Target Bringing Broad Slate to Cannes

LONDON, October 8: Target
Entertainment Group has unveiled more than 400 hours of new programming,
spanning drama, factual, entertainment formats, comedy and kids.

Target’s drama slate is
led by ten new hour-long episodes of Taggart. The crime series is celebrating its 25th
anniversary at MIPCOM. Also available is Caught in a Trap, a 90-minute drama about a woman who embezzles
money from her employer to fund her collection of Elvis memorabilia.

Formats on offer include Loveland, a dating show with a 21st Century twist, and Gimme
My Reality Show!, where
celebrities compete to win their own original reality series.

In the factual genre are Lady
Killers, looking at female serial
killers; Family Court with Judge Penny, which focuses on relationship issues rather than legal wrangling;
and Snowdon and Margaret: Inside a Royal Marriage, about the relationship between Tony Snowdon and
Princess Margaret.

The comedy Free Radio joins children’s fare such as The Revenge Files
of Alastair Fury, a 13×30-minute
series that follows an 11-year-old boy who tries to get revenge on his foes on
behalf of oppressed little brothers everywhere. Target’s kids’ offerings also
include the animated series The Adventures of Brush Lee and Jackie Chain, about an evil toilet chain and a heroic toilet
brush, and Vegetable Wrestling Federation: Mashdown!, which features vegetables conducting wrestling
matches. Also in the kids’ catalogue is the live-action series The
Smokehouse and the animated
offerings Rory the Racing Car, Fluffy
Gardens and 13 new episodes of Fifi
and the Flowertots.

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski