ORF-Enterprise Reports MIPTV Sales from Fiction, Wildlife Catalogues

VIENNA: ORF-Enterprise landed a number of deals during MIPTV last week, including selling its series Suburbia: Women on the Edge to SRF in Switzerland.

The crime series Tatort was sold to ARD/Degeto in Germany for 14 episodes. Other recent Tatort sales include to the Danish broadcaster TV2 and Slovenia's RTV.

The Russian pay-TV channel Ginger HD picked up several seasons of ORF's kids' edutainment program Yummy: Cooking with Kids, as well as Trick Factory, 7 Wonders and Cracker Snap.

TRT in Turkey went for a package of some ten hours of programming from ORF's Universum slate. This included Secrets of Bumblebees.

Wild Venice, produced in 4K, was sold to FTV Prima in the Czech Republic, TVP in Poland and YLE in Finland. National Geographic Channels also picked up that title for its international feeds. SBS in Australia is on board for Wild Venice as well.

From MIPTV's "Focus on the Nordics" track, broadcasters DR (Denmark), NRK (Norway), RUV (Iceland), SVT (Sweden) and YLE (Finland) signed on to contribute to the projects Greece: Highlands & Islands and The Canary Islands with substantial prebuys.

A VOD package featuring, among others, Wasteland Warriors, Nature Tech and Sea of Creepy Monsters went to Canada's Blue Ant Media. More than 70 hours of VOD content, including Janus and Fast Forward, were sold to UPC cablecom.

ORF-Enterprise landed a number of music-themed sales in Latin America. Eurochannel in Brazil acquired the rights for more than ten hours of the doc series Musically Culinary, while Brazil's Globosat picked up the baroque concert Musica Sacra from the Vienna St. Stephen's Cathedral.

The documentary Conchita: Unstoppable was sold to Channel 8 in Israel, HRT in Croatia, RTE in Ireland, RTS and SRF in Switzerland, RUV in Iceland, Out TV in Benelux and Deutsche Welle, among others.