Peep Show heads to Asia
- Published: 16 July 2008 13:02
- Author: Michael Rosser
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Channel 4 comedy Peep Show is to be seen by viewers in South East Asia following a raft of deals throughout the region by C4i.
The distributor, owned by the Digital Rights Group, has sold 30 x 25-episodes of the show to Fox International Channel's FX.
The total level of new sales made in the region, brokered by C4i programme sales executive Nicola Richards, adds up to more than 120 hours of content.
AETN All Asia Networks has signed for a package of true life stories for broadcast on its Crime & Investigation Network, including hour-long doc The Girl In A Box, a tale of abduction from Gecko Productions, and The Fake Trade, which travels from London and LA to Southern China and Nigeria to reveal the story of how counterfeiting has become the fastest rising crime of our times. The 2 x 50-minute doc was produced by Blast! Films.
EBS in South Korea and Public TV Service Foundation (PTS) in Taiwan have acquired Undercover in Tibet, an hour-long doc from True Vision that sees Tibetan exile Tash return to the homeland he risked his life to escape from to spend three months filming undercover to uncover the shocking reality of life under Chinese occupation.
PTS is also set to screen another investigation from True Vision (for Channel 4 and HBO). China's Stolen Children (1 x 52') examines how the infamous One Child Policy has created the horrific side-effect of a boom in kidnapped youngsters.
More than 60 hours of programming has been picked up by True Visions for its branded channels in Thailand. The deal includes archaeology show Time Team; Renegade Pictures-produced How Young Can I Get, following mum Nicky Taylor as she discovers how far she will go to rediscover her youth; 13 x 25-minute series Newlywed, Nearly Dead?, made by Proper Films, encouraging married couples to expose each other's most annoying habits; and Keo Films' Medicine Men Go Wild, featuring the intrepid Von Tulleken twins as they set out to prove whether Western medicine is better than traditional practices over 4 x 48-minute instalments.
C4i has also sold the Asian Food Channel a package of titles including two shows from Keo Films that see Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall displaying his commitment to seasonal, ethically produced food. Hugh's Chicken Run, follows the launch of his ground-breaking free-range campaign and River Cottage Treatment tasks the chef with persuading a group of junk-food addicts to ditch the takeaways and microwave meals and start cooking delicious, wholesome, seasonal meals from scratch. Both are 3 x 50-minutes in length.
In addition, Astro in Malaysia has acquired two unique feature length documentaries from Pioneer Productions – The Living Body and Animals in the Womb – as well as Twenty Twenty-produced 4 x 50-minute series Brat Camp, presenting zero tolerance in the face of youthful bad behaviour.
