Beyond Rights Scores Deals in Italy

Beyond Rights has secured new deals with five leading Italian broadcasters for more than 500 hours of content.

La7 acquired BriteSpark Films’ The Prince and the Paedophile, an investigation into the friendship between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein. The documentary also uncovers new evidence about Epstein’s other British connections, including Ghislaine Maxwell.

Sky Italia picked up 290 hours from the Love It or List It franchise, including four seasons from the original series and seasons from Love It or List It: Vancouver, Love It or List It: Quebec and Love It or List It: Australia.

A 103-hour, multi-genre package was acquired by Discovery Italy. True-crime titles such as Fatal Vows and Deadly Women are included, as well as Massive Engineering Mistakes, auto show Flipping Bangers and the obs-doc Giant Lobster Hunters.

Season six and the upcoming season seven of Forbidden History were picked up by AETN Italy. In the new season, episodes will search for King Solomon’s mines and examine the methods that Hitler and the Nazi Party used, from propaganda to “holidays of hate.”

The new digital channel Got Game acquired 105 hours of science and technology programming, including Myth or Science, How Hacks Work and Superhuman Science.

Sarah Bickley, Beyond Rights’ senior VP of sales for Italy, said, “We are delighted that our extensive factual catalog can meet the needs of so many key broadcasters at the same time in such an important territory as Italy. Whether creating history and science or true-crime and lifestyle programming, we continue to work with some of the best independent production companies from around the world. This ensures we can introduce a constant flow of appealing new content into the international marketplace, from high-profile single documentaries such as The Prince and the Paedophile to successful returning brands such as Deadly Women and Love It Or List It, respectively now in their 14th and tenth seasons.”