News brief: Globosat buys Tricon docs

Brazil’s Globosat has acquired Tricon Films & Television’s doc series Rock Icons.

The 10x30mins series will air on the platform along with Mars & Venus Today and Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, which has sold to Foxtel in Australia.

Canada-based Tricon has sold shows to Accessible Media Canada, Al Hurra in the Middle East, Brand New Media (pan-Asia), RTM in Malaysia, Digital Factory Italy-owned Gazzetta, Discovery Networks Poland, Sony Pictures Television in Africa, Sky Italia, Taiwan’s Yu-Shiu, Strong Technologies in South Africa and AMC Networks Iberia.