V I D E O A G E • N o. 2 • M a r c h / A p r i l 2 0 0 9 Cover stories: At Italy’s De Agostini Group, Lorenzo Pellicioli’s overnight success only took 25 years The mysterious AGICOA is Europe’s best open multimillion euro secret L.A. Screenings ’09 are runnin’ late, though at last (but not least) they’re back Laughter is back big time to console TV audiences and producers 6. World: Canada, Vatican City, U.S., U.K., South Africa, Plus Famous quotes. Letters 12. Book Review. The life of Roman Polanski is even stranger than his films 14. NATPE review. It’s all about gigs baby! Giganomics rules! Major market’s issue surgically avoided 18. Future tense. Assessing the Future can be less traumatic than explaining the past 20. MIP-TV Preview. Spring stimulus package offered to international broadcasters by altruistic distributors 24. The Berlin Story. AFM-inspired EFM proves that February is indeed a resilient month 26. What makes MDA tic in Singapore, tac in Cannes and make dough worldwide 28. Company Profile: E1 Entertainment. A mini-major emerges from Canada out of a pile of small companies with big hearts 34. Analog dollars vs. digital pennies: The TV industry quandary, a.k.a. the million-dollar question or the sudoku of broadcasting 36. Future Markets. International program distributors select Africa as top emerging territory 38. DISCOP Africa shows the bright side of the dark continent 40. Channel hopping. Television in Europe is more than zapping through its 5,068 channels 42. Seminars With Zest. He who smiles in a crisis has found someone to blame. Hear all about it Monday at 4 pm in Auditorium Z 54. Conferences and events news. It’s all about what, when, where and, most importantly, why 56. My2¢: U.S. broadcasters made a big mistake by not embracing the real football. For this, they too, deserve a bonus
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