Package Deals for TCB Media Rights Content Across Asia

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has sold more than 180 hours of content into India and the Far East, including package deals in China and Thailand.

China’s Red Apollo Group has signed on for new-media rights to 14 documentaries and series, including The Hunt for Hitler’s Missing Millions, Planes That Changed the World, World’s Most Extreme and Survivorman. The Hunt for Hitler’s Missing Millions has also been sold to Thailand’s Next Step Company in a seven-title, 69-hour deal that also includes Inquisition, Surveillance and Monkey Life.

Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, meanwhile, has acquired 25 hours of TCB’s content. This includes titles such as Screen Machines for its pan-Asian services and Survivorman and Tough Rides for India. NHK Enterprises in Japan has picked up Screen Machines, while other Japanese sales include World’s Richest Dogs, which went to Nippon Television Network Europe and JFK: The Smoking Gun, which was sold to Collaboration.

In addition, Ainsley Eats the Streets has been acquired by Radio Television Hong Kong and Great Southern Land and WW2 Air Crash Detectives will air in Vietnam via a deal with T Star Global. Planes That Changed the World has been acquired by NGC Network International for its pan-Asian feed.

Mem Bakar, TCB Media Rights’s sales manager for Asia, remarked: “Asia has a huge and growing audience for quality, family-friendly factual entertainment and documentary content—precisely the sort of content that has become our calling card. To close ten local deals in the countdown to ATF is not only great timing in terms of raising TCB’s profile at Asia’s key content event, but it also brings us a big step closer to securing a foothold in one of the world’s most competitive markets.”