Fiona Crago

General Manager, Beyond Distribution

What are some of your top properties for MIPTV?
Six Degrees of TV (26 x 30’ HD) produced by Force Four Entertainment is a star-studded entertainment series that proves all your favourite celebrities are never separated by more than six degrees. Revealing the inside scoop on big name actors, musicians, athletes, pop icons and more, every episode shows how two big stars are connected through a surprising series of other famous faces.
I Could Do That! (13 x 30’ HD) produced by Cream Productions allows ordinary people to get their hands dirty at the controls of some seriously big machines!
MovieStar (104 x 30’) produced by Entertainment News Services explores the careers of worldwide superstars and their rise to stardom. MovieStar provides an in-depth celebrity profile that explores the careers of famous actors in their own words and in the words of their collaborators.
Stop…Rewind (13 x 30’) produced by Beyond Productions explores the most innovative ideas, discoveries, breakthroughs, dead-ends and eureka moments that all shaped the latter part of the 20th century. Reflect on what we thought the future would deliver and consider what we’ve ended up with.
Wild Animal Baby Explorers (52 x 15’) produced by the National Wildlife Federation and Xing Xing Digital Corporation is a beautiful new series which introduces preschoolers to nature and all its beauty in a combination of 3D animation and HD live action footage. Join intrepid wildlife explorers Skip, Izzy, Benita and Sammy, with the spirited Miss Sally, as they travel on the land or deep in the oceans.

Why will these programs appeal to buyers?
These programs are not only very commercial and with lots of episodes apiece but they are also well made by a talented group of production companies. In the case of Six Degrees of TV and MovieStar people are perennially interested in the celebrity world. The first series of Six Degrees has 26 episodes and MovieStar has 104 episodes so these are great programs for buyers seeking quality, commerciality and volume.
I Could Do That! Is aspirational and uplifting as well as being about the incredibly challenging task of learning how to handle seriously big machinery. Stop…Rewind is humorous, enlightening and entertaining and Wild Animal Baby Explorers is seriously cute!

What are your goals and expectations for MIPTV?
We are taking a lot of new programming to the market in an environment where less has been commissioned over the last twelve months or so, so we expect to have a very good MIP. As always, we want to do justice to the programs we are representing and to make sure that quality programming can find the widest possible audience it deserves. Producers entrust their programs to us and we have a responsibility to them which we take seriously.