Keshet fits up New Form content

New Form’s Ron Howard (left) and Brian Grazer

Keshet International (KI) has signed a deal with New Form, the US digital entertainment studio backed by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Discovery Communications, to represent three of its youth-skewing series globally.

High-school comedy Mr Student Body President, sci-fi adventure series Miss 2059 and thriller Cold will all be launched by KI at Mipcom in reformatted 30- and 60-minute versions.

Mr Student Body President and Miss 2059 are already available on telco Verizon’s Go90 service in the US, while Cold heads to the platform later this month.

In addition, Israel-based KI will be adding homegrown series Aces to the list of digital offerings on its full Mipcom slate.

Created by Moti Adiv, Yoni Zicholtz and Jonathan Bar Ilan and produced by Keshet Broadcasting, the show provides a fly-on-the-wall peek into the world of five poker buddies when they let loose during their Friday night card game.

Discovery Communications teamed up with Howard and Grazer to launch New Form in April 2014. The company focuses on developing scripted and unscripted programming for digital distribution.