Off The Fence Sells Packages to Spain, Portugal

AMSTERDAM, August 6: Off the Fence has licensed a range of
factual programming to channels in Spain and Portugal, including closing a deal
with Spain’s Natura for 15 hours of content.

Among the titles in the Natura deal is Island Life, a 6×1-hour series exploring Australia’s diverse
islands, which are among the last remaining refuges for rare and endangered
animals. ABC Natural History Unit produced the series in association with
Granada Media. Also included in the package is Cherub of the Mist, a one-hour study of the Red Panda, filmed in the
wild by Bedi Films/Bedi Films Visuals India.

Catalonia’s public broadcasting service, Televisió de
Catalunya, has acquired a package that includes The Real Atlantis, originally produced by Quickfire Media and Off the
Fence for BBC Timewatch & Arte. The series examines the stories behind
powerful kingdoms that disappeared leaving little trace. The channel has also
acquired Guge—The Lost Kingdom of Tibet, a one-hour program by Bang Productions in
association with France 5, Off the Fence, Media Development Authority of
Singapore and Discovery Networks Asia; Red Trousers: The Life of the
Hong Kong Stuntmen, a one-hour program by
Tai Seng Entertainment and Bang Productions; 21st Century
Garden Art, a 13×30-minute series from
Ilona Grundmann Filmproduction for ZDF featuring today’s most famous landscape
and garden architects around the world; and Nature’s Greatest Moments, a collection of 152 five-minute episodes
illustrating nature’s most remarkable feats.

Also in Spain, the 4×1-hour series Mega Disaster will be heading to pay TV channel Cuatro. Produced
by NHNZ for Kabel Eins and the National Geographic Channel, this series reveals
the immeasurable destruction carved into land and life by natural disasters
including earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis and volcanoes.

Portugal’s state broadcaster RTP has acquired Sperm Whales:
Dealing with the Unexpected. The one-hour
documentary follows the journey of a family of sperm whales who have taken
refuge in the hostile waters of the Crozet Islands. Saint Thomas Productions
produced the program for Discovery Communications, NDR Naturfilm, Canal Plus
and ORF.