12 New Titles Headline Beyond’s MIPCOM Offerings

LONDON: Beyond Distribution is launching 12 new titles at MIPCOM, with a slate spanning the children’s, factual, lifestyle, crime and documentary categories.

Beyond’s content originates from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. The company’s lifestyle slate includes new titles such as Building La Dolce Vita with Debbie Travis, which follows Travis as she risks her life savings to purchase and transform a 13th century medieval watchtower and farmhouse in Tuscany. There’s also Shaynna’s World of Design, hosted by interior designer Shaynna Blaze, and Cooking for the Crown, which brings viewers to different countries to meet their royal families and learn about the culinary delights served there.

Natural Born Outlaws tells the stories of some of history’s toughest and meanest outlaws, while Jack Vale: Offline sees the world’s most successful internet prankster team up with his family to make pranking a family business. Breaking The Law: Bent Coppers, is about policemen and policewomen in the U.K. who have been jailed for breaking the law. Meanwhile, viewers learn about how Australia got its own unique brand of rock and roll in Blood + Thunder: The Sound of Alberts. Other new titles from Beyond Distribution include Chasing Monsters, Mountain Rescue, The Dengineers, Love It or List It UK and Body Donors: Life After Death.

Returning titles, totaling 160 hours, include Highway Thru Hell, Love It or List It, Love It or List It Vancouver, Deadly Women, Married to the Game, BBQ Crawl, Fatal Vows, MythBusters, Myth or Science, A Stranger in My Home, Animal 999, Junior Vets, Highway Patrol, Neighbours At War and Kinne.

Caitlin Meek-O’Connor, the head of acquisitions for Beyond, commented, “I’m delighted with our titles this market. We are arriving at MIPCOM with a diverse slate that will appeal to buyers and audiences around the world. Alongside our fantastic new titles, we have a huge roster of returning series, showing the continued strength of the Beyond catalogue.”