Leading UK-based distributor DCD Rights has secured sales of more than 100 hours of premium drama titles to CEE ahead of their attendance at NEM and NATPE Budapest later this month.

Profour (Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia) has acquired series 5 of long-running, returning series My Life is Murder, starring award-winning Lucy Lawless (Top of the Lake, Spartacus, Xena: Warrior Princess).

My Life is Murder series 1-4 has been acquired by BBC Studios for Poland and TV3 Group for Latvia, whilst CDA Premium, Poland has picked up a package of 28 hours including the psychological thriller The Secrets She Keeps series 1 and 2, starring Laura Carmichael (Downton Abbey) and Jessica De Gouw (The Couple Next Door).

James Anderson, Senior Sales Manager, comments “These returning dramas are extremely popular with audiences around the world and we’re delighted that further broadcasters across the CEE region are acquiring such well-produced and evergreen series for their viewers to enjoy.”

A Greenstone Pictures Production for TVNZ, Acorn TV and DCD Rights, made with the assistance of the New Zealand Government’s Screen Production Rebate (NZSPR), My Life Is Murder, follows the complex, contrary and compelling investigator Alexa Crowe, who can’t help fighting the good fight – whether it’s solving murders or combating the small frustrations of everyday life. In each stand-alone episode, the fearless and unapologetic Alexa uses her unique skills and insights into the darker quirks of human nature to provoke, comfort and push the right buttons as she unravels the truth behind a raft of the most baffling of crimes.

Produced by Lingo Pictures Production for Paramount Plus, with production funding from Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW, The Secrets She Keeps is an adaptation of bestselling author Michael Robotham’s acclaimed novel, which tells the story of two women who have a chance encounter in a supermarket in an affluent Sydney suburb. They are the same age and both heavily pregnant. Meghan (De Gouw) is a glamorous online ‘influencer’ on the rise and Agatha (Carmichael) works in the supermarket as a shelf stacker.  Although they live near each other, the two women’s lives could not be more different … Agatha is a loner, barely subsisting above the poverty line. She’s ecstatic to be pregnant, pinning all her hopes and dreams on this much longed-for ‘miracle baby’.  Meghan is a sophisticated mother-of-two who uses her website to reframe her imperfect life into a glossier, more aspirational existence.  Both women have secrets. And both will risk everything to conceal the truth. But their worlds are about to collide in one shocking act that cannot be undone.