AMC Networks & Others Snap Up Blue-Chip Docs in Southern Europe

Scorpion TV has secured sales for blue-chip documentaries in Southern Europe, including a package deal with AMC Networks in Spain.

Under the package agreement, AMC Networks in Spain picked up the natural-history docs The Great Wild Indoors, Spinner Dolphins and Alamto: A Reptile Wonderland, along with Do Women Have a Higher Sex Drive? and Brexit Means Brexit: The Unofficial Version.

In addition, French public broadcaster TF1 licensed documentaries for both its main channel and its thematic feeds. Among the highlights is Diana: In Her Own Words. One of the titles headed to TFI’s thematic channels is Flying Rainbow. TF1-owned Histoire, meanwhile, acquired The Search for the Last Supper, which was also picked up by Sky Italia, while Rai in Italy acquired a special episode of Chile: A Wild Journey, which is part of an eight-episode series.

Other Southern European sales include deals with RTVE in Spain and AB Groupe in France. RTVE licensed It’s a Match, which tells the story of two LGBT twentysomethings who meet online and, within weeks, find themselves bound together for life. AB Groupe acquired Bloomberg’s science-tech series Hello World which takes the viewer on a global road trip to meet the inventors, scientists and technologists who are shaping our future.

Mireia Garcia, Scorpion’s sales executive for EMEA, said, “France, Spain and Italy are vibrant and intensely competitive territories, which not only have a strong appetite for premium documentary and factual titles, but also make exceptional content of their own. Against this backdrop, closing this volume of business in the key Southern European markets is a real coup—and a real tribute to the range and quality of Scorpion’s catalog.”