TCB Scores Presales for Three MIPTV Highlights

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has closed presales on Definitive Guides: Extreme Sea Monsters, New Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle and Inside Secret Societies.

Arrow Media and Handel Productions’ one-hour documentaries Definitive Guides: Extreme Sea Monsters and New Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle have been presold to RMC Découverte in France, N24 in Germany, and SBS and Foxtel in Australia. Foxtel and RMC also licensed Like A Shot Entertainment’s Inside Secret Societies, which explores some of the world’s most dangerous secret societies, cults and militant groups.

TCB is heading for MIPTV 2016 with a total of 19 new titles, bringing the number of shows in its portfolio up to 115, or 870 hours.

Paul Heaney, the CEO of TCB, said: “The Definitive Guides are the biggest budget shows on our books—and Arrow Media has used every penny to create impact. Not only are they about perennially fascinating subjects—who doesn’t love a sea monster or a Bermuda Triangle mystery?—but they contain genuinely new science, new reveals and amazing CGI. These presales are a great start to our MIPTV 2016 campaign and a promising sign of business to come. The indies that now shape the TCB creative community and work closely with us are just a vital part of our raison d’être. Distributors in the factual genre need to grow at pace to match this fast moving genre. These relationships keep us moving forward.”