The company has closed a raft of international deals for factual content with Central and Eastern European broadcasters in advance of NATPE Budapest.
LNK Lithuania has signed deals for a number of Cineflix Rights’ blue-chip history documentaries and series including Battle of Alcatraz (2×60’, Hoff Productions for Reelz, US), The Far Traveller (1×60’, Pro Films and Mac TV for BBC Alba, NRK, Norway, and RUV, Iceland), Secrets of the Nazi U-Boat Bases (1×60’, Galaxie Presse for RMC Découverte, France), WWII By Drone (6×60’, Like A Shot Productions for UKTV, Smithsonian US), The Day Hitler Died (1×60’, Finestripe Productions for ITV, UK), The Day Kennedy Died (1×60’, Finestripe Productions for ITV, UK), and The Day We Walked on the Moon (1×60’, Finestripe Productions for ITV, UK).
FTV Prima (Czech Republic) has acquired a range of series and documentaries including Close Encounters Down Under (6×60’, Perpetual Entertainment for 7Mate, Australia, TVNZ, New Zealand, and AETN, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Romania), Hitler’s American Battleground (2×60’, Cineflix Productions and First Story Productions for National Geographic International and Science Channel, US), Impossible Builds (Seasons 1&2, 16×60’, Windfall Films for Channel 4, UK), Hitler’s Engineers: Building The Third Reich (6×60’, Like A Shot Entertainment for Yesterday, UKTV), and Designing Dreams (12×60’, Imagination Television for Prime TV, New Zealand).
Canal+ has bought Holiday Homes in the Sun (Season 1, 20×60’, Raise the Roof Productions and Motion Content Group for Channel 5, UK) for their NC+ (Domo+) channel in Poland. Canal+ has also acquired The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld (1×90’, Finestripe Productions for BBC Two, UK) for their streaming platform covering the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
AMCNI CNE has acquired Beyond the Farm: Men at Work (4×60’, Renegade Pictures and Motion Content Group for Channel 5, UK), Holiday Homes in the Sun (Seasons 1 & 2, 60×60’), Hitler’s Engineers: Building The Third Reich (6×60’, Like A Shot Entertainment for Yesterday, UKTV), and Coast Guard: Mission Critical (10×60’, RumLime Productions in association with Gulp Pictures, History US), for their Spektrum Home and Spektrum Channels across Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
Lucy Rawson, VP, Sales, Africa, CEE, Middle East, and Southern Mediterranean, Cineflix Rights who closed the deals said: ‘Sales to Central and Eastern European platforms and broadcasters are thriving at the moment. I’m delighted to be returning this month to Budapest to launch a slate of new content alongside further seasons of our hit programs to buyers at NATPE’.
