ZDFE Brings Knight Rusty to Market

MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises is launching sales on the animated series Knight Rusty from its ZDFE.junior catalogue, along with a host of other highlights across its drama, factual and entertainment divisions.

Also from the ZDFE.junior catalogue is the animated series Q Pootle 5, for preschoolers; New Adventures of Peter Pan, done in 3D; and Lassie and Friends and Jungle Book, in partnership with DQ Entertainment. There's also Jonathan M. Shiff's Mako Mermaids.

The ZDFE.factual slate features Nature Now! programing, including Nature's Greatest Secret: The Coral Triangle. Wild Berlin is also on the roster, along with From Hell to Heaven: Lusatia. The factual collection also includes the 6×1-hour Women Who Made History, the three-hour Secret Societies: Myths and Realities of a Parallel World and programs on doomsday plans, etc. In the "tough guy" sub-genre are Alaska State Troopers, Bomb Hunters, Hard Times and Rocket City Rednecks.

The company's ZDFE.drama is presenting the Swedish series Thicker Than Water. Other highlights include the Irish romantic drama Cecelia Ahern, the two-parter The Girl with the Indian Emerald and the atmospheric The Ingredients of Love. New seasons of popular cycles are also available, from Inga Lindström to Dora Heldt and “Spring Fever.” There's a bouquet of new crime shows as well, among them Sebastian Bergman (Sweden), Clan (Belgium), A Case of Murder (Germany), Jack Taylor (Ireland) and Jack Irish (Australia).

ZDFE.entertainment highlights include the reinvigorated format Dalli Dalli.

Alexander Coridass, the president and CEO of ZDF Enterprises, said: “There have been many newsworthy developments here at ZDF Enterprises since the last major semi-annual market, MIPCOM, last October, from our sleek and spaciously remodeled website to the many new hours of programs in all genres. The year 2014 contains two major anniversaries—the start of World War I and the fall of the Berlin Wall—for which we have factual programs ideally suited to commemorative broadcasts, such as the three-part Doomsday: World I with colorized archive material, Verdun Descent into Hell on the most gruesome military confrontation of WWI, and Busting the Berlin Wall, a two-parter about an event that is still intensely present to many of us today. Finally, just as the international press is reporting about the resurrection of a 30,000-year-old Siberian virus, we are busy preparing the science thriller/drama documentary Mammoth Outbreak on what could happen if such a virus were reawakened to life along with a long-extinct mammoth—a mixture of Contagion, Jurassic Park and solid facts."