MIPCOM 2025 was our biggest market ever. The full TVF team held over 300 meetings from Monday through Thursday at our stand in the Palais, in Cannes. We celebrated recent deals over drinks and dinners with our partners throughout the week, and hosted our annual Pimms Event.

Premium history led our MIPCOM slate this year, starting with the Channel 4 and SBS documentary Escape From Chernobyl: 48 Hours That Changed the World (2 x 47 / 1 x 90) from Like a Shot Entertainment. The documentary commemorates forty years since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

From Sky History, we launched The Last Burma Star (1 x 45, which follows Major Levison Wood and historian Alex Bescoby as they pay tribute to Burmese veterans who fought alongside British and Commonwealth forces in Burma, one of the most brutal theatres of WII.

We also launched a number of history titles from across Asia, including Asia’s Ancient Civilisations, Series 3 (4 x 47) from Singaporean public broadcaster, CNA, and Si Thep: Ancient Civilisation of the Sun God (1 x 52) from ThaiPBS, which combines CGI and archaeological digs to explore Thailand’s ancient town of Si Thep.

This year, we also launched the world’s first in-depth documentary about the weight loss “wonder drug” Ozempic: CBC’s The Ozempic Effect: Beyond the Waistline (1 x 44 / 1 x 50). The documentary follows the meteoric rise of Ozempic from its development to becoming the best-selling prescription of all time.

TVF International also launched the second season of Bloomberg’s Emmy Award-winning science series The Future with Hannah Fry (6 x 30), and the latest of CBS’ pop-science programme, Innovation Nation. Two-part space series Voices of the Universe (2 x 52) from Somadrome is also new for MIPCOM, which brings together 18 Nobel prize-winning scientists to answer humanity’s most pressing questions about the universe.

We also took an original series on our trip to Cannes: Great British Train Journeys From Above (4 x 47), narrated by Hugh Bonneville. The series, for Channel 4 and SBS, celebrates 200 years of train travel, taking viewers on some of Britain’s most iconic steam train journeys, including Scotland’s Jacobite Railway, which is better known as the real Hogwarts Express. 

In lifestyle, new Channel 4 series Saving Britain's Country Houses with Penelope Keith (10 x 47) from Somersault Studio made its debut at MIPCOM, which follows homeowners racing to keep their historic country homes intact across the UK. And in factual entertainment, Canada’s Off Road Rescue, Series 1 (6 x 47) for Telus following road rescue workers in extreme conditions, as well as the Singaporean series Inside Police Coast Guard (2 x 47), came to Cannes.

Finally, in true crime, we launched the award-winning series Australian Crime Stories: The Investigators (12 x 52) from Nine Network, in which the best detectives from Down Under revisit the toughest cases of their career.

Poppy McAlister, Managing Director of TVF International, commented:

“We are thrilled to have acquired over 100 new hours of world-class factual programming to launch at MIPCOM. From premium history and cutting-edge science to gripping true crime and vibrant lifestyle, the TVF slate celebrates factual storytelling from all corners of the globe and we’re proud to share it on the Croisette.”