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MIPTV 2014: Eccho Rights launching Turkish drama

Distributor Eccho Rights is launching Turkish romantic drama Kurt Seyit & Sura – Epic Love in Cannes. The show tells the show of dasher womaniser from a Crimean family who falls in love with the daughter of a Russian noble family. The 40x45mins show comes from prolific Turkish drama producer Ay Yapim and went out […]

MIPTV 2014: Armoza bringing Canadian formats to market

Israel-based Armoza Formats has cut a distribution deal with Quebecor Media’s QMI Content and will bring its formats to the international market. The focus of the relationship will be shows from the French Canadian company’s TVA network. Armoza will launch two QMI formats at MIPTV next month, one scripted and one entertainment. Only One Knows […]

MIPTV 2014: ITV Studios draws up Guess List

ITV Studios Global Entertainment is launching new formats, including upcoming BBC One shows The Guess List and Pressure Pad. The Guess List, which comes from ITVS-owned 12 Yard, is a Saturday night comedy entertainment series in which two contestants compete for a specially-selected prize with the help of five famous faces. The show stems from […]

MIPTV 2014: Tough Trains scheduled for Cannes

London-based Pilot Productions is launching a series about the world’s most hard-core train journeys at MIPTV next month. Tough Trains, which has already sold to Travel Channel International and Voyage in France, profiles journeys such as the ride from the East to West coasts of Africa and the ‘Dead Train’ from the reputed drug trafficking […]

MIPTV 2014: SVT prepares for Miss Friman’s War

Sweden’s SVT International is launching a period drama set in early 20th century Stockholm at MIPTV. Miss Friman’s War is based on a true story about a group of strongheaded women who fought to open a grocery store in Stockholm in 1905. The drama was a huge success for Swedish pubcaster SVT over Christmas last […]

MIPTV 2014: Flame tools up Ultimate Wheels

Australia-based vendor Flame Distribution will launch a batch of new shows at MIPTV, including a 8x60mins car restoration format. Ultimate Wheels follows London Motor Museum owner Elo and mechanical Will Trickett as they transform rusty cars into shining new vehicles. Flame will also launch 1x60mins World War I doc The First Great Escape, which is […]

MIPTV 2014: All3Media brings talent-led factual to MIPTV

All3Media International is bringing 41 hours of factual entertainment programming from UK indie Spun Gold to MIPTV. Among the shows will be talent-led series such as Off the Beaten Track, fronted by British daytime TV host Christine Bleakley and Jennifer Saunders: Back in the Saddle, which features the eponymous Absolutely Fabulous star. Ob docs such […]

MIPTV 2014: My Tupelo and TVF bring Bargain Brides to Cannes

US producer My Tupelo has struck a development deal with TVF International and the first fruits of that effort, Bargain Brides, will launch at MIPTV. The format follows brides-to-be as they barter, negotiate and haggle for the wedding of their dreams at knock-down prices. Yael Shaoulian, programming and acquisitions executive at TVF International said: “We […]

MIPTV 2014 news brief: MGM launching Fargo in Cannes

MGM will launch the upcoming TV version of Fargo internationally at MIPTV. The studio’s sales arm has already presold it to Channel 4 in the UK, but will give the TV remake of the Cohen brothers’ cult 1996 movie. The TV series is produced by MGM Television and FX Productions and will go out on […]

TBI Interview: Robert Rodriguez on TV

Movie writer, producer and director Robert Rodriguez is the latest big-screen name to make a move into TV. Characteristically, he has done it in a big way, launching his own cable network El Rey in association with US Hispanic broadcaster Univision. Making TV shows was not an ambition that Rodriguez held. “I was not interested […]