Last month at MIPCOM, many regulars at the Cannes TV market noticed more American accents on the Croisette than usual. They weren’t wrong: A batch of small to mid-sized U.S. unscripted producers had made the journey across the Atlantic to find new business that simply hadn’t been necessary before the…

Hello Insiders, the big international chatter this week came from Cannes, but there’s been plenty of film and TV stories elsewhere. Jesse Whittock here guiding you through. Sign up here. Another MIP In The Cannes VALERY HACHE/AFP via…

There has been plenty of fat to chew on this week at MIPCOM in Cannes. The television industry is clearing a path forwards after a very difficult few years, and that route became clearer during the four-day confab. Below, we identify some of the key takeaways from the Croisette. Squeezed Middle In Scr…

EXCLUSIVE: So You Think You Can Dance is body-popping its way back to Poland after nearly a decade. This marks the first remake deal for the format since Sony Pictures Television took over distribution upon acquiring a majority share of production company Industrial Media, which owned So You Think You…

EXCLUSIVE: Call My Agent! and High Intellectual Potential (HIP) drove a top year for French scripted format sales last year, according to K7 Media’s latest Tracking the Scripted Giants report. The two big hits, the latter of which recently launched Stateside, were sold three times each last year…

MIP London has tripled its number of companies planning to attend over the past two months but attendees at this week’s Cannes confab fell by 500, organizer Lucy Smith just revealed. Newly revealed for MIP London, meanwhile, is a kids co-pro summit, which RX France’s Smith said came out of the…

Mediapro's fledgling North American studio unveiled a raft of new movies, series, docs and formats in a news-packed MIPCOM keynote this morning. John Turturro delivered a video address and spoke about his adaptation of Is There No Place on Earth for Me? as the Spanish media giant made a series of…

EXCLUSIVE: Buy it Now, the entrepreneur format from The Traitors UK maker Studio Lambert, has been pitched successfully in India. Mumbai-based Rose Audio Visuals has struck a deal with formats rights holder All3Media International to make an Indian version of the show, which was initially for Channel…

EXCLUSIVE: Leonard Cohen drama So Long, Marianne will play in a raft of new territories after Cineflix cut new distribution deals for the buzzy project, which played in competition at Series Mania. The series tells the love story of Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen, and an extraordinary…

EXCLUSIVE: Italian drama 'La Storia' has been picked up for the U.S. and Israel. The series, adapted from the iconic Elsa Morante bestseller, is set in Rome during and soon after World War II. It stars Jasmine Trinca (The Gunman) in the lead role. MHz Choice, the SVOD service that majors in bringing…

EXCLUSIVE: A new film and TV studio has opened its doors in Queenstown, New Zealand. Screentime New Zealand is behind Remarkable Studios NZ and the Banijay label has already filmed a major drama project there. The studio is now open for business to third parties. Used as the backdrop to Peter…

J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow is one of Netflix’s most-watched movies of this year so far yet the director revealed today it was mainly intended for an older audience. Speaking at MIPCOM, the Oscar-nominee said his creative team were “surprised” when the movie about the Uruguayan rugby team’s…