Canal Vie


Gran Plan revealed in Canada

Canadian speciality net Canal Vie has ordered a local version of Israeli-created comic entertainment series The Gran Plan after a deal with distributor Armoza Formats. Zone3 will produce the 13-episode Canadian version, which will include a cast of local personalities and is set to debut in March 2016 on the Bell Media-owned network. Gran Plan, […]

Lifestyle sales for Peace Point

Canada-based distributor Peace Point Rights has shopped 120 hours of lifestyle and factual fare to broadcasters around the world. Discovery has acquired food wagon competition series Food Truck Face off (via Italy-based distributor Beep Omnimedia) for Italy, Switzerland and Monaco. In Australia, Foxtel has picked up 40x30mins Bake with Anna Olson (pictured) while Scripps has taken […]

Bell’s $3.4bn Astral deal approved with conditions

Bell Canada Enterprises’ C$3.4 billion (US$3.2 billion) acquisition of rival Astral Media has been approved, but it must sell resulting holdings in local networksincluding Disney Junior and Cartoon Network. Canada’s media regulator the CRTC has greenlit to deal, which has been in the works for more than a year, providing BCE adheres to a series […]

ITV’s Mr. Selfridge shopped to Canuck net

ITV Studios Global Entertainment has secured a batch of deals with Canadian broadcasters, including one for its retail-themed drama Mr. Selfridge. Zoomer Media-owned Vision TV has acquired the 1x90mins+9x60mins season one of Selfridge, plus the upcoming 10x60mins season two. The show stars Jeremy Piven as the American-born UK retail magnate who launched the iconic Selfridges store […]

MIPTV News: Rive Gauche shifts 350 hours

LA-based sales house Rive Gauche Television has sold more than 350 hours to international broadcasters ahead of MIPTV Among the deals, Operation Repo has gone to TV5 in Finland, TV Norge in Norway, Seven Network in Australia and Rogers Media in Canada. Separately, My Strange Addiction has sold to DSMART in Turkey and Canal Vie […]

Rive Gauche secures crime sales

Broadcasters in Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific have acquired more than 300 hours of crime series from US distributor Rive Gauche. AETN channels in the UK, Africa and Poland have acquired Ice Cold Killers, along with RTL (Netherlands), Canal D (Canada), TV4 (Sweden and Finland) and Foxtel (Australia). AETN (UK and Africa), TV4, RTL and Foxtel […]

Embarrassing sales for Zodiak

Zodiak Rights has sold fact-ent series Embarrassing Bodies to a raft of broadcasters. Broadcasters including Nine Network (Australia), TVNZ (New Zealand), Discovery Italia (Italy), RTL (Holland), TV2 (Denmark), NRK (Norway), Fox (Finland), and Canal Vie (French Canada) have all bought season six of the series, in which people get medical help for a range of […]