TCB Sells Docs, Adds to Catalogue

LONDON: TCB Media Rights has secured a number of sales for its one-off documentaries, while also adding several U.K. indie production companies as content partners, along with around 60 hours of factual-entertainment programming.

Middlechild’s 41 Dogs in My Home and Love Me, Love My Cats have sold to Nine Network Australia, MediaWorks TV New Zealand, TV4 Sweden and Discovery Networks Norway. TVN Poland, Medialaan Belgium and MTV Finland also went for 41 Dogs in My Home. Icon Films’s Mega-Yachts is headed to TVN Poland, Medialaan Belgium, Nine Networks Australia, MediaWorks New Zealand and RTL Netherlands.

TCB inked a representation deal with Wild Pictures for Trawlermen Tales, a three-part series that debuted this month on ITV in the U.K. Another agreement was signed with Crackit Productions for the doc Skinny Brides to Fat Wives, which aired on the U.K.’s Channel 5.

BriteSpark Films is extending its partnership with TCB through a deal for The Pusher: Manchester’s Serial Killer?, which premiered on Channel 4 in the U.K. TCB also signed up for two BBC4 docs: Kaboom Film & TV’s A Brief History of Graffiti and Furneaux & Edgar’s The French Revolution: Tearing Up History.

Additional new producer collaborations include Klinik TV’s Al’s Fishing with Mates; Ocean Patrol: Coastwatch and Car Cops: Nabbed from CJZ/Greenstone; and Seven Productions’s Bringing Sexy Back, a makeover show that has already sold to TVN Poland, SBS Belgium and TV2 Norway.

Paul Heaney, the CEO of TCB, said: “This surge of deals is a great start to 2016 and a measure of the quality and creativity of our producer partners. While one-off docs aren’t our major focus, noisy, attractive shows of this caliber will pique the interest of buyers and draw attention to our wider offering.”