Hot Properties November 2022
With Content London just around the corner and buyers wrapping up their acquisitions for next year, distributors are creating new slates of content to showcase to the world via C21’s Digital Screenings.
Drama takes centre stage in this month’s playlist for C21’s Digital Screenings, with no fewer than nine to talk about. First up, Cold Valleys (Bavaria Media International) follows two Austrian police officers from very different sides of the tracks as they team up to solve twisted rural crimes in the insular Alpine countryside.
More Euro drama comes in the form of Greek series Save Me (Antenna Studios), in which a woman returns to her culturally diverse hometown in Northern Greece when her younger sister goes missing. Bardot (Federation Studios), meanwhile, focuses on the woman before the superstar in this event series about iconic French actress Brigitte Bardot.
Sisters (France TV Distribution) is another French project, this time about three female BFFs and their summer: first loves, making plans for the future, breaking into adulthood – and investigating a crime. The Ex-Wife (All3Media International) centres on a newlywed who seemingly leads a perfect life – but the constant presence of her husband’s ex-wife looms over her happiness.
True crime is still inspiring drama, with Maxine (Abacus Media Rights), looking at the UK’s notorious Soham murders from the perspective of school assistant Maxine Carr, fiancée of the murderer Ian Huntley. The General’s Men (Asacha Media Group), meanwhile, is based on the true story of the Special Anti-Terrorism Unit created by General Dalla Chiesa in response to the attack launched by the Red Brigades on the Italian State during the 1970s.
This month’s playlist also includes two dramas from Japan. Hitman in Love (Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation) follows an assassin who falls in love with the person he’s supposed to kill, and Dearest (Tokyo Broadcasting System Television) follows a leading female industrialist who has been named a key person of interest in a serial murder case investigated by a detective who she was once in love with.
Lighter scripted content comes in the form of Below (Viaplay Group), a dramedy about a young woman who is involved in an accident that kills her best friend Kurt and leaves her paralysed from the waist down.
For buyers looking for unscripted content, the November playlist has eight titles to peruse. Colosseum (A+E Networks) is an action-packed miniseries that reveals the Roman Empire through eight historical figures who lived and died in this famous amphitheatre.
Inside Detroit with Ben Fogle (Banijay Rights) explores the US city that was once at the heart of the American motor industry, and the birthplace of a music genre that earned global recognition for black artists, while six-parter Secret Societies: In The Shadows (DCD Rights) delves into the murky history of secret societies, from the Freemasons to the Illuminati.
Ticket To Freedom – The Angel of Hamburg (Autentic Distribution) tells the story of Aracy de Carvalho, a woman who is little known in Europe but a heroine in Brazil, known as The Angel of Hamburg and honoured Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem.
For those seeking more adventurous factual, we have 54 Hours Beneath (Beyond Rights), which investigates what happens when caving goes wrong, emerging as a tale of hope, bravery and the insurmountable strength of the human spirit, while Dark Green (Dutch Core) follows solo adventurer Paul Rosolie into the Amazon Rainforest as he tries to reconnect with the last remaining wilderness on earth.
From Bomanbridge Media comes A Game of Secrets, which follows a man who hacks the global football industry with the anonymous website Football Leaks to expose its most nefarious characters, while the second season of cookery series Mary Makes It Easy (Boat Rocker) is also on the playlist.
Moving towards factual entertainment, this month’s playlist includes History of the Sitcom (Cineflix Rights), exploring a ground-breaking genre that’s kept us laughing since the dawn of television, while Wedding Diaries (Rabbit Films) follows four couples, eight unique stories and, finally, four weddings.
The Fittest Pensioner (Armoza Formats) looks at 10 of the nation’s fittest seniors as they move into a home together for a fierce competition where they will face multiple challenges. Also in the format space, Bubble Experiment (Dans la bulle de) is an RTBF show in which a celebrity is invited to step inside a futuristic-looking dome to go on a journey to the centre of their memory. More in the straight gameshow space, Riddiculous (Sony Pictures Television Formats) is a hilarious new gameshow that keeps everyone’s brains ticking, with infuriatingly addictive riddles.
For buyers in the kids sector, we have four titles on the list. Grisù (ZDF Studios) follows the first fire-fighting dragon, who is always ready for his missions around the world, and Tish Tash (Cake) centres on a young bear and their imaginary friend.
Kung Fu Pork Choppers (Jetpack Distribution), meanwhile, follows a bunch of heroic pigs on their action-packed quest to right wrongs, keep the peace and defeat evil everywhere, and MaveriX (Australian Children’s Television Foundation) revolves around six young motocross riders who come together to form a team, to make the national titles or crash out trying.
That’s all for November, stay tuned for more Hot Properties in December!
