• Pentamedia

    Pentamedia FY-02 net down 35.7%

    Apr 25, 2002

    Animation major Pentamedia Graphics Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 987.40 million for the financial year ended 31

  • Asia puts on a good show at MIPTV 2002

    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 25, 2002
    News Headline

    MIPTV 2002 (International Television Program Market), which claims to be the spring‘s leading international television programme market, saw the Asian region - particularly Japan and Korea - put up a strong showing. They were the 4th and 8th largest exhibiting nations. The event took place at Cannes from 15-19 April.

    Asia was also a strategic region for international sales. CCTV picked up BBC Worldwide‘s The Blue Planet and Walking with Beasts and renewed an agreement for RDF‘s challenge series Scrapheap Challenge. Korean broadcaster Daekyo Network Broadcasting acquired exclusive rights to EMTV‘s Junior branded programmes for three years and committed to buy a minimum of 468 half-hours from the Junior library.

    China‘s newcomer Tanglong International Media and HBO Korea acquired rights to E! Networks shows and blocks. Japan‘s NHK, UBC Thailand and SBS Korea picked up Sesame Workshop and Pepper‘s Ghost Productions CGI series Tiny Planets. Sony Japan took all rights to Hit Entertainment‘s stop-motion animated series Pingu. MBC Korea and HBO Asia acquired rights to Alliance Atlantis series and films and Malaysia‘s Astro TV picked up rights to World Wrestling Federation Entertainment specials.

    Canada was represented by 114 exhibiting companies (80 last year), Japan brought 46 exhibiting companies (37 last year), and 33 companies came from South Korea (13 last year). The number of exhibiting companies from Asia Pacific grew by 17.4 per cent this year (135 companies). A third of MIPDOC‘s top 30 buyers (those who viewed the largest amount of programs) came from Asia.

    However, the overall figures showed a marginal decline from last year which an official release partly attributed to the dotcom crash. In all, 10,200 delegates representing 2,715 companies from 97 countries participated at the market. Last year 11,049 delegates from 2,827 companies and 90 countries attended. A total 1,209 exhibiting companies attended from 56 countries, while last year 1,228 companies from 55 countries took part in the market.

    Documentaries were prevalent among the deals made at MIP TV as well as MIPDOC, where buyers made a record 9,037 viewings. After the events of 11 September top-budget factual programming is increasingly scheduled into prime-time slots. At MIPTV Channel 4 and ZDF announced a major partnership to create and distribute a high-end documentary The Private Life of Pompeii. Beyond and S4C teamed up to produce a $900,000 three-part series about the Stone Age. BBC Worldwide sold over 200 hours of documentaries to Finland, Israel, and Portugal.

  • Asia puts on a good show at MIPTV 2002

    Apr 25, 2002

    MIPTV 2002 (International Television Program Market), which claims to be the spring's leading international televisio

  • Discovery Networks plan to eliminate on-screen credits raises IDA ire

    Apr 25, 2002

    The International Documentary Association (IDA) has assembled a broad coalition consisting of, among others, writers,

  • Discovery Networks plan to eliminate on-screen credits raises IDA ire

    Submitted by ITV Production on Apr 25, 2002
    News Headline

    The International Documentary Association (IDA) has assembled a broad coalition consisting of, among others, writers, actors, directors, producers to protest against the plans of Discovery Communications to stop screening end title credits on Discovery Networks.

    News reports which appeared last week in America said Discovery executives were planning to eliminate on-screen credits during meetings with selected non-fiction programme producers.

    Newspaper and trade articles reported that credits would be replaced with listings on a website. Discovery executives have put the blame on the doorstep of viewers who they claim are "channel surfing away" from the cable networks‘ channels during the 30 seconds it typically takes to screen credits.

    IDA President Michael Donaldson said: "There are creative solutions to the channel surfing problem that will be fairer to non-fiction filmmakers, and also to the viewers who have an inherent right to know who produced the programs they are watching. Eliminating credits is the equivalent of publishing news stories without bylines and making works of art anonymous. The names of authors of non-fiction programs are vital subtext for the stories they tell."

    One of the issues raised at the first Documentary Credits Coalition (DCC) meeting was the fact that many people participate in the production of non-fiction films with minimal and sometimes no financial compensation because they believe it is a story that deserves to be told. Credits in titles are their main compensation.

    Donaldson went on to say that the proposed move from Discovery undermined the independent spirit that John Hendricks embraced when he founded Discovery in 1985.

  • Discovery Networks plan to eliminate on-screen credits raises IDA ire

    Apr 25, 2002

    MUMBAI: The International Documentary Association (IDA) has assembled a broad coalition consisting of, among others,

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