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Ce soir, clap de fin sur le 50è Festival de Monte-Carlo qui tirera son bouquet final depuis la Salle des Etoiles du Monte-Carlo Sporting-Club. Au préalable, les divers jurys auront levé le voile sur le Palmarès de cette édition du cinquantenaire. Petit rappel de toutes les distinctions qui seront au générique de cette cérémonie...

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Bernard Montiel

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toqué de travail

Les éditions du Festival passent et, au cœur du duo des

présentateurs officiels pour les cérémonies d’ouverture

et de clôture, seul reste Bernard Montiel… La remarque

fait sourire l’animateur TV de plus en plus happé par la

fiction. Ce soir, c’est l’actrice américaine Sofia Milos (Les

Experts, le nouveau Tatort) qui s’essaiera à l’exercice

sur la scène de la Salle des Princes du Grimaldi Forum.

Et Bernard d’enfiler aussitôt son autre costume : celui de comédien qui joue le Procureur Alain Berger et donne la réplique à Xavier Deluc dans la série « Section de Recherches ». « Nous achevons là maintenant le tournage de la saison 4 et fort de notre record d’audience à 7,5 millions pour la case du policier du jeudi soir, TF1 a d’ores et signé pour une saison 5 qui sera tournée dès octobre-novembre », jubile le néo-comédien. Peut-être parce qu’il se souvient qu’un de ses premiers jobs a été huissier… de justice, mais plus sérieusement parce qu’il sait qu’il est « un débutant dans ce métier, toujours à l’écoute des conseils de mes partenaires. Quand je vois la créatrice et scénariste de la série Dominique Lancelot conforter mon personnage de proc austère et intransigeant, je n’y crois presque pas moi-même. Ma propre mère me trouve méconnaissable dans ce rôle si éloigné de ma nature enjouée ».

Il est loin le temps où Bernard Montiel faisait partie uniquement de la famille en or des animateurs. Aujourd’hui, il éprouve un besoin presque compulsif à se remettre sans cesse en cause à travers les projets les plus divers : il vient de tourner la suite d’ Aicha sous la caméra de Yasmina Benguigui et parle déjà d’une trilogie, il tournera à la rentrée une comédie pour TF1 « Toqué » aux côtés d’Ingrid Chauvin, nourri un projet de série pour M6, continue à faire des piges en tant qu’animateur sur NRJ 12 pour « Le Grand Casting » ou un sujet Monaco dans « 50 mn Inside », commence à faire des piges écrites cette fois pour Ici Paris et Télé 7 Jours, vient de superviser le tournage du clip de « Citizens of the World » sur le toit de Capitol Records à L.A., garde toujours une pensée ou une action pour l’association «Touche pas à mon enfant» qui lutte contre la pédophilie au Maroc, son pays de naissance. Jamais à bout de souffle, Bernard Montiel ne peut se résigner à une quelconque routine... Son « J’ai besoin d’être à 200 % pour me sentir vivre » nous rassure : Bernard Montiel sera bien au Festival en 2011 !

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After a five-week shoot in Lucerne and a three day break in Paris and before returning to Los Angeles, Sofia Milos has arrived in Monaco to co-host tonight’s award ceremonials with her usual flair - for fun, languages and improvisation.

The Swiss-born beauty of Italian-Greek parents could be representing any of three shows here. She is still recurring as “my beloved character detective Yelina Salas” on “CSI: Miami.” Her US Homeland Security Special Agent Bianca LeGarda was “promoted to Washington, DC” just before the end of the last year of “The Border” in Toronto. And she has just wrapped being Chicago cop Abby Lanning in a “Tatort” film, “Wishful Thinking,” made by Swiss TV for all the usual German-speaking fans of the longest running cop show in history. It is, m’sieur Wolf, 40 years old! Instead, Sofia is representing herself and making the opening/closing duet with Bernard Montiel work like a dream,She has become a Euro star on top of her Hollywood achievements by improvising when presenting an award in last year’s Rose d’Or festival in Montreux. “First, I spoke in English, then in Swiss German - and I had such enthusiastic applause! It was such a surprise that this “CSI: Miami” girl also spoke Swiss German with a Zurch accent. It freaked everybody out.”

In particular, the Swiss TV fiction chief Peter Studenhalter and the latest “Tatort” kommissar Stefan Gubser - following in the long line of Walter Ritcher, Hansjörg Felmy, Manfred Krug, Hannelore Elsner, Eva Mattes, this year’s Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, etc., and, of course, Götz George, the foul-mouthed working-class hero cop who mesmerised/polarised Germany for 20 years..The two Swiss rolled to LA to woo Sofia into their movie. She agreed to acting in German (she flew in early to work with a coach on refreshing her lingo) and to - “My god!” - keeping to the “Tatort” tradition of no make-up. “Or very little.”“I play a cop - for a change. She’s on an exchange programme with Chicago’s twinned town of Lucerne - which is just magnificent! (I was born 45 minutes away in Zurich). Abby’s working on a special case, so it’s not long before she meets Kommissar Reto Flückiger.” They may meet again in nother movie next year.The main diffference Sofia says, between “Tatort” and “CSI” is that is anti-stylised. “No glitz. No glam. The police look like police. Wee’d one scene where we are, er, er... oh, I’m forgetting my English.”You must get back to LA!“Right... that’s where my mortgage is. Anyway... we had about 15 cop extras to bust into this house. After the second take, I said: ‘Oh my God, you guys rock! How did you learn how to that?’ That’s when I found out they were real cops.... Actually, they looked more like Chippendales!”

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Une Nymphe d’Or d’Honneur du 50è Festival sera attribuée ce soir à Marcy Carsey et à Tom Werner.

«Marcy et Tom ont modifié le paysage de la télévision avec leurs émissions novatrices, a déclaré David Tomatis. Ils ont appréhendé la notion mondiale de la programmation en distribuant des émissions sur tout le globe lors de ces trois dernières décennies par le biais du géant américain de la comédie qu’ils ont constitué, Carsey-Werner Company.»

Cette récompense qui consacre des dirigeants d’exception et leurs contributions à l’industrie du divertissement, est revenu notamment par le passé à Dick Wolf, créateur et producteur exécutif de New York – Police judiciaire, au magnat de la presse Ted Turner, au comédien Roger Moore, au producteur, homme d’affaires et artiste Merv Griffin, au producteur de télévision David E. Kelley ou encore à la correspondante de CNN Christiane Amanpour. La Carsey-Werner Company est l’une des sociétés de production de programmes de comédie les plus prolifiques et les plus brillantes. C’est aussi certainement l’un des studios indépendants les plus prospères de l’histoire de la télévision. Carsey-Werner a été l’un des fournisseurs et distributeurs de pointe du marché mondial avec des séries cultes telles que Roseanne, The Cosby Show, 3e planète après le soleil, 70, Une maman formidable, Cybill et Campus show. Les émissions CW sont regardées dans plus de 175 pays et traduites dans plus de 50 langues différentes.

Nymphe d’Or d’Honneur

« Avec Marcy Carsey et Tom Werner, c’est l’innovation qui est récompensée »

L’acteur et l’actrice«le plus glamour» 2010

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Coming Soon in 3-D! Move over J-Lo. Here comes J-Zo. And this summer you can’t miss her. She’ll be coming right at right - right out at ya! - in the latest 3-D endeavour, “Piranha 3D”!

She is Jessica Szhor, alias Vanessa Abrams in The CW teen series, “Gossip Girl” - or ”GG” as the fans call it - based on, but never following the books by Cecily von Ziegesar. J-Zo arrived a tad late in the first season in 2007 but soon became an important regular alongside Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley, Ed Westwick and Taylor Momsen.“Everyone is pretty close. Everyone’s a big family. It’s a such a blessing. We’re so grateful. Other sets can be such drama.”She was also late into the cast of the re-tread make of the 1978 horror flicker, “Piranha.” Jerry O’Connell, Elisabeth Shue and Richard Dreyfuss (Ole Man Jaws, himself!) were much in need of her youthful sparkle.

The oldest of five children in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Jessica started modelling - at age six. “Later on, my parents wanted me to have another job, so my friend and I started a cleaning company. We’d go to our teachers’ houses and clean.”After graduation, she moved to LA - and appeared in “Joan of Arcadia,” “CSI: Miami” and such movies as “Somebody Help Me” and “Fired Up.”Next stop: New York, where “GG” is made. When not filming, she can be found strolling in Central Park with a spring in her stop - she’s got Radiohead on her iPod. Or in museums and art galleries and concerts. “That’s the great thing about New York. There’s always something to do.”Earlier this year she came #16 in People magazine’s annual list of the World’s Most Beautiful People. “I love when people come up to me and go, ‘What are you?’ I’ve heard everything: half African-American, half-white, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Brazilian. Some people hit it right on: ‘You’re Hungarian.’ Right, Hungarian and a quarter black.”

Jessica Szhor, qui incarne la splendide Vanessa dans la série « Gossip Girl », a fait sensation au Festival, à l’image du succès de la série : «Bien que « Gossip Girl » raconte la

vie de jeunes de la haute société new-yorkaise, tout en mélangeant d’autres personnages plus traditionnels, la série reste tout de même réaliste avec ses ses joies et ses peines»

raconte Jessica. Depuis qu’elle a intégré l’équipe de Gossip Girl, elle goûte aux plaisirs de vivre à New-York et d’être une actrice à la notoriété reconnue. Mais

motus sur sa vie privée ! A la moindre question personnelle, sa technique est bien rôdée : « Je ne réponds pas ». Son luxe suprême demeure néanmoins «

de passer du temps avec sa famille ».Si son personnage de Vanessa est toujours en quête de potins, dans la

vraie vie Jessica Szhor se moque bien de savoir ce que l’on raconte à son sujet. Elle estime même avoir réussi à garder une vie su garder une vie assez normale sans trop d’excès de fans ou de paparazzis. Avec parfois des exceptions… « Un jour un fan m’offrit un petit chaton en peluche, alors que je me remis à marcher, mon bodyguard me prit la peluche, l’inspecta de tous les côtés, lui arracha la tête et

me montra un microphone caché à l’intérieur ». Anecdote livrée par Jessica elle-même.

Si elle n’aime pas suivre sa série «j’ai toujours une impression de déjà vu», elle se déclare accro à d’autres comme Californication, Glee ou

encore The Office. Prochaine étape dans sa carrière : le cinéma avec la sortie annoncée en cet été d’un remake en 3D du film d’horreur Piranha de Joe

Dante sorti en 1978, où elle incarnera l’une des étudiantes. Elle débutera aussi bientôt le tournage d’une comédie romantique Love, Wedding, Marriage.

Jessica SzhorAucune rumeur autour de « Gossip Girl » !

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Competition

There are, we understand, moves afoot to make a tele-film about the recently defeated UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It would not be surprising if Julie Walters plays him. The ex-nurse and stand-up comic turned champion Bafta Award-winning actress can play anything. And has.

Twice nominated for an Oscar, she immediately received various Hollywood offers for “what they thought working-class English was... They just didn’t know what to do with me.... besides, Meryl Streep gets all the roles you’d want to play. Who’s going to ask an English person?”And that is what she is, the epitome of the English spirit and humour. She’s happy with that, never allowing it be a drawback - nor a caricature. Result: three Brit Baftas in succession, plus two more and she made her total six on Sunday night!What, for example, could be more essentially English than being the mum of Jane Austen, Joe Orton, Ron Weasley and, more or less, “Billy Elliott”?

Now add her vivid collection of bio-pix... the cheery surburban housewife Cynthia Payne opening a brothel in her semi-detached in Streatham... the Great Train Robber Buster Edwards’ wife aching to return to Blighty... one of the (again suburban) housewives posing nude for a calendar for charity... and Lydia Leakey, a typically seductive British murder victim, circa 1956.These were real people. As was Mrs. Mary Whitehouse who campaigned about “Filth, being everywhere on TV, with the possible exception of the meteo (although all those damp fronts must have riled her)... and last year’s amazing double whammy of Britain’s best loved (only loved?) politician, “Mo” - in competition here - and Dr. Anne Turner, ending her life (of progressive supranuclear palsy) at 66 at the Dignitas assisted suicide clinic in Zurich in “A Short Stay In Switzerland,” a most moving companion piece to this year’s opening film. “It affected all of us – cast and crew. There were days when we thought we just couldn’t cry any more.”

“Mo” is also dying... Tony Blair believed her lies about the seriousness of her cancer. It’s good that he did. In 1997, he gave Dr. Marjorie Mowlam the Northern Ireland ministry - a real poisoned chalice. Her methods were often rough and uproarious - she once threw off her wig in mid negotiations, “aren’t there just times when all you want is a bloody good scratch” - and she was close to brokering the “impossible peace” when she was squashed more by Blair politics than her brain tumour.

Julie admits trying to quit the “Mo” project. “She doesn’t look anything like me She was a big woman, she’s got a big open face, so I was very scared. But I thought there are so few single dramas of any worth. I have to get my head round the fear of doing it. And it was fabulous - she was just alive in that script... She knew what her amazing talent was, connecting with the people, and she had a massive drive and ambition, and she was right in the end. History tells us that... What a woman!” Mo, Ann, and all the others are the reason why Julie became an actress. Not because of Shakespeare or great literature, “more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.”

Several of Julie’s previous co-stars are now knights, Sir This or That. She has two medals from The Queen yet bafflingly remains a great dame rather than a Dame like Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, etc. Never mind. She has a star on the Walk of Stars. Not on Hollywood Boulevard. Where it really counts for a Brummie girl. In Birmingham.“Birmingham and the West Midlands is where I’m from; these are my roots and in essence it has played a big part in making me the person I am today.”100% English. Tony Crawley

Mrs. England!

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As we said when she visited us here last time, “Desperate Housewives” was a show waiting for Dana Delany... She turned down the first offer to play Bree. No thanks, said the ever fearless Dana. I’ve already played her... She preferred challenges, not repeaters. So Marc Cherry did his creator thing and invented Katharine Mayfair for her and Dana joined up for the fourth season. Now it looks as if she’s leaving...

Last time we saw Katharine, she was flying off to Paris with a neighbour - played by another highly favoured TV lady, Julie Benz - the wife of “Dexter.” (Instead of Paris, they’re both here!)If they ever return depends on the result of The Pilot Season... Dana locked up her 81st screen role since 1978 in an ABC pilot for a procedural crime show called “Body of Evidence.” No, not a re-make of the tawdry Madonna movie - though Dana could pull that off without pausing for breakfast. No, it’s about a medical examiner and, therefore, sounds much like a re-tread of Amanda Burton’s excellent BBC series, “Silent Witness.” Dana first doubled duties by guesting as an FBI agent opposite her ex-desperate husband, Nathan Fillion, in his new hit show, “Castle.” «He called me up when I was in the loony bin on ‘Housewives’ and said, ‘You know, there’s a part coming up and you would be great. I’d love you to do it.’ And I said: ‘Nathan, I think I already have a job.’ But ABC very nicely worked it out.”Around the same time, Julie Benz was also in the ABC pilot biz, making”No Ordinary Family.”Now as boith series get picked up, the ladies won’t have much time to return to Wisteria Lane and face the music... as well as exercising forensic and superpower abilities.

The single most important question many young and sudden Hollywood stars are asking right now: Is there life after playing vampires? Oh yes there is. Ask Julie Benz...

A few years ago she was the evil vampire Darla surviving “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” and moving on in to the spin-off, “Angel.” Such a wonderful character, such a beautiful way for her to go. The last 20 minutes redeemed her in the eyes of the fans. She was able to finally do something good after 400 years of evil and terror.” Since when Julie - who already proved there’s life after being in ice-skating championships - has been all over... She was up there with Jack Nicholson in “As Good As It Gets” and Sylvester Stallone in “Rambo.” She has two movies awaiting release: “Bedrooms” and “Answers To Nothing” with another Monaco visitor, Elizabeth Mitchell from “V.” Since October 2006, Julie has been better known as Rita Bennett, the troubled - eventually tragic - lover of “Dexter”... and during five guest shots this year as stripper Robin Gallagher in “Desperate Housewives.” And. if the wind’s in the right direction, her latest pilot may become a series. This has Julie and Michael Chiklis heading “No Ordinary Family” - they suddenly find they have super-powers! So, Julie has much to talk about...

“Dexter” “When we did the pilot, I was very nervous. I was beginning to work with my favorite actor and I had to do a lot of relaxation to be on set with Michael. I was such a huge fan of his and just couldn’t believe I was cast to play opposite him. I was really waiting for someone to come up to me and say it’s all a joke.”“No Ordinary Family” “A mix between «Heroes» and «The Incredibles.” You have real drama behind it as well but there’s obviously some humor in it - because how can you not have humor! It’s just a great mix of everything, a little sci-fi with adventure with family drama with comedy. No superhero costume - regular street clothes.” More Robin? “I’d love to return and explore Robin some more. I loved playing her and it was just such a joy to be on the show. It all depends on what happens with Dana’s pilot and my pilot. I don’t know if that’s a possibility, going back and forth. I’m sure that ABC is amenable to that.. Just depends on the schedule... because Dana’s the main character and I’m one of the satellites.” No more Rita? “It didn’t feel right to have her die. But that’s just me. I love Rita so much... If they found a way, a creative way to bring me back and I felt that it made sense then I’d definitely jump at the chance. I loved working with Michael. It was just an amazing four years that I had working on the show. I’m always open to it.” Tony Crawley

In May, at the end of the sixth season of “Desperate Housewives,“surprise lovers Robin and Katharine ran off together to Paris…In reality, the actresses Julie Benz and Dana Delany are hera and should be back again next yearwith their new series.

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Series Stars...

Memo To Jerry Seinfeld : Hey Jer’ if you still thinking about setting up a biopic of your favourite comics, Abbott and Costello… we have found your stars… You’ll be surprised to learn these closet comics are the ultra straight, cool, upstanding « Flashpoint » heroes. They’d be a blast as the dynamic duo. That’s sharpshooter (and ex-punk rocker) Hugh Dillon as Bud and Enrico Colantoni, similarly Italian , as Lou. (« I can do fat ! »).

They passed their audition on the photo-call set yesterday, clowning to the manner born…Think it started when someone said: Hugh’s on first.

« Uniforms translate well, » says Enrico about the huge success of their Canadian (yes, Canadian) series. « When you see a uniform, you know what the show’s about. We’ve immediately got your attention. Then, instead of the underbelly of law enforcement, like « The Shield, » we’re going back to clean ideals and morals. We’re trying to prevent trouble… We talk … maybe we have to shoot later, but not without remorse, not without consequences. »Enrico is the cool team leader, Hugh is the hit-man. « I’m the emotional one, who talks first and he’s let’s-get-it-done - together we’re the complete human being, the complete cop. We work so well together… »« He’s like an older brother to me, » says Hugh. « Rico’s been in the business longer, in America longer and my life has changed just from meeting this guy. He makes me kinda re-think what I am… one of those people you don’t wanna punch in the head. «We’re both from Ontario, from humble beginnings, small towns, moved to the States, took a shot at stuff and here we are back in Canada working on a show we love. It’s like playing in a rock band. »|

And Hugh knows all about that. His 90s’ group, Headstones, won three gold records . Youngest of the family, his fairy tales were called « Yellow Submarine » and « Hey Jude (his brother is Jude - Jude Dillon – say it!) In trouble at home, he split to London (« because of The Clash, The Pistols, the Stones ») and was a busker – with a Mohawk - in Leicester Square. Quentin Tarantino picked up his 1996 movie, « Head Case Logo, » and that really opened doors. Here, on his first vacation in three years (he’s in two shows ), he’s competing against himself for best series actor. « I like that. I like that, a lot. Hey, you get a little bit of luck, and some skill along the way. » TC

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Elle était Cinnamon Carter dans «Mission Impossible», série immortalisée par la musique de Lalo Schifrin.«C’est une musique incroyable. A la fin de chaque épisode, quand les agents se retrouvaient une fois leur travail accompli, nous savions que les notes accompagneraient nos pas et sans les entendre, nous marchions en cadence avec la musique dans la tête». En France, la série a été diffusée à partir de 10 octobre 1967. « Bruce Geller était un vrai génie. Il a écrit, créé et produit « Mission Impossible ». Et on lui doit aussi la série « Mannix ». Le succès vient de son écriture et de son inventivité. Nous mettions à peu près dix jours pour faire un épisode. Il y a aussi l’équipe que nous formions autour de Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus et Martin Landau. Nous étions tous très complices. Et j’ai été très peinée d’apprendre la disparition de Peter Graves en mars dernier. Les films qui se sont inspirés de la série n’ont rien à voir avec ce que nous faisions. Ce sont deux choses complètement différentes. Il y a de la violence alors que dans nos épisodes, il n’y avait aucun meurtre et aucune goutte de sang n’était versée. D’ailleurs, nous n’avions pas d’arme sur nous ».D’une série culte, l’autre. Barbara Bain enchaîne le rôle d’Helena Russell pour « Cosmos 1999 », toujours aux côtés de son époux Martin Landau, et diffusée en France à partir de décembre 1975. Le prénom Cinnamon pour « Mission Impossible », c’est vous qui l’avez trouvé ? « Non, c’est Bruce Geller. Il voulait une actrice douce et épicée comme la cannelle ». Un bon choix car Barbara Bain est les deux à la fois.

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Peterborough, first tried out for “Skins” in 2007. As the runaway British teen hit is about kids in the sixth form, it changes the pupils every two years, so Luca Giuseppe Pasqualino tried again... as #5,282 in an open casting call. “I was told that 7,000 people went for my part, and nine auditions later I’m there, filming on set in Bristol... I told a couple of fibs early on, when they asked me if I could skateboard. Obviously I said yes, not realising how much of a skateboarder Freddie actually was! “He’s also in a love triangle, he’s competing with his best friend, so his life is a battle – he’s rarely got a smile on his face.His most challenging scene? “Probably my sex scene. Because it was very cold - in the woods on a cold forest floor in November!”Luke is due in the upcoming horror movie, “The Apparition,” with “Twilight” star Ashley Greene and Tom Felton from the “Harry Potter” series. And then - perhaps - a “Skins” movie. A huge challenge, says producer Steve Christian, because “the biggest critics of ‘Skins” are the ‘Skins’ fans. Turning TV shows into films doesn’t happen so much these days, probably because there’s not the material out there. But what we dont want to do is to make a 90 minute episode - it would be a complete disaster.” Tony Crawley

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Costume gris, chemise blanche et lunettes de vue sur le nez, Simon Baker est arrivé hier à la conférence de presse en toute décontraction où l’attendait une cinquantaine de journalistes, caméras branchées, magnétos sur la touche « record » et stylos prêts à dégainer pour noter les dernières révélations de l’acteur vedette de la série « Le Mentalist » sur TF1.

Côté scoop, il a déclaré qu’il allait prochainement réaliser l’un des épisodes. Mais quant à la l’intrigue proprement dite de la série dans son ensemble, il faudra attendre encore un peu. Puis, Simon Baker, la voix posée, a expliqué longuement comment il est entré dans le personnage. « Ce qui le définit, en premier lieu, c’est son sens de l’humour et son irrévérence. J’y ai apporté un peu de moi-même. Je suis quelque peu espiègle, faisant des blagues de gamin. J’ai une totale liberté avec mon personnage. Bien sûr, il y a le scripte, les dialogues et je m’y tiens, mais en même temps je peux y introduire des aspects plus personnels. Une autre chose sur laquelle je suis intervenu, c’est le choix de sa voiture et ce, dès le deuxième épisode. Je ne pouvais imaginer que Patrick Jane, mon personnage, puisse conduire une Chevrolet ou une voiture de sport. J’ai tout de suite pensé à une voiture d’occasion ou ancienne. L’une de mes automobiles préférées est la DS, mais personne ne la connaissait sur le tournage. Alors, j’ai dû expliquer que

c’était une voiture mythique, en avance sur son temps, une sorte de dinosaure qui est toujours de son époque. Et qui correspondrait parfaitement au caractère de mon personnage. Le modèle que je conduis dans la série date de 1971 ». Colombo a eu sa Peugeot 403, le Mentalist a sa DS Citroën. L’automobile française s’exporte bien. Du moins, dans les séries américaines. On peut souhaiter à Patrick Jane le même succès qu’a rencontré l’inspecteur au vieux pardessus râpé qui s’en allait, hiver comme été, mener ses enquêtes. Il semble en prendre le chemin car son premier épisode diffusé sur TF1 a été regardé par 9 millions de téléspectateurs.

Toutefois, Simon Baker ne s’enflamme pas : « Bien évidemment ma vie a changé, ma notoriété a grandi, mais lorsque je me promène dans les rues de Los Angeles, la ville des stars, je n’ai pas une horde de fans qui se précipite sur moi. J’ai plus de difficulté quand je sors de la ville mais en règle générale les gens respectent ma vie privée. Ils m’abordent avec discrétion et respect. Et puis, mes enfants sont là pour relativiser ce succès. Pour faire le promotion du Mentalist, la production avait placardé un immense portrait de moi sur la façade d’un immeuble. Quand il l’a vu, mon fils m’a dit : « Tu as acheté l’immeuble, papa ? ». Les mots d’enfants vous renvoient à la réalité.

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It was a long time coming... since September 1990. And the closer it

got, the more difficult it became. Television is forever

changing, ratings are forever moving (like budgets). Finally,

“Law & Order” will not go to a 21st season. Or, at least, not

on N.B.C. For now, therefore, “L&O” remains co-champion with “Gunsmoke” (1955-75) as America’s longest running drama series.

Creator Dick Wolf took the N.B.C. body blow with the fortitude of a Muhammd Ali. “Never complain.

Never explain.”As the bell went for the next round,

he emerged with a swift uppercut: “The patient is in

a medically induced coma and we’re hoping for a cure.” Wolf won

on points and immediately got on with the work of launching a fifth series within his

champion franchise. “Law & Order: Los Angeles.” Or, “LOLA” to its friends. And if you remember, the song went: “Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets.” Hopefully. Of course, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” is alive and well with a 12th season on NBC and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” has No. Nine on the USA Network. Why are the shows so good? Two words, says “Criminal Intent” cop Jeff Goldblum: Dick and Wolf. “He’s a brilliant guy... passionate, caring... and attracts terrific people around him, the whole producing team and the writers that he gets. And of course, the great actors... I’ve always

wanted to watch Michael Moriarty or Sam Waterston or Vincent D’Onofrio or Kathryn Erbe, all those people. Jerry Orbach! I’d tune in to see them any time.” Two members of the DWPD - Dick Wolf Police Department - are a here with the big daddy of procedural cop-art...

Ice-T is one of the show’s longevity champs. He’s been Detective Odafin “Fini” Tutola in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” for a full decade, starting 221 episodes ago in 2000 . All highly ironic as T is the founding father of gangsta rap (if not T, who?) and wrote and performed the legendarily controversial “Cop Killer”... leading to a feud with the LAPD. Born Tracy Lauren Marrow in New Jersey, 1958, he’s never hidden an ill-spent youth before a 1985 car smash had him switching from crime to rap. And from rap to acting - not happily, at first, with s rapper and/or pimp bits before being encouraged to shine his light in some 70 more roles in thje last 27 years. As, for example - and again, ironically - a cop in “New Jack City,” a mutant kangaroo (you heard) in “Tank Girl,” Abel Ferrara’s “R Xmas” and as himself in the musical activists’ rockumentary, “Sounds Like A Revolution.” Still with time for his day job...

Jeremy Sisto has been Detective Cyrus Lupo since the 18th season of the “L&O” mothership in 2007. He was born in a Californian township called Grass Valley to a jazzman father and actress mother. His sister also acts. Jeremy has his father’s deep voice - the reason, he gets so many dark characters. “The combination of the timbre of my voice and my inflections tends to make people feel that there’s some darkness there.” The voice was perfect for Batman in a tele-toon. As a kid, he preferred Superman,“ then Wolverine... and then I found girls.” He’s been a tele-Jesus, Gaius Julius Caesar, The Movie Hero (who thinks his life is watched by an audience) and, of course, Billy Chenowith in 31 sublime chapters of “Six Feet Under.” As well as keeping New York safe these days, he has begun a second career as a producer. Following, no doubt, his grandfather’s advice: “Don’t fall down.”

“Original comedy drama is one of the greatest challenges of all - particularly in Irish - and we are thrilled at this latest international recognition for one of our projects. The audience and critical reaction in Ireland has been uniformly positive and its great to see that our brand of humour can travel.”Micheál Ó’Meallaigh, Commissioning Director of the TG4 channel, commenting on not one, not three but six nominations won here by the Wildfire production of “An Crisis” - a six parter about the strange world of ACT (An Chomhairle Teanga), an Irish language organisation that seems to be following rather unusual policies. Two Nymph nods are for producers Martha O’Neill and O’Meallaigh - four for actor Conor MacNeill and three of his co-stars who are here this week: Michelle Beamish, Risteard Cooper and (arriving later today) Norma Sheahan.

The DWPD Guys Celebrate A New Baby

Tony Crawley

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The Irish Have Landed

Producer Martha O’Neill and actorsRisteard Cooper, Michelle Beamish

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Photos Souvenir

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Soirée 50è Anniversaire

HappyFestival !

Jeronimo Albano

et Catarina Furtado

Donna Mills

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Cote De Pablo

Jean-Hugues Anglade

Chloé Lambert

The Bold & Beautiful Team

Rétrospective 2000-2010

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Chaque jour, retour sur une décennie

qui a marqué le Festival et la Télévision

2000 Roger Moore,S.A.S. le Prince Héréditaire Albert II de Monacoet Jane Seymour

2000 Claudia Cardinaleet Gina Lollobrigida

1992 Soirée de Clôture

2001 Ingrid Chauvin

2009 Ron Moss

2005 Marcia Cross2002 Tori Spelling et Richard Burgi

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PALMARèSDE LA DéCENNIE

2000. L’italien Lino Banfi obtient la distinction

suprême pour son rôle dans le téléfilm «Vola

Sciusciu » (RAI – Italie)

Dans la section mini-séries, « Warriors » de la

BBC est couronnée, tout comme Virna Lisi pour

son rôle dans « Balzac » (TF1)

2001. Beau doublé pour France 2 et «Un

pique-nique chez Osiris» : meilleure mini-série et

Mariand Hands meilleur actrice. Chez les acteurs,

prestation saluée de Nino Manfredi dans « Une

Storia Qualunque » (RAI –Italie)

2002. Le Festival crée un Prix qui récompense

le genre des séries à part entière, consacrant des

producteurs et des interprètes dans les catégories

drama et comédie. Parmi les premiers lauréats,

Aland Davies, Lesley Sharp, Terence Hill, et Sarah

Jessica Parker

2003. Pour le téléfilm «Nés de la mère du

monde» (Cipango – France), Marthe Villalonga

obtient la Nymphe d’Or de la meilleure

interprétation.

2004. Pour les mini-séries, le jury salue

l’Anglais Paul Abott pour le scénario de «State

of Play» (BBC1), Andrei Konchalovsky pour sa

réalisation de «The Lion in Winter» (Hallmark –

USA) et Carmen Maura pour son rôle dans «Arroz

y Tartana» (TVE – Espagne)

2005. Mélanie Doutey fait l’unanimité pour

son rôle dans la mini-série « Clara Sheller »

(France 2)

2006. C’est l’année du téléfilm « Mademoiselle

Gigi » : Caroline Huppert (meilleur réalisateur)

et Juliette Lamboley (Meilleure actrice). Helen

Mirren décroche la Nymphe de la meilleure

interprétation pour « Elisabeth I »

2008. Le producteur Dick Wolf se voit

décerner une Nymphe d’Or d’Honneur

2009. Isabelle Adjani («La Journée de la Jupe»)

et Julie Walters (« A Short Stay in Switzerland »)

2009 Rob Estes

2006 Roger Pierre

2004 Christian Leblanc, Eileen Davidson, S.A.S. le Prince Héréditaire Albert de Monaco, John Shea et Viktor Webster

FAITS MARqUANTSDE LA DéCENNIESeptembre 2001Première diffusion de «Caméra Café» sur M6 dont le succès la fait perdurer 2 ans. Cette série sera adaptée dans plusieurs pays

6 novembre 2001Première diffusion de «24 heures chrono» sur Fox

14 septembre 2002Première diffusion de «24 heures chrono» en France sur Canal+

30 août 2004 Diffusion du 1er épisode de « Plus belle la vie » sur France 3

25 juin 2005 Diffusion du premier épisode de « Lost , les disparus » sur TF1

8 septembre 2005« Desperate Housewives » arrivent sur Canal +

5 novembre 2007Début de la grève des scénaristes aux États-Unis.

30 octobre 2008Lancement de la Haute définition en France sur les cinq chaînes de la TNT : TF1, France 2, Canal+, M6 et Arte

6 janvier 2010Le « Mentalist » s’installe sur TF1.

2005 Evangeline Lilly

2009 S.A.S. le Prince Albert II de Monaco

et Isabelle Adjani

2005 Geena Davis

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After much speculation about Geena Davis, Michael Keaton and the thisclose Harvey Keitel taking over, Joe Mantegna became David Rossi - the head honcho of the FBI profilers hunting serial killers among other depraved members of society in “Criminal Minds.”

Joseph Anthony Mantegna Jr. has now completed 59 shows as David Rossi with the other guys who stayed put (up to 109 shows now): Shemar Moore, Thomas Gibson, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Kirsten Vangsness..Mantegna has played Dean Martin, Fidel Castro, Elvis guitarist Joe Esposito and various David Mamet creations - winning a Broadway Tony for Ricky Roma in “Glengarry Glen Ross” - snatched by Al Pacino for the 1992 movie. Before Rossi, his favourite roles were Spenser, Joey Zasa and... Fat Tony.Spenser was a dream come true - second time around. Joe loved Robert B. Parker’s pulp fiction and knew how the writer had pushed for him to play his shamus in the 1985 series. Instead, the producers went for a telly-face: Robert Urich. However, in the late 90s, Parker wrote his own “Spenser” movies and got his man. “He’s clever with his innuendoes and that’s the stuff that’s fun to play, just as it makes it fun to read.”Dennis Farina beat Joe to Detective Joe Fontana in “Law & Order” just as Joe beat Dennis to Joey Zasa in Coppola;s “The Godfather Part III.” Joe calls it the Italian “Star Wars.”Then, there is his longest running role... 17 years as Anthony “Fat Tony” D’Amico, the Godfather of Springfield, home town of... “The Simpsons.” With Mafiosi henchmen like Legs, Louie, Icepick, and Johnny Tightlips backing him up, Fat Tony (he might actually be called Marion!) was supposed to be a one-off happening. Joe has now played him 21 times since 1991. And insists on voicing the character every time he’s on. “If Fat Tony sneezes, I want to be there.” Fortunately for us, Tony’s not on call this week because Joe makes it abundantly clear: “Nothing interferes with my doing ‘The Simpsons’.”

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She was Miss Oklahoma 1985 in the All-American Teen Pageant - and lost in the final to an unknown Halle Berry. She made her TV debut in “1st & Ten,” with starred a certain O.J. Simpson. She then played by-the book Police Sergeant Cory McNamara for five years on “Pacific Blue.” And the became the mother of Harbor School socialite Taylor Townsend in “The O.C.” (Orange County).

She is the Texas born Paula Trickey, who works as tirelessly for charity as she does in her acting - she has two new movies awaiting release, “Locked Away” and “Blood Shot.”Paula uses her love of golf to participate in such tournaments as the Dennis Quaid tournament for Doctors Without Borders. She also supports Athletes and Entertainers for Kids, the LAPD memorial fund, The Fireman’s Memorial Fund, and the Children’s Hospital of Austin, Pat Boone’s Head Trauma Awareness, Pediactric Aids, Animal Rescue, etc. “Anything for the children” is her motto, after witnessing, as a child, the suffering of her own sister as she fought a losing battle with auto immune disease.

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Holmes, Sweet Holmes. As proved by Guy Ritchie, there’s life in the old dog yet. Therefore, BBC and PBS are into another new series of Sherlock Holmes tales. Benedict Cumberbatch (best actor here in 2004) will be “Sherlock.” That should please the French. In recent months, they’ve had a plethora of Sherlocks. From Basil Rathbone to Rupert Everett, American Matt Frewer, Anthony Higgins, Aussie Richard Roxborough and, of course, Jeremy Brett. “There were 14 Tarzans,” Cubby Broccoli reminded George Lazenby when he expected more money for a second Bond film. Well, there have been about 175 Sherlocks across the eons and the globe (China, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Russiua) since the first (silent) movie in 1905.

Culture Clash “The Office” goes Indian. That’s the new comedy series about a US novelty company having its call centre “Outsourced.” Off-Broadway star Ben Rappaport has to Americanise his Indian staff about whoopee cushions, foam fingers and wallets made of bacon... Rather than Bollywooders, the workers include such BBC finds as Sacha Dhawan and Rebecca Hazlewood.

Russell Crowe turns TV producer with “Emergency Sex” for HBO. (Where else with a title like that!) Maria Bello stars in Simon (“Slumdog Millionaire”) Beaufoy’s script.

True Crime Ridley Scott, who is beginning to resemble John Huston, is producing “Graysmith,” about the cartoonist, writer and part-time detective Robert Graysmith. Among his filmed true-crime books is “Auto Focus” on the murder of “Hogan’s Heroes” star, Bob Crane.

Next? “The Girl In Alfred Hitchcock’s Shower” on the death of Marli Renfro, Janet Leigh’s “Psycho” body double.

Best Browsing through the nominations for best actors in American dramatic TV series, not surprised to find Jon Hamm for “Mad Men,” nor even two actors (Michael C. Hall and John Lithgow) for “Dexter.” And the “Lost” gang - all 14 of ‘em!

Awards “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” has three nominations for best actors, none for best prosthetic... Bye, bye! See y’all next year.

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The Full Monte

Bobby Dupea

Who’s the next US biggie? The bid money’s on Kelli Giddish as the cowboy-booted heroine of “Chase” - “all the undeniable elements of a thrill ride that you’d expect from Jerry Bruckheimer,” promises NBC. Kelli leads an elite bunch of US marshals hunting America’s most dangerous fugitives. She’s also great as a “Past Life” regression therapist on Fox.

Leading contender for the mini-series Nymph tonight is the Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks succsssor to their “Band of Brothers” about “The Pacific” war zone. It was denounced, however, by London Sunday Times TV critic AA Gill. “There is not a character, a scene, a line of dialogue you haven’t seen, not just once, but a dozen times... This was war as a comforting, familiar bed-time story... Not just bad storytelling, intellectually and emotionally feeble and cynical, it was morally reprehensible, shaming, from two men who not only should know better but claim to know better.”

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Dommagio! Two CBS stars “90210” star AnnaLynne McCord had to stay home -for the best possioble reason. Work! Even if she’s not acting, she isalways busy - with humanitarian concerns in Haitian and New Orleans. “For me success is not all about the pay-cheque or magazine covers. It’s about figuring out why I’m here and discovering my greater purpose in life.” Good girl.

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«Medias, le Mag», c’est l’émission

media la plus regardée en France,

avec une moyenne de 600 000

téléspectateurs.

Installé pour la deuxième saison

sur France 5, présenté par Thomas

Hugues, le Mag, passé maître

dans l’art de décrypter le paysage

médiatique et les enjeux de ce

secteur, se devait donc de faire

sa « spéciale » depuis Monte-

Carlo et céder ainsi à l’aspect plus

événementiel de ce rendez-vous

star de la télévision.

Au sommaire :

Les coulisses du Festival bien sûr

avec des invités (Larry Hagman,

Dana Delany, Sandrine Quétier

et Simon Baker), un sujet sur les

voix françaises des séries US

(dont celle du « Mentalist ») et en

actu, à l’occasion du procès Kerviel,

un sujet sur les avocats… stars du

barreau.

A découvrir ce dimanche à 12h35

sur France 5

Pour la seconde année, Nathalie Dubois et son très attendu « Gifting Lounge », mis en place par la société DPA basée au Etats-Unis, sont sont installés, le temps du Festival, dans le Salon Berlioz de l’Hôtel de Paris.C’est dans ce précieux écrin que les vedettes du petit écran ont pris l’habitude de découvrir les tout nouveaux produits de beauté, accessoires de mode, chaussures, prêt à porter haut de gamme et même maillots de bain, représentant des marques renommées du monde entier.

Le principe de cette « vitrine magique » reste simple : le temps de l’événement, les invités sont invités à passer au salon afin de rencontrer cette pionnière dans le monde du placement de produits… et recevoir des cadeaux ! Ces lots sont alors destinés à promouvoir des marques, portées ou montrées par les vedettes, au moment de leur passage sur le tapis rouge du Festival et lors des séances photo pour la presse. En échange, la star n’a pas seule « contrainte » que de prendre la pose avec l’objet à promouvoir, et sourire ! Elles sont nombreuses à se laisser tenter par l’expérience. Nous avons par exemple croisé une Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost, V) ravie d’avoir porté une splendide robe de soirée proposée par Nathalie, à l’occasion de la cérémonie d’ouverture.

C’est en proposant des produits haut de gamme, design ou hight tech, avec une vision volontairement internationale que le concept de ces « suites » s’est imposé dans le monde événementiel. Autant dire qu’il a de beaux jours devant lui, surtout içi à Monte-Carlo.

Thomas Hugues

Bien installé dans le PAF

et au Festival

Gifting LoungeLe plaisir d’offrir

Zapping

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At his keynote interview yesterday, NCIS Executive Producer Charles Floyd Johnson revealed how the series has saved over $30,000 per episode on the last series: “We had been aware for a while that many other series were switching from film to HD but we had resisted doing so until the seventh series because we were worried about losing

the look and we knew the drill with film,” he said. “But when we made the change, not only did we save somewhere between $20-30,000 on each episode but we also found it relatively simple to get the same

look. We have also introduced various Green initiatives, which are good for the environment and good for reducing costs. We used to buy thousands of plastic bottles of water each year, then we changed to individual, refillable bottles and water-coolers. And again, we have managed to make savings of

around $30,000 per year.”The seventh season of NCIS saw the show become the number one scripted show in

the US, and even the return of American Idol failed to dislodge it: “Our last season was unusual in that most shows are experiencing audience fall-off by that point

but in fact our audience grew, Johnson said. “There are several reasons why that happened by I do believe that our online activities were an important factor. We have totally embraced Social Networking sites such as Tumbler and Facebook, we read the blogs and we run competitions, poll the audience and

offer webisodes which are complimentary to the broadcast version of the show.” Finally Johnson, referring to the previous panel, agreed with its

conclusion: “I do agree that we will see more and more co-productions, simply because there is no choice financially and the US has as much

of a problem as Europe,” he said. “And in fact you can look at it as an opportunity to enrich shows.” GS

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JOHNSON SHOWS HOW TO MAKE MORE FOR LESS

Pat Mitchell, CEO, Paley Center:“The thing that has struck me most today is how global our media industry has become and how the concerns and attitudes of consumers are utterly global. Ultimately what we all care about is getting audiences to the content and that’s is the same challenge whether you are in Denmark or Dubai.”

Christine Ockrent of Audiovisual Extérieur de la France:“For me the main interest is that there are people present from a number of different but complimentary sectors. And the fact is that we all have very similar concerns and increasingly I hear converging opinions and much more honesty. No-one is pretending to have all the solutions.”

David Naylor, Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse:“Our role is definitely changing in that four years ago we were mainly working with companies who sprang-up from the internet such as MySpace and AOL but now we have more traditional media clients. What I am seeing with them is that they no longer see the internet exclusively as a threat. There is some acceptance of potential role as an enabler and my clients are increasingly using the web very well.”

The Paley Center for

Media’s special one-

day International

Council summit took

place yesterday

in the Salle Genevoix

of the Grimaldi Forum.

The meetings brought

together executives

from around the world

in order to exchange

ideas among leaders

about global media,

entertainment, and

communications.

Benjamin Pyne, President, Global Distribution, Disney Media Networks:“It’s always good to sit down with people and talk about our industry because we have so many common goals. For me the most pressing issues are how to create a balance between the creation of content, reaching the audience and getting paid for what we do.”

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TV Xchanges

FINDING FUNDS FOR FICTION CAUSES FRICTION

The opening debate of the TV Xchanges programme explored the world of fiction financing, an area which all the participants

agreed is both complex and challenging. “Compared to the financing system in the US, producing fiction if Europe is complex and getting progressively more so,” Justin Bodle, CEO and Chairman of Power, said. “The US studio system is so much simpler, and what I’d like to see is a centralization of issues such as tax credits, gap-funding, pre-buys and the commissioning process in order that we can get away from the multi-layered structure that we have at the moment.”Bodle also noted that there is a huge difference in the way that he is treated as a producer and as a distributor: “In the UK as a producer, we are subject to the foibles of commissioning executives, but abroad where we are looking to acquire, we are much more welcome of course.”Martin Moszcowicz, Member of the Board at Constantin Film, stated that he believes that such challenges are an inherent part of the TV industry: “It has never been an easy business but I’m confident that it will always be around,’ he said. “But the real challenge that we face at the moment is the transition from analogue to digital. The TV industry has always been pushed forward by technological advances

but we haven’t yet worked out a way to make money from it.”

Another technological advance that will be impacting on living rooms around the world

imminently is 3D te lev is ions:

“All the major manufacturers are gearing up to mass-produce 3D sets, they predict that sales will total $14 billion in 2011, but we Europeans are not producing any content,” Moszcowicz said. “So after the World Cup people will only have US shows to watch.”As Carlo Bixio, President of Publispei, happily admitted, Italy is different: “Italy is in a crisis, but it isn’t in a crisis,” he said. “It is a very paradoxical country with a system that means that to produce in Italy you really have to be an Italian operation. Of course we try to produce as cheaply as possible but it’s always a gamble, especially if you want to produce series that are a bit different, because the audience wants predictable entertainment.”Christian Charret, president of Geteve, admitted that French producers urgently need to bring down production costs: “The sourcing of financing is in permanent evolution but the truth is that fiction is the most expensive form of content to produce barring big sporting events and the trouble is that the audience is shrinking and getting older, The 15-24 age group does not watch fiction on the TV.”Film and TV producer Antonio Saura of Zebra Productions explained that Spain is also faced with a set of problems including rampant piracy: “Broadband penetration is the highest in Europe at 67% and clearly that presents producers with a challenge,” he said. “And in terms of the financial crisis, we have been hit hard. On top of that we have a government that is rather trigger-happy in the way that it formulates and passes laws. We now have a public broadcaster that is not allowed to have advertising and, effectively, not supposed to be successful. Meanwhile the private broadcasters are unable to react to the changing market and sometimes in feels like the only thing that really works are the soap series from South America, but Spaniards are very good at improvising and that is how we find ways to finance our fiction production.” GS

The panelists at the New Business Models For TV Drama Production round table

Yesterday’s second round table looking at Fiction Funding proved to be controversial with participants at odds as to whether the crisis is really over but unanimous over that the fact that broadcasters are increasingly leaving the financing of audiovisual projects to producers: “We were shocked by the review that we did of the production sector which showed a massive fall in profit forecasts but costs remaining fixed for producers,” Aviva Silver, Head of Unit – MEDIA Programme & Media Literacy, said. “The other worrying thing is that the internet is not providing any significant revenue. And catch-up TV is very popular but again it doesn’t provide revenue and it also eats into DVD sales.”

MEDIA’s new scheme to try to encourage banks and other financial institutions to invest in audiovisual productions was met with some skepticism by Dominique Lambert, Director, HSBC France. “Of course as a bank this scheme is interesting but the fact that funding for the project is €8 million over four years means that its effect will only be modest.”

Nicolas Traube, CEO of Pampa, was left wondering where exactly the finance for

audiovisual projects in general would come from: “My job is to make films and it has been very clear for some time now that the financial crisis is a big one,” he said. “However, the public still loves watching images

and they always will. And that begs the question; who is going to pay for

programming to be produced ? Will banks replace broadcasters as a primary investor?”

Utta Tuttlies, Head of Communications at the Association of Commercial Television, Europe acknowledged that her sector has been very affected by the crisis: “When you are a publicly funded broadcaster it’s clear where your finance is coming from but the private sector does not have that luxury and a lot of our members were gravely affected by the dramatic, double digit decline in advertising revenues,” she said. “But the effect around Europe came in two waves, with Western Europe hit first, and hopefully now starting to recover, but Eastern Europe hit later and still having a tough time. The biggest irony in all this is that viewing figures were rising as advertisers were leaving.”

Norbert Sauer, Managing Director & Executive Producer, UFA Fernsehproduktion stated that producers were just going to have to get used to a new way of working: “We have to get used to having less money whether we like it or not,” he said. “For example a TV film that would have cost €1.3 million now has to be made for €1 million, plus we are increasingly finding that broadcasters expect producers to assume the costs of production. Meanwhile high-end drama remains very important so we are more obliged than ever to co-produce and UFA has a network of partner companies in key territories.”

Michela Ritondo, International Tax Expert, Federal Public Service Finance in Belgium, revealed that Belgium offers a significant incentive to producers of TV films, kids’ programming and animation: “If an investor puts up to €500,000 into one of those categories, we offer a 150% tax relief, that is to say on a sum of €750,000 for any project longer than 22 minutes.”

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TV Xchanges

PRIVATE SECTOR FINANCE COMES OF AGE

The Fiction Funding: Mew Schemes, New Funds And Others. Where Can The Money Come From?

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9:30 – 10:00

Keynote : Klaus Bassiner, Managing Director Series, ZDF, Germany with Alain Modot,Vice-president, Media Consulting Group, France

10:30 – 12:00Round table 3 - Co-production: a concept of the Old World?

Speakers:Pascal Breton, President, Marathon, France

Philipp Kreuzer, Attorney at Law / Head of Production, Finance & Co-Production, Bavaria Fernsehproduktion GmbH, Germany Ole Soendberg, Executive Producer, Yellow Bird, SwedenNathalie Garcia, General Manager, Notro TV, SpainPhilippe Jacot, Head of Co-production, EBUFilip Bobinski, CEO and Producer, Dramedy,Czech RepublicRob Pursey, Managing Director,Touchpaper Television, United Kingdom

Moderator: Alain Modot, Vice-President, Media Consulting Group, France

THuRSday 10TH JuNE 2010Klaus Bassiner, Managing Director Series, ZDF

will be talking to Alain Modot,Vice-President, Media Consulting Grouptoday at 9.30 in the Salle Van Dongen.

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“New business models are being tested all the time. 720 new Video On Demand (VOD) services were launched in Europe in the last year and there are now over 7,000 channels on the continent,” Utta Tuttlies, Head of Communications at the Association of Commercial Television, Europe.

“The economic crisis showed clearly that TV advertising and consumption are not necessarily related. Advertising was down by 20% but consumption was only down by 5%,” Nicolas Traube, CEO of Pampa.

“Spain is second only to Bulgaria in terms of piracy and the government is being very slow to act. At the same time broadcasters are proving to be unable to change their ways which is stifling fiction production,” Film and TV producer Antonio Saura of Zebra Productions.

“As we are seeing in Korea right now, when broadband penetration gets to 70% and above, the home entertainment industry just disappears. Spain is currently at 63% and climbing rapidly so I fear for that country’s producers,” Martin Moszcowicz, Member of the Board at Constantin Film.

“Successful shows are always partly down to the synergy amongst the cast, and even if an episode one week is not great, the audience will come back,” Charles Floyd Johnson, Executive Producer, NCIS.

What They Said At TV Xchanges 2010

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Réception Princière

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Flying High

By sheer happenstance, two of our Hollywood guests this week are connected to the new George Lucas script about the first black aerial combat unit of World Ward II. The 994 pilots fought for acceptance from the white brass and Washington bigots simply to enter WWII - after training at the segregated army airfield at Tuskegee, Alabama, circa 1942. “90210” find Tristan Wilds appears in the fictional account, “Red Tails” - produced (in Prague) by, among others, Charles Floyd Johnson, the triple Emmy-winner producer of “NCIS,” The Rockford Files,” “Magnum, P I,” “quantum Leap” and “BL Stryker.” Tristan’s fellow flyers include Terrence Howard and, the only actor appearing in both tghsi and the 1995 tele-film version, the Oscar-winning Cuba Gooding Jr.Both men confirmed in Monaco yesterday that producer George Lucas returned to directing for the first time since the last (?) “Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith” in 1995 to handle some re-shoots on this movie, a pet project of his for some decades. T.C.