Natalie Osborne

Executive VP, Business Development, 9 Story Entertainment

What are your top properties for MIPTV?
Harriet The Spy: Blog Wars (NEW family movie) A modern twist on the popular books, starring Jennifer Stone of Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place as Harriet “The Spy” Welsch, an aspiring writer who is in competition with her nemesis, the very popular Marion Hawthorne, for the role of class blogger.  Harriet decides to blog about teen idol Skander Hill, who is starring in Spy Teen 2, a new film by her movie producer-father. But when her blog entries begin to take on a life of their own, it‘s up to Harriet to set things right before she unwittingly brings down her father’s film, ruins Skander’s career and loses her dream blog.   Partners/ Broadcasters:  9 Story Entertainment, Disney Channel, The Movie Network, Movie Central, CBC, YTV, Shaw Rocket Fund, 2 Friends Entertainment 

Survive This Season 2 (NEW) Following the success of the first series, Survive This returns for an exciting second season featuring a new remote setting, eight new participants aged 14-17 and a new set of skill-testing survival challenges.  As in the first season, Survive This challenges the youth to push their limits, overcome their fears and develop practical lifelong survival skills.  Hosted by Les Stroud (Survivorman) who offers the group guidance and feedback while asking them the question “Who will survive?”

Wild Kratts (full episodes now available) A half-hour adventure comedy from brothers Chris and Martin Kratt – adventurers, zoologists and creators of the hit shows Kratts’ Creatures, Zoboomafoo and Be the Creature.  In their first ever animated series, the Kratt Brothers are on a mission to save creatures from the evil Zach Varmitech, who plans to use animals as “spare parts” to create a legion of biotech robots for his own evil purposes.      Partners:  9 Story Entertainment and Kratt Brothers, PBS, TVO Kids

What are your goals and expectations for MIPTV?
The markets are always a great forum for introducing our slate of programming, to international broadcasters.  MIPTV will give us a good sense of the direction the year is taking in the production and distribution of kids programming and  we are always excicted to meet with key buyers to talk about the new programs we’ve completed and showcase ,a bit ,about what we have in the pipeline.  MIPTV is always a great stepping stone, for us, to MIPCOM later in the year.