Mipcom 2022 closes at 10,896 delegates; docs & factual at the heart of Mip TV 2023, RX’s Lucy Smith says
This year’s Mipcom market draws to a close in Cannes today with registered delegates at 10,896 and hopes that numbers will top 11,000 by the time the market wraps.
As of Tuesday night, numbers were 1,000 more than expected for the first in-person edition of the annual October event since the pandemic, RX France Entertainment Division director, Lucy Smith, said yesterday.
108 countries participated this year, including 3,100 buyers. Most of these were from the U.S., followed by the U.K., France, Germany and Spain.
1,311 people participated in kids show, Mip Junior, last weekend, Smith said.
Looking ahead to Mip TV (17-19 April 2023), which celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2023, Smith said the market would continue an evolution begun in 2019 with a re-org around documentary and factual programming.
“Mip TV is not about being biggest market of the year. It’s about being the most relevant, at the right time. And documentary and factual programming will take centre stage at Mip TV in April 2023,” she said.
Singapore’s Mediacorp, Motion Content Group return “MasterChef” for a fourth season
Singapore’s Mediacorp and Motion Content Group are returning “MasterChef” for a fourth season in August 2023, the companies confirmed today.
The 10-episode local version of the Banijay Rights property, which will be produced again by Beach House Pictures, also returns judges Audra Morrice, Bjorn Shen and Damian D’Silva.
“MasterChef Singapore” season three, which aired in May-July this year, was the top local English-language variety series on Channel 5 in 2022, reaching more than 1.2 million viewers on the free TV broadcast network, streaming platform meWatch and the Mediacorp Entertainment YouTube channel from 1 May to 22 September, Mediacorp said today.
“MasterChef “pretty much flies the flag for formats in Singapore, which has never been among the region’s leading formats markets.
Out of the 169 formats adaptations commissioned/under way or on air from January to the end of June 2022, Singapore had only one title – ”MasterChef Singapore” S3 (10 x 60 mins), which aired from 1 May to 3 July 2022 at 9.30pm.
If no other formats deals are signed this year, the country will end 2022 with just those two adaptations commissioned or on air.
The eight-episode “MasterChef Singapore” season one aired from 2 September to 21 October 2018, followed by the 10-episode season two from 21 February to 25 April 2021.
 
And that brings our Mipcom 2023 dailies to a close. A wrap of our market headlines is below and there’s lots more at www.contentasia.tv. Our market dailies will be back for the ATF market in December. Meanwhile, to everyone who attended the in-person event, safe travels home and we look forward to seeing you again soon.
19 October 2022:
 GMA’s “Maria Clara at Ibara” tops time slot; Philippines time-shift prime-time drama closing in on “Lolong”
Netflix APAC at 36.23m paying subs in Q3; India drags down average revenue per user
Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan missing in Kenya; friends petition PM Modi to help find Indian TV exec last heard from 90 days ago
Kansai TV, Fremantle meet on game show format; no details on new co-development
18 October 2022:
BEC World/Ch3 prep trio of premieres as Thai drama demand explodes; prime-time & streaming releases for “The Root”, “The Kinnaree Conspiracy” & “Lipgloss Spy”
Singapore blocks local release of Ken Kwek’s “#LookAtMe”; gov’t agencies unite against the film’s “potential to cause enmity and social division”
Malaysia’s Astro re-packs; Netflix added to Sports Plus, Movies Plus
SBS Australia picks up exclusive rights to “Agatha Christie’s Hjerson”
17 October 2022:
Singapore Tourism Board backs HBO Asia original; three-year deal across Warner Bros Discovery properties kicks off with Mark Wiens food show
Japan’s Nippon TV, Turkey’s Sera Film unveil first co-developed format
Nine Network Australia greenlights dating show, “My Mum, Your Dad”; first APAC market to pick up ITV Studios’ format
Harbour Rights picks up 150+ hours of Martin Cleave content for global distribution
Nippon TV adds assassin fish to Japanese schedules in new deal with GRB Studios
Netflix backs Purin Pictures’ short-film camp; second edition runs in Bangkok this December
Philippines’s SkyCable ends wait for Russia Today signal; finally ditches RT
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