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Show of the week: Against All Odds

One year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this documentary explores how the country managed to withstand the first months of the conflict, despite its much smaller military force and widespread predictions that the capital city, Kiev, would fall in days. “This is probably the most documented war in the history of mankind,” director […]

N-TV acquires science and engineering shows from WildBear

German broadcaster N-TV has struck a three-show pre-sale deal with Australian factual producer WildBear Entertainment. How to Build a City (8 x 60 minutes) explores the engineering ingenuity behind major cities including Tokyo, Berlin or Sydney, while How Factories Changed the World (5 x 60 minutes) examines how mass production has radically changed our lives […]

German’s n-tv enters Battle Factory

German channel n-tv has bought Yap Films-produced military gear series Battle Factory from distributor Cineflix Rights. The 14x30mins series (pictured) looks into the world of military and frontline gear factories. It will be joined on the n-tv schedule by 1x60mins Waddell Media special Hitler the Junkie. Meanwhile, Cineflix has sold WWII’s Greatest Raids to N24, […]

News brief: Broadcasters buy Weather Channel content

Passion Distribution has sold several shows from The Weather Channel. Passion reps the cable net’s catalogue and has shopped So You Think You’d Survive? (pictured) to N-TV in Germany and TV2 in Norway. The series, which looks at how you can survive freak weather incidents, has also been shopped to RMC Decouvertes in France. N-TV […]

News brief: ProSieben cuts Timber Kings deal

German channel ProSieben has acquired Paperny Entertainment-produced unscripted series Timber Kings from Passion Distribution. The 10x60mins series will go out on the ProSiebenMaxx channel and VOD platform Maxdome along with another new Passion show, season two of Weather Channel series Prospectors. Passion has also made other deals in Germany. It has sold 53 hours to […]

Magine completes German clean sweep with ProSieben channels

The ProSiebenSat.1 bouquet of channels will be added to the Magine service in Germany after the OTT service struck a deal with the German free-to-air broadcast group. The deal means that from march Magine will carry the SAT.1, ProSieben, Kabel Eins, Sixx, Sat.1 Gold and ProSieben Maxx channels. Magine has launched a trial version of […]

RTL strikes German OTT deal with Magine

RTL Deutschland has inked a deal with OTT service Magine. The exclusive agreement means RTL’s six free-to-air channels will be carried on Magine. The RTL offerings in question are the core RTL channel as well as Vox, N-TV, RTL Nitro, Super RTL and RTL II. Magine makes full linear channels available over the top and […]

FremantleMedia inks ProSieben, RTL and raft of German deals

FremantleMedia International has announced a slew of sales to German broadcasters. The distributor has inked a deal with Gemany’s largest commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 for titles including Jamie Cooks Summer, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide and Lisa Kudrow web series Web Therapy (pictured). The shows will air on female-skewing digital channel […]