The daily Untenablewhich returns for a second season next Monday on TVA, is a finalist for the award for best new scripted series in a non-English language at the 2023 Content Innovation Awards, which will be presented on the sidelines of the next MIPCOM.
“Indefensible”, produced by Pixcom and distributed internationally by the Turkish company Calinos Entertainment, is in the running alongside series from HBO Max (Motel Valkirias), Netflix India (Rana Naidu) and Paramount+ (Bosé).
“We are happy about anything that can promote sales of our series. This is what we always fight for. Getting nominated at a festival or ceremony is always good for the sales of a series,” said Nicola Merola, Pixcom president and producer.
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Actors Anne-Élisabeth Bossé and Sébastien Delorme of “Indéfendable” pose with the daily’s producers, Nicola Merola and Charles Lafortune, during the TVA program launch on August 29.
He specified that the court newspaper has not yet been sold abroad since signing a distribution and sales agreement with Calinos Entertainment last spring.
“As the new season of Indefensible begins on Monday, this success is reflected throughout the team. “To attract more than 1.5 million viewers per day and to stand out internationally, it is a nice pat on the back for Izabel Chevrier and Richard Dubé, the authors and actors Sébastien Delorme, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Michel Laperrière and Nour Belkhiria,” he emphasized part Charles Lafortune, Pixcom’s senior vice president of content and creation.
To date, several Pixcom series have been distributed abroad, including Audrey is Back (which is successful in both Italy and France on RAI), The Flaw, The Monster, Nuit blanche and Victor Lessard.
“It’s not yet worth selling series internationally. Our goal, Charles and I, is to make Quebec known everywhere by working with different distributors. That’s a lot of people who will present Quebec shows on a lot of channels and that gets people talking about us. There are about ten channels that bought La Rift 1, then 2 and 3, so that means it worked. Every time a show in Quebec is broadcast internationally, our goal is for distributors to be hungry for it,” added Mr. Merola, saying that Pixcom began “bringing money back here from abroad” several years ago. to complete the financial package Quebec series, as money is tight in our small market.
An international partner for The tributaries
He also mentioned that Pixcom has found an international partner for the new series Les tributaires, an environmental thriller directed by Sophie Deraspe. Filming is scheduled for early 2024 and the series slated for Club illico is being developed with Quebecor Content.