U.K. & Aussie Dramas Lead Keshet International’s MIPCOM Slate

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Keshet International (KI) has unveiled its lineup for MIPCOM, which includes the brand-new acquisition Secret Bridesmaids’ Business from Australia’s Seven Studios.

BBC One’s The Trial of Christine Keeler, which re-creates London in the Swinging Sixties, and ABC Australia’s Black B*tch, a political drama centering on an Indigenous senator (Deborah Mailman) and an embattled prime minister (Rachel Griffiths), will be highlighted in Cannes. Our Boys, based on the real-life events that led to the outbreak of war in Gaza in 2014, the thriller The Missing File and the Mexican series Prisoner No1 also feature on KI’s scripted slate.

Keren Shahar, KI’s COO and president of distribution, said: “We are proud to be headlining our latest MIPCOM slate with these three beautifully crafted dramas that perfectly complement a strong lineup of entertainment formats and factual shows. Featuring strong female-led casts and crews alongside compelling ‘globally local’ storylines, each of these dramas explores the very current issues of feminism, womanhood and society in a way that feels so relevant and watchable.”

In addition to dramas, KI is taking to MIPCOM the dating format Singletown, Drive Master, a shiny floor talent-competition show, the quiz show Head Hunters and the horror-themed reality format Killer Camp. There’s also the celebrity-fronted factual series Dom Does America, Reggie Yates Meets World and Speed Freaks.

KI’s lineup of English-language factual finished tape includes Animal Ambulance, Deadliest Kids, Made In Britain, The Good Girls’ Guide to Kinky Sex and When… All Goes Horribly Wrong. KI is also taking such Crackit Productions’ documentaries to market as Snatched and Sold for Sex, Teacher’s Pet: Groomed at School, Eating Ourselves to Death, My Dad the Paedophile, My Mother The Monster, Husbands From Hell, Hoarders: Buried Alive in My Bedroom and A Very British Sex Shop.

Returning series in KI’s catalog include the scripted programs The A Word, The Paper, Stockholm and Happy at Sea; entertainment shows Spencer, Vogue and Baby Too, Greatest Celebrity Wind-ups, The Hit List and Rising Star; and factual titles Around the World By Train and Prison Girls: Life Inside.