PRODUCT NEWS MULTICOM ENTERTAINMENT GROUP
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TRICON FILMS & TELEVISION
REALITY soap Gold Diggers (12 x 30 mins/HD) follows the luxurious, sexy and often corrupt lives of five young women living an addictive lifestyle where their wishes really do come true, though drama and jealousy are always present. The series is brought to MIPTV by Los Angeles-based Multicom Entertainment Group.
NEW ANIMATION series Shutterbugs is in production and scheduled for Canadian broadcasters TVO, Knowledge Kids and Radio-Canada in French Canada. The series mixes science and math with stories for children to encourage early learners’ skills, and is produced by Canadian companies Amberwood Entertainment and Big Jump Productions, and Canada’s Tricon is international distributor and executive producer.
Gold Diggers (Multicom Entertainment Group)
Shutterbugs (Tricon Films & Television)
ZODIAK RIGHTS
NEW GAME show Versus (10 x 60 mins) is currently in production with Zodiak Media’s Mastiff Denmark for Danish national broadcaster DR1. Produced by Zodiak Media’s own production company, Kanaka, for Belgium’s RTBF, where the programme launched in October 2013, the show challenges audience members to guess what will happen in a number of contests — whether between a celebrity versus an amateur, man against machine, or a cross-discipline face-off between famous sportsmen. The audience decides who they think will triumph using individual keypads.
PBS INTERNATIONAL
WITH the rapid emergence of digital devices, an unstoppable, invisible force is changing human lives in incredible ways. Every two days the human race is now generating as much data as was generated from the dawn of humanity through the year 2003. The massive gathering and analysing of data in real time is allowing us to address some of humanity’s biggest challenges, but as Edward Snowden and the release of National Security Administration documents have shown, the accessibility of all this data comes at a steep price. The Human Face Of Big Data, a documentary brought to MIPTV by the US’ PBS, explores the promise and peril of this extraordinary The Human Face Of Big Data (PBS International) knowledge revolution. ELECTRIC SKY
UK- AND Hong Kong-based factual distributor Electric Sky brings football freestyler series F2 Kicks Off (16 x 30 mins) to MIPTV. The series from Renowned Films was the first primetime commission for new UK channel London Live, and features football freestyling duo Billy Wingrove and Jeremy Lynch. The duo’s global following includes Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and David Beckham, and a YouTube channel with nearly 200,000 subscribers. Also on the slate of over 250 new hours are: Ariana’s Persian Kitchen (7 x 30 mins) fronted by Iranian-American chef Ariana Bundy; The Human Tissue Team (2 x 60 mins), which follows a British medical team; The Munch Box (12 x 45 mins), a cooking competition for children; and tech show Planet Of The Apps (26 x30). Versus (Zodiak Rights)
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F2 Kicks Off (Electric Sky)