Ahead of Showcase 2024, BBC Studios and Swedish national public television broadcaster, Sveriges Television AB (SVT) announced a new factual content deal that will see over 280 hours of BBC Studios’ award-winning factual content on SVT channels and services including SVT1, SVT2, Knowledge Channel and SVT Play. The agreement will cover a range of natural history, science, history and factual entertainment programming from BBC Studio’s high quality and diverse factual content offering. Titles … [Read more...] about BBC Studios and SVT strike Factual Content Deal
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SVT Commissions TV Adaptation of The Scarab Flies at Dusk from Nordic Drama Queens
The beloved classic The Scarab Flies at Dusk, written by Maria Gripe, is being adapted for the screen with filming commencing in May 2024. The drama will be produced by Nordic Drama Queens, a FIFTH SEASON backed company, and is set to be broadcast by SVT and SVT Play in Sweden in 2025. The project was unveiled today during the Göteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision conference. The cast for the compelling family adventure series will include Tomas von Brömssen (Albert & Herbert, My Life … [Read more...] about SVT Commissions TV Adaptation of The Scarab Flies at Dusk from Nordic Drama Queens
SVT Picks up comedy adventure Super Brakan & Ice Bella
SVT (Swedish Television) has ordered 52 episodes of the upcoming animated show Super Brakan & Ice-Bella produced by Nuttery Entertainment and Toonz Media Group. The 11-minute show is based on a successful book series and follows two homemade superhero-siblings, sprung from the power of the potato, as they battle a dull adult world using their only super power - imagination. Super Brakan & Ice-Bella is based on the legendary character Hakan Brakan, created by best-selling Swedish authors … [Read more...] about SVT Picks up comedy adventure Super Brakan & Ice Bella
IFA and LGI Media reaches high with co-production deals for ‘Tibet: Roof Of The World’
Asian production powerhouse IFA Media and LGI Media (formerly Looking Glass International) the Australian based distribution company specializing in factual programming has solidified co-production agreements with prominent broadcasters from around the world for the new blue-chip wildlife project Tibet: Roof of the World. Producers - IFA Media, partnered with Chinese production giants CICC (China Intercontinental Communication Center), Singapore’s, IMDA (Infocomm Media Development Authority … [Read more...] about IFA and LGI Media reaches high with co-production deals for ‘Tibet: Roof Of The World’
ITVS GE signs deal with SVT
ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has signed a deal with Swedish broadcaster SVT for a tranche of programmes, including forthcoming drama Vanity Fair, a new adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s literary classic. The seven-part drama, produced by Mammoth Screen with Amazon Studios, was commissioned by ITV in the UK and is due to air later this year. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky Sharp (Olivia Cooke) as she attempts to claw … [Read more...] about ITVS GE signs deal with SVT
ITV Studios signs raft of drama sales
Cannes, France – ITV Studios Global Entertainment (ITVS GE) has signed a host of new drama agreements across EMEA, including new deals for the critically acclaimed Victoria. Mammoth Screen’s international hit production, which is returning in the UK on ITV later this year, has been acquired by the satellite broadcaster YES Israel. A free-to-air TV broadcast window for Victoria in Italy has also been secured with Mediaset, while it recently launched in Italy on La Effe, the pay TV channel owned … [Read more...] about ITV Studios signs raft of drama sales