Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) has revealed a wide-ranging slate of 20 new formats for autumn 2024 and beyond, launching to the international market at MIPCOM later this month. As buyers have come to expect from WBITVP, the new slate covers reality, entertainment and factual entertainment genres, as well as scripted formats, and incorporates iconic content brands, innovative twists on established hits and one very entertaining and utterly compelling physical … [Read more...] about Warner Bros. International Television Production reveals extensive slate of 20 new formats for MIPCOM
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BBC Studios to launch Outrageous at MIPCOM
BBC Studios has announced that the stars of Outrageous, the brand-new drama from Firebird Pictures, co-commissioned by UKTV and BritBox International, will head to Mipcom to launch the series. On screen stars Bessie Carter (Bridgerton), Joanna Vanderham (Crime), Joshua Sasse (Love is in the Air, Galavant) and James Purefoy (The Veil, Malpractice), will be joined in Cannes by the shows writer and creator Sarah Williams (Small Island, Flesh and Blood, The Long Song) and Executive Producer from … [Read more...] about BBC Studios to launch Outrageous at MIPCOM
BBC Studios strikes distribution rights for Norway’s Montreux Film & Fjernsyn’s format Nation’s Dumbest
BBC Studios has confirmed it has secured international distribution rights to Norwegian based Montreux Film and Fjernsyn’s gameshow format, Nation’s Dumbest. Nation’s Dumbest is the first ever television show where the loser is the winner. 12 celebrities fight it out to be eliminated from the competition as quickly as possible to avoid being crowned the nation’s dumbest. From influencers to wrestlers, comedians to politicians, the contestants are put to the test in a series of entertaining … [Read more...] about BBC Studios strikes distribution rights for Norway’s Montreux Film & Fjernsyn’s format Nation’s Dumbest
Actor Brian Cox to feature in BBC Studios Arts in Motion series in partnership with Rolex
BBC Studios have launched Arts in Motion, an ambitious editorial programme in partnership with Rolex. Produced by BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions, the series will bring together BBC Studios deep heritage in Arts & Culture programming and Rolex’s Perpetual Arts Initiative which celebrates excellence and achievement in the arts globally. Arts in Motion resonates with the Rolex Perpetual Arts Initiative, through an editorial content programme across the BBC’s international platforms … [Read more...] about Actor Brian Cox to feature in BBC Studios Arts in Motion series in partnership with Rolex
South Korea’s Something Special Licensed U.S. Rights for Battle in the Box to U.K.’s Interstellar
President of South Korea’s Something Special, Seoul-based #1 independent* international Format agency announced that they licensed the U.S. rights for Battle in the Box to U.K. production company, Interstellar. Interstellar produced the U.K. version which aired this past summer with host-comedian Jimmy Carr on U&Dave TV (owned by UKTV, a subsidiary of BBC). The show was created by Nmedia and is globally represented by Something Special. It originally aired in South Korea on MBN with top … [Read more...] about South Korea’s Something Special Licensed U.S. Rights for Battle in the Box to U.K.’s Interstellar
André Renaud set to join WBITVP, leading global format & tape sales
Warner Bros International Television Production (WBITVP) has announced that André Renaud will join the business in November as Global Vice President Finished and Format Sales, and Revenue Generation. Based in London and reporting directly to Andrew Zein, WBITVP’s EVP Creative, Format Development and Sales, André will take direct responsibility for overseeing the teams selling the company’s impressive catalogue of world-beating formats and unscripted finished tape shows around the globe – … [Read more...] about André Renaud set to join WBITVP, leading global format & tape sales
