This Hot Properties session shines a light on three upcoming dramas expected to have an impact on the international market over the next 18 months. We hear how the projects were created, developed, packaged and sold from those closest to the project. This session features: So Long, Marianne, Dope Girls and Karantina

Content London goes behind the scenes with the coproduction partners of Those Who Stayed, which was filmed earlier this year in Kyiv as the war raged. We will hear more about the series and why the Nordics came on board as official coproducers of a series shot in Ukraine and in Ukrainian. Going behind the scenes of how the series got made, lessons learned, the Nordic experience and the importance of telling this story. The panel discussion will then be followed by a 35 minute screening of the first episode.

This Hot Properties session shines a light on three upcoming African dramas expected to have an impact on the international market over the next 18 months. We hear how the projects were created, developed, packaged and sold from those closest to the project. This session features: White Lies, Soon Comes Night and The Morning After.

In this Content London Case Study, Lauren Anderson, head of AVoD originals, unscripted and targeted programming with Amazon MGM Studios, Shahina O’Mahoney, head of 3P content, Amazon Freevee UK, and Jamie Lynn, EVP co-production and distribution, EMEA, Fremantle, will discuss the decision to save Neighbours after it’s 38-year run, the re-branding of the series on its new home, Amazon Freevee, and its success in the UK and US since launch.

This Content London Case Study session features We Might Regret This, a character driven comedy-drama about intimacy, independence and the boundaries that people are willing to break, from Roughcut TV in association with Village Roadshow for BBC Two. In this session we go behind the scenes of We Might Regret This with Ash Atalla, CEO of Roughcut Television, Alix Jaffe, executive vice president, Village Roadshow Television and Jon Petrie, director of comedy commissioning at the BBC.

This Hot Properties session shines a light on new scripted projects expected to have an impact on the international market over the next 18 months. We hear how the projects were created, developed, packaged and sold from those closest to the project. This session features: Volcano and Sight Unseen.

In this exclusive Content London Case Study Steven Knight takes us behind the scenes of his new six-part BBC series, This Town. This Town tells the story of an extended family and four young people who are drawn into the music scene which exploded from the grass roots of Coventry and Birmingham in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, uniting black, white and Asian youths. The series will star Levi Brown (Loss and Return), Jordan Bolger (The Woman King, The Book of Boba Fett), Ben Rose (Line of Duty, The Innocents) and Eve Austin (You, Our Ladies) as its four young leads.

The series is produced by Kudos (a Banijay UK company) and Nebulastar for the BBC, co-produced with Mercury Studios, in association with Kudos North, Stigma Films and Nick Angel. Filming is now underway on location in the Birmingham area, and at Steven Knight’s new Digbeth Loc. Film and TV Studios. Mercury Studios (part of the Universal Music Group) will bring in a range of high profile musical artists to help lay the backdrop for Knight’s story. Acclaimed producer Dan Carey, and Brit and Mercury nominated musician, novelist and poet Kae Tempest, have written the songs performed by the band in the series.

A Spotlight on Hotel Cocaine - Chris Brancato, a prolific showrunner who has co-created Narcos and Godfather of Harlem, will debut a new scripted crime thriller, Hotel Cocaine on MGM+ in 2024. In this Case Study session Brancato will join Michael Wright, head of MGM+, to explore, from concept to screen, the story of Cuban Exile Roman Compte, a CIA operative and general manager of the The Mutiny Hotel, the glamorous epicenter of the Miami cocaine scene of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. The series stars Danny Pino (Mayans M.C., Law & Order: SVU), Michael Chiklis (The Shield, Winning Time), Mark Feuerstein (Power, The Baby-Sitters Club), and Yul Vazquez (Severance, Godfather of Harlem). In addition to the discussion, the audience will get an exclusive sneak peek at the new series.

This Content London Case Study session features La Mesías from Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. Actors, directors, and producers, Calvo and Ambrossi are considered by many as two of the most influential young showrunners in the business. Their HBO Max coproduction Veneno, was recognised as one of 2020’s best TV series by The New Yorker and Variety and they have won numerous awards for their work. In this intimate session we go behind the scenes of La Mesías with Calvo and Ambrossi.