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MIPTV 2014: French format travels Down Under

French format My Family Vs the Nation is to be made in Australia after local prodco WTFN Entertainment picked up format rights from Singapore-based DCB Consulting. The format comes from formats producer French TV and has already been made for Telecinco in Spain and CTC in Russia. “We believe that French TV have created a […]

MIPTV 2014: Electus engages Operation Change

Multimedia entertainment studio Electus is taking ten-part OWN doc series Operation Change to Cannes. The series The series follows Bill and Tani Austin and their son Steven Sawalich from the non-profit organisation Starkey Hearing Foundation, who are joined by celebrities and philanthropists in order to tackle tough global problems. The series is produced by Articulus […]

MIPTV 2014: Rai Trade revisits Broken Years, The Family

The sales arm of Italian pubcaster Rai is taking drama The Broken Years, police thriller Antidrug Squad 2 and romantic comedy-mystery hybrid The Family 2 to Cannes. The Broken Years (Gli Anni Spezzati) is a contemporary drama that looks at the violence confrontation between terrorists and state power in the late 1970s told over three […]

MIPTV 2014: France TV Distribution goes Face to Face

France TV Distribution has taken co-distribution rights to documentary series Face to Face, which has a deal has already secured in the Netherlands. International distributor Balanga is selling the show in all territories outside of France and French-speaking territories. AVRO in the Netherlands has become the first buyer of the property, with the distributors’ claiming […]

MIPTV 2014: Italian prince launches French formats prodco

Italian television personality Emanuele Filiberto di Savoia – the only male grandson of Italy’s last king – will be in Cannes to launch a formats production company. Filiberto di Savoia will launch Royal Me Up Productions – a nod to his royal roots – after partnering with prolific French prodco Telfrance. At MIPTV there will […]

MIPTV Hot Pick: Dropped

Joel Karsberg, chief creative officer of Zodiak Nordic, says Dropped came out of a desire to simplify the often over-thought world of reality TV – and specifically to bring a more authentic feel to the survival/adventure genre. “There are lots of reality shows in this area – Amazing Race, Peking Express – but we felt […]

MIPTV 2014: Amazon drama Bosch tops Red Arrow slate

Upcoming Amazon procedural drama Bosch will topline Red Arrow International’s MIPTV slate. The show, which is based on Michael Connelly’s books and comes from Red Arrow Entertainment-owned Fabrik Entertainment, stars Titus Welliver as hard-boiled LAPD cop Harry Bosch. Connelly, Welliver, Fabrik Entertainment CEO Henrik Bastin and Red Arrow International’s co-managing director Irina Ignatiew will hold […]

MIPTV 2014: Sky Vision seals Duck Quacks Turkey deal

Sky Vision has sold Sky 1 gameshow format Duck Quacks Don’t Echo to a Turkish broadcaster. TV8 will launch its own version of the show after acquiring rights to the format, in which a panel challenges celebrities to prove whether widely-believed facts as are actually true. It comes from Magnum Media, which is worked on […]

MIPTV 2014: Endemol reveals Origin story

Endemol World Distribution has sealed an exclusive representation deal with drama producer Origin Pictures. The three-year deal will see Endemol and Origin jointly develop and finance drama series for the UK and international markets, with EWD taking global sales rights. This comes after EWD launched Origin’s best known series, BBC One period drama Death Comes […]

MIPTV 2014: US presale for DCD’s Code

DCD Rights-sold thriller series The Code has presold to Audience Network in the US, Sundance Channel in Latin America and DR in Denmark. The Australian six-part drama about two very different brothers that unearth highly sensitive political information launches at MIPTV ahead of its debut on ABC1. “This internationally relevant drama is a fantastic new […]