London TV Screenings, the fast-growing event organised by All3Media International, Banijay Rights, Entertainment One, Fremantle and ITV Studios, is to be held over the same week as BBC Studios’ flagship market. The London screenings event’s third iteration will run from Monday, 27 February to Friday, 3 March next year, following a 2022 version that attracted more than […]
Broadcasters in the US, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia have acquired a range of talent-led factual titles, following deals with Passion Distribution. ABC in Australia, Gusto/Living Discovery in New Zealand, Apt in the US, URTV in Sweden and ERT in Greece have all picked up the 3 x 60-minute series Miriam And Alan: […]
Buyers, hungry for new content, are making their way to the UK capital for meetings, presentations and drinks – or logging on from across the globe – all this week, as London TV Screenings gets underway. With so many new productions being showcased, TBI has been checking in with execs from international distributors of all sizes as […]
Studiocanal, Beyond Rights, Blue Ant International and Cineflix Rights are among a swathe of distributors to have formally joined London TV Screenings, which is set to take place early next year. The quartet join event organisers All3Media International, Banijay Rights, eOne, Fremantle and ITV Studios, which earlier this month confirmed that next year’s London-based event […]
Discovery+, Cineplex and Nippon TV are among those to have bagged shows from Passion Distribution, with the distributor claiming more than 250 hours of sales following ATF. Discovery+ in the Philippines has picked up over 100 hours of reality content, including the first seasons of both the UK and Australian versions of Rupaul’s Drag Race. […]
Dynamic takes on ‘The Fighter’ LA-based Dynamic Television has expanded its Nordic drama slate by acquiring the global distribution rights to SVT’s upcoming thriller The Fighter. The six-part Swedish series from Kärnfilm and SVT follows a female boxer on a high risk path to become the world champion. Production is currently underway in Lithuania and […]
Passion sells crime in Oz, NZ Nine Network in Australia is among a number of companies to have picked up crime and factual shows from UK-based Passion Distribution, which has licensed over 120 hours of programming into the region. Nine’s deal includes The Disappearance of Shannon Matthews, The Wests and The Railway Killers, all of […]
UK-based Passion Distribution has acquired international distribution rights to the BritBox Original documentary The Wedding Of The Century. Produced by Touchdown Films, the feature-length documentary marks the 40th anniversary of the wedding of British royals Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer and features restored footage from the day and exclusive interviews with those who worked behind […]
Passion sends history worldwide Broadcasters and platforms around the world have picked up a slew of history and documentary titles, following deals with the Passion Distribution. Nuremburg: The Nazis On Trial, the 1 x 90-minute doc, originally made by Middlechild Productions for the UK’s Channel 5 is headed to SBS in Australia, Histoire in France, […]
As Drag Race prepares to sashay on to Spanish screens, World of Wonder founders Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato tell TBI deputy editor Mark Layton what makes the format strike such a global chord and why they’re exploring expanding into scripted. Drag Race España lands on Spanish SVOD Atresplayer Premium and global DTC platform WOWPresent Plus tomorrow, with […]
