MIPTV Spotlight: Power

CANNES: This year Power is maintaining its tradition of providing high-end dramas and event programming, while continuing to build on its evolving factual slate.

Leading the drama slate is Air Force One Is Down, a mini-series that charts the dramatic events that occur after a terrorist faction kidnaps the U.S. president and threatens to blow up the Vatican. There are also five new “end of the world” mini-series: Ring of Fire, Eve of Destruction, Delete, Cat. 8 and Exploding Sun.

“Each production boasts spectacular visual effects with plenty of dramatic tension and is based around a different ‘extinction-level’ catastrophe and humankind’s fight to overcome it,” says Susan Waddell, the CEO of Power.

Meanwhile, new factual highlights include On the Edge as well as Rhino Wars, an investigation into poaching and the illegal trade of rhino horns.