Sky Vision


Sky Vision to launch US, UK Duck Quacks in Cannes

UK distributor Sky Vision is to launch the upcoming UK and US versions of a new entertainment format in Cannes. Duck Quacks Don’t Echo is being produced in the UK by Magnum Media for Sky 1 HD (pictured) for a 2014 debut and was this week acquired for a US remake by National Geographic Channel. […]

HBO acquires Sky Living comedy Doll & Em

US premium cable net HBO has bought Doll & Em, a new comedy from Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells originally commissioned for UK pay TV channel Sky Living. HBO has bought US and Canadian rights the 6x30mins comedy show from Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola’s new imprint King Bee Productions. The series follows real life best […]

MIPCOM Hot Pick: Sky Vision’s Moonfleet

There’s no shortage of pirate-themed projects hitting the market this year, but perhaps only one featuring smugglers, as Dan McCulloch, producer on Moonfleet notes: “The key in this isn’t a pirate story; it’s a smuggler story in the same vein as Indiana Jones. Its about the call to adventure.” Moonfleet is a reinvention of J. […]

TV2, 365 reveal It’s Love, Actually

Broadcasters in Denmark and Iceland have acquired straight-to-series format remakes of Sky Vision-distributed factual entertainment format It’s Love, Actually, and the finished episodes from the original UK programme. The 10x30mins format is billed as ‘light-hearted and confessional’ and sees young couples talk candidly about all aspects of their relationships. It was originally produced by Fever […]

Sky Vision making Bannockburn docudrama for History UK

History UK has ordered Bannockburn (WT) a one-off event docudrama from Sky Vision. The factual channel is run as part of UK pay TV operator BSKyB’s joint venture with A+E and the two-hour film will examine how the Scottish forces defeated the much larger and better equipped English army. It will go out on History […]

Sky programming costs hit £2.5bn

BSkyB’s yearly programming costs have hit £2.5 billion (US$3.9 billion), as the UK satcaster’s British original commissions strategy kicks in. Within that figure, entertainment programming spend saw double-digit growth of 15%in line with the News Corp-backed platform’s long term pledge to spend £600 million on UK content a year by 2014. Sky said it currently […]

Prisoners firm Keshet poaches BBC Worldwide executive

Keshet International has appointed a BBC Worldwide distribution exec to become a sales director. Cynthia Kennedy has joined the global arm of Israel’s Keshet Media Group with immediate effect, reporting to head of distribution and acquisitions Keren Shahar. She joins a team of sales directors including Nelly Weber-Feld and Kelly Wright and marcom manager Limor […]

DRG completes first post-takeover deal

UK-based DRG has acquired a pair of documentaries from Discovery Communications, marking the first deal the distributor has scored since MTG Studios acquired it for £15 million (US$22.3 million) last month. DRG has bought international rights to Discovery Channel doc KKK: Beneath the Hood and TLC’s My Three Wives, respectively. KKK takes what is billed […]

Sky Vision sells 100 hours into CEE

UK-based distributor Sky Vision has sealed a raft of sales with broadcasters across Europe as the NATPE market in Budapest kicks off. The biggest single deal is with Russia’s first IPTV service Stream, which has taken a 72-hour package that includes fishing series from indie producer Wildwise Catching the Impossible and Passion for Angling. Pan-regional […]

MTG completes DRG acquisition, buys Novemberfilm

Modern Times Group Studios has finalised its acquisition of UK-based distributor DRG, and bought Norwegian production company Novemberfilm. The Scandinavian production and broadcast group has beaten off competition from Sky Vision to acquire a 92.4% stake in DRG, which counts The Inbetweeners and Don’t Tell the Bride in its catalogue, for an enterprise value of […]