BBC Studios Inks First-Look Agreement with Big Deal Films

BBC Studios has signed a two-year contract with London-based indie Big Deal Films, giving the company the first look at distributing the production house’s programming slate.

Big Deal, which produces factual, factual-entertainment and scripted formats, focuses on creating programming for black, Asian and minority-ethnic audiences. Since its inception in 2014, the production house has focused on younger-skewing investigative documentaries and lightly formatted series.

The company’s previous credits include: “Sending Money Home” for The One Show on BBC One, which follows the journey of money earned from migrant workers in the U.K.; Disabled Fight Club for Channel 4, which follows the journey of six disabled fighters on their paths to compete in combat sports; and The Things I See for BBC iPlayer, a reconstruction of mental health conditions of the point of view of a person experiencing visual delusions.

BBC Studios’ specialist factual commercial manager, Rebecca Brown, said: “The hunger for diverse content has never been higher. Supporting Big Deal will provide content across a number of genres at a time when this is needed more than ever. We know that younger audiences really want truth in a world of fake news, and Big Deal is the ideal producer to deliver this.”