UK broadcasters Sky, Channel 4, A+E, CBS and UKTV have picked up a range of factual content following deals with distributor BossaNova Media.
Channel 4 has picked up two titles from BossaNova’s history slate including Go Button Media’s Castle Secrets.
A+E Networks’ UK service has picked up Mysteries of the Ancient Dead from Go Button Media.
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London-based BossaNova Media has closed deals for more than 80 hours of its factual titles with three of Germany’s broadcasters.
ZDF has acquired BossaNova original series Mysteries of the Ancient Dead, produced for Super Channel Canada by Go Button Media. The six-part series considers a question that has intrigued humanity since the dawn of time: what happens to us when we die?
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Canadian pay TV network Super Channel has greenlit three factual series under its partnership with prodco Go Button Media and distributor Off The Fence.
The three series are part of the 36-hour, six-series deal the trio made earlier this year and are now in production.
Engineering Evolved (6×60′) focuses on the transportation technology that moves ships, cars, trains and submarines around the world and Cursed History (6×60′) explores the strange histories and legends of those who lived or died by a curse.
Finally, Revolutions that Changed the World (6×60′) examines the rise and fall of selected empires, monarchs and military leaders, many of whom learned the hard way that power is far from absolute and that allegiance is always conditional. Leaders examined include Spartacus, Queen Boudicca and Louis XVI.
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EXCLUSIVE: Seventy years after she was sunk off the French coast in the wake of D-Day, a chance encounter launched an extraordinary project to locate the wreck of a British ship… and commemorate those who went down with her.
The 158-foot-long headquarters ship, one of thousands that set forth across the Channel, was part of the first wave heading for Sword Beach in Normandy.
“I had certain qualms in my stomach, but you very quickly dismissed that because you’re busy,” Patrick Thomas, now 98, recalls.
“When we arrived there initially, we didn’t get a very friendly welcome.
“The Germans were rattling machine gun bullets on the hull. I saw the infantry running up the beach and sometimes they’d get shot and go down.”
For the next two weeks, in the heat of battle, LCH185 played a key role in defending the landing beaches and saving survivors from other Allied vessels, which were taking a fearful pounding from relentless German attacks.
Munich-based distributor Autentic Distribution has locked in a number of deals for new MIPTV titles coming out of the event.
Australia’s SBS has picked up 14 hours of factual programming, pre-buying the upcoming history series A Cold War of Spies (4 × 50 min.), which was also presented at the MIPDOC international buyers screenings in Cannes.
Asharq News acquired Go Button Media’s Colossal Machines II (6 × 45 min.).
The science series’ second season, which explores even more spectacular machines and their inner workings, has also been picked up by Korean broadcaster EBS.
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