Outright Sells Wall To Wall & Ricochet Titles

LONDON: Outright Distribution has secured a number of deals from the Wall To Wall and Ricochet catalogues, with sales in Asia, France and Scandinavia, among numerous other territories.

Genius of Photography, originally produced by Wall To Wall for BBC Two and BBC Four, was bought by NGCI for a pan-territory deal, including Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Middle East. Pramer picked up the show for Latin America, Histoire for France and Viasat for Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe. Wall To Wall’s Child Genius 2 landed finished sales in New Zealand (Prime), Canada (TV Ontario), Sweden and Finland (TV4 Fakta), Australia (Nine Network), Israel (YES ), Belgium (VRT), Turkey (Zebra), Poland (Polsat Cafe) and Hungary (Spektrum). Estonia (Kanal 2), Italy (Fox – Cult Channel) and Asia (AETN All Asia Networks) signed on for the first series as well.

Outright also firmed up agreements on a host of Ricochet shows. Unbreakables, originally produced for Five in the U.K., sold to W9 in France, TV3 in Ireland, BBC Channels in Poland and Africa, UKTV in Australia, TV2 in Norway, Kanal 5 in Sweden, Infinito in Latin America and United Media in Korea. Kitchen Millionaire (Breaking Into Tesco), which was also produced for Five, recently had a local version of the format commissioned in Ireland with RTE, with options in Germany (RTL2), the Netherlands (Endemol), Israel (GIL Productions), Belgium (DED’s It Productions), Spain (Four Luck Banana) and Sweden (Eyeworks). Food TV in New Zealand, XYZ (Australia), Polsat Café (Poland), TV8 (Sweden) and the Asian Food Channel went for the finished series. Blood, Sweat & T-Shirts, a BBC Three production, scored finished sales in Finland (YLE), Fox (Italy), Netherlands (SBS), Brazil (Globosat), Australia (UKTV), New Zealand (TVNZ), Norway, (NRK), Asia (Australia Network), Israel (YES), France (Planete), Denmark (DR) and Sweden and Finland (TV4 Fakta). The format has also been optioned in the Netherlands (Palm Plus). The follow-up series, Blood, Sweat and Takeaways, launches on BBC Three on May 19.