Your complete round-up of all the news from Content London 2023
A packed-out Content London welcomes attendees
C21’s Content London, the world’s leading development marketplace and conference, returned for its 11th edition this week, with delegates and speakers from around the world attending for three days of networking and insights into the global content business.
To help you catch up on the trends that emerged and the announcements made at the Kings Place conference centre and St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, here are the links to C21’s comprehensive coverage:
Banijay’s Bassetti confirms global sports drive as All3Media speculation swirls
Netflix’s Beckham series sparks editorial integrity debate among commissioners
Riegg says expanding into shiny-floor and gameshows is ‘big priority’ for Netflix
Sony Pictures TV’s Ahuja warns of streamer contraction, unveils Guardian partnership
Amazon Prime Video UK team discuss future of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm
ITV Studios sees AI ‘through the lens of opportunity,’ says MD Julian Bellamy
Paramount-owned Pluto TV’s Olivier Jollet takes aim at ‘fake’ FAST channels
UK buyers say they’ll make ‘more drama not less’ despite market downturn
AI set to invent previously unimagined TV formats, claim leading tech players
Prime Video orders real-life Footballers Wives doc, Raw TV true crime series
SkyShowtime looking for unscripted, copro opportunities, reveals Kai Finke
BBC Studios looking to revive singing talent show format, says Matt Forde
Sports documentary makers debate working with talent and editorial control
Unsustainable streamer investment will boost licensing – distributors
Sci-fi, fantasy ‘deprioritised’ as buyers shift to crime, drama, factual says Ampere
End of the F***ing World director Entwistle boards Caryn Mandabach drama
Red Planet develops first book in Sarah Pinborough’s Dog-Faced Gods trilogy
History, ABC, Love Nature reveal wishlists, look for true crime, paranormal and more
Innovative coproduction models can hold key to combatting difficult economy
Britbox International reaches 3.4m subs, acquires crime drama Blue Lights
La Mesías creators demand fewer algorithms, more respect for audiences
Rescuing Neighbours exceeds Amazon FreeVee’s expectations in the UK
Hallmark’s Hamilton Daly eyes int’l series coproductions and limited series
Sweden’s TV4 takes The Challenge, Spain’s Atresmedia plays The Piano
HBO seals C21 International Drama Awards double at Content London
FAST won’t replace US cable model, says A+E’s head of global FAST, Mark Garner
Studios ‘halfway’ to figuring out right business model for D2C shift – Dolan
Jordan North asks What’s Really in Your Vape? in BBC doc from Northern Child
Newen, Federation reveal 40% of HIP, The Bureau int’l revenue from formats sales
MGM+ adapts MGM IP as post-strike production set to resume as normal in 2024
Audible shouts about opportunities for TV prodcos to make audio shift
UIS has already sold several shows in lively post-strike market, says Springborn
Irish prodco Animo scoops Global Entertainment Formats Pitch with The Ultimate Hustle
Strikes may be over but fewer opportunities lie ahead, leading writers claim
Coproduction remains front and centre for public broadcasters RTÉ, ABC Oz and CBC
BBC, Oz streamer Stan, Acorn TV uncover more Hidden Assets from DCD Rights
Money-driven copros will never work, European fiction commissioners agree
Blue Ant targets FAST pre-buys to help channels stand out amongst library fare
Gambling on new talent essential to refresh embattled industry, say scripted execs
Aussie streamer Stan looking for int’l copro partners, reveals Cailah Scobie
Drama is not dead’ but is facing a crisis, claims Furevold-Boland at Norway’s NRK
SkyShowtime unveils originals slate for 2024, including Nordic thriller Veronika
Sky Studios looks for prestige drama, authored comedy, IP-driven tentpole series
Pitch battle as drama projects come under spotlight
‘Unsanctioned’ Hollywood spin-offs, demand for originality sparked by generative AI
BBCS’s Mike Gunton explores new ways to tackle natural history downturn
Federation Studios takes distribution rights to Italian YA drama We Are Legend
ITVX, Cosmote, Movies Best HD pre-buy Leonard Cohen drama So Long, Marianne
New Sex & the City reality dating format demonstrates scripted to unscripted trend
Digital consultant Taylor-Watt urges Content London delegates to experiment with AI
WNET Group seek copro partners for project on deaf activist Marlee Matlin
Execs split on prospects for emerging talent, witness period dramas fall out of favour
Linear commissioning model declared dead as strikes alter drama economics
European pubcasters partnership New8 reveals first eight drama projects
TVNZ, Maori TV get behind indigenous young adult supernatural series I Am Maui
Branded content execs issue warning over Barbie’s apparent recipe for success
David Stefanou reveals Hallmark’s new unscripted arm needs feel-good formats
Brendan Byrne’s Cyprus Avenue joins forces with Halal Daddy scribe McDermottroe
BBC, CBS Studios team for period drama led by James Norton, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Unscripted producers face ‘seismic moment of change,’ says ITVS’s Beale
Netflix EMEA acquisitions head dismisses idea streamer wants to own everything
Warner Bros Discovery UK & Ireland commissions five shows for Discovery+, linear nets
Cristian Liarte leaves post as Rakuten TV’s head of original content
Netflix Nordic appoints HBO Nordic’s Christopher Haug as head of series
Netflix alum Jonny Taylor named creative director at The Tinder Swindler prodco Raw
BBC Studios’ UKTV appoints former ITV exec Helen Perry as head of drama
Hallmark moves into unscripted with McCarthy-produced, Chabert-led show
Sky Studios Germany execs join Construction Film after scripted strategy rethink
Backstreet Boys’ AJ named a partner at Canuck prodco Beauty World Search
Banijay launches branded entertainment division led by Carlotta Rossi Spencer
Belgian unscripted formats continue their winning streak at Rose d’Or Awards
Germany’s ZDFneo, Belgium’s VRT board Dutch comedy This Is Gonna Be Great
Efforts to update ageing UK/Canada coproduction treaty in ‘advanced state’
Altitude Television works on Penance adaptation with Eliza Clark, Juno Dawson
New Metric buys back Letterkenny sales rights, strikes Euro deals with Netflix
