Rive Gauche Heads to MIPCOM with New Titles & 2,500-Plus Hours

Rive Gauche Television (RGTV) has acquired rights for several new titles that it has added to its catalog of more than 2,500 hours, in addition to securing sales in the lead-up to MIPCOM.

The company is presenting the TLC series Project Dad, from Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment. In Project Dad, comedian Donnell Rawlings, actor Daniel Cosgrove and disc jockey DJ Skribble spend time alone with their kids. The program “provides viewers with a unique perspective into the lives of celebrity dads who have been left to be a single father for a few days,” said Jon Kramer, the CEO of Rive Gauche Television. “The dads struggle to balance caring for a home, parenting and pursuing a full-time career—all on their own. No moms, no help, no mercy!” Celebrity guests include comedian Dave Chappelle and rapper Lil Jon.

The Jury Room, meanwhile, is a new original crime program co-produced by AMC Networks International Broadcasting and FirstLook TV. The six-part series revisits real murder cases in which the convicted killers have always maintained their innocence. “The Jury Room is quite unique in that the audience now will have a firsthand look at what happens in a jury-room deliberation,” Kramer says. “The series opens up with a case and introduces new evidence to the jurors, who must now decide if the suspect is guilty or innocent.”

In the ten-part series Written in Blood, best-selling thriller writer Simon Toyne (The Boy Who Saw) discusses with other crime writers how their fictional work has been inspired by real-life crimes. Each episode examines a different criminal case using reconstructions, real-life footage, and interviews with senior police officers, family members, key witnesses and other experts.

RGTV also secured the high-end documentary Genius Factory from Wavelength Entertainment. It documents an eccentric billionaire from the 1980s who wanted to create the world’s smartest kids and therefore funded the largest legal genetic experiment in human history.

A MIPCOM, RGTV will also debut its first-made-for-TV movie, Overexposed, a thriller in which scandalous texts lead to multiple murders. It stars Marguerite Moreau and Mary Katherine Duhon. The company inked a deal for Overexposed ahead of the market, with TF1 in France picking up the TV movie. In addition, FOX MENA went for Along for the Bride, Ultimate Homes, Pretty Bad Girls, Wives with Knives and Happily Never After. NTV Japan licensed Evil Twins.

“We are very excited at Rive Gauche to be going to MIPCOM with a diverse state of product to add to our broad quality offerings, Kramer commented. “Our expectation in the challenging pursuit of viewers, is that our new slate will provide channels across the world with product they can embrace.”

He added: “Rive Gauche believes in introducing product that is different and unique to attract a diverse group of viewers regardless of their viewing habits.”