Outright Picks Up New Titles, Scores Third-Party Sales

LONDON: Outright Distribution has added three new titles to its catalogue, along with having signed a range of deals on its third-party programming.

Outright recently renewed its first-look deal with KEO Films, bringing three new properties to its catalogue. When the Amish Met the English, a 4×1-hour series for Channel 4, launches in 2010. The series is about a group of Amish who leave their community to experience "Rumspringa," a period during their teenage years when they can go explore the outside world. There’s also the 3×1-hour Megacity for BBC Two. Through individual human narratives, Megacity shows how slums are vital, aspirational places, and are home to some of the most resourceful, resilient and creative people on earth. Also from KEO, Hungry Boys is a 9×30-minute series for Channel 4 that features three young marine biologists who have to live off the land and sea for a month in the highlands and islands of Scotland.

Outright has also scored deals on KEO titles, including the River Cottage franchise, which was picked up by Sky in New Zealand, XYZ in Australia and ABC in Australia. Cuisine TV in France has also snapped up the series, along with AFC in Singapore and BBC Global Channels for Poland. 

Through its exclusive distribution deal with Touch Productions, Outright has sold the 4×1-hour Body in Numbers to broadcasters such as Noga in Israel, Ceska in Czech Republic, Sky in New Zealand and LIC in China. Also from Touch, Dallas DNA was taken on by Noga, Turner Latin America, TV8 in Sweden and JIM in Finland. 

Outright has an exclusive relationship with Flame TV, and sold World of Stupid Criminals to JIM as well as Sky in New Zealand. Flame’s hour-long special Dickens’ Secret Lover went to LaLa TV in Japan, DR in Denmark and Viasat Pay TV for Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe.