Sky Vision Places Programming in Greece, Poland

LONDON: Sky Vision has sold 125 hours of programming to Polish broadcasters, while also inking a 50-hour package deal with NERIT, a new pubcaster in Greece.

NERIT, which launched in May 2014, acquired such titles as Micro Monsters, Nelson Mandela: The Struggle is My Life and Exploration Nation: Earth 2050.

Over in Poland, TVN Group took Office Xmas Party and Bin There Dump That for TTV, and Berlin Wall: The Night the Iron Curtain Closed for TVN24. Mansion Hunters is headed to TVN Style, while TVN Turbo snapped up Super Humans and Bulletproof: The Science of Armoured Cars.

Polsat Play licensed the first four seasons of Sin Cities and What Went Down. TVP2 went for such factual programs as Snow Monkeys and Secret Lives of Migratory Birds. Onet signed up for a 25-hour AVOD package that includes Forbidden Love and The Toilet. And finally, Poland's Multimedia Bank acquired the Christmas titles Rhythm of the Reindeer and Legends of Santa.

Leona Connell, the head of global sales at Sky Vision, commented: "Sky Vision forms an integral part of Sky's strategy to grow a broad, international content business. I'm particularly proud of signing our first deal with NERIT and look forward to securing further business with broadcasters in Greece and Poland in 2015."