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Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected]

We are happy to present you the February issue of the CIS: Content Report where we tried to gather the most interesting up-to-date information about rapidly developing content production and distribu-tion markets of the CIS region. As far as most of the locally produced series and TV movies are further distributed and broadcast mainly inside the CIS terri-tories, we picked up the most interesting and original projects with those script-ideas that have interna-tional appeal and may further travel abroad to Eu-rope, Asia or the North America both as readymade product or formats. Besides there are a lot of full-length features recently launched into production in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries that for sure may have not only successful interna-tional distribution but also be the award winners and nominees of different international film festivals. De-spite large portion of information on the new movies, shows and series you’ll also find the detailed report on the recent deals of international distributors with the CIS-partners.

In our “Focus” we would like to present you the over-view of television markets in such Central Asia coun-tries as Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. These markets differ a lot from the points of view of their volume, number of broadcasters, TV-content production facilities and trends of development. TV markets in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, for instance, are just starting to evolve and integrate into global TV tendencies. From the other hand Turkmenistan is closed for TV business activities because of its inner governmental policy. Unfortunately, data on TV ratings and share of the TV channels in all these countries is not available because of the absence of national-wide TV researches there.

Now Ukrainian TV is at the stage of sweeping chang-es and has to fill up the gap where Russian content used to be. In an exclusive interview to CIS: Content Report TET TV channel programming director Viktor Shkrobot and executive producer Anna Gonchar told how the broadcasting schedule is formed, content of what countries TET imports the most and how the whole strategy changed in light of national currency devaluation. In addition, they shared thoughts about the quality of the new Ukrainian TV product.

And one more thing we’d like to remind you. Plan-ning your business calendar for 2015 do not for-get to book time to visit the major event for televi-sion and media professionals in the CIS region - KIEV MEDIA WEEK 2015, September 7-11, 2015. Organized by Media Resources Management

company, this unique media industry project, one and only of a kind in the CIS and Central and Eastern Europe is a one stop destination for the whole range of international events for media industry profes-sionals.

Please do not forget that we are here to be your local source of information and analytics.

We wish a pleasant reading!

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тема номера слово редакцииУже в первые дни нового года нам, редакции Content Report, сразу стало понятно, что в 2011м все мы будем усердно и неустанно трудиться. Занимаясь подготовкой первого выпуска обзора новостей рынка производства и аудиовизуального контента в этом году, мы с радостью обнаружили, что даже в новогодние праздники работа во многих продакшнах идет полным ходом, а дальше, как говорится, станет еще больше. Как неоднократно было отмечено, вследствие кризиса основательно изменилась конъюнктура рынка, поменялась расстановка сил и возможностей, поэтому работать действительно есть и будет над чем. Подтверждением тому является количество собранного в этом (полупраздничном) номере материала.

В сегодняшней теме номера мы остановились на одной из самых болезненных тем отечественной киноиндустрии – рынке кинотеатров. На страницах Content Report мы неоднократно публиковали мнения о том, что едва ли не основной проблемой (хотя эту тему активно поднимают все, кому не безразлична судьба национального кинематографа), сдерживающей развитие индустрии «полного метра» на постсоветском пространстве, является катастрофическая нехватка кинозалов. Однако рынок продолжает стремительно развиваться. И если поводов для оптимизма относительно увеличения количества кинотеатров попрежнему не так много , то по внедрению современных технологий за прошлый год имеются все основания для гордости за это. Между тем попытаемся разобраться, есть ли свет в конце тоннеля?!.

Первый номер Content Report выходит в канун Старого Нового года, который (наконецто) завершает череду праздников, поэтому еще раз хотим пожелать нашим подписчикам в 2011 году найти свой верный путь и следовать ему с упорством, трудясь не покладая рук. У каждого своя дорога, но цель у нас одна – развивать и улучшать отечественный рынок. По коням, господа!

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Review of audiovisual content production and distribution in the CIS countries

Media Resources Management

We are happy to present you the April issue of the CIS: Content Report where we tried to gather the most interesting up-to-date information about rapidly developing content production and distribution mar-kets of the CIS region. As far as most of the locally produced series and TV movies are further distrib-uted and broadcast mainly inside the CIS territories, we picked up the most interesting and original proj-ects with those script ideas that have international appeal and may further travel abroad to Europe, Asia or the North America both as readymade product or formats. Besides there are a lot of full-length features recently launched into production in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and other CIS states that for sure may have not only successful international distribution but also be the award winners and nominees of different international film festivals. Despite large portion of in-formation on the new movies, shows and series you’ll also find the detailed report on the recent distribution deals.

In our “Focus” we continue the cycle of articles dedi-cated to the current situation on TV markets of the post-Soviet countries. The region is developing rap-idly both in terms of its TV market volume and the number of players on it led by such states as Rus-sia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. In previous issue we focused on TV markets of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, and this time we’ll provide a short analy-sis of such territories as Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia and Moldova.

Last autumn members of Russian association of televi-sion and movie producers chose Red Square Screen-ings as the most important industry event of the season. The idea of the forum aimed at showcasing the Russian cinema for the international film community belongs to Yevgeny Gindilis – Red Square Screenings’ execu-tive director, founder and producer general of Russian film company TVINDIE. He is also a member of Euro-pean Film Academy (EFA). In an exclusive interview to CIS: Content Report he told about achievements, pri-orities and plans of his company and his own as well as about the experience of international coproduction.

And one more thing we’d like to remind you. Plan-ning you business calendar for 2013 do not forget to book time to visit the major event for televi-sion and media professionals in the CIS region - KIEV MEDIA WEEK 2013, September 10-13, 2013. Organized by Media Resources Manage-ment company, this unique media industry proj-ect, one and only of a kind in the CIS and Central and Eastern Europe is a one stop destination for five international media industry events.

Please do not forget that we are here to be your local source of information and analytics.

We wish a pleasant reading!

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TV MARKETS: UKRAINE, BELARUS, GEORGIA, MOLDOVA

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YEVGENY GINDILIS: THE WORK OF

EUROPEAN PRODUCERS CAN’T

EVEN BE COMPARED TO THE ONE WE HAVE

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INTERVIEW

DEAR COLLEAGUES

Production: (2)SerieS (2)TV moVieS (7)TV ShowS (9)FeaTure FilmS (11)

distribution (16)cinema distribution Year 2012 in ukraine (22)

focus (23)

interview (25)

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TV markeTs in TurkmenisTan, TajikisTan and

uzbekisTan (19)

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VikTor shkroboT: it is hard for a

TV channel to be entertaining in the

current circumstances, but it is a responsible

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DEAR COllEAGUES

Production: (2)SerieS (2)TV ShowS (7)FeaTure FilmS (10)

distribution (14)cinema distribution in ukraine (18)

focus (19)

interview (21)


2 Media Resources Management. 22 Zakrevsky St., Kiev 02660, Ukraine www.mrm.ua Tel.: +380 (44) 459-4610; e-mail: [email protected]

production production production

Producers: Victor Mirsky, Maksim Asadchy.director: Elena Semenova. cast: Ksenyya lukyanchykova, Anatoliy Rudenko, Artem Tkachenko, Ada Rogovtseva, Elena Morozova, Boris Shcherbakov, Tatiana Orlova, Valery Barinov, Anna Zdor, Natalia Vysochanskaya, Anastasia Evhrafova, Anna Sahaydachnaya and others.number of ePisodes: 12.Genre: Biopic.

ussr beauTy

Mid February Ukrainian group fiLm.ua in co-production with lo-cal prodco Pronto film finished shooting 12-episode biographi-cal drama with a tentative title ussr beauty. Filming took place in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, lvov, Samarqand and Minsk.

Synopsis: This is a story of one of the most famous Soviet Union’ fashion model Regina Zbarskaya, sometimes called ‘Sophia lor-en of USSR’. Pierre Cardin, Christian Dior and Federico Fellini admired her. But who was she in a real life?

series

fiLm.ua, PronTo fiLm

Producers: Alexеy Brodsky, Mihail Barkan, Victor Mirsky, Vladimir Issat.director: Vladimir Melnichenko. cast: Konstantin Samoukov, Mariya Berseneva, Eugene Sakharov, Victoria Bilan, Oleg Primogenov and others.number of ePisodes: 32.Genre: Detective.

mayor and wiTch

Ukrainian group of companies fiLm.ua is currently working on new 32-episodes comedy detective mayor and witch. Shooting started in the end of 2014 and takes place in Kiev.

Synopsis: Mayor Amosov is facing hard times. He has to move from Moscow back to his native provincial town, but even there he cannot start with a clean slate – his fingers are all thumbs and his chief is always giving him complex cold cases. But somewhere on the skirts of the town young beautiful woman known as Seeress Elena lives. Once their paths will cross…

series

fiLm.ua

Producers: Victor Mirsky, Oksana Bayrak.director, scriPt: Oksana Bayrak. cast: Sergey Zhigunov, Igor Vernick, Igor Botwin, Albert Filozov, Xenia Khair, Katerina Malikova, Maxim Pavlov, Maya Chayka and others.number of ePisodes: 4.Genre: Romance.

The one

Ukrainian group of companies fiLm.ua wrapped up shooting new 4-episode romance The one. Filming started last November and took place in Kiev and Batumi (Georgia).

Synopsis: Masha, author of mills & boon books has faced a writer’s block. ‘There is no happiness genre’ – she says – ‘only drama, romance, detective, but no happiness’. But her niece ly-ubava seems to be a living proof that Masha is wrong – she has got a good house, ideal husband and wonderful son… Until her loving spouse cheats on her and everything ruins in a matter of minutes. Maybe happiness is actually a myth?

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fiLm.ua

Producers: Ekaterina Gordetskaya, Andrey Rad’ko.director: Ilya Kazankov. scriPt: Renat Khairullin, Yury Stukalin.cast: Karina Razumovskaya, Kyrill Zaporozhskyi, Oksana Akinshina, Sergey Gorobchenko, Sergey Burunov, Sergey Barkovskyi.Genre: Detective.

kGb Vs. mVd

Russian production centre Gorad finished shooting new multi-episode historical detective kGb Vs. mVd commissioned by Russian channel one. Produced by movie Pro company the project is currently in post-production period now. Filming took place in Ivanteevka.

Synopsis: In the 1970-80s a huge wave of corruption sweeps across USSR. The most powerful politicians are involved, so KGB becomes the only one government service that can stop this.

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Gorad

Victor Mirsky




Producers: Mark levin, Yuri Sapronov.director: Vadim Ostrovsky.scriPt: Aleksandr Borodyansky.cast: laura Keosayan, Kirill Kyaro, Ramilya Iskander, Anzor Kamariddinov.number of ePisodes: 12.Genre: Drama.

juna

Russian prodco duet Production wrapped up shooting on 12-episode drama juna. The series is commissioned by Rus-sian channel one. Project is currently in post-production period. Filming took place in Moscow (Russia) and Tbilisi (Georgia).

Synopsis: Eugenia Yuvashevna Davitashvili known as ‘Juna’ is the famous Russian faith healer of Assyrian descent, who claims the power to cure cancer, knit broken bodies, and prolong life be-yond 100 years. Her fame is based largely on rumours that she laid hands on 75-year-old leonid Brezhnev, bringing about the improved appearance of the Soviet president (among other ‘pa-tients’ – Pope John Paul II, Robert De Niro, Andrei Tarkovsky and Federico Fellini). Also she was the one who predicted the break-up of the Soviet Union and the Chernobyl disaster.

series

dueT ProducTion

Producers: Aleksei Tselikhin, larisa Shlepina, Dmitriy Rubezhin.director: Roman Ivanov.cast: Pavel Krajnov, Viktoriya Poltorak, Kirill Boltayev, Aleksey Ovsyannikov, Angelina Dobrorodnova.number of ePisodes: 40.Genre: Detective.

The sTory

Russian film company kedr finished shooting 40-episode crimi-nal detective The story. The project is commissioned by rus-sia-1 TV channel. Filming took place in Moscow. Project is cur-rently in post-production period.

Synopsis: The Head of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow creates special squad to solve sensitive issues and high-profile cases. The selection criteria are very specific – all officers have been given a lot of cautions and reprimands, and not always obey the law themselves…

series

kedr

Producers: Ruben Dishdishyan, Aram Movsesyan, Elena Denisevich.director: Igor Zaytsev.scriPt: Sergey Yudakov, Aleksey Gravitskiy.cast: Julia Snigir, Pavel Derevyanko, Sergei Shakurov, Natalya Surkova, Mark Bogatyrev, Olga Medynich.number of ePisodes: 12.Genre: Drama.

caTherine The GreaT

Russian prodco mars media entertainment is working on 12-episode period drama catherine the Great. The series is commissioned by Russian channel one. Project premiere is set for spring 2015.

Synopsis: This is the story of the accession to power of Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67. Her reign was called Russia’s golden age, because the Russian Em-pire was revitalized under her reign, growing larger and stronger than ever and becoming recognized as one of the great powers of Europe.

series

mars media enTerTainmenT

Producers: Ruben Dishdishyan, Irina Putyatina.director, scriPt: Artur Rumynskiy.number of ePisodes: 4.Genre: Detective.

imPosTors

Russian prodco mars media entertainment is working on new 4-episode detective impostors commissioned by TV Tsentr channel. Project is currently in pre-production period. Shooting is due to start in May 2015 and will take place in Moscow.

Synopsis: Alina works as a virologist and has been trying to make an antidote for a dangerous virus for some time. Suddenly she

series

mars media enTerTainmenT

Yuri Sapronov




wakes up in a hospital only to find out that there was a car ac-cident. All her family members seem strange as if identical-looking impostors had replaced them. Doctors try to persuade her everything is OK, and it is a rare disorder called Capgras delusion. But Alina is sure – this is not her real family. What hap-pened to them and who stands behind?

Producers: Aleksandr Kushaev, Vladimir Ignatyev, Vladimir Ignatyev.director: Andrei Korshunov.scriPt: Vasiliy Pavlov.cast: Danila Yakushev, Ruslan Yagudin, Artur Fedinko, Sergey Ionkin, Violetta Yarovaya, Aleksandr Sukhinin.number of ePisodes: 4.Genre: Romance.

The chamPion

Russian film company mediaprofsoyuz is shooting 4-episode criminal romance The champion. The project is commissioned by russia-1 TV channel.

Synopsis: Makar Voronov, the former special operations soldier, arrives to his native town on the sea. He hasn’t been here for 12 long years and doesn’t know what to do – he’s got no family and no friends left. And his girl Anna got married with his eternal ri-val Dmitry Romanov. Makar wants to start with a clean sheet, but everywhere he goes he feels the long arms of Romanov’s family – there is no police, no court and no justice, because Dmitry and his father are those who pull strings and do whatever they want. Makar decides to fight the Romanov’s ‘empire’.

series

mediaProfsoyuz

Producer: Alexandr Chernyaev.director: Dmitri Korobkin.cast: Vladimir Zajtsev, Sergey Chirkov, Oleg Taktarov, Yelena Korikova, Yuri Vaksman, Konstantin Fedorov, Uriy Arkhangelskiy.number of ePisodes: 16.Genre: Criminal drama.

sheLesT

Russian film company nTV kino is working on new 16-episode criminal drama shelest commissioned by Russian nTV channel. Filming takes place in Yaroslavl’ and due to wrap up on the 5th of April.

Synopsis: Pavel Shelest is a lieutenant colonel of Yaroslavl’ Crimi-nal investigation department. He chose all the officers who work here himself, because his methods differ from those used by ‘good’ law-abiding policemen – Shelest may secure confessions or even intimidate the criminals by taking their family members hostages. But he considers this is the only way out to restore jus-tice.

series

nTV kino

Producer: Rodion Pavluchik. director: Aleksandr Kirienko.scriPt: Mark Gres.cast: Denis Shvedov, Olga Sutulova, Anatoli Belyj, Daniil Spivakovsky, Alyona Ivchenko, Konstantin Vorobyov, Yuri Itskov.number of ePisodes: 4.Genre: War detective.

snow and ash

Russian film company Prior Production is working on new 4-episode war detective snow and ash. Russian film studio Green-film is responsible for production. Filming is underway.

Synopsis: 1942. Nazis have besieged the Soviet forces in a strate-gic direction, but they cannot move any further without sabotage attack and cutting the defense – the only way is to use the help of a mole, planted long ago. Spy starts the preparations to make the pass for Nazi’ armored vehicles, and kills all the witnesses one by one. NKVD sends Major Urusov to find who he is.

series

Prior ProducTion




Producer: Rodion Pavluchik. director: Aleksey Prazdnikov. scriPt: Ekaterina latanova, Bella Pribylova.number of ePisodes: 4.Genre: Romance.

shards of haPPiness

Russian film company Prior Production wrapped up shooting on 4-episode romance shards of happiness. Filming started in the end of 2014 and took place in Saint-Petersburg.

Synopsis: Happy family, four charming children, love, peace and harmony…And everything ruined in a flash, when wife dies in a car accident. Her husband does not realize how to live further, but he cannot lose heart as there is no one else to take care of children.

series

Prior ProducTion

Producers: Aleksandr Kushaev, Irina Smirnova.director: Eduard Redzhepov.cast: Arina Postnikova, Kirill Kuznetsov, Stanislav Erdley, Vitaliy Kudryavtsev, lyubava Greshnova, Antonina Papernaya.number of ePisodes: 20.Genre: Romance.

LoVe wiTh aLmond fLaVour

Russian film company russkoe has wrapped up shooting on 20-episode romance Love with almond flavour. The series is commissioned by russia-1 TV channel. Project is currently in post-production period.

Synopsis: Katya is young beautiful woman. It seems that she has found her love – Andrey, who is not rich, but kind and gentle man. They start to prepare for a wedding and do not realize that Marat, the son of local plant manager, does not actually care about Katya’s fiancée – he wants her whatever it costs…

series

russkoe

Producers: Aleksandr Kushaev, Irina Smirnova.director: Vsevolod Aravin.scriPt: Oksana Uzhanina.cast: Darya Egorova, Ivan Zhidkov, Aleksey Yanin, Yuliya Yurchenko, Anna Yakunina, Vladimir lysenko.number of ePisodes: 20.Genre: Romance.

and LoVe wiLL bLossom in sPrinG

Russian film company russkoe is working on 20-episode ro-mance and Love will blossom in spring commissioned by rus-sia-1 channel. The project is in post-production period.

Synopsis: Vesna is happy and beloved wife. Her husband Igor does business – and does well – and their son Seryozha adores his parents. Once someone attacks Vesna while she is abroad, and she loses her memory and disappears without a trace. No one can find her. Two years later Vesna finally returns home, but nei-ther Igor, nor her best friend do no recognize her…

series

russkoe

director: Aleksey Kiryushchenko.cast: Galina Petrova, Yuliya Menshova, Natalya Skomorokhova, Valeri Garkalin, Valeri Afanasyev, Dmitri labush.number of ePisodes: 20.Genre: Romance.

beTween us GirLs

Ukrainian studio kvartal-95 is working on new 20-episode com-edy romance between us Girls. The project is currently in post-production period. The series premiere is expected this year on 1+1 channel.

Synopsis: This is the story about three women who live together and always dream to move out. There are many reasons to do that – love, fate, habits etc. But they cannot as they are one family – daughter, mother and grandmother.

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sTudio kVarTaL-95

Rodion Pavluchik

Aleksandr Kushaev




Producers: Maksim Filatov, Mikhail Tkacheko.director: Mark Gorobets.scriPt: Mihail Bobrovnik, Denis Utochkin, Denis Karnauhov, Mariya Krasheninnikova, Olga Khavzhu, Vladimir Kukovyakin, Roman Rozengurt.cast: Dmitri Pevtsov, Ilya lyubimov, Roman Kurtsyn, Irina Antonenko.number of ePisodes: 26.Genre: Mystery.

The shiP 2

Russian group of companies yellow, black and white in a co-production with mainstream film company and u TV channel is producing the second season of the mystery TV series The ship (Russian: Korabl’). It is a local adaptation of the Spanish format el barco produced by Globomedia for Antena 3. The series shoot-ing took place in Moscow and Greece. Premiere is set for spring 2015.

Synopsis: It appears that all and everyone boarded the saving ship for some reason – all characters have their skeleton in the closet. Maybe the crew cannot change the new world they live in, but they may try to discover more about each other…

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yeLLow, bLack and whiTe




1+1

tV shows The Voice kids. 3

Ukrainian 1+1 TV channel announced casting for the third season of the vocal talent show The Voice kids based on the Netherlands-based Talpa format. The project is produced by 1+1 Production company.

Three judges/coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, choose teams of 15 contestants (children aged between 7-14 years) through a blind audition process. Each judge has the length of the contestant’s performance (about one minute) to decide if he or she wants that singer on his or her team. later, week by week children compete in battle rounds and live performances, and the viewers decide who is the weakest by sending SMS. There will be only one winner.

format: The Voice Kids.

1+1, PyaTniTsa

tV shows saLon wars

Ukrainian 1+1 TV channel is working on new reality-makeover show salon wars. The show is produced by friends Produc-tion, its premiere is expected this March. The project is a local adaptation of the British TV format salon wars distributed by All3Media company. Moreover, Russian TV channel Pyatnitsa (aka Friday) is also preparing its own version of the format. Rus-sian adaptation premiere is planned for the 5th of March.

The format explores the world of the beauty industry by asking experts and salon owners to evaluate each other’s businesses. It is a contest for the best beauty shop due to staff professional-ism, range of services and their prices. There is no jury – ordi-nary customers are those who decide.

format: Salon Wars.

asTana TV

tV shows a deaL

Kazakh commercial broadcaster astana TV started production of the new TV show a deal based on the same-name format by Russian channel Pyatnitsa. Kazakh adaptation is produced by Aruzhan&Company Production Center. The show premiere is planned for this March.

The show is a contest between channel viewers who live in the regions and the residents of the capital. The show host invites capital residents to make a deal right during their shopping. All the items bought by a participant are at stake of the deal. If the participant answers correctly to the viewer’s question, he gets back all his purchases and gets the money prize equal to their value. And if he is wrong - his purchases go to the viewer.

format: A Deal.

channeL one

tV shows The Voice 4

Russian channel one is working on the fourth season of talent show The Voice based on the Dutch company Talpa format. The show is produced by red square prodco and will premiere this fall.

Contestants are aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. The show’s format features three stages of competition. The first is the blind audition, in which four coaches listen to contenders without seeing them, and turn their chairs to signify that they are interested in working with that artist. If more than one coach

format: The Voice.




turns the chair, the artist chooses the coach he or she would like to work with. The blind audition ends when each coach has a set number of artists to work with. The competition then enters into a battle phase, when the coaches picks two of their own team members against each other to sing the same song together in front of a studio audience. After the vocal face-off, the coach must choose which singers will advance. At the end of the battle episodes, the strongest members of each coach’s roster pro-ceed to the live stage shows. In this final performance phase of the competition, the top contestants from each team compete against each other during a live broadcast.

domashniy

tV shows daTe for a mom

Russian TV channel domashniy is preparing new original dat-ing-show date for a mom. Russian prodco zamaleev produc-tion is producing the project. Show premiere is planned for this spring.

In the new show children themselves choose cavaliers for their moms (2 out of 10). Male applicants will have to catch fancy both children and their mother. Will the moms’ and their children’s choice coincide?

Host: Evgeniy Donets.

sTb

tV shows daddy’s house

Ukrainian commercial broadcaster sTb finished casting for the forth season of its comedy reality show daddy’s house. The program premiere is planned for this autumn. Note that Daddy’s House format is included to UA Formats catalogue and is al-ready licensed to Poland.

Each program is a story of one family consisting of mother, father and children. No actors, nothing is scripted, everything is real. The wife, exhausted by housework, goes on vacation for a week and does what she has always dreamed about or never had time for, e.g. skydiving, scuba diving, spa, etc. Meanwhile, the hus-band stays at home with the children and household chores. The man needs to prove he can do both – be a good father and a decent housewife. He will have to complete tasks set out for him, and if he succeeds, he’ll get 3000$. If he fails, he gets nothing. However, if the husband finds the task impossible to complete, he can delegate the task to one of our experts. The task will be completed, but the prize money will be reduced by 500$.

format: Daddy’s House.

sTb

tV shows The X facTor 6

late February Ukrainian sTb TV channel announced casting for the sixth season of the local version of a talent-show The X fac-tor based on the FremantleMedia company format. Originally The X Factor, created by Simon Cowell, premiered in September 2004 in Britain.

The show is primarily concerned with identifying singing talent, though appearance, personality, stage presence and dance routines are also an important element of many performances. For series 1–3 the competition was split into three categories: 16-24s (soloists aged 16–24), Over 25s (soloists aged 25 and over) and Groups (including duos). In series 4–5, the minimum

format: The X Factor.

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TnT

tV shows Psychic chaLLenGe 16

Russian TnT channel started working on the 16th season of the local adaptation of the British Zodiak Rights’ format Psychic challenge. The project will premiere this autumn.

In this show, the most powerful psychics meet to fight for the coveted title “Top Psychic”. These magnetic mediums face up to three tasks per show to prove they have real powers. Each test is designed to probe our psychics’ abilities as objectively as possible. Can they describe events they could not possibly know about? Can they locate a terrorist on an aircraft? Can they win a stack of cash at a casino? This ultimate psychic competition is compelling viewing, whether you believe or not.

Host: Marat Basharov.format: Psychic Challenge.

age was lowered to 14, creating a 14–24 age group. With the addition of a fourth judge in series 4, this was split into separate male and female sections, making four categories in all: “Boys” (14–25 males), “Girls” (14–25 females), Over 25s and Groups.





feature films

aLamdary fiLms, 42 fiLm, arizona

ProducTions,kino

kibuLa

Georgian filmmaker, producer and scriptwriter George ovash-vili is preparing new full-length biographical drama kibula. The project is co-produced by Ovashvili’s alamdary films, German 42 film, French arizona Productions and Kazakhstani prodco kino. Filming is planned to start in the end of 2015. The movie premiere is planned for the 26th of May, 2016 – Georgia Inde-pendence Day.

Synopsis: Film is about Zviad Gamsakhurdia who became the first democratically elected President of Georgia in the post-Soviet era. With the start of the national rebellion, on December 22, 1991, armed opposition supporters launched a violent coup d’état and attacked a number of official buildings including the Georgian parliament building, where Gamsakhurdia himself was sheltering. On January 6, Gamsakhurdia and members of his government escaped through opposition lines and made their way to Azerbaijan, where they were denied asylum, and later to Russian republic of Chechnya. Gamsakhurdia returned to Geor-gia on September 24, 1993, and concentrated on building an anti-Shevardnadze coalition. He also built up a substantial mili-tary force, but on December 31, 1993, Gamsakhurdia died in circumstances that are still unclear.

director: George Ovashvili.scriPt: George Ovashvili, Roelof Jan Minneboo.Genre: Biopic.

George Ovashvili

feature films

aLL media

breakfasT wiTh faTher

Russian prodco all media is working on new feature family com-edy breakfast with father supported by the Russian State Film Fund. The project is currently in pre-production period. Its film-ing start is planned for this summer.

Synopsis: Aleksandr is a young and successful owner of an ad-vertising firm in Moscow. Everything changes when 9-years-old Alya knocks on his door and claims him to be her father. She says that Aleksandr spent night with Alya’s mother Yulya, and just dis-appeared. But things go from bad to worse as Aleksandr finds out that soon Yulya will be his direct competitor on the market.

Producer: Georgiy Shabanov.Genre: Family comedy.

feature films

domracheV & comPany

Lamb LeG/shorykyoL

Russian prodco domrachev & company finished shooting fea-ture ethnic drama Lamb Leg/shorykyol. Filming took place in Yoshkar-Ola. The movie is currently in post-production period. Its premiere is planned for May-June 2015.

Synopsis: Russian Navy Major is reflecting on the meaning of life and contemporaries referring from time to time to the customs and traditions of Mari people.

director: Vasili Domrachev.Genre: Drama.

feature films

eVGeniy barhanoV’s ProjecT

descenT

Russian filmmaker evgeniy barhanov wrapped up shooting on new feature war drama descent. The project is currently in post-production period. Filming took place in Moscow. The movie premiere is planned for the 9th of May, 2015.

Synopsis: This is the story of 1942 Christmas night. Village head, an Old Believer, is hiding a pregnant Jewess and a heavily injured political commissar. Also he is bringing up a boy who lost his par-ents and now tries to teach some prayers.

director: Evgeniy Barhanov.cast: Irina Yakovleva, Din Tormo-Biryukov, Sergei Moryakov.Genre: War drama.

Vasili Domrachev

Evgeniy Barhanov

Georgiy Shabanov




feature films

fiLm.ua

oe.20 LiVe in kyiV

Ukrainian group of companies FIlM.UA finished working on new feature concert oe.20 Live in kyiv. The film production started in the first half of 2014. OE.20 live in Kyiv is the first theatrical version of the show in the history of Ukrainian filmmaking. The movie is distributed by Ukrainian Film Distribution company.

Synopsis: Movie version of the great 20-year anniversary con-cert performed by the legendary Ukrainian band Okean Elzy (OE) on the 21st of June 2014. That day more than 75,000 fans gathered in Kyiv to listen and watch their favourite rock band. Okean Elzy is one of the best-loved Ukrainian rock bands not only in Ukraine but also in most CIS countries.

Producer: Andrey Rizvanyuk.director: Sergey Shalygin.Genre: Feature concert.

feature films

kinoTun

rock&road

Russian production centre kinotun in a co-production with al-damisa prodco are working on new feature musical-adventure movie rock&road. Supported by the Russian State Film Fund the project is currently in pre-production period. Shooting will start this May.

Synopsis: To make French professor cut the bag open Ameri-can agents kidnap his daughter Dasha and decide to take her to from UK to Russia. The one responsible to escort Dasha is a daredevil biker nicknamed Russian Bear. But it seems that not only Americans want the information from professor – young girl becomes target for Chinese spies, agents of some secret con-cern TC and many others. And perhaps Russian Bear is the only one who can help.

Producer: Armen Adilkhanyan.director: Grigor Gyardoushian.cast: Samy Naceri.Genre: Adventure.

feature films

LunaPark

an escaPe

Russian film company Lunapark is preparing new feature ad-venture film an escape. The project is currently in pre-produc-tion stage. Film budget is set at 60 million rubles.

Synopsis: Main heroes – 10-years-old lesha and Mityai – are spending their time in a summer camp not far from Saint Pe-tersburg. Both participate in a local tournament called Big Game and are close to win, but just before the final stage they have their RC motor boat broken. Therefore, lesha and Mityai decide to escape and go to the city, where they can buy a new one and claim it as own. Of course, everything goes wrong…

Producers: Ilya Burets, Dmitry Nelidov.director: Anton lanshakov.Genre: Adventure.

feature films

mirabeL

encounTer aT The eLbe

Russian studio mirabel finished shooting new feature war dra-ma encounter at the elbe supported by the Russian State Film Fund. The project is currently in post-production period. Filming took place in Poland, in Wrocław and Bytom Odjanski. The movie premiere is set for the 9th of May, 2015.

Synopsis: Young lieutenant Yuri Nikitin is nominated as a major of Ierikhov, town on Elbe river. Once soldiers bring him young German girl, who hid in the basement of one of Ierikhov houses. She was the member of Bund Deutscher Mädel (girls’ wing of the Nazi Party youth movement) and says that she is actually a niece of field marshal Friedrich Paulus. Instead of taking her to the relevant authorities, Nikitin leaves girl nearby. They start to talk, make friends and suddenly Yuri realises that loves her…

Producer: Mira Todorovskaya.director: Janusz Petelski.scriPt: Pyotr Todorovsky.cast: Irina Pegova, Ewa Szykulska, Mikhail Fisher.Genre: War drama.

Grigor Gyardoushian

Mira Todorovskaya




feature films

one side media

earTh-2

Russian film company one side media is shooting new fea-ture fiction movie earth-2. The film premiere is planned for July 2015.

Synopsis: Earth-2 – is the twin planet, hidden from our eyes. Its people look the same, but are far more developed, both tech-nologically and physiologically. Once manned scientific and re-search spacecraft veers off and lands on Earth-2. Astronauts are safe and healthy, but it appears that the local government does not want people of Earth-1 to find out about them.

director: Arthur Mikheev.cast: Yevgeni Popadinets, Aleksandr Margolin, Aleksandra Verkhoshanskaya, Aleksey Bolshakov.Genre: Fiction.

feature films

feature films

sTeLLa

TriTe

hoLiday of disobedience

Russian studio stella is working on new feature children film holiday of disobedience, based on Sergey Mikhalkov’s book of the same name. The project is currently in post-production period. Shooting took place in Moscow.

Synopsis: Artem, an ordinary pupil from Moscow, loves com-puter games. He plays every free minute, but once, while sitting at night in front of the monitor, he finds himself in a game. Artem doesn’t know how to get back to the real world, and now he and his friends travel through the virtual circus where they have to save a woman-gymnast Agata and defeat wicked wizard Fortu-nat.

The crew

Russian prodco TriTe in co-production with russia-1 TV chan-nel and film company central Partnership are working on new feature disaster movie The crew. Supported by the Russian State Film Fund the project is in post-production period now. Filming took place in Crimea, Moscow and its region. The movie premiere is set for fall 2015.

Synopsis: Young and talented pilot Aleksey Gushchin breached orders and now cannot serve in the military aviation. But he is given a chance to fly civil aircrafts. He starts from a blank sheet, although the relations with the crew members leave much to be desired. Everything changes when passengers’ lives are in dan-ger…

Producer: Fyodor Popov.director: Valeri Kharchenko.scriPt: Stanislav Mikhailov, Natalya Selivanova.cast: Vera Vasilyeva, Sergei Migitsko, Natasha Korolyova, Nikolai Valuev.Genre: Children film.

Producers: Nikita Mikhalkov, leonid Vereshchagin.director: Nikolai lebedev.cast: Danila Kozlovskiy, Vladimir Mashkov, Agne Grudyte, Katerina Shpitsa.Genre: Disaster movie.

feature films

sTudio 99, Pierre Grise ProducTions

The winTer sonG

Georgian film company studio 99 and French Pierre Grise Productions are co-producing new feature war drama The winter song. The project is currently in post-production period. The film premiere is set for this spring in Georgia and France si-multaneously.

Synopsis: The story is not linked to one specific period of time – it is rather the journey through time. Viewer may easily define the epoch and its heroes himself.

director: Otar Iosseliani.Genre: War drama.

Otar Iosseliani



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DISTRIBUTIONkiTUkrainian distribution company kiT has added to its catalogue several US feature-length films – thrillers mysteria (2011) and P.j (2008), coming-of-age drama small Time (2014), and family films secret at arrow Lake/mia’s father (2009) and snowmen (2010). Also it ac-quired Oz TV series rake (2010-) and mr & mrs murder (2013-).

mysteria. A once famous and now a washed-up Hollywood screen-writer fighting to finish his latest script with an unrealistic deadline. Suddenly he finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation in-volving a prominent politician’s wife.

P.j. A doctor tries to solve the mystery of a man with no name, multiple personalities and burns on his hands. Who is he and what happened to him?

small Time. Based on real events, the film focuses on a used-car dealer Al Klein whose son Freddy joins him on the lot after graduating from high school, to the dismay of the ex-wife he still has feelings for.

secret at arrow Lake/mia’s father. Mia Williams, raised on the fam-ily hotel Bed & Breakfast by Sara, a loving single mom grows up believ-ing her father was lost, M.I.A., in the Gulf War. A tragic accident results in the sudden death of Sara and Mia finds herself alone to care for the B&B while attending college. Daniel Williams, a hard-edged business-man from New York, arrives at the B&B and Mia suspects he may be her lost father. The townsfolk believe he may be responsible for Sara’s death. As events unfold, Daniel clears his name and finds acceptance from the community and Mia finds a father at last.

snowmen. It is a humorous and heartfelt coming-of-age story about three unlikely heroes and the winter that changed their lives forever. Af-ter a surprising discovery in the snow catapults three small-town boys into the spotlight, the best friends hatch a plan to be remembered by setting a Guinness World Records title. Along the way, the trio battles schoolyard bullies, unites their community and discovers that – while fame may be fleeting – true friendship lasts forever.

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Producer, director: lucius C. Kuert.cast: Robert Miano, Danny Glover, Martin landau, Billy Zane, Michael Rooker, Meadow Williams, Peter Mark Richman, Silvia Spross, Gary A. Kauffman.duration: 90 min.Genre: Thriller.

Producers: Craig Frankel, Russell W. Hooper III.director: Russ Emanuel.cast: John Heard, Howard Nash, Vincent Pastore, Patricia Rae, Robert Picardo, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Glynnis O’Connor, lavinia Dowdell. duration: 90 min.Genre: Thriller.

Producer, director: Joel Surnow.cast: Bridget Moynahan, Christopher Meloni, Dean Norris, Xander Berkeley, Garcelle Beauvais, Kevin Nealon, Ashley Jensen.duration: 104 min.Genre: Drama.

director: Brad Keller.cast: Dedee Pfeiffer, Ali Faulkner, Amy Maner, Scott Muller, GiGi Erneta, Kurt Cole, Adam Pearson.Genre: Family film.

Producer, director: Robert Kirbyson.cast: Bobby Coleman, Bobb’e J. Thompson, Christian Martyn, Josh Flitter, Ray liotta, Doug E. Doug,



rake. Criminal lawyer Cleaver Greene defends the indefensible - from bigamists to cannibals and everything in between. He is champion of the lost cause, both in the court room and in the bedroom.

mr & mrs murder. The series follows the adventures of married cou-ple Nicola and Charlie Buchanan, who run an industrial cleaning busi-ness while solving the most baffling murder mysteries.

ParakeeT fiLm Ukrainian distributor Parakeet film has acquired theatrical rights on Belgium-USA thriller entitled The Loft.

The Loft. Five married guys conspire to secretly share a penthouse loft in the city – a place where they can carry out hidden affairs and in-dulge in their deepest fantasies. But the fantasy becomes a nightmare when they discover the dead body of an unknown woman in the loft, and they realize one of the group must be involved.

samueL GoLdwyn fiLmsAmerican independent distributor samuel Goldwyn films acquired US rights for Zaza Urushadze’s Oscar-nominated drama Tangerines. US release is planned for this year. The film was produced by the Esto-nian company Allfilm in coproduction with Georgia’s Cinema 24.


Christopher lloyd, Beverley Mitchell, Demi Petersen, Carolina Andrus.duration: 85 min.Genre: Family film.

Producers: Ian Collie, Peter Duncan, Richard Roxburgh.directors: Jessica Hobbs, Peter Duncan, Jeffrey Walker.cast: Richard Roxburgh, Matt Day, Russell Dykstra, Danielle Cormack, Kate Box, Caroline Brazier, Keegan Joyce, Adrienne Pickering, Damien Garvey, Steve le Marquand.duration: 43 min.Genre: Drama.

Producers: Stephen Corvini, Timothy Hobart, Kelly lefever.directors: Sian Davies, Shirley Barrett, Abe Forsythe.cast: Shaun Micallef, Kat Stewart, Jonny Pasvolsky, lucy Honigman, Ben Geurens, Georgina Naidu, Vince Colosimo, Stephen Curry, Andrew S. Gilbert.Genre: Comedy, detective.

Producers: Hilde De laere, Matt DeRoss, Steve Golin, Barbara Kelly.director: Erik Van looy.cast: Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Isabel lucas, Rachael Taylor, Rhona Mitra, Valerie Cruz, Kali Rocha.duration: 108 min.Genre: Thriller.



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Tangerines. War in Georgia, Apkhazeti region 1992: local Apkhazians are fighting to break free from Georgia. Estonian village between the mountains has become empty, almost everyone has returned to their homeland, only 2 men have stayed: Ivo and Margus. But Margus will leave as soon as he has harvested his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict in their miniature village wounded men are left behind, and Ivo is forced to take them in. But they are from opposite sides of the war. This is touching anti-war story about Estonians who find themselves in the middle of someone else’s war. How do they handle it? How do the enemies act under third-party roof?

sTudio u7Russian distributor studio u7 has added to its catalogue Canada-produced animated TV series bruno and the banana bunch. It is oriented for children from 2 to 6 years old.

bruno and the banana bunch. Bruno is a little monkey with a great big sense of fun! With his quirky sense of humour and childlike wonder, Bruno loves to learn new things about the world around him and has a fascination with numbers, shapes, sizes and all things math-related! He knows that in this world you can make anything fun if you just look around with an open mind and active imagination. Sharing the spot-light is a colorful cast of animal friends known as The Banana Bunch. They’re Bruno’s best friends and playmates; always there to cheer Bruno on or get in on the fun. The Banana Bunch are friends that Bruno can count on - sometimes literally!

Tiberius fiLm Within the framework of European Film Market (EFM) the German distributor Tiberius film picked up rights on 3D-fantasy Viy, co-produced by Ukraine (Inter TV channel), Russia (Marins Group En-tertaiment, Russian Film Group), Czech Republic (Ankor-Film) and Germany (CinePostproduction). It became the most profitable movie in Russia in 2014 – budgeted $26 mln. it earned 1.2 billion rubles or $34 mln. Ukraine added another $4.64 mln. to the box-office.

Viy. Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls…

X-media diGiTaL Paris-based production and distribution group cyber Group studios has sold pre-school animated TV series mademoiselle zazie to Rus-sian X-media digital for the distribution on VoD platform GetMovies.ru.

director, script: Zaza Urushadze.cast: lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha Meskhi, Raivo Trass.duration: 87 min.Genre: Drama.

duration: 26х11 min.Genre: Animated.

Producers: Alexander Kulikov, Ruslan Ustinov, Aleksey Petrukhin.director: Oleg Stepchenko.cast: Jason Flemyng, Andrey Smolyakov, Aleksey Chadov, Agnia Ditkovskite, Yuriy Tsurilo, Olga Zaytseva, Aleksandr Yakovlev, Igor Zhizhikin, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Nina Ruslanova.duration: 128 min.Genre: Fantasy.




mademoiselle zazie. Mademoiselle Zazie is first and foremost a series about friendship: that of Zazie and Max, the inseparable best friends, as well as that of the whole tribe: Pedro, Tariq, Cindy and Abi-gail. They are 7 year-old, live by the seaside and have so much fun to-gether! The whole bunch takes us into their games, their private jokes and their daily adventures. They actually start to discover the world of grown-ups, and want to understand it. However, sometimes they will solve problems in a way we, as grown-ups, would never expect them to…

duration: 78х7 min.Genre: Animated.



Cinema releases overview Cinema releases overview

UKRAINIAN THEATRICAl DISTRIBUTION MARKET OVERVIEW

(JANUARY 1, 2015 – FEBRUARY 15, 2015)Theatrical releases of 42 films took place in Ukraine starting from January 1, 2015. The gross box-office of these films totaled $10.76 mil-lion. About 3.76 million tickets were sold for the premieres of the 2015 theatrical year. TOP-20 releases collected $10.66 million. Cinema goers bought near 3.73 million tickets to watch the films you see in the table below.

№ Movie Distributor Premier Date Premier Box-office, $ Total Box-office (01.01 - 15.02.2015), $

Tickets Sold (01.01 - 15.02.2015)

1 8 New Dates / 8 Novykh Svidaniy (Rus) UFD 01.01.2015 821 724 1 632 367 523 669

2 The Seventh Son B&H 01.01.2015 695 401 1 529 937 423 469

3 Exodus: Gods and Kings UFD 01.01.2015 519 211 1 263 416 315 703

4 Paddington VLG 22.01.2015 437 673 935 636 352 216

5 Three Bogatyrs. The Cavalry / Tri Bogatyria. Hod Koniom (Rus) GK 01.01.2015 399 236 913 653 376 703

6 Fifty Shades of Grey B&H 12.02.2015 860 705 903 842 425 900

7 Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb UFD 08.01.2015 340 201 712 989 242 251

8 Blackhat B&H 15.01.2015 200 648 367 417 121 863

9 Kingsman: The Secret Service UFD 12.02.2015 358 727 358 727 157 114

10 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water B&H 05.02.2015 197 272 355 695 180 640

11 Tinker Bell and The Legend of the Never Beast B&H 01.01.2015 123 215 343 411 127 809

12 The Boy Next Door B&H 22.01.2015 145 128 333 138 115 299

13 Dumb and The Dumber To UFD 22.01.2015 68 666 178 093 64 439

14 The Snow Queen 2 / Snezhnaya Koroleva 2: Perezamorozka (Rus) MMD 01.01.2015 71 036 171 990 59 016

15 Taken 3 UFD 22.01.2015 86 257 160 781 50 747

16 Sex Competition 2 / Chto Tvoriat Muzhchiny! 2 (Rus) GK 01.01.2015 60 290 131 216 37 352

17 Unbroken B&H 05.02.2015 63 013 108 198 51 713

18 The Imitation Game MMD 05.02.2015 56 213 97 760 43 889

19 American Heist GK 22.01.2015 47 384 93 649 31 528

20 Paws, Bones & Rock'n'roll / Yolki Lohmatye (Rus) MMD 29.01.2015 47 526 65 523 26 229

TOTAL ТОP-10: 8 973 679 3 119 528

TOTAL ТОP-20: 10 657 438 3 727 549

Sources: Ukrainian Film Distribution

Distributors:B&H – B&H DistributionGK – Galeon KinoMMD – Multi Media DistributionUFD – Ukrainian Film DistributionVLG – Volga Ukraine



Television markets in such Central Asia countries as Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan differ a lot from the points of view of their volume, number of broadcasters, TV-content production facilities and trends of development. TV markets in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, for instance, are just starting to evolve and integrate into global TV tendencies. From the other hand Turkmenistan is closed for TV business ac-tivities because of its inner governmental policy. In this article we’ll give a short analysis of these three CIS territories from the point of view of current situation on their television markets. Unfortunately, data on TV ratings and share of the TV channels in all these countries is not available because of the absence of national-wide TV researches there.

TurkmenisTan

Turkmenistan is situated in central Asia with an area of 491,200 km² and a population of 5.36 million peo-ple. There are a total of 1.85 million television households and an estimated 2.2 million television sets in use. Approximately 76% of the television households still rely on the analogue terrestrial platform for their primary television reception.

Satellite television (DVB-S) has been seriously compromised following the decision by the President of Turkmenistan requiring that all satellite dishes be removed from the rooftops. However, cable television will be introduced although content will be strictly censored by the government.

The Ministry of Communication is the legislative and regulatory body responsible for broadcasting in Turk-menistan. It is responsible for proposing and implementing legislation in the area of electronic commu-nications. Currently 6 national broadcasters are available on the analogue terrestrial platform. They are: Turkmenistan (informational), Altyn Asyr (general interest), Yaslyk (entertainment), Miras (cultural), Türk-men owazy (music), and Türkmenistan-Sport. There is also Aşgabat TV channel which broadcasts only for the territory of Ashgabat.

Unlike the other countries of the former USSR which have made some progress towards the implementa-tion of their DTT platforms, Turkmenistan has not yet begun DTT trials. This can be attributed to the state’s information policy which may effectively conflict with the introduction of digital technologies. Data on TV ratings and share of the TV channels in Turkmenistan is not available because of the absence of national-wide TV researches in this country.

TajikisTan

Tajikistan is situated in Central Asia with an area of 143,100 km² and a population of 8.47 million people. TV industry in Tajikistan is the least developed among other CIS countries but for Turkmenistan, which is the only one “closed for the others’ eyes” market of the region with only 7 TV state-owned channels and without private TV stations at all. According to the TV and Radio Broadcasting committee of Tajikistan there are totally 57 TV stations in the country, 17 of which are private and the others are state-owned ones. The main distinctive feature of the local TV market is absolute dominance of regional and local TV broadcasters (the majority of local TV channels are operating in the province of Sughd, one of 4 administrative divisions of Tajikistan situated on the north of the country).

Currently there are only four national-wide TV stations in Tajikistan that cover more than two thirds of the state territory by means of terrestrial and satellite distribution. They are: First Channel Tajikistan (99.7% coverage), TV Safina (77.4%), Chahonnamo (75.7%), and Bakhoriston TV (72.1%). And all these TV chan-nels are state-owned. National-wide private broadcasters absence is the main obstacle of the country TV industry development. local authorities actually stopped giving new broadcasting licenses in 1999 – from that time and till the beginning of 2015 only one TV channel was “awarded” by TV license – it was private NTT channel (stands for Independent Television of Tajikistan) which started broadcasting in summer 2007 and covers with its signal the capital of the state Dushanbe and its suburbs.

TV advertising market in Tajikistan is rather small – less than $20 million (the population of the country nears 8.47 million people, there are approximately 2.5 million households). Out of 2.5 million television households, almost 1.8 million households rely on the terrestrial platform for their primary television re-ception while 650,000 households rely on satellite. Dominance of the state-owned channels on the market prevents the substantial growth of advertising industry in the state. This is also one of the main reasons of poor TV content production facilities – there is neither local series nor local adaptations of the international TV formats on the Tajik TV.

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Situation may change after analogue terrestrial signal switch of – it is planned for the end of 2015. DTT-signal transmission first started in May 2010 in Dushanbe in DVB-T, MPEG-4 standard. In 2011-2012 DTT became available in three more regions of the country. Nowadays Tajikistan is implementing DVB-T2 stan-dard. Currently four abovementioned national-wide TV channels are available in the first DTT-multiplex. Overall two terrestrial multiplexes, which will include 20 channels, are planned.

uzbekisTan

Uzbekistan is also situated in Central Asia and has an area of 447,400 km². The population of Uzbekistan totals 30.2 million people. From the TV households number point of view the TV market of Uzbekistan ex-ceeds the one of Tajikistan more than twice – there are near 5.6 million households and 8.1 million televi-sion sets in use in the country. The terrestrial platform is used by 77% of all television households. Cable and satellite television delivery platforms are becoming increasingly popular with viewers and account for 10-15% and 7-9% of all television households, respectively.

Although a government decree officially eliminated state censorship in 2002, it has continued to severely restrict independent media. In 2006 authorities further tightened state control by requiring re-registration by all media outlets not passing a summary review of qualifications. In 2012 almost 40 independent private television stations and 9 state-owned regional TV channels were operating in Tajikistan, but four state-owned television stations, run by the Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan, dominated the market. They are: Ozbekiston, Yoshlar, Sport TV, and Tashkent. In the end of 2013 the biggest and the most popular private TV channels (Markaz TV, NTT, Forum TV, and SofTC) were closed by the government.

TV advertising evolved rapidly in Uzbekistan till 2014. Its volume in 2013 reached almost $60 million, and its annual growth was forecasted for further few years at the 12-15% level. But due to the closure of main private broadcasters at the end of 2013, the TV ad spent in 2014 dropped more than 40%. TV content pro-duction is just starting developing in the country. The main producers of TV series and TV movies are state-owned Uzbektelefilm and Uzbekkino companies. In the last two years some private productions and TV stations started shooting local series and TV shows (no international TV formats are yet officially adapted in Uzbekistan).

In June 2008, the first DTT pilot project in central Asia was launched in the capital city of Tashkent. View-ers could access 8 standard-definition television services using MPEG-4 AVC compression technology. In September 2008, the further multiplex was launched offering viewers in Tashkent and Bukhara access to four government-owned television services. Regular DTT broadcasting started in September 2009 offer-ing 12 DTT channels (the service was a mixture of 4 government-owned and 8 commercial pay-DTT chan-nels). By the end of 2013 DTT-multiplexes covered near 42% population of the country. ATT switch-off is planned for the end of 2017.

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Now Ukrainian TV is at the stage of sweeping changes and has to fill up the gap where Russian content used to be. In an exclusive interview to CIS: Content Report TET TV channel programming director Viktor Shkrobot and executive producer Anna Gonchar told how the broadcasting schedule is formed, content of what countries TET imports the most and how the whole strategy changed in light of national currency devaluation. In addition, they shared thoughts about the quality of the new Ukrainian TV product.

What is the genre concept of TET and what is the reason for that?

Since 2011 ТЕТ is a youth entertainment channel, and is developing very actively now. According to 2014 results, it is among TOP-6 Ukrainian channels by the target audience. Several times TET took the second place with only few percentage points behind the leader. What is the reason? Maybe the market itself – there were few channels for Ukrainian youth before TET re-launched, and the lack of competition had a negative effect on the quality of the product. We wanted to offer our viewers something they have never seen before, something new. It looks like we succeed as ТЕТ share rose twice in 2011-2012 (head-ed by Irina Kostyuk, - CIS: CR). And in 2014 it made its way in TOP-6 channels. We won’t stop.

What are you focusing on when forming the broadcasting schedule?

First of all we take into account the preferences of viewers. Both actual – historical ratings of our products – and potential – what may be interesting, what they would like to watch. I can’t speak for other channels’ executives, but viewers are really important for TET, you do want work for them. Maybe it sounds posh, but it would cheer up to know that our product resonates with audience. It is usually said that the TV channel should form conscience. But we think it have to talk one language with audience. Win it. No sooner should the channel offer its own view.

Do you produce original programs by yourself or commission them from the contractors? What prodcos do you work with? How do you share the IP rights?

We use our own production facilities and from third parties, and co-produce with the best only [laughs]. All in all we are doing everything right, because we have the best everywhere – viewers, productions, adver-tisers. Karma as it is. As for the rights, we use the individual approach. The quality stands first on the list.

ТЕТ exports a lot lately, and particularly to Russia. Who is responsible for distribution of ready-made product?

We have a separate sales office, which distributes all the content of our TV group (1+1 media, - CIS: CR). I am sure they could tell a lot about their work. And we are grateful they make our product available to as wide audience as it is possible.

Have there been any changes in your business arrangements with production and distribution companies due to national currency negative trend?

My colleagues from sales and acquisitions department could provide more detailed information about this. But almost nothing changed for us as a channel. Still, we have correlated prices with the new day-to-day realities.

We try to fix prices in our contracts in hryvnas and pay more attention to less expensive content. Neverthe-less, you cannot buy or produce the inferior content, so you have to be creative when choosing product. last few years Ukrainian viewers have been offered rather expensive product, one that do not complies with the advertising market size and its potential. Therefore, I suppose the trend will slightly change in the nearest future.

Content of what countries TET imports the most? Why?

The most popular content is produced in Russia. Regardless of whether we want it or not, but it is of inter-est. And will be for some time, at least because of momentum. If no proper measures are taken by the regulator, of course.

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We gave notice to the content of different countries – from latin America to Korea. And still, there is pretty a lot of criticism. If one is too fast-paced, the other is so boring that you fall asleep within several minutes.

Viewers love Hollywood blockbusters. Often it is the long-standing selection (just as Home Alone franchise on holidays).

Well, Turkish content ‘discovered’ by 1+1 channel has also become popular. ТЕТ also launched Turkish TV series, which has a good rating. But unfortunately only one.

How many hours of foreign content do you acquire in a year?

I can’t provide you with the year stats because the process of buying and amortization is continuous. The offer is worse than we would like it to be, and the supply overtakes it. We are interested in new TV series, non-scripted shows etc.

We are trying to increase the amount of locally produced content. It is better economically (taking into ac-count the currency rate) and rings the bell with the viewers. However, we will fight for the product if we see it corresponds with our concept. Our viewer deserves the best!

Have the recent events had an effect on the amount of Russian content on the channel’s air?

They had, of course. Some programs turned out to be prohibited by recently introduced regulations or because of moral ethic norms. That is why we try to increase the amount of Ukrainian products – locally produced content is cheaper and more acceptable. Moreover, from time to time it is even better than the Russian one. The viewer used to find some disadvantages in Ukrainian product, rather than look for good qualities. But Ukrainian content is becoming more and more popular now.

ТЕТ used to differ from other channels because of many original shows. Why is that?

Historically we gathered the powerful creative team that feels our viewers better than anyone else. And sometimes it performs magic!

What is the balance between the original shows and adapted ones?

Our entire product is 100% original now. We are very proud of that. But it does not mean that our doors are closed for foreign formats etc. It is because foreign format always has some shade of the country it came from, which is not always appropriate with Ukrainians. I do not say it is impossible – I mean difficult. It is one of the reasons why sitcom Vital’ka is so successful – the author and the producer are all in one. If the product is produced for our viewer – it is as a suit made to measure.

Can you share your experience in making original TV formats? Have you ever sold them abroad?

First of all we produce the product for the viewer, and only then we have a chance to catch one’s interest in it as a format. We licensed Peasant Girl lately. It is a unique, one of the most successful original projects, which is also very popular in Russia. We made the last one (third) season international – it was rather suc-cessful! When one girl realized that she is flying to Dubai and started to cry, we understood that it would definitely resonate with the audience. Just have a look on those ratings!

What projects do you work on and what will be premiered soon?

We produce two pilots of entertaining shows. And have another five project (including films) in develop-ment. There are some interesting ideas, but we will tell about them later.

What about the trends in a TV channel programming in 2015?

It is hard to forecast something in an unpredictable market, so all these are merely thoughts.




Our viewer has been watching on his/her life through the lens of Russia or western countries for a long time. And always had a feeling that it is about us, but with some nuances. Now TV channels start to realise that the locally produced content may be more stable rather than imported one. I am sure soon we will see Ukrainian faces and landscapes more often.

Secondly, we have to look at USA and European countries more closely as the Russian content disappears from the air, but we still have 24 hours to fill up.

And the third one – we should remember about the tragic events in the eastern and southern regions of Ukraine. As far as I am concerned 2+2 channel is working on TV series about the volunteers, who enlisted into the National Guard. I suppose more and more channels will address to this topic. It is hard for a TV channel to be entertaining in the current circumstances, but it is a responsible mission.

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The work of European producers can’t even be compared to the one we have to do. While they may con-centrate on the definite market segment we actually have no other way out than to produce TV content and mass market movies and to be engaged in coproduction at the same time. In Europe only a large holding can afford production of such a wide range of projects. And we are forced to do it by the situation on the local market.

European film industry support also includes the support of projects promotion. Is this experi -ence implemented in Russia? Are there any results?

way that produced films are presented to maximum audience and get chance to become profitable. The understanding of this fact came to Russian filmmakers and developed into a strong tendency.

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festival in Moscow. At the presentations some ten selected film projects were screened to film profes-sionals every year. Among these was drama Silent Souls

film Chapiteau-Show stival jury’s special prize.

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over the previous two years. We also created on-line resources providing sales agents, distributors, festi-val programmers and producers with the information on the projects and their producers as well as video materials. So we did one more step on our way to the international market.

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ploring some specific issue. Russian projects can’t afford it. For example, Russian producers may ask me to make the ocean like they saw it in The Perfect Storm (2000). And I have to explain them that a group of 100 programmers described the behavior of physical phenomenon during a year. Then the results of their work were set into the interface of the program that created such a storming ocean. And the funds spent for the researches are equal to the whole budget of Russian project.

CGF closely cooperates with Timur Bekmambetov who invested heavily in the FilmLanguage (Kinoyazyk) technology. Do you take part in the researches of his company Bazelevs?

We do cooperate with Bazelevs in some researches. But this cooperation is rather sketchy. Actually we do not delve into the study. As for the FilmLanguage I know that Bazelevs have some results that are different from the declared objectives but still…

There is information in the Web that you are going to launch your own projects as a producer. Is that true?

I have some ideas. I have knowledge and skills that would be sufficient to launch a project. And the com-pany is strong enough to realize it. We just need to try and move on if it works.

In the nearest future we’ll decide on the range of projects that would be interesting to work on. At the same time we are going to separate company’s activity as a producer from providing postproduction services which is our core business. Most likely postproduction department will accomplish orders for our projects otherwise there will be a risk of failing in both areas.

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