Sky Vision Racks Up True-Crime Sales

LONDON: Sky Vision has notched up a host of sales for its true-crime programming, with 32 broadcasters across 155 countries picking up titles such as It Takes a Killer and Passport to Murder.

Recent sales in the real-life crime space include It Takes a Killer, which was acquired by both Oxygen in the U.S. and CBS Reality in the U.K. In addition, season two of Justice By Any Means, Donal McIntyre’s Breaking Crime and The Real NCIS were picked up by Your TV, also in the U.K.

Sky Vision also secured a high-volume deal with Sky Italia for series such as Demons in the City of Angels, as well as Sky Vision Productions’ Passport to Murder and Death Row Doctors. After adding 24 hours of crime content to its catalog at MIPCOM 2016, Sky Vision is launching additional crime and factual titles this January. These include I Knew My Murderer. The 104×30-minute true-crime series investigates the stories of killers who knew their victims. Another new title is the half-hour series Mysteries of the Unexplained, exploring the world’s most haunting and perplexing phenomena.

Leona Connell, the director of sales at Sky Vision, remarked, “We know that the true-crime genre has had outstanding success in the U.S. for a few years now. This genre is now also very much in demand in the U.K., where we have done a number of deals with specialist factual channels, pay and free. I’m delighted that Sky Vision has played a role in growing the presence of this genre into other territories such as Italy, Australia and Germany.”