IMG Entertainment to Showcase Diverse MIPTV Slate

LONDON,
April 3: IMG Entertainment will arrive at MIPTV with more than 130 hours of new
original programming and formats, covering genres such as reality, comedy,
entertainment and factual.

There
will be several dramas offered up at the market, including the second season of
Secret Diary of a Call Girl,
produced by IMG’s subsidiary Tiger Aspect, Silverapples Media and MFManagement
for ITV2 and Showtime. Additional dramas available to buyers include the debut
of Sordid Lives: The Series,
starring Olivia Newton-John, and The Diary of Anne Frank, an adaptation based on the memoirs of Anne Frank
from another IMG subsidiary, Darlow Smithson, for BBC One.

On
the factual front, IMG will present two HD productions from Darlow Smithson,
including the 2×50-minute Engineering Ancient Egypt, produced for Channel 4 in the U.K., and the
13×1-hour Situation Critical,
which takes viewers to the front line of some of modern history’s most violent
face-offs, terrifying battles and dangerous disasters. Additionally, IMG will
showcase the Tiger Aspect production
Ross Kemp in Afghanistan, a
follow-up to the BAFTA-winning Ross Kemp On Gangs, the one-hour HD P2 Pictures program Inside
Straight Edge; and two natural-history
titles from Tigress, another IMG subsidiary: Jaguar Adventure and Shark Island.

Formats will also be
highlighted, including game shows like Intuition, Beat The Bank and Bingo America, which is currently airing on GSN in the U.S.
Other formats on offer include the reality competition format Make Me A
Supermodel, broadcasting on Bravo
in the U.S., and Vanity Lair,
airing on Channel 4 in the U.K.

Mark
Young, IMG Entertainment’s senior VP of entertainment sales and acquisitions
worldwide, said: “This year, with a strengthened team of sales and acquisition
experts, a new centralized location and most importantly a catalogue full to
the brim of quality programming, from both our in-house and third party
production companies, we are confident that MIPTV will be the start of our most
successful year to date.”

—By Irene Lew