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Good afternoon. It's stillThursday, April 3,
2008, and this is yourCynopsis:
International's synopsizedMIPTV Shopping List
to accompany you on your flight
over to France.
This is only a partial list of the shows available at MIPTV, programs
that you have specifically brought to our attention and which you will be
representing at next week's international market in Cannes. We asked you
to highlight just five shows from your lists of program offerings. The
following Shopping List represents a variety of multicultural, U.S. or
international offerings for global distribution.
Good luck with your shopping! Remember, Cynthia Turner from
Cynopsis will be in Cannes next week, so be sure to say hello!
Au revoir,
Ariana
Cynopsis: International's
MIPTV 2008 SHOPPING LIST
3DD Series: 1 Giant Leap: What About Me?, 7 eps, 30 min, genre:
Documentary Live From … , 8 eps, 60 min, 3 eps, 30 min, genre: Music Superstars, 26 eps, 30 min and 130 eps, 2.5 min (mobile clips),
genre: Documentary
Specials: R.F.K. Must Die The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy, 1 ep,
60, 2 eps, 60 min plus 1 ep, 137 min, genre: Documentary Mariah Carey - The Adventures of Mimi, 1 ep, 60 min, 1 ep, 80 min
plus 1 ep, 35 min, genre: Music
9 STORY
ENTERTAINMENT Series: Best Ed, 52 eps, 11 min, genre: Comedy/Kids/Animation,
availability: In production Harriet The Spy, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Comedy/Family/Live Action,
availability: In development Futz!, 26 eps, 3 min, genre:
Action/Comedy/Kids-Tweens/Animation Almost Naked Animals, 52 eps, 11 min, genre:
Comedy/Kids/Animation, availability: In development Bash Boys, 26 eps, 22 min, genre:
Action/Comedy/Kids-Tweens/Animation, availability: In
development
COMCAST
INTERNATIONAL MEDIA GROUP Series: Living Lohan (Working Title), 8 eps, 30 min, genre:
Reality/Entertainment The Untitled Denise Richards Show (Working Title), 8 eps, 30 min,
genre: Reality/Entertainment Battle of the Hollywood Hotties, 10 eps, 30 min, genre:
Reality/Entertainment Peter Perfect, 9 eps, 60 min, genre: Lifestyle/Entertainment
Special: 30Best and Worst Beach Bodies, 1 ep, 120 min, genre:
Reality/Entertainment
COSGROVE HALL Series: Roger to the Rescue, 52 eps, 10 min, genre:
Preschool/Animation Eddie Retractorhead, 52 eps, 11 min, genre: Kids/Animation My Neighbour is an Evil Genius, 52 eps, 10 min, genre:
Kids/Animation
DEBMAR-MERCURY
INTERNATIONAL Series: Trivial Pursuit: America Plays, 175 eps, 45 min, Genre: Game show,
availability: format, terms: format fee/% of production budget The Limit, 30 min, genre: Game show, availability: format, terms:
format fee/% of production budget Tom Green's House Tonight, 40 eps, 45 min, genre: Late night talk
show Tyler Perry's House of Payne, 200 eps, 30 min, genre:
Comedy
DEFIANCE
ENTERTAINMENT Series: Amazing Adventures of a Nobody 3, 13 eps, 24 min, genre:
Travel Coxy's Big Break,26 eps, 30 min, genre: Travel,
high-def Triumph of Hope, 8 eps, 30 min, genre: Documentary Inside MMA, 21 eps, 60 min, genre: Martial Arts
Special: My Name is Alan, 1 ep, 76 min, genre: Documentary,
high-def
DUTCH
FILMWORKS/HOUSE OF KNOWLEDGE INTERNATIONAL Series: Staya Erusa, 6 ep, 30 min, genre: New Age/Science/Spiritual The Secret Workshop, 14 ep, 70 min, genre: New Age/Training Poker like the Pro's, 5 ep, 60 min, genre: Games
Specials: The Brain Fitness Program, 1 ep, 60 min, genre: Science The Secret Goes Europe, 1 ep, 60 min, genre: New
Age/Documentary
DUTCH
FILMWORKS/HOUSE OF KNOWLEDGE Series: Staya Erusa, 6 eps, 30 min, genre: Science/Spiritual World War II in Word and Motion, 16 eps, 150 min, genre:
History The Secret Workshop, 14 eps, 70 min, genre: Spiritual
Specials: The Brain Fitness Program, 1 ep, 60 min, genre: Science The Secret Goes Europe, 1 ep, 60 min, genre: Spiritual
EARTH TV Special: EarthTV, 90 sec hourly live updates daily, genre: Multi-format,
language, Informational
ECHO BRIDGE
ENTERTAINMENT Specials: Run for Her Life, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Thriller, availability:
TBD, terms: cash My Life in
Ruins, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Comedy, terms:
cash Just Add
Water, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Comedy, terms:
cash The Big Bad Swim, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Comedy, terms: cash The Warrior Class, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Crime Drama, terms:
cash
ELLIS
ENTERTAINMENT Series: Wild at Heart, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Documentary/Adventure Women On Top, 26 eps, 30 min, genre: Lifestyle Tank Overhaul (Season 2), 4 eps, 60 min, genre: History Divine Restoration (Season 3), 13 eps, 30 min, genre:
Reality/Lifestyle Veronica's Magic Kitchen, 65 eps, 30 min, genre:
Lifestyle/Cooking
FOOTHILL
ENTERTAINMENT, INC Series: Zot The Dog, 13 eps, 11 min, genre: Animation Big Top Island, 26 eps, 11 min, genre: Animation, availability: In
development Boy and the Dinosaur, 26 eps, 11 min, genre: Animation,
availability: In development Eddy & The Bear, 26 eps, 11 min, or 1 ep, 30 min special,
genre: Animation Puppy Plays, 13 eps, 25 min, genre: Live Action
FREMANTLEMEDIA
ENTERPRISES Series: Satisfaction, 10 eps, 60 min, genre: Drama Nearly Famous, 6 eps, 60 min, genre: Drama Teenage Kicks, 8 eps, 30 min, genre: Comedy DEA, 6 eps, 60 min, genre: Entertainment/Crime
Special: Never Mind The Bollocks 30th Anniversary Concert, 1 ep, 80 min,
genre: Music
GLOBAL
TELEMEDIA Series: Green Minute, 120 eps, 1 min, genre: News/Lifestyle, terms:
Cash Momo Island, 52 eps, 11 min, genre: Animation/Kids, terms:
Cash Project Earth, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Lifestyle/Travel, terms:
Cash Gag's on You, 182 eps, 90 sec, genre: Entertainment, terms:
Cash Beyond Our Borders, 33 eps, 30 min and 45 eps, 60 min, genre:
Lifestyle/Travel, terms: Cash
GLOBO TV
INTERNATIONAL Series: Two Faces (Dos Caras), 140 eps, 60 min, genre: Telenovela,
high-def Seven Sins (Siete Pecados), 140 eps, 60 min, genre:
Telenovela/Comedy Globo Doc, 13 eps, 52 min, genre: Documentary/Environmental
Specials: All My Life, Elis Regina, 1 ep, 65 min, genre: Documentary Hotline: The Massacre of the Cathedral, 1 ep, 45 min, genre:
Documentary
GRB
ENTERTAINMENT Series: Inside American Hate, 8 eps, 60 min, genre:Documentary/Reality, high-def, availability: 2008 Super Swank, 8 eps, 60 min, genre:Reality, high-def,
availability: 2008 Secret Life of Soccer Moms, 22 eps, 60 min, genre:Reality,
high-def, availability: 2008 Style and the City, 26 eps, 30 min, genre: Reality
Special: Prescription: Suicide?, 1 ep, 60 min, genre:
Documentary/Reality
GRANADA
INTERNATIONAL Series: The Pinky & Perky Show, 52 eps, 13 min, genre:
Animation/Kids Bonekickers, 6 eps, 60 min, genre: Drama Street Monkeys, 5 eps, 60 min, genre: Wildlife
Specials: Daughter of the Bride, 1 ep, 90 min, genre: Film The Neanderthal Code, 2 eps, 60 min, genre:
Miniseries/Factual
HIBISCUS
MEDIA/COMPULSION ENTERTAINMENT Series: Storm Stories, 125 eps, 30 min, genre: Documentary, availability:
TV, excluding North America, terms: cash Ring of Honor, 75 eps, 52 min, genre: Sports
Entertainment/Wrestling, availability: TV, excluding Canada and Japan,
terms: cash
Specials: Very Young Girls, 1 ep, 84 min, genre: Documentary, availability:
TV, excluding North America, terms: cash Recruiter, 1 ep, 75 min, genre: Documentary, terms: cash Walk Like a Man, 1 ep, 52 min, genre: Documentary, availability:
excluding U.S. and Australia, terms: cash
LIGHTWORKS PROGRAM
DISTRIBUTION (SANDRA CARTER GLOBAL, INC.) Series: The Red Carpet Reporter, 52 eps, 30 min or 152 eps, 80 sec
vignettes, genre: Entertainment The Hollywood Reporter, weekly eps, 30 min or 152 eps, 80 sec
vignettes, genre: Entertainment
Specials: Florence Nightingale, 1 ep, 60 min, genre: Docudrama,
high-def Airshow Extreme, 1 ep, 60 min, genre: Entertainment, high-def Radio Pirates, 1 ep, 60 min, genre: Documentary, high-def
MAKE BELIEVE
MEDIA Series: Make or Break TV! 2008, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Documentary,
high-def, availability: excluding English Canada, terms: cash Very Bad Men, 13 eps, 60 min, genre: True Crime/Documentary
series True Pulp Murder, 13 eps, 60 min, genre: True Crime/Documentary
series Confessions, 13 eps, 60 min, genre: True Crime/Documentary,
high-def, availability: Fall 2008
Special: The Immortals, 1 eps, 45 min, genre: Documentary, high-def,
availability: Fall 2008, excluding English Canada, terms: cash
MARVISTA
ENTERTAINMENT Series: BJ's Teddy Bear Club and Bible Stories, 13 ep, 30 min, plus 1 ep,
30 min Christmas Special, genre: Kids/Animation, availability: TBD,
terms: cash
Specials: Hidden Camera, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Thriller, Terms: Cash NYC Tornado Terror, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Thriller, availability:
TBD, terms: cash Girl's Best Friend, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Comedy, availability:
TBD, terms: cash The Hidden Treasure of Wompkee Wood, 1 ep, 60 min, genre:
Kids/Animation, availability: TBD, terms: cash
NBC UNIVERSAL
INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION Series: The Starter Wife, 10 eps, 60 min, genre: Drama In Plain Sight, 11 eps, 60 min, plus 1 ep, 120 min, genre:
Drama First Class All The Way, 6 eps, 60 min, genre: Reality
Specials: Knight Rider, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Drama Andromeda Strain, 2 eps, 120 min, genre: Drama
NBDtv/DCD Series: Daily Cooks Challenge, 20 eps, 30 min, genre: Factual
Entertainment
Specials: Quest for the Lost Ark, 1 ep, 90 min, genre: Documentary Affinity, 1 ep, 90 min, genre: Film Rihanna Live, 1 ep, 60 or 90 min, genre: Live Concert The Real Elephant Man, 1 ep, 60 min, genre: Documentary
NEW DOMINION
PICTURE Series: The Vanished, 13 eps, 60 min, genre: Docudrama The Other World (WT), 13 eps, 60 min, genre: Docudrama A Haunting, 39 eps, 60 min, genre: Docudrama Buried Secrets, 4 eps, 60 min, genre: Documentary/Reenactment Interpol Investigates, 13 eps, 60 min, genre:
Documentary/Reenactment
OASIS
INTERNATIONAL Series: ReGenesis, 52 eps, 60 min, genre: Series, availability: season 1-3
completed, season 4 delivering Kenny Vs Spenny, 62 eps, 30 min, genre: Series, availability:
season 4
Specials: Would Be Kings, 2 eps, 90 min, genre: miniseries, Muder on Her Mind, 1 ep, 90 min, genre: Film, availability: post
production Celine, 1 ep, 90 min, genre: Film
OHM:TV Welcome to the Neighborhood, 6
eps, 90 min, genre: Reality, Format Marriage Under Construction, 13 eps, 30 min, genre:
Reality/Docusoap, Format Forget the Rules, 39 eps, 3 min (or 13 eps, 9 min) and 30 eps, 3
min (or 6 eps, 15 min), genre: Drama, Format Reversal of Fortune, Daily, 30 min or 60 min, genre: Game Show,
Format Beauty Queen, 30 min, genre: Quiz Show, Format
OPTOMEN TELEVISION
LIMITED Series: US Kitchen Nightmares (Season 2), 12 eps, 60 min or 1 ep, 120 min,
genre: Light entertainment, availability: January 2009 What to Eat Now, 6 eps, 30 min, genre: Light entertainment,
availability: Autumn 2008 Police, Camera, Action, 30 eps, 30 min or 5 eps, 60-min, genre:
Factual Mary, Queen of Shops (Season 2), 6 eps, 60 min, genre: Light
entertainment, availability: September 2008 The F Word (Season 4), 12 eps, 60 min, genre: Light
entertainment/Magazine, availability: September 2008
OUTRIGHT
DISTRIBUTION Series: All Over The Shop, 8 eps, 30 min, genre: Factual, Format The World Of Stupid Criminals, 10 eps, 30 min, genre:
Entertainment/Clips Body In Numbers, 4 eps, 60 min, genre: Specialist
Factual/Documentary, availability: Fall 2008 Kitchen Millionaire, 6 eps, 60 min, genre: Factual
Entertainment/Format Making the Clothes I Wear, 4 eps, 60 min, genre: Documentary,
availability: finished or format
PLURAL
ENTERTAINMENT Series: Sweet Strawberries, 982 eps, 50 min, genre: Telenovela Fascinios, 160 eps, 50 min, genre: Telenovela Island of Love, 200 eps, 50 min, genre: Telenovela No One Like You, 187 eps, 50 min, genre: Telenovela My World, 203 eps, 50 min, genre: Telenovela
PORCHLIGHT
ENTERTAINMENT Series: AJ'S Time Travelers, 40 eps, 30 min, genre: Kids The Princess and the Pea Chronicles, 14 eps, 30 min, genre:
Animation
Specials: The Note, genre: Adventure/Film The Light Before Christmas, genre: Animation/Film Spooky Bats and Scaredy Cats, genre: Adventure/Film
PORTFOLIO
ENTERTAINMENT Series: Carl2, 65 eps, 30 min, genre: Animation/Comedy/Kids Chef at Home, 131 eps, 30 min, genre: Lifestyle Chef at Large, 65 eps, 30 min, genre: Lifestyle Cowboy Country, 65 eps, 30 min, genre: Lifestyle/Documentary,
high-def Spellz, 52 eps, 30 min, genre: Kids/Instructional
PORTMAN FILM &
TELEVISION Series: Criminal Justice, 5 eps, 60 min, genre: Thriller
RIVE GAUCHE
TELEVISION Series: Nowhere to Run, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Reality Scare Tactics (Season 3), 13 eps, 30 min or 57 eps, 30 min total,
1 ep, 60 min special, genre: Reality What Do You Do, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Reality Video Zonkers, 104 eps, 30 min, genre: Reality/Clip
Special: Police Tech, 2 eps, 60 min, genre: Reality/Documentary
SHAFTESBURY
FILMS Series: Life with Derek, 70 eps, 30 min, genre: Live Action/Comedy/Kids,
availability: Season 4 June 2008 Overruled!, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Live Action/Comedy/Kids,
availability: July 2008 Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, 8 eps, 60 min, genre: Drama,
availability: Spring 2009
Specials: Booky and the Secret Santa, 1 ep, 90 min, genre: Family Booky Makes Her Mark, 1 ep, 90 min, genre: Family
SHANKLY
PRODUCTIONS Series: Health Corner, 100 eps, 23 min, genre: Health/Women A Place of Our Own, 235 eps, 26 min, genre: Kids/Parenting My Workout, 100 eps, 22 min, genre: Fitness Gaslight Gourmet, 78 eps, 23 min, genre: Cooking
Special: Frontline Journalists: Death & Danger in Afghanistan, 1
ep, 52 eps, genre: Documentary
SMALL WORLD
IFT Series: Big in Japan, 8 eps, 60 min, genre: Format, Reality Game Show Quiz Stadium, 85 min, genre: Format, Entertainment/Game Show Gochi…Dinner is on You Tonight, 145 eps, 60 min, genre: Format,
Entertainment/Cooking Killing the Cheeky Girls, 6 eps, 30 min, genre: Format,
Reality Alki David's Road to Hell, 3 eps, 30 min, genre: Format,
Reality/Hidden Camera
SONY PICTURES
TELEVISION INTERNATIONAL Formats: Six Degrees of X, 60 min, genre: Competition/Reality The 100: Marriage, 60 min, genre: Factual Entertainment Twinzz, genre: Family/Talent What are You Like?, genre: Game Show
SPEED RACER
ENTERPRISES (distributed by
Lionsgate)
Series: Speed Racer: The Next Generation, 26 eps, 30 min, genre:
Animation, availability: Summer 2008
STARZ MEDIA Series: Head Case, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Comedy Hollywood Residential, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Comedy
Specials: Hollywood Goes Gaming, 1 eps, 60 min, genre: Documentary Bloodsucking Cinema, 1 eps, 58 min, genre: Documentary Fog City Mavericks, 1 ep, 120 min, genre: Documentary
STUDIO 100
MEDIA Series: Balloontoons, 104 eps, 6.5 min, genre: Kids/Animation Butterfly & Beautyfly, 52 eps, 5 min, genre:
Kids/Animation Big & Small, 52 eps, 11 min, genre: Kids/Puppetry,
availability: Fall 2008
TARGET
ENTERTAINMENT Series: Taggart, 10 eps, 60 min, genre: Detective drama, availability: End
of 2008 Living with the Dead, 8 eps, 60 min, genre: Factual
Entertainment Conversations with a Serial
Killer,8 eps, 60 min, genre: Documentary,
availability: t.b.c. Envy, 3 eps, 60 min, genre: Documentary Smoke
House,Format, genre: Kids reality
THE TELEVISION
SYNDICATION COMPANY Series: Kid Fitness, 26 eps, 26 min, genre: Kids, terms: cash For Your Home, 130 eps, 30 min, genre: Lifestyle, terms: cash Donna Dewberry Show, 65 eps, 30 min, genre: Lifestyle, terms:
cash
Specials: The Art of Victory, 1 ep, 48 min, genre: Documentary, terms:
cash Requiem,1 ep, 40 min, genre: Documentary, terms: cash
TOEI ANIMATION CO.,
LTD. Series: Three Little Daughters, genre: Flash animation/ Family Comedy Ge Ge Ge No Kitaro (season 5), 52+ eps, 30 min, genre:
Animation/Kids Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Go Go!, 49 eps, 30 min, genre:
Animation/Kids Master Hamsters, 48 eps, 30 min, genre: Family/Action/Comedy Lovely Complex, 24 eps, 30 min, genre: Animation/Kids
TRICON FILMS AND
TELEVISION Series: Ad Persuasion, 52 eps, 30 min, and 1 ep, 60 min, genre:
Lifestyle/Magazine Cock'd Gunns, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Comedy Life's A Trip, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Lifestyle/Travel Marriage Under Construction, 26 eps, 30 min, genre:
Magazine/Lifestyle Sanctuary, 13 eps, 60 min, genre: Sci-Fi, high-def, availability:
in production
TWENTIETH CENTURY
FOX TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION Series: New Amsterdam, 8 eps, 60 min, genre: Drama Unhitched, 6 eps, 30 min, genre: Comedy The Return of Jezebel James, 7 eps, 30 min, genre: Comedy 24, 168 eps, 60 min, genre: Drama Prison Break, 57 eps, 60 min, genre: Drama
TWOFOUR Series: Conversations With A Serial Killer, 8 eps, 60 min, genre: Factual
Entertainment Doctor in the House/Excess All Areas, 8 eps, 60 min, genre:
Factual Entertainment The Hotel Inspector, 34 eps, 60 min, genre: Factual
Entertainment On Thin Ice, 5 eps, 60 min, genre: Factual Entertainment
Special: William's Love Life, 1 ep, 60 min, genre: Documentary
VPR MEDIA Series: Going Places, 13 eps, 30 min, genre: Reality Food Trails With Chef Paul Mercurio, 10 eps, 30 min, genre:
Cooking/Travel Bread, 200 eps, 30 min, genre: Business Your Business Success, 80 eps, 30 min, genre: Business
Special: Troy's Story Narrated By Ewan Mcgregor, 1 ep, 90 min, genre:
Documentary
WARNER BROS.
INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION Series: Pushing Daisies, 9 eps, 60 min, genre:Drama Gossip Girl, 18 eps, 60 min, genre:Drama Chuck, 13 eps, 60 min, genre:Drama Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, 9 eps, 60 min, genre:
Drama The Big Bang Theory, 17 eps, 30 min, genre:Comedy
Later --
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