Brighton – BBC Worldwide’s (BBCW) Asian sales team has secured a raft of deals in Korea. KBS, BBCW’s biggest client in Korea, has added the likes of Mistresses, series three of Doctor Who and Diana – Last Days of a Princess, to previous buys Primeval and Robin Hood. OBS will air Bodies, while The Office and Extras have been sold to Fox Life in Korea. Drama shows, including Miss Austen Regrets, Sense and Sensibility, Frankenstein, and factual fare like Michael Palin’s New Europe, A Year in Tibet and India with Sanjeev Bhaskar have been sold to EBS. More IPTV deals have been signed with both MegaPass TV and HANA TV, amounting to over 80 hours of content ranging from kids fare Teletubbies, Fimbles and Spot, to music programming Aida and Carmen, and docudrama Supervolcano. Top Gear launched on Q Channel and Fox’s male-skewed FX. And the first series of Primeval debuted on CJ Media’s CGV Channel, beating out rival channel OCN. The show garnered 6% share with a 1.4 rating at launch, rising to a 1.7 rating and 7% share at season-end. That time-slot’s rating on the channel averages 1 to 1.2.
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