Tag: BBC Worldwide

AUCKLAND: New Zealand broadcaster Prime has licensed a package of factual and documentary titles from BBC Worldwide, including Planet Earth II.

LONDON: Passion Distribution has closed package deals for a host of titles from its catalog, including Timber Kings, across Africa, as well as international sales for the factual-entertainment series Deadliest Pests Down Under.

LONDON: BBC Two has unveiled details for David Bowie: The Last Five Years, a new film that is slated for broadcast on the channel early next year.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has entered into a co-production agreement with Tencent for Planet Earth II, marking the first time the company is co-producing a documentary with a video platform in China.

CANNES: The German public service broadcaster WDR will be a co-production partner with BBC Worldwide on the BBC Natural History Unit’s blue-chip series Ocean.

NEW YORK: YouTube sensations Caspar Lee and Joe Sugg talk to World Screen Newsflash about taking their talents beyond the vlog sphere to front their own road-trip special Joe and Caspar Hit the Road, sold by BBC Worldwide.

LONDON: BBC Worldwide has landed a season two commission for Fishing Impossible, in addition to orders for three new factual series.

LONDON: David Glover, the former head of specialist factual at Channel 4, and Mark Raphael, joint managing director of Dragonfly, have set up a new independent production outfit, which is backed by BBC Worldwide.

Reality shows, factual entertainment and high-end docs are finding slots across Central and Eastern Europe.

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has secured broadcast deals in Central and Eastern Europe for some 450 hours of factual and factual-entertainment programming.