TCB Sends 60 Hours of Non-Fiction Content to France & Germany

TCB Media Rights has sold 60 hours from its factual slate to French and German broadcasters ahead of this summer’s Sunny Side of the Doc market.

In France, the Like A Shot Entertainment-produced three-part docuseries The Crusaders, which tells the stories of medieval knights who dedicated their lives to fighting for their version of God, presold to RMC Découverte in France. TCB and RMC have also recently co-invested in Egypt’s Unexplained Files.

Canal+’s Planete+ has pre-bought World’s Greatest Palaces, a Woodcut Media series that investigates the history, feats of engineering and inspiring visions behind some of the world’s biggest and most ambitious palaces. Also headed for France is Windfall’s Mythical Beasts, which has been picked up by TF1’s Histoire channel as part of a 25-hour history package that also includes Wag TV’s Secrets of the Magna Carta, the third season of Like A Shot’s Medieval Dead and Symettrica’s Wartime Crime.

In Germany, ZDF has picked up Mythical Beasts and Underground Worlds, the later of which dives down into underground structures, both man-made and natural. Train Truckers, which follows a family-run crew of heavy-haulage specialists as they transport locomotives around the world by road, rail and sea, sold to ProSieben.

Simona Argenti, senior sales manager at TCB, said: “The growing importance of key European broadcasters in forming collaborative commissioning networks makes attendance at Sunny Side of the Doc a key TCB priority. Sunny Side is a hidden gem of a market and an unmissable event in TCB’s calendar. It’s an interesting market from both a creative and commercial perspective, and the best way I know to find out what’s getting made outside the bubble of U.K. production. It also gives us quality time with Europe’s key commissioners, which is essential, given that a growing percentage of our deals now involve editorial input from broadcasters. Then, of course, there’s the allure of La Rochelle in late June. That puts everyone in a good mood—and that’s never bad for business either.”