eOne Television Clinches Sales for AMC & SundanceTV Titles

LOS ANGELES/TORONTO/CANNES: Entertainment One (eOne) Television International has landed a round of deals for shows from its output agreement with AMC and SundanceTV, along with announcing a second season of the comedy Welcome to Sweden.

Titles from the AMC/Sundance deal include Turn, Halt and Catch Fire and The Red Road. Since signing the agreement, eOne has sold Halt and Catch Fire to CANAL+ and Turn to OCS in France. All three dramas were licensed by C More in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland for exclusive pay rights; HBO Nordic in Scandinavia (SVOD); TV2 in Norway; and yes DBS Satellite Services in Israel. For The Red Road, eOne closed a deal with Sundance Channel Global in multiple territories across Europe, North America and Latin America.

eOne also concluded deals for multiple seasons of Hell on Wheels to LOVEFiLM and Watchever in Germany as well as NOW in Russia, in addition to The Walking Dead for Media Access in Pakistan, RTL in French Belgium and TV Peretz in Russia.

Additionally, Sweden’s TV4 has commissioned a second season of ten episodes of the half-hour hit comedy series Welcome to Sweden, executive produced by siblings Amy and Greg Poehler. Produced by Entertainment One Television, TV4 and Syskon, the series has been on air on TV4 for two weeks and is already the second highest-rated show on the channel. The series is launching in the U.S. on NBC this summer.

Fredrik Arefalk, executive producer of Welcome to Sweden and head of channel TV4, said: “The launch of Welcome to Sweden has been a huge success! Viewers love the show and the ratings are fantastic. We really look forward to a new season and to keep on following Bruce and Emma and their continuing struggle to settle down in Sweden.”

"We’re thrilled with the success of the show, which is a testament to the incredible concept and creative auspices behind this distinct and universally appealing show," commented Carrie Stein, the executive VP of global production at Entertainment One. "Television viewers are interested in stories that stretch beyond their borders which is what Welcome to Sweden can deliver, making it all the more fun to produce.”

"It's an amazing feeling to create a show to which people are responding so favorably. We intend to make season two even better," added Greg Poehler.