{"id":8793,"date":"2016-06-14T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T14:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-enters-deal-for-korean-ai-series\/"},"modified":"2016-06-14T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T17:10:08","slug":"zig-zag-enters-deal-for-korean-ai-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/zig-zag-enters-deal-for-korean-ai-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Zig Zag Enters Deal for Korean AI Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Zig Zag Productions and South Korea\u2019s MBC have inked a co-production agreement on a new doc format that explores the future of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p>MBC has granted Zig Zag the global rights (outside South Korea) for its self-produced <em>Future Human; AI<\/em> series. The Korean Communications Agency (KCA) is partially funding the project. Zig Zag will produce an international version of the series and take that out to the international market.<\/p>\n<p>The 3&#215;1-hour<em> Future Human; AI<\/em> features interviews with global scientists, AI experts and futurists to reveal the latest research, technological developments and future innovations in recognition technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have spent lots of time recently visiting Seoul and Busan to understand the South Korean TV industry,\u201d said Danny Fenton, the CEO of Zig Zag Productions. \u201cHaving already experienced great success in China and Japan, we\u2019re delighted to extend our relationships in Asia to this thriving market that embodies the best of the region\u2019s sensibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s exciting to start a co-production with such significant international appeal with such a talented production company such as Zig Zag,\u201d said Jinman Kim, executive producer at MBC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project is one of the most rewarding in my three years in international co-productions and one of the most fascinating,\u201d said CS Lee of Paan Media who is also supervising executive on behalf of MBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Zig Zag Productions and South Korea\u2019s MBC have inked a co-production agreement on a new doc format that explores the future of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":8794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[985,496],"class_list":["post-8793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-mbc","tag-zig-zag-productions","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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