MIPTV Spotlight: Content Television

CANNES: By the time Content Television arrives at MIPTV, the 13-episode drama Olympus will have just launched on Syfy in the U.S., and Jonathan Ford, the company’s executive VP of sales and distribution, believes this timely launch will translate into strong interest for the title at the market.

Also from Content, Dead Rising: Watchtower is based on a video game franchise that has sold 7.6 million copies worldwide. “We’ve had tremendous sales for other brands such as Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, Halo: Nightfall and Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, and we’re confident that Dead Rising will do equally well internationally,” says Ford.

The drama The Eichmann Show looks at the televising of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, who was one of the key architects of the Holocaust.