Special Report – Markets
What do buyers and commissioner want at SeriesMania and MipTV?
For this edition, Prensario International reviews a special survey made by RX France into the mindset of top international content buyers and commissioners and what they are looking at the markets.
● What is your editorial strategy?
● What type of projects/programs are you looking for?
● Acquisition Territory?
● The biggest Nation private TV platform in Albania and the most watched TV in the country. The aim is to be the first channel with the best local productions and acquisition programs.
● TV series
● Europe and LatAm: Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela
● SBS is an Australian public broadcaster with a Charter that is committed to cultural diversity. Everything that SBS commissions has to reflect and explore some facet of cultural diversity.
● See above. Documental and formats.
● UK
● VRT is the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Region and community of Belgium.
● Stories with a strong narrative in all factual genres, fit for public televisión for a broader audience. Among them, documentaries.
● Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, UK and North America.
● Public broadcaster.
● All kind of documentaries, talk shows, concerts.
● Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and North America.
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• Public broadcaster.
• Long-running TV series; European movie cycles; Feature films; Everything with Italian dubbed version available free of charge.
• France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, UK, and North America.
• LRT is a public broadcaster. Foreign content is broadcasted on two channels, LRT TELEVIZIJA and LRT KULTURA. FVOD rights go to our platform www.lrt.lt
• We look for new trends in drama series or very classical detective stories for daytime and late night slots. Late prime time is devoted to historical dramas, action, thrillers, comedies, art cinema.
• Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, UK and North America.
• TVUNAM is the cultural tv cannel of the National University of Mexico. Is one of the youngest cultural tv stations in the country and gathers in it’s programming grid an attractive high quality own production with an extraordinary sample of the best cultural and scientific programs of the world.
• We basically look for historical, scientific, arts and culture documentaries, as well as classical films.
• China, Japan, South Korea, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, and North America.
• Starzplay is the international streaming arm of US Premium channel Starz. Driven by a slate of our highly acclaimed Starz Original series, we seek out best-in-class acquisitions.
• Premium, provocative, propulsive scripted series - no procedurals, YA, kids programming or reality/unscripted. Must-see edge-of-seat, obsessable genres - Crime, True Crime, Edgy Thrillers, Action, Supernatural, Sci-Fi, Horror and Irreverent Period Drama e.g. THE GREAT. IP-based adaptations (novels, games, podcasts) and real-life stories.
• Europe, LatAm and North America.
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● Czech Television /CT/ is the national public broadcaster of the Czech Republic, providing a balanced range of programmes targeting every demographic. CT operates six channels: CT1, CT2, CT24 - 24-hour news channel, CT4 - sports channel, CT:D - kids channel, CT Art.
● We are aware of high-quality scripted production /series and feature films - European and non European production/ and at the same time nonscripted content - documentaries - main topics: history, ancient history, engineering, nature, travel, lifestyle, art, culture, concerts, operas, all kinds of programmes for kids - feature films, animation, live action series, edutainment, documentaries, game shows.
● Europe
• CITV has a cheeky, sometimes irreverent, tone and it engages its audience in a non-patronising peer-to-peer way. Kids voices are very much at the heart of its presentation and affording opportunities for kids to appear on, or interact with, the channel is important to CITV.
• We want fresh ideas, properties with a long shelf life and character driven stories, which will resonate with British Kids. Diversity and Inclusion are key issues for us and must be factored into any ideas put forward.
• All Europe
● KiKA is the number 1 Kids content provider in German speaking Europe with its linear TV channel as well as its various online offerings with programming that ranges from shows for preschoolers to kids from 6 to 9 years up and preteens, so no wonder the channel as well as its shareholders, the 9 affiliates of ARD as well as strong 50%-partner ZDF are all looking for high quality content, locally in Germany, Europe and of course worldwide.
● KiKA looks for premieres of live action series, animated series, feature films and also for animated specials for bank holidays. Also interesting non-fictions offerings and documentaries, aiming at kids age 6+ and also for the age group 10+.
● Worldwide, but must be accessible for kids in Europe.
● Public Service Media organisation which commissions and acquires across all key genres - drama, comedy, documentaries, natural history and children’s programming.
● Drama, comedy, feature films, children’s animation and live action, natural history. Both to acquire and co-produce.
● Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands Norway, UK. Australia, New Zealand, and North America
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• Franco-German channel ARTE has earned itself a strong reputation in Europe’s media landscape with its high-quality content and open view of the world. Its mission is to strengthen understanding and ties amongst people in Europe with culture and inspiring, innovative programs.
• Drama: Personal dilemmas, period dramas, social comedy, political thrillers: all genres have a home here. Any topic too, however sensitive, as long as the tone is right and the story powerful.
• From all Europe.
• Operating an integrated multi-channel and multi-platform system in Italy, Mediaset offers TV contents through linear (with 13 Free-to-Air TV channels on DTT) and nonlinear models (through both AVOD and SVOD platforms).
• In the scripted space, we acquire content both for Prime Time and Daytime programming. In Prime Time, we look for broad, mainstream, marketable stories: key genres are period drama, female thriller, action, crime procedural. Limited event series, especially from pre-existing well known IPs, are also a strong area of interest.
• Italy
• As a public broadcaster, RTP’s main goal is to fulfill the social purpose of providing diverse programming that can reach all the objectives that are stated in our company’s mission: knowledge, entertainment, factual, docs, fiction and other genres, in a way that represents our local and global society and the world we live in.
• Quiz shows with a twist, but retaining a cultural and general knowledge vein. Good, up to date ideias for factual entertainment that can be very relatable for general audiences.
• Portugal
• RTVE is the state-owned public corporation that assumed the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service formerly called Ente Publico Radiotelevisio´n Espan˜ola (RTVE Public Entity) in 2007.
• We are looking for kids’s and drama content.
• Spain, and LatAm.
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