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Prensario - MIPLondon & London Screenings Daily Newsletter - February 26 |
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London TV Screenings 2026: premium content, creativity, collaboration
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London TV Screenings 2026 has today another very active journey, with 8 presentations. The main ones are WBD in the morning, All3Media at midday and Sony in the afternoon. Yesterday, ITV, Banijay, Lionstate and Fox, and before BBC, NBCUniversal, Paramount, among others, have shown the road to follow: just premium content, the market is not for medium bets these days; creativity, based on Youtube and the creators economy, to be fresh, different, but above all for the new times; and collaborations, to make touchable projects, market initiatives, synergies cross media, that for each player separately are now unthinkable. |
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The Lionsgate Screenings, with French buying heads: Abigail Joliot, Senior Acquisitions Manager at M6 Group; Emmanuelle Bon, VP Content, Paramount + France; Guillaume Lemoine, head of acquisitions Canal+ Group France; Vanessa Patenon, SVP, Sales, Lionsgate UK; Christine Bouillet, Head of Editorial Content, Bérengère Térouanne, Acquisitions Manager, both at M6 Group |
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Other tips of this edition of the London TV Screenings? There is very good participation of buyers, about 1200 acquisitions and programming executives are attending the different presentations. About 750 attended ITV, there were 400 buyers at Lionsgate, and 250 enjoyed the FOX glamourous cocktail at The National Gallery (see the articles apart). Comparing to last year, the buyer attendance is still more from Europe, with UK, France, Germany, Italia, Spain as the main countries. In 2025, Prensario saw a bit more more buyers from Asia, MENA. And this year the predominance of broadcasters is particularly notorious, when in previous editions there were more different types of OTTs.
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The FOX EG Screenings, with the rich buying team of RAI Italy: Gina Mastrolilli, Acquisition TV Product; Marina Chiaravalle, TV rights buyer; Giorgio Buacelli, Editor Program; Agata Spatola, TV Show Creative at The Circle; Paola Tucci, Content Acquisition; Alessandra Zannetti, Content buyer |
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Lionsgate draws 400 top buyers in London to its screenings |
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ITV Studios presented a robust 2026 slate at London TV Screenings |
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What does this mean? The sure thing is that traditional TV industry wants to compete and evolve to continue leading entertainment consumption. They need of course, help from the big content providers. Trendy opinions? Mike Beale, head of formats, ITV (UK): ‘Especially in unscripted but also in fiction, you have to launch very strong contents to make a difference. To evolve, you must include Digital First experiences, YouTube creators, new origins. And the partners are as important as customers for the success of a content. From our new slate, I stress ‘The Neighborhood’ and ‘Apocalypse’, two high-end budget surpassing realities. The first one twists the real life, the 2nd one reproduces to survive a real apocalypse environment’. |
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The ITV Screening, with the two main Hungarian broadcasters together: Peter Kolosi, CEO, RTL Hungary; Gabriela Vidus, CEO of RTL Magyarország; Gábor Fischer, Programing Director at TV2 Hungary; Andrea Zaras, Head of Content Management at TV2 Hungary; Balazs Szabo, CSO, RTL Hungary |
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NBCUniversal Channels EMEA, at Lionsgate: Voytek Gorai-Kuchciak, Head of Programming, Iberia & CEE; Nick Robbins, Content Partnerships USA; Paola Tonella, VP of Sales Benelux, Italy & Nordics, Lionsgate; Miriam Pérez Blanco, Programming & Content Acquisitions UK |
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Fabrizio Battocchio, head of original productions, Mediaset Italy: ‘Here in London I am looking for a big-big entertainment format, to generate strong impact. Something just for the prime time of free TV, while many suppliers make too much focus on digital’. George Levendis, general manager Antenna Group, Greece: ‘I’d like to find the next big hit in entertainment, a strong and fresh idea. But we are also looking for fiction projects, to adapt locally’. Peter Kolosi, CCO RTL Hungary: ‘We are here above all to check the new trends, how to integrate the free TV basics with YouTube, Social Media, microdramas. Due to the general funding problems for big TV projects, the branded content side is a hot issue nowadays’. |
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More European buyers at ITV: Erin Mifsud, Legal and Business Affairs Manager; Nimmi Mulley, In-house Solicitor; Harry Arkwright, Global Content Manager, Scripted and Non-Scripted, the three from Global partnership division at ITV Studios, UK; also Sabine Fritz, Content Programming, NDR, and Sabah Wahbe, Acquisitions, from WRD, both Germany |
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Varied Spanish buyers: Elena Vaquero, Program Director at Sony Pictures TV; Juan Rodriguez, Head of Acquisitions and Programming Manager at Telemadrid; Mercedes Gutiérrez Soto, Localization & Programming Supervisor, WBD; Cristina Melendez, Programming Director at AMC Networks Southern Europe; Nieves Sánchez Núñez, Programming & Acquisitions Senior Manager in WBD |
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Banijay Entertainment slate at London TV Screenings 2026: “Wallander” reboot and “Half Man” |
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‘Fox is Back’: studio showcased biblical epic The Faithful and aggressive global expansion |
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London TV Screenings basics? There are total 43 different companies with presentations during the week, but some provide two or more events each. Prensario registers 49 events total. The companies have been: Sunday, ZDF, StudioCanal. Monday, BBC, NBCUniversal, Yes Studios, Off the Fence, Boat Rocker, Avalon. Tuesday, BBC, Beta Film, Viaplay, Fifth Season, NBCUniversal again, Paramount, Keshet, Autentic, TGC, Cineflix, DCD Rights, Mediawan, Sphere Abacus. Wednesday, ITV, Banijay, SevenOne, Federation, NBCUniversal, PBS, Passion, TVF, Fox EG, Lionsgate, BossaNova. Thursday, Dogwoof, All3Media, NBCUniversal, EcchoRights, WBD, France TV, Sony PTV, BlueAnt. Friday, Fremantle.
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Nicolás Smirnoff and Alberto Buitron
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More acquisition executives at Fox Screenings: Gea Montorfani, Head of Fiction & Programming, Elena Trugli, Fiction Acquisitions & Programming Culture/Society, both from RSI Switzerland; and Giacomo Poletti, Group Director of Rights Acquisitions at MFE Mediaset Italy |
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The PBS Screenings: George Levendis, Managing Director at Antenna TV Greece; Betsy LeBlanc, Director, Factual Sales; Anna Alvord, Director & Factual Sales, both from PBS; Victoria Elmacioglu, Head of Buyer Relations at Natpe; Eniela Bella, Director, Co-Production Finance Sales; Luke Oliver, Marketing Manager, both from PBS; and Jun Yu, acquisitions manager, Alouette Media, Singapore |
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