CANNES: A+E Studios International plans to present the new television event The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe at this week’s market, among other scripted highlights. The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe is based on the best-selling book penned by J. Randy Taraborrelli. The 2×2-hour production, which stars Kelli Garner and ...

LOS ANGELES: Electus International has secured the format rights for the game show Labor Games, set to air on TLC in the U.S., from Lighthearted Entertainment. The show watches as a host surprises a couple in a hospital delivery room with a pop-up game show. They will have the opportunity ...

CANNES: FremantleMedia International’s (FMI) director of non-scripted content for the U.K., EMEA and Asia Pacific, Angela Neillis, talked about the kinds of factual properties she’s looking to take on at a MIPDoc panel this morning. Neillis, a speaker in the “What Do Buyers Want?” session, pointed to the “huge range” ...

CANNES: Corentin Glutron, head of acquisitions at RMC Découverte, told MIPDoc delegates this morning that the French DTT factual channel is increasing its slate of originals to sit alongside its 1,200 hours of acquired content. Glutron was among the panelists at the MIPDoc morning session “What do Buyers Want?” He ...

CANNES: The NHK Enterprises highlight Voyage Over Earth: Astonishing Images from Space presents 4K images of Earth shot from space for the first time. “Viewers can experience spectacular sights previously seen only by astronauts,” says Noriko Aratani, the deputy general manager of international sales for NHK Enterprises. From the company’s ...

CANNES: At events like MIPTV, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) promotes the talent and business opportunities that exist in Canada. For the past four years, the CMF presented a showcase of convergent productions at MIPTV and engaged in conversations about the future of digital content. “This year, we will be ...

CANNES: Spain’s Secuoya Content Distribution represents the rights for the programming and formats developed by the companies of Grupo Secuoya, as well as other Spanish and international producers. Vanessa Palacios, Secuoya Content Distribution’s content manager, says that the company has been increasing its footprint in Latin America. Recently, Secuoya reached ...

CANNES: The prospect of working with Donald Sutherland was one of the main reasons Elizabeth Mitchell and Goran Visnjic joined the cast of Tandem Productions’ Crossing Lines, the stars told TV Drama at MIPTV today. STUDIOCANAL is launching the third season of the European crime drama to international buyers at MIPTV ...

CANNES: ZDF Enterprises (ZDFE) has new highlights from all four of its genre divisions. From ZDFE.entertainment comes Crime Watch XY, one of the most successful formats on German TV. ZDFE.factual features The Invasion: The Outbreak of World War II, which tells the inside story of the Third Reich. ZDFE.junior’s Captain ...

CANNES: The new CNN original documentary series The Seventies, a follow-up to the globally successful The Sixties miniseries, is being offered up to international buyers in Cannes by FremantleMedia International. FremantleMedia International has taken on the global distribution rights, outside of the U.S., for the 8×1-hour series. The program comes ...