Keshet unveils Mip slate

Touch has been developed from the game of the same name

Israel’s Keshet International (KI) has unveiled its slate of programming for MipTV, with shows including the BBC’s The A Word and cross media format Touch.

KI’s offering at this year’s market in Cannes also features new factual entertainment show Battle of the Chefs, which will launch this summer on Keshet Broadcasting.

The format sees two successful local celebrity chefs, used to judging the works of others, sent to a country where they are virtually unknown and battle for the title of ‘best chef.’

It joins The A Word (6×60′), which recently began airing on BBC1 in the UK and is an adaptation of the Israeli drama Yellow Pepper, and Touch, which is available as both a TV and a mobile game.

KI is also bringing Korean language properties You Will Love Me (16×60′ and format) and Spy (16×60′) to MipTV, along with Sayed Kashua’s The Writer (10×25′), a fictional autobiographical drama from the creator of the comedy Arab Labor.

The Writer centres on Kashua’s fictional self, Kateb, who like the lead character Amjad, from his former series Arab Labor, is an Arab Palestinian living in Israel and struggling with an identity crisis that affects his whole family’s sense of belonging and nationality.

KI will be also be distributing the format of the hit US hidden camera prank show, Deal With It!, along with VH1 series Walk of Shame Shuttle, produced by Brian Graden Media.