Discovery Italy to adapt BBC Studios formats; Irvine Welsh’s “Crime” sells; Ex-BBC and YouTube Exec To Conde Nast – Mip TV Briefs

Discovery Italy adapts the BBC Studios formats “British Sewing Bees and This Is Home”

In Italy, Discovery has ordered local language versions UK seamstress bees AND this is my home Following an agreement with a BBC Studios distributor. Reality show UK seamstress beesOriginally Love Productions, it will be known as Custom Made – Who’s got it?Local producer Blu Yazmine will make its June debut on streamer Discovery +. A real-time linear debut will follow. this is my homeWhere celebrities guess the house they see, designed by Richard Bacon and Nick Weidenfeld and created by Producer Expectation for BBC1, will be named after them. This is my home And it happened in real time the following month.

Irwin Wales’ ITVX drama “Crime” is on sale worldwide

Numerous broadcasters purchase Irwin Wells’ crime drama Britbox / ITVX Crime. CBC (Canada), RTE (Ireland), VRT (Belgium), POLAR + and CANAL + Group (France) and Magenta TV (Germany) are among the buyers, with accepted rights in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand on Britbox . He worked separately on the Streamer of the same name in the UK. Distributor Cineflix Rights has also won the rights to Buccaneer Media and the second season of Off the Grid Film & TV, which will premiere on ITVX’s upcoming ITVX streaming platform. ITVX replaces Britbox by the end of the year.

Conde Nast Entertainment hires former Victoria Jay chief content officer at BBC iPlayer

Former BBC iPlayer and YouTube Originals CEO Victoria Jay has joined Conde Nast Entertainment as Vice President of European Digital Video Programming and Development. Based in London, she reports digital video to SVP Ezzie Chidi-Ofong. Jay’s role will focus on creating content on Conde Nast brands including Wired, GQ and Vanity Fair. She joins the British media startup Whynow, where she was director of original content.

HBO Max acquires “Dolphins: Secret Princess” from teammate Warner Bros.

HBO Max and Australia’s SBS bought a Belgian document Dolphin: the secret princess Warner Bros. of international television production. The three-part document tells the story of artist Dolphin Boel, who in 2020 won a long battle for the title of Princess of Belgium. It will debut on HBO Max in Central and Eastern Europe, Iberia, the Nordic countries and the Netherlands starting May 1 and debut on SBS later that month.

Channel 5 in the UK receives a number of documents from Hitler

Purchased UK Channel 5 and Australian SBS Could Hitler have been stopped? calm politics. The two-part document, published by Abacus Media Rights, examines the nature of the politics involved around the leader of the Third Reich before and during World War II. Adrian Mans (Thomas Hardy: fate, exclusion and tragedy) He is producer and director.

Werner Herzog Volcano Chasers Doc explodes on Mip TV

Werner Herzog’s latest artistic document Fire Within: Requiem for Katie and Maurice Craft Published on MipTV this week. The film is from Brian Leith Productions, Bonne Pioche and Titan Films and tells the story of volcanic directors Katya and Maurice Kraft, who were instantly killed by a pyroclastic flow during the 1991 volcanic eruption in Japan. It was previously sold to BBC Storyville and several other buyers, including Franco-German channel Arte, are buying the rights.