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  • MIPCOM 2014: Culture Machine to bring What’s Trending to India

    MIPCOM 2014: Culture Machine to bring What’s Trending to India

    CANNES: MIPCOM 2014, now in its 30th year, is the biggest hub where the industry’s major players converge to turn every moment into an opportunity. Making the most of it, Culture Machine, a next generation digital video entertainment company, has announced a strategic tie-up with the award winning US based network, What’s Trending.
     
    In a first-of-its-kind content alliance, Culture Machine will launch the India channel/network for What’s Trending and create exclusive programming under the brand for the region. This strategic alliance will not only strengthen Culture Machine’s leadership in the space but also provide digital consumers with a wide array of international quality content.
     
    Through this alliance, Culture Machine will work closely with What’s Trending to create content, featuring talents and brands across the Indian sub-continent and syndicate What’s Trending India and International content in the region.
     
    The video entertainment company will use its network strength of over 500 YouTube creators, brands, state-of-the-art production facilities and proprietary technology capabilities to grow the What’s Trending brand in the country. This marks a first time partnership where an original digital property is formatted locally by an international digital network.
     
    “Culture Machine and What’s Trending both work with the core objective of creating entertaining, trending and shareable digital video content that reaches out to audiences at scale through powerful, creative and path-breaking digital programming. This alliance is a perfect match. We are delighted to partner with What’s Trending and spearhead the first international digital format partnership in the space,” said Culture Machine CEO Sameer Pitalwalla.
     
    What’s Trending is an award-winning US-based media company which gives its audiences the hottest trending videos and internet culture every day, starring the biggest traditional and digital stars anywhere. With over 50,000,000 views on YouTube, What’s Trending works with the biggest brands in the world to entertain audiences via any and every screen.
     
     Culture Machine COO Venkat Prasad added, “Culture Machine has a unique and unmatched understanding of India’s digital market and through our proprietary technology, we not only understand what the audience sitting online wants but have the capability to deliver it and scale it, consistently, time and again. We are confident of our capabilities to provide the best platform to What’s Trending in India and make the brand grow in the region.”
     
    “We are incredibly proud to partner with Culture Machine, a company that shares our vision of creating television quality entertainment for the digital generation,” said What’s Trending CEO Damon Berger. “With Culture Machine, the format of What’s Trending will inform and delight audiences all over India and Southeast Asia,” he concluded.

     

  • Fashion One Dish Out The Most Notorious Fashion Feuds Over The Recent Years

    Fashion One Dish Out The Most Notorious Fashion Feuds Over The Recent Years

    MUMBAI: In an industry packed with eccentric and passionate people with strong and often egocentric personalities, the fashion world is like a soap opera, full of drama and with never-ending catty remarks. Fashion One, the premiere international channel for fashion, entertainment and lifestyle, serves up another batch of the hair-grabbing, face-scratching, icicle-shooting high profile clashes in Fashion Feuds.

     

    Past grudges, highly publicized scuffles, and fashion controversies are in abundance that listing them out needs more than one serving. Fashion Feuds is an ongoing series that dishes out the biggest and most notorious catfights in the fashion industry that had kept the press and fans entertained throughout the years. Get the juicy details and quotes straight from the protagonists of these feuds themselves. From top fashion designers calling each others names, to a top model falling asleep during an interview called out by journalists, and a music star turned fashion designer that just doesn’t seem to get along well with others, get the back stories and play-by-play account of these events.

     

    “[Chloé] should have taken a big name. They did, but in music, not fashion. Let’s hope she is as gifted as her father.” – Karl Lagerfeld on Stella McCartney’s appointment at Chloé.

     

    Feuds featured are:

    Anna Wintour and Lady Gaga’s Diva Battle
    Karl Lagerfeld dissing Stella McCartney… twice
    Roberto Cavalli calling Giorgio Armani ‘Little King’
    Naomi Campbell calls Victoria Beckham ‘racist’
    Cara Delevingne falling asleep during a Vogue interview
    Kanye West against the world.

    “Feuds are always present especially in a very competitive industry such as the world of fashion,” explains executive producer, Ashley Jordan, “We may love them or hate them but either way, they do invoke human interest, and that’s what we are giving our viewers” 

     

    Fashion Feuds telecasts on October 14, Tuesday at 21:30 (GMT+8 for Asia / GMT+2 for the rest of Europe), exclusively on Fashion One and Fashion One HD. Check your cable operators for your local TV channel listing.

     

    Fashion Feuds is a Fashion One original series. The show is created by executive producers Michael Gleissner and Ashley Jordan, with Aida Murgia as producer. 

  • Keshet International reveals global MIPCOM slate

    Keshet International reveals global MIPCOM slate

    MUMBAI: Keshet International (KI), the global distribution and production arm of Keshet Media Group, is set to bring a diverse slate from the US, China and Israel to MIPCOM in Cannes next week. Featuring two hit primetime shows, Help! I Can’t Cook and Not A Star Yet, US action thriller, DIG and Babe Magnet a cutting-edge dating show from Comedy Central. 

     

    DIG – From the creators and executive producers Gideon Raff (Homeland) and Tim Kring (Heroes), comes the highly anticipated action thriller series, DIG, which tells the story of a murder mystery set against the backdrop of modern day Jerusalem, a city shrouded in ancient intrigue.

     

    FBI agent Peter Connelly (Golden Globe nominee Jason Isaacs, Awake) has had his fair share of heartbreak. Anxious to leave his personal demons behind, Peter takes a job stationed in Israel under the guidance of his new boss, and occasional lover, Lynn Monahan (Emmy Award-winner Anne Heche, Save Me). When he sets out to solve the murder of a young American, Peter soon finds himself embroiled in an international mystery that delves into the Holy Land’s darkest secrets. What he discovers is a conspiracy thousands of years in-the-making that threatens to change the course of history. While Peter races to figure out what it all means, he quickly finds that he may not be the only one searching for answers.

     

    KI holds rights to DIG in Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Scandinavia, Russia and the CIS, Turkey, India, English speaking South Africa and Israel. Currently in production for USA Network, DIG is produced by Universal Cable Productions and was developed by Keshet, in association with Gail Berman (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) of The Jackal Group and Gene Stein (Deception). Keshet’s Avi Nir (Homeland), Alon Shtruzman and Karni Ziv also serve as executive producers.

     

    Help! I Can’t Cook – Fresh from Keshet Broadcasting, KI will showcase its hugely popular new reality cooking format created by Keshet and Gil Productions. Since its debut on 13 September, which made it the second highest-rated original launch in Israel ever, the show has lead the weekly ratings charts, attracting an average audience share of 40% as viewers tune in to see the nation’s favorite celebrities struggling to survive in the show’s almighty kitchen.

                                                            

    In Help! I Can’t Cook celebrities face their fear of the kitchen – with disastrous, frustrating, heart-warming and rib-tickling results. The stars are pushed outside their comfort zone, losing their usual poise as they regress to their school days by becoming students at the remote and secluded Culinary Academy. Witness the results when you mix some supreme talent with a huge serving of egos and fold in a set of tasks way outside their comfort zone. Some deliciously entertaining viewing awaits… 

     

    Not A Star Yet – As part of a new collaboration KI is bringing the hit Chinese reality talent show, from Zhejiang TV, Not A Star Yet, to buyers in Cannes. This sensational talent/variety show with a central docu-reality element has led the rating charts in China generating ratings of 200 million viewers across each series, with its fifth season currently on air. Not A Star Yet has consistently beaten competition from 32 other channels and its nearest competitor by 40%, almost doubling Zhejiang’s slot average.

     

    Not A Star Yet sees the children of the nation’s best known stars take to the stage. Having been shielded from the lime light until now, and with great expectation thrust upon them, the performers expose themselves for the first time, and must win over the crowd on their own merits while their celebrity parents watch from the sidelines.

     

    In each episode, four celebrity offspring with various talents go head to head performing on stage supported by their chosen special star guest. Alongside the various stunning studio performances, Not A Star Yet is about the personal and family stories of the children who have grown up in the shadow of a household name.

     

    Babe Magnet is a fun, new format from Comedy Central Israel that transforms the traditional dating game show with an original, outrageous twist. In this bold, action-packed competition magnetic force becomes the ultimate matchmaker. Produced by Nutz Productions, in Babe Magnet four single guys vie for the heart of one hot babe by answering all her questions on sex, love and attraction while pinned to various surfaces by state-of the art magnetic devices. The potential dates are put in precarious positions which see them stuck to anything from the front of a fridge to being unceremoniously picked up by a magnetic dumper truck and carried off if they are rejected. Every time the babe rejects a guy, she operates a magnetic device to repel them away. Eventually the babe eliminates each guy one by one, until finally, she chooses her Babe Magnet.

     

    KI will also bring its explosive primetime game show BOOM! which has become a hit in Hungary and Spain having recently launched to gain 31% average share in primetime and 16% average share in access prime respectively – as well as being the leading show of the night in both territories almost every night. Alongside this is KI’s interactive talent show Rising Star which has sold to more than 25 territories, the spy drama MICE which is being remade in the US for NBC as Allegiance and the family sitcom Your Family or Mine which is being remade in the US for TBS.

  • Blue Pixels Animation Studios is geared for its MIPCOM debut

    Blue Pixels Animation Studios is geared for its MIPCOM debut

    MUMBAI: It is time for the biggest content market in the world which takes place in the small picturesque village of Cannes in the south of France. MIPCOM which attracts more than 12,000 participants from more than 100 countries, is held at Palias des Festivals off the Croissette.

     

    And their sole purpose: vigorously buy and sell content – for every screen, whether television or the phablet or online or the phone and for every window – whether terrestrial or IPTV or pay per view or VOD. It’s the biggest platform for broadcasters and distributors to meet, exchange ideas, thoughts and content worldwide.

     

    Blue Pixels Animation Studio director Vivek Bolar is kicked about his company’s date with MIPCOM this year. Says he, “It is our first year at MIPCOM as an exhibitor and we know it will give us ample opportunities to meet distributors, know them and get their feedback on the content that we have created.”

     

    The five-year old production house strives to create entertaining stories and memorable characters. As an artist driven studio, it is built around an exceptional and talented team of artists. Having its feet firmly in 3D animation, Bolar believes it has a strong hold in architectural visualization and has been recently expanding into intellectual property (IP) creation.

     

    The reason for attending MIPCOM this year he reveals is that it’s a platform where his company can interact with the distributors. “All the broadcasters and distributors attend MIPCOM and MipJunior. We have updated our work which we will show them and hopefully should close a few deals or get further insights on how to get it better.”

     

    He recalls the moment when he attended MIFA event that was conducted in Annecy this year. “Our IP, “Ande Pirki” made its first global appearence in MIFA and we opened to some excellent reviews.”

     

    This MIPCOM, their main focus will be to showcase  the updated promo and a  webisode to the distributors and broadcasters. Based on the response and feedback , it plans to create 7-minute 52 episodes.

     

    Focusing not only on linear television, it has also created a special content for the digital audiences.

     

    Not aiming to target any specific market, Bolar believes, it has an advantage and can be sold all over as the content is non-verbal. “We are going through a distributor, who can leverage their contacts throughout the world and can sell the content as far and fast as possible.”

     

    The animation studio plans to target all platforms – whether it is IPTV, mobile, VOD or free to air platforms. ” but right now our main focus is to create contents  for linear and digital platforms only” .

     

    So what does the studio expect from Mipcom this year? “To close some great deals for this IP,” signs off Bolar.

     

     

  • MIPCOM launches global channel distribution day in partnership with AIB

    MIPCOM launches global channel distribution day in partnership with AIB

    MUMBAI:  For the first time, MIPCOM, the global entertainment content market, launches a conference event to support and discuss a key sector of the international television business- the distribution of TV Channels around the world.

     

    The aim of the programme is to create a central point of interaction for channels and platforms to meet, and to provide an educational forum specifically dedicated to showcasing new channels and carriage platforms (cable, satellite, IPTV, OTT).

     

    Organised by Reed MIDEM, the 30th anniversary edition of MIPCOM will take place in Cannes, France, from 13-16 October 2014.

     

    This one day programme will take place on Monday October 13th in a dedicated area and will include a series of business-oriented conferences and workshops.Mediamétrie/Eurodata will present data and comments on the growing channel distribution market and leading international platforms will unveil their strategies for the year to come. The ‘Driving the Quest for The Audience: Channel Distribution Strategies for Success’ conference session will showcase new channels with international appeal.

     

    “With the increasing presence of multi-service operators and channels from around the world, carriage deals are a growing part of the market. Our ambition is to become the international business destination for the carriage ecosystem,” comments Laurine Garaude, Director of Reed MIDEM’s TV Division.

     

    “It is vitally important that channels and platforms understand each other’s businesses,” says Simon Spanswick, Chief Executive of the Association for International Broadcasting (AIB). “Neither sector can operate independently of each other. This new initiative at MIPCOM is, we believe, essential as the distribution market becomes more complicated as new platforms launch. AIB is delighted to be part of this important concept that is designed to bring businesses together and start conversations that will turn into business deals.”

     

    The first Global Channel Distribution day at MIPCOM will bring together the French Telco & Pay TV operator Orange, German Telco and IPTV operator Deutsche Telekom, Globecast, Al Jazeera’s global network, A+E networks, Scripps Networks International, EbonyLife TV and OTT service operator Magine. 

  • Aamir Khan to take centerstage at MipCom

    Aamir Khan to take centerstage at MipCom

    MUMBAI: MipCom has announced that Indian actor-director-producer Aamir Khan will take to the stage for the inaugural MIP MegaSession, entitled ‘The Future of Factual.’ 

     

    Organised by Reed MIDEM, the MipCom entertainment content tradeshow takes place in Cannes from 13 to 16 October.

     

    Scheduled for 14 October, the first ever MIP MegaSession will gather leading players driving the next generation of online and linear factual programming on the main stage of the Grand Auditorium to discuss where the genre is heading.

     

    Khan has starred in dozens of Hindi movies, including some of the highest-grossing Bollywood hits of all time. He is also a writer, director and producer, his credits including the colonial story ‘Lagaan’, which was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

     

    Since May 2012, Khan has fronted the Hindi talk show ‘Satyamev Jayate’ (Truth Alone Prevails), broadcast on the Star channels and the Doordarshan network. The show has had a deep impact on Indian society and its ruling classes, highlighting sensitive social issues such as female foeticide, rape, child sexual abuse, dowry customs, honour killings, domestic violence and wider environmental issues.  ‘Satyamev Jayate’ has been watched by some 700 million people, and is also a major hit with online viewers and has a huge following on social media.

     

    The third season of the show will soon go on air taking forward the philosophy that anything is possible (‘Mumkin hai’).

     

    Khan will be in conversation with Oscar-nominated writer, director and producer Morgan Spurlock, when he will expand upon what drove him to produce the show under his banner, how it has struck such a resounding chord in India, and whether its format can be replicated in other countries.

     

    Khan’s session in France was coordinated by Indiantelevision.com group founder, CEO and editor in chief Anil Wanvari, who represents Reed Midem’s content markets Mipcom and MipTV in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh and music market Midem in India, and Reed Exhibitions Singapore based market Asia Television Forum in India.

     

    Other global media business and entertainment leaders who are slated to speak at this year’s MipCom include Simon Cowell, 21st Century Fox’s  James Murdoch, CBS’s Armando Nunez and David Stapf, and Chief Content Officer of Netflix, Ted Sarandos.

  • Ynon Kreiz, maker studios CEO, to keynote at MIPCOM 2014

    Ynon Kreiz, maker studios CEO, to keynote at MIPCOM 2014

    MUMBAI: MIPCOM today announces that Ynon Kreiz, CEO of Maker Studios, a next-generation media and technology company and the world’s largest network of online video content for millennials, will deliver a keynote address as part of MIPCOM’s Media Mastermind Keynote Series. Kreiz will address delegates in Cannes on Monday, October 13.

    Organised by Reed MIDEM, the 30th anniversary of MIPCOM will take place in Cannes, France, from Monday, October 13 – Thursday, October 16.

    Kreiz joined Maker’s board as Chairman in May 2012 and was appointed Executive Chairman and CEO in May 2013. Under Kreiz’s leadership, the company was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in May 2014. During the keynote, Kreiz will discuss this year’s MIPCOM theme, The Global Quest for Original Content, he will address how Maker is packaging original shows featuring its biggest talent partners for cross-platform appeal.

     

    Attracting more than 8.5 billion views monthly with over 550 million loyal subscribers globally, Maker is the leading network of online video content for the coveted millennial demographic. Maker offers a massive content slate that spans 23 curated vertical genres and is home to both top digital and traditional stars along with the most-watched short-form content in the online video industry including the most-subscribed YouTuber in the world PewDiePie and the award-winning “Epic Rap Battles of History,” the most-viewed series on YouTube. With 55,000 creators in its network, Maker has enormous scale and reach. Launched in May, proprietary web platform Maker.tv offers viewers premium, curated content from Maker’s hyper-syndicated network.

    “With Ynon Kreiz at the helm, Maker is driving the short-form content revolution and becoming a major source of online video content for millennials,” said Laurine Garaude, TV Division Director, Reed MIDEM. “Ynon’s expertise in traditional entertainment coupled with online video is a perfect fit for this year’s MIPCOM theme, The Global Quest for Original Content.”

  • Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos to keynote at MIPCOM

    Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos to keynote at MIPCOM

    MUMBAI: MIPCOM today announces that Ted Sarandos, Chief Content Officer of the world’s leading Internet TV network, Netflix, will give a keynote address as part of MIPCOM’s Media Mastermind Keynote Series.

     

    Organised by Reed MIDEM, the 30th anniversary edition of the MIPCOM entertainment content market will take place in Cannes, France, from 13-16 October 2014.

    Coming shortly after Netflix expands its European presence, the keynote interview, which will be conducted by Eric Scherer, Director Future Media, France Televisions, will take place from 11.15am on Tuesday 14 October.

    Ted Sarandos has led content acquisition for Netflix since 2000 and is recognised in the industry as a key innovator in the acquisition, production and distribution of film and TV series.

    Netflix, the world’s leading internet subscription service for TV shows and movies, has over 50 million members in more than 40 countries, who watch more than one billion hours of per month.

    Netflix has a burgeoning slate of must-see original series, including “House of Cards”, “Lilyhammer”, “Hemlock Grove”, “Orange Is the New Black”, “The Killing”, the fourth season of “Arrested Development”, “Bojack Horseman” and, coming in December, “Marco Polo”

    Netflix will soon launch in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg, giving broadband users in those countries access to a curated selection of Hollywood, local and global TV series and movies, whenever and wherever they like on TVs, tablets, phones, game consoles and computers.

    Besides North and South America and the Caribbean, Netflix is so far available in the UK and Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands.

  • CBS executives David Stapf and Armando Nunez to deliver joint keynote at Mipcom 2014

    CBS executives David Stapf and Armando Nunez to deliver joint keynote at Mipcom 2014

    MUMBAI: MIPCOM announces today that David Stapf, President of CBS Television Studios, and Armando Nu?ez, President and CEO of CBS Global Distribution Group, will deliver a joint keynote address as part of MIPCOM’s Media Mastermind Keynote Series.

    Organised by Reed MIDEM, the 30th anniversary edition of MIPCOM will take place in Cannes, France, from 13-16 October 2014.

    The CBS Studios Global Content Keynote from Nu?ez and Stapf is scheduled for Tuesday 14 October. With more than five decades of television production and international TV distribution experience between them, the CBS executives will discuss this year’s overall theme, The Global Quest for Original Content . The duo will tackle topics including the rise of event series programming, new relationships with digital distribution partners, CBS’s year-round programming strategy and the global appetite for CBS and Showtime content.

    CBS Television Studios is one of the leading suppliers of primetime network programming, with top scripted dramas such as “NCIS” and “NCIS: Los Angeles” and comedy series “The Millers.” The studio’s roster of popular and critically-acclaimed programmes also includes the phenomenally successful CSI franchise, summer event series “Under the Dome,” “Elementary,” starring Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, and the Peabody Award winning series “The Good Wife,” starring multiple award winner Julianna Margulies.

    David Stapf was named President, CBS Television Studios in September 2004. He is responsible for overseeing all of the Studio’s programme development and production, basic cable and premium channel markets.

    Armando Nu?ez was named President and CEO of the CBS Global Distribution Group in October 2012. Nunez is responsible for overseeing all of CBS Corporation’s international and domestic distribution operations, including CBS Studios International, which licenses CBS programming worldwide to more than 200 markets across multiple media platforms. Nu?ez has been with the company since 1999.

    Stapf and Nunez report directly to Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation.

  • “The Book of Negroes” to open in Cannes

    “The Book of Negroes” to open in Cannes

    MUMBAI: MIPCOM and Entertainment One Television (eOne) announce the exclusive preview of the forthcoming event mini-series, “The Book of Negroes.” The MIPCOM 2014 World Premiere TV Screening is scheduled for Monday 13 October in the Grand Auditorium of Cannes’ Palais des Festivals at 6.30pm.

    Organised by Reed MIDEM, the 30th anniversary of MIPCOM will take place in Cannes, 13-16 October 2014.

    Lead actress Aunjanue Ellis (Ray, The Help), Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr (Jerry Maguire, A Few Good Men) and Oscar and Emmy winner Lou Gossett Jr (A Raisin in the Sun, Boardwalk Empire) are scheduled to appear at the screening, along with multi-award winning Director and Co-writer Clement Virgo (The Wire) and Executive Producer Damon D’Oliveira (What We Have). The star-studded miniseries also features Lyriq Bent (Rookie Blue), Jane Alexander (The Cider House Rules), Ben Chaplin (The Thin Red Line) and Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle).

    The mini-series is produced by Conquering Lion Pictures, Out of Africa Entertainment, eOne and Idlewild Films.

    The premiere screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the director, producer and cast present. The talent will later walk the red carpet to attend the MIPCOM Opening Night Party.

    A universal story of loss, courage and triumph, “The Book of Negroes” recounts the extraordinary journey of Aminata Diallo, an indomitable African woman who survives in a world in which everything seems to be against her. Kidnapped by slave traders in West Africa then sold into slavery in South Carolina, Aminata navigates her way through the American Revolution in New York, the isolated refuge of Nova Scotia and the treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, before finally securing her freedom in England at the dawn of the 19th century.

    The series is based on the critically-acclaimed novel by Lawrence Hill, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide (published as Someone Knows My Name in the US).

    “The Book of Negroes” is made for Viacom’s BET Networks in the US and Canada’s CBC. World rights to the series in all media are being handled by eOne.

    “We are honored and elated that “The Book of Negroes” has been officially selected for MIPCOM’S Opening Night Gala and that it will make its highly-anticipated premiere at the television world’s most prestigious and internationally-renowned event,” said Carrie Stein, Executive Vice President of Global Production, Entertainment One Television.  “With the tremendous support of our partners at CBC, BET, Conquering Lion Pictures, Out of Africa Entertainment and Idlewild Films as well as the incredible work of our talented crew and cast led by Cuba Gooding Jr., Lou Gossett Jr., Aunjanue Ellis and Lyriq Bent, we’re extremely proud of this captivating, powerful and inspiring miniseries and look forward to presenting it in October.”

    “We’re honoured to be hosting the exclusive premiere of this magnificent bestseller adaptation with its outstanding cast,” said Laurine Garaude, Director of Reed MIDEM’s Television Division. “eOne’s launch of this high-profile mini-series at MIPCOM underlines the growing importance of the World Premiere TV Screening as a key industry event.”

    Watch the trailer here