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How Television Markets Are Reinventing Themselves Amid Economic Industry Challenges
Television markets are looking to reinvent themselves amid economic industry challenges.
After 2023’s more streamlined experiment, this upcoming edition will once again return the MipDoc and MipFormats sessions to a premarket perch on April 6-7, hosting a keynote from Trilogy Film founder Dawn Porter alongside presentations on the state of the unscripted nation and reports on commissioning trends. For this final iteration, a total of 130 exhibitors – among them Federation, Beta Film and Paramount Global – are awaited on the Palais floor, where NBCUniversal will showcase the Tom Hanks-narrated event series “The Americas” before offering a case study of the travel-reality competition “Destination X,” which the broadcaster co-commissioned alongside BBC. Citing examples like All3Media’s “The Underdog,” TBS’s rebooted “The Joe Schmo Show,” Nippon TV’s “Suspects on the Set,” and ITV’s “A Party to Die For” and “The Fortune Hotel,” Thompson has seen a pronounced uptick in formats that blur the lines between scripted and reality.
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