Mipcom day one round-up: Latest news, deals & hires

Blue Ant’s Matthew Perry doc goes global  

ITV in the UK and NBCUniversal in LatAm are among buyers of Blue Ant Rights doc Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy.

The 1 x 60-minute show is from ITN Productions and weaves Perry’s rise to fame with the tragic events leading to his final days.

Sales include: Bravo New Zealand; DR (Denmark); Dox TV (Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo); ITV (Ireland and UK); NBCUniversal Global Networks Latin America (across 33 LatAm territories); NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (Norway); Stan (Australia); TV4 (Sweden); MTV (Finland); Quebecor Content (French Canada).

The deals mean the doc has now sold into over 50 territories, having premiered on Peacock in the US. The doc is among a broad Blue Ant slate that includes recent acquisition Taylor (2 x 60 minutes), which tracks Taylor Swift’s rise to global fame.

Hat Trick strikes first representation deal

UK-based Hat Trick International has unveiled its first representation deal with production company Nannie Caddie.

Under the deal, HTI has secured international rights for a brand-new format Play Time which takes six neurodivergent comedians visit a local primary school whey they create and perform an original stage play that’s based entirely on the ideas of a neurodiverse group of 6- to 8-year-old school children.

The original format is based on a new commission (slated to debut 10 November on ITV1) from this year’s ITV Fresh Cuts programme. It is an original idea from Nannie Caddie founders; writer and series director Céin McGillicuddy and writer/editor Andy Kinnear.

SBS, C4, TV2 Denmark strike BossaNova deal

BossaNova Media has struck pre sales for Days that Shocked the World with SBS Australia, Channel 4 in the UK and TV2 Denmark.

All three have invested in the show, which is produced by UK factual specialist BriteSpark Films (part of Argonon Group).

It is the latest series to be generated by BossaNova’s Development Day pitching programme, which aims to fast-track the commissioning and production of factual projects with international potential.

The show revisits the worst disasters of the last 40 years, retelling each history-defining moment through eye-witness testimony and powerful archive footage.

The Auction heads to Italy

Dori Media Group and Abot Hameiri’s game show The Auction which debuted on América Televisión in Peru earlier this summer is now headed to Italy.

Italian producers Blu Yazmine (The Floor, Tempting Fortune) have acquired local rights to the format and are developing an Italian version.

Dori Media and Abot Hameiri, in collaboration with América Televisión, produced the first season of The Auction (known locally as La Subasta). The format sees two families competing to acquire prizes from boxes without knowing what’s inside them, guided only by bizarre AI-generated clues.