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MipTV, Canneseries 2024: 20+ Shows You Don’t Want to Miss
From ‘Franklin,’ ‘Becoming Karl Lagerfeld’ and ‘Fallout,’ and Thomas Vinterberg’s first series, ‘Families Like Us,’ 20+ titles to track.
Written by Isaure Pisani-Ferry, Dominique Baumard, Jennifer Have and Nathalie Hertzberg, it’s adapted from best-selling biography by Raphaëlle Bacqué, detailing the life of a man who believed that “sweatpants are a sign of defeat.” French major studio Gaumont produces for Disney+. Co-commissioned by the BBC and NBCU as part of their international formats pact and designed as their weekly water cooler replacement for “The Traitors.” An event reality adventure show, it sees 10 contestants driven around different European destinations on a bus with blacked-out windows, and fed endless red-herrings and a few clues to guess their location. Shunsuke Fukaya, head of format development, commented: “Two companies with totally different TV cultures have collaborated without compromising on the content until we reached a consensus of ‘This sounds fun!’ Can the global audience spot true love?” MB
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