South Africa’s TV Market
Out for Full Acceptance
With the second edition of MIP Africa, which is organized by RX Global and is set to take place in Cape Town September 4-6, 2023, the market is slowly inching (…)
South Africa’s TV Market
Dubbing a Culture,
Not Just a Language
By Jacques Barreau*
Lately, everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence. That’s because AI can morph your voice into someone else’s voice. AI can replace actors with synthetic voices. AI can also (…)
MIPCOM to Set Tune
and Pace for Fall Markets
We’re all preparing for a whirlwind fall, with five film/TV markets set to take place over a nine-week period, meaning there will be one event every 12 days or so. (…)
CEE: Natpe, Content.
A Tale of Two Markets
There are books such as A Tale of Two Cities (by Charles Dickens), films such as A Tale of Two Wars and A Tale of Two Sisters, and many other (…)
Spanish TV Revival Brings
Rewards and Challenges
Recently, the Spanish television scene has returned to the dynamism of the days before it basically left the international scene in the 1990s. “Spanish TV fiction is being discovered worldwide,” (…)
Hulu: The Struggle of
a Demanding Service
Streaming service Hulu has had a troubled existence that its current parent companies are trying to untangle, and epitomizes the complexities that all SVoD platforms are experiencing in different forms. (…)
NATPE Budapest vs. Content
Budapest: A Solution Is a Pest
During last month’s MIPTV, managing director David Jenkinson of the U.K.’s C21 Media published an online editorial titled “The Fight for Budapest,” about his company’s competition with Canada’s Brunico Communications (…)
AFM Changes Venue,
But Not Its Spots
After 29 years at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel, the American Film Market will be changing venues for its 2023 edition, moving its event 800 meters east to the Le (…)
L.A. Screenings Inches its
Way to Pre-Pandemic Times
Between suites and tables, the Fairmont Century Plaza hotel in the Century City section of Los Angeles will be housing over 70 exhibition companies for the upcoming L.A. Screenings.
This is (…)
Pilots for the New Broadcast
Season Being Decimated
Last year’s broadcast pilot season had around 35 shows to present, the lowest number ever — until now, that is. This go-round looks to be considerably lower. The 2023-2024 season (…)
