Slovakia’s TV JOJ to adapt ‘Too Much Love’ amid slew of CEE deals for Keshet International

Too Much Love

A slew of CEE broadcasters have picked up scripted formats and finished tape in multiple deals with distributor Keshet International (KI), including the first format license for Duo Productions’ relationship thriller, Too Much Love (L’homme Qui Aimait Trop).

The format rights have been picked up by TV JOJ in Slovakia for the show, which was originally created by Canadian writing duo Michel d’Astous and Anne Boyer (Taboo) for Bell Media’s Quebecois streamer Noovo.

The Slovakian 8 x 60-minute adaptation of Too Much Love will be produced by Piknik Pictures (Traffic Light). Currently in pre-production, with casting in already progress, shooting is slated to begin later this year ahead of a 2024 premiere on TV JOJ.

The series explores the aftermath of a car accident that leaves a man unconscious in a hospital bed, where his two spouses, their kids, and his mistress meet for the first time, leaving all of them facing a new reality: their life with this man was a lie. How could this sales representative have juggled life in three different cities with three different women, while truly loving them all?

Marcel Grega, CEO of TV JOJ said: “This eight-episode miniseries Too Much Love is the perfect example of a modern drama that opens subjects that are considered taboo. With its thrilling premise, it keeps the audience in suspense from the very start, right up until the finale.”

KI has also completed a multi-territory deal with Canal+ to license two foreign-language dramas. You Don’t Die Among Friends (Unter Freunden Stirbt Man Nicht), Keshet Tresor Fiction’s German adaptation of the Israeli format Stockholm for VOX, will stream in four territories – Hungary on the Direct One platform, Romania on Focus Sat, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, both on Canal+ VOD.

Meanwhile, Cuba Libre, Hop! Films’ true story of a young Portuguese woman who gave everything to the Cuban revolution and Che Guevara for RTP, will the stream on Canal+ VOD in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

KI has also licensed season one of Koda Communications’ Line in the Sand in Poland to Canal+ Polska for its Ale kino+ channel and OTT service Canal+ online, and has closed a further tape sale for The Brave – Universal Television and Keshet Studios’ thriller originally produced for NBC, in Latvia to TV3 Group for their flagship free TV channel TV3.