Rive Gauche Strikes Pre-MIPTV Sales

LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has locked in new deals for several of its titles, among them the crime series Fame Kills and Death By Gossip.

Titles included in the newly signed broadcast deals are Where Cool Came From (sold to Discovery in Latin America), True Supernatural (Foxtel in Australia, Blue Ant in Canada and UKTV in the U.K.), Ultimate Homes (Blue Ant and Portugal’s SIC), Fix It & Finish It (First HD in Russia and African Business Channel), Back to Basics (Asia Food Channel) and Amazing Dog Tales (Intra Communications for the CIS and First HD TV in Russia).

Crime titles sold to new broadcasters include Fame Kills (Foxtel in Australia, AMC Chello for Poland and SIC in Portugal), Death By Gossip (Foxtel and Poland’s AMC Chello), Homicide Hunter (Foxtel), Ice Cold Killers (Foxtel), Evil Twins (Foxtel, as well as AMC Chello in the U.K.) and Sins & Secrets (the U.K.’s AMC Chello).

Further sales from the Rive Gauche library include Dog Whisperer episodes picked up by Discovery Latin America, RCS-RDS in Romania, First HD TV in Russia, Corp Novazul SRL in the Dominican Republic and renewals from TV4 Sweden. In addition, Discovery Latin America, SBS in Belgium, Discovery in Italy and TVNZ in New Zealand acquired seasons of My Strange Addiction.

Jon Kramer, CEO of Rive Gauche, said: “Rive Gauche’s high-quality catalogue continues to satisfy various programming needs worldwide. Our client’s know they can come to us to fill out their programming schedules.”