Juggernaut to adapt Muskan Sethi story IN10 Media Network’s production house, Juggernaut Productions, has acquired the rights to tell the life story of Indian professional poker player Muskan Sethi. Born in New Delhi, Sethi found poker at a young age through her father who watched poker games. The turning point for her career was when […]
WBD selects Black History Month shorts Warner Bros. Discovery and Media Trust have revealed the filmmakers whose short films, focused on what it means to be Black and British, will stream on Discovery+ UK throughout Black History Month. The three short films The Nod – Tell Me You Got Me by Richard Ampeh, Too Autistic […]
Canada’s Quebecor Content has commissioned a French-language version of the ITV Studios game show format I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! for its TVA network. The deal follows a recent launch of the format in Mexico on Azteca, produced by Acun, with the two new versions expanding the format to 16 countries. The […]
Banijay takes Wild Cooks global Banijay has acquired exclusive global format distribution rights to Wild Cooks, which was created by French-Canadian production company Toast in collaboration with Quebecor Content. The format sees chefs leave the comfort of their professional kitchens behind, as they are dropped into an isolated forest camp by helicopter to prepare dishes […]
Montreal-based Quebecor Content has appointed Louis Pearson to oversee its acquisitions activity. Pearson, who was most recently director of fiction acquisitions & Quebec film development since 2018, will now become senior director of acquisitions & original film, with a remit to buy shows for the TVA Group, Club illico and Vrai platforms. He will lead the […]
French production and distribution giant Gaumont has acquired the rights to upcoming comedy-drama format About Anthony. Written by Cathleen Rouleau, scripted by Benoît Pelletier and currently being developed by ComediHa! in collaboration with Quebecor Content, the original Quebec version of About Anthony will be directed by Podz (Lupin, Vikings). Inspired by Rouleau’s own life, About Anthony tells the story of Julie, who starts a new relationship and […]
Quebecor Content, the studio division of Canada’s Quebecor Media, is making a French-language version of the ITV Studios reality format I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! This new local version is being produced by Montreal-based Productions Déferlantes in collaboration with Quebecor Content, and will debut on on Quebecor’s French-language network TVA this fall. […]
Canadian producer and distributor Media Ranch has unveiled the winner of the third edition of its Horsepower incubation initiative. Alexandra Paquin, a Canadian film student at Concordia University in Montreal, was selected for her dating show format for millennials, which she workshopped over a four-month period with top industry mentors. The winning format will now […]
Canada’s Quebecor Content has picked up adaptation rights to hit South Korean format The King Of Masked Singer (aka The Masked Singer). The deal has been struck with the sales arm of original broadcaster Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), which has seen the format already adapted in more that 40 countries. Broadcaster details of the French-Canadian version have […]
French broadcaster TF1 has joined the third edition of format project Horsepower, the incubation initiative from Canadian producer and distributor Media Ranch. Season one and two partners Media Ranch and Quebecor Content will also be joined for Horsepower 3.0 by format accelerator La Fabrique Des Formats. The annual initiative is aimed at creating exportable unscripted TV formats […]
