Outright Secures Multiple Deals for Ricochet Catalog

March 7, 2007 World Screen

LONDON, March 7: Outright Distribution, formerly Screentime
Partners, has clinched new deals on four titles from fellow Shed Group-owned
Ricochet.

Outright has licensed the 4×1-hour series 20 Ways to XYZ in Australia; Alliance Atlantis for BBC Canada
and HGTV in Canada; and to SBS in Belgium. The show, which was originally
produced for Five in the U.K., is presented by designers Justin Ryan and Colin
McAllister, and centers on four separate themes: 20 Ways To Lose Money on Your
Property, 20 Ways To Make Money on Your Property, 20 Worst Interior Design Crimes
in Your Home and 20 Things We Love to Hate about Builders.

Wedding Belles, which
was also produced for Five, has been sold to Oz on XYZ, Alliance Atlantis for
BBC Canada and The Life Network, SBS in both Belgium and the Netherlands, BBC
Prime in Africa and YES DBS satellite in Israel.

The 2×1-hour series Admission Impossible was licensed to XYZ. The series, which aired on
Channel 4 in the U.K., follows the lives of parents and their children as they
try to overcome the obstacles of entry exams, low financial incomes and intense
competition to attend the educational institutions of their choice.

Lastly, Too Big to Walk, a 3×1-hour series about weight loss that aired on Channel 4, has been
sold to SBS in the Netherlands as well as to New Zealand’s TVNZ and TV4 in
Sweden. The international format of the show is being sold under the title Fat
March, and has been optioned by Australia’s
Nine Network, France’s GTNCO and SBS in the Netherlands.

“‘Ricochet programming is well known internationally for its
rock solid U.K. terrestrial shows with proven ratings and a high rate of
re-commission,” said Chris Bonney, the CEO of Outright Distribution. “We take
each distribution proposition on its own merits and apply a ‘best route to
market’ strategy to maximize revenues—be that as a format, finished
program sale or both—and this approach seems to be paying off, especially
in a global market where U.K. content is growing in importance.”