TVF International Pens Deals

TVF International has closed a number of sales with broadcasters across Asia.

In musical programming, Netflix and Now TV licensed the 4×24-minute K-pop documentary series Mamamoo from Zanybros. The PBS-commissioned series Music Voyager has gone to Enjoy Culture in Taiwan.

In Hong Kong, i-CABLE licensed a 60-hour package containing TVNZ’s Being Me, a series about life with disabilities from Attitude Pictures. Also included is RTÉ’s environmental series Eco Eye: Sustainable Solutions.

Chinese streaming platform iQIYI picked up a package that includes Caravan Media’s dinosaur discovery special Alaskan Dinosaurs, Posvideo’s The Faces of History and Future Studios’ Unbelievable Me. Untold Arctic Wars was picked up by a host of broadcasters in China, including iQIYI, Bytedance and SuccessGlo as well as South Korea’s SBS.

CCTV-9 acquired the 6×46-minute series Wild City, which looks at the flora and fauna found across Singapore and is narrated by David Attenborough. CCTV-7 also picked up The Long Road to War and Normandy ‘44: D-Day and the Battle for France.

Korea’s KBS has signed a deal for SVT’s The Secret Life of Seals from Deep Sea Productions. Also included in the deal was DIA’s Ukrainian Women, a special that tells the stories of four women living through the Russian conflict. Lian Contents has taken No Luggage from Art Winner Productions. More travel series were acquired, including season 12 of Skyworks’ The World From Above as well as Aerial Profiles landing with EBS and PTS, respectively.

Discovery Japan picked up two science titles, including the Jim Al Khalili-presented Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies from Furnace, and the 3×30-minute Infinity. National Geographic India licensed Beach House Pictures’ Wild City and The Moving Visuals’ Big Food.

Finally, Al Jazeera acquired the 48-minute documentary The Female Death Riders for 101 East. The doc follows female motorcycle performers in Indonesia.

“Asia has long been one of our most valuable markets, and we have seen an increasing demand for premium programs which can perform well alongside very high quality local productions,” said TVF’s head of sales, Serafina Pang. “[These acquisitions] are diverse examples of our premium factual offerings which have been popular across the continent, and we look forward to continuing to grow further across Asia’s varied and highly developed territories.”