LatAm Sales for TVF’s Race Against the Pandemic, Weird Food Diaries

TVF International has signed a number of deals with broadcasters across Latin America, including National Geographic Channel picking up the fast-turnaround science-focused doc Race Against the Pandemic.

AMC Networks’ culinary channel El Gourmet went for Weird Food Diaries from The Moving Visuals Co. The food travelogue, featuring the most bizarre dishes found across Asia, will be returning for a second season later this year.

Smithsonian Channel renewed the royal docudrama Inside Buckingham Palace for its Central, South and North American feeds.

Globo’s SVOD service Globoplay in Brazil licensed a 22-hour package that includes System Shock, Bloomberg’s story of the MP3’s breakthrough and how it changed the music industry; the Channel NewsAsia commission Inside the Crypto-Kingdom; Harry: Warrior Prince, Forces TV’s exclusive-access film following the royal’s journey through his army career; and Being Me, TVNZ’s series about disability from Attitude Pictures.

In Mexico, the Supreme Court’s free-to-air channel Justicia TV went for a package of science titles, including e2 Transport, a PBS-Kontentreal collaboration. Also in the package were the Jim Al-Khalili-fronted series The Secrets of Quantum Physics and Order and Disorder. Both were produced by Furnace TV, which has an output deal with TVF.