DCD Rights Lands Presales for Aussie Gold Hunters

DCD Rights has inked several deals for its factual and factual-entertainment titles, including presales for the upcoming second season of the reality series Aussie Gold Hunters.

Viasat World (Scandinavia and Eastern Europe) and DMAX (Italy and Spain) picked up the new sophomore season of Electric Pictures’ Aussie Gold Hunters at presale. Season two is currently in production for Discovery UK & Pacific Rim. In addition, the first season has been picked up by RMC Découverte for France and French-speaking Europe, Fokus TV for Poland and Discovery for Norway, Germany and German-speaking Europe.

Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure, a Tern Productions documentary for BBC Two, was acquired by Knowledge Network (Canada), FTV Prima (Czech Republic) and ARTE (France and Germany). Nine Network Australia, meanwhile, secured Popkorn TV’s Trolls: We’re Coming to Get You, a three-part documentary produced for Channel 5. Nine Network also went for BBC Productions’ I Shot My Parents. The one-hour special for BBC Three was also scooped up by Medialaan (Belgium), TV2 (Norway) and TV2 (Denmark). DCD Rights is presenting I Shot My Parents at NATPE Budapest, along with the new factual series Toymakerz from Lucky 13 Cinematic for Velocity.

Nicky Davies Williams, the CEO of DCD Rights, commented, “I’m very pleased to see our factual and factual-entertainment content performing so well on the international stage, particularly the early pickups for the new second season of Aussie Gold Hunters. The series offers a truly remarkable insight into life in one of the world’s few remaining ‘wild frontiers’ and the second season takes viewers even deeper into the lives of the prospectors, their families and their communities. Since joining our acquisitions team last year, Philippa Chuter has been hugely successful in developing our production partnerships in the factual community, and I’m delighted to see the results as our sales team secures new deals around the world.”