ORF-Enterprise Sends Austrian Content Around the World

ORF-Enterprise wrapped a series of deals in Cannes, including one that sees multiple seasons of the long-running crime show Soko Kitzbuehel headed to RSI Switzerland.

The program is set to air in 2020. The broadcaster has also added the edutainment show Cracker Snap from ORF-Enterprise’s kids’ catalog to its program.

HRT Croatia, meanwhile, picked a drama-movie package that includes A Dance to Remembrance, The Murderer’s Muse and The Professor. The Oilfield Mystery.

New additions to ORF’s UNIVERSUM lineup have been acquired by ARTE France (Wild Shetland and Seefeld—Tyrolean Wonderland), MEDIAWAN France (A Tiger Called Broken Tail, Forest of Fantasies, Lionsrock—Return of the King), Love Nature Canada (Sky River of the Himalayas, Wild Caribbean—Rhythms of Life, Greece—The Wild Side) and Al Jazeera (Kestrels at Close Quarters, Russia’s Wild Sea, Secrets of Squirrels).

History documentaries related to WWII will air soon on Histoire France (Inventors Under the Swastika, Robert Bernardis—Stauffenberg’s Adjutant, Fighting for Resistance—Irene Harand), while Rai Italy opted for the ORF UNIVERSUM History highlight Beauty and Despair—Austria’s Empress Sisi.

German-based Autentic will be adding A North Korean Diary, Inventors Under the Swastika, Robert Bernardis—Stauffenberg’s Adjutant and Close to Heaven to Spiegel Geschichte.

Films Media Group continues its long-term relationship with ORF-Enterprise by adding new factual titles to its educational offering in the U.S. and Canada.

At MIPCOM, ORF-Enterprise and Huawei also announced their first collaboration, featuring a 130-hour package of fiction titles, including movies from the award-winning Tatort slate on the content service platform Huawei Video in Italy.