Keshet International Secures New Finished-Tape Deals

Keshet International (KI) has inked numerous finished-tape deals for titles on its entertainment and factual slate, including Reggie Yates Meets World and Singletown.

KI has sold Flicker Productions’ Reggie Yates Meets World to Yle in Finland and BBC Studios for BBC BRIT in Africa. In Belgium, KI has completed a raft of deals with DPG Media for reality and factual content for its Vitaya and VTM channels, including Singletown, a relationship show that sees five couples press pause on their partnerships. It has also sold to DPG Media three series from Crackit Productions—The Lesbian Guide to Straight Sex, The Good Girls’ Guide to Kinky Sex and When Luxury Holidays Go Wrong. The deal also includes a number of Crackit Productions’ documentaries. Elsewhere in Belgium, VRT has bought Crackit Productions’ Animal Ambulance for its Flemish audiences.

In the Netherlands, RTL has picked up the Crackit Productions’ titles Made in Britain & Made in Yorkshire and When… Goes Horribly Wrong, a series exploring how luxuries like cosmetic surgery can go wrong when we least expect it. The Great Gardening Challenge has been acquired by Sky for New Zealand and Husbands from Hell has been picked up by MTV in Finland. Both series are produced by Crackit Productions.

KI has also completed deals for a number of returning series. In France, Canal+ has picked up seasons one and two of Prison Girls: Life Inside for its Planete+ Crime Investigation channel, while BNNVara has committed to the second season for the Netherlands. Australia’s SBS has picked up the rights for the second season of Rumpus Media and Motion Content Group’s Around the World by Train. Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT has acquired the second season of Owl Power’s Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing.

Season two of Crackit Productions’ Trucking Hell has been ordered by the international media company Viasat World for the Viasat Explore channel in the Nordics, CIS and CEE regions. TLC Netherlands and TLC Flanders picked up both seasons of Crackit Productions’ Casualty 24/7 for the Netherlands and Belgium. SIC has acquired both seasons of Greatest Celebrity Wind-ups Ever for Portugal, Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde, while Globosat has picked up the second season for Brazil. Lastly, the fourth season of Woodcut Media’s World’s Most Evil Killers has been acquired by Foxtel in Australia, EMEA’s CBS Reality and the U.S. cabler REELZ.

Keren Shahar, KI’s COO and president of distribution, said: “This raft of deals shows that even though we and our clients may not be travelling, our shows still are—all over the world. Our growing slate of cross-genre English language titles is ready to go now and we are primed to accelerate and cater to clients’ needs in response to growing demand. Nurturing relationships with our buyers remains an all-year-round priority for us and while we’ll miss seeing many of them in Cannes, we’ll be speaking to most over the coming days and weeks.”