eOne Clinches Deals Ahead of MIPTV

LOS ANGELES/LONDON/TORONTO: Entertainment One (eOne) Television has notched up a slew of slots for its doc, drama and comedy series, including signing up TVNZ, TV Norge, Danish Broadcasting and RTE for The Walking Dead.

The new European deals on the AMC/FIC co-production follow sales to Channel 5, DBS Satellite in Israel and Orange in France. Another eOne drama that has found global appeal in Rookie Blue, which has sold to SBS Networks in the Netherlands, Finland and Norway; TV4 in Sweden; Addik TV for Canada (cable); TVNZ; RTE in Ireland; Danish Broadcasting Corporation; and Viasat Broadcasting in Slovenia. On the comedy front, Call Me Fitz secured terrestrial deals with TVNZ, TV Norge, Cielo in Italy and MTV Networks Europe in Hungary and Poland. Addik TV in Canada picked up the French cable rights. Pay-TV rights went to Fox in Asia, Greece, Turkey and Portugal; Sky in Italy; and Sony Animax in Africa.

In addition, Investigation Discovery in the U.S. has acquired the English television rights on two eOne Television true-crime projects, The Devil You Know and Pig Farm.