Mip TV is just around the corner and, as ever, the content will be king. Deadline takes you through 15 of the best dramas set to light up the Croisette as the market returns in-person for the first time in three years.
Read on for the best-in-class scripted projects heading to France.Distributor: Cineflix RightsNetwork: SyfyEpisodes: 10 x 60This 10-parter starring Spider Man: No Way Home’s Jacob Batalon (pictured) and inspired by Johnny Truant’s Fat Vampire novels turns traditional vampire tropes on their head while draining the blood from modern-day beauty standards.
Reginald (Batalon) is the unlikely hero who crashes headlong into a world populated by beautiful, fit and vain vampires while navigating numerous obstacles in his new undead life: the girl he loves but can’t be with, a bullying manager at work and the vampire chieftain who wants him deal.
Fortunately he discovers he has a few unrecognized powers of his own. Don’t be surprised if the show sink its fangs into the multiple global buyers at Mip, while Batalon will be on hand partaking in press junkets.Distributor: Global ScreenNetwork: ZDFEpisodes: 6 x 45 / 3 x 90Known locally as Der Palast, this six-parter is a lavish, highly entertaining period drama, richly shot at the world’s biggest theater stage located in Berlin: the Friedrichstadt-Palast.
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