With the fall season now underway and the buying and selling communities looking ahead to their (bi-)annual trips to Cannes, this month’s playlist for the C21 Digital Screenings it brimming over with hot properties.

Drama is top of the list on this month’s Hot Properties playlist for C21’s Digital Screenings, with no less than eight new titles for buyers to see. Three Little Birds (Banijay Rights) is described as “a life-affirming returning drama series exploring untold stories of love, sisterhood, parenting and friendship, and the joys, laughter and struggles of making a new life in the so-called Mother Country.”

The Witch (Antenna Studios), meanwhile, is set in 1817 Ottoman-occupied Greece, in the unconquered region of Mani, and follows two rival families united by marriage and the birth of their first son. Concordia (ZDF Studios) is set in an artificial intelligence-powered utopian city, developed by a businesswoman to improve citizens’ lives while safeguarding personal data.

Still I Rise (Zone 3) follows a policewoman who introduces four troubled young adults to mixed martial arts, hoping to give them a fighting chance at keeping their crime sheets clean, and While The Men Are Away (Red Arrow Studios International) is a period piece about two Women’s Land Army recruits from Sydney, Australia. Returning for its second season, Furia (Viaplay Group) is a dark and multi-layered drama that explores the disturbing underworld of right-wing terrorism.

A few TV movies are also in the mix. The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (Tesera Entertainment) centres on a 15-year-old girl who escaped from her captor and led police to the apartment and identified him, a serial killer responsible for at least three unsolved homicides. White Silence (Bavaria Media International), meanwhile, recounts one woman’s fight to correct a terrible wrong as she battles systems, co-workers, stereotypes and fear to stop a man who turns out to be Germany’s most prolific serial killer since the Second World War.

Men Up (Cineflix Rights) is a comedy movie that follows five ordinary men as they embark on one of the world’s first medical trials for the drug that would become Viagra, while Parliament (France TV Distribution) is also on the playlist, as the witty political satire about EU politics is back for a third season. Rental Man (TV Tokyo Corporation) offers comedy and drama based on the stories of a real rental man.

For buyers looking for factual product, this month we highlight seven unscripted titles.

The Body in the Suitcase (Blue Ant International) look at the case of Jemma Mitchell, who was caught on CCTV dragging two heavy suitcases out of her friend’s home, before the friend’s decapitated body was found 200 miles away.

Golden Kingdom: The Normans in Sicily (Autentic Distribution) explores the history of these fierce warriors who created the richest and most advanced kingdom in Europe on Sicily: the Normans. American Buffalo (PBS Distribution) looks at the animals that once numbered in the tens of millions and sustained the native people of the Great Plains.

The Great Wall with Ash Dykes (Bomanbridge Media) follows the host on the adventure of a lifetime, as he explores iconic and hidden parts of the Great Wall of China in a thrilling tour, while Classic Movies: The Story of… (3DD) goes in search of the cinematically sublime – those films that have transcended their era to enter the pantheon of greats.

Of Money & Blood (StudioCanal) looks at “the true story of the scam of the century” as billions of dollars are going up in smoke on the new ‘carbon quotas’ market, invented to fight pollution. Ocean Seen From Heart (Terranoa) follows Hubert Reeves, plus passionate scientists and explorers who offer an overview of the threats facing our oceans and their capacity for regeneration.

Moving into the reality and entertainment space, Pizza Boys: World Cup Adventure (DCD Rights) follows the boys as they zig-zag their way across France on their dream adventure, combining two of their favourite things: food and rugby.

So You Think You Can Dance (Sony Pictures Television Formats) has been a success around the world as the ultimate dance competition show, while Quiz Pong (Kansai TV) is a fast-paced gameshow where teams compete against each other in a fun tournament testing their mental, physical and strategy skills.

Snake Oil (Fox Entertainment Global) is a new format in which contestants have unique products presented to them by convincing entrepreneurs, some of whom are real while others are ‘snake oil’ salesmen. In Love & Toxic: Blue Therapy (All3Media International) explores the complex modern relationships of five young, diverse and aspirational couples, rarely shown on screens.

Linking the reality world with kids is Best in the World (GWR Studios), a children’s programme showcasing some of the best records and featuring some fun play-along games. More live-action kids’ content is on the playlist, such as Built to Survive (Australian Children’s Television Foundation) in which Phil Breslin gets up close to unique creatures to reveal the ultimate survivors of Australia’s most extreme habitats.

The playlist includes animated series Cracké Family Scramble (Cake), a 3D animated slapstick non-dialogue series based on original shorts; Riley Rocket (Abacus Media Rights), an action-packed, music-filled comedy about Riley and her band, who gain supersonic powers when the volume is cranked up during a jam; and Mitten & Shoe (Aardman Animations), about two best friends in a new animated comedy for children and the young at heart.

Peter & The Wolf (BBC Studios Kids & Family) is an enchanting animation of Prokofiev’s Peter and The Wolf, based on original illustrations by pop icon Bono and with music from Irish singer and songwriter Gavin Friday. Lastly, Pip & Posy (Magic Light Pictures) follows two best friends whose lives revolve around a wonderful world of play.

That’s all for October, stay tuned for more Hot Properties next month!

With the fall season now underway and the buying and selling communities looking ahead to their (bi-)annual trips to Cannes, this month’s playlist for the C21 Digital Screenings it brimming over with hot properties.

Drama is top of the list on this month’s Hot Properties playlist for C21’s Digital Screenings, with no less than eight new titles for buyers to see. Three Little Birds (Banijay Rights) is described as “a life-affirming returning drama series exploring untold stories of love, sisterhood, parenting and friendship, and the joys, laughter and struggles of making a new life in the so-called Mother Country.”

The Witch (Antenna Studios), meanwhile, is set in 1817 Ottoman-occupied Greece, in the unconquered region of Mani, and follows two rival families united by marriage and the birth of their first son. Concordia (ZDF Studios) is set in an artificial intelligence-powered utopian city, developed by a businesswoman to improve citizens’ lives while safeguarding personal data.
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