the wise (and rather eccentric) Ninja Master to defend the Land below the Clouds from the warlord Ashida.
DUMB
(Comic crime drama – 50 X 35’) A comedic crime drama about a 30 year old frustrated actress who is stuck with the body and appearance of a teenager, and she hates it. She sees herself as dumb and leading a mundane life, without friends or dreams. All she has is her boyfriend, who later dumps her and gets arrested for dealing drugs. Determined to save him, she joins the police as an undercover agent posing as a high-school senior class student. Blinded by love and power, she soon crosses the line becoming the new target of investigation.
EL MARGINAL
(Crime / Drama 13 X 45’) Former cop Miguel Dimarco passes as convict in San Onofre prison under a false identity and an invented case. His mission is to infiltrate a mixed band of prisoners and jailers who operates from within the prison. The group has just kidnapped the teenage daughter of an important national judge; therefore, the mission is to locate the captors and find the whereabouts of the girl. After solving the case, Miguel is betrayed, and remains behind bars as an inmate. There are no witnesses of his true identity and his surrounded by criminals and murderers. Miguel will soon realize that the only way to save his life and recover his identity is by escaping with the help of an unexpected ally, Anna, a social worker who works as a counselor in prison.
3Ways2
Insider
Designated Survivor
ENGLISH CLUB TV GROUP
Eccho Rights
Entertainment One
Fly Content
6, St David’s Square, Westferry Road, London, E14 3WA, United Kingdom Phone: +44 (208) 123 57 56 Fax: +44 (0) 2075156490 E-mail: a.semchenko@english-club.tv Website: www.english-club.tv
Gamla Brogatan 26, 111 20 Stockholm, Sweden Tel.: +0855609380 Website: www.ecchorights.com/contact Stand: P3.B1
45 Warren Street, London W1T 6AG, United Kingdom Tel.: +44 020 3691 8584 Email: tvinfo@entonegroup.com Website: www.international.eonetv.com Stand: C15.A5
20900 NE 30 AVE, Suite 800, Aventura, Florida, 33180, USA Tel.: 1-954-292-8833 Email: info@flycontent.tv Website: www.flycontent.tv Booth: P-1 C10
Executives Attending
Executives Attending
Executives Attending Luiza Brendel, Deputy CEO
TOP eXECUTIVE
Andrew Semchenko, CEO
Executives Attending
Nicola Söderlund, Managing Partner Barbora Susterova, Head of Latin America and Iberia Handan Özkuban, Head of Istanbul Office Nixon Lim, Head of Asia Pacific Dorit Schilling, Independent TV Sales Manager & Consultant
TOP eXECUTIVE
Fredrik af Malmborg, Managing Director
3WAYS2
3WAYS2 (Edutainment – 5 X 15’) ‘3Ways2’ will help you to improve your communication skills by mastering different language styles. The programme presents 3 different ways to express the same idea, which correspond to formal and informal styles as well as slang. By watching ‘3Ways2’ on a regular basis, you can learn a lot of useful words and fixed expressions.
CITY GRAMMAR
(Edutainment – 50 X 9’) The programme ‘City Grammar’ promotes studying in a non-traditional way and provides a complete language immersion. Each episode takes you to a different location in London and completely covers a single grammatical topic. The host of the program explains various grammatical aspects with the help of common examples that surround us in our daily lives.
THE LANGUAGE OF BUSINESS (Edutainment – 23 X 13’)
‘The Language of Business’ is the perfect choice for learners who want to refine their English skills and add depth to their vocabulary with business-related words and phrases. Each episode is based on authentic interviews with various entrepreneurs and business people from large financial centres like London and Paris.
YUMMY FOR MUMMY
(Edutainment – 30 X 11’)
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Ramona
Try out new recipes and learn English with kids cooking something really delicious in the edutainment culinary show ‘Yummy for Mummy’. In each episode, children cook a new dish, supervised by their teacher. The programme will help you enrich your vocabulary in the field of food and cooking, improve listening skills and learn the spelling of new words.
INSIDER
(108 X 45’) When Sarp’s brother disappears and is presumed dead his mother hangs onto his memory for dear life. Sarp blames himself for having lost him and is still haunted by the loss. Just as Sarp is to graduate from the police academy he is assigned to infiltrate the mafia syndicate run by the mob boss, Celal Karabaş. He believes by succeeding with his mission he will finally find peace in his mind and soul.
BRAVE AND BEAUTIFUL (103 x 45’)
‘Brave and Beautiful’ is the launch of the season on Star TV in Turkey with Tuba Büyüküstün and Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ in the leading roles. Tahsin is head of the Koroglu family, his wealth and great influence in society makes him feared and respected by everyone. There isn’t a place or person in town that he does not control. Tahsin has two children; his son Korhan is a big disappointment to his father, but Sühan, his smart and beautiful daughter, he loves dearly.
WINGS OF LOVE (126 X 45’)
‘Wings of Love’ is the new hit series on Fox Turkey, launched in September 2016 with very strong ratings, and currently the Nº1 series on Friday nights. Leyla has been in a miserable marriage in Germany for years and in hope of making a better life for her son Rüzgar, gets a divorce. She turns to her father for support but he and his new family want nothing to do with her. Instead her father convinces her to accept the marriage proposal of his old friend Haşmet, a respected and successful businessman, and move with him to Istanbul.
John Morayniss, CEO, Entertainment One Television Stuart Baxter, President, Entertainment One Television International Jocelyn Hamilton, President, Canada, Entertainment One Television Pancho Mansfield, President, Global Scripted Programming, Entertainment One Television Jackie Rubin, SVP, Corporate Communications, Entertainment One Carrie Stein, EVP, Global Production, Entertainment One Television Tara Long, EVP, US Alternative Programming, Entertainment One Television Dan Loewy, SVP, Television & Digital, Entertainment One Films North America Xavier Trudel, EVP, Television & Digital, Entertainment One Films North America
TOP eXECUTIVE Darren Throop, President, CEO, Entertainment One
DESIGNATED SURVIVOR (Drama Series – 13 X 60’)
‘Designated Survivor’, starring Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Kiefer Sutherland (‘24’), is a conspiracy thriller and family drama about an ordinary man in an extraordinary situation. In the series, a lower level United States Cabinet member, Tom Kirkman (Sutherland), is suddenly appointed President after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession. The primetime series for ABC Studios (USA) features a stellar cast including Kal Penn (‘House’), Adan Canto (‘Narcos’), Italia Ricci (‘Chasing Life’), Maggie Q (‘Nikita’) and Natascha McElhone (‘Californication’).
Sofia Jasin, International Sales Assistant
TOP eXECUTIVE Patricia Jasin, CEO
RAMONA
(Drama – 12 X 45’) ‘Ramona’ is a series set in the late 60’s about two young sisters, Ramona and Helga, who emigrate from the countryside to the city. They decide to live with their new friend Carmen, a prostitute who teaches them how to survive in this new world. To survive, they begin working as cleaning women and nightclub dancers. They also fall in love and begin intense relationships that become a source of love and pain. It’s the story of a three-woman family who pull together aiming to achieve the dreams of justice of an entire generation that moved to the city in search of a better life.
A PURO CORAZÓN
(Youth Series – 120 X 45’) Remake of one of the most successful youth series of all time, this story is about a group of teens in their senior year. This series is romantic, musical, and encounters first loves, impossible dreams, friendships and unbelievable experiences.
LOS COWBOYS (Telenovela)
‘Los Cowboys’ is a real-life telenovela starring a cast of first, second and third generation Latinos and Latinas living different lives in Los Angeles, while simultaneously sharing a passion for horses and the art of “Charreria”. Bred in L.A., they are heirs to a tradition that is older than the city itself, who also happen to earn their livelihoods respectively as a television executive, a horse trainer, a fashion model, a firefighter and a businessman. The show charts their journey through the highly competitive and often dangerous equestrian sport of “charreria.” At the championship, riders compete in nine events, including bull-riding, bareback bronco riding, roping and horsemanship.
The Young Pope
Total Dreamer
Fish - The Dish
Hogie The Globe-Hopper
FremantleMedia
Globo
Gusto Worldwide Media
Imira Entertainment
1 Stephen St London W1T 1AL Tel.: 02076916605 Email: lucinda.sayer@fremantlemedia.com Website: www.fremantlemedia.com Stand: Croisette 11
Rua Evandro Carlos de Andrade, 160 / 7º andar, Vila Cordeiro 04583-115, São Paulo, Brazil Tel.: + 55 11 5112- 4559 Fax: + 55 115112-4018 Website: www.globo.com/licensing Stand: P0.A1
66 Muriel Street, Ste. 203, Ottawa, Canada K1S4E1 Tel.: +1-613-730-1728 Email: sales@gustotv.com Website: www.gustoworldwidemedia.com Stand: R.7 M 2.
Calle Consell de Cent, 375, 3º - 2. Tel.: (+34)932 650 757 Email: sales@imiraentertainment.com Website: www.ImiraEntertainment.com Stand: R7.H14
Executives Attending
Executives Attending
Gulshan David, VP Media Sales Begoña Esteban, Sales Manager Miguel Bosch, Sales Assistant
Executives Attending
Al De Azpiazu, Vice President, Sales & Distribution - Western Europe Amac Erol Us, Sales Director, Middle East, Africa & South East Europe Jamie Lynn, EVP Distribution, EMEA Lisa Honig, SEVP Sales Americas Maximilian Bolenius, VP Sales, German Speaking Europe & Eastern Europe Sheila Aguirre, SVP Sales & Development, Latin America, Caribbean & Hispanic USA
TOP eXECUTIVE
Raphael Correa, Executive Director of International Business Daniel Djahjah. Head of International Sales Bruno Assumpcao, Sales Executive Eastern Europe Carolina Krambeck, Sales Executive Eastern Europe Rodrigo Vilela, Sales Executive Africa, Middle East & France Roberto Cabrini, Sales Executive Asia / Oceania Thiago Ferreira, Sales Manager Europe
TOP eXECUTIVE
Jens Richter, CEO
Ricardo Scalamandré, Head of International Business
Created and directed by Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino, Jude Law and Diane Keaton star in the story of Lenny Belardo, the first American Pope in history.
APPLE TREE YARD (Drama – 4 X 60’)
A provocative thriller that brings a law-abiding wife and mother into the dock at the Old Bailey, caught up in a highly damaging and compromising lie….
AMERICAN GODS (Drama – 9 X 60’)
Epic fantasy drama set around a brewing war between gods old and new, starring Ricky Whittle and Ian McShane.
JAMIE’S SUPERFOOD FAMILY CLASSICS (Lifestyle – 6 X 60’)
Jamie freshens up our ultimate family favourites and classic comfort food dishes, ensuring they’re packed with goodness and nutritionally balanced.
FASHION INC.
(Entertainment – 8 X 60’)
TOTAL DREAMER
(Telenovela - 120 X 60’) This modern fairy tale tells the story of a homeless girl who dreams of helping out her family and finds her big chance of turning her life around in a fashion modeling contest - but the way to winning it and becoming a star will be a lot harder than she originally envisioned.
TIME AFTER TIME
(Telenovela - 100 X 60’) Livia and Felipe are in a forbidden love story doomed to end tragically. A century later, they both have a new chance to make their love real again. ‘Time After Time’ is an innovative romance set in two different eras in which characters hold the opportunity to make up for their mistakes, come to terms with the past and write themselves another story.
BOOGIE OOGIE
(Telenovela - 90 X 60’) After a tragic plane crash, two young women of opposite personalities and social classes meet and end up fighting for the love of the same man. What they don’t know is that their destinies were tied long before, when they were exchanged at birth. This secret will change the lives of all involved in this story of love and revenge set in Disco’s golden years.
TOP eXECUTIVE
Chris Knight, President and CEO
FISH - THE DISH
(Food series – 30 x 30’ 4K, UHD) Beautifully-shot 4K cooking series that celebrates sustainability while demystifying cooking seafood. Accompanied by 120+ recipes with videos & gorgeous food photography. (Food series – S1 30 x 30’ / S2 24 X 30’ 4K, UHD) It’s the future of food television! Visually stunning, delicious international cuisine (Italian, Indian, Thai, Argentinian & Japanese) accompanied by 200+ webisodes plus recipes and food photography.
A IS FOR APPLE
(Food series – 60 x 30’ 4K, UHD) Entertaining, innovative food television recorded on a one-of-a-kind set, accompanied by a stunning interactive website and 120+ recipes with webisodes & gorgeous food photography.
CRATE TO PLATE
(Documentary / Food series 4 X 30’ 4K, HD) Food often takes surprising journeys to get from harvest to plate. This beautifully-shot series takes you to meet the people whose lives are shaped by the food we grow, sell & eat.
LA COCINA LATINO
(Food series – 15 x 30’ 4K, HD) This 15-episode, 30-minute series explores Latin cuisine, including Mexican, Cuban, Venezuelan, and Spanish! Viewers celebrate the great Latin cuisines of the world with engaging hosts and mouthwatering recipes.
Sergi Reitg, CEO
HOGIE THE GLOBE-HOPPER (Preschool – 52 X 11’)
A fun-filled globe-trotting series that explores the world around us, taking Hogie, a curious Tree Frog and his best pals Bernie the Dragonfly and Lorna the Duck in a hot air balloon to different locations in every episode where they meet and make new friends, and are introduced to food, culture, music, art, transport, language and heritage from many different landmarks around the globe. On their fantastical adventures they meet children of different cultures, and experiencing what makes us all special but essentially still the same. Hogie and his friends will inspire in children a curiosity and fascination about the world and its people!
DINOCORE
(Robot Action Comedy – 39 X 15’) The peaceful small Dino Island is under threat from the evil leader Darkno who comes from another planet in search of an ancient power that has found its way into the hands of a curious boy called Rex. With its friends, and the robots called Dino Cores, Rex will do everything he can to stop the evil Darkno and his accomplice from taking over the universe.
VROOMIZ
(Preschool – 52 X 13’) ‘Vroomiz’ is a high-octane learning series featuring fun and lovable talking animals shaped like vehicles who are full of passion, energy and curiosity. In Zippy City every adventure is a high-speed race that helps the little ones to set out in life. The eye-catching animation series has very strong core educational values with problem solving and social and moral lessons. Vroomiz leads children to logical thinking naturally through fun , and helps preschoolers the values of friendship, and the importance of relying on each other through good times and bad, and to support each other as best friends would do.
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Aspiring fashion entrepreneurs fight for the chance to secure funds from a panel of expert investors.
TOP eXECUTIVE
ONE WORLD KITCHEN
THE YOUNG POPE (Drama – 10 X 60)
Chris Knight, President and CEO
Executives Attending
Hayat
Waiting For The Sun
Welcome To The Wild: Amazon
ITV Inter Medya
Kanal D
Keshet International
Ledafilms
Valikonagi Caddesi 26/3, Nisantasi, 34367 Istanbul, Turkey Tel.: (+90 212) 231 0102 Fax: +90 212 231 8929 Email: info@itv-intermedya.com Website: www.itv-intermedya.com Stand: C16.E
Dogan TV Center, 100. Yil Mahallesi 34204 Bagcilar, Istanbul, Turkey Tel.: +902124135666 Email: sales@kanald.com.tr Website: www.sales.kanald.com.tr Stand: P-1.G51
12 Raul Valenberg Street, P.O.B. 58151, 6158101 Tel Aviv, Israel Tel.: 972.3.7676031 Fax: +972.3.7676007 Email: info@keshetinternational.com Website: www.keshetinternational.com/ Booth: R8.C9
Virrey Olaguer y Feliu 2462, 3rd floor, Buenos Aires (C1426EBB),Argentina Tel.: +5411 4788 5215 Email: info@ledafilms.com Website: www.ledafilms.com Suite:
Executives Attending
Ezgi Ural, Sales Manager Europe&Asia Kerim Emrah Turna, Sales Manager Americas&Africa Selim Turkmen, Sales Alaa Elabasy, Sales
Ahmet Ziyalar, Managing Director
TOP eXECUTIVE
Executives Attending
Can Okan, President / CEO
TOP eXECUTIVE
Executives Attending
Keren Shahar, President, Distribution Kelly Wright, Head of Latin America Nelly Feld, Sales Director, Keshet International Rose Hughes, Senior Sales Manager Paula Cohen, Sales Manage Cherry Lu, Sales Manager Kelvin Ko, Sales Manager
Alon Shtruzman, CEO
(TBA Available in HD) On the one hand there is Murat, the handsome, cool, perfectionist young man who took over the responsibility of big company at an early age… On the other hand there is Hayat, a clumsy, irritable but joyful beautiful young girl who knows how to enjoy life… Two worlds and the indestructible bridge that will bring them together: Love.
ENDLESS LOVE
(Drama – 114 X 45’ S1 HD) Two separate worlds, both close and distant to each other, lie in a seaside neighborhood of Istanbul. What happens when two young people from these separate worlds fall in love? From a middle class family, Kemal is one of three children; his only aim in life is to make a living and survive. But his world turns upside down when Nihan comes into his monotonous life. From a wealthy family, Nihan lives in an affluent area of the neighborhood. However, she finds herself removed from the values of her environment and distant to her own world.
IN BETWEEN – FATIH HARBIYE (Drama - 126 X 45’ HD)
Neriman, who lost her mother as a little girl, is a young traditional woman who lives with her father Faiz and her aunt Gülter in the suburbs. Although she grew up in a modest environment, her dreams are very big. Şinasi who is known in the hood as the educated, decent young men, proclaims his love for Neriman at every chance he gets. The relationship between Şinasi and Neriman, who are expected to get married, starts to crack up after Şinasi’s sister, is forced into marriage in order “to cover up the indecency”.
Executives Attending
Alejandro Leda, President Moira Mc Namara, Sales Manager
TOP eXECUTIVE Pedro Félix Leda, CEO
TOP eXECUTIVE
Ozge Bulut Marasli, Executive Vice President - Strategy & Project Management
HAYAT
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MAX STEEL
(Action/Sci-Fi)
WAITING FOR THE SUN (Series - 54 X 92’HD)
Demet is a self-sacrificing woman who raised her daughter Zeynep by herself but everything starts changing with the closure of Demet’s shop. While dealing with financial difficulties, she receives a helping hand from her best friend Jale who offers Demet and Zeynep to move in to İstanbul.
FLAMES OF DESIRE
(Series - 20 X 130’ HD) Bayram and his only friend, his blood brother, Salih, to forget their dispute between each other, agree to engage their children Melek and Kerem at an early age, continuing to live in different cities until their children reach the age of marriage. When his young boy, Kerim, graduates from College, they go to the encounter of Salih who lives together with his two girls Hülya and Melek. Salih is also faithful to the promise he gave, and with the arrival of Bayram, they confirm the marriage of their children.
SWEET REVENGE
(Series - 24 X 140’ HD) Pelin, unlucky with her love life, finally decides to marry the man of her dreams. However, the groom, Tolga, gets lost and at her wedding day, Pelin has been left alone by the man she fell in love with. After all these bad memories , it is almost impossible for Pelin to live happily ever after, and she believes that it all happened due to someone she met at her past life.
WELCOME TO THE WILD: AMAZON (Adventure Reality – 22 X 75’)
The first season of ‘Welcome to the Wild’ which takes place in the Amazon sees 18 contestants enter the world’s largest and most extreme jungle, to undergo a cross river competition, each one determined to be the first to emerge from the other side as the winner. During this wild adventure, they will face a thrilling obstacle course along the banks of the mighty Amazon River. At each leg of the race, a challenge inspired by the ancient culture of a different hidden tribe reveals itself.
THE RESIDENTS
(Docu-Drama – 7 X 50’) Set in a high-pressure, large hospital, this critically-acclaimed docu-drama presents a unique, powerful insight into the complex day-to-day worlds of five talented surgeons. As they juggle their turbulent professional and personal lives behind the scenes, each new shift brings a fresh set of patients, surgeries and challenges for these dedicated residents.
MANBIRTH
(Entertainment – 12 X 60’) Offering soon-to-be fathers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go through the mental and physical challenges – and joys – their partner experiences during pregnancy, this warm-hearted, feel-good series is set to discover if dads have what it takes… to be mums!
When 16-year-old Max McGrath discovers his body can generate the universe’s most powerful energy, he must bond with the only being able to contain it: a mysterious techno-organic extraterrestrial named Steel. United as the superhero Max Steel, the two friends must combat an alien menace and unlock the secrets of their past.
MOTHER’S DAY (Comedy)
‘Mother’s Day’ is the latest star-studded ensemble comedy from director Garry Marshall (‘Pretty Woman,’ ‘Valentine’s Day’). Bringing together Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Julia Roberts along with Jason Sudeikis, it’s a celebration of mothers everywhere. This big-hearted comedy invites us all to enjoy the laughter, tears and love as three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother’s Day.
THE WHOLE TRUTH (Thriller)
A defense attorney Richard Ramsay (Keanu Reeves), works on a tough case to defend a seventeen-year old who is a murder suspect of his wealthy father. Ramsay enlists the help of a young lawyer Janelle, who determined to find out the truth about what happened that day.
THE FREE STATE OF JONES (Drama)
A true story set against the Civil War and Reconstruction. The story follows Newton Knight, a Southern unionist who fled the battlefield and rallied Confederate Army deserters to his so-called Knight Company against the Confederacy. Knight went on to marry the former slave of his grandfather and is still a divisive figure to this day.
Cold Zone
Unfortuity
Marvista Entertainment 10877 Wilshire Boulevard, 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90024 Tel.:1-424-274-3000 Fax: 1-424-274-3050 Email: info@marvista.net Website: www.marvista.net Stand: R9.A9
Executives Attending
Vanessa Shapiro, Executive Vice President, Distribution Robby Amar, Executive Director, Distribution Rod Rodrigo, Director, Distribution Andrew Whiteman, Director, Distribution
Heidi Bienvenida A Casa
MK DISTRIBUTION MK MEDIA GROUP Ukraine, 03680, Kiev, 86G Malevicha street, Office 404 Tel.: +38 067 236 55 73 Email: anna@mk-distribution.com Website: www.mk-distribution.com
Executives Attending
Artem Zapolskyi, Head of Sales Department Anna Verbovska, Acquisitions and Sales Manager (Latin America, Europe)
TOP eXECUTIVE
TOP eXECUTIVE
Kateryna Dmytriieva, CEO
Fernando Szew, CEO
Mondo TV Via Brenta, 11 - 00198, Rome, Italy Tel.: +36 0686323293 Fax: +39 06 86209836 Email: mondotv@mondotv.it Website: www.mondo-tv.com Stand: P-1.N1 / P-1.M2
Executives Attending
Orlando Corrad, President Paolo Zecca, Chief Production Officer Micheline Azoury, Head of TV Sales Alessandro Venturi,International Sales Manager Theo Kouroglou,International Sales Manager Maria B.Fois,GM of MONDO TV Iberoamerica Dimitri Papanikas,Sales Executive of MONDO TV Iberoamerica Valentina La Macchia,Director of Consumer Products Roberta Puppo,Marketing Manager Susanna MasinI, Product Manager
TOP eXECUTIVE
UNFORTUITY COLD ZONE
(Disaster – 1 X 90’) While vacationing in Alaska with his family, scientist Roger Summers teams with a retired environmentalist to save the world from an impending flash-freezing storm
SUMMER VILLA
(Romance – 1 X 90’) Terry, a bestselling romance novelist battling writer’s block, travels to France to spend a productive summer at her editor’s beautiful villa. But she’s shocked to find Matthew, her editor’s famous chef brother, already there. Forced to spend the summer living together, the two unexpectedly reignite each other’s passions while finding love in the process.
KILLER APP
(Thriller – 1 X 90’) When users of her app start mysteriously dying and she’s the police’s top suspect, Jesse must hack into the code to find the real culprit.
ONE OF US
(Thriller – 1 X 90’)
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Investigative journalist Melanie Roberts has just infiltrated a cult in the mountains of Idyllwild, California, hoping to expose the charismatic leader Brent and save the girls kept under his thrall. But the deeper Melanie digs, the less certain she becomes that she’s still in control… and soon finds her health, sanity and life in grave danger.
(Docudrama – 13 X 26’) Even our smallest decisions can affect our whole life considerably and turn the existing reality upside down. ‘UnFortuity’ is dedicated to the most valuable discoveries at the world history, intriguing stories concerning the happenings changed the world for better. The main idea of creators was to show the correlation between the cause and the effect, as well as to replay the chain of occasions and finally as a result to see their outcomes.
TERRA BYTE
(Animation – 13 X 11’ S1) 2D cartoon ‘TerraByte’ is an answer to possible question of children “how the Internet works and who runs it”. It’s for sure a unique concept and a unique world that you have never seen before. The target audience is children 4-8 years old. The cartoon is about a planet TerraByte, which is an embodiment of the Internet that we use every day. Across the main entertaining line we show to children how to use Internet in a very simple and funny way. The cartoon ‘TerraByte’ is full of adventures, investigations, emotions and entertaining learning.
TASTY MORNING
(Entertainment – 150 X 3’) Morning...Sleepy or cheerful..Waking up early or with “Oh no! I overslept”. Morning is the first step into successful day! For sure all we need the ‘Tasty Morning’. We prepared 150 recipes from all over the world to make the it delicious, cozy and diverse. French, Ukrainian, English, Spanish, Korean, Moroccan, Indian, Mexican, Brazilian, Arabic cuisine and much more. Taste it!
Taken
Matteo Corradi, CEO
HEIDI BIENVENIDA A CASA
CASA (Live Series - 60 X 45’ Full HD) ‘Heidi, Bienvenida a casa’ is based on an original idea by the legendary Argentinian writer and producer Marcela Citterio, whose vast portfolio of hits includes a number of international success stories such as ‘Yo Soy Franky’, ‘Chica Vampiro’ and ‘Patito Feo’. This new 60x45’ series reinterprets the worldwide well – known classic Johanna Spyri novel from 1880 with a modern touch and it is featured with comedy and music. We rediscover the story we all know about and the universal values that drove the success of Heidi classic - kindness and freedom. The charming and friendly girl who moves from her rural home to the unfamiliar and confusing environment of the big city has now a difference: Heidi’s daily life, friendships and adventures take place in the modern world.
SISSI THE YOUNG EMPRESS (52 X 26’ Full HD)
Sissi, the charming young Empress of Austria, is one of the historical figures that most struck the public imagination. Elizabeth, by all called Sissi, lives happily in the charming Possi castle in Bavaria. she loves her family, as well as all animals and is a free and rebellious spirit. It all starts on the day that her sister Nene is convened by the Emperor’s mother, to become the bride of his son Franz, but instead Franz falls in love at first sight with Sissi. And so begins the most romantic love story of all times.
NBCUNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, CA 91608 Tel.: +1 818 777 1300 Website: www.nbcuniversal.com Stand: P4:C4 and P4:C14
Executives Attending
Belinda Menendez, President
TOP eXECUTIVE Kevin MacLellan, Chairman
TAKEN
(Drama – 10 X 60’) From executive producer Luc Besson (‘Taken’, ‘The Fifth Element’) comes a new modern-day, edge-of-your-seat thriller that follows the origin of younger, hungrier former Green Beret Bryan Mills (Clive Standen, ‘Vikings’) as he deals with a personal tragedy that shakes his world. As he fights to overcome the incident and exact revenge, Mills is pulled into a career as a deadly CIA operative, a job that awakens his very particular – and very dangerous – set of skills. In thirty years, this character will become the Bryan Mills that we’ve come to love from the ‘Taken’ films.
CHICAGO JUSTICE (Drama – 13 X 60’)
Powerhouse creator Dick Wolf delivers a captivating new installment to the hit ‘Chicago’ franchise. Just like their brethren in the ‘Chicago P.D.’, the State’s Attorney’s dedicated team of prosecutors and investigators navigates heated city politics and controversy headon, while fearlessly pursuing justice. As they take on the city’s high-stakes and often media-frenzied cases, they must balance public opinion, power struggles within the system, and their unwavering passion for the law.
JAMESTOWN
(Drama – 8 X 60’) ‘Jamestown’ is a gripping historical drama in the vein of Deadwood. This is the story of a group of English women who travel to Jamestown Colony, Britain’s first settlement in 17th century North America. They come with one purpose – to marry the men they’ve never met. ‘Jamestown’ is an emotional and brutal drama set against the hardships, chaos, highs and lows of establishing a new community in the Americas.
Burning Questions!
The Stream
Giants Of The Atlantic - Azores
Ruled By Love (Working Title)
Nippon TV
Nordic World
ORF-ENTERPRISE
RCN Televisión
1-6-1, Higashi - Shimabashi, Minato-Ku, 1057444, Tokyo Tel.: (81) 362153036 Fax: (81) 362153037 Website: www.ntv.co.jp/english Stand: R7.K5.
Tel.: +1 646 403 2496 Email: post@nordicworld.tv Website: www.nordicworld.tv Booth: R7.E58
Europlaza/ Am Europlatz 1, 1120 Vienna Tel.: +43 1 87878 13030 Fax: +43 1 87878 12757 Email: contentsales@orf.at Website: contentsales.ORF.at Stand: P-1.L1
Ave. Americas # 65 – 82 Tel.: (57)1 4269292 Website: www.rcnventasinternacionales.com Booth: P1 – F26
Executives Attending
Atsushi Hatayama, President, International Business Development Sue Fujimoto, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, International Business Development Shigeko Cindy Chino, Senior Director, International Business Development Taro Ozawa, Senior Director, International Business Development Fusako Nagashima, Sales and Licensing, International Business Development Yukiko Katie Nakano, Sales and Licensing, International Business Development Sayoko Iwasaki, Sales and Licensing, International Business Development
TOP eXECUTIVE
Kimio Maruyama, Senior Executive Operating Officer
BURNING QUESTIONS! (Format - 60’)
Nippon TV’s format, ‘Burning Questions!’, is the ultimate true or false quiz show where there’s no shortage of intriguing, bizarre, and sometimes risqué questions to. It’s all about good fun and new discoveries for players and viewers alike in this studio game show where celebrity contestants battle it out to see who can rack up the highest number of points. The player who does so gets a shot at winning a fabulous prize.
THE CHARACTER (Format - 60’)
In the new format 2D characters are the ultimate manifestation of their creators’ dreams and imaginations. Nippon TV’s futuristic hit show ‘The Character’ gives anime-aficionado celebrities the opportunity to develop characters that will spread love and joy to the world for ages to come. Combining their fresh ideas and passion with cutting-edge Japanimation technology, these anime gurus bring to life two-dimensional characters that they nurture from concept to creation.
Executives Attending
Ann Christin Siljan, VP Acquisition Paulina Eklund, VP Sales Simone de Pruyssenaere de la Woestijne, Associated Sales Agent Jan Salling, Associated Sales Agent
TOP eXECUTIVE Espen Huseby, CEO
Executives Attending
Marion Camus-Oberdorfer, Head of Content Sales International Armin Luttenberger, MA. Sales Director TV Johannes Stanek, Mag. Sales Manager TV Monika Kossits, Mag. Sales Manager TV Alexandra Hopf, Mag. Sales Manager TV Franka Giesemann, Mag. Sales Manager Home Entertainment/ New Media
Executives Attending
Cristina Palacio, Creative and product VP Maria del Rosario Iregui, VP of Strategic Business Ricardo Cruz, Acquisitions Director Maria Lucia Hernandez, International sales Director Lina Maria Waked E, International sales executive Carolina Lozano, International sales executive
TOP eXECUTIVE
TOP eXECUTIVE
Gabiel Reyes Copello, President
Beatrice Cox-Riesenfelder, MBA: Managing Director
THE STREAM (18 X 90’)
‘The Stream‘ is a brand new music competition reflecting today’s way of discovering new talent. Artists like Justin Bieber and Adele both started their career online, before signing with a record company! ‘The Stream’ gives ordinary people and new talent a chance to be discovered in the exact same way - through the Internet and social media. Audition from the comfort of your home, upload video to ‘The Stream’ website and watch the public stream and share your video. The winner of ‘The Stream’ is the most streamed artist - discovered and chosen by the public. In a new era that demands new stars, ‘The Stream’ takes talent shows to the next level and speaks the language of our generation.
CASH OUT In ‘Cash Out’ we meet ordinary people with big dreams. And with the help of a team of experts; on management, motivation, startups and economy, we create that perfect moment. To make even the biggest dreams come true; if you are willing to go all in. Our experts go through the contestant assets, challenges and finances, and when they have a full overview, we ask the big question: Are you willing to sell all your belongings to realize your dream?
GIANTS OF THE ATLANTIC - AZORES
(Documentary / Nature & Wildlife - 1 X 52’) It’s a gigantic underwater mountain range, rising in mid-Atlantic. Only a few peaks near the surface, or reach still higher to build nine green gems, the islands of the Azores. These volcanic rocks, the only toehold between Europe and America, are of extraordinary beauty. The steep shelf of the Azores is playground and mating ground for several kinds of whale.
GARDENCULT
(Factual, Leisrue & Lifestyle – 10 X 25’) ‘GardenCult’ takes the viewers by the hand and with a moving camera and picturesque image compositions leads them through the idyllic TV-garden. In ten episodes, ten different gardens will grow in front of the viewer’s eyes.
SUBURBIA – WOMEN ON THE EDGE (Series – 20 X 48’)
Five women, whose biggest challenge so far has been surviving their daily hour-long luxus shopping tours burning up their husband’s credit cards, are taken by complete surprise when suddenly one of them is divorced by her husband and thrown out of the house. Instantly the remaining BFFs realize that the same could happen to them – and their survival instinct awakens. Sensational Market Shares: 36 % 12–49 years!
RULED BY LOVE (WORKING TITLE) (Series – 123 x 60’)
‘Ruled By Love’ is a story which takes place in a successful family law firm with lawyers who are experts in family law, experienced in separations, divorces, couple´s conflicts and family problems in general. This group of lawyers will face in their personal lives similar situations than those of their clients, which will make them confront their own feelings.
GALY GALIANO´S STORY (Series – 100 X 60’)
The story of Carmelo, a humble and unattractive man who became famous by accident. His main objective was find love with the woman of his dreams, but ended up catching the attention of many women with his romantic music, making the difference on the music trends of the time. Inspired by love, Carmelo aka Galy, created a music band named “Los Diamantes del Cesar” with whom he lives the most funny and comic adventures. As he became famous, he starts traveling abroad and it is in his artistic tour in Mexico, Los Angeles and different parts of the world where he will meet the mother of his daughters, and will start having again new struggles in life to survive the fame, the groupies and all the ups and downs on the music market.
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The Promised Land
Mata Hari
Record TV Network
Red Arrow International RTVE
Rua da Várzea, 240 - Barra Funda, São Paulo-SP, Brasil. CEP: 01140-080. Tel: +55 11 3300-4022 Email: emendes@sp.rederecord.com.br Website: www.recordtvnetwork.com Stand: P-1.G22
Medienallee 7, 85774 Unterfoehring, Germany Tel.: +49 89 9507 2320 Website: www.redarrowinternational.tv Email: info@redarrowinternational Stand: P4.C10
Executives Attending
Edson Pfutzenreiter Mendes, International Sales Manager
TOP eXECUTIVE
Executives Attending
Bo Stehmeier, SVP Global Sales Amelie von Kienlin, SVP Scripted Acquisitions and Coproductions Harry Gamsu, VP Format Acquisitions & Sales
TOP eXECUTIVE
Delmar Andrade, International Sales Director
THE PROMISED LAND
(Soap Opera - 130 X 50’) After Moses’ death, Joshua is the new leader of the Hebrews. He is an experienced warrior, gifted with courage, determination and a powerful faith. But it is no easy task to lead the people to its new destination. With his closest and trusted allies, Joshua must fulfill a difficult mission ordered by God: to command the twelve tribes of Israel in their conquest of Canaan, the promised land.
THE SLAVE MOTHER
(Soap Opera – 15 X 60’) Some stories are so striking they span generations. Such is the case of ‘The Slave Isaura’. The life story of the light-skinned slave girl who was obsessively pursued by Mr. Leôncio, won the world through page and screen. But every story has a beginning, and none of her story would have come about without the characters and plot of ‘The Slave Mother’.
MOSES AND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Soap Opera – 240 X 60’)
An epic soap opera that retells one of the most famous parts of the Bible: the story of Moses, from his birth to the arrival of his people in the Promise Land, through the Red Sea crossing and the encounter with God on Mount Sinai.
Victor Ros
Avda. Radiotelevisión, 4- 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain Tel.: + 34.91.581.77.44 Email: rafael.bardem@rtve.es Website: www.rtve.es/commercial/ Booth: Riviera Hall R7-L15
Executives Attending
Raúl Molina Uruñuela, International Sales & Business Development Manager Antonio Pérez Bonilla, International Sales & Business Development Manager
SECUOYA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION Crta. Fuencarral-Alcobendas km 3,8 Edif.3 Centro Empresarial Arbea, 28108, Alcobendas, Madrid Tel.: +34913717569 Email: sales@secuoyadistribution.com Website: www.secuoyadistribution.com Stand: R7J11
Executives Attending
Vanessa Palacios, Content Manager Ana Estévez, Sales Manager
TOP eXECUTIVE
Henrik Pabst, Managing Director
TOP eXECUTIVE
Rafael Bardem, Head of Programmes & Licensing Sales
José Miguel Barrera, Head of International
MATA HARI
(Scripted Series / Drama – 12 X 60’) ‘Mata Hari’ is an epic new drama that charts the extraordinary life of exotic dancer, courtesan and infamous spy Mata Hari. To her audiences, Mata Hari was the notorious performer and dancer. To her wealthy lovers she was the charming yet mysterious seductress. To both the German and French Intelligence Services she was an invaluable and trustworthy informant who was exposed as a double agent. But few saw Margaret Zelle, the real woman behind the legend of Mata Hari.
LOOK ME IN THE EYE (Reality Format)
Research shows that eye contact has a powerful physical and emotional effect on how we connect with other people. ‘Look Me In The Eye’ is the bold and compelling new social experiment that puts the power of eye contact to the test, by attempting to reunite divided friends and families. Millions of people worldwide are estranged from their loved ones. After years of silence, simply saying sorry may never be enough to heal old wounds and repair a broken relationship.
THE ROMEO SECTION: ASSASSINS (Scripted Series / Thriller - 10 X 60’)
THE MIRACLES OF JESUS
A stylish, dangerous, and high-stakes thriller from acclaimed showrunner Chris Haddock.
‘The Miracles of Jesus’ is a series based on Bible stories. Every week are narrated the difficulties faced by those before obtaining the blessings of Jesus. Each chapter seeks to transmit teachings of love, hope, courage and perseverance of people who had faith and, therefore, conquered the miracles of jesus.
MOTIVE TO MURDER
(Series - 35 X 50’)
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The Sonata Of Silence
(Factual / Crime - 78 X 30’) A fascinating, fast-paced and forensic look into some of the real-life murder cases that have made the headlines around the world: from crimes of passion and opportunistic slayings, to motiveless murders and acts of terrorism.
THE SONATA OF SILENCE (Fiction Series - 9 X 70’)
VICTOR ROS
Sentimental thriller set in the Spanish society of the late 1940’s seen through the eyes of Marta Ribas; a woman who is ready to throw off the yoke of sexist prejudice that grips her and determined to take control of her life at all costs.
After the resolution of the major case of his career, inspector Victor Ros is required to investigate the theft of the gold reserves of the Bank of Spain.
THE DEPARTMENT OF TIME
(Docureality – 12 X 60’)
(Fiction Series – 21 x 70’)
Fictional TVE production within fantasy and adventure genre which travels back in time to a specific period in history in each episode. Different journeys back in time undertaken by a special patrol unit at The Department of Time, which has a key mission: to prevent the past from changing.
VÍCTOR ROS
(Fiction Series – 14 x 70’) Víctor Ros is a brilliant police detective of the late 19th century who must tackle the most mysterious crimes of the city of Madrid. He believes that traditional police-work methods must give way to psychology, forensic medicine, fingerprint research and all of the new developments that the new century is on the verge of unveiling.
(Fiction / Series – 8 X 70’)
LA VEGA
It addresses the worrisome phenomenon of young people who don’t want to study or work. The show subjects them to an unprecedented experience where people work the hardest: “La Vega”.
CHE, THE SURVIVORS
(Drama / Series – 10 X 50’) This ambitious and exciting television series project tells how the Che Guevara guerrilla survivors escaped in Bolivia after his death. A real thriller based in the survivor’s testimonies.
AIM TO FAME
(Talent Show – 10 X 70’) This is an innovative and global talent contest which is opened to participants from all around the world through social media.
SIX SISTERS
CLUMSY CHEF
(Daily Series)
(Cooking – 20 X 30’)
Madrid, 1913. The six Silva sisters are the life of Madrid’s high society parties. Beautiful, polite, elegant, friendly, and refined, the six sisters enjoy an unfettered existence, until their widowed father suffers a serious accident forcing them to come to terms with a new reality: the family business is in crisis and the only possible salvation depends on them.
Who is the worst chef you have ever known? The protagonist in this docu-show is much worse! He is a total clumsy, but he is eager to learn from his famous guests…
Super Combat Teams
Alchemy For Ana
SMALL WORLD INTERNATIONAL FORMAT TELEVISION 19 Heddon Street, London, W1B 4BG, UK Tel.: +44 (0) 207 851 6500 Tel.: +1 661 254 3535 Website: www.smallworldift.com Stand: Stand C15.A6
Executives Attending
Cup Of Love
Smilehood Media
Snap TV
Sony Pictures Television
Francisco Acuña de Figueroa 1551, C1180AAF, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: +54 11 52359500 Email: sales@smilehood.com Website: www.smilehood.com Stand: P-1.C1
Zapata 286, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: +54 11 4775 7145 Email: info@snaptv.tv Website: www.snaptv.tv Booth: R9-A9
10202 West Washington Boulevard, Culver City, CA 90232, USA Tel.: +1 (310) 244-4000 Fax: +1 (310¬) 244-1874 Website: www.sonypicturestelevision.com
Executives Attending
Executives Attending
Executives Attending
Lucas D´Amato and Agustín Fabregues, Sales executives
Colleen Crescenti, Managing Director Tara Gaule, VP of Format Sales & Development Henny Adolfsdottir, Sales Executive Frank Sutera, Production Advisor
ALCHEMY FOR ANA
(Romantic comedy – 30 X 26’)
In ‘Super Combat Teams’, competitors, comprising a diverse range of world champions and record holders, compete in the most thrilling challenges and stunts to prove themselves the best! Each episode features five spectacular challenges, such as ‘Fly Over Cars’, ‘Cross Fires’ and ‘Beat Gravity’. ‘Super Combat Teams’ is the first stunt battle format to invite its audience to be part of the show – with viewers at home guessing the result of each challenge in real time via an interactive platform, with cash prizes up for grabs to those that predict the correct winners.
Ana lives in harmony or at least that’s what she thinks. Funny, single and without children, she lives without regrets. She is more than satisfied with her job, loves what she does and enjoys it. She loves singing at the bar surrounded by people and even though she feels happy, she knows she hasn’t reached the top of her career yet. Something unexpected happened that will turn Ana’s life upside down. She is given the most devastating news: Sol, her best friend, has died. From that moment, Ana’s life does a 180° degree turn. Sol, in an extraordinary act of love, names Ana the guardian of her most precious thing: her children. This sudden turn of events will take Ana on a challenging and never imagined journey.
GOT WHAT IT TAKES
COOKING AT THE SUPERMARKET
(Reality)
(Reality / Game Show)
A musical reality talent show celebrating the extraordinary talents of teenage stars as well as the dramatic reality of the mothers behind them. The kids are separated from their obsessive mothers and mentored by a professional vocal coach whilst their parents undertake challenges with the other mothers. Will family or reality prevail?
‘Cooking at the Supermarket’ is a game show format that follows the cooking program trend that nowadays catches the public around the world, but also offers the singularity of being settled within a supermarket as a distinctive feature. Currently the format is present at Discovery Home & Health with great success all over LATAM. Another distinguishing feature is that has the possibility of being sponsored by a supermarket chain. This program was chosen at MIP TV by media magazines as one of the most creative formats in the market.
COME TO BED (Reality)
Ariel Tobi, President
Zack Van Amburg, President, Sony Pictures Television Jamie Erlicht, President, Sony Pictures Television Andrea Wong, President, International Production Andy Kaplan, President, Worldwide Networks Alexander Marin, Executive Vice President, International Distribution Angelica Guerra, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Production, Latin America and US Hispanic
TOP eXECUTIVE
CUP OF LOVE
(Romantic Comedy – 1 X 90’) ‘Cup of Love’, starring Anna Hutchison (‘The Cabin in the Woods’), Nicolas Rincon (‘Sin tetas no hay paraíso’) and Julian Arango (‘Metástasis’, ‘Yo soy Betty, la fea’), tells the story of a lonely and love-weary food scientist, Zoe Walker (Hutchison), who visits Colombia on a business trip. While there, a chance encounter with coffee plantation owner Diego Fernando (Rincon) reignites her passion for life and love.
JESSICA DARLING’S IT LIST (Family / Kids – 1 X 90’)
Premiere Disney Channel Latam / ‘Jessica Darling’ – a smart, witty, opinionated girl heading into 7th grade – was never too concerned about where she’d fit in the middle school hierarchy. But before her first day of school, her older sister — the super popular Bethany, now in college—decides to help out by giving her the “It List”—a cheat sheet on how to navigate the middle school maze and rise to the top of the popularity chain. The instructions appear simple enough to follow, but, like life, nothing is as easy as it seems.
ASIAN CONNECTION (Action – 1 X 90’)
Starring: Steven Seagal. Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord’s money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang’s vengeance. When Sam is killed, Jack turns to the love of his life, Pom, and the couple becomes a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde that takes the fight to the gang.
Keith Le Goy, President, International Distribution
BLUE DEMON
(Series - 65 x 60’) The fictionalized life story of Mexican wrestler “Blue Demon.”
NOTORIOUS
(Drama – 13 X 60’) ‘Notorious’ follows the professional and personal relationship between a charismatic attorney and a powerhouse television producer as they attempt to control the media, the justice system, and ultimately, each other.
TIMELESS
(Drama – 13 X 60’) ‘Timeless’ follows a group of unlikely heroes thrust into the adventure of their lives. Chasing a mysterious group of criminals through time and encountering some of the most seminal moments in history, the group attempts to thwart a dark conspiracy that is a threat to all of humanity.
BLACKLIST: THE REDEMPTION (Drama – 13 X 60’)
‘The Blacklist: Redemption’ follows undercover operative Tom Keen who has been recruited into Grey Matters, a secret and lucrative private military organization that executes the impossible assignments that governments and corporations must otherwise disavow. Grey Matters is headed by mysterious leader Susan “Scottie” Hargrave.
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‘Come To Bed’ is an observational, mostly fixed-rig format which follows five unique couples/families during their bedtime, before the lights go out. We see nothing else of their lives but through witnessing the moments in bed can see the highs and lows of each couple. From heartfelt conversations to intense fights to moments of joy and tenderness, the “we see” element is fascinating since we are all voyeurs.
TOP eXECUTIVE
Silvana D’Angelo, Director
Tim Crescenti, President
(Game Show)
Ezequiel Olzanski, Director of International Sales & Distribution
TOP eXECUTIVE
TOP eXECUTIVE
SUPER COMBAT TEAMS
Blue Demon
Matter Of Respect
Mata Hari
Midnight Sun
Somos Distribution
Star Media
Starz
Studiocanal
2601 s. Bayshore Dr. Ste, 1250, Coconut Grove, Fl 3313 Tel.: +1-786-220-04-40 Email: fvillanueva@somosdistribution.net Website: www.somosdistribution.net Stand:
Russia, 31, bld.1, Nizhnie Polya str., 109 382, Moscow Tel.:+7(499) 356 54 00 Email: office@starmediafilm.com Website: starmediafilm.com Stand: R8.A4
Eagle House, 50 Marshall Street, London, W1F 9BQ Tel.: +44 20 7534 2700 Email: sales@studiocanaltv.com Website: www.studiocanaltvseries.com Booth: P1.A.1
Executives Attending
Executives Attending
9242 Beverly Blvd, Suite 200, Beverly Hills, CA 90210 Tel.: 424-204-4102 Website: www.starzglobal.com Email: starzworldwide@starz.com digitalinfo@starz.com Stand: R9.A32
Executives Attending
Katrina Neylon, EVP Sales & Marketing
Francisco Villanueva, Vice President & COO, Vice Presidente y COO Mariana Villanueva, Sales Manager, Gerente de Ventas Luis Guillermo Villanueva , COO Jose Antonio Espinal, Vicepresidente & COO, Vice Presidente y COO
Maria Grechishnikova, VP, Sales, Coproductions & Formats Nadia Rekhter, Head of International Projects Department William J Peck, International Sales Consultant Star Media
TOP eXECUTIVE
TOP eXECUTIVE
Vlad Ryashin, CEO
Luis Villanueva, President and CEO
MATTER OF RESPECT
(Turkish Drama – 76 X 45’) A family moves to Istanbul, including two brothers who are very different personality wise. Both bump into the same woman and into a family tragedy.
SUNSHINE GIRL
(Turkish Drama – 117 X 45’) Güneş, is a 35-year-old woman with three daughters, who are opposite characters of each other. One day a businessman from İstanbul named Haluk Mertoğlu’s bumps into Güneş. Each daughter has a different reaction to the relationship her mom has with Haluk. The life of Mertoğlu family is not as perfect as it seems. When both families meet, all the secrets will come to light and nothing will be the same.
HASTA QUE TE CONOCI (Series – 15 X 60’)
This series will trace the life of Alberto Aguilero Valadez also known as Juan Gabriel. It narrates the singer’s pursuit of fame and success.
RECIPE FOR LIFE
(Polish Telenovela – 65 X 45’)
174/TTV MAGAZINE
My Summer Prince
Inspiring story of a woman who tries to find new proportions of dreams, passions and freedoms in her life. She adds ingredients according to her own taste. Following her culinary passion, she learns how to alter her own existence.
Alisha Engelgau, Vice President, Worldwide Distribution Alecia Dixon-Kurschner, Vice President, Domestic Distribution Meggan Kimberley, Sales Executive Todd Bartoo, Senior Manager, Sales & Acquisitions Kirsten Stanisz-Bedno, Senior Manager, Marketing Michael Messina, VP, Digital Distribution
TOP eXECUTIVE
Gene George, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Distribution
MATA HARI
(Historical Drama – 12 eps) Margaret McLeod is penniless and out on the streets after her husband leaves her and gains custody of her only daughter. With no other means of making a living, she decides to become an exotic dancer. Under the stage name of Mata Hari, Margaret soon wins fame and notoriety, becoming extremely popular with the European elite. She becomes a regular guest of luxury villas and magnificent mansions, her every performance creating a real sensation. But the year is 1913 and the world is on the verge of a war that will change the entire course of history. Mata Hari cannot even imagine what fateful role she is to play in these coming events...
ORIENTAL SWEETS
(Melodrama – 24 eps) After ten years of marriage, Tatiana’s family life (Yevgeniya Loza) has fallen far short of the expectations that she had on her wedding day. Igor (Yakov Kucherevsky), who seemed to have so much promise, turned out to be mean and miserly, and their attempts to have children have come to nothing. Still with hopes of parenthood, the couple decide to go to Istanbul for a consultation with a world-famous fertility specialist, Dr. Kemal (Adnan Koç). After only a few weeks, Tatiana finally sees two long-expected lines on the pregnancy test strip. However, she soon realizes that the father of her future baby is not her husband.
Executives Attending
TOP eXECUTIVE
Katrina Neylon, EVP Sales & Marketing
MIDNIGHT SUN
(Crime Series – 8 x 60’) A French police officer travels to remote northern Sweden to investigate brutal serial murders concealing a secret conspiracy. From creators Märlind & Stein.
HARLAN COBEN’S THE FIVE MY SUMMER PRINCE
(Romance / Comedy – 1X 90’) Mandy Cooper, assistant to PR legend Deidre Kelley, would like more responsibility in her job but has never gotten the chance to prove herself. Deidre and Mandy fly to small town Greenbriar, Idaho to do damage control for the handsome, but immature Prince Colin of Edgemere, but Deidre comes down with chicken pox. When Mandy is asked to help handle the situation, she decides to go one step further and actually pretends to be her own boss! With Mandy impersonating Deidre in a lie she can’t seem to get out of, she unexpectedly finds herself falling in love with Prince Colin… and he for her. What happens when he finds out the truth? And what will happen to Mandy when Deidre realizes what she’s done?
ASH VS EVIL DEAD
(Horror / Comedy – 10 X 30’ S2) ‘Ash vs Evil Dead’ Season Two has Ash, Ruby, Kelly, and Pablo returning to Ash’s hometown of Elk Grove, Michigan for a chilly homecoming. Ruby, an enemy in Season One, proves to be a valuable ally against new forms of evil when Ash and the team come up against diabolical creatures while devising a plan to save his town and the world from hell on Earth.
(Thriller Series – 10 X 60’)
Original thriller series by Harlan Coben, ninetime #1 NY Times bestselling author. Four friends are united by a terrible childhood event. Screenplay by Danny Brocklehurst.
SECTION ZÉRO
(Drama Series – 8 X 60’) A dark, edgy and violent political, sci-fi thriller from César-nominated writer and director, Olivier Marchal (Braquo) and starring Pascal Greggory and Ola Rapace.
The Next Boy/Girl Band
Love After Love
Bad Moms
Rich In Love
Talpa GLOBAL
Telefe
Telefilms
Media Park, Matrix Building, Familie de Mollaan 1, 1217 GP Hilversum, The Netherlands Tel.: +31 35 533 3111 Email: sales@talpa.tv Website: www.talpa.tv Booth: C16.B
Prilidiano Pueyrredón 2989, 2nd floor (B1640ILA) Martinez, Buenos Aires, Argentina Tel.: (5411) 4102-5994 Fax: (5411) 4587-4349 Email: sales@telefeinternational.com.ar Website: www.telefe.com.ar Booth: R9.A20
Carlos Pellegrini 1427, Piso 7. Buenos Aires. Argentina. Tel.: +33 4 92 99 8284 Email: telefilms@telefilms.com.ar Website: www.telefilms.com.ar Stand: P-1.C 2 Hall/Level: Palais -1
Executives Attending
Gepke Nederlof, Head of Global Licensing
TOP eXECUTIVE Maarten Meijs, Managing Director
Executives Attending
Daniel Otaola, Content Distribution Manager Guillermo Borensztein, VP of Coproductions & New Business Development Maria del Rosario Cosentino , International Business Executive Diana Coifman, International Business Senior Executive Diana Coifman, International Business Executive Meca Salado Pizarro, Head of Marketing
(Talent – 8 X 90’)
FIVE GOLD RINGS
(Game Show – 8 X 25’) ‘Five Gold Rings’ is a connected game show in which two couples battle in a unique visual knowledge test. A huge interactive LED floor projects amazing animated pictures that are the base of each question. Playing five levels, the prize money rises each level. But the rings become smaller as well, making it more challenging! A wrong answer means losing a ring...Which couple will put their five gold rings in the right spot? Five rings, five levels... what could possibly go wrong?
STORY OF MY LIFE (Factual – 6 X 45’)
TOP eXECUTIVE Tomás Darcyl, President
Tomas Yankelevich, International Business Director
LOVE AFTER LOVE
(Romantic Thriller – 70 X 60’) In 2017 Telefe will premiere ‘Love After Love’, a story of love and pain in two times, starring Mariano Martínez, Isabel Macedo, Eleonora Wexler and Federico Amador. In ‘Love After Love’, the friendship between two married couples turns to be the prelude to a forbidden love. The secret love between the lovers in the past will be mixed with the heartbreak of those cheated on in the present. EDUCATING NINA (Comedy – 120 X 60’) ‘Educating Nina’, the new comedy produced by Telefe and Underground, starring Griselda Siciliani (Nina and Mara) and an important cast, had a successful premiere in Telefe prime time, in Argentina, on April 11th. Since then, it has kept a 40% of TV home share, becoming the undisputed leader in its time-slot. (Source: Ibope) ‘Educating Nina’ is the story of twin sisters who are separated at birth. They lead very different lives, and they ignore the existence of the other. Their lives radically change when Nina is forced to live her sister’s life.
2555 Ponce de Leon Blvd., 4th Floor Coral Gables FL 33134, USA Tel.: (786) 394-1210 Fax: (305) 774-7372 Email: Olimpia.DelBoccio@nbcuni.com Website: www.telemundointernacional.tv Stand: P4.C14
Executives Attending
Xavier Aristimuño, SVP of International Business Development & Digital Media Esperanza SVP of Sales & Acquisitions, Latin America Melissa Pillow, VP of Sales, Europe Olimpia Del Boccio, VP of Marketing, Press & Promotions Yari Torres, Sales Planner, Asia Elena Aguirre, Sales Planner, Europe
TOP eXECUTIVE Marcos Santana, President
BAD MOMS
(Comedy – 1 X 100’) When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.
¿QUÉ CULPA TIENE EL NIÑO? (Comedy Romance – 1 x 105’)
Maru, after becoming pregnant from a drunken one night stand with an immature young unemployed bachelor, is determined to follow tradition and marry him anyways.
LION
(Drama – 129’) A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
HAWCKSAW RIDGE
(Biography, Drama, History– 131’) WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
RICH IN LOVE
(Telenovela – 121 X 60’ HD) Silvana “Chivis” Rivapalacios de Villaseñor is the mother of three young girls and the wife of one of the most influential businessmen in the city. His bad business decisions and shady practices have left him in ruins, and he in turn has disappeared without announcement, leaving his family homeless. This is why Chivis, her mother and her three daughters have to rebuild their lives in a middle-class neighborhood where they will, for the first time, learn what it really means to work to survive. They’ll also learn how to enjoy life with all its good and bad.
THE ACERO DYNASTY
(Series – 80 X 60’ S3 HD) The beautiful and tough tempered Vicenta Rigores is one of the most respected and feared “coyotes” of the border between Mexico and the United States. While U.S. officials have a warrant for her arrest, the other coyotes competing against her for business want her dead. One Homeland Security official in particular is following her path very closely. His name is Daniel Roberts. This honest, noble and rigorous man has one thing is common with the notorious coyote who risks her life daily to guard the individuals she helps across; he too defends his territory and fulfills his duty to those he protects.
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‘The Story of my Life’ is a talk show with a twist…because celebrity couples get a sneak preview of how they’ll look at two different stages of their future! In 25 years… in 50 years… and maybe even older than that! How will they react to seeing their loved one age? And what do they think when they see the ‘old’ version of themselves in the mirror? Paired with some risky, deep, and emotional questions, the transformation of a lifetime is sure to touch hearts like never before.
Ricardo Costianovsky, CEO Alfredo Andreotti, Sales Manager Humberto Delmas, Sales Manager Alejandro Carballo, Sales Manager Nicolas Zumaglini, Adquisiciones
TOP eXECUTIVE
THE NEXT BOY/GIRL BAND In this brand-new format, two top record labels will take each other on to create the next boy/girl band that fans will go crazy for. Starting off with the looks and moves, the contestants must have what it takes to be part of the next pop phenomenon. If they’ve got the looks and the moves, the next challenge begins... can they sing? Because you’ll need the full package to secure your spot! The record labels keep looking for the biggest talent until the very last moment... the contestants are never safe! From looks and moves to singing talent, the contestants need to nail it all in order to make it to the final. Who will make the cut? The Boys… or the girls?
Executives Attending
Telemundo Internacional
The Three Sides Of Ana
Food’s Greatest Hits
Resurrection ‘Ertugrul’
Televisa Internacional
TRICON FILMS & TELEVISION
Av. Vasco de Quiroga 2000, Col. Santa Fe, México DF, 01210 Tel.: +1 (786) 265 2500 Website: www.televisainternacional.tv Booth: R9.A2
786 King St West, Toronto, ON Canada, M5V 1N6 Tel.:(310) 450-0101 Fax:(416) 341 - 0173 Website: www.triconfilms.com Email: info@triconfilms.com Stand: R7.J7
Executives Attending
Carlos Castro, General Sales Director Ricardo Ehrsam, General Director of Entertainment Formats of Televisa Internacional Claudia Sahab, Director of Europe Mario Castro, Director of Sales Asia, Africa and Middle East Claudia Silva, Director of the Southern Cone Cecilia Galeana, Director of Central America Silvia García, Director of Sales CIS and Middle East Douglas Welch, Director of Sales Africa
Executives Attending
Frank Saperstein, EVP, Tricon Kids, Family & Animation Nick Solowski, Senior Director, International Sales & Acquisitions Ashley Rite, Director, Development & International Sales Fred Joubaud, Director, International Sales & Digital Acquisitions Liz Coucean, Director, International Sales & Acquisitions
TOP eXECUTIVE
TRT – TURKISH RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION TRT Genel Müdürlüğü, TV Department, A Blok No: 604 06450 Or, An Ankara, Turkiye Tel.: +90 312 463 24 82 Fax: +90 312 463 24 73 Email: trtsales@trt.net.tr Website: www.trt.net.tr / www.trtsales.com Stand: P-1 N 51
Executives Attending
Murat Sahin, International Programmes Sales Manager Mustafa Aydogan, Sales Executive Gokce Aydogdu, Sales Executive Gokhan Donmez, Sales Executive
In the past, a serious accident left triplets Ana Lucía, Ana Leticia, and Ana Laura marked by pain as it took away their parents’ life and also separated Ana Lucía from her family. Ernestina, the triplets’ grandmother, and Ramiro, their uncle, look for Ana Lucía, but they can’t find her. Years later the search for Ana Lucía continues. Ana Laura longs to find her sister but Ana Leticia doesn’t, since it would mean sharing her inheritance and the love of those around her. This is why, when her husband Marcelo is about to find Ana Lucía, she hires someone to kill him in order to solve the problem all at once… but Marcelo survives and just loses his memory; then, a woman helps him and gives him a new name: Santiago. Santiago’s and Ana Lucía’s paths meet, but both of them ignore their past and what they have in common.
They’re the foods you crave and dream about. You celebrate with them and bond over them. Now get ready to learn everything you’ve ever wondered about these infamous foods, and probably a lot of crazy stuff you didn’t! From where it all started years ago – the accidental moments of genius – to celebrity favorites. It’s about food, fun facts and the people who took these classics and made them a part of our collective identity. Get ready for ‘Food’s Greatest Hits’!
ALONG CAME LOVE
176/TTV MAGAZINE
(Traditional – 120 X 60’)
After being deported and her father died, Luciana travels to the US to meet again with her mother and brother, but when she arrives to the vineyard where they work and meets David, the landowner, she also bumps into an unexpected thing: love. Despite their differences, they both immediately feel an attraction for each other, but this situation also alerts all those who don’t want that a new relationship may help David recover the desire to live.
(Lifestyle - 14 X 30’)
FORGIVE ME
(Scripted Drama - 24 X 30’) ‘Forgive Me’ is a bold new series that breaks the seal of the Catholic confessional. A young priest grappling with his own demons, strains under the ever-growing weight of a small town’s whispered secrets. His congregants confess a myriad of struggles ranging from the age old sins of lust and greed to more distinctly contemporary issues like reproductive technology and same-sex marriage. All the while, his own past and the stories that are entrusted to him can’t remain untangled for long, and more will be asked of him than he ever imagined. Starring Mike McLeod, Olympia Dukakis (Academy Award Winner Golden Globe Winner and Bafta Nominee), Jane Alexander (Emmy Winner) and Brenda Fricker (Academy Award Winner).
Melanie Leach, Twofour Group Chief Executive Andrew Mackenzie, Twofour Group Chief Creative Officer Anthony Appell, Director of Twofour Rights
TOP eXECUTIVE
Eniela Bella, Senior Sales Executive
(Entertainment / Format - 6 X 60’ HD)
(Drama - 45+ X 100’)
(Traditional – 120 X 60’)
Executives Attending
THIS TIME NEXT YEAR
RESURRECTION ‘ERTUGRUL’
FOOD’S GREATEST HITS
Estover, Plymouth, PL6 7RG Tel.: + 44 (0) 1752 727400 Email: sales@twofour-rights.co.uk Website: twofour-rights.co.uk
Ibrahim Eren, Deputy Director General
Andrea Gorfolova, President
THE THREE SIDES OF ANA
TWOFOUR RIGHTS
TOP eXECUTIVE
TOP eXECUTIVE
Fernando Pérez-Gavilán, VP Televisa Internacional
This Time Next Year
Showcasing hit after hit of instant jaw-dropping real life transformations and already in production in nine territories, ‘This Time Next Year’ is the fastest selling format of 2016.
He made the sun his flag, the sky his tent and rode his horses across endless plains. He vibrated the swarthy land, pierced the blue sky. He made his armors companions and his armies strong. Resurrection, story of the man who determined the fate of the world.
EXTREME CAKE MAKERS
SEDDUL BAHIR 32 HOURS
EXTRAORDINARY ANIMALS
(Mini Series – 4 X 95’)
‘Seddül Bahir 32 Hours’ tells about the outstanding resisting of Turkish soldiers in Gallipoli which is beyond being legendary and bravery. The audience will experience an extraordinary surprize, will meet adifferent part of the puzzle in each episode of the story. Each story is independent and every one of the characters and their stories areentwined with characters’ destinies.
HAREM
(Documentary – 3 X 30’) It had to be hidden away from prying eyes to keep its integrity… Like the heart inside the mighty body of an empire ruling the world, Harem had to be preserved like a precious stone. Ottoman Empire was one of the mightiest that history has ever seen… This documentary surely will reveal the true nature of the Harem, no doubt one of the key components of this mighty Empire that survived for centuries.
(Factual Entertainment - 16 X 30’ HD) Baking is back and bigger than ever, from a solar-system made of sponge to edible steel statues, this is the cutting edge of cake. (Factual - 4 X 60’ HD)
The award winning producers of Meerkat Manor are back with a mesmerizing new primetime show, delving beneath the surface of animal behaviour across the globe.
IMPOSSIBLE ENGINEERING (Factual – 12 X 60’ HD S3)
Mind-blowing modern engineering structures and incredible historical inventions are revealed in this revolutionary series.
THE HOME GAME
(Factual – 10 x 60’ HD) The form breaking new home makeover series that cuts out the transformation process allowing big impact immediate reveals.
The Loud House
A Doggone Christmas
Viacom International Media Networks 1111 Lincoln Road, Floor 5, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA Tel.: +1.305.604.5366 Email: programsales@vimn.com Website: www.b2b.viacom.com Stand: R7.N7
Executives Attending
Renato Martinez, Americas Sales Team Emmanuelle Bon, EMEA Sales Team Marie Bariller, EMEA Sales Team Julie Mateille, Format Sales Emma Stow, Format Sales
Oggy And The Cockroaches
Vision Films
Xilam Animation
Zee Entertainment
14945 Ventura Blvd., #306, Sherman Oaks, California, 91403 USA Tel.: (818) 784-1702 Fax: (818) 788-3715 Email: sales@visionfilms.net Website: www.visionfilms.net/ Booth: R7.C33
86-90 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 75003 Paris, France Tel.:+33 (0)1 40 18 72 00 Fax: +33 (0)1 42 77 85 60 Email: lformoso@xilam.com Website: www.xilam.com
18th Floor, Marathon Futurex, N M Joshi Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai – 400013, India Tel.: +91-22-71061234 Email: zeecontent@zee.esselgroup.com Website: www.zeebollyworld.com Stand: P1- K51
Executives Attending
Executives Attending
Leyla Formoso, VP Media Distribution Latin America & Iberia
Executives Attending
Adam Wright, Executive VP, International Sales & Acquisitions
A DOGGONE CHRISTMAS (Family – 85’)
VIMN’s family is getting a whole lot bigger with Nickelodeon’s new animated series ‘The Loud House’, which follows 11-year-old Lincoln Loud (voiced by Grant Palmer) and his 10 sisters as he gives an inside look at what it takes to survive the chaos of a huge family. With his best bud Clyde (Caleel Harris), Lincoln always comes up with a plan to stay one step ahead of the chaos, but whether or not it works is where the adventures begin.
SCHOOL OF ROCK
(Kids Animation – 25 X 30’) A group of overachieving prep school students band together and learn to rock out when they meet their new, unconventional substitute teacher in Nickelodeon’s Emmy-nominated live-action comedy series School of Rock.
RUSTY RIVETS
(Preschool – 20 X 30’)
An amazing pup with special abilities, escapes a government lockdown. Can this unexpected team of kids, armed with only their wits, their bikes, and a strong bond with the dog, channel the real spirit of Christmas to save the day?
A MIRACLE ON CHRISTMAS LAKE (Family – 90’)
Field of Dreams for a new generation with a Christmas twist. A teenage boy loses his joyful spirit. His journey is transformed just in time for Christmas when St. Nick and an ice rink magically appear on the frozen lake, reminding him of good times past and giving him hope for the future.
SAM
(Romantic Comedy – 100’) An alpha New York City male is serendipitously transformed into a beautiful women, and must confront his misogynistic ways when he falls unexpectedly in love with his best friend.
CHECK POINT (Action – 90’)
A ‘sleeper cell’ Terrorist plot is discovered in a small town, and before it can escalate into a full-blown war, a team of unlikely heroes must rise up to fight the enemy and protect their country.
GADGETGANG IN OUTER SPACE (Family, Animation – 89’)
The neighborhood kids are finishing their science project when quirky little space aliens fall to Earth, and they must help these creatures fix their Space pod, stop evil invaders and restore peace in the Universe.
Sarah Coursey, Head of Syndication – Americas Janice Strangward, Head of Syndication, Europe Sandeep Hardasmalani, Regional Head, APAC Nitin Michael, Regional Head, MENAP Vishan Yaduvanshi, DVP, Business Development, International Business
TOP eXECUTIVE
Sunita Uchil, Chief Business Officer, International Ad Sales, Global Syndication & Production
OGGY AND THE COCKROACHES
(Slapstick Comedy – 234 x 7’ S 5, 6, 7) Over four action-packed seasons and almost 20 years and 300 episodes, Oggy has relentlessly battled three horrible cockroaches. They not only squat his home, they squat his whole life! You think this is the battle of the modern era?! Think twice. In season 5, we discover the clash between Oggy and the cockroaches has been around forever! In seasons 6 and 7, we’ll find a mix of brand new episodes and full remake of classic stories from seasons 1 & 2, all produced in 4K.
PAPRIKA
(Preschool - 78 X 7’) Olivia and Stan are about as close as a brother and sister can get because… they’re twins! They share pretty much everything and though they’re totally different, they balance out to perfection! Stan is a brave little daredevil who puts faith in his instinct and his motorized wheelchair. Olivia is creative, efficient and brainy. But when it comes to having a ton of fun they’re both world champions! When the Paprika twins team up together, no hurdle’s too high! They take everyday life and turn it into a wonderful, colorful and zany adventure!
ZIG & SHARKO
(Slapstick Comedy - 78 x 7’ S 2) On a desert island lives a starving hyena with one obsession: devour that delicious mermaid from the rock in the lagoon. Ah, but the lovely fish-girl’s best friend is a shark, a shark with a lot of muscle and who loves to sabotage the hyena’s every move. In season 2, the mermaid decides to set up house on the beach. And she invites all her deep-sea buddies to join her. But the stakes have been raised: now the hyena has to win back his own turf!
EK THA RAJA, EK THI RANI (ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE LIVED A KING & QUEEN) (Period Drama – 300 X 30’ HD)
The true story of the Royal Family of Ameerkot. In order to cope with the loss of the family fortune, the royal family arranges the marriage of their son, the prince with the daughter of the state’s biggest moneylender. The marriage causes a scandal, and sets off a chain of dramatic events within the family and the royal servants, causing them to change forever.
ALTARD
(6 X 60’ HD) Fitness and nutrition experts work with a bride and groom separately to shape up, and the next time they’ll see each other is at the altar. Their wedding day may be approaching fast, but these overweight couples are determined to make one big change – lose weight – before walking down the aisle. Twelve weeks before their nuptials, the future bride and groom are paired with trainers and begin their transformation. But of course, there’s a twist that no one will see coming!
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VIMN is coming to MIPCOM 2016 with the inventive new original pre-school series ‘Rusty Rivets’. The show follows Rusty, a 21st century kid hero who always saves the day by relying on his imagination and incredible resourcefulness. Inspired by the DIY culture of the maker movement, ‘Rusty Rivets’ (26 half-hour episodes, debuting in the US in August 2016 and internationally in October 2016) helps preschoolers gain confidence and fuel their creativity with a strong focus on inventing, creating and problem solving.
Leyla Formoso, VP Media Distribution Latin America & Iberia
Lise Romanoff, Managing Director, CEO of Worldwide Distribution
Adeline Ferro, Americas Sales Team
(Kids Animation – 40 X 30’)
TOP eXECUTIVE
TOP eXECUTIVE
TOP eXECUTIVE
THE LOUD HOUSE
Ek Tha Raja, Ek Thi Rani
INNUMBERS
BRAZIL
Globo, First FTA Network to Offer 4K HDR
71%
of US TV viewing households have at least one SVOD service, says research from Ampere Analysis.
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Leslie Moonves, Chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation
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CBS Shakes Up Distribution Operations Leslie Moonves, Chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation, announced the appointment of Paul Franklin to the role of President of CBS Television Distribution (CTD). Reporting to Moonves, Franklin will oversee all operations for CDT. In addition, Armando Nuñez, who has led both CTD and CBS Studios International over the past 4 years (time in which CBS’ international income doubled), will now focus exclusively on the role of President and CEO of CBS Studios International. Paul Franklin comes from 20th TV, where he worked over the past decade as EVP and GM of Sales for 20th Television and MyNetworkTV. Under Armando Nuñez’ coordination, CBS Studios International became one of the company’s main growth engines. As a result of his management, CBS’ international income tripled over the last 8 years.
Globo is in tune with forefront technology and announces the launch of its first product in High Dynamic Range (HDR) version, providing images with greater definition of colors and contrast. While Netflix (‘Marco Polo’), Amazon (‘Mozart in the Jungle’) and Vudu offered content in this format before, the launch marks the first time a free-to-air TV station does so. The classic ‘Dangerous Liaisons’, a hit on free-to-air television, was made available on July 18 in 4K HDR via GloboPlay. The launch set the beginning of content distribution in 4K HDR amongst free-to-air television stations worldwide. In addition to the miniseries, Globo will offer a compact of the Olympic Games opening ceremony in 4K HDR and other programs in the coming months via Globo Play. In addition to the miniseries, Globo offered the Olympics opening ceremony in 4H HDR, and will announced “other shows in the next few months.”
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Telefónica and Vivendi to Offer Premium Content in LatAm Through the deal, Telefónica will offer its clients in Latin America two innovative mobile entertainment services: WatchMusic, an immersive premium video music platform; and STUDIO+, the first short premium series offer and international app. The deal went into effect across Latin America in October, with the launch of WatchMusic in Brazil through Vivo. “We are happy and excited that Telefonica is the first telco to collaborate with us in the launch of STUDIO+ and WatchMusic, two services designed by our development teams in Latin America,” said Dominique Delport, head of Content at Vivendi. “We are delighted to be offering Premium Vivendi mobile entertainment content to our clients,” said Michael Duncan, CEO, Consumption Unit at Telefónica Group.