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Television Business International Television Comedy Funny drama Page 30 Mark Linsey Inside BBC Studios Page 20 TBIvision.com April/May 2017 MIPTV Issue MIPTV Issue April/May 2017 MIPTV Stand C20.A pOFC TBI AprMay17.indd 1 22/03/2017 20:23 TBI_COVER_THE BRAVEST_AW.indd 1 20/03/2017 13:52 A New Scripted Series from Executive Producers DOMINIC MINGHELLA and JEREMY RENNER STAND P3.C1 sales.aenetworks.com pIFC-01 A+E Knightfall AprMay17.indd 2 17/03/2017 10:42 TBI_Inside_Front_Cover_Knightfall_FIN.indd 1 3/15/17 2:34 PM TBI Inside Front Cover - Knightfall – FINAL 432mm x 275mm trim size A New Scripted Series from Executive Producers DOMINIC MINGHELLA and JEREMY RENNER STAND P3.C1 sales.aenetworks.com pIFC-01 A+E Knightfall AprMay17.indd 3 17/03/2017 10:42 TBI_Inside_Front_Cover_Knightfall_FIN.indd 1 3/15/17 2:34 PM TBI Inside Front Cover - Knightfall – FINAL 432mm x 275mm trim size DRAMA, 12 x 1 Hour www.redarrowinternational.tv | MIPTV: Booth P4.C10 p02 Red Arrow AprMay17.indd 1 15/03/2017 12:16 CONTENTS APRIL/MAY 2017 30 20 20 TBI Interview: Mark Linsey BBC Studios director Mark Linsey tells Jesse Whittock about his creativity-led plans for the public broadcaster’s new production arm 24 Turner’s European connection Turner’s Hannes Heyelmann tells TBI about being the point-man for European investment in shows from the American mothership 26 OTT strategies 26 Traditional broadcasters, pay TV channel operators and OTT specialists are all launching new, targetted SVOD services. TBI speaks to them about gaining a foothold in the streaming world 30 Comedy at a crossroad Comedy is a tough sell for many internatioanl distributors, but there is increasing demand for dra- ma-infused half-hours buyers, sellers and producers tell Stewart Clarke 34 French exports: increase the volume Pascale Paolli-Lebailly finds that French distributors need more content in key genres if they are to remain relevant in the international marketplace 34 This issue Also in this issue 6 Ed Note • 8 Diary • 10 People • 12 Molotov’s cocktail • 14 Root’s cause • 16 All3Media International •152 Last Word: Pierluigi Gazzolo, VIMN America For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM TBI April/May 2017 3 CONTENTS APRIL/MAY 2017 This issue 4236 52 36 Mediapro’s global ambition Emiliano de Pablos speaks to key execs at Spain’s Mediapro about its global ambitions and plans to Formats extend its international footprint TBIvision.com April/May 2017 42 Returning miniseries There is renewed demand for limited series, also known and miniseries, and increasingly these are returning for second and third seasons. Andy Fry looks at the markets for miniseries and TV movies Kids TBIvision.com 48 BBC Showcase: show and tell ASK THE NATION! April/May 2017 Stewart Clarke speaks to BBC Worldwide bosses and genre chiefs about the distributor’s annual The live entertainment format sales extravaganza, BBC Worldwide Showcase that finds out what the nation really thinks NOW! Factual TBIvision.com 52 Diverse offerings in Rio April/May 2017 Gary Smith reports from the Rio Content Market, where John Singleton and others were keen to Coming talk about diversity in the international TV business FormatspOFC AprMay17.indd 1 soon to The magazine celebrating television’s golden era of scripted programming 22/03/2017 18:03 Plus TBI Scripted Issue #7 April 2017 Showrunner special, interviews with Shawn Ryan, Mark Goffman and Jimmy McGovern, the low- down on Idris Elba drama Guerrilla and a cose look at a new type of Nordic noir, a procedural first, KidspOFC AprMay17.indd 1 LIVING WITH SECRETS LAGARDERE_SONIC_TBICOVER_0317_def.indd 1 and a glitzy Julia Stiles drama Riviera 15/03/2017 18:01 TBI Factual 15/03/2017 17:20 Produced by NHNZ in co-production with PBS, CCTV9, ZDF, ZDF Enterprises, Factual for millennials, doc trends, Blue Planet II, and news and opinions from the industry Discovery International, Channel 9 and Arte FactualpOFC AprMay17.indd 1 Distributed by Anzeige_Titelgestaltung_TBI_Big_Pacific_MIPTV2017_RZ_02.indd 1 STEPHEN MOYER IN TBI Kids 22/03/2017 17:55 13.03.17 22:23 TBI Hot Picks highlighting the best for MIPTV, new kids studios, kids OTT strategies, and an at-a- for ITV, UK glance grid showing what’s hot MIPTV Stand No : P3.C10 @all3media_int all3mediainternational.com TBI Formats Scripted OFC Apr17.indd 2 TBI Hot Picks covering new shiny-floor shows, reality series and gameshows, Paul Telegdy and Phil Gurin interviews, and ITV’s time-travel plans 13/03/2017 16:39 4 TBI April/May 2017 For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM p03-04 Contents AprMay17scJW.indd 6 22/03/2017 21:17 NEW EPISODES WITHIN MINUTES OF U.S. BROADCAST EVERY MONDAY p05 AMC AprMay17.indd 1 22/03/2017 10:12 EDITOR’S NOTE STEWART CLARKE n politics here in the UK there is a lot of talk of the ‘squeezed has to bode well for producers, and by association, distributors. middle’, the people neither rich nor poor who are hardest hit by Elsewhere in our MIP-focused issue, we look at how comedy is Ieconomic changes. TV, it seems, also has a squeezed middle. evolving, it’s about more than just laughs we hear. Whether it is drama, formats, kids or docs, the idea that you either As TBI heads to Cannes, it seems the April get-together is changing. go big, or go small, is increasingly to the fore. Big means big budgets, Details will be revealed on the first day of the market, but what is marketing and brand building. Small means going after a niche known is that a new TV festival, open to the public, will run alongside audience, who may be low in number but are fiercely loyal to the the buying and selling-focused MIPTV. shows they like. The market’s organisers are also setting up a new LA Screenings In this issue we hear the go-big-or-go-small mantra from several preview at the market, an attempt to lure the US studios to France execs, and about kids shows, formats, docs and drama programmes ahead of their May Screenings. that are both huge, and tiny, and – whether the producers like to admit If that gains traction this year, and the mainstream festival launches it or not – fall into that middle category. next, MIPTV 2018 could look and feel very different. How these (and all) programmes are delivered continues to change. Netflix and Amazon hog the headlines when it comes to streaming, but numerous other established and new players are getting involved. We talk to Viacom, Viaplay and Viki (as well as other companies not starting with a V) about their targeted OTT strategies. Deputy editor Jesse Whittock sits down with Mark Linsey to find out more about BBC Studios, the UK pubcaster’s new production division. The most-used word from the BBC exec is ‘creativity’, which Editor Stewart Clarke • [email protected] Published by KNect365 TMT, Maple House, Direct line +44 (0) 20 7017 4244 Twitter @TBIstewart 149 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7AD Tel: +44 (0)20 7017 5000 e-mail: [email protected] web: www.tbivision.com Deputy editor Jesse Whittock • [email protected] Printed in England by Wyndeham Grange Ltd, Southwick, West Sussex BN4 4EJ. Direct line +44 (0) 20 7017 5809 Twitter @TBI_Jesse Television Business International (USPS 003-807) is published bi-monthly (Jan, Mar, Apr, Sales manager Kate Roach • [email protected] Jun, Aug and Oct) by KNect365 TMT, Maple House, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, Direct line +44 (0) 20 7017 5295 W1T 7AD. The 2006 US Institutional subscription price is $255. Airfreight and mailing in the USA by Agent named Air Business, C/O Priority Airfreight NY Ltd, 147-29 182nd Street, Jamaica, NY11413. Periodical postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431. 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All Rights Reserved. pXX Scripps TBI AprMay17.indd 1 08/03/2017 16:03 Scripps Networks Publication: TBI Trim Size: 216mm x 275mm Date Interactive ATTN: Tess Waldburger Bleed: 226mm x 285mm 03/01/17 EVENTS 2017 DIARY 9 – 11 May 12 –17 June 12 – 15 September Cartoon Business MIFA Cartoon Forum Belfast, Ireland Annecy, France Toulouse, France www.cartoon-media.eu/cartoon-masters.htm www.annecy.org www.cartoon-media.eu 10 –12 May 12 – 15 June 10 – 12 October Busan Contents Market NEM Brand Licensing Europe Busan, Korea Dubrovnik, Croatia London, UK www.ibcm.tv/eng www.neweumarket.com www.brandlicensing.eu 16 – 19 May 19 – 22 June 14 - 15 October LA Screenings NATPE Budapest MIP Junior Los Angeles, US Budapest, Hungary Cannes, France www.lascreenings.org www.natpe.com/budapest www.mipjunior.com 29 – 31 May 19 – 22 June Cartoon 360 16 – 19 October Sunnyside of the Doc Barcelona, Spain MIPCOM La Rochelle, France www.cartoon-media.eu/cartoon-360.htm Cannes, France www.sunnysideofthedoc.com www.mipcom.com 11 – 14 June 20 – 23 June BANFF TV Festival 19 – 23 October Conecta Fiction Banff, Canada MIA Galicia, Spain www.banffmediafestival.playbackonline.