With 2022 almost done and buyers looking ahead to fill their schedules for next year, distributors are lining up new slates of content to showcase to the world via C21’s Digital Screenings.
Drama, as ever, is the big ticket for the Hot Properties playlist for this month, with no fewer than 10 shows to talk about and screen via C21’s Digital Screenings. European companies seem to be having a moment, judging by all the new drama coming from them in recent months.
From Germany’s Bavaria Media International, we have included new series Chaos, telling the story of 10 teenagers who attend a concert when the impossible happens – there is an explosion. Also in the mix this month is Clean Sweep (ZDF Studios), about an unassuming mom who makes a fatal choice when a dark secret emerges from her past.
From France’s StudioCanal, meanwhile, comes Paris Police 1905, a period piece about a detective investigating the death of a woman in the French capital, which leads him into an illicit world where pimps, blackmailers and crooked doctors are interlinked in a web of intrigue. Marie Antoinette is another period drama, this time from Banijay Rights and telling the story of the incredibly modern and avant-garde young queen, played by Emilia Schüle (Ku’damm 56/63).
Italy is the setting for Nostalgia (Asacha Media Group), which follows a man who returns to Naples after 40 years and discovers again places and codes of the city, facing a past that eats him away, while Hilma (Viaplay Group) tells the story of Hilma af Klint’s enigmatic life and legacy, a true trailblazer recognised as one of the western world’s first abstract artists who made her way in a completely male-dominated artistic scene.
From the UK comes Mayflies (All3Media International), a nostalgic, poignant drama adapted from Andrew O’Hagan’s bestselling novel by Synchronicity Films, the award-winning team behind The Cry, and starring Line of Duty’s Martin Compston and Your Honour’s Tony Curran.
From North American distributors come two new titles: The Green Veil (Boat Rocker), about a Latinx trying to pass as white as part of an FBI mission in 1955 America, while Mayfair Witches (AMC Studios) is an eight-parter about a young neurosurgeon who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches, based on Anne Rice’s best-selling trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches.
Rounding out the drama slate this month is Anonymous (TV Tokyo Corporation), telling the story of a new section at a police department whose mission is to find the anonymous abusers on social networking sites. In scripted comedy we have The Great Holiday Bake War (Fox Entertainment Global), a movie that looks at what happens when two former pastry school rivals meet years later at a holiday TV baking contest.
On the unscripted front, the December playlist includes Deception: World War II (DCD Rights), a four-part series exploring the true-life stories of deceptions and countermeasures used by both sides during the war to deadly effect. More topically, Weaponized Wheat (Autentic Distribution) looks at how the Russian invasion of Ukraine is threatening global food security and how wheat can be used as political leverage.
The Murder of Meredith (Abacus Media Rights) examines the evidence, the egos and the errors that left Meredith Kircher’s family with more questions than answers after her murder, while Successors of Soma Nomaoi (Japan Program Catalog BEAJ) documents a festival that dates back 1,000 years and began as a military exercise for samurai.
If you’re looking for lighter factual, we have WWE Rivals (A+E Media Group), about the rivalries between wrestling stars with big muscles and even bigger egos, while Recipes from Prehistory (GAD) explores new techniques that allow us to discover and understand culinary facets of our ancestors’ lives hitherto totally unknown. Catching the Pirate King (Federation Studios) takes a deep dive into the most incredible yet true story of modern-day pirates, while Diana (Beyond Rights) reveals a princess unlike any other.
EXchange (CJ ENM) follows eight men and women with their own respective stories who gather in a house to reunite with their past lovers and start meeting with new people, and Celeb Cooking School (Sony Pictures Television Formats) is a reality cooking format that sees celebrities who can’t cook compete in an intensive crash course. Campus Go (Bomanbridge Media), meanwhile, is an original Tencent production that debuted in August and is the first reality TV show focusing on universities and student ‘club’ talent.
For buyers looking for kids’ programming, we round out this month’s playlist with two shows: Mush-Mush & the Mushables (Cake), described as “a journey of self-discovery, told through exciting adventure, comedy… and mush mush more!” and Barrumbi Kids (Australian Children’s Television Foundation), a coming-of-age adventure about two best friends growing up together, dealing with the dreams and challenges of childhood in a remote Northern Territory community down under.
That’s all for December, stay tuned for more Hot Properties in 2023!
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Drama, as ever, is the big ticket for the Hot Properties playlist for this month, with no fewer than 10 shows to talk about and screen via C21’s Digital Screenings. European companies seem to be having a moment, judging by all the new drama coming from them in recent months.
From Germany’s Bavaria Media International, we have included new series Chaos, telling the story of 10 teenagers who attend a concert when the impossible happens – there is an explosion. Also in the mix this month is Clean Sweep (ZDF Studios), about an unassuming mom who makes a fatal choice when a dark secret emerges from her past.
From France’s StudioCanal, meanwhile, comes Paris Police 1905, a period piece about a detective investigating the death of a woman in the French capital, which leads him into an illicit world where pimps, blackmailers and crooked doctors are interlinked in a web of intrigue. Marie Antoinette is another period drama, this time from Banijay Rights and telling the story of the incredibly modern and avant-garde young queen, played by Emilia Schüle (Ku’damm 56/63).
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