MIPTV 2015 TV Hot Talents

At MIPTV 2015, a “bevy of stars” on the Croisette presented to the world’s market the series that will be earning remarkable fame among millions of viewers.

At MIPTV 2015, La Croisette featured a rich line-up of TV and film stars who came to Cannes to introduce the new or popular series they star in. The hot new talents took part to photo sessionswith the official photographers among the luxury yachts in the Old Port against the outstanding backdrop of the Suquet, Cannes old city.

4 SuckerS (Sephirot Productions)

The 4 SuckerS

4 SuckerS tells the surreal story of four attractive female vampires who, due to several errors in destiny, meet each other in contemporary Milan (Italy) and end up living together in an apartment. They speak the jargon of contemporary life and are the first of their kind not to suck blood but everything else and launch a new trend of virtual and energetic vampirism. 200 episodes divided into four series of 50 episodes each of 15 minutes.
With Xena Zupanic, Amira Bergmann, Violetta Smikalina, Uthe Bacher.

Missing: An Interactive Thriller (Zandel Media)

One detective, one missing person, a puzzle to solve… Bridging crime television and adventure game, Missing: An Interactive Thriller offers a new entertainment format for digital platforms, a unique experience in a TV-like game to download on iTunes or Google Play. In the 45 minutes, interacting with a live action-packed environment, the viewers have to solve puzzles, find hidden objects, use reflexes in action scenes, using wit and strategy to help the characters progress in the story. The first episode is featuring Roy Dupuis, Patrick Hivon and Serge Houde.

: Patrick Hivon

Partners In Crime (All3media)

Partners In Crime

Partners In Crime is a new television adaptation from the works of the world-renowned British Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, introducing a contemporary twist and produced to exceptionally high standards by Acorn Productions.
Agatha Christie’s works are now managed by RLJ Entertainment through their subsidiary Acorn Productions. Partners In Crime is based on two of Christie’s novels featuring Thomas Beresford et Prudence Cowley (Tommy et Tuppence), two recurring characters in the writer’s novels. They are childhood friends and both detectives who experience terrific stories.
In presence of David Walliams (Little Britain, Great Expectations) and Jessica Raine (Call Midwife/ Fortitude/ Wolf Hall).

: Jessica Raine

: David Walliams

Crossing Lines – The Time Is Now – Season III (Studiocanal)

Crossing Lines

After the thrilling conclusion of the season two, the new series sees the Croatian actor Goran Visnjic (ER) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost) join Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games) and Tom Wlaschiha (Game of Thrones). In the season three’s first episode, one of Dorn’s (Donald Sutherland) top prosecutors has disappeared and he must reactivate the ICC team to find her. New team members, including the kidnapping expert Marco (Goran Visnjic) and Carine (Elizabeth Mitchell), a skilled investigator, then join Sebastian (Tom Wlaschiha) and Arabela (Lara Rossi). The reunited team will have to tackle contemporary cross-border crime.
In presence of Goran Visnjic (ER) and Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost).

: Elizabeth Mitchell

: Goran Visnjic

Texas Rising (ITV)

Texas Rising key cast

Texas Rising was this year’s MIPTV World Premiere TV Screening, attended by Bill Paxton, Ray Liotta and Olivier Martinez, along with two-time Oscar nominated Director Roland Joffé and Executive Producer Leslie Greif.
The brand new, action-packed epic series recalls that Texas was once a nation before joining the United States of America. The series will be a blood and thunder account of the Texas Revolution and follows the events which unfold after the Battle of the Alamo and the struggle for independence led by Texan settlers.
See our report on Texas Rising, the Lone Star Rises at MIPTV

: Bill Paxton

: Ray Liotta

: Olivier Martinez

Dalia De Las Hadas (Skyline Production)

Dalia De Las Hadas

Dalia De Las Hadas is musical teen and family telenovela based on an idea by Anna Mirabile, to comprise 175 episodes total, including 40 episodes for the first season.
Hadma raises small fairies, some persuasive little companions who multiply and populate the earth to increase the levels of love in the world. She lives in a fairy-tale atmosphere of the Fairy world, i,e a house surrounded by a garden with a magical fountain, whose water is magic and has the power to make the wishes come true, if anyone drinks it or bathes in its enchanted stream. Dalia is the first to experience the transformation: after crossing the stream, she becomes a pop star.
In presence of Alejandra Onieva & Florencia Ortiz.

: Florencia Ortiz

: Alejandra Onieva

Ex-Model (Drunken Dragon Productions)

Drunken Dragon team

Ex-Model is a Franco-Chinese web-series broadcasted on Youku, the largest online broadcasting platform in China. The series tells the humorous setbacks of a good-looking women in her thirties called Xin Xin, who, having barely started her modeling career in Paris, already finds her categorized “ex-model” because of her age.
Gaining 75 million views on Youku, Ex-Model conquered the Chinese audience and Drunken Dragon intends now to push further with new worldwide broadcasting territories.
Drunken Dragon is a French production house created by Xin Wang – the lead actress, Hanna Goldman and Emmanuel Sapolsky, bridging Chinese efficiency and French know-how to create crazy and funny stories for Western and Asian market.
In presence of actress Xin Wang and director Emmanuel Sapolsky.

: Xin Wang

: Xin Wang

The Good Witch (ITV)

The Good Witch

Based on Hallmark’s most successful original movie franchise, Good Witch takes viewers on a magical journey with Cassie Nightingale (Catherine Bell) and her young daughter Grace, who shares her Mum’s intuitive charms.
The series tells the bouncy and courageous life of Cassie Nightingale, a good-hearted enchantress, alone with Grace, her teenage daughter, as her husband, chief of police in Middleton, USA, recently passed away. Some new neighbors, the Radfords, move in next door with a troublesome son, and become suspicious of Cassie and her daughter.
In presence of Catherine Bell and James Denton.

: Catherine Bell

: James Denton

The Two Bellmen (Marriott Content Global Studio)

Caine Sinclair, William Spencer and Daniel Cabrera

The Two Bellmen action-comedy, mixing martial arts, dance and music, features two bellmen who struggle for their company when the JW Marriott LA Live comes under siege by “The Purple Panthers,” the most notorious smash and grab art thieves of our time.
The innovative branded entertainment productions has earned Marriott International, the global hospitality leader to be presented with MIPTV’s Brand of the Year Award in recognition of its highly innovative all-screens initiative through its global Content Studio.
In presence of William Spencer, Caine Sinclair and Daniel Malakai Cabrera.

: Caine Sinclair

: William Spencer

The Fight (FremantleMedia International, Corona Television)

Piper Perabo & husband Stephen Kay

The Fight explores the world of conflict journalism and the dangers it entails. Introduced at MIPTV 2015, the series, tells of heroic feats of a journalist and a conflict photographer as they travel to war locations around the world, including Afghanistan and the areas held by cartel in Cartagena, risking their lives to bring back the pictures and stories that might change the world. Stephen Kay (Covert Affairs, Sons of Anarchy), Piper Perabo’s husband, the star of Coyot Girls, is writing and directing the series.
In presence of actress Piper Perabo and writer & director Stephen Kay.

: Piper Perabo

A.D. The Bible Continues (NBC)

Richard Coyle

The Crucifixion was the beginning of the story: the Christ’s death had a massive impact on his disciples, his mother Mary, and key political and religious leaders of the era. The disciples struggle to survive and began sharing their beliefs, contributing to develop Christianity.
Richard Coyle has been starring in Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Pusher, Mike Newell‘s Prince of Persia: Sands of Time for Disney, Ridley Scott‘s A Good Year, The Libertine opposite Johnny Depp and Mike Leigh‘s Oscar-nominated Topsy Turvy.

Rachel’s Tour of Beauty (Zodiak Rights)

Rachel Hunter

Rachel’s Tour of Beauty is a truly international quest to find worldwide beauty secrets. The series follows the international supermodel Rachel Hunter as she embarks on a global odyssey to discover the indigenous beauty secrets of diverse cultures. She takes us from Asia to America, Mexico to the Middle East and Fiji to France and have the viewers meet the Chinese Hainan community as wall as the sprightly, elderly inhabitants of the Greek island of Ikaria, who live longer than anyone else on the planet.

Versailles (Canal+ & Zodiak Rights)

Versailles key cast

Traumatized in childhood by the Fronde – a rebellion of nobles against his father, Louis XIII – the young Louis XIV launches the construction of Versailles to pput away the nobles from Paris, submit them and gradually transform the castle into a gilded prison, permanently imposing is absolute power. He will prove to be an outstanding political strategist and a machiavellian manipulator. The majestic palace will became the envy of Europe and Louis XIV will earn the name of Roi Soleil.
In presence of actors George Blagden, Alexander Vlahos and Director Jalil Lespert.

: Alexander Vlahos

: George Blagden

: Jalil Lespert

Mandela, My Dad and Me (Content Television)

Idris Elba

After the portrayal of his political hero Nelson Mandela in Long Walk to Freedom, actor, DJ and producer, Idris Elba, sets out to record an album of South African music in honour of his idol, with BAFTA award-winning director Daniel Vernon documenting his movements. But, just as he was to start working on the album, he receives the devastating news that his father has died and what started as a professional project becomes an increasingly personal mission and the film they originally intended to create evolves into something deeper.

Soul Mates (ABC2)

Soul Mates

Soul Mates – a six-episode comedy series commissioned by ABC2 – is a comedy show about two idiots who bump into each other in other lifetimes and sees Dom and Adrian’s Bondi Hipster bromance reincarnated across the time continuum. The actors are to play as many different characters as cavemen in the neanderthal era, as Kiwi assassins in the ’80s or as agents in a time travel agency in the future.

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MIPTV 2015 TV Hot Talents was last modified: April 30th, 2015 by tamel