ZDF Enterprises


The public purse

Public broadcasters around the world are squeezed tighter than ever in today’s post global recession marketplace. Can their commercial divisions ease the burden, asks Jesse Whittock A quick Google search on public service broadcasters returns worrying results such as “EBU concerned over Portuguese broadcasting budget cuts”, “Concerns over plans to dismantle Israeli public broadcaster” and […]

Euro pubcasters back Icelandic crime series

German pubcaster ZDF and its commercial subsidiary will coproduce Icelandic crime drama Trapped, while five other European channels have pre-bought the show. Trapped comes from Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, and is planned as a 10x60mins series for RUV. It follows the murder of an unidentified man in small town near an Icelandic fjord, which is […]

News brief: African CBeebies among Q Pootle buyers

CBeebies in Africa and NRK in Norway are among buyers of Snapper Productions-produced toon Q Pootle 5. Ketnet in Belgium and NPO in the Netherlands have also acquired the show, which was first commissioned by CBeebies in the UK and which ZDF Enterprises sells internationally. The deals mean the show has sold into more than […]

German and Polish pubcasters team for WWII doc

German public broadcaster ZDF and its Polish counterpart TVP are joining forces to make World War II, a two-part documentary that will launch on the 75th anniversary of outbreak of war, which started in 1939 when Hitler’s Germany attacked Poland. ZDF and its commercial arm, ZDF Enterprises will coproduce with TVP’s flagship channel, TVP1. The […]

WDR poaches ProSiebenSat.1 exec

German regional pubcaster WDR has poached kids TV specialist Stefanie Fischer from ProSiebenSat.1 as part of a push into international coproductions. She became WDR mediagroup’s head of content on Ausgust 1. She will oversee international sales and broadcast distribution of WDR’s children’s brands and seek to exploit rights across platforms. She comes across from ProSiebenSat.1, […]

News brief: ZDF ups docs sales exec Garcia

ZDF Enterprises, the commercial arm of German pubcaster ZDF, has promoted documentary sales executive Margarita Garcia. Garcia has been upped from sales executive to director of sales for docs in German-speaking territories and will sell ZDFE’s blue-chip docs to buyers in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The sales exec first joined ZDFE in 2006.

ZDFE launches drama JV with Kersken

ZDF Enterprises has formalised a long-running relationship with producer Uwe Kersken by launching joint a joint venture drama house with him. The commercial arm of German pubcaster ZDF has partnered with Kersken to create G5 Fiction. Kersken is best known as the co-founder and managing partner of German drama stalwart Gruppe 5 Filmproduktion, which launched […]

CBBC, ZDFE visit Scream Street

UK children’s channel CBBC has come on board a fast-paced comedy series that Germany’s ZDF Enterprises will sell on the international market. The 52x11mins Scream Street will be a stop-motion animation series from UK indies Coolabi and Factory Transmedia, the latter of which has just joined as coproducer. Puppet and model making firm Mackinnon & […]

Miso makes a splash

Danish drama specialist Miso Film is spreading its wings following investment from FremantleMedia. Jesse Whittock headed to Scandinavia to speak with the key players as the company reaches its tenth birthday Simply speaking, the main reason Pete Bose and Jonas Allen decided to sell a majority stake in their business, Denmark-based Miso Film, to FremantleMedia […]

Content crunch – the fight for rights

As the pace of consolidation quickens, competition for rights is fiercer than ever. Stewart Clarke talks to distributors about the changing face of the business and how, in the hyper competitive world of TV, they are gaining access to content. First-look deals, overall deals, development deals, output deals, umbrella deals and pod deals: all are […]

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