True-Crime, History Slots for BossaNova

Paul Heaney’s BossaNova Media has announced deals for more than 95 hours of premium true-crime and history content across Europe, including The Killer Clown: Murder on the Doorstep.

The three-part series from Flicker Productions revisits the murder of a woman on the doorstep of her Florida home by a clown bearing balloons and flowers. It is part of a 16-hour true-crime package sold to Sky in Germany.

Sky Germany has also took season three of Rare TV’s Cold Case Killers, originally commissioned by the UK’s 5STAR; CJZ’s Con Girl, about con woman Samantha Azzopardi; and The Ripper Speaks, produced by Content Kings/Green Rock for Channel 5.

A deal with AMC Iberia covers four titles: The Killer Clown, Cannibal Next Door, The Chameleon: The Killing of Ronald Platt and The Flight Attendant Murders.

Bossa Nova has also expanded its CEE business with Hearst Networks Romania picking up all five seasons of Worldmark Films’ Caught on Dashcam, while Polsat went for MH17: The Plane Crash that Shook the World, AMS Pictures’ The Infinite Deep: Stories of Lost Submarines and Perpetual Entertainment’s Greatest Escapes of World War 2.

Tatiana Grinkevich, head of sales, noted: “There’s surging demand across Europe for big, bold, channel-defining crime and history titles but relatively few producers and distributors are able to deliver these shows to the right editorial brief and at the right price. Happily for BossaNova, that’s exactly the space we occupy with our premium documentaries like The Killer Clown, The Flight Attendant Murders and MH17: The Plane Crash that Shook the World. And as these latest deals demonstrate, it seems to be an approach that works for Europe’s buyers.”