Part one of ScreenMDM’s Hit List, highlighting hot properties for MIPCOM, launches with shows from Calinos Entertainment, Fremantle, NHK/NHK Enterprises, and ZDF Studios.
Calinos Entertainment
Love in the Ashes (Drama) Leyla disappears on her wedding day. Seven years later, Mirza finds her alive while searching for his kidnapped nephew and brings her home.
Salted Love (Family/romance) Set around three intertwined families, follows Derin and Mehmet as family expectations, old tensions, and misunderstandings complicate their growing relationship.
Lynch (Drama/thriller, S1-3) Funeral home owner Jerónimo Lynch helps people in serious trouble fake their deaths, disappear from their old lives, and start over with new identities.
Fremantle
Baywatch (Drama, 12×60 min.) The legendary series, which wrapped its original 11-season run 25 years ago, returns.
AI: Probably Nothing To Worry About (Documentary, 1×90 min.) The fullest account yet of the fastest arms race in Silicon Valley’s history, told by the people who built it.
Stacks of Cash (Entertainment) Supersizes the addictive fun of stacking games into a primetime game-show spectacle, with instant family play-along.
NHK/NHK Enterprises
Mitateru-phose: Let’s Change Perspectives! (Kids, 25×10 min.) “Mi-ta-te” means seeing one thing as another. This playful, stylish kids’ show sparks imagination, where every answer is unique and wonderful.
Amazing Dinoworld III (Science/technology, 2×49 min.) Spectacular CGI and new fossil discoveries reveal the epic rise of Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops from Asian migrants to ecosystem rulers.
MIDNIGHT TAXI (Drama, 32×15 min.) Shoko, a night-shift Tokyo taxi driver, meets passengers at life’s crossroads while confronting her own hopes and uncertainties about turning 30.
ZDF Studios
Grand Hotel by the Sea (Drama, 8×50 min.) A sweeping period romance about ambitious hotel owner Sandra von Wiegmann, whose dreams, sacrifices, and family struggles unfold amid a changing society in 1912.
Alea Aquarius (Junior/live action, 26×25 min.) A romantic fantasy drama about two young mer people who uncover their true heritage and fight to save their endangered underwater world from destruction.
The Body: What Is Life? (Science/knowledge, 3×50 min.) A visually stunning science documentary series exploring the mysteries of human life, from cellular networks and perception to aging and survival.
