Keshet International (KI) announced its largest and most diverse slate of programming for MIPCOM to date. It will offer more than 20 new titles at the Oct. 17-20 market led by the new adventure reality format, Welcome to the Wild. The broad slate, spanning several distinctive scripted and non-scripted genres, formats and finished series, taps into viewers’ strong demand for high-end drama, proven factual entertainment, true-crime stories and versatile content to suit all platforms.
With scripted content, Keshet is doubling down on its reputation for introducing strong new voices to the world with high-end dramas and buzz-worthy comedies. The offerings range from the intensely dark crime drama set at a busy news desk in The Paper (the subject of much speculation in its country of origin, Croatia) and the fantasy thriller set inside a Brazilian taxi cab, The Fare to Adir Miller’s (Traffic Light) Miller’s Crossing and the quirky female detective series, Clues.
In the non-scripted realm, in addition to Welcome to the Wild: Amazon (season two to be set in a different exotic location with a challenging terrain) KI is the offering a new true-crime slate as the result of its first-look deal with UK indie Woodcut Media. The slate will include Holloway: Women Behind Bars, which tells the story of Holloway Prison’s most notorious female inmates on the eve of its closure, and several more titles, which will be announced in the coming weeks. KI will also bring the workplace docu-dramas, Residents and Blue to Cannes, which give viewers an insightful look at the internal running of a hospital and a police force.
Completing the non-scripted slate are two entertaining social experiments: ManBirth, already a success in Asia, follows men who get the chance to feel what their spouse feels during pregnancy, while Boxed tracks what happens when two people who have a strong disagreement are placed inside specially designed box and forced to work it out with a mediator guiding them through the journey to resolution. The approach has resulted in KI offering a new multi-platform brand #TheFeed which creates a culinary travel guide driven by social media photos of the world’s gastronomic delights and the eye-opening documentary Uploading the Holocaust, which is the world’s first feature comprised entirely of footage pulled from YouTube. A premium-scripted slate for digital platforms is also soon to be announced.
