Before MIPCOM kicks off in Cannes next Monday (October 17), Realscreen is presenting an all-week round-up of new non-fiction and unscripted titles that distributors will present at the French Riviera.
You can read part one of the Shopper’s Guide here, part two here, and part three here.
For selections from our editorial team, check out Realscreen’s 2022 MIPCOM Picks: part one is here, part two is here and part three is here.
The distributor best known for competition series and formats returns to MIPCOM with A Cut Above (12 x 60 min.), which sees chainsaw carvers compete to turn logs into works of art. Commissioning broadcasters are Discovery Canada, where the series is currently airing, and Discovery U.S., where it just launched.
D360 is also launching second seasons of Race Against the Tide (10 x 30 min.), a competition series that sees sand-sculpting teams going head to head; Best in Miniature (8 x 60 min.), in which expert miniaturists build miniscule versions of their dream homes; and the glass-blowing competition series Blown Away (10 x 30 min.).
All four of D360’s competition formats are produced by Marblemedia.
Fremantle’s MIPCOM lineup is highlighted by a variety of star-studded projects.
Leading the way is Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne , produced by Fremantle UK’s Naked Television for Hulu and BBC Three, which sees the model/actress approach questions visiting individuals and communities that offer different views on and experiences of gender and sexuality. Delevingne (pictured above), who’s also an executive producer on the project, will participate in a special showcase for the series in Cannes’ Grand Auditorium on the second day of MIPCOM alongside her fellow EP, Fremantle UK CEO Simon Andrae. The session will include new footage and a conversation with both producers.
Naked is also bringing Brian Cox: That’s the Way the Money Goes , a two-part doc for Channel 5 in which the star of HBO’s Succession looks at people at the extreme opposite ends of the wealth spectrum to see how our current period of economic upheaval is affecting people’s lives and society as a whole.
Other participants from Fremantle non-fiction series promoting their projects at MIPCOM include presenter Karine Le Marchand and judges Marianne James and Eric Antoine from La France a un incroyable talent ; Antonella Clerici, host of The Voice Senior Italy ; and Got Talent Espa ñ a judge Edurne Garcia Almago.
Indie factual distributor TVF International is launching more than 130 hours of content at MIPCOM, beginning with a science slate that includes Windfall’s BBC commission Super Telescope (1 x 60 min.), on NASA’s James Webb Telescope; Decarbonise (1 x 52 min.) from SWR, about carbon capture; and Killer Asteroid: Defending Earth (1 x 50 min.) and Atlas of a Changing Earth (1 x 50 min.).
Wildlife and environment titles include The Secret Life of Seals (1 x 52 min.), produced for SVT; the CNA-commissioned The Last Defenders from Peddling Pictures, about people who risk their lives to prevent illegal poaching and deforestation; the second season of Saving the Wild (2 x 52 min.); and new series The Mass Extinction (2 x 48 min.), about Asian species under threat, and One Year in the Gardens (2 x 48 min.), which visits Singapore’s Botanic Gardens, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
TVFI’s history slate includes Salme: Ancient Viking Burial Ships (2 x 52 min.) from ERR; The Long Road to War (2 x 52 min.), which covers the chain of events that led to World War I; Era of Library (2 x 50 min.), which studies how societies have preserved or destroyed information across millennia; and the second season of Asia’s Ancient Civilisations: Kingdoms of the East (4 x 48 min.) from IFA Media, which traces the rise and fall of ancient empires .
Other titles include the CNA-commissioned Looted (2 x 48 min.) from Make Waves Media, about activists and archaeologists returning artifacts stolen during the colonial era; Mediacorp’s From North Korea with Love (1 x 48 min.), which boasts exclusive access to celebrity defectors who escaped to South Korea; The World’s Greatest Sporting Arenas (3 x 60 min.) from TG4, LIC and BBC; Garage Dreams (26 x 26 min.) from Broken Arrow and Journey Media, on auto-culture and car restorations; competition format SupermodelMe: Revolution (10 x 48 min.), from Refinery Media; and Big Year in Big School (5 x 47 min.) from Virgin Media One, which follows a class of kids over their first school year.
Wag, an Asacha Media Group company, is bringing a slate of more than 80 hours of new titles to this year’s MIPCOM.
The company’s slate includes Evidence of the Unexplained (10 x 60 min.), which examines the latest and best evidence of UFOs; World Best Electric Cars (1 x 60 min.), produced by BriteSpark Films for Channel 5; and Out of Stock: Supply Chain Crisis (3 x 60 min.), which covers the fragile trade links that came to the forefront of public awareness during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wag will also be shopping returning series at MIPCOM, including the third season of Weird Earth (8 x 60 min.), the eighth season of What on Earth (20 x 60 min.), and the sixth season of Strange Evidence (20 x 60 min.).
Warner Bros. International TV Production
Reality, documentary and factual entertainment titles comprise the slate that Warner Bros. International TV Production is bringing to MIPCOM this year.
Doc offerings include the BBC Three series Paranormal (w/t) from Twenty Twenty, in which presenter Sian Eleri investigates mysterious events at a farmhouse in northern Wales in the late 1990s.
Next up is a pair of renovation series: Colin & Justin’s Hotel Hell , produced by Ricochet for Channel 5, about interior designers transforming a rundown hotel in remote Nova Scotia, Canada; and High Country Farm , produced by WBITVP New Zealand for Three, in which celebrity chef Nadia Lim and her husband transform a Victorian farmstead into an ethical, sustainable farm.
In 101 Places to Party Before You Die , hosts Adam Pally and Jon Gabrus embark on a series of three-day weekends in which they venture across the U.S. to discover food, drinks and local idiosyncrasies. Rich and Shameless , meanwhile, uses interviews and archival material to tell stories about misused wealth.
Other highlights from the WBITVP slate include Nadiya’s Everyday Baking from Wall to Wall for BBC Two; Amazon Cleans from Ricochet for 5* UK; and Selling in the City from WBITVP Australia for Binge/Foxtel.
Key format titles launching at MIPCOM include Matched by Mom (10 x 60 min.) from WBITVP Netherlands and Videoland, in which four men give control of their love lives to their mothers; Go Hard or Go Home (10 x 60 min.) from Wall to Wall for BBC Three, in which eight young people embark on a month of intense fitness training; and Now What (90 x 10 min.) from WBITVP Belgium and GoPlay, about a diverse group of 18- to 22-year-olds living together.
WBITVP has also acquired the Red Arrow Studios International format Claim to Fame (10 x 60 min.) for Belgium, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France and New Zealand. The U.S. version, produced for ABC by Kinetic Content and hosted by Kevin and Frankie Jonas, sees 12 relatives of celebrities living under one roof, who must keep their identities concealed while guessing the famous family links of their fellow competitors in order to win a $100,000 prize.
The Emmy-winning company behind the Drag Race franchise is bringing a slate of formats to MIPCOM inspired by its iconic format.
World of Wonder co-founder and producer Fenton Bailey and director of international formats Sally Miles will be shopping Secret Celebrity Drag Race (pictured top; 8 x 60 min.), which sees celebrities undergo transformative drag makeovers before impressing a panel of judges in lip-sync competitions. The U.S. series launched on VH1 in 2020, with season two premiering this year.
World of Wonder’s slate also includes the competition format Painted with… (8 x 60 min.), hosted by RuPaul’s Drag Race star Raven, which searches for talented, undiscovered make-up artists ; factual entertainment series Drag U (8 x 60 min.), which sees Drag Race queens make over everyday people; and dating series 24 Hours of Love (8 x 30 to 60 min.), which finds a single celebrity engaging in a series of dates with different suitors over 24 hours.
The company is also looking to expand its portfolio of international Drag Race adaptations, which already includes versions in the UK, Canada, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, Thailand, and the upcoming versions in Sweden and Belgium.
German distributor/producer ZDF Studios will arrive in Cannes with a varied slate of content, highlighted by an international launch screening of its blue-chip natural history series Africa from Above (10 x 50 min.) on October 17. The series, which offers an aerial perspective of the continent from its cities to its wealth of natural wonders, is produced by Off the Fence for ZDF Studios, in association with ZDF, Arte, ORF and UKTV.
Another natural history series on ZDF’s slate is Surviving Hothouse Earth (3 x 50 min.), which explores how humanity is contributing to the changes to Earth’s climate and seeks to forecast the planet’s future by studying previous hot periods in Earth’s history. The series was produced by Bilderfest Factual Entertainment for ZDF, in association with Arte and ZDF Studios.
History series War Gamers (6 x 50 min.), produced by World Media Rights for Curiosity Stream in association with ZDF Studios, covers a team of British women from the Women’s Royal Naval Service who devised tactics to defeat the German U-boat fleet during World War II.
The format Quiz Hunt (pictured above; 450 x 60 min., format or readymade) features two contestants competing for a cash prize of €5,000 per round. ZDF is also bringing the science series Naked – Generation Gender (6 x 50 min., 1 x 90 min.), which explores questions of how our biological sexes and assigned genders affect us.
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