UK Screenings 2019 TBIvision.com February/March 2019 pOFC UK Screenings FebMar19.indd 1 07/02/2019 19:13 ITV0240_WorldOnFire_TBI_FC_AW.indd 1 07/02/2019 18:47 pIFC Keshet FebMar19.indd 1 07/02/2019 19:02 UK Screenings 2019 Contents London calling Contents 2 UK TV stats Why it’s a survival of the fittest for specialised platforms This year marks the first time TBI has 2 UK TV stats unpacked BBC Showcase put our market-leading UK Screenings As high-end TV production spend reaches unprecedented levels, 4 Dempsey issue in print – a move that ought we crunch the numbers on what’s coming and going Why it’s a survival of the fittest for specialised platforms to tell you plenty about the growing prominence of the event, and what it 4 BBC Showcase 6 BBC drama means for distributors in our backyard. Your guide to BBC Studios’ drama, comedy, factual, fact ent and Programme director Hamish Turner on the vision for Nine ITV Studios Global Entertainment’s formats offerings for 2019 8 BBC formats Ruth Berry nails it when she astutely What can Netflix’s Friends deal tell us about rights ownersh? points out that you can no longer “save 13 UK distributors your ‘ta-da!’ moment” in today’s TV Inside the slates of ITVS GE, All3Media, Fremantle, Warner 10 BBC kids & factual What can Netflix’s Friends deal tell us about rights own? climate: the conveyor belt of content Bros., Lionsgate, Cineflix, Passion and TVF stops for no one, and no market. Just look at the staggering £1.2bn in UK distributors high-end TV production spend out of the UK in 2018. 24 Distributors: the new marketeers? 13 Events calendar As such, what began as BBC Studios’ dazzling charm offensive Netflix spent $2.37bn in marketing last year. How can distributors The new BAFTA chair on the UK’s tipping point for drama for international buyers has quickly become a must-do event for keep up? distributors big and small, with businesses now methodically speaking 14 ITV to one another to plan their own content showcases accordingly. 28 Last Word Inside NRK’s big-budget period piece (Check out our handy schedule on page 13 for who’s doing what and Lilla Hurst, Drive 16 All3Media when). How Australian drama is breaking through and going global This year, international buyers will have their pick of premium offerings, with top titles including BBC Studios’ long-awaited Good 17 Fremantle The region’s new wave of scripted production Omens, Warner Bros. International Television Production’s World’s Best, Cineflix Rights’ An Ordinary Woman and Passion Distribution’s 18 Warner Bros Mums Make Porn just a few of the punchy titles sure to impress buyers. The top unscripted trends set to permeate 2019 Elsewhere in the issue, distributors such as DRG’s Richard 20 Lionsgate Halliwell raise the alarm about the importance of effective marketing Commissioners from Nat Geo, SVT and the BBC outline wishlists to cut through in a 496-scripted show universe, with Endemol Shine 21 Cineflix International’s Cathy Payne stressing how distributors need to care for Inside NRK’s big-budget period piece content across a series run – not just prior to launch. 20 Passion For now, a big welcome to all the buyers congregating in Liverpool What can Netflix’s Friends deal tell us about rights ownership? and London this month, and best of luck to our friends in distribution. Happy Screenings from TBI. 21 TVF Commissioners from Nat Geo, SVT and the BBC outline wishlists 24 Innovation hkhfghfdghkdfhg What can Netflix’s Friends deal tell us about rights ownersh? 28 Last Word Lilla Hurst, Drive Editor Manori Ravindran • [email protected] • @manori_r Printed in England by Wyndeham Grange Ltd, Southwick, West Sussex BN4 4EJ Television Business International (USPS 003-807) is published bi-monthly (Jan, Mar, Apr, Jun, Aug and Managing editor Kaltrina Bylykbashi • [email protected] • @bylykbashi Oct) by Informa Telecoms Media, Maple House, 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7AD, United Sales manager Michael Callan • [email protected] Kingdom. 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. Art director Matthew Humberstone • [email protected] Periodical postage paid at Jamaica NY 11431. 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The last reported TV export figures for the UK are from Pact, which shows that estimated total revenues for 2016/17 added up to £902m. £1.3m£335m US -7% The US, Australia, France, Germany and the Nordics were the UK’s largest export markets (as shown on the right), followed MEXICO by Western Europe, Canada, China, Italy and Central Europe. £3.4m Genres that made the most sales included BRAZIL -5% entertainment (£44m), factual (£43m), kids (38m) and drama (£16m). The British Film Institute (BFI) also recently launched its 2018 interim figures on the impact of screen sector tax relief implemented by the UK government in 2013 across high-end TV, animation, films, kids’ TV and gaming. The amount of UK high-end TV The findings show that the combined titles that benetted from inward spend on high-end TV and film investment and co-production in 2018 production in the UK reached £3.1bn, the second-highest year on record following 64 2017’s record performance of £3.28bn. High-end TV, which is defined as a drama or documentary with a per hour Deutschland 83 For high-end TV, growth budget of £1m, pulled £794.5m in inward in inward investment investment, down by 2% on 2017’s was largely due to global consolidated spend of £810.7m. The content providers such as interim spend at this point last year was, Netix and Amazon however, £684m. An overall £1.2bn was spent on the production of qualifying high-end programming in 2018. GLOBAL{ 2 TBI UK Screenings February/March 2019 For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM p02-03 Production stats UK Screenings FebMar19 copyKBMCMRKBFINAL.indd 2 07/02/2019 18:41 DATA UK TV EXPORTS UK’s most exported shows The Cr £902m ow Total export n revenues SOLD GLOBALLY Outla nd e £51m r Nordics £15m SOLD GLOBALLY +48% JAPAN Plane £15m t E £52m a r Germany t +43% h China I I £60m France Most producers told Pact they are INDIA condent that their revenue would grow in 2017/18, with a particular focus on 233 TERRITORIES increased sales in China. We saw this in action in 2018, with Sh erlo Fremantle, Endemol Shine and CBS all ck £13m striking deals with the territory +18% £131.6m -7% 230 TERRITORIES SOUTH AUSTRALASIA Mids AFRICA om e r M u r d £1.2bn e r s +4% 228 TERRITORIES The amount spent on the production of high-end TV programmes in the UK £73m Australia £794.5m -2% The amount of inward Midsomer Aquarius £794.5m investment and co- Murders production that came in Total inward from international markets investment Source: Pact TV Exports Report 2016/17, 200+ 100+BFI Screen Business report 2018 SOURCE: Pact, TRP Research For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM TBI UK Screenings February/March 2019 3 p02-03 Production stats UK Screenings FebMar19 copyKBMCMRKBFINAL.indd 3 07/02/2019 18:41 BBC STUDIOS SHOWCASE OVERVIEW Serengeti Good Omens Top Gear Don’t Forget The Driver BBC Studios’ new chapter President of global markets Paul Dempsey tells TBI how the annual Showcase event has evolved, and how the merged producer-distributor is navigating the new content landscape his year’s Showcase is, in many 2018, saw commercial distribution arm BBC is simply another evolution for the business ways, a landmark year for the Worldwide unite with production banner BBC as well as Showcase, which sees buyers from UK’s public service broadcaster, Studios, a move that is in line with an industry all corners of the world fly in for four days of which will, for the first time, norm that has borne super-indies such as screenings, panels and parties. welcome more than 700 buyers Endemol Shine Group, Fremantle, All3Media “In the past, Showcase was a distribution Tto Liverpool under the newly merged BBC International, Banijay Group and ITV Studios. show where people looked at screeners and Studios banner. Paul Dempsey, president of global markets finished tape and did licensing deals based The merger, which completed in April for BBC Studios, tells TBI that the merged entity on finished product. But now, it increasingly 4 TBI UK Screenings February/March 2019 For the latest in TV programming news visit TBIVISION.COM p04-05 BBC Dempsey UK Screenings Feb19MCMRKBFINAL.indd 4 07/02/2019 18:13 BBC STUDIOS SHOWCASE OVERVIEW On-demand future SVOD involvement This year’s Showcase – the 43rd annual event At the 2018 showcase, BBC Studios hosted its – also comes at a time when conversations largest delegation of digital clients, including around rights ownership reaches new levels, the likes of Google, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft, with dialogues around branding and windowing Facebook-Oculus and Amazon, in addition to being front of mind for producers, broadcasters regional SVODs and telcos such as Showmax, and distributors, including BBC Studios.