20th Century Fox Television’s two-hour television special of The Rocky Horror Picture Show will be featured as a MIPCOM 2016 World Premiere TV Screening. The content market takes place in Cannes, France, from October 17-20, with the World Premiere TV Screening scheduled for October 18 in the Palais des Festivals. The full line-up will be announced over the summer. In the made-for-TV reboot, Laverne Cox stars as Dr Frank-N-Furter, Victoria Justice as Janet, Ryan McCartan as Brad, and Adam Lambert as Eddie, the role originally played by Meat Loaf. The new version also sees Tim Curry, the original Frank-N-Furter, return as the show’s criminologist narrator. The story follows Brad and Janet when they stray off the highway one night and find the castle of Dr Frank-N-Furter, a gender-bending mad scientist who shows off his latest creation, Rocky.

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