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Product News ZODIAK KIDS ZODIAK Kids brings new series Magiki to MIPTV, a 52 x 11 mins animation series for the Gulli channel in France and the Super channel in Italy. The series is an upper-pre-school series that tells the story of a seven-year-old girl named Billie, who when treated unfairly by her older sisters uses a magic key to travel to the enchanted land of Magiki where she is the beloved princess and her friends and toys her loyal subjects. Magiki is based on a range of figurines produced by DeAgostini. Fit For Fashion
BOMANBRIDGE MEDIA (Bomanbridge Media) FIT FOR Fashion (season 1, 10 x 60 mins/season 2, 10 x 60 mins) is a reality show
Magiki (Zodiak Kids)
that takes 14 ordinary men and women from around the world and attempts to transform them into fit, stylish and confident individuals through a competition covering physical and fashion challenges. There’s style advice and coaching from Louise Roe, the host; motivating workouts created by celebrity trainers Mitch Chilson and Christine Bullock; and high-end fashion photography by Todd Anthony Tyler. The Singapore-based distributor also brings The Apartment (10 x 60 mins), a competition that pits celebrities from the worlds of television, music, high fashion and film against each other in a home design challenges, for a prize of $100,000 for their chosen charity. Challenges are set by designers Jamie Durie, Andrea Savage and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.
UPSIDE DISTRIBUTION UPSIDE Distribution presents three original productions made for Canal+ at MIPTV. Reset is about Benjamin Millepied’s first creation for Opera National de Paris; Coach Me If You Can, is about legendary coaches Toni Nadal (Rafa Nadal’s coach), Carlo Ancelotti (Milan AC, Chelsea, PSG, Real Madrid), Claude Onesta (Handball gold medalist and world champion with the French national team), Huand Yubin (China gymnastics team) and Graeme Henry (All Blacks rugby); and 16 Sunrises follows Thomas Pesquet and Peggy Whitson on their Space Station mission. The French distributor also brings Hitler’s Bankers and several new projects including documentaries The Tragedy Of International Brigades, Wildlife In South Africa, Space Tomorrow (6 x 52 mins) and a biography of Jean Paul Belmondo, produced for ARTE.
CINEFLIX RIGHTS LONDON -based Cineflix Rights brings
GRB ENTERTAINMENT PRIORITIES for GRB Entertainment at MIPTV include: One Bad Choice, featuring
reality series Hell’s Satans (8 x 30 mins) to MIPTV. Hell’s Satans is a 20-something moped gang from Richmond, Virginia for whom being rowdy is a virtue and getting thrown out is as much fun as the party itself. Whether they’re on a ride, at a bar, or hanging out at their skate-park clubhouse, the Satans keep boredom at bay with elaborate pranks, outrageous stunts, and plenty of booze. No one has a regular job, they just care about revving their tiny engines and refusing to grow up.
stories from young people who each made one single, terrible decision that irrevocably changed their lives forever — including a high school student who took drugs and whose best friend suffered dire consequences and a teenager who became unwittingly involved in a robbery that ended in tragedy. Nelson Serrano: I’m Innocent, is about businessman Serrano who was convicted of murdering four people in Florida and was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Secret Guide To Fabulous covers many aspects of life including whipping up a gourmet meal, refining your personal style, picking the perfect gift or One Bad Choice (GRB Entertainment) managing life on social media.
Hell’s Satans (Cineflix Rights)
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