Editorial Comment - Elspeth Tavares
The Issue Rarely Tabled Is The COST In HUMAN
CAPITAL Of The Walt Disney Takeover Of Fox
& Other High Profile Mergers & Acquisitions
The Walt Disney acquisition of the segments of Fox it was able to acquire sets it on a course that will navigate the international oceans and secure its place on the worldwide Streaming map. Netflix, the indie that innovated the pace and race ... Read more

JAMS The Teen TV Series On Sexual Harassment
Premiered On Rai Gulp & Secured Audience Of
100,000 Viewers & Audience Share Of 0.4%
Simona Ercolani, CEO and Creative Director of Stand by Me, the production company behind the series JAMS, the first kids TV show in Europe about the issue and topic of sexual harassment, premiered on TV channel Rai Gulp, with figures of 100,000 viewers and an audience share of 0.4%, higher than the average ... Read more

Big Bad Boo Studios Continues To Produce Culturally
Inclusive Shows As Mixed Nutz Is Launched With A
Window On Amazon Prime Video Of 100m In The US
Shabnam Rezaei, founder and show producer at Big Bad Boo Studios, just prior to MIPTV have launched the company flagship show Mixed Nutz on the Amazon Prime Video, making the show available on demand to 100 Million Amazon prime members in the US alone. Targeted at the audience age group 5-8 ... Read more

A+E Networks Panel On Its Premium Factual
360 Approach To Content Creation &
Distribution For A Multi-Platform Universe
Premium factual content has always been an integral part of A+E Networks’ DNA. Participants at MIPdoc will be able to meet with the leading commissioners from A+E on some of the company’s exciting, high profile, and groundbreaking documentary series and specials coming available ... Read more

Ralf Rückauer & Ellen Windemuth
CEOs Of ZDFE Unscripted Attend
First Market At The Helm Of ZDF
Enterprises GmbH Expanded Division
Attending their first MIPdoc and MIPTV as Joint CEOs of ZDFE.unscripted, Ralf Rückauer, and Off The Fence B.V. company founder Ellen Windemuth are meeting their collective clients following the 100% share acquisition ... Read more

Zero Impunity A Global Call To Action
To Demand Zero Tolerence Of Sexual
Violence In Global War Zones
Indie Sales, headed by Nicolas Eschbach, Co Founder and Head of Sales of the Paris-based company, is handling the international rights of the animated documentary Zero Impunity. Co-directed by Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies, the duo comments: “In order for a voice to exist, it must be listened to ... Read more

Ferly Set To Build Multimedia Franchises
Around Its Latest Project Kingdom Of None
Distributed By CAKE Worldwide
Laura Nevanlinna, CEO of Ferly, previously Kaiken Entertainment Ltd founded by Mikael Hed, former Rovio executive and cocreator of Angry Birds, have entered into another collaboration with CAKE on Kingdom of None. Ferly will produce the series with Yellow Animation with CAKE acting as co-financer and worldwide distributor ... Read more

Beta & WeKids Sign Long Term Agreement
Underlining What Asian Parents & The Marketplace
Seek Is Positive Social And Emotional Messaging
That Is Developmentally Appropriate To Their Children
After an initial partnership Beta Film and WeKids, a leading Chinese content producer and distributor, have teamed up to bring world-class content to children around the world, including China and Asia. The partnership has kicked ... Read more

Poppy Delbridge & The Empress Way Aims
To Orchestrate The Strengths Of Talented
Independents With A New Collaborative
Development Model For The Format Arena
Poppy Delbridge, recognizing a gap in the market as formats, IPs and the ongoing digital road map, opens new opportunities to how we create content, has launched The Empress Way, a new entertainment-formats company, pioneering a collaborative ... Read more

The Mental Samurai Jeff Apploff On Creating
Cutting Edge Formats For A Worldwide Audience
Jeff Apploff, President and CEO of Apploff Entertainment, a specialist in creating, developing and producing ground-breaking formats worldwide, will deliver a keynote for The MIPFormats Keynote Series TODAY, April 6, 17:25 - 17:45, Palais des Festivals, Debussy Theatre, Palais 1. MIPFormats is the showcase for the global formats community, which is taking place ... Read more