ZDF Sees Strong Sales at MIPCOM

Buyers for The Elephant Princess include Canada’s Family Channel, Spain’s NBC Universal ES, Vietnam’s Thaole Media, Italy’s Mediaset, Belgium’s VRT and Holland’s NPO. For H2O: Just Add Water, broadcasters include Spain’s Antena 3, Portugal’s LNK Audiovisuais, Belgium’s VRT, Holland’s NPO and Canada’s Vrak TV. Other children’s programs in the ZDF catalogue include the preschooler series Fun with Claude, sold to Australia’s ABC TV, Poland’s Canal +, Finland’s YLE and Italy’s RAI; Igam Ogam, picked up by ABC TV; and Laura’s Star, with sales confirmed with Poland’s Canal + and ABC TV. Shaolin Wuzang is set for Portugal’s Nickelodeon ES and ABC TV.

For documentaries, package deals have been inked with Discovery Channel UK, Australia’s SBS2, History Channel ES in Spain and Portugal, Denmark’s DR-TV, Sweden’s SVT, Slovenia’s RTV, China’s Hubu Media and Fox Italy.

 

Fiction programs have also been selling well. Two seasons of Hamburg Dockland and The Criminalist went to AXN for Spain and Portugal, while, 250 episodes of the telenovela Julia were scooped up by Estonia’s Kanal 2. Six Barbara Wood TV movies were sold to the Czech Republic’s Hollywood CE, eight Cruise into Cloud Nine films sold Italy’s RAI and more than 40 episodes of Leipzig Homicide were picked up by Fox Italy. A package of 21 TV movies went to Switzerland’s RSI, and a number of Inga Lindström romances, Dream Journeys and other TV Movies, as well as the brand-new crime series Verdict Revised sold to France’s TF1, Five Pilcher romances went to France’s M6 and a large TV-movie package was snapped up by Canada’s Canal Vie.

 

Zdf-archive.com has inaugurated its video-clip service with an online sales platform. Deals have already been made with newspaper publishers (Die Zeit, WAZ), Microsoft (eColumbus) and the Deutsche Bahn.

 

Christian Massmann, the head of sales at ZDF Enterprises, said: "We provide more than ‘just’ television content. One example is our special all-media rollout for all platforms that we’re offering for programs such as The Jungle Book, H2O, Fun with Claude, The Protectors and others. With our diversified catalogue and our digital strategy, we’re also well equipped for the coming challenges: from global brand management to extra content for all imaginable digital devices, from high-caliber event programs and multimedia applications to short clips—we believe in our ‘passion for excellence.’"