MipTV Opens with Major Deals

As MipTV opens this week in Cannes, a number of programming deals have already been secured from Aardman, Rainbow, MTVNI, Cake, Classic Media, Endemol and Twofour54.

Aardman Rights has announced pre-sales for its new family series “Wallace & Gromit Present A World of Invention.” The 6×30 inventions-inspired show, fronted and presented by Wallace and Gromit, has been acquired by DR Denmark, YLE Finland, Thai PBS and ABC Australia. Aardman Rights is presenting the series, commissioned by BBC One with broadcast scheduled for late 2010, to international buyers at MipTV, where it will be looking to secure further broadcast deals.

Rainbow’s “PopPixie” has signed air deals with France’s Teletoon, Portugal’s TV1 and Canal Panda and Greece’s Alter TV. The series also recently partnered with Italy’s Rai, France Television, South Africa’s KTV and Israel’s Noga.

Meanwhile at the Mip Formats conference, MTVNI has secured deals to adapt and localize a number of its reality series for Australia, France, Italy and Spain. The signings include “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila” for France’s Banijay Entertainment, “Room Raiders” for Spain’s Antena Neox and Lithuania’s LNK, “The Joe Schmo Show” for Italy’s Mediaset, “Hell Date” for Australia’s Victory Hill Entertainment and “From Gs to Gents” for Australia’s Screentime. At MipTV, MTVNI will be showcasing “Pay It Off,” “Disaster Date,” “Room Raiders” and “Punk’d.”

Cake Entertainment and Australia’s ABC Television signed a 80-hour kids’ programming deal, including “Stoked” seasons 1 and 2, “Total Drama Action,” “Total Drama World Tour,” “King Arthur’s Disasters” and “Edgar & Ellen.”
Twofour54 sold its CGI-animated and live-action series “Driver Dan’s Story Train” to Australia’s ABC Television. The show currently airs on CBeebies in the U.K.

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