Amazon Prime Video Secures Global Rights for TNT Serie Original

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Amazon Prime Video has secured the rights to offer the TNT Serie original 4 Blocks in more than 150 countries.

Starting October 4, the series will be available on Amazon in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. In another 50 countries, including Germany, France and Russia, 4 Blocks will be available from summer 2018. Prior to this, the series will celebrate its German free-to-air TV premiere on ZDFneo as of November 28. 4 Blocks has already broadcast on TNT in Poland and Romania concurrent to its launch in Germany. TNT plans to air the series in Sweden, Norway and Denmark from November 2.

Hannes Heyelmann, Turner’s senior VP and managing director for Central and Eastern Europe and international original programming strategy, said: “With 4 Blocks, we took the risk of financing a series almost entirely on our own, and also handling distribution sales for the first time. We believe we have found ideal partners with Amazon Prime Video and ZDFneo to make the series available globally via on-demand as well as on German free-to-air TV. These sales prove that our strategy of telling stories that are clearly locally rooted also work in international sales, and they enable us to invest even more in our productions going forward.”