Electric Sky Scores New Deals in Europe, Canada, New Zealand

LONDON, November 2: Following MIPCOM, British factual
distributor Electric Sky has secured several new broadcast, home-entertainment
and video-on-demand deals in Europe, Canada and New Zealand.

In Scandinavia, Viasat has picked up a package of titles,
including the seventh season of Channel 4’s A Place In The Sun, produced by Freeform; the 6×30-minute observational
property developing series Risky Business, produced by Favourite Films
for ITV West; the 2×1-hour investigative religious history series The Secret Family of Jesus, from CTVC
for Channel 4; the 6×30-minute archaeology series Mummy
Mysteries; and the first season of the art
crime series Art of the Heist.
Both Mummy Mysteries and Art
of the Heist are from Electric Sky
Productions.

Elsewhere in Europe, French company One Plus One has secured
the DVD and VOD rights for Stacked Like Me,
Flatly Stacked and Penis
Dementia, three hour-long specials from
Canadian producer Markham Street. The French property channel Du Cote de Chez
Vous has acquired the first season of the half-hour series Vertical
City, which visits high-rise and
architecturally spectacular buildings. The series has also been picked up by
Films Media Group for DVD in the U.S. and Canada.

In Spain, Portugal and Andorra, Sogecable’s Canal Viajar has
taken on the 42-minute Nepal:
Journeys on the Roof of the World, a 73 Media Production which has also been sold to Latin America, Italy,
Turkey, Asia, the Middle East, Israel and Africa.

YLE Teema in Finland
has acquired the new 1×135-minute Royal Opera House program La
Fille Du Regiment, which stars Juan Diego
Florez and has Dawn French in a cameo role. Meanwhile NRK Norway picked up the
1×103-minute classical ballet Sylvia, performed by Darcey Bussell and Roberto Bolle.

Electric Sky has also licensed the one-hour special Cannibal
Superstar to VRT Belgium and SBS
Netherlands. From British producer Visual Voodoo, Cannibal Superstar uncovers the exploits of Issei Sagawa, a real life Hannibal Lecter.
The special will be shown on Five in the U.K. later in the year.

In Canada, Oasis HD, has acquired the 20×30-minute animal
series Wildlife Nannies by German
producer Context TV, which follows the people who dedicate their lives to helping orphaned animals.

Finally New Zealand’s TVNZ has bagged Channel 4’s America’s
Deadliest Prison Gang from Leopard Films.
It tells the story of a racist and violent society that existed for decades
across many of America’s high-security prisons.

—By Irene Lew