BBC Worldwide to Offer 3D Music Performances

LONDON: 3D versions of Britney Spears’ Femme Fatale Tour, Alice Cooper’s Halloween Night of Fear and Elbow: Live on Air are to be offered to broadcasters at MIPCOM from BBC Worldwide.

Among the 3D performance offerings available, Britney Spears in her seventh concert tour in support of her studio album Femme Fatale will be featured. Filmed in August 2011 at the sold-out Air Canada show in Toronto, BBC Worldwide has attained distribution rights outside the U.S. The 2D version will be available for broadcast from Christmas Eve 2011, with the 3D version available in February 2012.

Also in 3D is Alice Cooper’s Halloween Night of Fear is to be filmed on October 29 with the set including classics such as “School’s Out,” as well as tracks from Cooper’s new album. The two-hour mix will be available on October 30, 2011 for Halloween broadcasts.

Elbow: Live on Air, from the creative team of the internationally acclaimed Live from Abbey Road, in conjunction with Universal Music Group and Air Studios, was shot in 3D over three days as the band prepared for its first headlining arena tour.

Salim Mukaddam, the VP of music television at BBC Worldwide, said: “We’re really pleased that we’ve been able to secure three amazing 3D music performance titles for MIPCOM. Capturing music performances in 3D brings a whole new experience to the viewer and arguably benefits from the technology more than any other genre, allowing the viewer to really feel as if they were at the live event. For BBC Worldwide to be able to launch its 3D offering with three titles of this caliber is truly fantastic.”