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Just the Facts

The boost the factual industry was expecting from the Hollywood strikes last year never fully materialized, with commissions still on a downswing, but the slump isn’t as aggressive as what we’ve seen in other parts of the business. Nevertheless, challenges remain, from contending with reduced content spend across the board at broadcasters and streamers to coping with the risk aversion that has set in amid all the uncertainty in the business.

With that rubric in mind, we knew we wanted to extend our expertise in thematic virtual festivals to the factual and formats businesses. Building on the success of the TV Kids Festival, the TV Kids Summer Festival, the TV Drama Festival and the FAST Festival, the inaugural TV Real Festival next week will spotlight the survival strategies being deployed by non-scripted distributors, across tape sales and formats, to navigate the landscape today. We have an array of keynotes lined up from heavy hitters across the indus try, plus powerhouse superpanels devoted to big-picture trends, true crime, wildlife and FAST, and a research-heavy presentation from Ampere Analysis’s Fred Black spotlighting the commissioning landscape.

If you haven’t yet registered, there’s still time to do so here. Only those registered will receive access to our Exclusive White Paper featuring key intel from the event in a compact, easy-to-digest format.

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TUESDAY, JUNE 18

9 a.m. EDT The Big Picture

The inaugural TV Real Festival kicks off with our factual superpanel featuring BossaNova’s Paul Heaney, Off the Fence’s Bo Stehmeier, Albatross World Sales’ Anne Olzmann and ZDF Studios’ Nikolas Hülbusch.

10:30 a.m. EDT Warner Bros. Discovery’s Kathleen Finch

As chairman and CEO of U.S. networks at Warner Bros. Discovery, Kathleen Finch oversees a bouquet of leading channel brands, among them Discovery, HGTV, TLC, Food Network and Investigation Discovery.

12 p.m. EDT Dawn Porter

The founder of Trilogy Films, Dawn Porter, whose credits include Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court, will showcase her approach to impactful documentary filmmaking.

1:30 p.m. EDT The View from NBCUniversal Entertainment

This powerhouse session will showcase NBCUniversal Entertainment’s strategy across game shows, talent, reality, lifestyle and true crime with Corie Henson and Rachel Smith

Corie Henson

Rachel Smith

Paul Heaney Bo Stehmeier Anne Olzmann Nikolas Hülbusch

Dawn Porter

Kathleen Finch

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19

9 a.m. EDT That’s Entertainment!

Fremantle’s Vasha Wallace, Banijay’s James Townley, BBC Studios’ André Renaud and All3Media International’s Nick Smith will discuss trends in non-scripted formats.

10:30 a.m. EDT Time to Go FAST?

Autentic’s Patrick Hörl, Blue Ant Media’s Jamie Schouela and Cineflix Rights’ Mike Gould will share the keys to rolling out successful factual FAST channels.

12 p.m. EDT Getting Wild

ORF-Enterprise’s Armin Luttenberger, PBS Distribution’s Joe Barrett and Terra Mater Studios’ Berend Dreier will offer up their insights on trends in the distribution of natural history and wildlife docs.

1:30 p.m. EDT Michael von Würden

As managing director of Snowman Productions, Michael von Würden has created an array of successful reality formats, among them the megahit Married at First Sight.

Michael von Würden

Armin Luttenberger

Joe Barrett Berend Dreier

Vasha Wallace James Townley André Renaud Nick Smith

Patrick Hörl Jamie Schouela Mike Gould

THURSDAY, JUNE 20

9 a.m. EDT Just the Facts with Ampere

Ampere Analysis ’s Fred Black will provide TV Real Festival viewers with detailed insights on the factual commissioning landscape.

10:30 a.m. EDT Mary Beard

A classicist who specializes in ancient Rome, Mary Beard’s latest project, Meet the Roman Emperor with Mary Beard from Lion Television, aired on BBC Two earlier this year.

12 p.m. EDT Crime Pays

GRB Media Ranch’s Sophie Ferron , TVF International’s Poppy McAlister and Woodcut Media’s Kate Beal (who also chairs the Association of True Crime Producers) on achieving success and driving innovation within the true- crime genre.

1:30 p.m. EDT A. Smith & Co. Productions’ Arthur Smith

The TV Real Festival wraps with a keynote from Arthur Smith, whose extensive stable of shows at A. Smith & Co. Productions includes Hell’s Kitchen and American Ninja Warrior.

Fred Black

Mary Beard

Sophie Ferron

Poppy McAlister

Kate Beal

Arthur Smith

Joe Barrett VP, Global Sales PBS Distribution

Joe Barrett has been at PBS Distribution for over eight years and currently leads sales strategy and execution for international broadcast and digital program sales for both kids and factual. He also oversees U.S. sales and strategy for PBS Distribution’s TVOD, education, e-commerce and retail business in general audience, kids and drama. Barrett got his start in U.S. content distribution with Sony Pictures. After an initial tenure there, Bar rett joined 20th Century Fox’s home entertainment division, where he spent the next 18 years in several sales and distribution roles, most recently as senior VP of sales and strategy for North America.

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Wednesday, June 19, 12 p.m. EDT Getting Wild

With a career that spans more than 20 years, Kate Beal is an internationally recognized producer of unscripted premium content. Her company Woodcut Media is also one of the U.K.’s leading true-crime doc producers.

Woodcut Media (established in 2014) is a femaleled operation with a diverse team at its core whose main ethos is to provide an honest and trusted voice, creating programming that tells incredible stories with creativity, authenticity and care. Woodcut specializes in a broad range of standout unscripted content covering true crime, factual entertainment, spe cialist factual and premium, talent-led programming. In 2020, Woodcut also launched a distribution company, Woodcut International.

Woodcut also focuses on mentoring young talent via the Woodcut Media Post Production Graduate Award and Woodcut Media Production Management Graduate Award, working with Solent University (U.K.) to provide paid internships and training.

Beal also paved the way for the creation in 2023 of the Association of True Crime Producers (ATCP), a nonprofit association of which she is chair, and whose members are committed to the continued development of the highest professional standards in truecrime production.

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Thursday, June 20, 12 p.m. EDT Crime Pays

Kate Beal Founder & CEO

Woodcut Media

Mary Beard

Classicist & Presenter

Mary Beard is Emerita Professor and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS . She has worldwide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the best-selling, Wolfson History Prizewinning Pompeii , SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome and Women & Power: A Manifesto. She has made numerous TV series and her books have been published in over 30 languages. She was a judge for the 2023 Wolfson History Prize.

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Thursday, June 20, 10:30 a.m. EDT Keynote

Fred Black leads Ampere’s Commissioning service, which tracks the commissioning and production of new original content across all major commissioners globally. Black is an experienced researcher and presenter, having written and presented extensively on topics including the Hol lywood studios’ SVOD expansion, genre and thematic trends in content production, the future for aggregation and the U.S. strike action of 2023.

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Thursday, June 20, 9 a.m. Keynote

Fred Black Principal Analyst Ampere Analysis

Berend Dreier Director, CoProductions & Sales

Terra Mater Studios

Getting jaw-dropping films from Austria onto the world stage is what Berend Dreier has been most interested in since he entered the TV distribution business. In his role at Terra Mater Studios, he works with an ever-growing number of international partners for co-productions and presales and manages the sale of the company’s portfolio in order to generate the funds necessary to keep the quantity and especially the quality of its production output.

Before joining Terra Mater Studios in late 2019, Dreier took care of the sales of its programs within the Red Bull Media House distribution team for eight years. He also headed the Red Bull Media House sales operations team for three years. He has even more background in natural history distribution working for ORF and ORF-Enterprise before that.

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Wednesday, June 19, 12 p.m. EDT Getting Wild

The founder of Media Ranch and a secondgeneration producer, Sophie Ferron is an entertainment executive with a stellar reputation and 30-plus years in the business of international programming. Her expertise in global format creation, production and distribution has grown Media Ranch exponentially with an ever-growing library of over 100 formats. In September 2023, GRB Studios and Media Ranch joined the distribution arms of their globally respected brands to cre ate one entity for which Ferron is president and co-principal. Distributing over 5,000 hours of premium entertainment, from factual to fiction to formats, GRB Media Ranch offers a comprehensive approach to the marketing of programming. Ferron is based in Los Angeles and Montreal. She oversees all sales and acquisitions and personally handles the U.K. and U.S. for acquisitions, sales for finished programs and formats, and oversees the entire team. Ferron speaks at major events such as MIPCOM, SXSW, Realscreen Summit and more.

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Thursday, June 20, 12 p.m. EDT Crime Pays

Sophie Ferron Co-Principal & President

GRB Media Ranch

Kathleen Finch Chairman & CEO, U.S. Networks

Warner Bros. Discovery

Kath leen Finch assumed her role at Warner Bros. Discovery in April 2022. Her group of more than 20 networks, including Discovery, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, TNT, TBS, OWN, Inves tigation Discovery, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim and TCM, produces more than 3,000 hours of lifestyle and entertainment programming each year. Finch also leads the Digital Lifestyle Studios Group, which is responsible for producing hundreds of video and social assets.

Together, the U.S. networks deliver more than 127 million total viewers on average per month, and six of the networks rank among the top ten in cable. Nearly one-third of all adults 25 to 54 watch networks in Finch’s group during prime time.

Following Discovery’s acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive in 2018, Finch was named chief lifestyle brands officer. Before that, Finch served as chief programming, content and brand officer for Scripps’ linear and digital media brands. Prior to Scripps, Finch worked as a broadcast and print journalist, highlighted by a 12-year career as a CBS News producer.

SESSION Tuesday, June 18, 10:30 a.m. EDT Keynote

Mike Gould leads Cineflix Rights’ strategy to build its suite of direct-to-consumer FAST channels available to worldwide audiences and leverage the company’s extensive, multi-genre slate to deliver long- and short-form content across all digital platforms. Cineflix Rights’ suite of FAST channels—including Real Disaster Channel, Crime & Justice, Property & Reno, Property Brothers and American Pickers—feature more than 1,000 hours of content and are available to viewers on a range of platforms, including Amazon Freevee and Xumo Play in the U.S., Pluto TV in the U.S. and Canada and Roku in Canada, as well as with other partners in the coming months.

Gould joined Cineflix Rights in 2022 from All3Media International, where, as VP of global digital partnerships, he was responsible for growing the distributor’s many digital platform partnerships, including leading and delivering its AVOD and FAST distribution strategy and managing the day-to-day of all self-publishing activity. Prior to All3Media Inter national, Gould held a senior digital distribution and partnership role at Endemol Shine Group and a digital partnerships position at BBC Studios.

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Wednesday, June 19, 10:30 a.m. EDT Time to Go FAST?

Mike Gould Senior VP, Digital Cineflix Rights

Paul Heaney Founder & CEO BossaNova

BossaNova brings together producers and buy ers of unscripted TV in an integrated hub, creating a community that enables all of the stakeholders in the content chain to meet, create and do business.

Paul Heaney has a strong track record in helping producers to establish successful factual franchises. Over the last 20 years, as CEO of two previous distribution operations, he has built up a huge network of producer and commissioner/buyer relationships. In August 2021, Night Train Media got on board as a partner, providing BossaNova with a content fund to invest in projects from an early stage, highlighted by the Development Days occurring every October. Previously, Heaney founded the factual distribution company TCB Media Rights, which started trading in 2012. Having grown into one of the U.K.’s most successful independent distributors, TCB was acquired by the Kew Media Group in October 2017. Prior to launching TCB, Heaney served as president and managing director of Cineflix Rights, which he started in 2002 and also built from a boutique operation into a major distribution force. Heaney’s CV also includes stints at BSkyB, where he served as commercial director, and Southern Star, where he worked as head of sales. Prior to entering the television industry, he worked in advertising and media sales for 15 years.

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Tuesday, June 18, 9 a.m. EDT The Big Picture

Corie Henson oversees reality competition, talent competition and game-show formats across NBCUniversal’s entertainment television and streaming portfolio, including NBC, Bravo, E!, Oxygen True Crime, SYFY, Universal Kids, USA Network and Peacock.

Henson is tasked with identifying key development areas as well as potential talent partners both behind and in front of the camera. Her purview includes content development and oversight of current programming for the company’s beloved unscripted hits, including NBC’s America’s Got Tal ent, The Voice and Password; Bravo’s Top Chef and Peacock’s Baking It.

Before joining NBCUniversal, Henson served as executive VP and head of unscripted for TNT, TBS and TruTV. Prior to this, Henson was executive VP of alternative entertainment for FOX, where she shepherded all development and current franchises and all live event specials. Earlier, Henson held the post of executive VP of unscripted television at multiplatform studio Electus, following five years as VP of alternative series for ABC Entertainment.

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Tuesday, June 18, 1:30 p.m. EDT The View from NBCUniversal Entertainment

Corie Henson Executive VP, Unscripted Content, Competition & Game Shows

NBCUniversal Entertainment

Patrick Hörl Founder & Managing Director

Autentic

Autentic produces and distributes highquality documentaries and factual series for audiences around the world and runs several FAST channels, including Adventure Earth, Terra Mater WILD, Autentic History and Autentic Travel. Additionally, Autentic recently launched its first YouTube channel, Autentic Doc umentary. Together with Spiegel TV and Curiosity Stream, Autentic owns the pay-TV services Spiegel Geschichte and Curiosity Channel in German-speaking territories.

Hörl is chairman of the board of directors of the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers and co-founder and shareholder of Documentary Campus, a leading pan-European training program for young and aspiring filmmakers in documentary film and factual entertainment.

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Wednesday, June 19, 10:30 a.m. EDT Time to Go FAST?

Nikolas Hülbusch joined ZDF Studios in 1997. In 2001, he took over a new position as project manager for documentary coproduction. Since then, Hülbusch has negotiated numerous wildlife, history and science documentary co-productions with partners including the BBC, Discovery, National Geographic, HISTORY and France 5, as well as distribution mandate deals with numerous international factual production companies, among them Impossible Pictures, NHNZ Worldwide, Screen Glue, WMR, WildBear and Yap Films. In 2013, he became director and deputy head of factual and, since 2018, of the enlarged unscripted genre team.

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Tuesday, June 18, 9 a.m. EDT The Big Picture

Hulbusch Director Unscripted ZDF Studios

Nikolas

Armin

Luttenberger

Head, Content Sales

International ORF-Enterprise

Armin Luttenberger heads the content-sales unit of ORF-Enterprise. The distributor’s portfolio includes the tentpole factual slates UNIVERSUM Nature and UNIVERSUM History, scripted content such as School of Champions, the event series Kafka , long-running crime series, movies and comedy highlights such as Walking on Sun shine. Music and kids’ programming round out the catalog.

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Wednesday, June 19, 12 p.m. EDT Getting Wild

Poppy McAlister leads a team of 15 across international sales, acquisitions, production, marketing, finance and operations at TVF International, the U.K.’s leading independent factual distributor.

On top of running the strategic operation of TVF International, McAlister works with broadcasters and producers across the U.K., North America, Australia and New Zealand, securing a global Netflix deal for the disability-first dating series Down for Love. McAlister also focuses on securing distribution rights through first-look, development and output deals and has served as an executive producer on various TVF productions.

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Thursday, June 20, 12 p.m. EDT Crime Pays

Poppy McAlister Head

TVF International

Anne Olzmann

Managing Director

Albatross

World Sales

Anne Olzmann has always loved documentary films and has a soft spot for wildlife and science programs. Following her degree in languages and business administration, she worked for the German nature and science film production company Marco Polo Film in Hei delberg and Paris-based distributor Upside Television. In 2010, Olzmann was a founding member of the factual distribution outlet Albatross World Sales and assumed sole ownership in 2022. Albatross works with over 50 production companies and currently represents a catalog of about 400 hours of documentaries.

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Tuesday, June 18, 9 a.m. EDT The Big Picture

Dawn Porter’s award-winning films include Gideon’s Army (2013), about three black public defenders working in the southern United States; Trapped, about the impact of antiabortion laws on providers in the South; and Bobby Kennedy for President, which debuted on Netflix. As a two-time Sundance Film Festival director, Porter’s work has been featured on HBO, Netflix, CNN, PBS, MSNBC and other platforms. Porter’s The Lady Bird Diaries , an all-archival documentary about Lady Bird Johnson, debuted at the 2023 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Lone Star Award. Her latest project, Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court, a four-part docuseries, explores the history of the Supreme Court and the justices, decisions and confirmation battles that have shaped the United States. Additional credits include The Me You Can’t See (Apple TV+), Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer (National Geo graphic), The Way I See It (Focus Features), John Lewis: Good Trouble (CNN, Magnolia Pictures), 37 Words (ESPN) and Un(re)solved (Frontline PBS).

SESSION Tuesday, June 18, 12 p.m. EDT Keynote

Dawn Porter Founder Trilogy Films

André Renaud Senior VP, Global Format Sales

BBC Studios

At BBC Studios, André Renaud leads all commercial sales and strategic activities for formats globally, outside of owned and invested production companies. Based in London, Renaud joined BBC Studios in January 2017 to manage all lines of business in Italy and Iberia before taking on additional responsibilities for format sales in Western Europe.

In his current role, he works closely with partners to license and localize formats such as Dancing with the Stars, as well as format production partnerships, bringing format brands like Come Dine with Me to Belgium and South Africa and Hell’s Kitchen to Italy.

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Wednesday, June 19, 9 a.m. EDT That’s Entertainment!

Jamie Schouela leads the strategic direction and operations of Blue Ant Media’s free streaming and pay-TV networks around the world. In this role, he oversees content development and acquisitions, scheduling, marketing and communications, as well as the relationships with Blue Ant’s channel distribution partners. The company’s channels include Love Nature, Cottage Life, BBC Earth Canada, Smithsonian Channel Canada, Total Crime, HauntTV, Love Pets, Homeful and Drag Race Universe. He also leads its Canadian consumer shows, publishing businesses and a multiplatform media sales team, including con nected-TV seller Media Pulse.

Schouela has a strong background in building premium, multiplatform media brands both through partnerships that have brought international players to Canada and leading the development of original genre-specific channels. He is also driving Blue Ant’s strategy to expand the company’s growing portfolio of FAST channels internationally with platform partners including Amazon Freevee, Tubi, VIZIO’s WatchFree+, The Roku Channel, Xumo, Samsung TV Plus, Pluto TV and others.

Prior to Blue Ant Media, Schouela served as VP of marketing for Shaw Media. He began his career at Alliance Atlantis.

SESSION Wednesday, June 19, 10:30 a.m. EDT Time to Go FAST?

Jamie Schouela President, Global Channels & Media Blue Ant Media

Arthur Smith Chairman & CEO

A. Smith & Co. Productions

Arthur Smith has been a hands-on, trendsetting producer in the unscripted television space, creating innovative, larger-than-life formats at A. Smith & Co. Productions for two decades and counting. He is a pioneer in nonfiction television, and since founding A. Smith & Co. in 2000, Smith has created some of the longest-running, cul ture-shaping unscripted series in TV history. He was honored as one of Variety’s Titans of Unscripted TV in 2022, inducted into the Realscreen Awards Hall of Fame in 2021, awarded Broadcasting & Cable’s Producer of the Year in 2020, and is the recipient of dozens of industry awards.

With more than 200 shows for over 50 networks, under Smith’s leadership, A. Smith & Co. forged the modern food competition genre in the U.S. with the launch of FOX’s longest-running reality show, Hell’s Kitchen, which has since spawned numerous projects starring Gordon Ramsay. Smith’s flagship summer prime-time show, American Ninja Warrior, now in its 16th season on NBC, has garnered seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Smith also serves as chairman of Tinopolis Group U.S., a leading TV production and distribution group. In this role, Smith oversees Magical Elves.

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Thursday, June 20, 1:30 p.m. EDT Keynote

Nick Smith has over 20 years of experience developing, producing and licensing formats. He previously worked for the BBC, Sony Pictures Television International and a number of independent production companies. He looks after All3Media’s international productions, including hits such as The Traitors, Gogglebox, Kitchen Nightmares and Cash Cab, along with format acquisition and strategy. He is a visiting professor of TV formats at the University of Sunderland, sits on the general board of FRAPA, created the Diversify TV Excel lence Awards and is a founding member of RX France’s diversity advisory board.

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Wednesday, June 19, 9 a.m. EDT That’s Entertainment!

Nick Smith Executive VP, Formats & Licensing

All3Media International

Rachel Smith

Executive

VP,

Unscripted

Content,

Lifestyle & Documentaries

NBCUniversal Entertainment

Rachel Smith oversees all unscripted lifestyle, true-crime, documentary and docuseries content development and current programming across NBCUniversal’s extensive entertainment portfolio, which includes NBC, Bravo, E!, Oxy gen True Crime, SYFY, Universal Kids, USA Network and Peacock. She reports to Frances Berwick, chairman of NBCUniversal Entertainment.

Series under Smith’s purview include some of NBCUniversal’s biggest unscripted hits, such as the Real Housewives and Below Deck franchises, Summer House, Southern Charm and Million Dollar Listing . Smith was the executive in charge of Pea cock’s highest-rated documentary, Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies; the Peabody Awardwinning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks; Queens Court; Paris in Love and more.

Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Smith was VP of original programming at BBC America. Before that, Smith was VP of development and production for scripted programming at the Independent Film Channel and executive producer at Discovery Fit & Health and Planet Green.

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Tuesday, June 18, 1:30 p.m. EDT The View from NBCUniversal Entertainment

Bo Stehmeier’s professional journey started in the U.K. with BA degrees in media production, finance and distribution, then to Rome for an MBA in film and on to London for a job in content sales for factual specialist TVF International and prolific U.K. producer Optomen. For the next 15 years, his upward progress eventually led him to Red Arrow Studios International, where he served as president of Germany’s €500 million multigenre production and distribution giant. That kept him busy until 2020, when he was enticed to Ams terdam to head up Off the Fence (OTF), returning to run a company at which he had worked as a managing director of distribution in a previous incarnation. His love for all things visual, enchantment with the natural world and his intrigue with Nordic mystical cultures has inspired him to write two books, WAKE UP! Rise & Shine and Borealis: The Forest of Self-Discovery , “to help adults reconnect with their true self and prevent little people from losing the innate knowledge we are all born with.”

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Tuesday, June 18, 9 a.m. EDT The Big Picture

Bo Stehmeier CEO Off the Fence

James Townley Chief Content Officer, Development Banijay

Jame s Townley is responsible for driving the development and creation of original nonscripted IP, format acquisition and documentaries across the group and its production entities. Co-leading Creative Networks, he supports and champions a strong pipeline of new formats with international appeal. He also manages group-level investment in non-scripted, including the Banijay Creative Fund, internal creative incentivization and pilot schemes, plus development for new platforms.

Most recently, Townley was global head of Cre ative Networks at Endemol Shine Group, following his role as Endemol Shine UK’s director of operations. He has also held roles at Princess Pro ductions and Sky.

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Wednesday, June 19, 9 a.m. EDT That’s Entertainment!

Snowman Productions is a market leader in the development and production of entertainment formats for the Scandinavian market and worldwide, with productions including the global relationship phenomenon Married at First Sight and the new adventure dating hit Stranded on Honeymoon Island . Snowman Pro ductions is a Seven.One Studios company.

Michael von Würden has worked in the television industry for over 20 years as a broadcaster, developer and producer. Former positions include head of channel development at TV2 Networks, head of development at Nordisk Film TV and consultant for CopyDan rights. He has received numerous awards for his shows in Denmark.

Von Würden joined Snowman Productions in 2011, and, together with the rest of the team in Denmark, has created multiple international formats, including Married at First Sight , Stranded on Honeymoon Island, Kiss Bang Love and State of Hate.

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Wednesday, June 19, 1:30 p.m. EDT Keynote

Michael von Würden Managing Director Snowman Productions

Vasha Wallace

Executive VP, Global Acquisitions & Development

Fremantle

Fremantle is one of the world’s largest and most successful producers of entertainment television, encompassing hit formats from Idol and The X Factor to Got Talent, Too Hot to Handle, Password and Family Feud.

Vasha Wallace’s role encompasses the development, acquisition, international rollout and brand management of entertainment formats. Wallace works with Fremantle’s global network of production companies, identifying program opportunities, undertaking analysis of the latest market trends and presenting her findings internally and externally. She cultivates and manages relationships with content creators, distributors and the independent television production community. Wallace sits on the board as a director of five Fre mantle production companies.

SESSION Wednesday, June 19, 9 a.m. EDT That’s Entertainment!