Channel 4’s Edward vs George: The Windsors at War among shows sold
Australia’s SBS and Sky Arts New Zealand are among buyers of factual series from TVF International, with Bloomberg’s The Future with Hannah Fry and a Channel 4 royal docuseries among sales.
The deals, which were unveiled on the first day of the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) in Melbourne this week, will see the second season of The Future with Hannah Fry (6 x 30 minutes) and Channel 4’s Edward vs George: The Windsors at War (2 x 47) from Double-Band Films heading to SBS.
The broadcaster also licensed C4’s Nazi Space Race from Unity House Productions and Untold Arctic Wars: The Cold War (6 x 60 minutes), a Nordic co-pro commissioned by YLE, NRK, DR and SVT.
SBS Viceland will air CBC’s weight loss doc The Ozempic Effect from Paul Kemp Productions, while SBS Food has taken Telus and CBC Gem’s Not Your Butter Chicken (4 x 26 minutes), which spotlights the cuisine and culture of the South-East Asian diaspora.
TVF also closed a package deal with Britbox and BBC Studios’ pay-TV channels in New Zealand, with Channel 4’s Saving Britain’s Country Houses with Penelope Keith from Somersault Studio among sales.
Elsewhere, Sky Arts New Zealand has picked a package including Netflix’s Golden Opulence: The Legacy of Luxury in Anatolia from Depo Film and Van Gogh by Vincent. The broadcaster also took France Télévisions’s Maria Callas: The Unsung Years, which features unreleased musical recordings and archival footage of Opera’s greatest Diva.
All deals were brokered by TVF’s APAC sales manager, Alex Lindsay. TVF International’s acquisitions and productions executive, Zoe Stinson, is attending AIDC this week.
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