Scripted

Keshet International has secured the international distribution rights to a further raft of content for its MIPCOM 2023 slate, including Radio Canada’s medical super-series STAT (120x30’) and psychological thriller Eyes Shut (Les Yeux Fermés) ; KAN’s detective drama Tell Me Everything ; Keshet Studios’ first original unscripted format Stuck! ; C4’s Celebrity Save Our Sperm ; plus Keshet 12’s International Emmy® Award-nominated Last Stop Before Kyiv.

KI has picked up STAT, Canada’s #1 rated original Canadian series, from Aetios Productions. An upscale daily drama premiering four days a week, STAT secures 40% viewing share on Radio Canada, averaging 1.612M viewers, and rating #1 with 18-24-year-olds. The fourth daily super-series to be produced by Aetios Productions, STAT follows in the footsteps of police drama District 31 and medical drama Trauma, which have both recently sold well on the international market (to Sony [AXN] and Netflix, respectively).

KI has also acquired the psychological thriller Eyes Shut (Les Yeux Fermés) from Aetios Productions. Directed by Jeanne Leblanc (Our Own) and again commissioned by Radio Canada.
Eyes Shut will premiere in Canada on ICI Tele – Radio-Canada every Wednesday at 9pm from 25 October.

Meanwhile, KI has also secured the format and finished tape rights to Gum Films’ detective drama Tell Me Everything (Ha’ish Sheratza Ladaat Hakol) for its scripted slate.
Slated to premiere on Israel’s KAN this coming November, Tell Me Everything is based on the best-selling novel The Man Who Wanted to Know by Dror A Mishani and directed by Michal Vinik (Valeria Mithatenet).

All three of these new dramas will be launched to buyers in Cannes alongside Shenhar Productions’ hotly anticipated thriller Trust No One (Harosh) for Keshet 12, which headlines KI’s MIPCOM 2023 slate and has already been sold to Netflix exclusively in 20 territories, including the US and UK (as announced on 21 September 2023).KI’s formats slate also includes Keshet Studios’ first original unscripted format, STUCK!. Created by Rebecca Mayer and Ben Long, the newly appointed SVP of Unscripted and VP of Unscripted, respectively - STUCK! is a comedic, physical game show for all ages.KI has also acquired the format and finished tape of Crackit Productions’ factual entertainment series, Celebrity Save Our Sperm. Originally commissioned for Channel 4, comedian Russell Kane, Radio 1’s Melvin Odoom, and Made in Chelsea’s Ollie Locke unite in a ballsy attempt to increase their sperm count in just 10 weeks and stop “Spermageddon”. KI’s factual slate also includes Keshet 12’s International Emmy® Award-nominated documentary Last Stop Before Kyiv by Uvda’s filmmaker Itai Anghel, alongside two high-profile documentaries acquired from Flicker Productions