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MIPCOM: Global TV Industry Braces for Downturn, Disruption and “Blood in the Water”
Major construction work along Cannes’ famed Croisette has turned this most glamorous of French seaside towns into a chaotic building site. Television executives, in town for the MIPCOM Cannes international TV confab, which runs through Thursday, Oct. 19, have been forced to run a gauntlet of concrete slabs and roped-off danger zones. It’s an apt […]
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Paramount Chief Bob Bakish Is “Optimistic” About a SAG-AFTRA Deal in the “Near Term”
Bob Bakish, president and CEO of Paramount Global, appears confident SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will reach a deal to end the ongoing actors strike. Speaking at the international television conference MIPCOM on Tuesday, where he received the 2023 personality of the year award, Bakish said despite negotiations breaking down last […]
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MIPCOM Deal Memo Day 2: BBC Nabs ‘Marie Antoinette’ Season 2, Newen Takes Full Control of Felicita Films
Day two of the MIPCOM international television market brought a slew of new deals and a major corporate acquisition. French group Newen Studios, owned by commercial channel TF1, announced it had secured a majority stake in Marie Guillaumond’s French production company Felicita Films. The boutique group has some 10 projects in development for local French […]
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Clintons Producing Doc on Clooney Foundation Probe Into Russian War Crimes in Ukraine (Exclusive)
HiddenLight Productions, the production outfit co-founded by Hillary Clinton, Sam Branson and Chelsea Clinton, is backing a new documentary on efforts by George and Amal Clooney’s Clooney Foundation for Justice to investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The feature doc, The Swallows Will Return (working title), will follow the investigative work of Anya Neistat, a […]
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MIPCOM: Banijay Launches Program to Support Women Creatives in the Non-Scripted TV Business
Leading independent production company Banijay has launched a global accelerator program designed to support women creators in the non-scripted television business. Sharon Levy, CEO of Endemol Shine North America, announced the new program together with Banijay Chief Content Officer James Townley, at the international television conference MIPCOM Cannes on Tuesday. The program, Banijay Launch, will […]
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MIPCOM Diversify TV Awards Winners Unveiled
Television market MIPCOM in Cannes on Tuesday unveiled the winners for the Diversify TV Awards, which honor international programming promoting diversity and inclusion. The nominees were picked from 165 submissions from more than 27 countries. To be eligible, programs were required to provide a fair and balanced representation of race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ and […]
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MIPCOM: EbonyLife CEO Mo Abudu Calls on Studios, Streamers to Put Real Money Into Telling “African and Black Stories”
Efforts to diversify the global television industry have fallen short, argued Nigerian-British Media Mogul Mo Abudu, CEO of EbonyLife Media, in a keynote on diversity and inclusion at global film and television industry at the MIPCOM Cannes on Tuesday. Despite much-ballyhooed D&I attempts by studios and streamers, Abudu said she still sees a startling lack […]
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MIPCOM: Eva Longoria, Cris Abrego Set Up Hyphenate Media Group
Actor and producer Eva Longoria is joining forces with long-time production partner Cris Abrego to launch Hyphenate Media Group, a new media holding company and premium content studio. Production giant Banijay, the French-owned conglomerate behind such global shows as Big Brother, MasterChef, Black Mirror and Peaky Blinders, has made a strategic investment in the new […]
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MIPCOM Women Execs Talk Inspiration and “Redefining the F-Word” (Feminism) at Global Entertainment Power Lunch
Inspiration can start at home. For the panel of executives at this year’s MIPCOM Women in Global Entertainment Power Lunch, an annual get-together of the female movers and shakers in the international television industry, their first role models were their own mothers. “My mother had a master’s degree in physics, to give you an idea […]
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max Details 2024 European Rollout Plans
Warner Bros. Discovery will launch its Max streaming service across 22 European countries starting in the spring. Gerhard Zeiler, president of international at Warner Bros. Discovery, and Leah Hooper Rosa, WBD head of streaming for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), made the announcement on Monday from international television market MIPCOM, where Zeiler was giving the […]
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MIPCOM Increases Security, Expresses Sympathy for “Innocent Victims in Israel and Gaza”
International television market MIPCOM has increased security in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war, following the lead of the French government, which has stepped up security measures amid fears of attacks against members of the Jewish community. “Your security is our priority as always, and in line with the recent events with France, elevating their […]
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MIPCOM: ITV Studios’ Cattleya Sets Up Production Company With ‘Gomorrah,’ ‘Django’ Writers
ITV Studios-owned Italian production company Cattleya is joining forces with Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, Italian writers whose credits include such cross-over TV series as Gomorrah, ZeroZeroZero and Django to launch Dedalus, a new production company which will develop drama projects for the big and small screens. Dedalus has two projects far along in the […]
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