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JANUARY 28, 2014 More Buyers Eye L.A. Screenings’ DISCOP Istanbul LATAM Events Kick Off Mart New Challenges , Viacom, RCN Kept Press Busy fter NATPE, the international TV his year the L.A. Screenings were industry’s next stop is the fourth esterday, three events held the ference at the Eden Roc, followed by announced with a twist. Earlier Tthis month, FOX chairman Kevin Aedition of DISCOP Istanbul. press contingent’s attention here Viacom’s on the Versailles side of the Y Fontainebleau, then RCN at the Tresor Reilly opened his executive session at Patrick Zuchowicki, CEO of DISCOP at NATPE, forcing reporters and organizer Basic Lead, noted that one photographers to scramble between Tower. the Television Critics’ winter press tour significant change since the last edi- hotels. Telemundo announced its plans flanked by two signs that read: “R.I.P. tion of the market is that it is moving to Kicking off the morning was with Spain’s Reset TV to jointly own, FOX Pilot Season 1986-2013,” stating, develop, produce and distribute El a “major convention center, so we have Telemundo Internacional’s press con- “We are going to be bypassing pilot Artista (working title), a new musical more exhibitors, more exhibiting space season,” starting this year. competition format and weekend and we are expecting more partici- It is not a new stance. In 2006, NBC’s primetime series. It is slated to pre- CEO announced that the pants.” miere in the 2014-15 TV season. network would steer clear of scripted DISCOP is a B2B content market set The agreement covers the co-own- programming during the 8 p.m. hour. up by and Paris-based ership and production of the new for- At NATPE 2008, Zucker said that NBC Basic Lead to stimulate the TV business mat, based on an original idea from planned to order a number of series across Central and Eastern Europe, Reset. Additionally, Telemundo straight-to-air. The following April, West and Central Asia, the Middle East announced that it is launching a sec- NBC held a mini Upfront event for and the Gulf territories. It will take ond feed for its pay-TV channel in advertisers in which the network place March 4-6 at the International . On February 1, the revealed its complete 52-week pro- Convention and Exhibition Center in new feed will cover South America gramming strategy — a full month Istanbul, Turkey. (Continued on Page 4) Organizers expect 1,000 delegates (Continued on Page 4) representing more than 500 compa- nies from over 90 countries to attend. Last month, Zuchowicki reported that 75 percent of the exhibiting space had already been sold. “We have more buy- (Continued on Page 4) Tartikoff Award Embraces TV

onight at the Fontainebleau, the TV industry will remember late Tproducer Brandon Tartikoff at the 11th annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award and NATPE will recog- nize individuals who encompass all dif- ferent aspects of the industry, includ- ing international, domestic (U.S.), pro- duction, broadcasting, digital, corpo- rate and creative. All these facets of the industry are encompassed by the four executives: Televisa’s Emilio Azcárraga Jean, Lionsgate’s Jon Feltheimer, produc- er/writer James L. Brooks and NBCUniversal’s Lauren Zalaznick, who will receive the awards. As CEO and chairman of the Board of Directors of Mexico’s Grupo Televisa, Emilio Azcárraga Jean has helped the

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DOM SERAFINI n the 34 years of VideoAge’s existence, I have that while in the past making a movie required 35 witnessed many instances in which creative, shooting days, now one can do it in 20-25. EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS highly competent and capable entertainment “My prediction is that there is going to be a major LARRY ADKINS Iexecutives, after years of struggling and final- bloodbath,” Relativity Media’s CEO Ryan SARA ALESSI ly succeeding, ultimately succumb to dumb Kavanaugh was reported as saying during the LUCY COHEN BLATTER ideas. I don’t know where these sorts of destructive financial panel at the most recent AFM. “There is CARLOS GUROVICH ideas come from or how they are generated. over saturation of big superhero movies, and they MICHAEL HABER Perhaps they’re self-generated by a corporate cul- are becoming just more of the same.… The audi- NICOLE MEROGNO ture based on fear (the fear of losing highly paid, ence is going to get sick of it. I see studios piling up LEAH ROSNER hard-to-come-by jobs). on more and more giant tentpoles with billions [in I imagine that many executives, who ultimately print and advertising] and billions in production,” have to make critical decisions about movies to be Kavanaugh added. CORPORATE AND made, are, at least privately, uncertain about some Perhaps it is the corporate mentality that if one CIRCULATION OFFICE of the projects to be approved. To deflect potential studio goes in one direction, all others must follow, 216 EAST 75TH STREET blame, decision-makers tend to hire consultants, even if the path leads to a financial precipice. , NY 10021 analysts and experts, in order Or, perhaps studios are bet- TEL: (212) 288-3933 to get independent opinions ting that big-budget movies FAX: (212) 288-3424 attesting to the validity of the are justified because they are [email protected] projects. very popular overseas, consid- Publicly, the bosses have to ering that moviegoers outside ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER show enthusiasm for the proj- the U.S. account for up to 80 MONICA GORGHETTO ects they have approved and so percent of Hollywood’s box the companies’ PR and promo- office income. And let’s not MARKETING COORDINATOR tional apparatuses are put in forget that China’s Dalian CAROLINE INTERTAGLIA motion to create a buzz, hop- Wanda Group, owner of ing that management’s enthu- China’s largest theater chain, BUSINESS OFFICE siasm will rub off on the press, now owns AMC theaters in LEN FINKEL the critics and ultimately the 378 U.S. and Canadian loca- paying public. “Ms. Higgins, send in a scapegoat!” tions. LEGAL OFFICE Once a highly touted project Nevertheless, this state of is shown on TV or on movie screens and the view- affairs with mega-pics is creating instability at the BOB ACKERMANN, STEVE SCHIFFMAN ers reject it, the executives go happily onto the next studios right as their television business has disastrous project, hoping that, this time at least, reached its new golden age and has become the WEB MANAGER they’ll get lucky. new frontier for creative work. Recently, The New MIKE FAIVRE The system is such that those who report to the York Times wrote that filmmakers are now moving top bosses cannot show uncertainty lest they be into television, drawn to the money, opportunity, called party-poopers or, worse yet, not team-play- cultural heft or creative control. But, the Times also WWW.VIDEOAGE.ORG ers. So they all ride along making believe that the wrote, “change [at the studios] is predictable, but project is going to be the best thing since sliced not when it will happen and how long it will last.” WWW.VIDEOAGEDAILY.COM bread. Let’s hope that this uncertainty will not kill the This preamble is meant to point out the unsavvy Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs. WWW.VIDEOAGELATINO.COM insistence with which U.S. studios continue to We cannot assume that upheaval in the movie bring in $200 million-plus superhero movies. And sector will not affect the television business, even this in an era when making movies is cheaper than VIDEO AGE INTERNATIONAL (ISSN 0278-5013 USPS 601-230) IS PUBLISHED though at many U.S. studios, television now gener- SEVEN TIMES A YEAR: JANUARY, APRIL, MAY, JUNE/JULY, SEPTEMBER, ever. Digital filmmaking means shorter shoots and ates the largest operating income. OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER/DECEMBER. PLUS DAILIES BY TV TRADE MEDIA, INC. SINGLE COPY U.S.$9.75. YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION U.S.$45 (U.S., CANA- lower budgets. For example, experts pointed out Dom Serafini DA, MEXICO); U.S.$60 (U.K. AND EUROPE). © TV TRADE MEDIA INC. 2014. THE ENTIRE CONTENTS OF VIDEO AGE INTERNATIONAL ARE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT IN THE U.S., U.K., AND ALL COUNTRIES SIGNATORY TO THE BERNE CONVENTION AND THE PAN- AMERICAN CONVENTION. SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO VIDEO AGE INTER- NATIONAL, 216 EAST 75TH STREET, SUITE PW, NEW YORK, NY 10021, U.S.A.

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(Continued from Cover) (Continued from Cover) (Continued from Cover) Conrad Black company more than double its oper- before the studios’ usual Upfronts. The isionTV, Canada’s exclusive ating margin. He began his career following year, after a disastrous sea- broadcaster for Interfaith with Televisa as Operations director son, NBC went back to the traditional VDialogue, announced that it of Channel 12 in Tijuana in 1988, and method of producing new series ready will broadcast a new hour-long news two years was named Group for the Upfronts. magazine series hosted by author and Televisa’s Corporate VP of There are a few things to point out historian Conrad Black, titled Programming. In 1996, he was about Reilly’s statements. First, the Conversations with Conrad. The show, appointed COO, and he became CEO pilot season began in February 1965 which is executive produced by Moses in 1997. and 1986 refers to when FOX was born Znaimer, will see Black sit down with Jon Feltheimer has 30 years of as a network. In addition, Reilly also notable guests, including government experience in the entertainment mentioned that his plan to “bypass” leaders, royals, celebrities, sports and the Caribbean with a customiz- industry, and during his time as CEO, pilot season would affect dramas more icons, literary guests and astronauts. able schedule for audiences in the Lionsgate’s capitalization increased than comedies as he feels comedy Each episode will end with a seg- pilots are necessary for testing cast region. Plus, Sara Maldonado, the ment called “Talk Black,” featuring from $80 million in 2000 to almost $5 chemistry. So, he plans to order a few lead actress of Telemundo’s new orig- informative editorials on pertinent billion today. He has also increased comedy pilots this season, but give inal series , added topics, including the Middle East, the the company’s revenue from $8 mil- more straight-to-series orders. star power to the event. U.S. Justice System, the Senate, the lion in 200 to a projected half billion FOX is clearly embracing shorter sea- Viacom International Media United Nations and other entities dollars this year. sons, plus it doesn’t schedule the 10 Networks (VIMN) The Americas about which Black has powerful opin- Throughout his 50-year career, p.m. time-slot and therefore has fewer announced that it is expanding its ions. writer and producer James L. Brooks hours to fill than the other big broad- production targeting millennials John Thornton, VP of Original has been influential in bringing cast networks. across multiple platforms in key mar- Programming & Operations for MZTV groundbreaking shows — including In any case, as far as the internation- kets, greenlighting original content Production & Distribution, is on-hand The Simpsons, , Taxi, al TV sector is concerned, the L.A. such as Nickelodeon’s first-ever at NATPE. Room 222, Lou Grant and The Tracy Screenings 2014 will proceed as sched- Portuguese-language novela in Brazil, Ullman Show — to life. His credits uled, starting with the indies screen- Dani Who?, the Kids Choice Awards also encompass the big screen, with ings May 13, 14, 15 and 16 and the stu- Colombia and a local Colombian ver- Comarex in a PXTV titles such as Terms of Endearment, As dio screenings from May 15-23, with sion of MTV’s Catfish, titled Catfish BluePrint Deal Good As It Gets, Jerry Maguire and The the Canadian screenings May 14-21 Colombia. Simpsons Movie, among others. and deal night possibly May 19. Additionally, MTV Latin America exico kicked off NATPE with Lauren Zalaznick is executive vice L.A. Screenings updates can be has Mexican formats of MTV’s Jersey the first press conference on president of Media Innovation and found at: Shore and Ridiculousness in develop- MSunday to announce that Cross Company Initiatives for www.videoageinternational.com/ ment. The local versions will be titled Azteca’s Comarex is now distributing NBCUniversal. Zalaznick has helped screenings.htm Mexico Shore (working title) and over 500 new original action sports the company generate record-setting Ridiculousness Mexico. Both formats episodes that Mexico-based BluePrint ratings and revenue increases. She received 13-episode orders. Press in is producing for PXTV, the Mexican NATPE VISUALS attendance were given iPad Minis also leads a consumer products group pay-TV cable and satellite service. with a Nickelodeon App. for the company and is viewed as a Comarex will be distributing interna- At RCN, Julián Giraldo held individ- pioneer for exploiting the power of tionally both finished products and ual meetings with the press to intro- NBCUniversal’s media portfolio by formats. duce the rebranding in the U.S. of TV forming the Integrated Media Group Pictured below is Raul Mendoza announc- Colombia, RCN’s Hispanic cable and in 2007. ing the panelists before signing the three-way satellite channel, which will soon be accord: (l. to r.) Comarex’s Marcel Vinay, called Nuestra Tele. BluePrint’s Raul Campos Delgado, PXTV’s DISCOP Istanbul RCN launched TV Colombia in Alejandro Mercado. 2003, but they couldn’t use the RCN brand in the U.S. due to the fact that it (Continued from Cover) was previously registered by another company. ers and TV station representatives Pictured above: Televisa’s Fernando Perez Gavilan and Jose Baston. Pictured below: With the rebrand, the channel will than we’ve had in the past,” since Somos’ Francisco Villanueva. also be changing its content, featuring DISCOP’s new Middle East specialist four hours of original content daily. traveled to countries such as Iran, Pictured on top: Viacom’s JC Acosta, Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Dubai and Tatiana Rodriguez, Fernando Gaston, others. According to Zuchowicki, Federico Cuervo. Pictured below: RCN’s “We’ve gone into the region to bring Julián Giraldo. Pictured on the cover: as many new TV stations and other Telemundo’s Marcos Santana and Joe Uva. players as possible to DISCOP Istanbul.” TRAVEL TO DISCOP ISTANBUL WITH VIDEOAGE Pictured at left: Peace Point’s Les Tomlin, Rose Marie Vega, Jill FEB/MARCH ISSUE Saevitzon, Eric Müller.

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Since then, TLN has expanded by makes it special. “We Canadians launching an entire family of digital TV have a multicultural society that loves to sample and enjoy the best channels including two all-Spanish- sounds, sights and tastes from language channels (TLN en Español, Canada’s TLN Does the Salsa at 30 around the globe and we consider TeleNiños), three all-Italian-language ourselves ambassadors of all the his year marks the 30th culture, held annually. channels (Mediaset Italia, Sky TG24 good things our ethnic communities anniversary of Toronto- The channel will air special Canada, TeleBimbi), as well as provid- have brought to the world.” Tbased TLN Telelatino ing Canadian representation for the anniversary TV events including a Cinelatino premium Spanish-language Network (TLN). The line-up of cel- series of TLN Originals, programs movie channel. ebrations includes multilingual shot in Canada, Italy and Latin Moltini’s Plans for coverage of all 64 matches of the TLN’s main channel is now carried by America. virtually every pay-TV provider in the Cablevision 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. The main TLN Telelatino TV chan- The festivities will then hit the country in some six million homes, with nel was one of Canada’s first special- streets of Toronto as TLN hosts the programming that now includes a large e do not fear uncertainty ty cable networks when it launched 10th annual “Salsa on St. Clair,” proportion of English-language, “cul- and for 2014 we’ll invest in 4,000 local homes in 1984, broad- Canada’s largest Latino street festi- turally connected” TV shows. “Wsome U.S.$300 million to casting a mix of Spanish- and val. Inspired by Miami’s “Calle According to TLN president Aldo Di consolidate our cable operation in Italian-language shows to Canada’s Ocho” festival, the mid-July “Salsa Felice, the network’s ability to appeal to the country,” Carlos Moltini, presi- large Italian population and its on St. Clair” weekend is a free cele- the English-speaking mainstream while dent of Cablevision Argentina, told growing Hispanic community. preserving its Latin heritage is what bration of music, dance, food and VideoAge Daily in an interview. With 3.5 million video and 1.6 million broadband subs, the cable company is a leading Latin American cable operator. Recently, Cablevision’s future has been jeop- ardized by the government of Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner’s crackdown on the ownership group (Grupo Clarín). “Cablevision requires a continued investment despite the problems with the regulations and the econo- my [in general],” Moltini added. This government action — advancing a media law designed to weaken Clarín Group, considered by the government to be its most vocal critic — is a direct threat to the Clarín Group. “The law has one purpose: to destroy us by [also] requiring a breakup of Cablevision and [forcing us to] stop serving several areas of the country [with] cable TV and Internet. We have already presented a restructured plan of operation and are now awaiting the government’s response,” said Moltini. To abide by the new media law in Argentina, Clarín proposed splitting their MSO into six units. The first three units include all the properties of Cablevision. The remaining units are the bulk of the operations run by Cablevision and Fibertel (its sub- sidiary that offers high-speed Internet). Because of the media law, the U.S. Fund Fintech that held a 40 percent stake in Cablevision should be divested due to the recent acquisi- tion by Fintech of Telecom Italia shares in the telco Telecom Argentina. “It is difficult to say exactly what Fintech is [now] required to do. In order that all regulations are met, the position of other companies like        the telco Telefonica — which owns the FTA channel Telefe — must be clarified. While this remains open, Fintech has no obligation to divest of Cablevision,” Moltini said. By Omar Mendez, CEO of The Daily Television

J ANUARY 2 8 , 2 0 1 4 Throughout Cannes, content buyers read the printed version of VideoAge 'DLO\$URXQGWKHZRUOGîOPDQG79 executives read the online edition of VideoAge Daily. No matter where, when or how, your buyers will see your ad. other, visits her brother in prison and falls in love with his fellow inmate Felix. What Nora does not yet know is that she is the daughter An Impostor at Telemundo of Otoniel Lobo, an entrepreneur and father of the woman who will elemundo Internacional’s slate is lives a life of crime. She helps him become her worst enemy as they overflowing with drama. When claim a large sum of money in a dirty struggle for their father’s admira- T tion, control of O Lobo Enterprises Blanca kisses Eduardo, she does- business, after he promises he will and Felix’s love. n’t know that he’s the son of a ruthless leave his life of crime behind after this In Te Amaré Por Siempre (Loving businesswoman who’s committed an one move. He then reveals that he You a Thousand Times), Eun-nim injustice against her father. Hired by plans to return to his wife, and becomes a surrogate mother in Adriano, Blanca will pretend to be a Camelia shoots him. She begins a des- exchange for the money she needs millionaire named Victoria. Things get perate escape and gets help from an Monica’s soul takes over the body of a to save her father’s life. Eun-nim complicated when Eduardo falls in unexpected person: a great drug lord modest waitress killed by a gangster, meets and falls in love with Kang- love with Victoria, not realizing she’s who, as it turns out, is her father. and tries to defend her children and ho. But it turns out that the son Eun- actually also Blanca in Monica Serrano, a world-renowned seek justice. Adriana’s soul, on the nim once carried is Kang-ho’s (The Impostor)(pictured). pianist dies a tragic death after being other hand, wanders the world and nephew. Though Eun-nim separates In Camelia La Texana, a small-town betrayed by her niece and the man she tries to recover her body. herself from her love, he’s deter- Texan girl falls for Emilio Varela, who loves in En Otra Piel (Part of Me). But Nora, a modern-day woman like no mined to win her back. ¡Suelta La Sopa!, hosted by Jorge Bernal, is an entertainment show that brings viewers the latest show- biz news and headlines. Locos Por El Baile (Mad About Dance) is a contest that tests the dance abilities of 12 celebrities, who compete solo, in pairs and in groups. The losing team must carry out an \ embarrassing penalty performance. www.telemundointernacional.com WORKS Tresor Tower, 2-3403 DESCRIPTIVE VIDEO WORKS Somos Has

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matches with colorful characters). “ Popular talk shows and entertain- ment programs, such as Bayly and Charytin y Felipe are also on the Somos slate, as well as internation- ally successful stories from acclaimed writers — both finished products and scripts. www.somostv.net Tresor Tower, 2-2914/2-2916

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Power Explores New Worlds

ondon-based Power’s got films Down and the U.S. president is taken Land miniseries that’ll thrill. hostage. It’s up to an unlikely alliance New Worlds (pictured), a new of three to prevent the unthinkable drama set in England and America in and avert disaster. the 1680s, follows a period of Film Felix is about a young boy Mad for Lionsgate change, a story of love, the fight for from a poor background who strives justice and the human price paid for against adversity and the wishes of his ionsgate’s got mad men — in bine to politician’s wife in Weeds. the freedoms we now enjoy. mother, to become a jazz musician more ways than one. Miniseries In Orange Is the New Black, a hap- When a group of students play a like his late father. LHoudini follows the man behind pily engaged PR executive is sen- cat-and-mouse game near a local Young Otelo takes to surfing right the magic as he finds fame, engages in tenced to a minimum-security prison farm with what seems to be a wild away, but then tragedy strikes. On the espionage, battles spiritualists and for a decade-old drug offense. animal, things take a terrifying turn. day that Nelson Mandela is released encounters some of the most famous Chasing Life follows 20-something Now the Scarecrow is coming and from prison, Otelo must choose people of his era, including Theodore surviving seems a distant prayer. April, a quick-witted aspiring journal- between justice and surfing. Roosevelt and Tzar Nicholas The A huge international terrorist plot ist who discovers she has cancer just as www.powerentertainment.tv Great. Starring Adrian Brody as Harry is revealed when Air Force One is Tresor Tower, 2-2311 Houdini and Kristen Connelly as his her personal and professional lives are wife and assistant. starting to look up. Charlie Sheen stars as a non-tradi- Saint George is an ensemble come- tional therapist specializing in Anger dy starring George Lopez that revolves Management (pictured). He thrives around the chaotic life of a recently on chaos and battles his own anger. divorced working class Mexican- Sexy, stylized and provocative American turned successful entrepre- drama Mad Men follows the lives of neur. He’s trying to balance his Madison Avenue admen in the 1960s. demanding ex, 11-year-old son, his Set against the backdrop of the uncle, his ovebearing mother who just famous music scene, Nashville fol- lows three iconic women as they climb moved in and his new role as a phil- to the top of the charts. antropist. Pot-selling suburban widow Nancy www.lionsgate.com Botwin has gone from cartel concu- Tresor Tower, 2-1514 Inter Medya Puts Us In Between Drama Get Help from Disney isney Media Distribution’s got everything stanbul-based ITV Inter Medya arrest Melek for attempted mur- between building a home with the from swashbuckling pirates to the big cats brings Turkish-style drama to der. She is sentenced to life in pregnant Asiye, and the world of D of Africa to boxing robots. In feature film I prison. Ali becomes obsessed with Miami. Founded in 1992, the motocross success. After the two Real Steel, a father and his estranged 11-year-old company also owns — through sis- the mission to break his wife out of split, Asiye meets someone else son enter the futuristic world of robotic boxing. ter outfit Fono Film — the most prison and consults a fugitive on and begins to build a life with him, Hugh Jackman stars. modern 35mm and video post- how to do it. but Ilyas, now successful and rich, Johnny Depp returns as Captain Jack Sparrow production lab in Turkey. Neriman, who lost her mother is determined to win her back in in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. In drama series Black Rose, as a young girl and lives with her Red Scarf. Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann and Captain Ebru is left alone and penniless father, is a young, traditional www.itv-intermedya.com Barbossa must sail off the edge of the map to res- after her husband disappears. She woman. Sinasi, an educated, Stand 421 cue him from the depths of Davy Jones’s Locker. also discovers that he lived a decent young man, proclaims his Nature documentary African Cats follows two secret life and that her first-born love for Neriman at every turn. big cat families as they teach their cubs how to child, who she thought had died, But, stuck In Between a conven- survive in the wild. is alive and well. Now Ebru, a tional life and a more modern In feature film The Help, Emma Stone stars as woman who had never left the existence, Neriman questions the Skeeter, an aspiring writer living during the Civil walls of her mansion, must fight man she’s expected to marry. And Rights Movement who writes a book from the for all that she’s lost, starting over a party that’s thrown one night point-of-view of African American maids. in a distant land. has many surprises in store for After his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry It only takes 20 Minutes (pic- everyone. The series is based on during World War I, young Albert enlists in hopes tured) for Melek and Ali’s perfect popular Turkish novel Fatih- of finding his horse, and his journey takes him to lives to turn upside down. The day Harbiye by Peyami Safa. the frontlines in feature War Horse. they celebrate buying a house, the Ilyas, who dreams of becoming www.disneymediadistribution.tv police knock on the door and a motocross champion, is stuck Tresor Tower, 2-1809/1810/1811/1812

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Multicom’s Golden Age

ulticom Entertainment Group has docs, dramas and A+E Makes Big History Manthologies. John Paul II, A Man A Saint (pictured) is a drama here’s a lot to learn from A+E strations and then how they relate to about the true friendship that devel- TNetworks this year. Don’t Trust history. Viewers will see how the oped between the pope and a private Andrew Mayne (pictured) fea- Greeks integrated optical illusions ski instructor on the white mountain tures an innovative, mischief-loving into the Parthenon and why the Mona peaks of Northern Italy. Documentaries Package. magician and illusionist on his way to Lisa’s eyes seem to follow you no mat- The Golden Age of Television Jonathan Winters provides the voice re-invent revenge. Mayne uses magic ter where you are. Series encompasses over 700 hours of programs, including Peter Gunn, of Tweedledee and Tweedledum, to help people teach a lesson to those Do you have what it takes to be the about a stylish, sexy and tough L.A. Phyllis Diller is the Queen and Mr. T is who have wronged them. best trader? Find out with new compe- detective; Mr. Lucky, where high soci- Jabberwock in Alice Through the Twenty years ago, a group of inno- tition show Barter Kings: The Game ety and the Underworld collide on a Looking Glass. The Charles Dickens vative teachers had a breakthrough (working title), based on the hit pro- idea: to use science to teach history, casino boat; The Invisible Man, in Collection includes eight 90-minute gram Barter Kings. Three teams of which a scientist who holds the secret specials such as Oliver Twist and A and use history to reveal science. In everyday folks start with the same each episode of Big History, science to invisibility joins forces with British Christmas Carol. And Peter O’Toole average, everyday items and spend reveals an unexpected twist on histor- Intelligence and Decoy, based on true voices the original crime scene investi- one week trading up for objects of ical events. stories from an undercover police- gator, Sherlock Holmes, in four exciting greater value. Actor and comedian Simon Yin woman in New York. adventures. All these, and more, make In paranormal special Contacto hosts Hidden Cities: Extreme, jump- Gangster Mob features (HD) up International Family Classics Extraterrestre, eyewitnesses, UFO ing into extreme situations and adven- include Send No Flowers, about the (HD). tures across Asia. He embarks on experts, scientists, pilots, astro- daughter of a Mob boss who’s forced Narrated by Ben Kingsley, Religions thrilling, high-energy adventures, nomers, physicists, anthropologists to join forces with her estranged sister of the World is a collection of pro- including hunting with a remote tribe and air traffic controllers seek and maintain control of the family grams that explore the differences and in the Philippines and eating tarantu- answers to unexplained phenomena. after her father is gunned down, and similarities among many major world las in Thailand. Modern Dads follows a group of gritty and dark drama The Night Never religions. Your Bleeped Up Brain unlocks the stay-at-home dads balancing the Sleeps. Network miniseries includes GUN, secrets of visual perception and the requirements and expectations of guy Over 3,000 hours of factual history, JFK: Reckless Youth, Family Pictures and constant tricks it plays on our brains. life with dad life in Austin, Texas. music, biographies, documentaries Harts of the West. Producers first show illusions at work www.AETNinternational.com and series are included in the www.multicom.tv through man-on-the-street demon- Tresor Tower, 2-1609/2-1611 Factual, History, Biographies, Sorrento Tower, 3-0723

Final-year veterinary students take on the Things Get Real responsibility of running an animal clinic in a NPN Media Helps remote community surrounded by the Kruger at Peace Point National Park in reality series Frontier Vets. You Know More Rusty and Julie Bulloch are proud parents of eace Point Rights does reality right, with 25 kids, only two of whom are biological. In PN Media’s KnowMore TV, available in Spanish and Pfood competitions, sports documentaries lifestyle series Bulloch Family Ranch, viewers NEnglish, is a health and wellness brand that informs, and more. Four teams duke it out for educates and motivates viewers to make healthier the ultimate prize — their very own cus- choices. KnowMore’s team of tomized food truck — in Food Truck Face experts, hosts, producers and Off (pictured). The dream becomes a reali- writers provide engaging ty for whichever team makes the most prof- videos and credible, con- its in this food competition series. sumer-friendly programming. Feature-length documentary The DNA of HealthDay TV includes GSP follows champion UFC welterweight breaking studies out of top fighter George St-Pierre, exploring the medical journals, the latest motivation behind his career and life, and health and wellness trends, the strategy used in his MMA fights. tips and advice for living a Played is an ensemble drama that follows healthy lifestyle, and is broad- an elite undercover police unit as it infiltrates see how the couple offers kids with difficult cast six days a week. impenetrable criminal cases. backgrounds a second chance to get back on SWEEPSFeed brings in- In 13-episode makeover series Colin and track. depth, promotable reports Justin’s Cabin Pressure, Colin McAllister and www.peacepoint.tv, www.peacepointrights.tv that help drive viewers to Justin Ryan transform their lakeside fixer- Stand 312 newscasts and websites, from investigations to consumer upper into a rural sanctuary. alerts, from health news to tech news to money matters. www.npnmedia.com

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Fashion and Football at FME os Angeles-based Gaumont LInternational Television brings two dark dramas to NATPE. ondon-based FremantleMedia’s dynamic, modern adaptation of the Drama series Hannibal (pictured) got drama, entertainment and classic 1980s TV series Prisoner Cell L explores the relationship between factual series on its NATPE roster. Block H. psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter and Through a series of conversations at Kate, a spirited little girl, and her toy his patient, a young FBI criminal pro- an L.A. restaurant, drama series Full bunny Mim-Mim travel to a fantasy filer named Will Graham who is Circle (pictured) explores the rela- world where Mim-mom comes alive as haunted by his ability to empathize tionships of 11 people whose lives are a larger-than-life playmate in animat- with serial killers. Twenty-six dramatically interwined, unbe- ed preschool series Kate & Mim Mim. episodes are available. knownst to them. In zany studio gameshow The Based on the gothic novel by Brian Class of ’92 details the rise to super- Noise, silence means a cash prize, as McGreevy, drama series Hemlock stardom of six talented Manchester contestants try to walk on hot coals, Grove tells the tale of a once vibrant the beginning. United footballers — David Beckham, open a can of Coke and more without community that’s struggling after a Gaumont’s Sam Semon, Erik Pack Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt, making a sound. mysterious death. As the town’s and Adeline Tormo are on hand at Phil and Gary Neville. Viewers get a behind-the-scenes secrets begin to unravel, suspicions the Fontainebleau. The Fashion Fund offers a peek look into the colorful and never- about the mysterious White Tower www.gaumontinternationaltv.com into the real-world competition for the before-seen world of sports mascots in and rumors of a werewolf are just Chateau Tower, 1516 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award, Behind the Mask. one of the most influential prizes in www.fremantlemedia.com, his wife of 43 years in comedy series the industry. www.fmescreenings.com Get Reckless The Millers. Drama series Wentworth is a Tresor Tower, 2-3003 Mary Stuart, who has been Queen of with CBSSI Scotland since she was six days old, Viacom’s Got a Generation Covered rallies her ladies-in-waiting and read- BS Studios International is in ies herself to rule her country in Reign. iacom International Media CMiami with dramas, comedies Two lawyers must hide their intense Networks has got funny girls, pre- and psychological thrillers. physical attraction as they work Vschool characters, and a group of Drama series Under the Dome is against each other on a police sex scan- half-siblings on a mission to find their bio- based on the book by Stephen King dal that threatens to tear their city logical dad. Nickelodeon’s preschool series about a fictional New England town apart in drama Reckless (pictured). PAW Patrol is a CG, action-adventure that is inexplicably covered by a dome Star-Crossed is a futuristic take on series about a group of six heroic puppies, that separates the town from the rest the story of Romeo and Juliet, in which led by a tech-savvy 10-year-old boy named of the world. the love between a human and an alien Ryder. Halle Berry stars in futuristic is threatened by the small-mindedness Comedy spin-off series Sam & Cat (pic- thriller Extant, about an astronaut of their communities. tured) follows Sam from iCarly and Cat who returns home from a yearlong www.CBSCorporation.com from Victorious, as they become room- solo mission in space and tries to Chateau Tower, 1426 mates and launch a babysitting service. reconnect with her Generation Cryo is an original docu- family. drama series that uncovers the issues faced Penny Dreadful is by a new generation of kids who were con- a psychological series ceived via anonymous sperm donors. This that combines some unscripted series follows 17-year-old Breeanna, who, along with her 15 half- of the most terrifying siblings, sets out on a mission to discover who her anonymous biological characters from liter- father is. ature — including Dr. The girls are having their say in format Girl Code, in which female comics Frankenstein and share their over-the-top tips about everything from frenemies to dealing with iconic figures from ex-boyfriends and more. Dracula. Comedian Amy Schumer created, wrote and stars in sketch comedy series A recently divorced Inside Amy Schumer, featuring a series of vignettes, stand-up and man-on- man gets the surprise the-street interviews. of his life when his www.b2b.viacom.com father decides to fol- Tresor Tower, 2-2301/2303/2307/2309 low in his footsteps and moves in, leaving

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hours at the Trauma Center at San Antonio Retooling the U.S. Midseason Series Memorial Hospital. Good news. The network ordered three more episodes of the series in ideoAge has already covered the hits and the first functioning democracy in the Americas, October, according to Deadline. misses in the U.S. networks’ fall premieres, diabolical pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, Int’l Distribution: SPTI so now it’s time to focus our attention on reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and Vthose hopeful saviors — the midseason miscreant sailors. Rake (Fox) shows (all 21 of them). Below is a list of what’s Int’l Distribution: Sierra/Engine Premiered: Sunday, January 19 already premiered, what’s to come and when. Genre: Drama Think the drama begins once they air? Think Friends with Better Lives (CBS) This legal drama centers on a brilliant, but self- again. Some series are being retooled, and in one Premieres: Monday, March 31 destructive criminal defense attorney. case, hitting the chopping block before it even airs. Genre: Comedy Int’l Distribution: SPTI ABC’s limited series The Assets has already been can- The grass is always greener for six 30-something celled after just two episodes in January. friends at different stages in their lives who are Reckless (CBS) happy on the surface but each secretly question if The 100 (CW) the other have it better. Premieres: No date yet Premieres: Wednesday, March 19 Int’l Distribution: 20th Century Fox TV Distribution Genre: Drama Genre: Drama A sultry legal show set in Charleston, about a Set 97 years after a nuclear war has destroyed civi- Growing up Fisher (NBC) Yankee litigator and a Southern attorney who lization, when a spaceship housing humanity’s lone Premieres: Thursday, February 23 struggle to hide their attraction while clashing over survivors sends 100 juvenile delinquents back to Genre: Comedy a police sex scandal. Earth in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet. A divorced and immature mom becomes closer to Int’l Distribution: CBSSI Int’l Distribution: WBITD her blind ex-husband after their divorce. Int’l Distribution: NBCUni Int’l TV Distribution Resurrection (ABC) About a Boy (NBC) Premieres: Sunday, March 9 Premieres: Tuesday, February 21 Intelligence (CBS) Genre: Drama Genre: Comedy Premiered: Monday, January 13 Based on the film about an immature bachelor who Genre: Drama A supernatural thriller in which people see their befriends a young boy and his eccentric mom. A high-tech intelligence operative is enhanced with dead loved ones return as if not a day has gone by. Int’l Distribution: NBCUni Int’l TV Distribution a super-computer microchip in his brain. Int’l Distribution: Disney Media Distribution Int’l Distribution: Disney Media Distribution Believe (NBC) Star-Crossed (CW) Premieres: Monday, March 10 Killer Women (ABC) Premieres: Monday, February 17 Genre: Drama Premiered: Tuesday, January 7 Genre: Drama A wrongfully accused death row inmate is broken Genre: Drama The futuristic story of an alien/human romance out of jail to protect a young girl with unusual Of all the notorious lawmen that ever patrolled the that takes place after secret aliens are integrated powers. violent frontier, none are more storied than the into a suburban high school. Int’l Distribution: WBITD Texas Rangers. Ballsy Molly Parker (Tricia Helfer) Int’l Distribution: CBSSI is one of the first women to join this elite group of PD (NBC) law enforcement agents. Premiered: Wednesday, January 8 Int’l Distribution: Disney Media Distribution Undateable (NBC) Genre: Drama Premieres: No date yet From Dick Wolf, the man behind Law & Order, Mind Games (ABC) Genre: Comedy comes this spin-off of Chicago Fire, which focuses Premieres: Tuesday, March 11 A “bromantic comedy” about a group of guy friends on the Windy City’s police department. Genre: Drama who are terrible with girls, but whose lives are Int’l Distribution: NBCUni Int’l TV Distribution Two brothers lead a unique agency that attacks altered by a confident guy. clients’ problems using the real science of human Int’l Distribution: WBITD Crisis (NBC) motivation and manipulation. It’s a little bit of sci- Premieres: Sunday, March 16 ence, a dash of con artistry, and a smattering of Us & Them (Fox) Genre: Drama Jedi mind tricks. An idealistic Secret Service agent finds himself at Int’l Distribution: 20th Century Fox TV Distribution Premieres: No date yet the epicenter of a national crisis when the U.S. Genre: Comedy president’s son and his schoolmates are kidnapped. Mixology (ABC) About a long-distance couple from two very differ- Interestingly, according to Deadline, Crisis went on Premieres: Wednesday, February 26 ent backgrounds. But the future is bleak for this sit- hiatus after production was wrapped on the fifth Genre: Comedy com. The series saw its 13-episode order cut down episode after the pilot. “The reason for the stop- The series takes place across one high-end bar, and to seven in October, according to Deadline. page was ‘course correction,’ with writers using the resolves around 10 single people congregating in Int’l Distribution: SPTI time to work on scripts,” Deadline reported. New York City’s Meatpacking District on one night. Int’l Distribution: 20th Century Fox TV Distribution Int’l Distribution: Disney Media Distribution Wayward Pines (Fox) Premieres: No date yet Crossbones (NBC) The Night Shift (NBC) Genre: Drama Premieres: No date yet Premieres: No date yet Genre: Drama Genre: Drama An “event series” about a Secret Service officer who In 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, About the men and women who work the wee tries to unravel the disappearance of two agents. Int’l Distribution: 20th Century Fox TV Distribution

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