Choice TV


BBCWW, Foxtel go on James Martin’s French Adventure

BBC Worldwide and Foxtel are among the buyers of celebrity chef James Martin’s latest TV series. Distributor DCD Rights has sold James Martin’s French Adventure to Worldwide’s BBC Lifestyle pay TV channel across Asia, Australian paycaster Foxtel and Choice TV in New Zealand. A deal has also been secured with AMC Networks International – Central […]

Nat Geo buys Cindy Crawford eye hospital doc

National Geographic Channels International is among buyers of The Hospital in the Sky, a documentary featuring supermodel Cindy Crawford and about a mobile training hospital. SBS One in Australia, Choice TV in New Zealand, SIC CARAS in Portugal, BTV in Bulgaria, HRT in Croatia and ABS-CBN in the Philippines have also acquired the 1x60mins documentary. […]

Blue Ant makes Choice channels move

Canada-based content company Blue Ant Media has acquired a majority stake in Choice TV, the Kiwi pay digital channel. The lifestyle and entertainment channel is carried on the digital terrestrial Freeview platform and DTH service Sky in New Zealand, meaning it reaches all of the country’s TV homes. Julia Baylis, who has been with the […]

Networks raid Picture Box for programming

Various networks have acquired unscripted programming from Canada’s Picture Box Distribution. Viasat Europe and GB Omnimedia have bought season one of Mountain Road Productions’s 13x30mins Selling Big for the CIS region and Italy, respectively. Seasons one and two of The Liquidator have sold to Choice TV in New Zealand and Discovery Networks Western Europe has […]

SBS and Foxtel make new acquisitions

SBS in Norway and Foxtel in Australia have acquired My Dream Derelict Home from DCD Rights, amongst a raft of deals for the UK-based distributor ahead of NATPE. SBS also bought Nick Knowles’ Original Features along with Australia’s Seven Network and New Zealand’s Choice TV, while Foxtel joined Norway’s NRK in acquiring Liberty of London […]

Twofour Rights shops Storage Hoarders around the world

UK-based distributor Twofour Rights has sold fact-ent series Storage Hoarders to a host of international broadcasters. The 20x60mins show, in which hoarders are challenged to sort through their stuff and say goodbye to the things with they no longer need, has been acquired by TV3 Denmark, TV Norge Norway, TV4 Sweden and MTV3 Finland. Discovery […]