{"id":8550,"date":"2016-04-13T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/miptv-the-week-in-factual-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T13:41:05","slug":"miptv-the-week-in-factual-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/miptv-the-week-in-factual-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"MIPTV: The Week in Factual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: A testament to the strength of the factual-programming business, Reed MIDEM reported record attendance for MIPDoc and MIPFormats this year, with 1,890 participants, a 5-percent gain.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Martinez was abuzz with buyers screening shows at MIPDoc\u2014around 1,600 titles were in the library. There were also a reported 200-plus co-production projects looking for development as part of the MIPDoc digital library.<\/p>\n<p>The question of \u201cWhat do buyers want?\u201d was addressed on the opening day of MIPDoc in a special session moderated by\u00a0<em>World Screen<\/em>\u2019s Anna Carugati. Smithsonian\u2019s David Royle, Discovery\u2019s Nesta Owens, RMC D\u00e9couverte\u2019s Corentin Glutron and ZDF\/ZDF Enterprises\u2019s Kristina Hollstein\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/86899\/8\/\">offered up insight into their programming and acquisition strategies<\/a><\/strong>, before receiving the inaugural World Screen Factual Trendsetter Awards.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/86932\/9\/\">Morgan Spurlock was also part of the MIPDoc program<\/a><\/strong>. During his presentation, Spurlock told delegates that all networks, commissioners and producers must have a digital strategy and should be looking for gaps in the marketplace to target underserved audiences. He also spoke about targeting Millennials, noting that 16- to 24-year-olds are consuming almost 70 percent of their content digitally.<\/p>\n<p>The new cable network VICELAND has made a strong push to get Millennials back in front of the TV set. During MIPTV, VICE Media and CANAL+ Group announced a partnership that will see\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/87098\/10\/\">VICELAND become available exclusively to CANALSAT customers<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0when it launches in France this fall.<\/p>\n<p>On the digital front, SVODs and streaming services were busy stocking their factual slates. BBC Worldwide Asia inked a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/86984\/11\/\">new licensing deal with China\u2019s Tencent<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that includes more than 1,000 hours of documentaries from the BBC. FremantleMedia International placed a number of titles with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/87048\/12\/\">key SVOD platforms across Asia<\/a><\/strong>, totaling more than 1,000 hours of programming. This included iflix taking on a number of documentaries and lifestyle programming, Thailand\u2019s DOONEE scooping up entertainment and lifestyle shows, and iQiyi Taiwan going for cookery programs, among other series. The SVOD platform CuriosityStream, a relatively recent entrant to the marketplace, was\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/86994\/13\/\">among the buyers for the blue-chip science feature\u00a0<em>The Living Universe<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There was notable demand for true-crime programming from both linear and nonlinear platforms.\u00a0<em>Fatal Vows\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Deadly Women\u00a0<\/em>were among the titles that\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/87054\/14\/\">Beyond Distribution licensed to Foxtel<\/a><\/strong>. Lifestyle fare proved popular as well, with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/87157\/15\/\">ABC Commercial selling a package<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to Discovery Latin America and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/86935\/16\/\">Scripps Networks Interactive launching 40 new titles<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in this genre at the market.<\/p>\n<p>There were new partnerships for documentaries announced during MIPTV as well. PBS NOVA and Lion Television\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/87041\/17\/\">entered into an output deal<\/a><\/strong>. Under the pact, Lion Television will develop and produce a number of archaeology-based documentaries for the PBS strand. The initial agreement covers three films, with more in the development pipeline. German production company\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/87042\/18\/\">Autentic extended its co-production collaboration<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0with Japanese public broadcaster NHK for docs. The next co-pro from the partnership is\u00a0<em>Inside the Tsunami<\/em>, about the devastating Japanese tsunami that struck in 2011, and follows on their previous co-productions\u00a0<em>Human Body<\/em>\u00a0(a.k.a.\u00a0<em>Human Life<\/em>) and<em>\u00a088 Hours\u2014The Fukushima Meltdown<\/em>. Idris Elba also unveiled a new doc project. His company Green Door Pictures is\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/86980\/19\/\">co-financing the documentary\u00a0<em>Cut from a Different Cloth<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, about the fashion label Superdry, with Woodcut Media.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news on new documentary projects, what\u2019s trending in factual series and more, visit\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wsn.lyris.net\/t\/278362\/374845\/84724\/20\/\">TVReal.ws<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A testament to the strength of the factual-programming business, Reed MIDEM reported record attendance for MIPDoc and MIPFormats this year, with 1,890 participants, a 5-percent gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":8551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,69],"tags":[535],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-profiles","category-top-stories","tag-miptv-2016","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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