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FRENCH DEAL FOR BEST OF FRIENDS
18 November 2004 - C21MEDIA |
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BBC Worldwide has secured international format rights to kids reality show Best of Friends from producer Talent TV, with rights already going to a French kids network.
TPS Jeunesse's Teletoon channel is looking at a French-language version of the show in which a group of five friends are taken off on a two day surreal tour and undertake various friendship-testing tasks to score points on the 'amigometer'.
In the UK, a second series has been commissioned by Anne Gilchrist, CBBC head of entertainment, and Dorothy Prior, controller of CBBC. Head of Talent Kids, Anne Miles is once again exec producing.
In other Talent news, Japanese broadcaster TV Asahi has okayed a second Test the Nation - the National IQ Test, based on the event format that Talent licensed from Holland's Eyeworks. Japanese prodco TV Man Union makes the TV Asahi show.
Talent's Japanese presence has expanded with a direct commission from pubcaster NHK for three half-hour docs, entitled Deep Toscana about life in a mediaeval hitltop town in Tuscany. |
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TELETOON REPOSITIONS WITH REALITY
18 November 2004 - C21MEDIA - Marie-Agnès Bruneau (excerpted) |
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French kids channel Teletoon, part of DTH platform TPS's Jeunesse division, is using a recently-acquired British kids reality format to reposition itself older and move into live-action.
The acquisition of Talent TV's kids challenge format Best of Friends, originally broadcast on CBBC in the UK, is a central plank in the French net's repositioning. The move sees Teletoon refocusing towards 6-to-10 year-olds, moving away from back-to-back toons and introducing some real flesh and blood human beings.
"Teletoon will remain 90% animation, but we need children to further appropriate the channel for themselves," said François Deplanck, TPS Jeunesse's managing director. "In repositioning towards 6-to-10s, our channels now complement each other: Piwi targets the 2-to-5s and Eureka the 8-to-13s. It's true that Boomerang took a lot of our audience, but I’m confident that the TPS Jeunesse offering will grow back with the next audience survey." |
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