BBC Worldwide has announced sales for two of its key titles. The new paranormal thriller Intruders (8 x 43’) has been snapped up by French telecom operator OCS which will see it air in early 2015. The factual entertainment series Katherine Mills: Mind Games (4 x 50’) has also been bought by Channel Seven in Australia, and TVNZ in New Zealand.

Paul Dempsey, President, Global Markets for BBC Worldwide, said, “BBC Worldwide launched a wide range of new, exciting content and its gratifying to be able to announce sales of some of those key titles so swiftly.”

Intruders, is a major new eight-part series from BBC Worldwide Productions for BBC AMERICA, starring John Simm and Oscar winner Mira Sorvino who were in attendance in Cannes for the show’s launch. The paranormal thriller written by Glen Morgan (X-Files) is based on Michael Marshall Smith’s novel, about a secret society devoted to the search for immortality set in America’s Pacific Northwest.

BAFTA award-winning magician Katherine Mills was also present in Cannes for the launch of Katherine Mills: Mind Games, along with Executive Producer Matt Crook (The Incredible Mr.Goodwin, The Real Hustle, Derren Brown) and Writer Iain Scott Sharkey (Derren Brown). The series, blending Mills’ extraordinary understanding of popular psychological science with astonishing trickery and illusion, is an Objective Productions and Crook Productions for UKTV.