Zodiak Inks European Option Agreements

COPENHAGEN, November 8: Zodiak Television World has secured
a raft of options with European production companies for its catalogue of
factual, entertainment and reality formats.

The prime-time entertainment format Teen Starz has been optioned for production in Italy, Spain and
France. The series follows ten music artists as they scour the country looking
for a protégé, culminating in a finale gala where the public decides who is the
Best Teen Star.

The psychotherapy docudrama To Understand and Forgive is set for local production in France and Italy, with
more than 200 episodes having already aired as a daily format on Russia’s First
Channel to above-average ratings. The show follows psychotherapists as they
solve real-life issues.

Zodiak has also optioned the half-hour factual entertainment
and lifestyle format Time Doctor for
local production in Spain and Italy. The series serves as a how-to guide for a
better life, offering organizational advice and solutions for the modern
lifestyle.

From Cuarzo Productions, the detective show Who Killed JC
will be produced for audiences in Greece.
Each episode of the series sees JC die in a different circumstance, and four
contestants must decide who out of the comedic cast committed the crime.

Zodiak Television World’s president, Heather Stevenson,
commented: “We launched a range of innovative, unique and exciting formats at
MIPCOM, which all received strong interest from international broadcasters and
production companies. This was a highly successful market and we are confident
that these deals will be the first of many generated from our attendance.”

—By Kristin Brzoznowski