Marathon Closes Eastern European Deals

PARIS, October 24: Marathon has sold more than 300 hours of
programming into the Eastern European market, including package deals in
Hungary, Serbia and the Czech Republic.

Package deals for documentaries were signed with Czech TV,
Duna TV (Hungary), Pravi Provodi (Serbia) and Spectrum (the Czech Republic and
Hungary), and sales negotiations are in advanced stages with Slovak TV and RTV
Slovenia. The deals include the titles Final Days of an Icon, Mystica,
Being Beautiful, What’s
That About, the children’s documentary
series This is My Country, My
Life on the Farm, Weather’s
Wonders and Weird and Funny Animals, as well as the wildlife specials Sea
Lions and The Lemurs.

RTV Slovenia has picked up the animated series MBC, Lithuania’s LNK purchased the fifth season of Totally
Spies and Marsupilami was acquired by Russia’s Channel 1, Duna TV in
Hungary and Slovenian channel RTV.

Marathon has also shored up sales of its fiction titles 15/Love and The Challengers to Russian Report. Secrets: Every Woman is
a Suspect was sold to Slovakia’s TV Markiza
and Hungary’s RTL Klub, with negotiations still under way in Poland, Slovenia
and the Czech Republic, as well as in Croatia for the video rights. In Russia,
a format sale is in advanced negotiation.

—By Kristin Brzoznowski