Banijay Rights today announces it has acquired global distribution rights outside of the US to a pair of CNN Original Series, which separately follow Hollywood stars Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® Award-winning actor Stanley Tucci and Eva Longoria on powerful journeys of culinary discovery across Italy and Mexico. Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy followed the actor as he explored the stories and people behind one of the world’s most popular cuisines. The series showed viewers the bustling … [Read more...] about Banijay Rights serves up Stanley Tucci and Eva Longoria documentary series
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Beyond Rights extends partnership with Crackit Productions, acquires five new titles
Beyond Rights has extended its partnership with leading unscripted indie Crackit Productions, resulting in the acquisition of five new titles just in time MIPCOM. Key to a Fortune (6 x 60), produced for Channel 4, is a unique new wish fulfilment show, hosted by Jean Johansson, that surprises unsuspecting members of the public with huge, life-changing windfalls. It's the series that unites families with jaw-dropping properties they didn't know they had and reunites long-lost families who all … [Read more...] about Beyond Rights extends partnership with Crackit Productions, acquires five new titles
Beyond Rights unveils its MIPCOM content slate
Beyond Rights reveals its new programme slate for MIPCOM, introducing a fresh selection of unscripted content from a variety of different genres, as well as numerous returning seasons of popular and well-established programme brands. In total, the business is launching nearly 200 new unscripted hours into the international market this autumn. Leading the new slate is Charles: The New King, a two-hour documentary series from ITN Productions. Told through ITN’s unprecedented and exclusive … [Read more...] about Beyond Rights unveils its MIPCOM content slate
Beyond Rights announces new kids’ acquisitions for launch at MIPCOM
Beyond Rights is pleased to confirm that it is expanding its kids catalogue for MIPCOM with the acquisition of three new titles and three returning series. Olga Da Polga (13 x 11), which is being taken to the market for initial pre-sales, is a charming pre-school title about a loveable and highly imaginative guinea pig who loves telling tales. Created by the legendary children’s writer Michael Bond (Paddington Bear), the series is being brought to TV screens for the first time in a live-action … [Read more...] about Beyond Rights announces new kids’ acquisitions for launch at MIPCOM
Beyond Rights announces new deals for Spring/Summer slate titles
Beyond Rights is pleased to confirm a series of deals for titles from its Spring/Summer programming slate, launched just ahead of MIPTV earlier this year. End of the Rope (6 x 60), an obs-doc/reality series from Big Coat Media about the high-octane world of rope access technicians, was pre-sold to UKTV and has subsequently been sold to RTI Mediaset in Italy and Bell Media‘s Canal D for French Canada. Re-titled as Extreme Heights Repair Team in the UK, the series has just had its premiere on … [Read more...] about Beyond Rights announces new deals for Spring/Summer slate titles
Beyond Rights announces collaboration with OTTera
Beyond Rights is pleased to announce that it has signed a deal to collaborate with OTTera, the leading digital content distribution business. The new collaboration will focus on supporting Beyond Rights’ rapidly developing FAST strategy and will see a suite of both branded and IP-lead FAST channels launched around the globe over the coming months. Based in Los Angeles, OTTera is known for its cutting-edge technologies and offers a white label service which creates highly customised OTT … [Read more...] about Beyond Rights announces collaboration with OTTera
