The Wit @ MIPCOM 2008

Conferences Thursday, October 2 by Guest

Our popular CEO Virgina Mouseler will be speaking a at MipTV 2008

On Tuesday October 14 at 10.30 she'll introduce "Fresh TV Around The World".

On Tuesday October 14 at 16.15 she'll introduce "Fresh Fiction Around Spain".

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The Wit Around the World

Conferences Friday, April 11 by Olivier / The Wit

Once again, the MIP conferences from The Wit were huge and got reviews around the world. You can send us new links in the comments.

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The Wit @ MIPTV feat MILIA 2008 (France)

Conferences Tuesday, March 11 by Pedro / The Wit

TUESDAY 8 APRIL 
13.15-14.15 FRESH TV AROUND THE WORLD

Our popular CEO Virgina Mouseler will be speaking @ MIP TV feat MILIA for the expected Fresh conference

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The Wit @ MIPDOC 2008 (France)

Conferences Tuesday, March 11 by Pedro / The Wit

SUNDAY 6 APRIL 2008

12.00 – 12.30 FRESH DOCS AROUND THE WORLD

Virginia Mouseler will be speaking @ MIPDOC

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MIPCOM Mobile & TV Awards

Mobile Friday, October 19 by Martin / The Wit

Cannes, 10 October 2007 – MIPCOM announces the winners of the MIPCOM Mobile & Internet TV Awards 2007. The international trophies were awarded yesterday evening in a packed auditorium at the 23rd annual MIPCOM (8 - 12 October, 2007, Palais des Festivals, Cannes). The winning titles were chosen by an international grand jury from a
total of 32 nominated projects.

Check out the 9 winners of the MIPCOM Mobile & Internet TV Awards 2007!

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The Wit @ MIPCOM 2007 (France)

Conferences Thursday, Septembre 13 by Virginia / The Wit

Our popular CEO Virgina Mouseler will be speaking at MIPCOM.

On Tuesday October 9 at 11.00 she'll introduce "Fresh TV Around the World- Fall & Winter Collection".

In this special session, Virginia Mouseler will present clips from the world's most successful, innovative and most talked about TV shows from the new season.

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Inside The Wit's Studio: Thomas

People Tuesday, June 26

The WIT people reveal themselves in this new series of posts.

Thomas takes the famous questionnaire originally based on Bernard Pivot's work.

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Inside The Wit's Studio: Solange

People Wednesday, June 20

The WIT people reveal themselves in this new series of posts.

Solange is the first to take the famous questionnaire originally based on Bernard Pivot's work.

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The French Sanjaya wins Idol

Television Thursday, June 14 by Olivier / The Wit

In the USA, Jimmy Kimmel compared Julien the fresh winner of French Idol (Nouvelle Star) to American Idol "worst constestant" Sanjaya.

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Pocket Films Festival 3

Mobile Wednesday, June 13 by Olivier / The Wit

The third edition of the Pocket Films Festival , organized by the Forum des Images, took place on June 8, 9 and 10th in Paris.

For its third edition, Pocket Films extended its exploration by programming international mobile video creations.

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The Wit around the world

Conferences Tuesday, June 12 by Olivier / The Wit

Once again, the MIP conferences from The Wit were huge and got reviews around the world.

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The Wit @ MIPTV 2007 (France)

Conferences Friday, April 13 by Virginia / The Wit

Our popular CEO Virgina Mouseler will be speaking a at MipTV 2007.

On Monday April 16 at 15.00 she'll introduce "Fresh Fiction Around Italia".

On Tuesday April 17 at 11.30 she'll introduce "Fresh TV Around The World".

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New : Mobile Report

Mobile Thursday, April 12 by Martin / The Wit

Dear friends,

I'm Martin, head of Mobile TV at The Wit.

Welcome to our brand new Mobile Report.

Spotlighting :

- the most interesting mobile TV clips detected in the Wit Mobile database.

- a market: this month, the U.S.A.

We hope this report will facilitate your navigation in the mobile TV universe !

Witty mobile subscribers please click here to log in !

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FreshFIX: the best of the week in 2 minutes

Videos Tuesday, March 20 by Olivier / The Wit

Click on the eye to watch !

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FreshFIX: the best of the week in 2 minutes

Videos Friday, March 9 by Olivier / The Wit

Click on the eye to watch ! Viewer discretion is advised.

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FreshFIX: the best of the week in 2 minutes

Videos Friday, March 2 by Olivier / The Wit

Click on the eye to watch !

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Focus on content: Extract from The Wit Mobile Database

Mobile Tuesday, February 27 by Martin / The Wit

A program from the Wit Mobile Database...

Entertainment - Animation
USA
Operator: Sprint
Premiere: October 2006
First shown in the USA
Channel: Atomic Wedgie

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FreshFIX: the best of the Britney week in less than 2 minutes

Videos Friday, February 23 by Olivier / The Wit

Click on the eye to watch (Britney special) !

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FreshFIX: the best of the week in 2 minutes

Videos Friday, February 16 by Olivier / The Wit

Click on the eye to watch (BRIT special) !

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The WIT conquers Mumbai, India

Conferences Friday, February 16 by Virginia / The Wit

The WIT will be in Mumbai at Ficci FRAMES 2007 on Monday 26 March!

In this special session the WIT presents the world's freshest and most popular TV shows of the season, specially edited for FRAMES participants. This includes clips from the world's most successful, innovative and most talked about TV shows.

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Belgian worst drivers crash in Rome !

Formats Wednesday, February 14 by Guest

In Belgium, La Une will launch on Tuesday 20 February 2007 a local adaptation of the Mentorn format "Worst Driver", the search for the worst car driver in Belgium.

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FreshFIX: the best of the week in 2 minutes

Videos Friday, February 9 by Olivier / The Wit

Click on the eye (UK special) !

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Super Bowl Rules

Latest Tuesday, February 6 by Olivier / The Wit

Based on Nielsen ratings, Super Bowl XLI (Indianapolis vs Chicago) delivered a 42.6 rating/64% audience share on Sunday 4 February 2007, making it the highest-rated Super Bowl in seven years: CBS averaged 93.15 million viewers.

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FreshFIX: the best of the week in 2 minutes

Videos Friday, February 2 by Olivier / The Wit

Click on the eye !

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The Rich List in Australia

Formats Wednesday, January 31 by Pedro / The Wit

The Rich List, a gameshow produced by 12 Yard, was an instant failure in the USA on FOX on 1 December 2006.

In Australia, on Seven, the local adaptation of the format was the most-watched programme on television on Tuesday 30 January – delivering 1.556 million viewers and a peak audience of 1.64 million.

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Amas de casa desesperadas finished its run in Argentina

Formats Wednesday, January 31 by Olivier / The Wit

Amas de casa desesperadas, the local adaptation of the U.S drama series Desperate Housewives (Buena Vista International), finished its first series' run on Wednesday 24 January 2007 in Argentina on Canal 13.

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FreshFIX: the best of the week in 2 minutes

Videos Friday, January 26 by Olivier / The Wit

Click on the eye !

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Jade and Shilpa gave Celebrity Big Brother its highest ever audience

Television Wednesday, January 24 by Olivier / The Wit

In the UK, on Channel 4, The Jade Goody's interview after her eviction was watched by an average of 7.8 million viewers at 22.30. It was the Celebrity Big Brother’s highest ever audience while the show started a national racism debate and became an International issue.

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Golden Globe Awards : the winner is ...."Ugly Betty" !

Television Tuesday, January 16 by Guest

America Ferrera is facing her first awards this night in Hollywood.

Official website : www.hfpa.org/goldenglobeawards/index.html

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"The L Word", Showtime's Lesbian Series, Season 4 is back !

Television Wednesday, January 10 by Guest

January 2007, the season 4 of "L Word" is starting in USA.
The series, broadcast on Showtime, tells the story of lesbians' friends in Los Angeles, the 1st serie completly focused on lesbian life.

Non-official website : www.thelwordonline.com
Official website (for US only) : www.sho.com/lword

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Celebrity Big Brother UK 5 press release

Research Thursday, January 4 by Pedro / The Wit

LAUNCH NIGHT AUDIENCE FOR CELEBRITY BIG BROTHER GROWS

Audience ratings for the opening show of the fifth series of Celebrity Big Brother peaked at 8 million viewers last night, an increase on last year's launch night audience, (which peaked at 7.6m viewers), and confirming the original celebrity reality show is as popular as ever. The show won the TV slot from 8pm to 9.30pm beating audiences for all other major channels.

Channel 4 also launched the third series of Desperate Housewives off the back of Celebrity Big Brother and the first two episodes, screened back to back, won 3.6 and 2.8 m viewers, peaking at 4.4m and 3.0m respectively.

The combination of ratings-winning shows helped Channel 4 to a 14.9% all day audience share, its biggest since which is the highest since the final of Big Brother (16.7%) in August 2006.

Channel 4 was also the strongest channel in terms of 16-34 share yesterday with 21.9% 16-34 for the whole day and 26.5% 16-24 share in peak.

A Channel 4 Spokesman said, "We are delighted that both shows, scheduled together as a post-holiday treat for Channel 4 viewers, were so warmly welcomed by TV audiences to give us a fantastic start to 2007."

This was the second largest Celebrity Big Brother launch, beaten only by the opening night for series 2 which won an average 7.4m and 30% audience share. Unofficial overnight viewing figures from Barb have indicated that last night's Celebrity Big Brother launch show (Wed 3rd Jan, 8-9.30pm) was watched by an average 7.1 million viewers, (an 8% increase on 2006 at 6.5m viewers), and a 28.4% share of those viewing television at the time. At its peak the show was watched by 8.0 million viewers and a 31.9% share.

Unofficial overnight ratings take no account of viewers who may have video recorded the programme.

Celebrity Big Brother is a Brighter Pictures, part of Endemol UK, for Channel 4.

-ends-

Greek Ugly Betty already a star

Television Wednesday, January 3 by Pedro / The Wit

In Greece Mega Channel just launched the primetime telenovela Ugly Maria the local adaptation of the Betty La Fea format. On Monday, January 1 from 21.10 to 21.55 the first episode won its timeslot with a 36.2% share in 4+, according to Agb data. On January 2 the second episode also won its timeslot wit a 30.1% share against the local adaptation of the Deal or no Deal format on Antenna 1.

German Ugly Betty ready to seduce French viewers

Television Thursday, December 28 by Pedro / The Wit

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1 vs 100 in Spain = 18 per cent

Formats Tuesday, December 26 by Pedro / The Wit

A local adaptation of the hit quiz format 1 vs 100 distributed by Endemol just started in Spain on Antena 3. On Saturday, December 23 2006 episode 1 of 1 contra 100 garnered a 18% share in 4+, number 2 in its timeslot. On Christmas' Eve the second episode averaged a 13.8% share (according to TNS data). The day after, not far away from Spain, in Portugal the local version of the format titled 1 contra todos averaged a 28% share in 4+ on RTP1 (according to Mediamonitor data).

Merry Christmas everyone !

Television Friday, December 22 by Vincent / The Wit

Don't Worry he'll be on time for everyone!

All The Wit Team wish you a Merry Christmas

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Dominos made in Japan

Videos Wednesday, December 13 by Vincent / The Wit

A flat, 3 guys,...

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Barney's philosophy

Television Wednesday, December 13 by Delphine / The Wit

From this week's How I Met Your Mother

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Too aggressive!!

Television Friday, December 8 by Delphine / The Wit

Joy (My Name Is Earl) and her... anger management problem!

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The Bachelor - Rome (season 9): ABC

Television Thursday, December 7 by Delphine / The Wit

Lorenzo finally made his decision... Will it be the right one? Let's hope so!!

Scrubs is back!

Television Thursday, November 30 by Delphine / The Wit

1st episode of Scrubs’ season 6 on NBC.

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America is playing ? no, dreaming !

Television Thursday, November 23 by Guest

America is playing. No more TV reality shows, the US channels understood that American viewers wanted to dream. Games’ shows become the new American Dream.

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What's next would you do it? Do you?

Videos Thursday, November 23 by Vincent / The Wit

Sometimes being a Kangourou is just enough to beat a man, must see!

DVD... licious !

Television Thursday, November 23 by Guest

The Best Of the 3 first seasons of The Ellen DeGeneres Show

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Ellen DeGeneres in NYC, you go girl !

Television Thursday, November 23 by Guest

The Ellen DeGeneres Show has moved to New-York City for Thanskgiving; as her best french fan of this funny show, I was there, in the Big Apple.

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Victoria and David

Television Monday, October 23 by Guest

Star Stories is a comedy show imagining the bust-ups, love-ins and fall-outs of celebrities, played by actors. The first episode aired on Channel 4 in the UK. In the opener: a look at the world of David and Victoria Beckham and the best kept secrets behind the romance of the century, treated with lots of fun!

Here is the first rendezvous.

The WIT in Polish

Latest Monday, October 23 by Guest

For Polish speakers, you can find a report about the latest WIT conference held in Cannes on Wednesday 11 October on Polish website Wirtualnemedia.

Link to the article

This session focused on a global overview of consumer user patterns, mobile TV content development and operator content packages across the world.

Virginia Mouseler, CEO of the WIT, presented the world’s freshest and most popular mobile TV shows of the season.

The ARD had two entertainment hits last week...

Television Sunday, October 22 by Guest

Hi The Wit,
thought I'd just drop you a line, just in case you didn't have the information already.

The ARD had two entertainment hits last week with shows created by First Entertainment.

First of all Nature's Best Inventions on Thursday October 12th at 20:15 won its time-slot with 4,82 million viewers and a market share of 15,4% and 10% with the 14-49 ers. It faced very stiff competition. (First Entertainment in co-operation with SWR). The science-based entertainment show has been optioned by Endemol France (Distribution: First Entertainment)

Secondly, on Saturday 14th October the 6th edition of The Pisa Show at 20:15, with host Jörg Pilawa performed very well, with 5, 3 million viewers and 18,4% market share. This time 10 teams from Germany's neighbouring countries: Belgium, Holland, France, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic took part in the highly successful test-tv format. (Production: First Entertainment in co-operation with WDR; Distribution Eyeworks).

Best Wishes,
Rosanna (First Entertainment)

Why the World is in Love with Telenovelas? (3)

Conferences Monday, October 16 by Virginia / The Wit

Conference "Telenovelas Screenings"
Saturday 7 October 2006, Cannes, France

3 - A typology of telenovelas: A glimpse of the latest telenovelas

3.1 - Forbidden Love
3.2 - Love triangle
3.3 - Young women looking for happiness
3.4 - Modern destinies
3.5 - Epoca
3.6 - Adventure & revenge
3.7 - Identity swaps
3.8 - Mystery
3.9 - Male heroes
3.10 - A taste of comedy
3.11 - Teen telenovelas
3.12 - Interactive telenovela

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Mobile TV Screening & Awards, MIPCOM 2006

Mobile Friday, October 13 by Delphine / The Wit

Paul Johnson, Director of Reed MIDEM’s Television Division:
"Mobile TV represents a growing opportunity for the audiovisual content industry. By creating and hosting the Mobile TV Awards at MIPCOM we aim to play an active role in promoting the development of made-for-mobile content and facilitating commercial transactions on a global level for both TV and film."

MIPCOM announced yesterday evening the winners of this year’s Mobile TV Screening & Awards, hosted by dynamic and fun Valli (French national radio presenter), at the well known Palais des Festivals for the 22nd edition of the world’s audiovisual content market. The international trophies were awarded in a packed auditorium and winning titles chosen by an international grand jury from a total of 23 nominated projects. In addition to the grand jury awards, a Grand Prize for Best Innovation in Mobile Content was awarded by Orange.

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Why the World is in Love with Telenovelas? (2)

Conferences Thursday, October 12 by Virginia / The Wit

Conference "Telenovelas Screenings"
Saturday 7 October 2006, Cannes, France

2 - What are the differences between a telenovela and a soap opera ?

2.1 - The format of soaps
2.2 - The characters
2.3 - The scenario
2.4 - A different glimpse of life:
2.5 - Telenovela: the story's the star
2.6 - Soaps and telenovelas serve different purposes

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The Wit in Spanish

Latest Wednesday, October 11 by Pedro / The Wit

For Spanish speakers, you can find a report about the latest WIT conference held in Cannes on Tuesday 10 October on Spanish website Vertele.

Link to the article

In this special session, Virginia Mouseler, CEO of research company, the WIT, presented the world’s freshest and most popular TV shows of the season. These included clips from the world’s most successful, innovative and most talked about TV shows.

The presentation covered creative trends in all programming genres: formats, entertainment shows, game shows, documentaries or magazines worldwide. Based on the monthly “The WIT Fresh TV Report” which spots new shows launched in more than 30 markets worldwide, 25 programme clips offered the MIPCOM crowd a mine of fresh ideas selected from around the world.

Why the World is in Love with Telenovelas? (1)

Conferences Wednesday, October 11 by Virginia / The Wit

Conference "Telenovelas Screenings"
Saturday 7 October 2006, Cannes, France

1 - The essence of telenovelas

1.1 - The format
1.2 - The scenario
1.3 - The characters
1.4 - The plots
1.5 - The location

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Deal or no deal, made in Japan

Videos Friday, October 6 by Vincent / The Wit

Just watch it !

Mobile TV trends 2006 (episode 2)

Mobile Friday, October 6 by Olivier / The Wit

Mobile TV is billed in different ways: video on demand, billing based on volume of exchanged data, free of charge (programs financed by advertising) and monthly subscriptions with unlimited access. According to the markets actors, all billing modes are compatible, and apply to different targets. Linear broadcasting (a mobile channel that streams the same program all day) unveils the program to users whereas video on demand applies to fans who know what they want to watch…

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Mobile TV trends 2006 (episode 1)

Mobile Friday, October 6 by Olivier / The Wit

In mobile TV, all genres of programs can be found and users are faced with a large number of shows featuring very different content and very different billing techniques. Most of the landmark shows on regular TV have their spin-off on mobiles. Recent productions anticipate upstream activities and film exclusive scenes during the TV show’s production. Regular TV channels are positioned on the medium like they are on the Internet and they offer mobile users the possibility to continue to watch their shows on tiny screens…

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