Leading UK-based distributor DCD Rights has sold more than 120 hours of factual and factual entertainment series. The deal includes brand new series The Bone Detectives from Tern TV, part of Zinc Media, and a number of other titles from leading production companies. The Bone Detectives, 8 x 60’, has sold to UR: Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, Foxtel for Australia and New Zealand, and TVO and Knowledge Network in Canada. From tales of battles, of misdemeanours, … [Read more...] about DCD Rights strikes deals for more than 120 hours of factual content
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DCD Rights announces factual sales
Leading UK-based distributor DCD Rights has pre-sold its brand new factual entertainment series Disasters Engineered, a.k.a. Deadly Engineering, to Discovery in the UK & Eire - who premiere the series this month - and to DR in Denmark and ahead of NATPE Miami. The 10 x 60’ series is produced bySWR Media, Intermission Film and DCD Rights in association with Dash Pictures for Discovery UK. Another new title from DCD Rights, 10 x 30’ Australian Outback series Aussie Bull Catchers, produced by … [Read more...] about DCD Rights announces factual sales
W9 acquires new Australian drama
Independent UK based distributor DCD Rights’ compelling new drama The Hunting has been acquired by French broadcaster, W9, at MIPCOM. A new four-part drama series, The Hunting, is a Closer Production presented by SBS Broadcasting Australia & Screen Australia in association with the South Australia Film Corporation. The Hunting made its market debut at MIPTV earlier this year. When two high school teachers discover students are sharing explicit photos of their underage … [Read more...] about W9 acquires new Australian drama
DCD Rights sells two leading Australian drama series
Independent UK based distributor DCD Rights has sold two leading Australian drama series, The Hunting and My Life is Murder, to UK broadcasters Channel 5 and UKTV respectively. A Closer Production presented by SBS Broadcasting Australia & Screen Australia, in association with the South Australia Film Corporation, The Hunting (4 x 60’) has been picked up for Channel 5 by Acquisitions Director Anna-Belen Dunlop for the broadcaster’s prime-time schedules. The series will premiere … [Read more...] about DCD Rights sells two leading Australian drama series
DCD Rights presents Romper Stomper and Striking Out
London -- Independent UK based distributor DCD Rights has added the much-anticipated new contemporary thriller Romper Stomper and the second season of legal drama Striking Out to its scripted slate ahead of MIPCOM, with key presale deals already signed for both titles. A Stan original series, Romper Stomper (6 x 60’) is a Roadshow Rough Diamond production in association with Screen Australia and Film Victoria. A high stakes crime drama/political thriller told from multiple points of … [Read more...] about DCD Rights presents Romper Stomper and Striking Out
Swipe Right for Murder (w/t): A major new co-production
London – DCD Rights CEO Nicky Davies Williams announced that new factual crime series Swipe Right for Murder (w/t) has gone into production. The series is the first of a slate of co-production projects for DCD Rights which aims to increase its output to five a year. Produced by award-winning UK indie Popkorn, Swipe Right for Murder (w/t) is a co-production between UKTV’s Really Channel, Australia’s Seven Network, MediaWorks New Zealand and DCD Rights. Rory Wheeler, Managing Director, Popkorn … [Read more...] about Swipe Right for Murder (w/t): A major new co-production