TCB Media Rights Secures Sales in Australia & New Zealand

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has sold more than 80 hours of factual and factual-entertainment content into Australia and New Zealand.

TCB has closed deals with seven of the region’s top broadcasters, including ABC, Channel Nine, SBS Australia, Foxtel, Sky TV, TVNZ and TV3 New Zealand. Together, the sales total 80-plus hours of content, spanning topics such as Princess Diana, medieval murder and extreme dog owners.

Channel Nine in Australia and MediaWorks (for TV3 New Zealand) have both picked up three of TCB’s new hour-long specials: 41 Dogs in My Home, Love Me, Love My Cats and Mega-Yachts. SBS Australia signed on for the documentary Inside Jaguar: Building the Car that Money Can’t Buy. Meanwhile, the 10×30-minute title Royal Secrets has been snapped up by Foxtel and Sky TV, with the latter also acquiring Combat Dealers. Foxtel, meanwhile, also picked up a package of TCB titles that includes Combat Trains, Medieval Murder Mysteries, Medieval Dead and Forbidden Histories.

ABC Australia acquired the second season of Age Gap Love, while Channel Seven in Australia picked up Caught on Dashcam. TVNZ in New Zealand also picked up the two-parter, which features a countdown of the 20 most spectacular real-life car crashes, as well as six hour-long episodes of Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords.

Paul Heaney, the CEO of TCB Media Rights, said: “Australia and New Zealand are insanely competitive TV markets where, in order to cut through the clutter, great programming that can retain an audience and build it is the rule rather than the exception. High-quality, noisy singles and well-made broad-based series cut through to these buyers.”