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CEE Euro nets tread The Road to War

Broadcasters across central and eastern Europe have acquired World War I documentary The Road to War from Austria’s ORF Enterprises. Russia’s Channel One, Slovakia’s STV, CYBC and LTV in Cyprus, MTVA in Hungary, Poland’s TVP and Estonia’s ERR have all bought the 1x50mins doc following NATPE Europe in Prague this week. The doc (pictured) is […]

Britain and Poland team for war drama copro

The BBC is teaming with its polish pubcaster equivalent TVP for a second drama coproduction. BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, TVP and Polish prodco Apple Film Production will jointly make The Passing Bells. The World War One drama will be penned by Eastenders and Life on Mars scribe Tony Jordan and his […]

Endemol makes Pointless CEE deals

Endemol has sealed finished programme and format deals for its hit UK-originated gameshow Pointless in the Central and Eastern Europe region. Polish pubcaster TVP has ordered a local version of the quiz and a 26-episode Polish version will run on the TVP2 channel starting later this month. PRVA in Serbia has also ordered a local […]

International broadcasters mark the death of Nelson Mandela

International broadcasters have moved swiftly to unveil special programming to mark the death of Nelson Mandela in the early hours of this morning. +++UPDATED DECEMBER 9, WITH A+E AND MTV TRIBUTE PTOGRAMMING South African public broadcaster the SABC said it has deployed special news teams at key points throughout country that it said will bring […]

ORF seals German Screenings deals

ORF Enterprises, the commercial arm of the Austrian pubcaster, has announced a raft of documentary sales in the wake of the 38th German Screenings, which took place in Vienna, Austria, this week. From its respected Universum factual strand Secrets of Bumblebees was acquired by Italian pubcaster Rai and its Polish, Swedish and Slovenian counterparts TVP […]

Chef at Your Door knocks for TVP

Polish broadcaster TVP has commissioned a local version of reality format Chef at Your Door. The show, which is distributed by LA and London-based Small World IFT, will launch on Polish screens with a 10x45mins run next month known locally as Sąsiad na Widelcu. Warsaw-based Rochstar is attached to produce the show, which will see […]

Global nets board animal extinction doc

Eleven international broadcasters have pre-bought Gambling on Extinction, a new 1x52mins doc about illegal endangered animal trading, TBI has learned. ZDF and ARTE in Germany and France, DR in Denmark, SVT in Sweden, VRT in Belgium, TG4 in Ireland, TVP in Poland, Czech TV, TV3 Catalunya, TVI in Portugal, Yes Doku in Israel and SBS […]

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 […]

Poland’s TVP launches entertainment network

Polish broadcaster TVP today launches a new entertainment channel called TVP Rozrywka. The channel will air comedy series, talk shows, music programmes and movies and will be available at launch via the cable operators Vectra, Toya and Petrus. TVP said it is also in talks with other cable operators, including UPC and nc +, and […]

Broadcasters jump at Felix Baumgartner doc

A raft of international broadcasters have acquired Space Dive, the one-off documentary about Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking skydive. The documentary is distributed by BBC Worldwide. It has shopped it to Belgium (VRT), Denmark (DR), Finland (YLE), Germany (RTL), Holland (VPRO), France (France 4), Russia (Russia 2), Norway (NRK), Singapore (Channel News Asia), Korea (Chosun), Poland (TVP), […]