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10:00 - 10:45 Hall 1 KEYNOTE SESSION: Sky Studios
KEYNOTE SESSION: Sky Studios
Cécile Frot-Coutaz is CEO of Sky Studios, Sky’s original programming arm across Europe. In addition to developing, commissioning and producing Sky original comedy and drama, Frot-Coutaz has responsibility for Sky Studios’ factual output as well as its global portfolio of production companies. In this keynote session Frot-Coutaz is joined by Nils Hartmann, EVP, Sky Studios Deutschland & Italia and Meghan Lyvers, new director of original drama, UK&I, Sky Studios to discuss the strategy driving key decisions, how the territories work together and new projects in the works.
Hall 2 FUNDAMENTALS: Drama, Where’s the money
FUNDAMENTALS: Drama, Where’s the money
As private equity investment in global scripted content continues to grow we hear from major players that are investing now. How are they investing, what are they looking for and how can producers, distributors and creatives access their funds?
11:50 - 12:30 Hall 1 CONTENT STRATEGIES: Jana Winograde, Showtime
CONTENT STRATEGIES: Jana Winograde, Showtime
Jana Winograde serves as president of entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. In this discussion, Winograde will talk about how Showtime’s domestic and international strategy is evolving at a time when parent company Paramount Global is rapidly expanding its streaming business globally.
Hall 2 HOT PROPERTIES: Africa
HOT PROPERTIES: Africa
Shadowland, Catch me a Killer and Spinners
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: Shadowland, Catch me a Killer and Spinners.Shadowland
Shadowland is a female-driven wildlife crime thriller series set in South Africa from creator and writer Jacqui Barcos, writing team Rohan Dickson (Reyka, Desert Rose) and Yule Caise (Heroes, Tales), director Darnell Martin (American Rust, The Good Lord Bird, Cadillac Records) and executive producer Peter Elkoff (Sons of Anarchy, Chance, The Resident). Athena Pictures’ Andra Gordon and Sarena Khan and Starlings Television’s Chris Philip and Karine Martin are executive producing with Propagate Content’s Ben Silverman. A fierce and reclusive female wildlife activist reluctantly teams up with an undercover special ops veteran to expose a plot to ambush a rhino translocation caravan. Ultimately the unlikely duo is forced to confront their deepest fears in the face of an ever-expanding web of corruption. Based on real people and events, Shadowland is in the end a bittersweet love story that delves into the unspoken truths behind Africa’s dire poaching crisis.
Speakers: Jacqui Barcos, Rohan Dickson and Yule Caise.Catch me a killer
Catch me a Killer is a crime series set in South Africa in the 1990’s and tells the harrowing true story of psychologist Micki Pistorius – South Africa’s first serial killer profiler. Charlotte Hope ( The Spanish Princess ) stars as Micki Pistorius. In 1994, against the backdrop of a country on the brink of democracy, Micki joins a task team on the hunt for a notorious serial killer and is launched into a dangerous underworld. Micki is assigned with profiling the Station Strangler – a serial murderer who has left a trail of twenty-two dead boys in his wake in the dunes of the windswept and isolated Cape Flats. This is the first case of Micki’s career in the South African Police, and the first in an array of warped criminal minds into which Micki must dive head-first.
Set in a uniquely South African landscape, Catch me a Killer is a brooding dramatic thriller led by a flawed, determined protagonist.
( Episode by episode, we’ll watch Micki deal with the looming spectre of her personal life and confront increasing darkness in her quest to entrap and understand some of South African’s most infamous serial killers – a process during which she will both find, and lose, herself.)
Speakers: Amy Jephta, Simon Howley, Jess Ruston.Spinners
Ethan is a 17-year-old driver working for a local gang, run with an iron fist by Damien. Trying to support his younger brother but increasingly disgusted with this life and constantly on the edge, Ethan discovers a possible way out via spinning, an intense local sport where he could put his driving skills to use and find a new family. But the looming gang war jeopardises that hope.
Speakers: Cécile Gérardin, Benjamin Hoffman and Joachim Landau.
13:30 - 14:30 Hall 1 SPEED NETWORKING (Battlebridge Room & Ladies Smoking Room)SPEED NETWORKING (Battlebridge Room & Ladies Smoking Room)
A number of key speakers and industry executives are taking part in this year’s enhanced speed-networking programme. The series of 10-minute meetings hosted by buyers, media lawyers, distributors and financers, will take place throughout the extended lunch breaks (1.30pm-2.30pm) in the Battlebridge Room at Kings Place for Drama, and the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel for Formats and Factual.
All meetings are now full. To enquire about any potential last minute availability head to the venue and speak to the room manager.
Hall 2 Norwegian Drama Showcase supported by NRK and NFINorwegian Drama Showcase supported by NRK and NFI
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Hall 3 Meet the Canadian Networking eventMeet the Canadian Networking event
Are you looking for a Canadian co-production partner or to acquire Canadian programming?
We invite international Content London delegates to our ‘Meet the Canadians’ business to business meeting and networking event.
We are looking for delegates who are interested in meeting experienced Canadian producers for potential co-production opportunities, or buyers and commissioners looking for Canadian content.
For more information and to apply, please click here.
15:00 - 15:30 Hall 2 NEXT GENERATION PRODUCERS: Eagle Eye Drama
NEXT GENERATION PRODUCERS: Eagle Eye Drama
Walter Iuzzolino and Jo McGrath discuss the evolution of indie production company Eagle Eye Drama. In this intimate and fun 30 minute conversation we delve into how Eagle Eye Drama came about, their unique business model and approach to working with IP, the upcoming slate and what’s in store next.
Hansom Hall - St. Pancras KEYNOTE SESSION: Kate Phillips, BBC
KEYNOTE SESSION: Kate Phillips, BBC
Kate Phillips, recently confirmed in the newly created director of unscripted role, has responsibility for the overall commissioning strategy for the full range of BBC unscripted content, reporting to chief content officer Charlotte Moore. In this keynote interview, Phillips will discuss her editorial strategy, new key projects in the works and how she empowers the respective heads while ensuring the portfolio of commissions is aligned.
15:00 - 16:00 Hall 3 DRAMA SERIES SCRIPT COMPETITION
DRAMA SERIES SCRIPT COMPETITION
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Hall 3 DRAMA SERIES SCRIPT COMPETITIONDRAMA SERIES SCRIPT COMPETITION
The Studio21 Drama Series Script Competition, coproduced with Content London, Script Angel and WritersRoom, is designed to find the next big thing in scripted entertainment.
We’re looking for an outstanding pilot for a one-hour drama from a fresh writer who has got what it takes to create a primetime series.
These six finalists have been chosen from more than 250 entries. The winner will be announced at The International Drama Awards on Thursday December 1 from 6pm.
The winner will be optioned and developed by Studio21.
1. Clitorati, Jess Edwards
A coming-of-age story collides with a high-melodrama murder mystery, in the audacious world of Queer East London. Iconic, glamorous, empowered: queer women are never represented the way they should be. Go to any Queer clubnight – Pxssy Palace, Big Dyke Energy, Gal Pals – and you’ll see, these are some of the most extraordinary, bold, and creative people around. And yet onscreen, fabulous gay identity is a solely male domain. The Gaytriarchy’s out in full force. Queer women are boring or serious or angst ridden or yearning or lonely. Glamour? No gay girls allowed. CLITORATI will be the show that changes this. The show that is to queer women today what Queer as Folk was to gay men in the noughties. A riotous, unapologetic, genre-bending dramedy, in which four best mates navigate their wild love lives, square up to their shame, and fight together to take up the space they deserve – all while racing against time to solve a murder. The electric glamour of Pose meets the noir-ish intrigue of Search Party. It’s an explosive celebration of what it means to be Female and Queer.
2. Death in the Family, Alex Mathias
When five mismatched brothers discover their comatose father is not a handyman but a hitman with a price on his head, they must band together to take over the deadly family business.
3. I Am Bird Gurl, Laurence Turnbull
Billie, a narcoleptic 13-year-old girl, falls asleep so often she struggles to distinguish reality from dreams. And when she dreams, she dreams she is ‘Bird Gurl’, hovering above her own life on 6 foot eagle wings. So when her Dad goes missing, accused of murder, and her dreams seem to offer clues to the mystery of his disappearance, she resolves to harness the power of Bird Gurl and find him before the cops.
Aimed at a YA audience, I am Bird Gurl is the genesis series to the returner – Bird Gurl; Dream Detective.
4. Sacrificial Lambs, Salim Allybokus
‘Sacrificial Lambs’ is a 60-minute Horror-Drama series about a quaint English university town and its celebrated university. The more the university maintains its endless production line of success stories, the more the town thrives. But as the superstar graduates scale impossible heights and the town’s disaffected teenage residents continue to disappear, is everything as it seems? Or is there something much darker lurking within this very polite society?…
5. Shadowlands, Russel McLean
Shadowlands is a supernatural thriller series set in the Scottish Highlands. When a corpse is discovered in a whiskey barrel at a remote Highland distillery, a newly reassigned police sergeant finds herself drawn into what seems an impossible mystery, with roots deep in the past. As strange events start to plague the local community, she finds herself forced to confront the possibility of dangerous supernatural forces at play…
6. The Truth, Tobias Hussey
A Jehovah’s Witness teenager struggles with his burgeoning sexuality and the overwhelming curiosity to experience a forbidden world, at all costs.
Behind the curtain peek into the mysterious world of Jehovah’s Witnesses through the eyes of Isaac. Bored of the forever-long sermons warning of the dangers of straying from the right path, the teenager dreams of a forbidden life as a ‘90s rock star. On a community round with his father, the much-respected congregation elder, Isaac has to knock on the door of the girl he has a crush on and preach to her about The Impending Armageddon. Embarrassment turns to opportunity when a bible study with benefits ensues, plunging Isaac into a double life of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, while also facing an imminent baptism and the prospect of excommunication. A chapter no scripture prepared him for.
15:40 - 16:20 Hall 2 DEVELOPMENT: Bad Wolf
DEVELOPMENT: Bad Wolf
Bad Wolf founders Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner discuss how they’re creating ambitious, imaginative and relevant drama for the global TV marketplace. The duo, joined by Dan McCulloch, Bad Wolf’s new head of content, will drill down on the synergy between Bad Wolf and Bad Wolf America and the different ways of working within each. They’ll also highlight the new areas they’re exploring to serve international audiences and how they’re committed to strengthening the creative community through wide-ranging partnerships and training initiatives.
Hansom Hall - St. Pancras DEVELOPMENT: Louis Theroux and Mindhouse Productions
DEVELOPMENT: Louis Theroux and Mindhouse Productions
Mindhouse Productions’ co-founders and creative directors Louis Theroux and Arron Fellows discuss how they’re developing new talent and documentary ideas alongside the authored programmes Theroux is known for globally.
16:30 - 17:10 Hall 2 DEVELOPMENT: International drama producers
DEVELOPMENT: International drama producers
Renowned drama producers responsible for some of the biggest global hits of the past decade discuss ways the genre is evolving, the new stories they’re keen to tell, how they’re finding and fostering new creative talent and areas they’re exploring to maintain relevance in a consistently crowded landscape.
Hansom Hall - St. Pancras CONTENT TRENDS: The rise of the documentary showrunner
CONTENT TRENDS: The rise of the documentary showrunner
Creators of high end documentary series are turning their craft into a business, even competing against big drama series for programming slots. More and more are considering themselves showrunners and being credited as such. In this session we take a look behind the scenes of this growing trend and talk to the people leading the way.
Produced in association with Entertainment Master Class.
09:30 - 10:15 Hall 1 FUNDAMENTALS: What's it worth? Valuing the content business
FUNDAMENTALS: What's it worth? Valuing the content business
As the global content business continues to boom, the world of mergers and acquisitions, both in terms of company sales and investment, catalogues and brands continues apace. Part of our FUNDAMENTALS strand, this headline session gathers together some of the most experienced players in the sector to discuss the shape of things to come. What is the current trend in M&A activity, how are investors aiming to spend their money, what are the models that make most sense, and how will the market evolve during the next year. Market makers, with unrivalled success in navigating this sector, explore the trends in content finance over the next 12 months.
Hall 3 HOT PROPERTIES: Drama, Ride Out, La Storia, Les Affluents
HOT PROPERTIES: Drama, Ride Out, La Storia, Les Affluents
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: Ride Out, La Storia and Les Affluents.
Ride Out
Ride Out is an epic sports drama and a tragic love story, based on the real events of an amateur underdog challenging an unbeatable champion on the international MOTO GP motorbike racing circuit during its golden years in the 1970s. Supported by his girlfriend Soili, and camping out at each race to cut costs, Jarno Saarinen rides to free himself from a career working in his family’s struggling funeral home. But to succeed he must risk his life every month, in a harsh competition with his fellow riders and brothers in arms on the track.Speakers: Timo Vierimaa and Jarmo Lampela.
La Storia
Ida Ramundo is the widowed mother of 15-year old teenager Nino in Rome during WWII. She has a secret: Ida is of Jewish descent. But when she is assaulted by a German army soldier, things turn from bad to worse. In pain, dismay, and ashamed, Ida discovers she is pregnant, and, nine months later, secretly gives birth to another boy, who will be lovingly nicknamed Useppe. The family is further shaken by the events of the war: Nino decides to leave to the front line to fight the Fascists, leaving his mother and little Useppe in an apartment in Rome’s San Lorenzo neighborhood to cope with the Nazi occupation and roundups. In the July 1943 bombing, Ida loses everything and is forced to leave. From then on, every day becomes a struggle for her own survival and that of her child.Speakers: Francesca Archibugi, Roberto Sessa and Maria Pia Ammirati.
Les Affluents (Tributaries)
Sarah Deléan, a young and ambitious lawyer, wakes up one morning in a panic. Her discreet neighbour who lived in the apartment above her has been murdered. Sarah decides to conduct her own investigation and uncovers controversial mining activities in British Columbia, in Quebec’s Côte-Nord and in Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley. The young woman then steps into an interconnected world of alliances and betrayals, in which the intimidating force of the powerful is matched only by the hope of resistance. Caught in a dilemma, torn between loyalty to her professional family- which includes her fiancé – and the urgent help needed by a group of citizens, it’s up to Sarah to discover her true nature.Speakers: Nicola Merola and Sophie Deraspe.
Hansom Hall - St. Pancras COMMISSIONING: European unscripted formats
COMMISSIONING: European unscripted formats
Executives from TV4, Atresmedia, TF1 and Virgin Media Television Ireland discuss the strategy driving their unscripted formats and programming, who they’re looking to partner with and the opportunities this creates across the international format business.
10:30 - 11:15 Hall 1 KEYNOTE SESSION: Channing Dungey, Warner Bros Television Group
KEYNOTE SESSION: Channing Dungey, Warner Bros Television Group
TV industry leader Channing Dungey serves as chairman, Warner Bros Television Group. In this role, she has creative responsibility for all of Warner Bros’ television production activities, including scripted and unscripted programming for streaming services, cable, and the US broadcast networks. In this keynote session Dungey sets the scene for Warner Bros Television Group’s international content strategy.
Hall 2 StreamingStreaming
Hall 2 Streaming Hall 1Streaming Hall 1
Hansom Hall - St. Pancras DEVELOPMENT: Unscripted IP
DEVELOPMENT: Unscripted IP
Key executives in the unscripted space discuss the challenges and opportunities of finding the next big hit; how they are discovering and developing new IP, what sources are being explored and how they are developing IP around talent.
11:30 - 12:10 Hall 1 KEYNOTE SESSION: Fox Entertainment
KEYNOTE SESSION: Fox Entertainment
Fox Entertainment’s former unscripted chief Rob Wade was recently promoted to lead the US- based media company as CEO. During his tenure he has been responsible for launching numerous hit series including The Masked Singer and Gordon Ramsay’s Next Level Chef. Michael Thorn is president of entertainment and is responsible for all scripted programming and development as well as casting at Fox. In this keynote session we hear from Wade and Thorn about their key priorities for both unscripted and scripted programming and Wade will also discuss his new vision and content strategy for Fox Entertainment.
Hall 3 CONTENT STRATEGIES: Audible: The opportunity for creators: original stories and IP extension into audio
CONTENT STRATEGIES: Audible: The opportunity for creators: original stories and IP extension into audio
As the appetite for new forms of entertainment content continues to grow, we discuss how audio has become the next area to explore for creators. Aurelie de Troyer, head of content, UK and Canada at Audible will set out her content strategy and vision and will be joined by commissioners and creators to explore new opportunities to diversify further into the world of audio via original IP creation, as well as extension of existing IPs.
Hansom Hall - St. Pancras Streaming Hall 1Streaming Hall 1
12:20 - 13:00 Hall 1 CONTENT STRATEGIES: Lionsgate Television
CONTENT STRATEGIES: Lionsgate Television
Kevin Beggs (chair of the Lionsgate Television Group and chief content integration officer, Lionsgate) and (Scott Herbst, EVP and head of scripted development, Lionsgate Television Group) talk to the diversity of the Lionsgate Television slate, drilling down on their strategy through the lens of defining shows including The Serpent Queen for Starz, Minx for HBO Max and Ghosts for CBS. Plus they’ll discuss their future content plans and how their strategy will evolve over the next 12 months and beyond.
Hall 3 COMMISSIONING: YA platforms
COMMISSIONING: YA platforms
Senior executives at youth-skewing platforms discuss their strategies for targeting and maintaining engagement in younger audiences, the new content they think will attract those much converted eyeballs and coproduction opportunities.
12:30 - 13:00 Hall 2 StreamingStreaming
Hall 2 CONTENT STRATEGIES: Matt Graham, Acorn TV
CONTENT STRATEGIES: Matt Graham, Acorn TV
Matt Graham, general manager, Acorn TV reveals how his content strategy is driving coproduction opportunities across the international business and talks to his new titles across the slate.
13:30 - 14:30 Hall 1 SPEED NETWORKING (Battlebridge Room & Ladies Smoking Room)SPEED NETWORKING (Battlebridge Room & Ladies Smoking Room)
A number of key speakers and industry executives are taking part in this year’s enhanced speed-networking programme. The series of 10-minute meetings hosted by buyers, media lawyers, distributors and financers, will take place throughout the extended lunch breaks (1.30pm-2.30pm) in the Battlebridge Room at Kings Place for Drama, and the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel for Formats and Factual.
All meetings are now full. To enquire about any potential last minute availability head to the venue and speak to the room manager.
Hall 2 Sponsored Screening: Before We Die
Sponsored Screening: Before We Die
Before We Die, one of Channel 4’s most successful series, is back for another electrifying season.
Two matriarchs are battling for the supremacy of their own morality: Detective Hannah Laing, a mother fighting to protect her son Christian, and Dubravka, figurehead of the Mimica crime family and mother of Christian’s lover, Bianca.
As Hannah races to expose the Mimicas before Dubravka discovers Christian and Bianca’s whereabouts, a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds. This time, even more is at stake – Bianca is pregnant, and they must fight with all their strength to protect the unborn child.
With an introduction from Lesley Sharp and Carolina Giammetta before the screening.
15:00 - 15:40 Hall 1 CONTENT TRENDS: Global drama
CONTENT TRENDS: Global drama
Senior industry leaders discuss and debate the biggest issues and opportunities, and future key trends facing the global scripted business. With testing times ahead for broadcasters and streamers, how will this impact scripted content and is the balance starting to move away from drama? How is scripted content evolving? What is the value of local content? Where and what are the new opportunities for creators, makers and funders of drama over the next 12 months?
Hall 2 COMMISSIONING: International platforms
COMMISSIONING: International platforms
Executives leading key international platforms discuss the content strategies driving their decision making, including drilling down on areas they’re looking to partner in, ways they’re innovating in the face of sustained competition and upcoming slates.
Hall 3 CASE STUDY: Clean Sweep
CASE STUDY: Clean Sweep
In the 6 part thriller drama Clean Sweep, Charlene McKenna stars in the lead role as Shelly Mohan, a housewife and mother, married to a Garda detective, Barry Ward, who kills her former partner in crime when he threatens to expose her dark past. With her unsuspecting husband hunting for the killer, Shelly must cope with pressures of the tightening noose. Inspired by true events, it is a compelling story of the price paid for long-buried sins. Clean Sweep was created by Gray Tieche and directed by Ronan Burke and Yves Christian Fournier. The series is being co-produced in Ireland by indie producers ShinAwiL, Dancing with the Stars Ireland, Miss Scarlet and the Duke and Canada’s Incendo, Be Mine Valentine, Terror Train. It is set to premiere on Sundance Now in the US and RTÉ in Ireland in 2023. In this case study session we hear from the key creative team behind the show more about the journey and what we can expect to see on screen.
15:50 - 16:30 Hall 2 COMMISSIONING: European drama
COMMISSIONING: European drama
Key European drama commissioners from ZDF, RAI, Atresmedia and France Télévisions discuss the scripted content strategies influencing their wish lists and opportunities for collaboration.
Hall 3 HOT PROPERTIES: Drama, AGHA and Reyka
HOT PROPERTIES: Drama, AGHA and Reyka
This Hot Properties session shines a light on two 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: AGHA and Reyka.AGHA
Adapted from the book ʻLabyrinth of the Wind’ by Madhav Misra, Agha is the story of Indian expat, Ayan Pathak, who finds himself drawn into a turbulent vortex of espionage and nuclear geopolitics in a volatile Tehran on the brink of revolution. Ayan is recruited into this mission against his will after his brilliant and barely legal manoeuvring around India’s tightly regulated import laws of the time gets him noticed by its intelligence agency, R&AW. We follow Ayan on his journey as he transforms from selfish profiteer, to reluctant protagonist, to plucky hero, and finally, to suave spy. A co-production between India’s International Storytelling Company, BANG BANG, and The Big Bang Theory star, Kunal Nayyar’s Good Karma.
Speakers: Roopak Saluja, Kunal Nayyar.Reyka
Reyka, known in some territories as The Canefield Killings, tells the story of a criminal profiler, Reyka Gama (Kim Engelbrecht), who is struggling to come to terms with her dark past. Having been abducted as a child by farmer Angus Speelman (played by Iain Glen) Reyka uses that experience to understand the minds of serial killers. The series follows her investigation into a string of brutal murders in the sugar cane fields of Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa. 20 years on from her abduction, the manipulative, charming Speelman is now up for parole and Reyka holds the key to whether he will be released or not. But Speelman still exerts a powerful hold on her, and this relationship, together with the one she is struggling to rebuild with her mother Elsa and her daughter Thuli, forms the spine of the story.
Speakers: Nimrod Geva, Serena Cullen and Iain Glen.
18:00 - 20:00 Hall 3 THE LIGHTERMAN: Acorn TV Cocktail Event (Invitation only)
THE LIGHTERMAN: Acorn TV Cocktail Event (Invitation only)
Hall 4 Alta Global Media Cocktail (Invitation only) (Hall 4 & Mezzanine Level)Alta Global Media Cocktail (Invitation only) (Hall 4 & Mezzanine Level)
09:30 - 10:15 Hall 1 FUNDAMENTALS: Distribution finance
FUNDAMENTALS: Distribution finance
This session will look at how leading international distributors are changing up their business models, what they are looking to back, how and when they are investing and the new opportunities in the market.
Hall 2 CONTENT STRATEGIES: AVoD
CONTENT STRATEGIES: AVoD
As AVoD continues to do big business globally, managers from leading international platforms Roku, ViX+, FilmRise and Samsung TV Plus discuss their content strategies, opportunities for collaboration and new content.
Hall 3 HOT PROPERTIES: Started at Content London
HOT PROPERTIES: Started at Content London
In this Hot Properties session we follow the story of five shows that started their journey at Content London; Tehran, The Reindeer Mafia, Rana Naidu, Bestseller Boy and Mobile 101. We catch up with the producers behind the shows to find out more about the journeys they went on from their early stage conversations at Content London to where they are now.
Hansom Hall - St. Pancras COMMISSIONING: International factual
COMMISSIONING: International factual
Significant global players in the unscripted space detail the strategies driving innovation in their factual content and the areas they’re looking to partner in.
10:30 - 11:15 Hall 1 FUNDAMENTALS: New drama coproduction & finance models
FUNDAMENTALS: New drama coproduction & finance models
What are some of the most innovative and effective models for coproducing and financing drama in the increasingly complex and competitive global entertainment market? We hear from leading players in the drama business about their approaches to financing and developing coproductions, the challenges and risks to overcome and the new opportunities to be had.
Hall 2 FUNDAMENTALS: New revenue streams in FAST
FUNDAMENTALS: New revenue streams in FAST
FAST is evolving as the “new cable” by almost reverting back to the original TV viewing model. As the growth of FAST breathes new life into linear channels by increasing younger audiences, we explore how to maximise the opportunities this straight-to-consumer model brings. How can FAST create new and alternative revenue streams and what are the strategic issues involved in setting up FAST channels against competitors.
12:15 - 13:00 Hall 3 THE BIG PICTURE
THE BIG PICTURE
The Big Picture Network is an initiative created by C21Media to help companies in the international entertainment business do better across four verticals: inclusivity & diversity, sustainability & environment, business practice & operations and content & storytelling. In this session industry leaders championing change in these verticals discuss how they’re fostering positive change through new content, storytelling and supporting talent.
Hansom Hall - St. Pancras FUNDAMENTALS: Unscripted - Where's the money?
FUNDAMENTALS: Unscripted - Where's the money?
Leading executives from across the global business discuss the current funding models for unscripted content and how these are evolving, how they are developing and financing new projects and how producers can access them.
More speakers to be announced
13:30 - 14:30 Hall 1 SPEED NETWORKING (Battlebridge Room only)SPEED NETWORKING (Battlebridge Room only)
A number of key speakers and industry executives are taking part in this year’s enhanced speed-networking programme. The series of 10-minute meetings hosted by buyers, media lawyers, distributors and financers, will take place throughout the extended lunch breaks (1.30pm-2.30pm) in the Battlebridge Room at Kings Place for Drama, and the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel for Formats and Factual.
All meetings are now full. To enquire about any potential last minute availability head to the venue and speak to the room manager.
Hall 2 Focus on Finland lunchtime presentationFocus on Finland lunchtime presentation
Focus on Finland Showcase presents the hottest upcoming drama productions from Finnish talent. Projects will be presented to you by their writers and producers. Come and enjoy this handful of carefully selected productions that are all seeking international partners. After the presentations, we’ll enjoy a tasty lunch where you can network with Finnish talent.
Focus on Finland promotes the visibility and international awareness of Finnish content. The partners joining Audiovisual Producers Finland – APFI are YLE, the Finnish Film Foundation, Elisa Viihde and Film in Finland.
Productions being presented:
1. The Paradise (season 2), Reelmedia
2. Spiral, Welhofilmi & Poolgirl Productions
3. Nordic Police Force (NoPoFo), Ilkkas’ Creative Studio
4. A Good Family, Vertigo
5.Summer of Sorrow, Rabbit Films
6. All the Sins (season 3), MRP Matila Röhr Productions
Hall 3 Screen Scotland Lunchtime PresentationScreen Scotland Lunchtime Presentation
Join Screen Scotland and the team behind Prime Video UK Original Series THE RIG including Derek Wax (Executive Producer), Suzanne Reid (Producer), David Macpherson (Writer), and representatives from Prime Video to explore how the show came to life, including how they came to make the show in Scotland, their experience of the local talent, studio infrastructure, locations, support and incentives.
The lunchtime panel will be chaired by Steven Little (Head of Production, Screen Scotland).
15:00 - 15:45 Hall 1 KEYNOTE SESSION: Universal Studio Group
KEYNOTE SESSION: Universal Studio Group
Pearlena Igbokwe is the chairman of Universal Studio Group (USG), where she leads its four studios – Universal Television (UTV), Universal Content Productions (UCP), Universal Television Alternative Studios (UTAS) and Universal International Studios (UIS) – and oversees a slate of around 120 projects across more than 25 platforms. In this keynote, Igbokwe will be joined by studio heads Toby Gorman (UTAS), Beatrice Springborn (UCP & UIS) and Erin Underhill (UTV) to discuss the group’s content priorities, future goals and trends shaping the industry landscape.
Hall 2 DRAMA QUARTERLY: HOT PROPERTIES, The Vanishing Triangle, Dreamland and Boiling Point
DRAMA QUARTERLY: HOT PROPERTIES, The Vanishing Triangle, Dreamland and Boiling Point
This Hot Properties session shines a light on three upcoming dramas that all appear in the DQ100 2022/23, Drama Quarterly’s curated selection of the most exciting and ambitious new series coming to the small screen and the actors, directors and writers involved in making them.
We hear how the projects were created, developed, packaged and sold from those closest to the project. This session features: The Vanishing Triangle, Dreamland and Boiling Point.The Vanishing Triangle
Show description to follow
Speakers:
Ivan Kavanagh, creator and executive producer
Alon Aranya, executive producer
AnneMarie Naughton, executive producer
Ana Habajec, executive producerDreamland
Show description to follow
Speakers:
Clelia Mountford, co-founder, Merman
Ellie Heydon, director
Freema Agyeman, actressBoiling Point
The hugely successful, multi award-winning feature film Boiling Point is coming to BBC One and iPlayer as a new drama series. Picking up six months on from where the film left off, Boiling Point will see Sous Chef Carly (Vinette Robinson) as Head Chef at her own restaurant, with many of the film’s original cast reprising their roles alongside her – including Stephen Graham as Andy and Hannah Walters as Emily. The series will reunite the film’s co-writer and director Philip Barantini, who will helm the first two episodes and co-writer James Cummings alongside producers Hester Ruoff and Bart Ruspoli. When it was first released as a film in 2021, Boiling Point was met with huge critical acclaim and was nominated worldwide for over 20 awards in multiple categories, including four BAFTA nominations and 11 BIFA nominations, delivering four BIFA wins, two National Film Awards and four Taormina Film Festival Awards.
Speakers:
Philip Barantini, co-writer/director
Hester Ruoff, executive producer
Bart Ruspoli, executive producers
