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My 2 Cents: The zero China TV’s Learning Curve Medals of Honor marginal cost society Into The Int’l Marketplace Awarded at and global oligarchy Page 3 ittle by little Chinese television Lunch to 4 Execs is making inroads into the INSIDE: Linternational TV market. Last omorrow, during a lunchtime Sunday, here at MIP-TV, CCTV hosted presentation at the Carlton Cannes Visuals — an Exchange Forum; then at midday, THotel, MIP-TV will award the China Pavilion sponsored a its 2018 Medals of Honor to four MIP-TV Photo Report MIPDrama Buyers Networking buffet international TV executives from Page 13 luncheon at the Majestic Hotel for four countries: Izzet Pinto, founder about 150 guests. And yesterday and CEO, Global Agency (Turkey); CCTV organized a Showcase. Pascal Breton, CEO, Federation INSIDE: Viacom, Chili, The Forum was hosted by Entertainment (France); Teresa China’s Film and TV Import and and Fox; Bruce Gordon Fernández-Valdés, executive pro- Export Association, a 43-member ducer, Bambú Producciones (Spain); organization of Chinese production Scholarship companies. CCTV is China’s state well versed in international content and Weidong Yang, president of Page 6 broadcasting organization, which at sales, which will have to persuade Youku, Alibaba Digital Media and MIP-TV is headed by general manager the Chinese to cut their government’s Entertainment Group (China). Jianing Shen (pictured at right with umbilical cord (as Latin American Traditionally an evening affair VideoAge Zheng Yang, deputy director general and Turkish companies had to do to since the awards were instituted of the State TV Drama Department). achieve international success), and by MIP-TV organizers in 2013, this Daily To complement these efforts, to showcase programs with more time the presentation will take place on the go CCTV has hired an American PR ﬁ rm international appeal. at lunchtime, as the evening slot (Continued on Page 4)

MIP’s Unsung Heroines: The Hostesses t every TV market in Cannes, a platoon of some 1,000 Afreelance support personnel from Cannes and other nearby towns — mainly female, and informally called “hostesses” — invades the Palais to assist many of the more than 1,500 exhibitors. They’re always impeccably dressed, even when unpacking or re- packing boxes, and when welcoming visitors to the stands. They’re multilingual, and do everything from serving coffee to arranging for fl owers, to picking up extra chairs, to locating a pharmacy that’s open on Sundays, to fi nding taxis, to booking tables at restaurants that are supposedly fi lled to capacity. Corinne (Coco) Schmidt, who lives a 15-minute car ride from Cannes, recalled when, after the air travel chaos caused by Iceland’s volcanic ash disaster in 2010, she had to organize extended stays in hotels and apartments, which included helping with shopping for necessities, airline/train/ferry 1 (Continued on Page 4) Recognized standard of quality in My 2¢ Audio Description The world of The Zero Marginal Cost Society aims to restore the discredited socialistic society, which is contrasted by the oligarch movement.

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fter Jeremy Rifkin wrote the book The people globally are members of car-sharing services.” Zero Marginal Cost Society in 2014, he later The argument over reduced marginal costs has Aexplained “The Rise of Anti-Capitalism” in endured for decades. In 1938, another American a New York Times op-ed page. In the latter, he chose economic theorist, Harold Hotelling, started a debate not to take the laws of physics into consideration, about whether governments should subsidize the even though they could be easily applied to the law fi xed cost of infrastructure so that marginal cost of capitalism. After all, Isaac Newton did say: “To pricing would prevail when decreasing average-cost every action there is always an equal and opposite or industries. VIDEOAGE contrary reaction.” But Rifkin brings this argument to another level. DAILY As a “reaction” to Rifkin’s “threat to capitalism,” Now in this Rifkinesque scenario, let’s take a look at AT MIPTV there are: The oligarchs in Russia, the Central the Russian oligarchs who control money, production Government in China, and the Corporate World in the and distribution, information, and the war machine in STAND P-1.G65 U.S. their country. Let me explain. According to Rifkin, capitalism is MAIN OFFICE: Let’s now move to another superpower: China, 216 EAST 75TH STREET STE PW under threat from the “Internet of Things” that will whose central government controls every aspect NEW YORK, NY 10021 create goods and services in abundance at nearly of that country’s life. It decides which company to TEL: (212) 288-3933 FAX: (212) 288-3424 no cost and won’t be subject to market forces. If fi nance, which sector has to grow, and how to profi t marginal costs fall to almost nothing, argues Rifkin, from parasitic activities, like pilfering intellectual WWW.VIDEOAGE.ORG companies won’t make profi ts, proprieties. WWW.VIDEOAGELATINO.COM and capitalism will collapse. Finally, we reach the U.S. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF To arrive at his conclusion, There, Wall Street, special DOM SERAFINI Rifkin, an American economic interests, and the corporate EDITORIAL TEAM and social theorist, takes a cue world are aiming to reduce the ISME BENNIE (CANADA) from 3D printers, online college number of companies per key ENZO CHIARULLO courses, solar energy, iTunes, sector. This is happening with CARLOS GUROVICH LEAH HOCHBAUM ROSNER and even recycled plastic, which, everything from pharmacies SUSAN HORNIK he said, “has the potential to to supermarkets to car GLENN HOULIHAN CAROLINE INTERTAGLIA push much of economic life to manufacturers to media and OMAR MENDES near zero marginal cost.” entertainment companies, NICOLE MEROGNO Then, Rifkin, brings in a form and so on. LUIS A. POLANCO DOMINIQUE SOUDIN of socialism as a solution. “How Through mergers and will this economy of the future “And by the way, that includes you too, acquisitions, consumer pro- Ferguson!” ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER function when people can make ducts will never be “almost” MONICA GORGHETTO and share goods and services free, but will actually increase BUSINESS OFFICE nearly free? The answer lies in in cost. Perhaps Rifkin will be LEN FINKEL, RACHEL GARNEY ... nonprofi t organizations that attend to the things in able to get a song or a public-domain movie for free, LEGAL OFFICE life we make and share as a community.” but he’ll be paying through the nose to receive it via ROBERT ACKERMANN, Rifkin theorizes that, when everything is in broadband. He will have to sell a kidney in order to STEVE SCHIFFMAN plentiful supply, there is no need to own things, and pay for antibiotics. WEB MANAGER BRUNO MARRACINO people will be happy just to access material goods. Under these circumstances, politicians will be DESIGN/LAYOUT He further explained that, “This collaborative, called upon just to assure a good enough pool of CLAUDIO MATTIONI rather than capitalistic approach, is about shared consumers. And instead of a shared access society, as CARMINE RASPAOLO access rather than private ownership.” And to envisioned by Rifkin, we’ll have a global oligarchy. ILLUSTRATIONS demonstrate its socialistic validity, Rifkin uses the BOB SHOCHET example of car-sharing using 2014 fi gures: “1.7 million Dom Serafi ni 3

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(Continued from Cover) contract with Zodiak ended, Breton launched Federation in 2013. Unsung Heroines Medals of Honor Fernández-Valdés started out as a journalist. Later, after discovering that there was more money reservations, and even entertaining executives for is being taken out by the CanneSeries’ closing in TV and fi lm production, she switched gears. In a few days. “But all worked well in the end,” said ceremony. 2008 she co-founded Bambú Producciones. In Schmidt, who has assisted EC Television, CBS, Forty-year-old U.S.-educated Pinto founded 2017, Forbes magazine named her one of Spain’s Harmony Gold, Allumination, and Content (now Global Agency in his native Istanbul in 2006. most powerful women. Kew) over the last 27 years. Two years later, Pinto received the Entrepreneur After receiving a degree in Chinese literature, Coco’s sister, Maryse Spensley, started in of the Year Award from the Junior Chamber Yang’s career took off like a Foo-Shing (a bullet the hostessing business by assisting an English International. Today, Global Agency, with offi ces train). Before joining Alibaba last October, Yang company at the Cannes Film Festival. Her fi rst in Turkey, France, and the U.K., represents some was president of Youku for fi ve months (after a MIP-TV was spent with ABC Television. Later, 150 projects. three-year stint with the company). Beginning she worked for NBC Sports, Peace Arch, and CBS Breton entered the TV business in 1981, and in 2013, he served as CEO of Max Times, a youth Studios. Spensley’s greatest challenge was fi nding in 1990, he co-founded Marathon, which 19 years entertainment content and marketing company. a company that could immediately duplicate 250 later was sold to De Agostini and grouped with Previously, in 2009, Yang was marketing director copies of a CD in the middle of the night Zodiak, Magnolia, and RDF. After his fi ve-year of Nokia China. Christine Lefebvre, who hails from Nice, has, for the past 19 years, assisted Polish TV, France TV, Pixcom, and since 2015, ZED. She remembered distributor in Latin America. Star Cinema-produced Straight From the Palais fi lms will be available on Cinelatino throughout Latin one time when one of her company’s executives America, Canada, and the United States. needed her to arrange for an emergency visit with • Mondo TV Iberoamerica will produce its fi rst-ever an optometrist during the market. fi lm project, Heidi Bienvenida - The Movie, which will • Tele München Group announced several Another hostess who asked to remain continue the adventures of Mondo TV’s successful international distribution deals for its event series The anonymous, and who also lives in Nice, started live-action teen series. The fi lm’s screenplay will be Name of the Rose, which is based on Umberto Eco’s written by Argentinian author Marcela Citterio. Co- assisting at various MIP-TV booths while still novel of the same name. International distributors produced with Alianzas Productions, the fi lm will also who have picked up the series include Sky in German- in college in 1992. She noted that nowadays she feature the cast of the TV series. “We are thrilled to be speaking Europe, ORANGE in France, YLE in Finland, sees herself not as a hostess, but as “an event able to announce this exciting project. Expect a feast NRK in Norway, and DRtv in Denmark. Set in Italy, coordinator and a project manager on a freelance of adventure, comedy, music, magic and much, much 1327, The Name of the Rose follows a Franciscan monk, basis,” and that she even helps “translate from more as Heidi comes to the big screen,” commented played by John Turturro, and his novice apprentice as Maria Bonaria Fois, general manager of Mondo TV French and Italian to English to sign contracts.” they investigate a series of murders at a monastery in Iberoamerica. the Alps. TMG’s sales unit, TM International, handles These hostesses are part of a close-knit network distribution for the series. of women who know each other well, love their • John Triantafyllis of Greece’s JT TV has a gripe with work, and who support each other throughout MIP because — for the seventh time — the market dates • All3media International is investing in its fi rst the various markets. Some of these ladies, like overlap with the Orthodox Easter holidays. “This is my Scandinavian-language drama. The U.K. distributor 41st MIP and I still cannot persuade the organizers to VideoAge’s Dominique Soudin, have even assisted partnered with FLX, C More, TV4, and Filmregion give the same consideration as they do for Easter and Stockholm-Mälardalen for the new co-production, the same companies for more than 20 years! Passover,” commented Triantafyllis (pictured below Blinded. FLX is developing the series alongside Magali Corbiee-Gerber from Cannes said with CBS’s Paul Gilbert), adding, “Russians, Bulgarians streaming service C More and Swedish broadcaster that: “At age 28, I was a bored secretary. [Then] I and other Christian Orthodox countries are affected. TV4. All3media International joins as global distributor. found my ‘dream job’ 22 years ago working at MIP- I know, for example, that 10 people from three Greek Based on a book by Carolina Neurath, the eight-part TV at the TF1 booth. Later, I worked for Saban companies could not attend,” he concluded. drama follows a reporter who is investigating a bank’s Entertainment. And for the past 17 years, I’ve suspicious operations. worked for TV France International [TVFI].” She • Ukraine’s STB TV Channel picked up the scripted added that her talent is to “look and act as part of format rights to Nippon TV’s drama series Mother. the company and to know how to get rid of people Local formats have been produced by South Korea’s nicely if I think that my clients will lose [precious] CJ E&M for tvN in Asia and by Turkey’s MF YAPIM and time meeting with them. TVFI is an umbrella MEDYAPIM for Star TV. Mother tells the story of an elementary school teacher who noticed that one of her booth hosting some 50 French companies, and my students was being abused. She and her student fl ee job is to help the buyers fi nd the person they have the city, pretending to be mother and daughter. a meeting with, or to fi nd out which company they need to meet, according to their needs.” • Banijay Rights sold a multi-genre package to Annette Lampin has been commuting from U.S. network Ovation. The package deal includes nearby Mandelieu La Napoule for 15 years to two seasons of Portrait Artist of the Year and two seasons of Landscape Artist of the Year, both originally assist Austria’s ORF, while Florence Intertaglia produced for Sky Arts. Ovation also acquired another from Cannes has been working Italy’s RAI booth • Gusto Worldwide Media’s Fish The Dish has been arts program, Fake: The Great Masterpiece Challenge. for 19 years. She’s the one regularly seen roaming nominated for a Rockie Award in the Lifestyle category. For scripted programming, Ovation picked up the the halls of the Palais, her Hermès scarf wrapped Fish The Dish is a culinary TV series devoted to seafood procedural crime drama The Pinkertons. In other news, hosted by Chef Spencer Watters. The Rockie Awards casually about her neck as she searches for empty Banijay Group appointed Deepak Dhar to lead its newly winners will be announced at the Banff World Media created division, Banijay Asia. boxes needed to ship material back to Rome at the Festival, to be held in Banff, Canada, on June 11, 2018. end of the market. • Kew Media Group licensed Bristow Global Media’s Assisting another Italian company is Brigitte • The Philippines’ ABS-CBN struck a deal with Spanish- Haunted Hospitals to Discovery for its free-to-air Balma from Nice, who for the past 17 years –– language fi lm channel Cinelatino. The Mexico-based channel Quest Red. The nonfi ction paranormal series since her very fi rst MIP-TV –– has been a regular channel acquired several titles, including Unexpectedly will broadcast later in the year on Quest Red in the U.K. Yours, Four Sisters and a Wedding, and Always Be My and Ireland. Haunted Hospitals showcases disturbing at Mediaset’s booth. Maybe, among others. “This deal is highly signifi cant fi rst-hand stories of supernatural experiences at Balma’s most taxing experience was the fl ood for ABS-CBN as it keeps the momentum of penetrating hospitals, nursing homes, and mental institutions, told of 2015, which closed Cannes’ train stations and the Latin American market since the acquisition of by doctors, nurses and patients. In other Kew Media roads for two days. “In order to be on time at the Bridges of Love in Peru,” commented Cesar Diaz, head news, the company will also be representing Frantic 4 Palais, I left home at 5 a.m. and returned at 10 of 7A Media, which serves as ABS-CBN’s exclusive fi lm Films’ library of over 450 hours of content. p.m.,” she said.

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(Continued from Cover) contract with Zodiak ended, Breton launched Federation in 2013. Unsung Heroines Medals of Honor Fernández-Valdés started out as a journalist. Later, after discovering that there was more money reservations, and even entertaining executives for is being taken out by the CanneSeries’ closing in TV and fi lm production, she switched gears. In a few days. “But all worked well in the end,” said ceremony. 2008 she co-founded Bambú Producciones. In Schmidt, who has assisted EC Television, CBS, Forty-year-old U.S.-educated Pinto founded 2017, Forbes magazine named her one of Spain’s Harmony Gold, Allumination, and Content (now Global Agency in his native Istanbul in 2006. most powerful women. Kew) over the last 27 years. Two years later, Pinto received the Entrepreneur After receiving a degree in Chinese literature, Coco’s sister, Maryse Spensley, started in of the Year Award from the Junior Chamber Yang’s career took off like a Foo-Shing (a bullet the hostessing business by assisting an English International. Today, Global Agency, with offi ces train). Before joining Alibaba last October, Yang company at the Cannes Film Festival. Her fi rst in Turkey, France, and the U.K., represents some was president of Youku for fi ve months (after a MIP-TV was spent with ABC Television. Later, 150 projects. three-year stint with the company). Beginning she worked for NBC Sports, Peace Arch, and CBS Breton entered the TV business in 1981, and in 2013, he served as CEO of Max Times, a youth Studios. Spensley’s greatest challenge was fi nding in 1990, he co-founded Marathon, which 19 years entertainment content and marketing company. a company that could immediately duplicate 250 later was sold to De Agostini and grouped with Previously, in 2009, Yang was marketing director copies of a CD in the middle of the night Zodiak, Magnolia, and RDF. After his fi ve-year of Nokia China. Christine Lefebvre, who hails from Nice, has, From the producer of for the past 19 years, assisted Polish TV, France TV, “FERİHA” Pixcom, and since 2015, ZED. She remembered distributor in Latin America. Star Cinema-produced Straight From the Palais fi lms will be available on Cinelatino throughout Latin one time when one of her company’s executives America, Canada, and the United States. needed her to arrange for an emergency visit with • Mondo TV Iberoamerica will produce its fi rst-ever an optometrist during the market. fi lm project, Heidi Bienvenida - The Movie, which will • Tele München Group announced several Another hostess who asked to remain continue the adventures of Mondo TV’s successful international distribution deals for its event series The anonymous, and who also lives in Nice, started live-action teen series. The fi lm’s screenplay will be Name of the Rose, which is based on Umberto Eco’s written by Argentinian author Marcela Citterio. Co- assisting at various MIP-TV booths while still novel of the same name. International distributors produced with Alianzas Productions, the fi lm will also who have picked up the series include Sky in German- in college in 1992. She noted that nowadays she feature the cast of the TV series. “We are thrilled to be speaking Europe, ORANGE in France, YLE in Finland, sees herself not as a hostess, but as “an event able to announce this exciting project. Expect a feast NRK in Norway, and DRtv in Denmark. Set in Italy, coordinator and a project manager on a freelance of adventure, comedy, music, magic and much, much 1327, The Name of the Rose follows a Franciscan monk, basis,” and that she even helps “translate from more as Heidi comes to the big screen,” commented played by John Turturro, and his novice apprentice as Maria Bonaria Fois, general manager of Mondo TV French and Italian to English to sign contracts.” they investigate a series of murders at a monastery in Iberoamerica. the Alps. TMG’s sales unit, TM International, handles These hostesses are part of a close-knit network distribution for the series. of women who know each other well, love their • John Triantafyllis of Greece’s JT TV has a gripe with work, and who support each other throughout MIP because — for the seventh time — the market dates • All3media International is investing in its fi rst the various markets. Some of these ladies, like overlap with the Orthodox Easter holidays. “This is my Scandinavian-language drama. The U.K. distributor VideoAge’s Dominique Soudin, have even assisted 41st MIP and I still cannot persuade the organizers to partnered with FLX, C More, TV4, and Filmregion give the same consideration as they do for Easter and Stockholm-Mälardalen for the new co-production, the same companies for more than 20 years! Passover,” commented Triantafyllis (pictured below Blinded. FLX is developing the series alongside Magali Corbiee-Gerber from Cannes said with CBS’s Paul Gilbert), adding, “Russians, Bulgarians streaming service C More and Swedish broadcaster that: “At age 28, I was a bored secretary. [Then] I and other Christian Orthodox countries are affected. TV4. All3media International joins as global distributor. found my ‘dream job’ 22 years ago working at MIP- I know, for example, that 10 people from three Greek Based on a book by Carolina Neurath, the eight-part TV at the TF1 booth. Later, I worked for Saban companies could not attend,” he concluded. drama follows a reporter who is investigating a bank’s Entertainment. And for the past 17 years, I’ve suspicious operations. worked for TV France International [TVFI].” She • Ukraine’s STB TV Channel picked up the scripted added that her talent is to “look and act as part of format rights to Nippon TV’s drama series Mother. the company and to know how to get rid of people Local formats have been produced by South Korea’s nicely if I think that my clients will lose [precious] CJ E&M for tvN in Asia and by Turkey’s MF YAPIM and time meeting with them. TVFI is an umbrella MEDYAPIM for Star TV. Mother tells the story of an elementary school teacher who noticed that one of her booth hosting some 50 French companies, and my students was being abused. She and her student fl ee job is to help the buyers fi nd the person they have the city, pretending to be mother and daughter. a meeting with, or to fi nd out which company they need to meet, according to their needs.” • Banijay Rights sold a multi-genre package to Annette Lampin has been commuting from U.S. network Ovation. The package deal includes nearby Mandelieu La Napoule for 15 years to two seasons of Portrait Artist of the Year and two seasons of Landscape Artist of the Year, both originally assist Austria’s ORF, while Florence Intertaglia produced for Sky Arts. Ovation also acquired another from Cannes has been working Italy’s RAI booth • Gusto Worldwide Media’s Fish The Dish has been arts program, Fake: The Great Masterpiece Challenge. for 19 years. She’s the one regularly seen roaming nominated for a Rockie Award in the Lifestyle category. For scripted programming, Ovation picked up the the halls of the Palais, her Hermès scarf wrapped Fish The Dish is a culinary TV series devoted to seafood procedural crime drama The Pinkertons. In other news, hosted by Chef Spencer Watters. The Rockie Awards casually about her neck as she searches for empty Banijay Group appointed Deepak Dhar to lead its newly winners will be announced at the Banff World Media created division, Banijay Asia. boxes needed to ship material back to Rome at the Festival, to be held in Banff, Canada, on June 11, 2018. end of the market. • Kew Media Group licensed Bristow Global Media’s Assisting another Italian company is Brigitte • The Philippines’ ABS-CBN struck a deal with Spanish- Haunted Hospitals to Discovery for its free-to-air Balma from Nice, who for the past 17 years –– language fi lm channel Cinelatino. The Mexico-based channel Quest Red. The nonfi ction paranormal series since her very fi rst MIP-TV –– has been a regular channel acquired several titles, including Unexpectedly will broadcast later in the year on Quest Red in the U.K. Yours, Four Sisters and a Wedding, and Always Be My and Ireland. Haunted Hospitals showcases disturbing at Mediaset’s booth. Maybe, among others. “This deal is highly signifi cant fi rst-hand stories of supernatural experiences at Balma’s most taxing experience was the fl ood for ABS-CBN as it keeps the momentum of penetrating hospitals, nursing homes, and mental institutions, told of 2015, which closed Cannes’ train stations and the Latin American market since the acquisition of by doctors, nurses and patients. 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his birth, the crossing of the Red Sea, and his encounter with God Record TV Stages the Apocalypse on Mount Sinai. razil’s Record TV brings to Cannes the rivalry between two scientists, Benjamin and Ricardo, in the Apocalypse Based on Bible stories, each (Apocalipsis). Ricardo, who is in love with Benjamin’s wife, exploits Benjamin’s scientifi c discoveries to assume episode of The Miracles of Jesus his true identity as the Antichrist (pictured). (Los Milagros de Jesús) depicts B the diffi culties faced by those Set in the Middle Ages, Belaventura follows the unlikely romance between Enrico, who recently inherited land, and Pietra, who comes from a plebian village. It’s a story of love and redemption. individuals who had faith in the As childhood friends, Asher, Joanne, and Zach were inseparable. But as adults, blessings of Jesus. the three are torn apart by jealousy and betrayal when Zach and Asher both fall Stand P-1.G22 for Joanne. The Rich and Lazarus (El Rico y Lázaro) follows their tempestuous www.recordtvnetwork.com love triangle. A warrior driven by determination and faith, Joshua leads the 12 tribes of Telefi lms Has Israel to The Promised Land (La Tierra Prometida). In The Slave Mother (La Esclava Mother), the light-skinned slave Isaura is All the Money relentlessly pursued by her cruel master Mr. Leonicio. Moses and the Ten Commandments (Moisés y los Diez Mandamientos) rgentina-based Telefi lms recounts some of the most well-known stories of Moses in the Bible, including brings a fi lm slate topped Aby All the Money in the World, starring Mark Wahl- berg, Michelle Williams, and Christopher Plummer. The fi lm tells the true-life tale of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, and his family’s desperate attempts to convince his billionaire grandfather, Jean B O O T H R 7. K 1 7 Paul Getty, to pay the ransom. Den of Thieves is a gritty crime drama that follows an elite unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and a successful bank robbery crew planning an impossible heist of the Federal Reserve Bank. Gerard Butler and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson star.

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Inspired by the real-life hi- jacking of a 1976 Air France fl ight from Tel Aviv to Paris, 7 Days in Entebbe (pictured) depicts one of the most daring rescue missions ever attempted. Bella Thorne stars as Katie Price, a teenager with a life- threatening sensitivity to sun- light caused by a rare genetic condition known as xeroderma pigmentosum in Midnight Sun. She’s housebound by day, but by night, the world is her oyster. 12 Strong is the story of the fi rst Special Forces team sent to Afghanistan after September 11th. There, they must join forces with an Afghan warlord to take 7x60 28x60 down the Taliban. Stand P-1.C2 www.grbtv.com • [email protected] 8 www.telefi lms.com.ar

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Series Unknown Champions features the shocking talents of Dick Clark Presents Billboard Awards people who compete in activities ick Clark Productions carries a variety of live-event programming, non-scripted comedy, and factual that range from computer entertainment series. At the helm of its catalog is The 2018 Billboard Music Awards (pictured), which hacking to wingsuit ﬂ ying. broadcasts live on NBC in May. Last year’s show included performances from Bruno Mars, Celine Dion, Drake, Each episode of The Pet Show D is packed with laugh-out-loud and Lorde, among others. The 46th Annual 2018 American Music Awards will take place this year in October, and will air on ABC. With over clips and montages of beloved 16 musical performances, the awards show honors today’s most inﬂ uential and iconic artists. pets. Non-scripted comedy Fail Army is a compilation of hilarious blooper videos Stand P0.A27 and epic fail videos. www.dickclark.com/international The Football Show looks at what footballers around the world do when not playing the game. Each episode offers exclusive access to the personal lives of Haber Puts On elite players. Hosted by Idris Elba, The BEST FIFA Football Awards 2018 will air live The Grammys from the Royal Festival Hall in London on September 24, 2018. The best players, managers, and ambassadors will gather to celebrate highlights from the 2017- n Alfred Haber Distribution’s 2018 season. Help! My House Is Haunted, Ia team of experts investigates the unwelcome spirits inhabiting families’ homes. Shallow Grave (pictured) is a crime investigation reality series that examines the clues left behind by killers who leave their victims in the trunks of cars, in suburban parks, or along freeways.

The 2019 61st Annual Grammy Awards will broadcast live on CBS, presenting music’s brightest stars. This year’s event included performances from Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, and U2, among others. Comedic format Top 20 Funniest features a countdown to the week’s most hilarious video, showcasing the best viral videos, home movies, and news bloopers out there. The 2019 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will take place on January 27, 2019. The 24th annual ceremony honored Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Allison Janney, and many others. Today’s top music stars, from Ed Sheeran to Miley Cyrus, will be part of the performance- packed gala concert, Elton John: I’m Still Standing — A Grammy Salute, which honors Sir Elton’s musical legacy. Caught Red-Handed records security experts who videotape and confront shoplifters in the act of stealing. 10 Stand P-1.L50 www.alfredhaber.com

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wentieth Century Fox Television Distri- bution comes to Cannes with dramas Taplenty. Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp, and Manish Dayal star in new medical drama The Resident (pictured), a series that tells the truth about what really happens behind the scenes at a hospital. Part family history, part dynastic saga, and part investigation into the destructive force of wealth, Trust follows the Gettys, one of the world’s richest and unhappiest families. Set 400 years in the future, a comedic sci-fi action-adventure series follows the adventures BS Studios International’s eclectic roster is ionsgate Entertainment brings a slew of of The Orville, an exploratory ship in Earth’s led by Instinct, which stars Alan Cumming series to Cannes, ranging from dramas to interstellar fl eet. Seth MacFarlane and Adrianne as a former CIA operative who is enlisted by comedies to documentaries. C Palicki star. L the NYPD to catch a serial killer. Based on the best-selling novel by Stephanie In the military drama SEAL Team, an elite unit From creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk Danler, Sweetbitter (pictured) tells the of Navy SEALS is deployed on high-stakes missions comes 9-1-1, a procedural drama that explores dramatic story of a young woman’s coming-of- around the world. the lives and careers of emergency responders, age in exclusive restaurants. 9JKL (pictured) is a family comedy in which including cops, paramedics, and fi refi ghters. Two Mexican-American sisters who couldn’t Mark Feuerstein plays Josh Roberts, a newly A new workplace comedy set on Friday night be any more different are the focus of half-hour divorced actor living in an apartment between his fl ights from LA to Vegas delves into the lives of series Vida. When life forces them to return to parents and his brother. With family on both sides, underdogs trying to fi nd their places in the world. their old neighborhood, drama ensues as they Josh desperately needs some boundaries. Dylan McDermott stars. are confronted with their shared past, as well as Showtime drama Escape at Dannemora is the Pamela Adlon’s Sam Fox is a single mom and a astonishing news about their mother’s identity. stranger-than-fi ction account of the summer 2015 working actress hoping for Better Things for her Wrong Man is a documentary series that prison break of two convicted murderers from a three daughters. trails a team of experts as they track down correctional facility in upstate New York. The Assassination of Gianni Versace: new evidence that exposes glaring flaws in our Strange Angel, a CBS All Access drama series American Crime Story explores the true story criminal justice system. based on George Pendle’s novel, follows the life of the murder of the famed fashion designer with Event series Little Women follows sisters of Jack Parsons, a disciple of the occultist Aleister an all-star cast that includes Darren Criss, Edgar Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March as they grow Crowley. Set in 1940s Los Angeles, the series shows Ramirez, Penelope Cruz, and Ricky Martin. from childhood to adulthood against the its protagonist regularly straddling the fi ne line Stand P3.A1 backdrop of the Civil War. All the while, their between genius and madness. www.foxfast.com mother, Marmee, is there to help them learn All it takes is $1 dollar to connect a group of what it means to be a woman. individuals to a shocking murder. In this CBS All Another event series tells the tale of sisters Access mystery-thriller, each episode portrays the Margaret, an idealistic young lass courted class and cultural divides in an American town. by a widower who owns their country home, The Twilight Zone reboots the original science Howards End, and Helen, the younger sis fi ction series with executive producers Jordan who becomes involved with a bank clerk who Peele, Simon Kinberg, Marco Ramirez, Win falls on hard times. Their late parents may not Rosenfeld, and Audrey Chon. be around to guide them, but their interfering Stand R7.E2 Aunt Juley is always there to help. www.cbssi.com When second-year law student Christine Reade is introduced to The Girlfriend Viacom Rides With Experience — sexual and emotional relationships that come at a very high price — she is quickly drawn in to that world. Knight Squad Workplace comedy Corporate takes place After their husbands, Robert and Sol, iacom International Media Networks inside Hampton Deville, a soulless multi-national announce that they are in love with each other, carries a host of live-action and animated corporation where two helpless employees face Grace and Frankie must learn to navigate life Vkids’ titles, preschool series, comedies, disaster after disaster. without them. Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star and general entertainment. Comedy series Borges Importadora tells the in this half-hour comedy series. In the newest animated series for Nickelodeon, story of four employees who turn an importing Stand C15.A8 The Adventures of Kid Danger (pictured), company into an Internet video production www.lionsgate.com Kid Danger and Captain Man use their crime- fighting skills and sharp wit to outmaneuver house. bizarre criminals. MTV Floribama Shore welcomes eight Set at a magical school for knights in training, young adults to Panama City Beach, where live-action comedy Knight Squad follows two they party all night and do all that they can to students who form an unlikely alliance, and postpone adulthood. pledge to have each other’s backs while they Hosted by Rob Dyrdek, Amazingness follow their dreams. presents talented young people from around CG-animated Top Wing is an action-packed the country with $10,000 dollars in cash. preschool series in which a team of eager young Stand R7.N7 12 birds works together to become rescue birds. b2b.viacom.com

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Thunderstruck By Gusto Has Kew Media Flies Bomanbridge Flour Power To San Francisco

anada-based Gusto Worldwide Media wants viewers to learn their way around Cthe kitchen. In baking series Flour Power (pictured), a host inspires viewers with simple and extravagant baked goods. Learn all about Michael Bonacini’s Italy as you follow the famed celebrity chef as he cooks sumptuous Italian food. One World Kitchen is a food series that features nine international cuisines, including Italian, Indian, Thai, and Greek. Fish the Dish is a 4K cooking series that ew Media Group comes to Cannes from he Singapore-based Bomanbridge Media demystiﬁ es the preparation of seafood, while also London with a comprehensive library of distributes programming that ranges from celebrating the joys of sustainability. Kdrama and comedy series, documentary Tdrama and mystery, to nature and wildlife, Discover the delectable cuisines of Mexico, features, kids’ series, and special event to kids and animation. Venezuela, and Spain in The Latin Kitchen, a programming. Where Spiders Dwell explores the astonishing food show with three hosts. The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco is places where different types of arachnids live and Learn how to cook healthy, family-style meals the latest installment of the Bletchley Circle franchise. Set during the 1950s, the drama how they adapt in the face of hostility. in around 30 minutes for around 30 dollars in series follows Millie and Jean as they travel to The animated series Hanakappa tells the story Spencer’s Big 30. America and team up with a pair of U.S. code- of a little kappa boy who lives in a village with Set in an upscale kitchen, The Urban friends, family, and some naughty foes. breakers. Vegetarian celebrates the deliciousness that Buddy Thunderstruck (pictured) is a truck- Set in the 1920s, Frankie Drake Mysteries comes from veggies. racing dog that brings outrageous, high-octane trails a team of female private detectives who Stand P3.B22 adventures to the town of Greasepit. tackle investigations that no one else will dare www.gustoworldwidemedia.com Twelve contestants will live in the Gamerz take on. House where they will be tested in daily interactive Crawford is a comedy that is centered on eSports challenges and matches. a dysfunctional family that gets even more World Cup Postcards takes viewers on a tour unusual when raccoons invade their home. The of the 2018 FIFA World Cup’s host country, where eccentric family must then deal with broken the nation’s culture and history are displayed. relationships, financial worries, and new In Delicacy Hunter: On the Silk Road, Chef enemies. Jamie journeys for new gastronomic experiences Season two of Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope along the ancient network of trade roads. returns with Aisling and Danielle as they try to figure out adulthood, learning from bad The TV movie Signed, Sealed, Delivered: decisions and grabbing onto opportunities. Home Again follows a mother and her child who Documentary series Bud Empire describes are on the run. Before they can make it home, she the entrepreneurial journey of Bob Kay, one must face a hard truth. of Canada’s most uncompromising marijuana Stand P-1.E18 advocates. www.bomanbridge.tv Mariam Shaar has an inspirational story at the Milan Fashion Academy, where they get to to tell in Soufra, a documentary feature that live their dreams. follows Shaar and her team of fellow refugee Rainbow Heads To In Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends Season women as they launch a catering company. 3, the girls have to make a tough decision: stay in One Million American Dreams explores Regal Academy Milan or leave for the United States. Hart Island, a cemetery that has served as the In the two TV specials that consist of Maggie final resting place for over one million New taly’s Rainbow Group operates on a & Bianca Fashion Friends — TV MOVIES, Yorkers. global scale in the children and teenager Stand C15.A6 Ientertainment industry. In 2017, the company www.kewmedia.com acquired Iven Group, expanding its offerings of TV and movie content for broader audiences. At MIP-TV Rainbow highlights a varied portfolio of Maggie and Bianca fight to keep their home, animated and live-action content for children of conduct an investigation into a school disaster, all ages. and help one of their dads during a trip to Paris. 44 Cats (pictured) follows the adventures of In the World of Winx, the Winx are travel cat musicians who learn lessons on friendship, scouts for WOW! They search the globe, looking altruism, and kindness. for talented kids before they are kidnapped by In the first two seasons of Regal Academy, Rose Cinderella is an average teenager obsessed the mysterious Talent Thief. with shopping and shoes. When she discovers a Winx Club Sr. 7 finds the Winx taking on new key to FairyTale Land, she must learn to balance challenges such as saving the Fairy Animals of class, good grades, and fairy tales come to life. the Magic Universe, as well as the endangered Live-action series Maggie & Bianca Fashion species found on Earth. Friends Seasons 1 and 2 explores the friendship Stand R7.H2 14 between Maggie and Bianca, two girls who meet www.rbw.it

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