Channel 5 to air Henry VIII documentary Britain’s Blakeway Productions has been commissioned to make a 3 x 60-minute drama documentary series about notorious monarch Henry VIII for the UK’s Channel 5. Henry VIII: Man, Monarch, Monster will explore how the king “changed from a clever, handsome prince full of promise into an overweight, paranoid […]
UK’s C4 adds Batwoman for E4 Channel 4 in the UK has picked up Warner Bros. drama Batwoman for its E4 network. The show, which debuts on The CW in the US, is produced by Berlanti Productions in association with Warner Bros. and is based on the Ruby Rose character from the DC Comics. It […]
TVF scores sales in MENA London-headquartered specialist factual distributor TVF International has sold a slate of programmes including New Species and In My Mind to MENA broadcasters. Pan-MENA news network BBC Arabic has licensed a package of factual titles, including Attitude Pictures’ mental health series In My Mind, Furnace’s You, Me and Eugenics and Spring […]
A round-up of all the key deals in international television this week (beginning November 23, 2015; most recent from top). New Zealand’s Pukeko Pictures and China’s Guangdong Huawen Century Animation Company are to coproduce Kiddets, a sister series to The WotWots Europe-based NRK, SVT, YLE and VRT have prebought Irish live-action/animation hybrid Little Roy from JAM Media […]
Nigerian pay TV channel My TV has acquired an Indian drama series, the second time it has done so. The channel has bought Strange Love from Indian distributor GoQuest Media Ventures, and the move comes after it aired GoQuest-sold soap Bade Achhe Lagte Hai. Strange Love will begin broadcasting on My TV this month. The […]
