Leopard Scores Pre-MIPCOM European Deals

LONDON, October 9: In the lead-up to MIPCOM, Leopard
International has closed a number of deals across Europe for a range of its
in-house productions and one-off series.

Belgium’s Vitaya picked up three titles: My Life for Sale, Beyond Repair and Hidden Potential.
Originally produced for BBC One, My Life for Sale is a lifestyle format that shows viewers how to buy
and sell things on the Internet to create new designs for their homes. The
13×30-minute Beyond Repair focuses
on restoring and fixing furniture, while Hidden Potential looks at home improvement.

Seasons one through three of Cash in the Attic USA went to BBC Scandinavia. Seasons six through nine of
the U.K. version of the series were picked up by BBC Poland.

In Norway, TV2 Zebra took on Farm of Fussy Eaters, a psychological reality show produced for UKTV,
while Saudet Media picked up Mysterious Creatures for channels in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and
Macedonia. Mysterious Creatures is
a drama that looks at how society copes with the issue of mental health.
Meanwhile, Crash Scene Investigators,
which focuses on the science and detective work used to examine the events of
road-traffic accidents, went to HBO Spektrum in Czech and Hungary.

Sarah Diggins, the head of international sales at Leopard
Films, said: “With MIPCOM just around the corner it’s great to see such the
broad range of deals coming in across such a diverse set of territories. Our
catalogue is such now that we have excellent lifestyle and factual-entertainment
shows and formats that travel well with subjects pertinent to making money
around and out of the home, a subject close to everyone’s hearts right now.”

—By Kristin Brzoznowski