MIPDrama Screenings


UK, Germany, Russia dominate revamped MIPDrama

The UK has three of the twelve entries in this year’s MIPDrama Screenings with Germany and Russia both taking two apiece. In its second year. MIPTV organiser Reed Midem has organised the MIPDrama Screenings into two categories: finished projects and works in progress, to ensure buyers know whether they will see full episodes or excerpts. […]

10 MIPTV takeaways: #8 a quiet drama

MIPTV’s answer to the international boom in high-end drama was the inaugural MIPDrama Screenings event at the JW Marriot Hotel on the Croisette on April 3, one day before the market proper. Organiser Reed MIDEM noted 350 buyers (later rounded up to 400) came and saw the twelve projects, which comprised Polish drama Bodo; Finland’s […]

ITV Studios to crown Victoria in Cannes

Queen Victoria will appear in Cannes on ITV Studios Global Entertainment’s MIPTV slate. Victoria, a new period drama for ITV and PBS, will be offered to buyers and has been selected to premiere at the first MIPDrama Screenings on Sunday, April 3. In the US, PBS has revealed it will air the series in the […]

Sky, PS71, Canal+ on MIP Drama board

MIPTV organiser Reed MIDEM has put together an advisory board of six top acquisitions executives for the confab’s drama events. The group comprises Sky director of acquisitions Sarah Wright (pictured), Canal+ senior VP of international SVOD and global acquisitions Aline Marrache-Tesseraud, ProSiebenSat.1 executive VP of group acquisitions and sales Ruediege Boess, TV2 Denmark head of […]

Deutschland 83, Killing writers on MIPDrama jury

The writers of The Killing and Deutschland 83 will make up part of a MIPDrama Screenings Selection Jury during MIPTV next year. Søren Sveistrup and Anna Winger will be joined a number of other major executives on the panel. The jury will designate 12 programmes that will comprise an invitation-only day of screenings for 350 […]