Keshet International Gears Up for MIPCOM with Diverse Slate

TEL AVIV: Keshet International (KI) is heading to MIPCOM 2016 with a programming slate featuring more than 20 new titles, including the adventure-reality format Welcome to the Wild.

Welcome to the Wild sees contestants take on the challenge of surviving in an exotic location. KI is also presenting a second season of the format. The company’s MIPCOM offering in the non-scripted realm also includes several true-crime series through its first-look deal with Woodcut Media, with Holloway: Women Behind Bars among them.

There are also the workplace docudramas Residents and Blue, which offer insight into the internal operations of a hospital and a police force, respectively. Social experiments on offer at MIPCOM include ManBirth, which sees men get the chance to feel what their spouses feel during pregnancy, and Boxed, which follows what happens when two people who have a strong disagreement are placed inside a specially designed box and forced to work out their differences with a mediator.

KI is also presenting a range of scripted titles. Its slate includes the dark crime drama The Paper, set at a busy news desk. There is also the fantasy thriller set inside a Brazilian taxi cab, titled The Fare, as well as Adir Miller’s Miller’s Crossing and the female detective series Clues.

In addition, KI is offering a new multiplatform brand, #TheFeed, which creates a culinary travel guide driven by social-media photos of the world’s gastronomic delights, as well as the documentary Uploading the Holocaust. Uploading the Holocaust is the first feature comprised entirely of footage pulled from YouTube.

“In assembling this year’s slate, we sought out the best stories and most popular genres from across the globe,” said Keren Shahar, KI’s COO and president of distribution. “We also put a premium on platform-agnostic content, looking outside of the traditional linear-television universe to the digital sphere to find exceptional projects.”