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Mipcom 2024 Debates U.S. Costs, How to Navigate the Downturn as ’NCIS’ Grabs the Spotlight
Key Mipcom trends: Unscripted, English-language production, co-production, lighter, ‘blue sky’ cop shows, book adaptations, a new nostalgia.
Some of the biggest, buzziest scripted shows currently on TV began life on the pages of a novel, including “Slow Horses,” “Shogun,” “A Perfect Couple,” “Fool Me Once,” “A Good Girls Guide to Murder,” “Presumed Innocent” and Alfonso Cuarón’s “Disclaimer,” to name just a few, and fierce bidding wars are now erupting over books sometimes a year before their published (or even finished). But this theme of relying on beloved, tried and tested IP — or rebooted, retweaked and reimagined versions of it — continued inside the market, where France TV was touting its upcoming “Zorro” series with Paramount+ (starring Jean Dujardin in the lead role) and one of the new formats being sold was a gameshow from Warner Bros. about “Friends.” *The Mediapro Studio’s Laura Fernández Espeso and JC Acosta unveiled a powerful eight-title English-language slate which features John Turturro, Melissa Leo, “24” and “The Floor” showunners, an Oscar winner, “Homeland” and “The Handmaid’s Tale” executive producers, directors of “Mafia Spies” and “Dear Lemon Lima,” and novelist adapted in “Palm Home Royale.”
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