Berlin – Quintus Media is pleased to announce a number of sales with content from independent German TV production company MAXIMUS FILM GmbH. The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) network has acquired Season II of documentary series The Most Dangerous Ways To School (5 x 48’) – and Iplanet, Entertainment Inc., South Korea has picked up both Seasons I and II.
Facing the most extreme conditions – marching, climbing or swimming, the children in The Most Dangerous Ways To School fear neither brutal cold nor dangerous terrain. They face wild animals, climb up mountainous paths; fight their way through icy wastelands or under the merciless sun of the desert. They persevere through all this with only one goal in sight: a better life. These children have the most spectacular and most dangerous ways to school in the world. The series captivates through a unique mixture of stunning scenery, enormous struggle and danger coupled with childlike curiosity, happiness and inquisitiveness. Everyday routine meets the spectacular taking viewers on an adventure to some almost impossible to reach destinations where the students navigate the narrow path between survival and the thirst for knowledge.
The fascinating series Behind Bars: The World’s Toughest Prisons (6 x 60’) went to pay TV channel Foxtel Australia, documentary channel Canal D for French speaking Canada, i-Cable part of cable provider i-Cable News Limited based in Hong Kong and to New Zealand public broadcaster TVNZ for their male skewed Duke channel. Behind Bars: The World’s Toughest Prisons takes viewers to the world’s most notorious and extraordinary prisons revealing what it really means to be part of this very special world – from different angles. The series is a never-before-seen insight into an unbelievable world, which exists within the realms of law and justice but with its own definitions of right and wrong.
Finally a volume deal with Polish DTT documentary channel Fokus TV has been concluded for the pop science series Evil Knows! (6 x 60’) together with The Most Dangerous Ways To School and Behind Bars: The World’s Toughest Prisons. Evil Knows! shows Evil Jared Hasselhoff the bass player from the US-rock band “Bloodhound Gang” embark on a search for significant and sometimes not so significant myths and phenomena from daily life. Each episode comprises of seven different scientific categories such as ‘’Unbreakable’ where Evil tests whether products actually live up to their producer’s claim of being unbreakable, ‘Evil Giants’ where Evil tests the biggest ‘toys’ the man’s world has to offer and ‘Human Heroes’ where he visits extraordinary personalities from all over the world. Evil Knows! is funny, crazy, outrageous and most definitely TV entertainment at its best.
