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The scripted show Loaded, on offer from Keshet International, centers on the lives of four tech entrepreneurs and friends who turn mega-rich overnight when they sell their gaming company.

The creative team at Inter Medya, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, has been developing new game-show formats.

The prime-time drama 21 Thunder makes its premiere this summer on CBC in Canada and is being presented to buyers by Content Media at MIPTV.

The provocative drama Mary Kills People, being presented to global buyers by Entertainment One (eOne), is set in the world of assisted suicide.

IM Global Television has secured an exclusive agreement to handle international sales for Funny Or Die’s original digital content slate.

CANNES: Cooper the Sasquatch and Poppy the sugar glider have outdoor adventures in the puppetry comedy WildWoods, one of the kids’ highlights from WDR mediagroup (WDRmg).

NEW YORK: AMC Networks International (AMCNI) has promoted Géraud Alazard to senior VP of marketing.

CANNES: A number of broadcast partners are already on board Belle and Sebastian, a children’s animated series from the Gaumont catalog that is based on a live-action television show from the 1960s.

NEW YORK: World Screen’s group editorial director, Anna Carugati, will engage in a one-on-one conversation in the Grand Auditorium at MIPTV with Rikard Steiber, the president of Viveport and senior VP of virtual reality at HTC Vive, to explore the future of VR.

CANNES: Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and Michael Green (Heroes) worked with noted author Neil Gaiman to bring his best-selling novel American Gods to the small screen, and now the show is on offer from FremantleMedia International.