ZDFE Scores Sales at MIPCOM

October 6, 2011 World Screen
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CANNES/MAINZ, October 6: ZDF Enterprises has landed a host of sales at MIPCOM with major broadcasters and media providers for crime dramas, documentaries and kids’ series, including titles such as The Killing, Dance Academy and more.

 

The Killing was picked up by the BBC, SBS in Australia, DirecTV in Latin America, AXN in Spain, Channel 1 in Russia, KLB in France, Ale Kino/Canal+ in Poland, Mega Channel in Greece and Lumière in Benelux. BBC also opted for The Bridge and Sweden’s Sebastian Bergmann.
 
A number of broadcasters also ordered ZDFE kids’ series at MIP Junior, including the Jonathan M. Shiff mermaid series H2O: Just Add Water, which was sold to Disney Portugal, Spain’s Antena 3, Nickelodeon France and HRT in Croatia. Noga in Israel opted for Elephant Princess seasons one and two, as well as the Australian teen program Dance Academy, also picked up by Skjarinn in Iceland and Direct Sight in Ukraine. The animated series Jungle Book had orders from Televisa in Mexico, Direct Sight in Ukraine and Turner Germany for pay TV, while Tempo Express went to TVE in Spain, and Sherlock Yack went to YLE in Finland and Noga in Israel.
 
Buyers including DR TV in Denmark, TV2 in Norway, NRK in Norway, NHK in Japan, TF1 in France, TV Kultura in Russia and LIC in China placed orders for documentaries and new factual series. France Télévisions ordered the new documentary Egypt’s Lost Rival. Italy’s RAI picked up 35 episodes of the scripted drama Stuttgart Homicide and 100 episodes of the telenovela Ways to Happiness, as well as five TV movies in the romance genre.
 
HRT Croatia ordered 240 episodes of the daily soap Alisa and free-TV rights for Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy were bought by Austria’s ORF and Switzerland’s SF. Other deals include three TV movies picked up by Spain’s Antena 3; a variety of crime series for Finland’s YLE; romance genre content for UAB Baltijos TV in Lithuania, LNK Lithuania, LNT Latvia and Kanal 2 in Estonia, which ordered 100 episodes of the medical daily Flickering Hearts.