TBI Fireside Chat with Applause Entertainment’s CEO, Sameer Nair

Sameer Nair, CEO at India’s Applause Entertainment, joins TBI editor Richard Middleton to discuss the huge opportunities emerging in his country as streamers such as Netflix, Disney and Amazon join regional players to create a hugely competitive sector.

Nair also reveals Applause’s international strategy, its financing potential and its desire for more global partnerships, as well as the company’s expansive slate and its work with companies such as BBC Studios and TF1 on scripted format adaptations of shows such as Luther.

• 9th December 2020

TBI Fireside Chat with Julia Dick, Consultant Executive Producer, Survivor

Julia Dick, consultant executive producer for Banijay Rights – and recent winner of TBI’s Outstanding Contribution To Content award – has worked on reality format Survivor for almost two decades. Here, she shares some behind the scenes secrets from the show with TBI editor Richard Middleton and considers what has contributed to the format’s longevity, as well as revealing which member of the Trump family featured on the show.

• 9th December 2020

TBI Fireside Chat with Cineflix Right’s CEO, Chris Bonney

Cineflix Rights CEO Chris Bonney joins TBI editor Richard Middleton to discuss some of the highlights of the company’s slate, which straddles both scripted and unscripted – including kids cooking competition format Step Up To The Plate, factual special Warrior Women With Lupita Nyong’o and returning thriller Marcella. The exec also reveals what 2021 has in store for him as he prepares to leave the company, after more than three decades in the industry to date.

• 9th December 2020

Content Innovation Awards 2020

Cineflix Rights, Banijay’s format Lego Masters and Canadian drama Transplant were among the standout winners at this year’s Content Innovation Awards, which was broadcast on 3 December and is now available online.

An array of international companies were among prize winners at the sixth edition of the annual awards, which were this year revealed via a virtual ceremony as judges and the TBI team honoured finalists across an array of categories.

• 8th December 2020

TBI Fireside Chat with Federation Entertainment’s Monica Levy & Jean-Michel Ciszewski

Monica Levy and Jean-Michel Ciszewski, Federation Entertainment co-heads of international for drama, join TBI editor Richard Middleton to unveil the French company’s expansive new scripted slate, including recent CANNESERIES winners Partisan and Red Light.
Levy and Ciszewski also discuss new drama highlights including French series Cheyenne & Lola and Israeli hit Blackspace, and reveal the latest production news for their hugely ambitious new English-language series Around The World In 80 Days.

• 16th October 2020

TBI Fireside Chat with Vuulr’s Ian Mckee – The Democratisation of Content

Vuulr CEO & founder Ian Mckee joins TBI editor Richard Middleton to discuss how the digital marketplace is enabling buyers to find a wider selection of content and sellers to uncover new markets for their shows.

Mckee also reveals the countries that have been quickest to adopt digital distribution, as well as how the service is making the acquisition process more efficient for the biggest and the most boutique distributors.

Learn more about Vuulr here: www.vuulr.com

• 6th August 2020

TBI Interview: Monica Levy, Head of International Sales, Federation Kids and Family

Federation Kids and Family’s international sales chief Monica Levy tells Richard Middleton how the French company is navigating the fast-changing TV landscape and outlines why shows such as ‘Find Me In Paris’ have been such a success. She also details how Federation is working with partners on new projects, including live-action series, and discusses ‘The Star of Andra and Tati’, an animated special that tells the true story of two sisters who were deported to Auschwitz as children.

• 8th November 2019

Content Innovation Awards 2019

Endemol Shine Group, Sky and Kew Media were among the stand-out winners at this year’s Content Innovation Awards, which took place during a lavish ceremony prior to MIPCOM in Cannes.

At a packed event at the Majestic Hotel, Sky’s epic series Chernobyl beat off finalists including Benedict Cumberbatch-starring Patrick Melrose and Bavaria Fiction’s Das Boot to take home the coveted Best Debut Drama Series prize.

The awards, which are now into their fifth year, also saw Endemol Shine take home the Entertainment Format of the Year trophy for its culinary veteran MasterChef, while the Best Documentary Series prize was won by Kew Media Distribution for Leaving Neverland, about the two men who alleged they were sexually abused by pop icon Michael Jackson.

Watch video highlights from the event and find out the full list of winners here: http://bit.ly/CIAWARDS19WINNERS

• 21st October 2019

TBI Interview: Sophie Ferron, President, Media Ranch

Media Ranch president Sophie Ferron discusses the Montreal-based producer-distributor’s top formats, including divorce show The Expert, as well as her ambitions for a more IP-driven and global-facing future. Ferron also outlines plans for a new formats incubator out of Quebec, and how Media Ranch is thriving in a shifting Canadian media landscape.

Watch the trailers:

The Expert
https://vimeo.com/296454938/7911c852d5

The Judas
https://vimeo.com/296454717/e3523cfae0

The Vault
https://vimeo.com/296454868/112518f6bf

• 30th October 2018

TBI Interview: Matthew Frank, CEO, TRX

As distributors face the challenge of servicing more and more broadcasters than ever before, Jesse Whittock interviews TRX CEO Matthew Frank to understand how this innovative technology is creating efficiencies in the distribution market, making TV rights deals faster and more efficient than ever before.

• 4th October 2017