Slate for NATPE Features International Drama Programs and New Kids’ Titles
Miami, 20 January 2012 – FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) has inked several deals throughout Latin American leading up to NATPE, including the current season of top-rated American Idol and the popular Got Talent format. In addition, FME will bring a number of star-studded dramas from the FME catalogue and newly added kids’ series Max Steel and Monsuno to this year’s NATPE Conference in Miami, January 23-25.
The 11th season of Emmy Award-winning American Idol will be available pan-regionally via a deal with SPE (Sony Pictures Entertainment) Networks Latin America and to terrestrial outlets in Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Additionally, Sony will air America’s Got Talent (S6), Celebrity Apprentice (S4) and Live From Abbey Road (S4). Tape sales continue with:
• Tween genre-busting horror comedy series My Babysitter’s A Vampire (S1 and S2) from FME’s Kids & Family Entertainment division has sold to Televisa in Mexico and Canal 13 in Chile.
• Internet leader Netflix will make Seasons 1 and 2 of the BBC’s epic series Merlin and award-winning drama Satisfaction available to their 24 million members.
• Mexico’s Once TV has snapped up Ocean Mysteries, hosted by the popular, Emmy Award-winning Jeff Corwin, and factual special March of the Dinosaurs.
• Fox Life in Latin America signed Baking Made Easy, Lorraine Pascale’s new lifestyle series for food lovers.
• Globosat in Brazil has added a trio of shows from celebrity chef Jamie Olivier with Jamie’s Great Britain, Jamie Cooks Summer and Jamie’s Dream School.
• Seasons 8 and 9 of popular fashion title Project Runway, fronted by Heidi Klum, will air pan-regionally on Turner (Glitz). Turner Broadcasting has also picked up Spike TV titles Auction Hunters (S2), 1000 Ways To Die (S5) and Deadliest Warriors (S3), along with reality competition Work of Art (S2), Original Productions’ Wild Justice: California (S2) and Lisa Kudrow’s Web Therapy.
• 1000 Ways To Die (S1 and S2) has also sold to UCTV in Chile, along with British classic comedy title Benny Hill.
In format news, Chilean broadcaster TVN has bought format rights to The X Factor and is gearing up to launch their second season of the global phenomenon while Canal 13 has bought Don’t Stop Me Now and will continue with a third season of My Name Is. Chilevision has snapped up rights to Idol and will also launch Season 3 of Got Talent this year.
Continuing with format trends, Peru’s Frecuencia Latina and Ecuador’s Ecuavisa will both launch Got Talent in 2012. Argentina’s Telefe will continue the franchise with the fourth season of Talento Argentino where the show continues to perform as one of Argentina's top programs. Finally, Teletica in Costa Rica will debut Hole in the Wall in 2012.
Sheila Aguirre, SVP Sales & Development, Latin America, Caribbean and Hispanic-speaking USA, FME commented, “FME brings to NATPE a very diverse catalogue of top quality programs from some of the world’s most outstanding producers, including a number of shows with a distinct Latin connection. Our shows and formats continue to excite viewers across the globe, and we are thrilled to introduce new programs, such as Max Steel from our Kids & Family Entertainment division, to Latin American audiences.”
FME’s highlights for NATPE include its first scripted drama series The Wedding Band, premiering on US cable net TBS this summer, which has also been sold to TBS Latin America for syndication to over 48 countries across the region, and Bellator Fighting Championships, the mixed martial arts competition featuring 17 Brazilian fighters. Other highlights include:
Drama Programs
• The Crimson Petal and the White (4 x 1 hour or 2 x 2 hours), tells the story of Sugar, an alluring, well-read young prostitute in 19th Century London, based on Michel Faber’s international bestselling novel starring Ramola Garai (Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Atonement).
• Exile (3 x 1 hour or 2 x 90 minutes) tells the story of Tom Ronstadt, a successful London journalist whose world has fallen apart.
• Laconia (2 x 90 minutes), is an epic drama retelling one man’s extraordinary actions to save lives against the backdrop of the death of humanity in the Second World War featuring Franka Potente (Blow and Che).
• The Reckoning (2 x 1 hour or 1 x 2 hours), stars Ashley Jensen (Ugly Betty) in this nail biting drama about single mum Sally, who stands to inherit £5 million from a mysterious benefactor on one condition: she must kill a man.
• SLiDE (10 x 1 hour), is a fearlessly frank and funny series about five 17 year-olds who are thrown together when a birthday party rages out of control and as they smash their way into adulthood.
• What To Do When Someone Dies (3 x 1 hour or 2 x 90 minutes), follows Ellie as she searches for the truth of her recently killed husband’s relationship to another woman.
Kids & Family Entertainment Programs
• The Aquabats Supershow (13x30 minutes), is a comedy adventure starring the popular rock band The Aquabats, and features an exciting mixture of animation, live-action, music, and concert footage.
• Max Steel (26 x 30 minutes), is a high-octane, comedy adventure series about 16-year old teenager Maxwell McGrath who discovers that his body can generate “Turbo Energy”, the most powerful energy in the entire universe!
• Monsuno (52 x 30 minutes), is an action-packed boys animated series which features monsters, heroes, villains, rogues and deep mythology.
• My Babysitter’s A Vampire (13 x 30 minutes), is a fun, family-friendly tween program that will remind kids everywhere that, no matter what kind of supernatural villains the world has in store, the scariest thing of all is still: High School!
• Really Me (13 x 30 minutes), follows the life of 15-year-old Maddy, an ordinary-turned-famous 10th grader who wins her own reality TV show.
• Tree Fu Tom (26 x 30 minutes), follows the adventures of a boy with magical powers as he takes viewers to an enchanted world in a tree and encourages them to help him cast magic spells with gentle, fun physical movements.
FME will be based at the Fontainebleau Resort in Miami, Tresor Tower, Suites 2-3109, 2-3111 and 2-3112, from January 23-25.
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