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news DISCOP LINK NEWSLETTER Contents and Format Business in CEE EDITORIAL Publishers: Basic Lead & Media Art Service International Publishing Director: Patrick JUCAUD Basic Lead 18 Rue Jose Maria de Heredia 75007 Paris, France T + 33 1 42 29 32 24 F + 33 1 42 29 34 74 patrick@discop.com Executive Editor: Rastislav DURMAN Bul. M. Pupina 6/VI, 21000 Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia & Montenegro T/F + 381 21 420 900 ceo@mediart.org Contributing Editor: Bob JENKINS T + 44 203 22 00 188 M + 44 781 42 42 405 bobjenkins7@btinternet.com Contributors: Danica A]IMOVI], Ed BAUMNEISTER, Daniela COMAN, Eva DEKANOVSKA, Jelena MILOJKOVI], Anna NJEMOGA KO LAR, Stamos PRO- TOPSALTIS, Olivera POPOV-OBRENOV, Spas SPASOV, Dragana STANI], Verica VUKOVI] ART & DESIGN Emil OTRUP^AK & Sr|an GULIN SALES Booking Manager: Aurele RIVET Basic Lead 18 Rue Jose Maria de Heredia 75007 Paris, France T + 33 1 42 29 32 24 F + 33 1 42 29 34 74 aurele@discop.com MAILING LIST ADDITIONS Elina NESTEROVA T + 33 1 42 29 62 25 F + 33 1 42 29 34 74 elina@discop.com © Basic Lead & Media Art 2005. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without the express prior written consent of the publisher. Printed by: Maxima Graf, Petrovaradin, Serbia & Montenegro ISSN 1452-1016 COBISS.SR-ID 204927751 WHEELER DEALER By Bob Jenkins Rive Gauche reports two new sales to Russia and the former CIS. Very different, a hundred and fifteen hours to Russian-based distributor, Intra Communications, and four hours to Via Sat, the territories differ too. The Intra deal is for Russia and all former CIS territories, whereas the Via Sat deal is for Russia only. “But,” says Head of Non-Fiction, Sales and Acquisitions, Dorothy Crompton, “what they both have in common is that they are both the direct result of attending DISCOP.” Crompton reveals that Rive Gau - che and Intra Communications met for the first time at DISCOP 05 resulting in the deal announced this month, including fifteen one-hour episodes of THE GREATEST, seasons 1 and 11 of DID YOU SEE THAT, totalling 20 hours, and 26 hours of the brand new SECRETS OF WAR: SWORN TO SECRECY. The Via Sat deal was for WHERE DISASTERS HAPPEN, and WHEN GOOD TIMES GO BAD, making a total of 4 hours. Entertainment Rights has also been active in Russia where the company has announced the licensing of SNOW WHITE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, HAPPILY EVER AFTER, PINOCCHIO and HARVEYTOONS to Video Soyuz for video and DVD in the territory. POST- Fit for Family (Zodiak) MAN PAT has also been snapped up for video in Poland by Cassfilm, which launched the title in November in a bid to cash in on the Christmas buying frenzy. PAT is doing his rounds in Latvia, too, where LTV launched the classic property in January 06. Another of the company’s classic properties, BARBIE, will dance her way into the Ukraine where New Channel has licensed five titles, including, BARBIE OF SWAN LAKE, BARBIE IN THE NUTCRACKER and FAIRY- TOPIA. Danish format house Zodiak has been busy in the CEE recently racking up deals for its format SHOPAHOLICS. Slovak’s Markiza has produced 12 episodes, while Romania’s Antena 4 is producing 26 episodes. FIT FOR FAMI- LY, Zodiak’s format in which ‘amateur parents’ are given ‘instant kids’ to see how they cope has 26 episodes in production with Ukraine’s ICTV, with transmission scheduled for Spring 06. Romania’s Prima TV is producing two Zodiak formats. Prima is in production with 24 episodes of F.C. NERDS in which 16 self-confessed nerds undergo three months of rigorous soccer training in an attempt to impress a former international, and 16 episodes of FRIENDS FOREVER, which reunites celebrities with former school friends. Ukraine has been active recently in the acquisition of Western programming and formats. AETN Inter national has just announced the sale of over 50 hours of History Chan nel and Bio - graphy Channel programming, including DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH and DECISIVE BATTLES to Ukrainian broadcaster STB. Russia’s REN is even keener on the History Channel programming having just acquired 54 hours. Included in the deal are titles such as THE MOST, BREAKING VEGAS, VANISHINGS and SEX IN THE COLD WAR. The Bio graphy Channel has its Russian fans two, and Channel One has acquired several episodes including ARNOLD SCHWARZENEG- GER, CHARLIE CHAPLIN, SYLVESTER STALLONE and GEORGE LUCAS. } 04 discop link 03 www.discop.com march 2006
news FULL OF WESTERN PROMISE By Bob Jenkins Who hasn’t been to a wedding at which at least some of the guests quietly ask, “what does she think she’s wearing Or, “who chose those flowers” But Californian distributor Rive Gauche has the series that goes one stage further! WILD WED- DINGS, 6 x 60 minutes, is the wedding series that will make everyone question the sanity of one or both of the happy couples. Rive Gauche says the material, which is collected from around the world, details weddings that are, “bizarre, dangerous, dramatic or funny,” and include a wedding in which the bride attacks a guest, and the ceremony is halted when the police arrive and take her away; a groom who wants to set his bride’s heart on fire – but only manages to torch his tuxedo when he wanders too close to candle, and couple who really do ‘take the plunge’ – marrying on the end of a bungee jump! Not known as the marrying kind, Casanova’s life is retold in CASANOVA’S LOVE LETTERS starring Patrick Bergen and distributed by British distributor Centre Film Sales. Filmed in HD, and shot in Venice, the Czech Republic, France and England, CASANOVA’S LOVE LETTERS is available either as 6 x 50 minutes or a 105 minute special. Centre Films also is in pre-production with THE ADVEN- TURES OF RAHIB AND MAHMOOD planned as 26 x 10 minutes, and, aimed at 7-12 year olds, the series will tell the story of an old man journeying to Mecca with his grandson, and is intended as “a young person’s guide to Islam.” Californian distributor, GRB Enter - tainment, launched a new series THE SUMMIT, also available as a format at NATPE. Produced by New Zealand’s Teleola, and set against that country’s spectacular scenery, THE SUMMIT, sets twenty men and women a series of daunting mental and physical tasks over a period of ten weeks as they battle, individually, and as teams, to be the only one to reach THE SUM- MIT. Macbeth (BBC & Horsebridge Productions) Four new offerings from the UK’s High Point Films could hardly be more different. Four modern day adaptations of some of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, co-productions between the BBC and Horsebridge Productions, they include Sally Wain - wright’s THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, David Nicholl’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING starring Sara Parish, Peter Moffat’s MACBETH, starring James Mc Avoy, and Peter Booker’s A MID- SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. If High Point are offering food for thought, fellow British company, Icon Animation, is offering food for thought about food! VITAMIX is 104 x 2 min episodes educating pre-schoolers on the issues around healthy eating. Of course, NHK, Japan’s state broadcaster, was the pioneer of High Definition television, but it is also true that the US platform Voom has developed it to a greater degree than Much Ado About Nothing (BBC & Horsebridge Productions) anywhere else in the world. Voom operates 22 Hi Def channels stateside, and they have entrusted International Broadcast Communi - cations (IBC) with the placement of these channels in the international market place. IBC Chairman Jon Helmrich says, “although a number of factors, in particular the falling cost of plasma and large screen sets have ‘tipped the balance’ in favour of Hi Def, caution is still necessary. We are,” states Helmrich, “still at the beginning of the real Hi Def revolution, and Voom have not cleared all of their programming for international exploitation.” As a result, IBC is initially offering a ‘taster channel’ made up of programming from the full US offering, but that still includes over 400 hours of high quality, High Definition. Canada’s state broadcaster CBC has completely em braced HDTV. Amongst the new offerings from CBC in HDTV are: GREAT BEAR, NAKED JOSH and 72 HOURS. GREAT BEAR (20 x 60’) is set in a remote, fictional, mining town of that name, where ancient beliefs are often in conflict with modern technology. Jean-Charles Lapointe, a former star journalist about to dead-end his career by crawling into a bottle, stumbles into town as a well-loved spiritual community leader is mysteriously murdered – he has no idea what he’s in for. The second season of NAKED JOSH (26 x 30’) tells the further adventures of Josh Gould, the world’s youngest professor of sexual anthropology, and his own, less than brilliant, sex life. Every detective knows that the first 72 hours after a crime are crucial to its solution, and the 33 x 30’ second series of 72 HOURS TRUE CRIME focuses on this period in true crime mysteries. Remember THE TELETUBBIES Well, the creative and business partnership that delivered the world’s most successful pre-school brand are working together again on a new preschool series, IN THE NIGHT GAR- DEN, which will be 100 x 30 minutes. Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport are the creative team, and Ragdoll, the company Wood founded, has again chosen to partner with BBC Worldwide, its partner on the TELE- TUBBIES phenomenon. Also included in the agreement is the production of TRONJI, 30 x 30 minutes, and aimed at the 6-8 demographic. } discop link 03 www.discop.com march 2006 05
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