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  • BBC notches up record sales at Mipcom 2002

    BBC notches up record sales at Mipcom 2002

    CANNES: BBC Worldwide, the main commercial arm of the BBC, has concluded record programming deals at the ongoing Mipcom international television market in Cannes.

    The company claims to have notched up more than 5 million worth of co-productions and programme licensing agreements in the first few days of the market. Overall business, as a result of its attendance at the market, is expected to generate more than 40 million for BBC Worldwide.

    More than 1000 hours of programming, from across all genres, has been licensed to broadcasters around the world. Highlights to date include:

    – The natural history series Wild New World has been licensed to WDR Germany, SVT Poland, VRT Belgium, TV Catalunya, Tele Madrid, TV Valencia and Euskal Telebista in Spain, and YLE Finland.

    – The Life of Mammals, David Attenborough’s new 10-part series, has been licensed to YLE Finland, SVT Sweden, VRT Belgium, ORT Russia, M-NET South Africa and ABC Australia.

    – The ABC has taken Walking with Cavemen, along with France 2, VRT Belgium, SVT Sweden and CBC Canada, while Sahara, Michael Palin’s latest globe trotting adventure, has been pre-sold to 11 broadcasters including TVNZ New Zealand, ABC Australia, YLE Finland, VRT Belgium and NRK Norway.

    – Crime and Punishment, Spooks, Mersey Beat, Tweenies and the new teen actioner Ace Lightning have also been licensed to VRT Belgium, whilst the BBC’s racy new period drama, Tipping the Velvet will be broadcast by CBC Canada and the BBC’s hit comedy series The Office (series 2) by TPS Cinma in France.

    – Ace Lightning has also been licensed to German terrestrial channel ZDF, HMG Netherlands and TVB Hong Kong.

    – In Australia BBC Worldwide Asia Pacific has signed an agreement with ABC TV to broadcast Fimbles, the latest addition to the BBC Worldwide Children’s programming line-up, on ABC Kids in 2003.

    – BBC Worldwide also signed a record nine co-production agreements with broadcasters in Germany, significantly refocusing the company’s business in the market.

    – Public broadcaster NDR has signed co-production agreements for the new history documentary Pyramid and the three-part series Monsters We Met. ZDF will co-produce Human Hunter and The Race for Everest. (Monsters We Met and Pyramid are BBC/Discovery Channel/NDR Germany co-productions).

  • Formats Day at Mipcom 2002

    Formats Day at Mipcom 2002

    MUMBAI: The stage is set for Mipcom 2002 (International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable and Satellite), to be held in Cannes, France, from 7 to 11 October. One section that is going to have Indian programming executives looking for the next Kaun Banega Crorepati keenly interested is likely to be Formats Day, on 9 October, featuring a keynote, a high-powered panel and a pitching session.

    As broadcasters and format providers around the world respond to voracious demand for innovative and exciting entertainment concepts to a degree never seen before, Mipcom has devoted a full day to it.

    Formats Day will kick off with an exclusive keynote, Formatting The Future Of TV Entertainment, by David Liddiment, director of programmes, ITV Network (UK) who will look at the benefits broadcasters can expect from investing into formats.

    In Getting Creative: Formats Specialists Bring New Twists To Tale an international panel of formats specialists will show how “genre-mixing” is changing the business and how format providers are sprucing up well-worn game show, reality and infotainment concepts and introducing strong elements of variety, comedy and drama into their newest shows. Citing the latest and most innovative examples, speakers will also examine how the creative process is influenced by the need to generate cross-platform revenues and bolster channel “brand”.

    Following a similar pitching session held at last MIP TV, Star Turn: What Are Tomorrow’s Format Hits?, will give five producers the chance to demonstrate why they think their formats are destined for international acclaim. The formats, which have been selected by NOTA, have been broadcast to excellent ratings in their home countries, but have not yet been sold abroad.

    Selected formats include:

    – game show Heaven Or Hell, presented by Uri Shinar, president & CEO and Illi Edry, head of marketing and business developing, Keshet Formats (Israel);

    – Lance In Space, a spatial reality soap (David Krieff, president & CEO and Mike Nedjar, V-P, Destiny Productions / Celebrity Mission, USA);

    – Liar, a game show (Harry Thompson, senior comedy producer, Talkback Entertainment, UK);

    – The New Retreat, a spiritual reality series (Patty Geneste, managing director, Absolutely Independent, and Kirsten van Nieuwenhuijzen, creative director, Intellygents, both companies are from the Netherlands);

    – and reality show Vis Ma Vie (Patrick Ballarin, director and partner, Rservoir Prod, France).

    The pitching session is organised with the support of NOTA (NOTA is developed by IMCA, Eurodata TV and Mediametrie). Formats Day partners include: IMCA (International Media Consultants Associes) and TvFormats (UK) (Formats marketing company, www.tvformats.com).

    Meanwhile, among the many programme shoppers attending Mipcom this autumn are two major Chinese companies, a new indigenous free-to-air channel from New Zealand and a large delegation of Indonesian executives.

    Mipcom, the international film and programme market for TV, video, cable & satellite is, with MIPTV, the leading international television programme market. Last year it featured 9,943 executives, 2,783 companies including 1,228 exhibiting companies.

  • ADV Films’ licensing opportunities at MIPCOM 2002

    ADV Films’ licensing opportunities at MIPCOM 2002

    HOUSTON (Texas): ADV Films, a leading distributor of anime and genre live action programming in the English-speaking world has announced a partial list of the global licensing opportunities the firm will have available at MIPCOM 2002. The annual international licensing fair is to be held in Cannes, France from 7 to 11 October .

    Aimed primarily at the international television market, MIPCOM features representatives of the TV broadcasting, TV production & distribution industries, DVD and video producers and distributors, Internet and new media companies, advertising firms, licensing and merchandising firms and myriad collateral service providers. ADV Films has several titles available to be licensed for broadcast and distribution in markets across the globe. Apart from television and home video rights, ADV Films also offers merchandising, game and other rights for licensing.

    The company is offering titles in numerous genres and formats, with availability in Europe, Africa, Australasia, Central and South America and more. The company says MIPCOM is the ideal one-stop setting for meeting potential licensees and for discussing opportunities each of its properties has to offer.

    Television, home video, merchandising and game rights available for these and other ADV titles include Lady Death The Movie, Kaleido Star, Noir.

    Today, ADV claims to be the number one distributor of Japanese animation to the North American market, with the firm’s holdings including such premier titles as priggan, Sailor Moon, Samurai X.. ADV has also expanded into other forms of genre programming, including live-action science fiction programmes like Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda and Farscape.