This MIPTV 2023 that starts with different activities today, is not one MIPTV more, according to organizer RX FRANCE. This time the market grows again in global figures, after many years of complications, generating a break in its evolution. And this edition sets up a full return of Asia, for the first time after the pandemic. All in all, MIPTV will have about 6,000 international executives, more than 530 exhibiting companies and more than 1,600 buyers from 80 countries. MIPTV consolidates its position as the second market in business volume of all the content calendar, after Mipcom.

MIPTV features five programming strands accessible with one pass: Documentary and Factual (MIPdoc) and Formats (MIPformats) alongside Drama (MIPdrama), Kids (The Future of Kids TV Summit) and FAST Channels (Fast & Global). The event has again three week market days instead of four, with a ‘Super Sunday’ before. All the activities are more together than before the pandemic.

Lucy Smith, head of TV division at RX France, said: ‘We will have the biggest MIPTV in years. It is consolidated as the ‘Unscripted week’ of the content calendar, but now is very strong again in fiction, kids, all the genres and territories. It is great to have full Asia back from the pandemic, that even at Mipcom the presence was not with all its potential. Apart from October, there is no other event so global, so big and so intense in business traffic. We are growing again and we’ll continue this way for the future’.

The ‘Super Sunday’ includes today MIPdrama (with 18 titles that debut on the market, selected for Cannesseries); MIPDOC International Buyer Screenings, where 10 highly anticipated productions are presented with 10-15-minute extracts to over 500 doc & factual content buyers; and the Canneseries documentary series competition, where MIP Buyers are offered an exclusive first look of 6 titles from around the world. Additionally, there are feature keynotes by Amazon's Anthony Bay, Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka and Discovery's JB Perrette.

On Monday, the market itself starts with its main keynote talk: Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer Evan Shapiro; StudioCanal CEO and Deputy CEO CANAL+ Group, Anna Marsh; and Susan Zirinsky, President of See It Now Studios. At the same time, Glance, The Wit and K7 media, will offer their traditional conferences about content trends (kids and factual), novelties on TV and global visualization.

On Tuesday, the Fast & Global International Fast Channel Summit offers a FAST-dedicated program with conferences and networking. The speakers are top players in the segment: Lios Friedman, SVP BD at AMAGI, Jennifer Batty, head of content acquisition at Samsung TV Plus Europe, Cédric Dufour, CEO of Rakuten TV Europe, among others. Separately, Ruth Berry, MD, Global Entertainment at ITV Studios, will deliver the central keynote of the day; FRAPA will hold its well-known Format Summit; 3Vision will offer a trending conference focused on content distribution; and delegations such as the French (Unifrance) and the Ukrainian (Ukraine Content Club) will hold content showcases.

On Wednesday, finally, the market closes with a breakfast organized by MediaClub'Elles that will recognize outstanding women in the industry, and a conference focused on how the industry accelerates inclusion and diversity in all aspects of the value chain.

Nicolás Smirnoff and Alberto Buitron

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