Between escalating production costs and the squeeze on budgets at broadcasters and streamers, getting greenlights has become ultra-arduous, but the activity at MIPCOM showed that executives in the business are looking for blue skies in the disruption.
Christian Wikander, Alexia Laroche-Joubert and Dominique Farrugia spotlighted Banijay’s scripted ambitions and its approach to nurturing talent in a MIPCOM panel at Seaview Producers Hub moderated by TV Drama’s Mansha Daswani.
EXCLUSIVE: The major U.S. studios heading to Mipcom are proving global streaming and third-party licensing “can co-exist and work together,” says the event’s director. Lucy Smith, Director of the Entertainment Division at Mipcom Cannes organizer RX France, told Deadline the “assumption of recent years that streaming would somehow upend what happens in distribution” had faded …