Beyond Lines Up Diverse Slate

SYDNEY: Beyond Distribution is offering up programming from a variety of genres for MIPCOM buyers, with fresh episodes of returning series along with new shows and documentaries, including The Will: Family Secrets Revealed.

New launches include The Will: Family Secrets Revealed, which looks at the drama of death. For the young ones there’s Iconicles and Toybox. Deadly Women: Face to Face features one-on-one interviews with female killers. Apocalypse 2012 explores how people are preparing for what they believe could be the end of life as we know it. Damage Control, narrated by Russell Crowe, follows the real-life struggle from career-threatening injury to peak performance. Further new titles include Vivienne Westwood’s London, following as Dame Vivienne Westwood shows off the city; and Riverdance Live from Beijing, celebrating the 15th anniversary of the dance troupe.

Returning titles in Beyond’s catalogue include Deadly Women 4, The T.O Show 2, Chuck’s Day Off 2, Property Shop 3, Hot Property 10, Neighbours at War 5, MovieStar 2, Highway Patrol 2 and Motorway Patrol 11.

Fiona Crago, the general manager of Beyond Distribution, said, “We have recently welcomed some great new producers on board whom we are very excited to be working with. It is fantastic to add their top quality programming into our catalogue, as well as new additions from many of our ongoing producer relationships. We have several strongly branded children’s properties that we are expecting particular success from, as well as a very unique series called The Will: Family Secrets Revealed that makes for captivating viewing into human nature at its most stressed.”