World Screen

At the RTS Cambridge Convention, Jeremy Darroch, the group CEO of Sky, discussed the need to disrupt yourself and partner with competitors in order to succeed in an increasingly competitive world.

Set in Victorian London, A+E Networks’ Miss Scarlet and The Duke centers on Eliza Scarlet, the female heir to a detective agency, and her unlikely business partner “The Duke,” DI William Wellington of Scotland Yard.

Seasons one and two of Almost Never, a live-action series about a boy band called The Wonderland, are on Dynamic Television’s kids’ content slate at MIPCOM.

From first-time feature film director Lea Thompson (Back to the Future) and her daughters, writer Madelyn Deutch and producer Zoey Deutch (who both star in the movie), comes the MarVista Entertainment highlight The Year of Spectacular Men.

Celebrities are given makeovers to transform their appearance before going incognito to take care of kids who are unaware that they are spending the day with one of their idols in the Global Agency reality-entertainment format Babysitter Celebrity Undercover.

The RTS Cambridge Convention featured an International Keynote from David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery, who talked about the move to direct-to-consumer; the company’s ambitions to serve global audiences through verticals across sport, lifestyle and factual; and the subjects that inspire him personally.

Carolyn McCall, CEO of ITV, set the scene for the RTS Cambridge Convention 2019 with a wide-ranging look at the challenges and opportunities for the television industry in a fast-changing world.

SPI International’s channel bouquet features FilmBox, which offers a variety of content from major studios and independent companies for a broad audience.

On Tuesday, October 15, Bibiane Godfroid, the CEO of Newen, will sit down with World Screen’s Anna Carugati in the Grand Auditorium of the Palais for a session entitled “How to keep endlessly adapting in order to offer the best possible content on an ever-changing audiovisual landscape?”

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings delivered his International Keynote at the RTS Cambridge Convention, during which he discussed investment in storytelling, production and talent.