Hearst Networks UK/EMEA pre-buy eight-part series that is being co-financed by sales firm
Cineflix Rights has struck a deal with Canada’s Cream Productions and Hearst Networks UK/EMEA for a show exploring history’s most baffling aquatic mysteries.
Deep Water Secrets uses new tech and unseen footage to reveal little seen sea-creatures, unexplained natural anomalies, sunken cities and lost monuments.
Cineflix Rights co-financed the show and struck a pre-sale with Hearst Networks, with the agreement part of the distributor’s broader gap-financing strategy.
It has already supported a 60-hour slate with Canada’s Go Button Media to greenlight six factual series for Super Channel, two of which have sold to National Geographic International, and partnered with Law&Crime Productions on shows such as Murder Uncut.
Deep Water Secrets (8 x 60 minutes) investigates unusual creatures such as the Tasmanian Globster and the Montauk Monster, as well as underwater enigmas including the Lake Michigan Stonehenge and the age-old myths surrounding the Lost City of Atlantis.
Cineflix’s distribution arm has also acquired global sales rights to the second season of Cream’s An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
The 6 x 60-minute series is a Canada-UK coproduction from Cream and Wildfire Television, in association with Bloomberg (US) and Bell Media (Canada), and in association with Ill Kippers Aps.
The show sees actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) criss-cross the globe exploring the delicate relationship and challenges of protecting biodiversity while meeting the needs of living in a modern world.
The first season has already sold to DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), and (Australia) AMC Multicanal Iberia, and TV3 Group Baltics.
Felicia Litovitz, Cineflix Rights’ vice president of acquisitions for North America, said Deep Water Secrets would be launched to buyers at London TV Screeinngs later this month.
David Brady, co-founder and chief exec at Cream, added that the deal marked “a new level of coproduction relationship” with Cineflix, adding that it would be “the first of many in the new model”.
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