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MipTV’s Last Stand, Its Stars, Big and Buzz Titles, Growth Prospects, AI’s Real Threat and Other Takes on 2024’s Edition and Canneseries
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For its finale, MipTV will stick to its guns, delivering a few highlighted shows, a diminished but still considerable conference strand, and a return to a weekend MipDoc, hosting an on-site video library, a hit down the years. Daniel Brühl will promote “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld.” Pierre Niney, one of the biggest stars of his generation in France, will talk up “Fiasco.” Famed French-Moroccan comic Jamel Debouzze opens Canneseries with “Terminal,” his return to sitcom. The elephant in the room for much foreseeable MipTV industry debate, and a big question for the production sector for going on 12 months, says Ampere Analysis’ Guy Bisson, is: “Since streaming commissions have dried up to a large degree, where do we go next in terms of growth?” There’s some kind of consensus answer, which cuts several ways.
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