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Unsteady World Fuels Appetite for Small Screen Solutions as TV Biz Asks ‘What More Can We Do?’
Titles like 'Mr. Bates Vs. the Post Office' and 'Sort Your Life Out' lead new current promoting positive change.
“Obviously the world in which we live is quite dramatic at the moment, and that has created an appetite for stories that offer solutions,” explains international distribution expert Beatrice Rossmanith. Bates vs. the Post Office” in the scripted space, and – perhaps most surprising of all – BBC’s factual entertainment format “Sort Your Life Out,” which simply finds people clearing out their household clutter, and has already traveled to 11 additional territories. While the series follows an investigative producer who teamed with law-enforcement to spring innocent inmates from custody, the Mandela portrait will counter previous efforts that veered too far into hagiography.
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