MEG Lines Up Co-Pros

COPENHAGEN: The Scandinavian outfit Media Entertainment Group has inked co-production deals on two non-verbal comedy shorts that are being launched at NATPE this week.

MEG is working with Munich-based Anaconda and its CEO, Matthias Lang, on Bluffing, a series of hidden camera gags that are being shot in Central Europe. The new sketch comedy show Smile.TV, meanwhile, is being produced with Canada’s Trio Orange. 

"We see Bluffing and Smile.TV as the natural steps forward to keep up with demand in this niche business of short non-verbal comedy content," said Peter Greén, the CEO of Media Entertainment Group. "Both of these new productions will act as successors to the hit series Joking Around and World’s Funniest Videos," which have already been sold by MEG to more than 80 countries.