David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities


BBC Studios, Cosmote SVOD deal signals post-Discovery licensing plans

BBC Studios has struck a premium factual SVOD deal with Greek telco OTE’s pay-TV service Cosmote TV, lifting the lid on how such deals will play out alongside its international SVOD pact with Discovery.  BBC Studios has licensed more than 250 hours of factual programmes for Cosmote TV’s on-demand service, Cosmote TV Go, launched last […]

News brief: BBC Worldwide seals Thai deals

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK public broadcaster, has sold a package of natural history titles to Thai Public Broadcasting Service. Thai PBS, the Thai free-to-air broadcaster, has picked up titles including two seasons of David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities, Hidden Kingdoms (pictured) and Tarsier Tails. In a separate Thai deal, Worldwide has sold […]

UKTV orders more of David Attenborough’s Curiosities

UKTV has commissioned a second, longer, run of natural history show David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities. The first series of the show was the highest ever rated show on UKTV’s Eden channel. It focused on animals that, for various reasons, have an intriguing biology. The new 10x30mins series will feature two animals per episode that share […]

UKTV moving into international programme sales

Multichannel group UKTV will start to distribute some of its original shows directly and will be speaking to potential partners as soon as MIPTV, its head of programme distribution/strategy has told TBI. UKTV used to have a distribution output deal with BBC Worldwide, but in recent times has worked with a range of other distributors […]