Fremantle, Abacus Media Rights, Nippon and Woodcut Media were among the winners at the ninth Content Innovation Awards (CIAs), which took place Thursday evening at MIPCOM in the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.
Special Award winners this year included Peaky Blinders creator and writer Steven Knight, 1895 Films CEO Tom Jennings and Quay Street Productions’ Karis Winstanley.
The full list of winners is as follows:
Best Short-Form Series
RAID: Call of the Arbiter – Nicholas Day, Gary Rosenfeld, Jay Oliva, Eric Rollman and Plarium / Pixel United for YouTube
Best Animated Kids Programme
Pip and Posy – Vici King and Magic Light Pictures for Sky Television, Channel 5 / Milkshake!
Distribution Innovation
BBC Earth – BBC Studios
Entertainment Format of the Year
The Masked Singer UK – Bandicoot and Ababcus for ITV
Best Live Action Kids Programme
Ghostwriter – Sinking Ship Entertainment, Sesame Workshop and Apple TV+
Reality Show of the Year
Tempting Fortune Voltage TV and Cineflix Rights for Channel 4 (UK), Roku (North America)
Best True Crime Series
Murder in the Red Light – Woodcut Media and Abacus Media Rights for Amazon
Best New Scripted Series Based on a True Story
Rogue Heroes – A Kudos and Nebulastar Production distributed by Banijay Rights
Single-brand FAST Channel of the Year
The Jamie Oliver Channel – Jamie Oliver Productions and Fremantle
Multi-brand FAST Channel of the Year
Kids Ukraine Channel – Nickelodeon and Paramount Global Distribution
Best New Scripted Series Non-English Language
Rebooting – Nippon TV, AX-ON Inc., MASEKI GEINOSHA
The Sustainability & Innovation Award
The Lumi Platform – Karen Dewey and Lumi Media
Best Documentary Series
Evacuation – Wonderhood Studios for Channel 4
Best Live Action Kids Drama
Ruby and the Well – Shaftesbury in association with BYUtv and Family, a WildBrain network and BYUtv (US), WildBrain (Global) for BYUtv, Family Channel
Best Returning Scripted Series
The Sea Beyond – S3 RAI and Picomedia and Beta Film
The Representation & Inclusion Award – Scripted
Sort Of – Sphere Media and Abacus Media Rights
The Representation & Inclusion Award – Unscripted
The Australian Wars – Rachel Perkins, Darren Dale, Jacob Hickey and ABC Commercial for Special Broadcasting Service
Factual Entertainment Programme of the Year
Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne – Naked (a Fremantle label) and Milkshake Productions for Hulu and BBC Three
Best Documentary
The Murder of Meredith – Woodcut Media and Abacus Media Rights for Amazon Prime
Series Launch of the Year
Farmer Wants A Wife – Eureka Productions for Fox
Competition Show of the Year
The Masked Singer UK – Bandicoot and Abacus for ITV
Best New Scripted Series
The Swarm – Schwarm TV Production (Joint-company of Intaglio Films & ndF International Production)
