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This August, Keshet International (KI) relaunched its Greenlight: Factual & Formats commissioning initiative for 2024, inviting producers to submit projects from the following genres:

• Premium Factual (3-4 episodes max)
• Specialist Factual
• True Crime docuseries
• Entertainment formats
• Reality formats
• Social Experiment formats

Submissions closed on 30 September 2024. Successful applicants were notified by 25 October and invited to submit materials by 18 November to pitch their show to buyers in London at The Lighterman on 2 December 2024.

Having already commissioned Woodcut Media’s Catch Me If You Can (10x60’) and Perpetual Entertainment’s Hitler’s Treasure Hunters (6x60’) for distribution, KI is now optioning and entering into a three-phase development deal with The Connected Set for its innovative dating format Too Good To Be True, which was pitched last November. Powered by cutting-edge AI technology, this arced series sees a cast of catfished singletons attempt to correctly identify and select real-life human love matches from a line-up of AI-generated deepfake suitors. 

In addition, the global content producer and distributor has signed four shopping agreements from the "Class of 2023": two with Woodcut Media for the returnable true crime docuseries, Hotel Horrors (10x60’) and Captive Calls (10x60’); a second with Yeti Television for its docuseries Secret Royal Homes; a third with Flicker Productions for Million Dollar Alien Hunters, and a fourth with Hello Mary for Subterranean Secrets. 

KI's objective with its Greenlight: Factual & Formats’ commissioning initiative is to greenlight up to three English-language projects a year for distribution - either fully funded by KI or co-funded in partnership with at least one broadcaster or streamer.  

KI announced its first fully funded commission in September 2023: a 10-part returnable documentary series produced by Woodcut Media.

Catch Me If You Can (10x60') is a gripping true crime docuseries that delves into the chilling world of murderers who evade capture while taunting their victims’ families and law enforcers until they are finally brought to justice. 

KI will launch Catch Me If You Can to market at MIPCOM 2024. Click here for more information on this show and to watch screeners.

Watch Catch Me if you Can now!

Over 200 shows were submitted by producers for consideration for our 2023 Producer Pitch.

Of these, 30 shortlisted projects were pitched by 15 producers to an audience of nearly 50 international buyers, who were in the room or taking part remotely on Monday 27 November 2023 via a live-stream video link.

Since then, KI has greenlit Perpetual Entertainment's Hitler’s Treasure Hunters to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the death of Hitler and the end of World War II in 2025, and signed five new producer agreements with The Connected Set, Woodcut Media, Yeti Television, Flicker Productions, and Hello Mary. Full details can be found here.

KI's Greenlight: Factual & Formats commissioning initiative is managed by Anke Stoll, SVP of Acquisitions and Co-productions.

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Perpetual Entertainment's Hitler’s Treasure Hunters (6x60’) tells the stories of the many treasures and religious relics sought out by the Nazi SS, including the Holy Grail and Thor’s hammer, to win Germany the war and prove Aryan supremacy.

To erase Europe’s cultural identity and replace Christianity with their own beliefs - of the occult, mysterious legends and religious folklore – Himmler used his Ahnenerbe troops’ research and plundering to justify Nazi notions of superiority, including the racial purity laws that led to The Holocaust. 

Watch Hitler's Treasure Hunters now!