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MGU: Ukrainian drama gains global relevance
2020 has been quite successful for Media Group Ukraine, which has sold +250 hours of contents to the markets outside of CIS including telenovelas, prime time drama series and Chernobyl-themed content. The company has attended the most important trade shows with great results.Iryna Chernyak, director of TV Content Sales, MGU, explained: ‘We continue to develop sales of VOD content to various international platforms. It greatly adds up to our 5-year expansion strategy towards new markets’.
About APAC region, the last region the company covered through its participation at ATF Online +, she added: ‘We have started sales there in 2019 by signing a deal with GoQuest (India). Our Ukrainian adaptation of Korean 95-episode telenovela Ruby Ring was sold to E-Channel (Vietnam)’.
‘We have been acquiring Korean formats for years. Thus, we have many titles to offer to the APAC region. On the one hand, they will look differently, but on the other - all of them are be based on common values and are easily perceived by the viewers all over the world’, completed Chernyak.
Filin
MGU promotes buyers Fillin, a 40-episode investigation drama where the new police department works on complicated criminal cases using special software called Fillin; Renunciation, a 24-episode detective drama about a “Special department” that only deals with complicated and resonance crimes; and I’m on Your Side S2, the Turkish format Price of Passion, about an intense criminal love story.
‘MGU and TV Chanel Ukraine annually produce +2,000 hours of quality TV series, daytime procedurals, high-end prime time drama, makeovers, young audience-oriented content. We have a lot to offer (ready-made content and formats). We are also very open to cooperation with broadcasters and distribution companies. Coproduction opportunities is a very interesting territory, as I believe we can make something great together with our partner in the APAC region’, concluded Chernyak.
Renunciation