Commissioners have been very helpful, she said.

Mediawan is looking in more depth at how it can be synergetic by adapting documentary IP into scripted.

A good crime series in docs can lead to a very good scripted adaptation, added dArvieu.

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This is a way to answer customers needs and is also a very important source of IP.

The shoots of optimism are turning up in interesting spaces like Benelux, Norway and Finland.

The pair were speaking at MIPTV in Cannes.

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