{"id":8659,"date":"2018-04-09T05:01:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T09:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/banijay-rights-places-package-ovation-u-s\/"},"modified":"2018-04-09T10:19:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T14:19:01","slug":"banijay-rights-places-package-with-ovation-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/banijay-rights-places-package-with-ovation-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Banijay Rights Places Package with Ovation in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
Banijay Rights has sold a package of more than 65 hours of programming to the U.S. arts network Ovation.<\/p>\n
The agreement includes two seasons of Story Vault Films\u2019 Portrait Artist of the Year<\/em> and two seasons of Landscape Artist of the Year<\/em>, both originally produced for Sky Arts in the U.K. Ovation also secured the rights for IWC Media and Group M Entertainment\u2019s Fake: The Great Masterpiece Challenge<\/em>.<\/p>\n In the way of scripted, Ovation went for the action-adventure procedural crime drama The Pinkertons<\/em>, produced by Rosetta Media and Buffalo Gal Pictures.<\/p>\n Scott Woodward, the executive VP of programming at Ovation, said: \u201cOvation has enjoyed a wonderful relationship with Banijay Rights over the years, which has brought such great programming as Versailles<\/em> and Rachel Hunter\u2019s Tour of Beauty<\/em> to the U.S. for the first time. Both Portrait Artist of the Year<\/em> and Landscape Artist of the Year<\/em> premiered on Ovation as well and were hits with our viewers. Additional seasons of these series, along with Fake<\/em> and The Pinkertons<\/em>, provides us with a well-rounded package that fits squarely within our arts-focused programming remit.\u201d<\/p>\n Andreas Lemos, VP of sales and acquisitions for North America at Banjay Rights, added, \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to deliver a large volume of premium content to Ovation, which is a driving force for cultural programming in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Banijay Rights has sold a package of more than 65 hours of programming to the U.S. arts network Ovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":8660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1602,1515],"class_list":["post-8659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-banijay-rights","tag-ovation"],"yoast_head":"\n