Tag: MIPCOM 2017

Here is a rundown of all the exclusive interviews and insightful trend features you’ll find in the MIPCOM issue of World Screen.

The digital edition of World Screen—featuring interviews with Viacom’s Robert Bakish, 21st Century Fox’s Peter Rice, RTL Group’s Guillaume de Posch & Bert Habets and Liberty Global’s Mike Fries, plus Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Lincoln, Sterling K. Brown, Elisabeth Moss, Bob Odenkirk, Tim Roth and many more—is now available. You can also access the digital editions of TV Europe, TV Kids, TV Drama, TV Formats, TV Real, TV Asia, TV MEA, TV Latina and TV Listings.

On Wednesday, October 18, during MIPCOM, World Screen's Anna Carugati will lead the Acquisition Superpanel: What Do Programmers Want? session in the Grand Auditorium, to be followed by the presentation of this year's Trendsetter Awards.

British comedian, writer and award-winning actor Sir Lenny Henry has signed on to deliver a keynote address at MIPCOM 2017 as part of the event’s expanded Diversity Program.

The digital editions of the 2017-18 TV Kids Guide and TV Drama Guide are now available.

More than 14,000 executives are expected to descend on Cannes for MIPCOM this year, including 4,800-plus buyers, Reed MIDEM’s Laurine Garaude tells World Screen Newsflash.

MIPCOM 2017 has lined up a record number of exclusive international screenings, including original crime series, a Russian period drama, a blue-chip wildlife series and some comedy shows.

The September/Pre-MIPCOM digital edition of World Screen is now available, including a special report about how distributors are using new models to piece together the financing for high-end drama series.

Reed MIDEM has revealed that David Zaslav, Discovery Communications' president and CEO, will be honored as the MIPCOM 2017 Personality of the Year.

World Screen is presenting the seventh annual Trendsetter Awards in partnership with MIPCOM, honoring RTÉ’s Dermot Horan, Walter Presents’ Jason Thorp, AMC Networks’ Aurelie de Troyer and SBS Broadcasting’s Rozan Hamaker.