Video Interview: PGS’s Philippe Soutter

NEW YORK: Philippe Soutter, the co-founder and CEO of PGS Entertainment, talks to World Screen about bringing back well-known classic properties, such as The Little Prince, as well as launching original ideas.

In 2008, as the economic recession was beginning to make its impact on the television business, Philippe Soutter set up PGS Entertainment as a “kids’-centric distributor” focused exclusively on representing the best properties available from independent producers. Today, the company’s library is large enough to support PGS attending a host of television markets across the globe to seek out new opportunities.

The company has also assembled a stable of well-known, iconic properties, such as Le Petit Prince: A New Journey Begins, which Soutter, PGS’s CEO, says “brings a lot of co-viewing potential.” New for PGS at MIPTV is Jungle Report, from France’s TAT Productions, which is set up as a series of short news segments about quirky animals in the wild, including a penguin who thinks he’s a tiger. Other MIPTV highlights include Studio Hari’s shorts series The Gees, the comedy I.N.K.: The Invisible Network of Kids and the educational offering Mr. Otter.