While Reed Midem says a record number of buyers were in Cannes for last October's MIPCOM - 3,296, or 16% more than 2003 - there's no way of telling how many of those had a yen for factual. But for those non-fiction distribs flaunting their wares, it mattered little. The factual buyers who were there showed up with their check books open.

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