Sky Vision Sends 600 Hours of Content to Poland

LONDON: Sky Vision has sold 600 hours of programming in Poland, including documentaries, clip shows, factual entertainment and lifestyle series such as Great Escapes.

Polsat snapped up all 104 episodes of the travel and lifestyle series Great Escapes, which explores the world’s most luxurious and outlandish hotels, hostels and campsites. Polsat also signed on for a pair of documentaries: Churchill’s Toyshop and Diana vs. The Queen, as well as the clip shows People Behaving Badly, Kids Do the Craziest Things, Animals Unleashed and What Went Down.

The documentary Danger: Teen Bingers was acquired by TVN, which also went for the observational documentary Beijing Billionaires. In addition, TVN picked up the lifestyle series Who’d Be a Billionaire and The Holidaymakers.

In addition, pubcaster TVP went for Children on the Frontline, a doc about the children impacted by the war in Syria. TVP also signed on for the documentaries Hitler’s Lost Soldier, Hitler and the Occult and Escape from the Secret Sect. CANAL+ Poland, meanwhile, acquired wildlife titles such as The Baboon King and Returning the Wild, as well as The Kennedy Files. The BBC also picked up the brand-new clip show Crazy Wheels, the second season of the science series Xploration Nation: Earth 2050 and season five of Ross Kemp’s Extreme World for its Polish channel.

Mirjam Strasser, Sky Vision’s senior sales manager for Central and Eastern Europe and Germany, commented, “Poland has become an essential market for Sky Vision; there is so much vibrancy and energy in this territory. I am pleased to grow our presence there with the same momentum we have achieved in other key territories in Europe.”