UK distributor DCD Rights has completed several sales of new factual programs ahead of their MIPCOM launch next month.
Titles already sold include Secret Nazi Bases (6 x 60 minutes), a Go Button Media production for UKTV, Discovery Science and Discovery, which has sold to Foxtel in Australia, A&E in CEE and Scandinavia, Prima Group in the Czech Republic, Emirates Cable TV E-Vision in the Middle East, True Visions in Thailand, ProSiebenSat.1 in German-speaking Europe and Discovery Communications in Spain.
Experts are looking to unlock the sinister secrets of hidden Nazi bases dotted across Europe.
The covert sites will be explored in the new Science Channel series “Secret Nazi Ruins,” which premieres at 10 p.m. ET Thursday.
“To this day, the remains of Nazi Bases lie waiting to reveal their truth about Hitler’s tactics and dreams,” explained Science Channel, in a statement. Sites examined in the series include the Maisy Batteries, a huge group of artillery batteries built in Northern France by the German military. The site has been recently excavated and investigated with the help of newly revealed documents, according to Science Channel.
Other sites featured in the series include the vast base of Dag Bromberg, which is hidden in a Polish forest, and the V-2 rocket base Kraftwerk Nord West in France. Experts will also explore Bergkristal, a bunker and tunnel complex in Austria, which is described as possessing a “mysterious level of radiation.” An unusual mansion on a beach in the Canary Islands “with design elements that defy its stated residential purpose” will also be examined.
“It seems as though every year that passes since the events of WWII we discover new sites, new plots and new terrors the Nazi war machine was behind,” said Daniel Oron, the show’s executive producer, in a statement emailed to Fox News. “Secret Nazi Ruins’ aims to uncover the mysteries and buried plots through investigating the remnants of known and recently excavated Nazi projects.”
Secret Nazi Ruins (Science at 10) This series will examine mysteries surrounding Adolf Hitler’s World War II projects, including tunnels, communication centers and artillery sites.
A NEW TV series featuring Guernsey’s bunkers is set to air this autumn.
Secret Nazi Bases will look at the remnants of Nazi schemes, that are hidden across the world and examines the conspiracies surrounding them.
Among the sites looked at are a number of local fortifications.
VisitGuernsey, along with Festung Guernsey, the Guernsey Armouries and the Guernsey Military Co, worked with the documentary producers when the crew were on-island in November 2018 and May 2019, providing access to a range of bunkers and defences. While some of the areas featured are open to the public, others are privately owned.
Filming locations included some of Guernsey’s iconic bunkers, such as MP4 and MP3 observations towers at Pleinmont, as well as the largest bunker complex in the Channel Islands – the German Military Underground Hospital in St Andrew’s. Fully restored bunkers such as the German Naval Signals HQ in St Peter Port, Batterie Scharnhorst, Batterie Mirus and Batterie Dolmen, amongst others, were also featured.
Go Button Media produced the documentary.
Executive producer Daniel Oron said when they started researching subjects for their series, Guernsey came up quite quickly.
‘The imagery was so striking and the stories of the Occupation and fortification so compelling we knew we had to include it in our first season of Secret Nazi Bases,’ he said.
‘When we arrived in November 2018, the island exceeded our expectations. We couldn’t have asked for more from the locations and stories. We now know there is so much more than we could cover in a single dedicated episode of the series. The island’s heritage is so rich and that’s just considering the Occupation. We can’t wait to come back and film more in the future.’
The Guernsey episode is set to air at 8pm on 8 November on Yesterday (UKTV).
