ORF-Enterprise Scores Several Deals at MIPCOM

VIENNA: Last week in Cannes ORF-Enterprise signed a number of agreements involving titles such as Four Women and a Funeral, Fast Forward and Tatort, to name a few.

Four Women and a Funeral, a 36-episode crime series, was picked up by Fox Bulgaria. Six episodes from the show’s fourth season were sold to Sony Pictures Entertainment’s pay-TV Channel AXN for Eastern Europe.

A dozen episodes of Fast Forward‘s latest season were bagged by Denmark’s DR TV, while a ten-hour package of the television films Tahort went to SPI International for Eastern Europe.

Gas Monopoly, an environmental documentary, is slated to air on NHK Japan, which may also purchase Ships of the Desert, a Universum-strand documentary.

In Mexico, TV UNAM picked up the most recent episode of Musically-Culinary, "Gioacchino Rossini—The Swan of Pesaro" as well as the entire 8-episode series. The network will also broadcast Universum’s Radioactive Wolves, Alpine Meltdown and Mystery of the Fairy Circles.

More than 60 hours of nature and wildlife programming, most of which is from Universum, has been sold to Romania and Hungary’s RCS-RDS as part of an output deal that includes ORF-Enterprise’s whole documentary catalogue.

The Universum-strand titles Zambezi, Arlberg—The Hidden Paradise and Sea of Creepy Monsters were bought by IRIB (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), while the two-part documentary Danube—Europe’s Amazon went to NatGEO.

In addition, RAI-Italy and TVE Spain opted for large Universum documentary packages.