Cineflix Brings Shows to ATF

LONDON, November 28: Cineflix
International, the London-based international television distribution arm of
Canadian production company Cineflix, announced that it has licensed several of
its productions to channels in China and Thailand as it heads to the Asia
Television Forum in Singapore this week.

Leland China has ordered third and
fourth seasons of the nonfiction series Mayday (35 x 60 minutes), which focuses
on high-profile air, sea and train disasters. Leland has also acquired Greatest
Ever (8 x 60 minutes), a series about
thrilling contraptions like sports cars and fighter jets, and The Blasters (2 x
60 minutes), a two-part special that examines the world of demolition blasting.
UBC Thailand has licensed a raft of programming from the Cineflix International
catalogue, including Medical Emergency (20 x 30 minutes), a real-life series set in an emergency ward; Animal
House (13 x 30 minutes), which follows the rescue and rehabilitation of dogs;
and Birth Stories (26 x 30 minutes), which chronicles the lives of parents
about to have a child.

Cineflix has also sold Zero Hour, and the follow up Zero
Hour 2, both docudrama series co-produced by Cineflix Canada and U.K.
production company 3BM Television, to terrestrial broadcaster ITV Thailand.
“The flow of repeat business we get illustrates our ability to supply
high-quality factual programming for Asia, and results seem to suggest this is
a growing trend,” said Kate Llewellyn Jones, Cineflix sales manager for Asia.