{"id":5106,"date":"2016-09-09T11:56:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/tv-asahi-to-present-pair-of-formats-at-mipcom\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T12:23:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:23:18","slug":"tv-asahi-unveils-mipcom-2016-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/tv-asahi-unveils-mipcom-2016-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Asahi Unveils MIPCOM 2016 Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"
TOKYO: Japanese media company and broadcaster TV Asahi is slated to showcase the new formats Hide-and-Seek with Drones<\/em> and Pentagon Derby<\/em> at next month’s market.<\/p>\n Hide-and-Seek with Drones<\/em> is a game show in which challengers must hunt for hidden treasure while escaping drones that are trying to ambush them. Pentagon Derby<\/em> looks on as five people\u00a0sit in a pentagon and test their knowledge of each other.<\/p>\n TV Asahi is also presenting Ranking the Stars<\/em>, a talk-show format; Beat the Champions<\/em>, a sports-entertainment format; and 31-Legged Race<\/em>, a running competition for kids. Other highlights include the\u00a0fourth season of the medical drama\u00a0Doctor-X<\/em>; the fourth season of the new version of Ninja Hattori<\/em>; and the hit animations Doraemon<\/em> and Shin chan<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Yuka Kakui, TV Asahi’s head of format development and sales, said:\u00a0\u201cTV Asahi\u2019s entertainment programs are compellingly unique and achieve high audience ratings in Japan. Many of our ideas have great potential to travel well and we are actively looking for co-development opportunities with international partners.”<\/p>\n Satoko Shimbori, the director of TV Asahi’s international business department, added: \u201dWe look forward to increasing our presence in co-producing content with global partners, getting involved from the development phase through the distribution stage.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TOKYO: Japanese media company and broadcaster TV Asahi is slated to showcase the new formats Hide-and-Seek with Drones and Pentagon Derby at next month’s market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":5107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[647,648],"class_list":["post-5106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-mipcom-2016","tag-tv-asahi","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n