{"id":7333,"date":"2017-02-20T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-worldwide-sells-3000-plus-hours-of-drama-globally\/"},"modified":"2017-02-20T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T17:49:31","slug":"bbc-worldwide-sells-3000-plus-hours-of-drama-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-worldwide-sells-3000-plus-hours-of-drama-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Worldwide Sells 3,000-Plus Hours of Drama Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: In the last three months, BBC Worldwide has placed more than 3,000 hours of drama programming with various international broadcasters, including the sale of nearly 950 hours across Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Around 200 hours of premium drama was sold into Western Europe. In Germany, RTL Pay licensed <em>SS-GB<\/em> and <em>Rillington Place<\/em> and ZDF bought <em>Death in Paradise<\/em> (seasons five and six) as well as <em>Spooks<\/em> (seasons six through ten), among other titles. In Italy, Rai Cinema acquired <em>Doctor Foster<\/em> as part of a drama package.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Central and Eastern Europe, some 600 hours of content sold across the region. In Russia, <em>War and Peace<\/em> will now be available on SVOD platform IVI and in Ukraine, Digital Screens will have <em>Dickensian<\/em>, among other drama series. ETV in Estonia acquired <em>Father Brown<\/em> (seasons one through five), LTV in Latvia picked up <em>DCI Banks<\/em> (seasons one through three) and Lithuania got <em>Sherlock<\/em> (season four).<\/p>\n<p>Around 350 hours of drama was sold across the territories in Northern Europe, with <em>Maigret<\/em> (episodes one and two) licensed to VRT in Belgium and <em>Happy Valley<\/em> (season two) to NPO in Holland. <em>Call the Midwife<\/em> (season six) went to SVT in Sweden, <em>The Durrells<\/em> to TV2 in Denmark and <em>The Collection<\/em> (season one) to RUV in Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>In Sub-Saharan Africa and Kenya, series such as <em>Ripper Street<\/em> (seasons one through four), <em>Luther<\/em> (seasons one through four) and <em>Top of the Lake<\/em> (season one) are now available. In the Middle East, audiences in Israel will now be able to watch <em>The Honourable Woman<\/em> on Vubiquity and <em>Unforgotten<\/em> (seasons one and two) on yes.<\/p>\n<p>Across Latin America, broadcasters picked up nearly 400 hours of drama, with <em>War and Peace<\/em> licensed to Brazilian free-to-air channel Globo. <em>Ripper Street<\/em> (season two) will be available on Filmin Latino (SVOD\/FVOD) as well as Pramer, which picked up seasons two and three. In addition, Vubiquity acquired seasons one through ten of <em>Doctor Who.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Asia, nearly 950 hours of drama content was acquired between Korea, Japan, Greater China and India, with titles such as <em>New Tricks<\/em> (season 12), <em>Citizen Khan<\/em> (season five) and <em>The Paradise<\/em> (seasons one and two) among the sales. Clients include KBS in Korea, AXN Mystery in Japan, Youku in Greater China and FX in India.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Dempsey, the president of global markets at BBC Worldwide, said: \u201cThe demand for British drama continues to rise as global audiences are captivated by both the range and quality of our writing, acting and production.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: In the last three months, BBC Worldwide has placed more than 3,000 hours of drama programming with various international broadcasters, including the sale of nearly 950 hours across Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[128],"class_list":["post-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-worldwide","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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