re:think Racks Up Deals

TORONTO, June 15: Canadian distributor re:think
Entertainment has shored up a host of new deals on its kids’ and factual
programming slates, including one with the new IPTV platform Babelgum.

The Babelgum deal includes the 52×30-minute adventure travel
series Alternate Routes, the youth
travel series Get Outta Town!,
the specials Burning Man: Beyond Black Rock and King for a Day and the interstitial comedy shorts series Turtle
TV.

Get Outta Town! was
also sold to Discovery Kids Canada and National Geographic Channels
International, while Alternate Routes went to CBC and Sun Media in Korea. In addition, season two of Race
Car Driver was sold to Viasat, while the
5×30-minute Forensics School was
picked up by Claxson.

The company’s documentary specials have also been faring
well internationally. Sky Arts in the U.K. opted for the one-hour HD film Power
of Harmony along with the 90-minute Burning
Man: Beyond Black Rock. FOXTEL Australia
opted for Bangkok Bound and Slippin’:
Ten Years with the Bloods, which was also
licensed to YES in Israel. And the youth-targeted eco-friendly film A
Year on Earth was sold to FOX Italy via
Lilium Distribution.