Axel Fiacco
International unscripted
& Media Specialist
More than 25 years experience in media and unscripted.
International Award Winning format creator and twice finalist at the Mipformats Pitch Competition of Cannes.
Selected by the MIPTV team to be part of PRODUCERS TO WATCH 2022 and 2023.
Lecturer in Italian and international universities and prolific author of books about format and television writing.
FORMAT ESPRESSO spreads its activity in 3 main areas: training & consultancy for professionals (among clients: EndemolShine, Fremantle, Mediaset, TIM Group -the main Italian telecommunication company- and others); distribution of international formats (we are the exclusive worldwide format distributor of RSI, the Swiss Italian public TV broadcaster); content creation (through our innovative and unique CREATIVE HUB, used by a number of important companies).
The 3nd series of our game show JUST 1 LETTER (Solo 1 Lettera) premiered on RSI, the public Swiss television, with the impressive share of 36% in access prime time. On air every day for 110 episodes, till February 2024....
06 Novembre, 2023
The German based prodco MOVEME and the Israeli based prodco GILFORMATS have also started a creative partnership with our innovative academic tool made of +90 talents of Gen Z. The creative sessions with our young and brilliant minds to find out cutting edge contents for......
13 Giugno, 2023
Our brand-new game show GOLD has been selected as one of the 5 finalists of the 2023 MIPFormats Pitch! The Pitch will take place on day one of MIPTV 2023....
06 Aprile, 2023
Proud to be included also this year in the list of “Producers to Watch 2023” by MipTv team....
31 Marzo, 2023
Proud to have produced Fight Back THE FIRST ORIGINAL UNSCRIPTED FORMAT AVAILABLE ONLY ON THE METAVERSE. The first episode premiered last Thursday 23rd March at 9:00 pm and it can be seen only by all those who enter the Mevaverse of The Nemesis. The whole......
29 Marzo, 2023
Happy and honored to have hold 2 learning lessons (long-term trends in uscripted + Metaverse & new technologies) at the IPXchange of Köln, the 1st Independent Producers’ X-change. Gathering more than 40 independent production companies from across Europe this 2-days event (26th and 27th March)......
29 Marzo, 2023
Another partner for our CREATIVE HUB: also CONSTANTIN ENTERTAINMENT, the big German prodco, decided to use our innovative academic tool for creating innovative ideas! The virtual sessions with our +90 media students have just started: at the end of March a dozens of fresh and......
14 Febbraio, 2023
BMH & FE are excited to announce their Production Partnership. This new collaboration aims to foster and encourage the development and production of new international projects. Bloom is an Italian television production company based in Milan which goal is to create and produce high quality......
02 Febbraio, 2023
Due to its incredible results (the average share of January was 38.7%!), the third series of Just1Letter on the public channel of Swiss television has been reconfirmed. It will be on air from late August to the end of January for 110 new episodes. And......
02 Febbraio, 2023
After TALPA CONCEPT and TRESOR TV, also the European prodco ECCHOLINE (Peking Express, Ninja Warrior) has made a creative partnership with our CREATIVE HUB to develop innovative ideas and boost existing formats. We are thrilled to start new creative sessions with our young and brilliant......
02 Febbraio, 2023