If you thought there is now a glut in the market, MIPCOM will show you that is an understatement. There is a collective understanding that the market had grown so big that it’s become increasingly hard to have a break-out hit. James Murdoch rightly pointed out that because of the cloud virtually every vintage show became – or are gradually becoming – available, so the new offering is competing with ‘everything that’s every done before.’
MIPJunior’s product listing ran some new 1,000 titles. As for MIPCOM, the immense, 700-page(!) trade mag, World Screen, gave the synopsis of 1,250 news shows in its product listing (including some kids fare). The Hollywood Reporter recently cited data about scripted content in the U.K.: it grew by 1,000 % in the past decade (simply put: it doubled every year over 10 years).
