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  • NATPE Mobile++ announces Peter Cowley, Cyriac Roeding and Gary Carter to Keynote 15 January event

    NATPE Mobile++ announces Peter Cowley, Cyriac Roeding and Gary Carter to Keynote 15 January event

    MUMBAI: NATPE Mobile++ organisers have secured three digital and interactive media executives as keynote speakers for the third annual NATPE Mobile++ event, which will kick off NATPE’s conference and exhibition on 15 January 2007.

    Endemol UK director interactive media Peter Cowley; CBC Corporation vice president wireless Cyriac Roeding and FMX FremantleMedia chief creative officer Gary Carter will participate.

    In an interview format hosted by Paidcontent.org publisher and editor Rafat Ali, Peter Cowley’s opening keynote will discuss Endemol’s mobile, gaming and interactive broadcast activities for a number of its properties, including Deal or No Deal, Get Close to the Sugar Babies and Big Brother. Cowley will also speak about the UK £15 million digital investment fund they have set up to develop new opportunities in digital media, asserts an official release.

    Billed as the most valuable thirty minutes you could spend all year, Cyriac Roeding’s keynote session will address the next generation of media and the newly expanded media model: the convergence of Hollywood and Silicon Valley; the next generation of content; how traditional media platforms become interactive assets and how advertising needs to quickly follow this trend.

    Digital veteran and visionary Gary Carter’s closing keynote will reveal the biggest business opportunities and pitfalls in the digital industry. Carter will share his perspective on the most lucrative opportunities in the media space.

    NATPE Mobile++’s line-up of guest speakers also includes: BET EVP and COO BET Interactive Scott Mills; Microsoft VP corporate media content and partner strategy group Blair Westlake; CBS EVP chief of research David Poltrack; Amp’d Mobile founder and CEO Peter Adderton; Americas VP integrated fremantle licensing worldwide marketing and interactive Keith Hindle; QuickPlay Media CCO and co-founder Raja Khanna; Fox Sports Interactive senior VP business development Jon Smelzer; Sprint senior manager consumer communications partner development Howard Coonley and Mobile content consultant Graeme Ferguson.

  • Fremantle to go to Natpe with dramas

    Fremantle to go to Natpe with dramas

    MUMBAI: At the television trade event Natpe next year in Las Vegas television format creator and distributor FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) will offer big brand shows and drama programming.

    Kicking things off will be The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency with Janice Dickinson making an appearance at the Mandalay Bay to showcase this series.

    On the show she endures the trials and tribulations of setting up her own modelling agency. After five seasons as the ‘Simon-Cowell-of-modelling’ judge on America’s Next Top Model, Janice is now taking the reigns as both star and producer of this hit new show which has already made waves around the world.

    Live From Abbey Road makes its Natpe debut, with the likes of Snow Patrol, Massive Attack, LeAnn Rimes and the Red Hot Chili Peppers celebrating the 75th anniversary of London’s legendary Abbey Road recording studios. Both new and established artists offer a unique insight into the world of the musician as they rehearse, discuss their work, and build towards the final exclusive performance at the home of music.

    Series three of Project Runway is available, hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum. This wildly popular series from The Weinstein Company was nominated for three 2006 Emmy awards and screens in 21 territories worldwide. Series three sees fifteen new fashion designers battling it out for the chance to show their designs in front of the global fashion community in New York and be displayed in the pages of Elle magazine. A hot property, the series three finale of Project Runway recently achieved a record-breaking 5.4 million viewers – the highest rated programme ever on Bravo.

    The Martha Stewart Show makes a return to NATPE, featuring celebrity-studded and informative segments, with the spotlight on Martha Stewart’s sense of humour and love of fun. Having recently been renewed for a further series on NBC, each episode features movers and shakers, headline makers, A-list celebrities plus everyday people who’ve accomplished extraordinary things.

    With guests such as Russell Crowe, Jamie Oliver, Olivia Newton-John, Jessica Alba, Harrison Ford, Sharon Stone, Jason Biggs, Paul Walker and the cast of Desperate Housewives, season one of The Martha Stewart Show received five Emmy nominations and scooped one award.

  • Fremantle Archive Sales launches catalogue online

    Fremantle Archive Sales launches catalogue online

    MUMBAI: Fremantle Archive Sales, the clip and still sales division of FremantleMedia, has launched a new website, www.fremantlearchivesales.com, which will allow users to browse through FremantleMedia’s entire Archive Sales catalogue online.

    For the first time in FremantleMedia history, the site will grant content users access to titles from the FremantleMedia catalogue online simply by inputting a programme or artist’s name into the search box. The development of this site will mean that FremantleMedia’s entire catalogue of footage and stills will be accessible worldwide and highlight the diversity and range of programmes that FremantleMedia has to offer, from American Idol to Neighbours.

    Users will also be able to search for footage and stills from third party catalogues represented by Fremantle Archive Sales, such as Fresh One (Jamie’s Kitchen, Jamie’s School Dinners), as well as the Thames News Archive, which includes London news from the 1970s right through to 1992. In addition, the website will act as a forum to announce any new developments and acquisitions and users will be able to sign up to receive regular email mailshots containing all the latest news.

    Fremantle Archive Sales business development executive Sam Partner said, “The development of this website presents a fantastic opportunity for the Archive Sales department to showcase our portfolio to an even broader market. It will enable us, as a company, to develop much closer relationships with our existing client base as well as help us continue to grow and establish new ones.”

    The Fremantle Archive Sales website is available at www.fremantlearchivesales.com and will also be linked to FremantleMedia’s corporate website, www.fremantlemedia.com.

  • Fremantle scoops Hew Award for ‘Punk:Attitude’

    Fremantle scoops Hew Award for ‘Punk:Attitude’

    MUMBAI: Fremantle Home Entertainment (FHE), the home entertainment division of FremantleMedia, has scooped an award for the 2005 feature length film Punk:Attitude.

    FHE walked away with the award for Best Music and Stage Show at the Home Entertainment Week (HEW) Awards of Excellence 2006 held in London, beating competing nominees Jerry Springer: The Opera (Pathe) and Concert of Bangladesh (Warner Vision). Punk:Attitude was also highly commended in this year’s Best Extras category.

    Punk:Attitude is a 90 minute Don Letts Film, which documents how the punk revolution ignited onto the streets of London and New York in the mid 1970’s. It portrays how classic teenage rebellion, combined with the musical and social environment of the time, created the punk movement, as well as how its unique identity of independence and D.I.Y. (Do It Yourself) ideology has continued to define youth culture. The movie takes a highly original look at this movement and has sold-out to rapturous audiences at both the Tribeca Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival in 2005.

    It is distributed internationally by FHE and is available on double disk DVD, which features over two hours of extras including featurettes on women in punk, fashion, fanzines, record companies and much more. The set also comes complete with a replica of Sniffin Glue magazine.

  • Zee English and Movies launched

    Zee English and Movies launched

    Two English entertainment channels were launched on 15 March by Zee Telefilms chairman Subhash Chandra and Chief Executive R.K. Singh in Mumbai. Zee Movies and Zee English will be offering fierce competition to Star World, Star Movies and HBO. Or at least so hopes the Zee Telefilms management.

    The two channels are aiming at the niche but relatively large English speaking and understanding audiences in India and also lovers of B-grade movies and some up-to-date series from the US market. The launch coincides with the launch of the preview broadcast of global movie champ HBO over India.

    Zee English and Zee Movies are free to air currently but will be encrypted as part of the Zee digital bouquet. The company is bringing in a small batch of Philips IRDs to seed the market until the transition to a digital bouquet.

    Both the channels are airing a mix of eighties, nineties, and even the most recent season’s programming from the US. On offer are series such as ER, Friends, The David Letterman show, Here’s Lucy, Central Park West, Three’s Company, Charlie Chaplin, Twilight Zone etc on Zee English.

    In a bid to raise the hackles of Zee TV’s former partner Star TV, the programming team has decided to air the consignment of Friends episodes it has the rights to just half an hour before it is aired on Star World.

    The software for Zee Movies has been acquired from MGM, Pearson, Carlton, Fremantle, Diskovery, and Passport International. Some of the titles on offer include: Quest, Kazaam, Evil Dead, Leon.

    Chandra points out that there will be a dedicated effort from the Zee Telefilms programming team to produce English language software which will find a market internationally. “Instead of importing software from foreign countries, we will develop our own content which will find buyers not only in India but also in the global village,” he says.

    Singh believes that the two English channels will break even in the next two to three years like any other Hindi entertainment channel.

    Will he have to eat his words in two years time?

    “Unlikely,” says Chandra. “Ultimately it will be the consumer who will decide. And we are confident we will help him decide in our favour.”