{"id":11415,"date":"2018-07-10T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T17:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan\/"},"modified":"2018-07-10T14:04:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T18:04:34","slug":"bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Lines Up Doc The Ghan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC has acquired the three-hour documentary <em>The Ghan<\/em> from Australia\u2019s Flame Distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Mint Pictures in Australia, the slow TV documentary takes viewers on an immersive journey on the country&#8217;s most iconic passenger train, in real time. The deal with the BBC follows the sale of the documentary to First HDTV for CIS, Beyond Home Entertainment in Australia and Amazon Prime Video for North America and India.<\/p>\n<p>Eileen Pesah, the senior VP of content sales for the U.K. and EMEA at Flame Distribution, commented, \u201cThe BBC were very keen to take this special slow TV show that had unprecedented success on SBS in Australia. We are thrilled BBC Four succeeded to secure the rights for the U.K. and Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Flame Distribution secured a package deal with Discovery Poland that includes <em>Off the Beaten Track with Kate Humble <\/em>(Tatu Pictures), <em>Travel Safe Not Sorry <\/em>(Stornoway Enterprises), <em>Mushers: Conquering the Yukon Quest <\/em>(Red Letter Films) and <em>Greeks of the Sea <\/em>(Tadpole Studios). Discovery picked up <em>Love Food <\/em>(Clerisy Entertainment) for its MENA and Israel feed, while Ananey licensed the documentaries <em>The Surgeon and the Soldier <\/em>(Serendipity Productions)<em>, Here Right Now <\/em>(Clerisy Entertainment) and <em>Lebanese Beauty Queens <\/em>(iKandy Films) for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In France, public broadcaster France T\u00e9l\u00e9visions acquired <em>Is Sugar the New Fat? <\/em>(Razor Films), while France \u00d4 will air the documentary <em>Occupation Native <\/em>(Brindle Films). Icelandic public broadcaster RUV picked up <em>A Stitch in Time <\/em>(BBC Studios) and Brandy Y Productions\u2019 <em>Dino Trails <\/em>and <em>The Dinosaur Echo<\/em>. <em>The Dinosaur Echo <\/em>was also acquired by Axess TV in Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>TVN in Poland, meanwhile, licensed the one-hour documentary <em>It&#8217;s Not Just Me <\/em>(Escalator Productions). Czech public broadcaster Ceska TV acquired the travel series <em>New Zealand From Above <\/em>(Bearcage Productions, Making Movies), while Czech Free TV Prima secured a package that includes <em>Scrap Kings <\/em>(Back2Back Productions), <em>Killing Machines <\/em>(Wildbear Entertainment), <em>Railroad Australia <\/em>(Prospero Productions),\u00a0<em>China&#8217;s Hidden Monkeys <\/em>(LIC China)<em>, Nicholas &amp; Alexandra: The Letters <\/em>(Back2Back Productions) and <em>The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World <\/em>(Smith &amp; Nasht Production, Real to Reel Productions)<em>. The Kingdom <\/em>was also sold to Servus TV in Austria and Spafax for Lufthansa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC has acquired the three-hour documentary The Ghan from Australia\u2019s Flame Distribution for BBC Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":11416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[517,669,3069,3070],"class_list":["post-11415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-four","tag-flame-distribution","tag-the-ghan","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBC Lines Up Doc The Ghan - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC Lines Up Doc The Ghan - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BBC has acquired the three-hour documentary The Ghan from Australia\u2019s Flame Distribution for BBC Four.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-07-10T17:36:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-07-10T18:04:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/09\/TheGhan-FlameDistribution-718.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sara Alessi\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan\/\",\"name\":\"BBC Lines Up Doc The Ghan - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-07-10T17:36:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-07-10T18:04:34+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/bbc-lines-up-doc-the-ghan\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC Lines Up Doc The Ghan\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\",\"name\":\"Sara Alessi\",\"description\":\"Sara Alessi is the associate editor of World Screen. 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