DCD Rights Scores Raft of Deals for Factual Series

LONDON: DCD Rights has signed a number of deals for its factual-entertainment content to the U.S., Europe and other international markets.

BBC America, NRK Norway, Sky Network New Zealand and Seven Network Australia picked up Hammond Meets Moss, an hour-long documentary featuring Richard Hammond and motor racer Sir Stirling Moss.

Australian long-line fisherman series Hardliners has been sold to Current TV in the U.S., UKTV in the U.K. and TV2 in Norway. Keeping Up with the Joneses, which follows the unconventional lifestyle of a family in a remote part of the Australia Outback, has been snapped up by TVNZ for New Zealand, Plus Spektrum, part of Chello Central Europe, in Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Gator 911, a series about rescuing ferocious reptiles, has been acquired by Living TV in the U.K.; TV4 in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland; and Chello Zone for the Middle East, Africa, Poland, Hungary and Romania.

Rounding out the raft of programming deals, Danger Coast, which follows the exploits of Miami-Dades elite waterborne Special Operations, has been bought by CBS in the U.S.; Discovery Communications Europe for Africa, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Benelux, the Middle East, Spain, Portugal and Italy; as well as Chello Zone in the U.K.

Nicky Davies Williams, the CEO of DCD Rights, said: "We continue to license factual series around the world and are delighted with the response we have had so far to these fantastic series, and we expect more sales to be finalized following our recent attendance at NATPE."