Fireworks International Scores New Deals for Blood Ties

LONDON, August 14: Fireworks International has secured a
number of new international broadcast deals for its 22×1-hour crime thriller Blood
Ties, including a prime-time slot on the
Virgin Media Television-owned LIVING channel’s summer schedule this year.

NBC Universal has acquired the series for Calle 13 in Spain,
Andorra and Portugal, while Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) has
purchased the series for its AXN channels in Italian-speaking Europe, Latin
America and Israel. STAR has picked up the series for its Star World channels
for Asia. Tele Muenchen has committed to the series for Germany. Further
licenses confirmed for Blood Ties include
Orion Cinema Network for South Korea, SABC for South Africa, and Euro TV for French-speaking
Europe and French-speaking Africa.

Created by award-winning producer and writer Peter Mohan, Blood
Ties is based on Tanya Huff’s best-selling Vicki Nelson
novels known as the Blood series.
The series was produced by Toronto’s Kaleidoscope Entertainment and Vancouver’s
Insight Film Studios, in association with Citytv and SPACE; the series also
airs on those channels in Canada.

Blood Ties follows
the adventures of a 29-year-old ex-cop turned private investigator named Vicki
Nelson, whose world is turned upside down after witnessing a horrific murder.
She finds herself caught up with a mysterious stranger who is also
investigating the murder— Henry Fitzroy (played by Kyle Schmid; A
History of Violence), a 450-year old
vampire who happens to be the bastard son of King Henry VIII. After solving the
murder, Vicki finds her new venture into supernatural crime is far from over as
she is drawn into more intriguing cases involving a terrifying pantheon of
occult adversaries. Vicki and Henry's unlikely alliance soon progresses beyond
a purely professional arrangement, creating a love triangle dilemma for Vicki
and her ex-partner in policing and love, Detective Mike Celluci (played by
Dylan Neal; CSI Miami).

Greg Phillips, the president of Fireworks International,
commented: “Blood Ties has generated
great attention from broadcasters worldwide since its launch and these deals
are testament to the quality and universal appeal of the series. We are
confident that the drama will prove a hit with international audiences.”