Shaftesbury Heads to ATF with New RTL Deal

TORONTO/SINGAPORE, November 27: Shaftesbury Sales Company
is exhibiting at the Asia TV Forum for the first time this year, highlighting Life
with Derek
on the heels of inking a multi-territory deal with
Super RTL for the first two seasons of the successful live-action kids’ comedy.

Super RTL acquired free-TV rights in Germany and
German-speaking Europe for the first 26 half-hour episodes of Life with
Derek
, slated to launch December 1. Translated into more
than 12 languages, Life with Derek airs in more than 100
countries worldwide including the U.S. (Disney Channel), France, the U.K.,
Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Netherlands, Latin America, Eastern
Europe, Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

Shaftesbury is looking to close further deals on
the show in Singapore this week.

—By Mansha Daswani