Middle East’s MBC Strikes Wide-Ranging Deal With Turkey’s Medyapim & Ay Yapim; ‘Doctor Foster’ Remake Deal With The BBC Leading Middle Eastern media firm MBC Group has struck wide-ranging content agreements with Turkish production companies Medyapim and Ay Yapim, and is remaking British drama following a deal with BBC Studios.
The five-year partnerships – unveiled today at Mipcom Cannes – will see Turkish content offered exclusively on MBC channels and streaming service Shahid through first-look and volume deal agreements, along with original Arabic-language originals produced for the MENA market.
Some titles will get wider distribution via Shahid’s international reach. Sam Barnett, CEO of MBC Group, said: “It’s no secret that Turkish content is extremely popular with MENA audiences – it’s a genre that has been rising in popularity in this region since the early noughties.” Medyapim will remake Suranne Jones drama Doctor Foster, having already rebooted in Turkey as Sadakatsiz.
The show, based on Mike Bartlett’s scripts, will go out on MBC channels and Shahid. Doctor Foster, originally on ITV in the UK, has also been remade in France, India, Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia. “We cannot wait for audiences to watch our very own regional ‘Dr.
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