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ABC orders Cannes-bound Bryan Singer drama

US broadcaster ABC has given a straight-to-series order to The Black Box, an upcoming drama that has producers including House’s Bryan Singer attached. The series will star Kelly Reilly (Above Suspicion) as a neurosurgeon whose connection with her patient’s brains help her unravel their stories away from the operating table. Vanessa Redgrave (Mission: Impossible) and […]

Red Arrow launching Dustin Hoffman show in Cannes

Red Arrow will launch the much-anticipated one-off drama Esio Trot at MIPCOM. The TV movie is an adaptation of the eponymous Roald Dahl novel and is being made by Richard Curtis (Love Actually). In the UK the film, which stars Dustin Hoffman and Dame Judy Dench, will be on BBC One. It is being made […]

Eccho Rights asks Who’s Got the Money?

Stockholm-based distributor Eccho Rights has acquired gameshow Who’s Got the Money?, and will launch it at MIPCOM. The show comes from Paris-based French TV and sees 12 contestants quizzed by ‘profiler’, who attempts to determine which ones are holding suitcases filled with cash through a series of extreme challenges. “We saw that dramas featuring profilers […]

Channel 5 secures Red Kite preschooler

UK broadcaster Channel 5 has acquired Bradley and Bee from Scotland-based production company Red Kite Animation. The show, which was coproduced with animation software developer Digimania, is based on The Adventures of Bradley and Friends, a franchise created by Hungry Boy Productions’ Scott Downie. It will broadcast on Channel 5’s Milkshake! Strand from 2015. “This […]

Kiwi drug drama Harry paves way for Desert Road

New Zealand drama indie Desert Road is moving into in-house international distribution for the first time by bringing its crime series Harry to MIPCOM. Previously, Desert Road had employed distributors such as All3Media International, Lionsgate and BBC Worldwide to sell its dramas, which have included This is Not My Life. However, Desert Road is taking […]

RTÉ cooks up pre-market sales

Ireland’s RTÉ Television Programme Sales as closed package deals for cooking shows with broadcasters in Europe and New Zealand. The international sales arm of Irish pubcaster RTÉ has for the first time sold Germany’s ohm:tv, which is owned by BonGusto, programming. The package includes Catherine’s Family Kitchen and Catherine’s Roman Holiday, in which Irish celebrity […]

Essential fills MIP slate with Bubble Bath Bay

Rake coproducer Essential Media and Entertainment is sending four children’s series to MIPJunior next month, including the 52x11mins Bubble Bath Bay. Essential’s latest drama series Rake is set to launch on Fox in the US later this season, coproduced with Fedora Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television, but it is also active in the kids’ space. […]

MIPCOM Hot Pick: She’s With Me

Use the phrase ‘new Israeli scripted drama’ and you’ll certainly grab attention in Cannes, and Keshet International – the firm that sells Homeland format Prisoners of War – has one such project in its bag. She’s With Me comes from Endemol Israel (Kuperman Productions before the recent Endemol acquisition) and is written by the host […]

MIPJunior: Super Wings!

The international nature of the kids TV business is encapsulated in a new show for MIPJunior, Super Wings!, which was created in South Korea, is being written in the US and animated in China. Funnyflux Entertainment is hoping to follow up the success of its Zodiak-distributed kids series Tickety Toc with the new animated preschool […]

Latin focus: Telemundo Internacional

Telenovela Labour of Love, a Cinderella-style story, New Orleans-set revenge drama Broken Angel (pictured) and My Dear Handyman, a coproduction with Globo, lead the Telemundo Internacional line-up at MIPCOM this time round. “We have good expectations for our productions, especially for Spain and Middle Eastern territories,” says Karina Etchison, VP of sales for EMEA at Telemundo Internacional. Telemundo has […]

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