Autentic Distribution has closed a series of sales with various international broadcasters, sending documentaries from their extensive factual catalogue across the world. Australia’s SBS Australia has acquired a 30-hour package from the German factual specialist. This includes the documentaries FLOWERS AND FIRE - OUTBACK ADVENTURES IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA (45'), SCOTLAND - THE NEW WILD (3 × 50'), as well as MAGICAL TRAIN JOURNEYS IN SWITZERLAND (8 × 50'). The people & places series, which … [Read more...] about Autentic Distribution secures Global Sales for captivating documentaries
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Abacus Media Rights secures sales of crime drama series as London Screenings begin
Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, announces sales of two of its crime drama series during the LONDON TV SCREENINGS. Catch Me A Killer has been acquired by BritBox North America, SBS Australia, UKTV’s Alibi channel, BBC First in Benelux and Poland, AXN's Mystery Channel/NHK Enterprises (NEP) in Japan, and COSMOTE TV Greece. This series has additionally been chosen as part of the International Panorama selection and will be screened at Series Mania next month. AMR … [Read more...] about Abacus Media Rights secures sales of crime drama series as London Screenings begin
Selling Scripted: BBC Studios secures global sales of premium drama
At its 48th annual Showcase event BBC Studios unveils a range of international sales for compelling drama series, Beyond Paradise, Blue Lights, Boiling Point and The Famous Five. Beyond Paradise Series One, a spin-off from perennial favourite Death in Paradise (Red Planet Pictures), follows DI Humphrey Goodman and his fiancée, Martha as they leave London to start a new life on the Devon coast, where DI Humphrey sets out to help crack a host of baffling cases. Each week the team face a new crime … [Read more...] about Selling Scripted: BBC Studios secures global sales of premium drama
Keshet International sells A Body That Works in 92 territories
Keshet International (KI) has completed a raft of sales for Israel’s highest-rating drama of 2023, Kuma Studios’ award-winning relationship drama A Body That Works (Goof Shlishi). Starring Rotem Sela (The Baker and the Beauty) and Yehuda Levi (Fire Dance) as a childless couple who enlist the help of a surrogate (Gal Malka), this intimate drama - which also stars Lior Raz (Fauda) - stimulated national debate in Israel about fertility, family, and the autonomy of women’s bodies when it debuted … [Read more...] about Keshet International sells A Body That Works in 92 territories
DCD Rights sells 300 hours of premium programming to Australia and New Zealand
Leading UK-based distributor DCD Rights has sold 300 hours of premium programming across both scripted and unscripted genres to Australia and New Zealand broadcasters and streamers. Australian broadcaster Nine Network has picked up the second series of The Travelling Auctioneers. While the Australian Foxtel Group has acquired more than 160 hours of programming including, among others, James Martin’s Spanish Adventure, Emergency: First Time Medics, Penn & Teller: Fool Us Series … [Read more...] about DCD Rights sells 300 hours of premium programming to Australia and New Zealand
Global Buyers Have Fallen for Filmlance’s Sofia Helin & Camilla Ahlgren Crime Drama
Banijay Rights has announced the first international sales of Fallen, the new crime drama from Banijay Nordic label Filmlance and Bron (The Bridge) screenwriter Camilla Ahlgren and actor Sofia Helin, as this week’s Göteborg Film Festival TV Drama Vision conference gets under way. In deals negotiated across the Banijay Rights global sales team, Fallen has been acquired by CANAL+ Group’s POLAR+ channel in France, MHz Choice in the US, NPO in the Netherlands, SBS in Australia, ERT in Greece and … [Read more...] about Global Buyers Have Fallen for Filmlance’s Sofia Helin & Camilla Ahlgren Crime Drama