{"id":9384,"date":"2016-11-14T12:35:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond\/"},"modified":"2016-11-14T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T18:22:07","slug":"timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Timber Kings Among Passion\u2019s Sales into Africa &amp; Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Passion Distribution has closed package deals for a host of titles from its catalog, including <em>Timber Kings<\/em>, across Africa, as well as international sales for the factual-entertainment series <em>Deadliest Pests Down Under<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Passion Distribution has licensed more than 170 hours of programming to East African broadcaster Wananchi. The package deal includes season one of the factual-entertainment series\u00a0<em>Timber Kin<\/em>gs and <em>Carver Kings<\/em> from Paperny Entertainment. It also includes The Weather Channel titles <em>3 Scientists Walk into a Bar<\/em> and <em>Fat Guys in the Woods<\/em> season two, as well as a series of films, <em>Daredevils: The Sky Walker<\/em>, <em>Daredevils: The Human Bird<\/em> and <em>Daredevils: The Ice Man<\/em>, which are produced by Firecracker for Channel 4.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Worldwide also snapped up a package that includes the factual-entertainment series <em>Rich Kids of Social Media<\/em>, the documentary <em>The Secret Life of Human Pups<\/em>, the science special <em>Evolution of Us<\/em> and the series <em>Deadliest Pests Down Under<\/em>. Additionally, Passion secured international sales for <em>Deadliest Pests Down Under<\/em>, which was picked up by Discovery for Australia and Italy, BBC Worldwide for Poland and NTV in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Katie Benbow, the head of acquisitions for BBC Worldwide, said, \u201cPassion Distribution have a strong range of content and we are very excited to be showing their programs on our BBC Channels. We always strive to provide our customers with the best and most engaging content and are looking forward to seeing audience reactions to the shows when they air next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Agnes Mbye, sales manager at Passion Distribution, added, \u201cWe are delighted to continue working with BBC Worldwide channels and Wananchi. Africa is a growing market where viewers are increasingly looking for choice and quality. It\u2019s exciting to know that Passion Distribution content continues to find audiences in this diverse and competitive environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Passion Distribution has closed package deals for a host of titles from its catalog, including Timber Kings, across Africa, as well as international sales for the factual-entertainment series Deadliest Pests Down Under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":477,"featured_media":9385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[104,1694,904,1213,1695],"class_list":["post-9384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc-worldwide","tag-deadliest-pests-down-under","tag-passion-distribution","tag-timber-kings","tag-wananchi","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Timber Kings Among Passion\u2019s Sales into Africa &amp; Beyond - 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\/timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Timber Kings Among Passion\u2019s Sales into Africa &amp; Beyond - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LONDON: Passion Distribution has closed package deals for a host of titles from its catalog, including Timber Kings, across Africa, as well as international sales for the factual-entertainment series Deadliest Pests Down Under.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-11-14T17:35:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-11-14T18:22:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/09\/TimberKings-PassionDistribution-1116.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=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond\/\",\"name\":\"Timber Kings Among Passion\u2019s Sales into Africa &amp; Beyond - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-11-14T17:35:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-11-14T18:22:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/3a30a856ec6d9cc2372bf054d26a0418\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/timber-kings-among-passions-sales-into-africa-beyond\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Timber Kings Among Passion\u2019s Sales into Africa &amp; Beyond\"}]},{\"@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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