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With MIPTV Gone, Will International Execs Embrace MIP London?
MIPTV is dead, long live MIP London. At a packed press conference Tuesday, Lucy Smith of MIP organizer RX France marked the end of Cannes’ decades-old international television market MIPTV and the official launch of its hoped-for successor in the British capital next year. As RX announced last month, the current MIPTV, which runs through […]
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Tom Hanks’ Costly Wildlife Docuseries ‘The Americas’ Gets Sneak Preview at MIPTV
Hollywood studios have long made a point of promoting tentpole movies at the Cannes Film Festival, using the Cote d’Azur location to highlight their A-list titles with splashy promotional campaigns. A similar, if less flashy, version of the big Cannes launch took place Tuesday for The Americas, the long-awaited premium wildlife documentary series from BBC […]
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International Industry Says Goodbye to MIPTV, Canneseries Promises to Return
The banner outside the Majestic Hotel said it all. “The Last Dance” read the message on the banner from Turkish-based television sales group Global Agency, a farewell gesture to the international TV market MIPTV, a fixture on the industry calendar since its launch in 1965, which will wrap its final edition this Wednesday. The billboard […]
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Dawn Porter on How She’s Pivoted During the TV Downturn to Keep Telling Stories That Matter
“I bring you news from America, where commissions are plentiful and they all come within two weeks,” joked Dawn Porter, playing to the industry crowd at the international television market MIPTV on Sunday. It got a big laugh. Everyone in the audience knows the reality: That the era of peak TV is past and that […]
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MIPTV Confirms Move to London in 2025
This year will be the last hurrah for MIPTV in Cannes. The international television market has been a fixed date on the industry calendar since it first launched back in 1963. But organizers RX France say this year’s MIPTV will be the last one on the Croisette. Facing declining attendance and a rapidly shifting global […]
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MIPTV 2023 Takeaways: Drama Boom Is Bust But Reality TV Offers a Lifeline
First the good news: the weather was spectacular. For three days, the international television market MIPTV, which wraps up in Cannes on Wednesday, was blessed with the clear blue skies and blinding sunshine that have always been the main attraction of this bit of the Mediterranean. But if the beaches, cafes and seaside restaurants along […]
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MIPTV: ITV Studios’ Ruth Berry on Extending Reality TV Into the Multiverse
While scripted TV tends to get more attention than unscripted programming, the executives gathered in Cannes this week for the 60th MIPTV international television market know that formats like reality TV and game shows help pay the bills. And with budgets for high-end TV tightening worldwide, making more money off of those formats has never […]
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As the TV Drama Bubble Bursts, Producers Look to Indie Film for New Models
The bubble — that surge of cash that over the past decades helped bankroll an unprecedented boom in TV drama production — appears to have burst. TV producers, gathered in Cannes this week for the MIPTV international television market, are pondering a future in which the cost of TV drama continues to spike while the […]
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MIPTV Hot List: Market Offers High-End Fare From South Korea, Israel and Norway
The long-foretold end of Peak TV may be upon us, as studios and streamers — adjusting to a new world of inflation, higher interest rates, and a slowdown in stock prices and subscriber figures — slash costs and reevaluate strategy. The result, whether at Warner Bros. Discovery (which has already taken $3.5 billion in content […]
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StudioCanal CEO Anna Marsh to Give 2023 MIPTV Keynote Address
Anna Marsh, CEO of production and distribution giant StudioCanal, will give one of the main keynote speeches for this year’s MIPTV, the global TV market confab held in Cannes in April. Marsh will address the international television industry at Cannes’ Palais des Festivals on Monday, April 17, the opening day of MIPTV 2023. Her Media […]
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Canal+, RAI Jump on Canadian Drama ‘Audrey’s Back’
French pay-TV group Canal+ and Italian public broadcaster RAI have picked up Audrey’s Back, the Quebecois dramedy about a coma victim’s return to life that won the Grand Prix at this year’s Canneseries festival. Germany’s Beta Film, which is handling international sales on the show, closed deals with Canal+ and RAI, with future deals in […]
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MIPTV Hidden Gem: Canadian Coma Dramedy ‘Audrey’s Back’
Audrey’s Back, the Canadian dramedy that this week won the Grand Prize at France’s Canneseries television festival, is your typical coming-of-age story, says co-creator Guillaume Lambert, “just 15 years too late.” The plot of the 10-part series, which had its international premiere in Cannes this week, follows Audrey, a coma patient who suddenly wakes up […]
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