Passion Distribution Lands Raft of CEE Deals

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Passion Distribution has secured a raft of sales for more than 130 hours of factual entertainment, lifestyle and documentary programming across Central and Eastern Europe.

AMC Networks International—Central and Northern Europe went for a package of more than 90 hours of factual entertainment and lifestyle programming for its Spektrum Home channel in Hungary and for Spektrum in the Hungarian, Czech and Slovak territories. Included in the deal are, among others, World’s Deadliest and several titles from The Weather Channel, including Heroes and Survivors and SOS: How to Survive seasons one and two. Lifestyle programs such as Where to I Do? seasons one and two and Charlie Luxton’s Homes By the Med seasons one and two were also part of the pact.

In Poland, Polsat Café picked up The Sex Clinic, along with the doc series Price of Fame seasons one and two. TVN licensed Dr Christian: 12 Hours to Cure Your Street for the TLC channel in Poland. Other titles include the award-winning documentary series Unreported World season 36.

Meanwhile, Xsport in Ukraine opted for Robot Wars seasons eight through ten.