MIPTV Lines Up Star Power

PARIS: MIPTV has added to its celebrity lineup for MIPTV, which already includes CSI‘s William Petersen, lining up Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam as well as personalities from Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Hunnam, who plays Jackson “Jax” Teller in the hit FX Network series, will be in Cannes courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution. He will attend The International Digital Emmy Awards (IDEA) to co-present an International Digital Emmy Award in the Digital Program—Fiction category with Nigerian recording artist Asa, who is at the market to celebrate HiTV Nigeria’s music channel.

Also presenting an International Digital Emmy Award will be Al Jazeera Children’s Channel Gretta Al Rayess and Said Serhan. Also in the kids’ space, The Jim Henson Company will arrive at MIPTV with the costumed character Buddy, the Tyrannosaurus Rex from the CGI animation Dinosaur Train.

Meanwhile, Singaporean celebrities Qi Yuwu and Jeanette Aw will be on hand promoting MediaCorp’s new drama The Little Nyonya, And Southern Star is bringing Australian actors Rodger Corser and Ashley Zukerman, stars of the new prime-time drama series Rush.”