iPRODUCTNEWS Battle Cats (Soshefeigh Media)
TWOFOUR RIGHTS
ALEX Polizzi, the third generation hotelier of the Forte family dynasty features in The Hotel Inspector, now in its 10th series. Polizzi’s mission is to cast fresh eyes over failing hotels with eye-popping decor, hapless hosts or family feuds, using her expertise to help bring them up to a high standard. The Hotel Inspector is the longest running format on the UK’s Channel 5, and is brought to MIPCOM by Twofour Rights.
SOSHEFEIGH MEDIA
NEW CANADIAN venture Soshefeigh brings a slate of unscripted formats to MIPCOM, including: game show The Algorithm, food competition The Meal Ticket; transformational plastic surgery format My Perfect Day; and comedy game show Battle Cats. Strategic partnerships have already be formed with NBCUniversal, eOne, Ryan Seacrest Productions, Endemol and Force Four Entertainment to produce Soshefeigh’s formats. Alex Polizzi, The Hotel Inspector (Twofour Rights)
TOTALCHANNEL
BARCELONA-based TotalChannel is a pay-TV platform that operates 100% in the cloud with its own Network Personal Video Recorder technology (nPVR). Content is offered on monthly subscription that includes 12 live channels, including those broadcast by Sony, Fox, Viacom, Cosmo, NBCU, Warner and A&E. Most of the channels have HD image and audio quality, catch-up capability and the ability to record and store on the remote hard disk. In addition it is available on PC or MAC computers, tablets, Samsung and LG SmartTV, Bluray and soon on video-game consoles. I TV STUDIOS GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT (ITVGSE)
THE UK’s ITVSGE brings a range of drama and
entertainment programming to MIPCOM. In Big Star’s Little Star (6 x 60 mins) celebrities team up with their young children to win money for charity. Stepping Out (5 x 90 mins) sees six celebrities and their real life partners in a dance competition. Tricked (6 x 60 mins) features a mystery magician who amazes unsuspecting celebrities and members of the public with hidden camera magic. Set in London in 1961, Breathless (6 x 60 mins) follows a group of doctors and nurses in a London hospital, uncovering the secrets, love, ambition and sex in their relationships.
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AK ENTERTAINMENT
KOREA’s AK Entertainment is prioritising two HD series at MIPCOM. Bible Route Season 2 (4 x 60 mins), is produced by CBS, the biggest Christian broadcasting network in Asia. The Master (9 x 60 mins) looks at the people who work to preserve Korean culture, art history, dancing, and other cultural assets.
PBS INTERNATIONAL
PBS BRINGS three new HD documentaries to MIPCOM. Sand Wars (1 x 52/75 mins) is an investigation into how and why three-quarters of the world’s beaches are in decline and disappear through erosion or sand smuggling. War Of The Worlds (1 x 60 mins) celebrates the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles’ infamous radio broadcast when millions of listeners heard a report that Martians had landed in New Jersey, causing mass hysteria. Secrets Of Britain (6 x 60 mins) explores British icons, including: The Tower of London, Selfridges, Scotland Yard, Her Majesty’s Secret Service, The British Museum, and The Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.
Sand Wars (PBS International)
A+E NETWORKS
A+E BRINGS a line-up of Lifetime Original Movies to MIPCOM, including: Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (1 x 120 mins), the true story of a 28-year-old aspiring photographer found guilty of killing her former lover; Abducted: The Search For Sophie Parker (1 x 120 mins), about two friends, one the daughter of the American Ambassador to Russia, who are drugged and kidnapped at a nightclub by an international sex slavery ring; and Baby Sellers (1 x 120 mins) which stars Kirstie Alley as a well-respected adoption agency owner who is actually operating a ruthless black-market baby racket.
Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (A+E Networks)
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