MIPCOM numbers were down a little on last year, but considerably improved from the MIPTV market earlier in the year, and 12,000 people swilling around the Palais still makes a fair amount of mess.
Ironically, the country that caused the global meltdown is the one benefitting most from its fallout, at least in TV programme sales. Buyers from countries unable or unwilling to commission in the present climate have turned to tried and tested product for high-cost programming and the largest amount of that is available from the US.
