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London: Target Entertainment Group is exhibiting at this year's Discop, where it will build on a raft of recent sales to broadcasters and licensing companies in eastern and central Europe.
Deals include a package of factual, factual entertainment and comedy hours to Russia's Red Media for use on its platform of channels, plus sales to a range of Polish broadcasters.
A deal has just been finalised with BBC Poland for the UK and US versions of long running, makeover show Ten Years Younger, while MTV Poland has acquired series one of the US dating show Next, produced by Lighthearted Entertainment for MTV in the US. In addition, Polsat Play has bought Rabbit Film's action packed travel and adventure show Madventures (10x30'), which has also been acquired by TV3 Hungary.
On the drama front, fellow Hungarian broadcaster DUNA TV has bought Caught In A Trap, produced by Target-owned Greenlit Rights for ITV, and Element Film's one-off, Little White Lie.
London: Target Entertainment Group is exhibiting at this year's Discop, where it will build on a raft of recent sales to broadcasters and licensing companies in eastern and central Europe.
Deals include a package of factual, factual entertainment and comedy hours to Russia's Red Media for use on its platform of channels, plus sales to a range of Polish broadcasters.
A deal has just been finalised with BBC Poland for the UK and US versions of long running, makeover show Ten Years Younger, while MTV Poland has acquired series one of the US dating show Next, produced by Lighthearted Entertainment for MTV in the US. In addition, Polsat Play has bought Rabbit Film's action packed travel and adventure show Madventures (10x30'), which has also been acquired by TV3 Hungary.
On the drama front, fellow Hungarian broadcaster DUNA TV has bought Caught In A Trap, produced by Target-owned Greenlit Rights for ITV, and Element Film's one-off, Little White Lie.
DUNA TV has also acquired the kid's live action series The Fugitives (7x30') produced by Shed Productions for CITV in the UK, just one of a number of recent children's sales Target has made to eastern and central Europe.
Others include Chapman Entertainment's two pre-school series Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car to Russian toy company C-Toys and series two of Fifi and the Flowertots to Croatian licensing company One2Play.
Target is hoping to conclude more children's programming deals at Discop. Priorities will be Molly Monster, a 26x5' series about a happy little monster who lives in Monsterland with her parents and best friend Edison, a clockwork toy and the CBBC comedy, live action series The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury (13x30') about a young boy who hatches weird and wonderful ways to get revenge on his family and friends.
Formats will also be a priority for Target at Discop. The company has just sold the format rights to series three of Next to LNK Lithuania and is looking to conclude deals with more territories at the market.
Other entertainment formats available include Tool Academy (8x60'), the entertainment format from VH1 in which the most arrogant, dishonest, thoughtless and unfaithful boyfriends are transformed into husband material, and Pants-Off, Dance-off, a 58x30' interactive format produced by Sharp Entertainment/Spin the Bottle for Fuse (US) where the show's stars compete against each other and do whatever it takes to win in the ultimate dance contest.
Also available as both a format and finished series is The Kitchen Job (10x60'), in which American restaurateur extraordinaire John Palino saves restaurant and café owners from the brink of ruin.
On the finished programme front, priorities for Target at Discop will be Cordell Jigsaw's 13x30' observational documentary series The Recruits (13x30') which follows a group of police recruits as they embark on the long and grueling journey towards becoming fully-fledged police officers; VH1's Free Radio (17x30') the improvised comedy show about a dim-witted intern who becomes a radio superstar when the real host defects to satellite radio, and drama series The Cut (6x60') set in the colourful world of Telford Sports Management.
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Others include Chapman Entertainment's two pre-school series Fifi and the Flowertots and Roary the Racing Car to Russian toy company C-Toys and series two of Fifi and the Flowertots to Croatian licensing company One2Play.
Target is hoping to conclude more children's programming deals at Discop. Priorities will be Molly Monster, a 26x5' series about a happy little monster who lives in Monsterland with her parents and best friend Edison, a clockwork toy and the CBBC comedy, live action series The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury (13x30') about a young boy who hatches weird and wonderful ways to get revenge on his family and friends.
Formats will also be a priority for Target at Discop. The company has just sold the format rights to series three of Next to LNK Lithuania and is looking to conclude deals with more territories at the market.
Other entertainment formats available include Tool Academy (8x60'), the entertainment format from VH1 in which the most arrogant, dishonest, thoughtless and unfaithful boyfriends are transformed into husband material, and Pants-Off, Dance-off, a 58x30' interactive format produced by Sharp Entertainment/Spin the Bottle for Fuse (US) where the show's stars compete against each other and do whatever it takes to win in the ultimate dance contest.
Also available as both a format and finished series is The Kitchen Job (10x60'), in which American restaurateur extraordinaire John Palino saves restaurant and café owners from the brink of ruin.
On the finished programme front, priorities for Target at Discop will be Cordell Jigsaw's 13x30' observational documentary series The Recruits (13x30') which follows a group of police recruits as they embark on the long and grueling journey towards becoming fully-fledged police officers; VH1's Free Radio (17x30') the improvised comedy show about a dim-witted intern who becomes a radio superstar when the real host defects to satellite radio, and drama series The Cut (6x60') set in the colourful world of Telford Sports Management.
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