Wednesday round-up: Latest news, deals & hires

ProSiebenSat.1 trims 2025 revenue projection

Germany’s ProSiebenSat.1 has lowered its 2025 financial projection by up to €200m (£175m), blaming the country’s ongoing advertising woes for the adjustment.

The broadcaster, which is home to streamer Joyn and production outfit Seven.One Studios, now expects revenues to hit around €3.65-3.80bn this year, taking into account the sale of comparison site Verivox.

The company had previously expected group revenues to hit €3.85bn with a variance of plus/minus €150m but “an evaluation” of the entertainment segment forced the shift. P7 said the “macroeconomic environment” was set to impact ad revenues in September and October, “which are below expectations in both linear TV and digital advertising products.”

TVFI sells shows across Scandinavia

Factual distributor TVF International has sent a raft of premium docs and factual series to broadcaster partners in Scandinavia.

Channel 4 documentary Nazi Space Race (1 x 50) from Unity House Productions was sold to SVT, YLE, and Viasat World, with the latter also adding 24 Hours That Changed the World and Monster Carp.

Other deals saw SVT pick up France TV’s Ulysses: From Myth to Science and Great British Train Journeys from Above, as well as The Resurrection Quest from Singaporean public broadcaster, CNA.

Among a slew of other pick-ups, Axess TV in Sweden licensed titles including Sky Arts’ Will’s Book: Shakespeare’s First Folio and Van Gogh by Vincent (1 x 60), from Unity House Productions, as well as France TV’s Maria Callas: The Unsung Greek Years.

Keshet Int’l takes Nutuk to Cannes

Keshet International is headlining its Mipcom slate with Nutuk, a suspense drama in which a boy’s memories of another life are key to solving a murder mystery.

Created by Roy Iddan (Manayek, Tehran) and Nahd Basheir (A Dead Sea, Dr Kharage), directed by Adam Sanderson (Absentia, Sirens), and produced by Yoav Gross Productions (Manayek, Red Skies) for Keshet 12, Nutuk (8x60’) is told in both Arabic and Hebrew.

The show explores what happens when a boy’s parents find out their son has been talking to a brother they didn’t know he had, prompting an exploration into the unsolved disappearance of a man years ago.

Eight other scripted shows are on the KI slate, including A Body that Works, Trust No One and Save the Date, all three of which have been picked up by Netflix.

Prime Video lands Moonies doc

Story Films is to produce feature doc about the religious followers The Moonies for Amazon Prime Video.

The Moonies: Married to the Cult (w/t) will examine the religious movement of the Unification Church founded by Sun Myung Moon. The group is best known for spectacular mass weddings and claim to be in the pursuit of world peace but also has a darker side with billions in global assets and millions of followers who many claim are part of a cult.

Prime Video has acquired the feature, which is directed by Tom Green and executive produced by Liza Williams. All3Media International, which is also investing as global partner, will distribute the film internationally. Read more

Hat Trick adds Aussie dramas to slate

Hat Trick International (HTI) is launching three true-crime docuseries at Mipcom, including two shows from Australia on the slate.

The Toolbox Murders and The Byron Bay Murders — both of which debuted on Nine in Oz - are produced by Perpetual Entertainment in association with Marmalade Sky.

Also premiering internationally in Cannes is The Catfish Next Door, produced by STV Studios Factual for BBC iPlayer, BBC Scotland and BBC Three.

Hat Trick’s slate also includes Channel 5’s unflinching documentary Rose West: Born Evil?, about one half of the UK’s worst serial-killer couple. It has already sold to A+E Germany and Britbox Australia.