Raft of Sales for Great Inventions

ZDF Enterprises has notched up a slew of sales for the factual series Great Inventions.

Production has been completed on all 35 episodes, which spotlight everyday objects and major innovations we use daily. The series will premiere on SVT (Sweden), TV Kultura (Russia), AMC Chello (Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic), Telefonica Audiovisual Digital (Spain), Servus TV (Austria) and ZDF.info (Germany).

Produced for ZDF Enterprises, by Off the Fence, doc station, World Media Rights and k22, Great Inventions discovers the sometimes bizarre, mysterious or even accidental origins of common objects—from coffee, computer games and cold beer to crash test dummies and cruise ships.

Ralf Rueckauer, VP ZDFE.unscripted at ZDF Enterprises, said: “Launched only a few months ago, Great Inventions immediately attracted a huge amount of interest. The series, a salute to mankind’s ingenuity, has a wide appeal because it covers the ordinary, the familiar, then takes you on an entertaining and informative journey into how these things came to be.”