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Show of the week My Mom Cooks Better Than Yours
FremantleMedia’s senior VP of global acquisitions and development Vasha Wallace says there were initially three…
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Show of the week: Eyewitness
Nordic noir has become hot category of programming in the international market and The Killing,…
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Show of the week: Xingu
Globo was at NATPE Europe this week with Xingu, a series from City of God…
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Show of the week: Last Seen Alive
Investigation Discovery’s latest series launched on June 1 in the US to ratings that Lucy…
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Show of the week: Space Racers
There is no shortage of vehicle series for preschoolers and several set beyond the realms…
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Show of the week: Talking Tom
The Talking Tom app is the sixth-most-downloaded ever on the iPhone and the tenth most…
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TLC to pilot Dutch format Find My Family
Absolutely Independent’s reunion-themed format Find My Family is being pilot for US cable channel TLC….
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Show of the week: Power
Power marks Curtis ‘50 Cent’ Jackson’s move into TV drama. When premium cabler Starz announced…
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Show of the week: Breadwinnners
Breadwinners is a first – the first full series commissioned as a result of Nickelodeon’s…
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Show of the week: Babylon
“Babylon is about everyone watching you and waiting for you to make a mistake,” says…
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Show of the week: Ashley Banjo’s Big Town Dance
Since winning the third season of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent with his dance troupe Diversity…
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Show of the week: Grandpas Over Flowers
Take four well-known South Korean actors of pensioner age and a young porter-cum-minder on a…
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Show of the week: The Love Table
The Love Table came out of FremantleMedia’s relationship with broadcaster Asahi and is born out…
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Show of the week: Are You the One?
A glut of new dating formats launched at MIPTV, and at first glance Are You…
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Show of the week: Dropped
The show: Dropped The producer: Mastiff Sweden The distributor: Zodiak Rights The broadcaster: TV4 (Sweden)…
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Show of the Week: The Sixties
To call the US in the 1960s a broad canvas is an understatement. The decade…
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Show of the week: Turn
There are several spy dramas in TV land at the moment but Turn is the…
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MIPTV Hot Pick: Game of Chefs
With a whole heap of competition reality series adopting a much lighter, supportive tone than…
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Show of the week: Close Up Kings
Close Up Kings is a street magic meets travelogue series bowing on Discovery’s international networks….
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Show of the week: Klondike
Klondike was Discovery Channel’s first move into drama and is distributed internationally by Entertainment One….
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Show of the Week: The Link
Based on a board game created by game designers Tristan Hyatt-Williams, Ben Drummond and Dean…
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Show of the week: The Game
Having created and written supernatural successful youth drama Being Human, Toby Whithouse may have been…
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Show of the week: Road to Revolution
Road to Revolution is a multiplatform project that tells the stories of the families and…
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Show of the Week: Extant
When CBS made a 13-episode order for Mickey Fisher’s debut script last year, the Eye…
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Show of the Week: Utopia
Coming from Big Brother and The Voice creator John de Mol and his Talpa Media…
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NATPE Hot Pick: Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne
Don’t Trust Andrew Mayne is a magic-themed reality series entering an increasingly busy niche format…
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NATPE Hot Pick: Velvet
Period drama is the most in-vogue form of scripted programming in the world right now,…
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Show of the week: Tequila Sisters
Sure to be of major interest to Latino buyers at the Fontainebleau is Tequila Sisters,…
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NATPE Hot Pick: Valdivia
Gerardo Mejía, the actor and singer of ‘Rico Suave’, is the writer and force behind…
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NATPE Hot Pick: Through the Keyhole
Through the Keyhole is a solid option for buyers with mainstream audiences – the series…