Dori Media Group announces that “El Marginal” has won three major awards at the 2017 Martin Fierro Awards, which took place in Buenos Aires on June 18th. “El Marginal” is a crime drama, co-produced by Underground Producciones and TV Publica, created by Sebastian Ortega with exclusive worldwide distribution by Dori Media Group.

The awards are granted by APTRA, the Association of Argentine Television and Radio Journalists. El Marginal received 8 nominations ahead of the ceremony, including Best Mini-Series, Best Director, Best Scriptwriter, Best Actor and best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Upcoming Actor, and Best Production.

Nadav Palti, CEO of Dori Media, commented: “El Marginal, has had a remarkably successful year, which does not surprise us at all. The show has been beautifully written, it is gripping and has a tremendous cast. This is reinforced by recognition at the Séries Mania 2016 awards, where it won the Grand Prix, the Tato awards where it won 13 awards and its strong ratings since premiering on TV Publica in Argentina in June, where it went on to more than triple its timeslot ratings on the channel. The show is also becoming an international sales success, with further sales in France, LATAM, the UK, Spain, Portugal, Israel and the US. We fully expect to see the show replicate its success in Argentina across the Globe.”

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Dori Media Group has sold the Shiny-Floor Game Show Best of All to one of Mexico’s leading broadcasters, TV Azteca. The sale represents the first international format sale of the Abot Hameiri with Reshet TV format. The first season will include 10 episodes.

Nadav Palti, CEO of Dori Media Group, commented: “We are delighted to sign the first international deal for Best of All. The format provides a genuinely innovative take on the modern game show, where contestants are essentially competing against hundreds of audience members connected to the game via smartphones. As a format, it is highly replicable, has the potential to redefine its genre and it provides broadcasters with good value but high quality content. We expect the format to be very successful among TV Azteca’s discerning viewers when it is broadcast on its prime time slot.”

Joshua Mintz, Deputy to the President of TV Azteca, commented: “TV Azteca is a great place to create TV and adapt foreign formats. Our experience with contest shows has been a success. TV Azteca is home of great events and great contest shows. The Mexican audience will be very pleased with what we will be offering with Dori Media’s format.”

Best of All aired on the leading Israeli channel, Channel 2 (Reshet) and enjoyed increased ratings in its target audience. The show tests the theory that a crowd of people will answer a question correctly more often than an individual, and even an expert. This show pits hundreds of people against individuals answering visual questions for money. All the questions in the game are amusing visual questions (video segments), questions with a WOW factor, questions that are fun to watch even if you’re not participating in the game. The show is hosted by Avri Gilad.

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Mexico becomes its 10^th international sale following a series of ratings successes on RTL Germany, TV Record Brazil, MNET South Africa, Channel 10 Israel, RTL Hungary and more

Dori Media Group has sold hit reality show Power Couple to Mexico’s leading broadcasters, TV Azteca. The sale represents the tenth international format sale of the Abot Hameiri production. The first season will consist of 10 episodes.

Nadav Palti, CEO & President of Dori Media Group commented: “Power Couple is on the brink of becoming a major hit in the Hispanic world, replicating its success in Europe. The show has already conquered Brazil and we are confident that its anticipated success in Mexico will serve as a springboard to the rest of the Hispanic market. The format has all the ingredients to satisfy the growing expectations of viewers who are increasingly spoilt for choice. The reality show has a fresh and exciting take on the reality format, which has been attracting some exciting celebrity contenders in many markets. We are looking forward to helping TV Azteca roll it out.”

Joshua Mintz, Deputy to the President of TV Azteca, commented: “TV Azteca is a great place to create TV and adapt foreign formats. Our experience with contest shows has been a success. TV Azteca is home of great events and great contest shows. The Mexican audience will be very pleased with what we will be offering with Dori Media’s format.”

Power Couple provides ten couples with extreme challenges to test how well they really know each other. In this game, couples can convert the closeness of their relationships and their knowledge of each other into big cash prizes. The format has been taken to over 10 territories internationally including: China, India, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Slovenia, South Africa, Hungary and more.

The scale of the show’s success can be summarized as follows:

• The show has achieved hit status in Israel, where it improved the rating of its 9.00 PM timeslot by 81% on average.
• On RTL Germany, Power Couple secured a winning timeslot having attracted an average rating of 13.8% among its target audience of 14-49 year-olds. The show was the number one trending topic on Twitter in Germany every Wednesday night while the show was running.
• In Hungary, it achieved an audience share of 27.2% in the very competitive 7:00 pm slot.
• In Brazil, having attracted 62 million viewers, the show increased its broadcaster’s timeslot ratings by 38% and a second season has been commissioned.
• In Slovenia, the show has achieved a 27% viewing share on its channel.

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Dori Media Group has sold the format of hit crime drama “Dumb” to Mexico’s leading broadcaster, TV Azteca. The sale represents the first international format sale of the Dori Media Darset production. The first season of 60 episodes will air in 2018.

Nadav Palti, CEO of Dori Media Group, commented: “Dumb has tremendous potential to deliver excellent ratings for TV Azteca. It is a contemporary fresh and unique urban format that can take place anywhere: in Tel Aviv in Mexico City or in Tokyo. The crime drama has been a tremendous hit in Israel having been viewed by 46% of HOT cable subscribers in Israel with a second and third series already committed to. Broadcasters are looking for unique and outstanding TV content to meet viewers’ increasingly discerning tastes and demand cinematic quality. I have no doubt that Mexican viewers will tune in to Dumb in high volumes.”

Joshua Mintz, Deputy to the President of TV Azteca, commented: “TV Azteca is proud to be the first international buyer of “Dumb”. Our new way of production has proved to be innovative and responsive to the audience’s demand. TV Azteca’s audience is looking for great storytelling, and characters they can relate to. We know how to create just that and by adapting “Dumb” we’ll make a great series, in line with our vision towards becoming the best place to create TV.”

Dumb was recently chosen as one of only 20 dramas from around the world to be screened to key influencers and buyers at the recent European Film Festival in Berlin during its Drama Series Days. The series has been the most viewed series on Israel’s HOT since May 2015, 46% of their subscribers have watched the series. This ratings success has led to a second and third seasons being ordered for the spring of this year and 2018.

Also, the series recently won major awards at the Israeli Academy Awards, including Best Drama, Best Actress and Best Scripts.

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Dori Media Group (“DMG”, “the Company”) announces that the Reshet network in Israel has commissioned a second season of the shiny floor gameshow “The Best of All”. The show is developed in cooperation with Abot Hameiri Productions and distributed by Dori Media. The second season will be produced in H1 2017 as part of a hub production with other European territories.

“The Best of All” currently airs on Reshet’s Channel 2 on Friday night in the prime-time slot and since its launch has increased ratings with Reshet’s target younger audience. For the audience aged between 12-17 years old ratings for the slot increased by 147%* and for the 18-24 age range by 65.4%*.

“The Best of All” gameshow tests the theory that a crowd of people will answer a question correctly more often than an individual, and even an expert. This show pits hundreds of people against individuals answering visual questions for money.

Nadav Palti, CEO & President of Dori Media Group commented: “Friday night prime-time slot viewing has significantly decreased in recent years across all age groups but primarily amongst the younger audience. Reshet’s decision to schedule “The Best of All” in this slot was based on the broadcaster’s belief in the strength of the format that it could re-establish the slot’s popularity with its target audience. The results we have seen from the first season show that this belief was well founded. We look forward to continuing our successful partnership with Reshet and Abot Hameiri Productions through 2017.”

* Compared with October 2016 (not including Jewish holidays).

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Dori Media Group announces that it will present a range of new formats at Discop 2016, which will be held on November 2-4, 2016, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Nadav Palti, CEO & President of Dori Media Group commented: “We are delighted to bring a unique library of award-winning content to Africa’s number one TV and film market. “Power Couple” continues to generate a lot of attention both in terms of its ratings successes and its growing international sales. South Africa’s M-NET blazed a trail by taking on Power Couple as the first Israeli non-scripted format to go on air in South Africa, and we expect more sales to follow. Our new formats have as much chance to become hits in the African market as we continue to introduce a catalogue that offers diversity of choice and very cost effective solutions when it comes to localizing content.”

New crime drama “Dumb” is among the new titles Dori Media will present at Discop 2016. The show follows a frustrated and stoned 30 year old actress “you can’t help but love” (“Ynet”) who shuns the limelight in order to work as an undercover cop by impersonating a high school student. Her aim is to help her ex-boyfriend, who has been arrested and charged with drug dealing. “Dumb” has already received glowing reviews from top publications. “Haaretz” noted its “excellent acting” calling it “original television”, whilst “Israel Today” thought it was “absolutely fabulous”.

The Shiny Floor Game show “The Best of All”, produced by Abot Hameiri, to be aired on the leading Israel channel, Channel 2 (Reshet) this month. The show tests the theory that a crowd of people will answer a question correctly more often than an individual, and even an expert. This show pits hundreds of people against individuals answering visual questions for money. Furthermore, the creators of “Smart Face” bring a new street game show format to life for Discop, “Intuition”. Challenging contestants to use their intuition alone to answer 10 questions about a stranger they meet in the street to try and win up to $10,000!

Alongside the new formats Dori will also present the Séries Mania 2016 Grand Prix winning crime drama “El Marginal”, a co-production from Underground Producciones and TV Publica, created by Sebastian Ortega, and the successful international hit reality TV format “Power Couple” by Abot Hameiri. “El Marginal” premiered on TV Publica in Argentina in June, where it has gone on to more than triple its timeslot ratings on the channel. “Power Couple” has achieved outstanding success, with nine international sales, most recently to RTL Croatia. Notable ratings success for “Power Couple” includes:

• The show has achieved hit status in Israel, where it improved the rating of its 9:00 PM timeslot by 81% on average;
• In Germany, it has secured a winning timeslot among those aged between 14 and 49;
• In Hungary, it has achieved an audience share of 27.2% in the very competitive 7:00 pm slot;
• In Brazil, the show increased its timeslot ratings by 38% and a second season has been commissioned; and
• In Slovenia, the show has achieved a 27% viewing share on its channel.

Endorsements of “Power Couple” gathered from the market include:

Péter Kolosi’s Deputy CEO, Director of Programming at RTL Hungary: “We are really delighted with the success of Power Couple which gives an amazing boost to the start of our Autumn season. The show has become a firm favorite with the Hungarian audience and makes our prime time leadership even stronger with the show peaking at a 27.2% share in the very competitive 7 pm slot. I am sure that there is a great international future ahead of the format.”

Marcelo Silva, Artistic Vice President, TV Record Brazil: “Power Couple reality show was one of Record´s successes in 2016. The TV show, a produced by Floresta production, was hosted by Roberto Justus. According Kantar IBOPE Grande SP, more than 62 million people watched the reality show. It was also a success on social networks, trending on multiple sites when it aired. Furthermore, TV critics wrote on the innovative nature of the format. A second season is scheduled for 2017.

Frank Rendez, Press reviewer, RTL Television: “Das Sommerhaus der Stars – Kampf der Promipaare”, the local version of Power Couple, clearly and consistently achieved the highest market share with an average rate of 13.8% in the target group of 14-49 year-olds. On social media the show was the number one trending topic on Twitter in Germany every Wednesday night while the show was running.”

A synopsis for each show that will be presented at Discop 2016 by Dori Media Group can be found below.

Dori Media Presents at Discop 2016:

Dumb – Crime Drama (50X35min)

A crime drama about a 30 year old frustrated and stoned actress who is stuck with the body and appearance of a teenager and hates it. She sees herself as dumb, leading a mundane life, without friends or dreams. All she has is her boyfriend, who later dumps her and gets arrested for dealing drugs. Determined to save him, she joins the police as an undercover agent posing as a high-school senior class student. Blinded by love and power, she soon crosses the line becoming the new target of investigation. In way over her head, playing the role of her life, she realizes for the first time that she is not, in fact, dumb.

Produced by Dori Media Darset for HOT.

The Best of All – Shiny-Floor Game Show

Theory states that the average of the answers from a large audience to a question will be a more precise evaluation than any one opinion, even that of a professional‫. “The Best of All”, a new shiny floor game show, is there to find out if the “Wisdom of the Crowd” theory really works. How many people make a “crowd”? It depends… There is no one answer… In “The Best of All”, a large group of people compete against individual studio participants. All the questions in the game are amusing visual questions (video segments), questions with a WOW factor, questions that are fun to watch even if you’re not participating in the game.

Intuition – Street Game Show

From the creator of the international success “Smart Face”, comes another fun street format! “Intuition” is a new game show where you don’t need to know anything, all you need is strong intuition. Can ordinary people on the street guess your personality and history just by looking at you? Is this woman married or single? How much money does this man have in his wallet? Can you judge a book by its cover? …and answer 10 questions based on intuition alone? Every episode comprises of games where one contestant answers 10 questions about a random person they meet for the first time and can win up to $10,000!

Game Over – Comedy (6X30min)

A hilarious sitcom, a peek into the life of stand-up comedian, Mickey, just before his wedding. Everyone, his grandmother, his parents, and especially his bride get swept up into planning an event with a major budget and many guests. In between scenes we see parts of Mickey’s stand-up in front of a live audience and hear his own point of view about how his relationship has changed as the big day approaches. We see him turn his personal conflicts into jokes for the audience, as he tries to find the silver lining in all this. Season 2 already commissioned.

El Marginal – Crime Drama (13X45min)

The series focuses on the story of Miguel Dimarco, an ex-cop who enters the San Onofre prison under a false identity as a convict. His mission is to infiltrate a gang of prisoners who have kidnapped the daughter of a prominent judge. Miguel must discover the whereabouts of the girl and help set her free. He meets the objective but someone betrays him, leaving him behind bars with no witnesses who know his true identity. Miguel will soon realize that the only way to save his life and recover his identity is to escape with the help of an unexpected ally, Anna, a social worker who works in the prison. A co-production from Underground Producciones and TV Publica, created by Sebastian Ortega with exclusive worldwide distribution by Dori Media Group.

Power Couple – Reality Show

Created by Abot Hameiri, one of the leading production houses in the Israeli television market, “Power Couple” is a reality format where eight couples face extreme challenges that test how well they really know each other. It has already proved to be a huge hit, both in its home market of Israel and internationally. In Israel, the format improved Channel 10’s average time slot ratings by 81% during its airing. It has already been sold to nine countries across the globe and is the first Israeli non scripted format to go on air in South Africa. In Brazil after first season achieved a 38% rating increase and a second season has since been commissioned. It was produced by Abot Hameiri for Channel 10 Israel.

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Dori Media Group (“DMG”, “the Company”) announces that it has sold the full season of its romantic comedy “Esperanza Mia (My Lovely Hope)” to air on MTV Latin America in the Southern Cone territories. The series is expected to be launched on the channel in November.

“Esperanza Mia” is a co-production from Dori Media International and Pol-Ka Producciones, and has recently been sold to a range of countries including: Mexico, Poland, Spain, Indonesia, Israel, Bolivia, Vietnam, Slovenia, Hungary, Panama and Ecuador.

“Esperanza Mia” is a romantic comedy about the forbidden love between Julia (Hope) and Tomas. Julia’s mother dies from a fatal illness contracted due to pollution in the factory where she worked. On her deathbed, she asks Julia to hunt down the owner of the factory, but Julia is persecuted while trying to do just that. She escapes to Buenos Aires and takes shelter in a convent, pretending to be a nun named Hope. There she meets a priest named Tomas and love between them grows. Unfortunately, Julia does not know that Tomas is none other than the brother of the man responsible for her mother’s death, the man she swore to bring to justice.

The show recently achieved excellent ratings in Spain, where it is aired on Atresmedia’s Channel Nova. The series secured a 50% greater audience share than the channel’s average since first being broadcast in December 2015.

Nadav Palti, CEO & President of Dori Media Group commented: “Esperanza Mia is currently one of our most popular shows, and it has been sold globally in 11 markets from Latin America to Asia. We are delighted to have MTV Latin America endorsing the show by acquiring an entire season, and we have no doubt viewers will enjoy the mix of drama and romance told through  Julia’s story.”

Watch “Esperanza Mia” with English language subtitles :

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