2025 Headlines Keshet International’s Slate

Keshet International (KI) has announced its slate of content for MIPTV 2019, which includes eight new entertainment and factual series.

Leading KI’s MIPTV 2019 slate is the reality format 2025. Described as “Monopoly meets The Truman Show,” 2025 places contestants in a mock-up of a near-future city in which they play a game of strategy with the aim of accumulating social currency.

“The 2025 set is built on a massive scale and powered by a dedicated network of nearly 300 operators, producers and editors,” said Kelly Wright, Keshet International’s senior VP of distribution and new business. “The great news is that we’ve already made the investment and the Israeli set will be available as an international hub for our clients.”

Another highlight, The Great Gardening Challenge, throws professional garden designers into a competition to completely transform unkempt outdoor spaces. Hello Halo’s River Hunters explores waterways of the world to uncover archeological treasures.

“River Hunters takes the popular factual genre of archaeological discoveries into the completely new and unexplored world of waterways,” said Wright

Other titles KI is taking to Cannes are The Hit List, a singalong game-show format; The Joint, a fixed-rig relationship format; the Sir Tony Robinson-presented Around the World by Train; and docuseries Prison Girls: Life Inside.

Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing, Top Hat Productions’ Busing, Spencer and Vogue and Baby Too, World’s Most Evil Killers, Crime Unit: JLM, Greatest Celebrity Wind Ups Ever!, Trucking Hell and Casualty 24/7 round out KI’s non-scripted slate of finished-tape content.

KI also will be putting the spotlight on three new Russian dramas from NTV: crime thriller The Crow, superhero drama Schubert and detective thriller Beyond Death. Wrapping up KI’s scripted offering is a second season of teen thriller In the Vault.

Keren Shahar, COO and president of distribution for KI, said: “This slate demonstrates our commitment to showcasing premium and innovative content on a global stage. We’re thrilled to be launching three new Russian dramas from NTV alongside a host of high-caliber English-language finished tape and formats from some of the best in the business, accessed through our relationship with Greenbird Media. These—alongside our pioneering reality show 2025, with its new social currency concept—make us feel confident that we’re bringing to market something for every buyer.”