International nets shop at ITV Studios during London TV Screenings week
Helena Bonham Carter as Noele Gordon in Nolly
LONDON SCREENINGS: Broadcasters around the world including Seven Network in Australia and the CBC in Canada have acquired unscripted and scripted content from ITV Studios ahead of the latter’s showcase at the London TV Screenings tomorrow.
In the drama category, Seven Network, TVNZ in New Zealand, Pumpkin Film in China and The Roku Channel have acquired World Productions’ medical thriller Malpractice, about a damaged doctor caught up in a dangerous conspiracy.
PBS’s Masterpiece in the US, BBC First in Australia and PCCW in Hong Kong have bought Russel T Davies and Quay Street Productions’ three-part drama Nolly, while Seven Network, TVNZ and Canada’s CBC Gem have picked up six-part medical drama Maternal.
Australian streamer Stan has acquired Happy Prince’s contemporary love story You & Me, exec produced by Russell T Davies, while CBC Gem and Viaplay in the Benelux region have picked up Apple Tree Productions’ crime drama Blackwater.
In factual, the CBC and CBC Gem have bought Plimsoll Productions’ wildlife series A Year on Planet Earth. MediaCorp in Singapore, Warner Bros Discovery in India, Seven Network, VMI (Virgin Media One) in Ireland and Viaplay in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Iceland, Poland and the Baltics have also picked up the series. Nordic public broadcasters NRK, SVT, DR, YLE and RUV have acquired the free-TV window.
Warner Bros Discovery in India and MediaCorp have also picked up Plimsoll Productions’ Mother Nature, as have Wowow in Japan and KBS in South Korea, while MediaCorp, Japan’s NHK and South Korea’s EBS have acquired Atlantic Productions’ Running with the Beest.
Back in New Zealand, TVNZ has bought Oxford Scientific Films’ feature doc Murder in the Pacific, MultiStory Media’s The Murder of Logan Mwangi and Good TV’s Monster Mansion: Evil Behind Bars. Seven Network has also picked up the latter.
Finally in factual, Japan’s AXN Mystery has bought Boom Cymru’s three-part series Alan Carr’s Adventures with Agatha Christie.
At ITV Studios’ London TV Screenings showcase tomorrow, it will feature a slate that includes: drama series Fifteen Love, from World Productions for Amazon’s Prime Video; a five-part limited series based on Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel Essex County, from First Generation Films for the CBC; and murder mystery North Shore, from Beach Road Pictures for Paramount+.
Also on its drama slate are: three-part relationship drama Maryland, from Monumental Television for ITVX; Cary Grant biopic Archie, from Etta Pictures for ITVX; and comedy-drama Significant Other, from Quay Street Productions for ITVX.
New unscripted shows include: two-part series Waco: Untold Stories, from MultiStory Media for ITV; Murder in the Pacific, from OSF for BBC Two; The Mayfair Hotel Megabuild, from The Garden for BBC Two; and The Year From Space, from Atlantic Productions for Channel 4.
On the formats slate are: MultiStory Media and ITV America’s new music competition Project Icon with Jason Derulo for BBC Three; MultiStory Media’s endurance experiment Scared of the Dark for Channel 4; and Twofour’s dating show I Kissed A Boy.
Elsewhere, parent commercial broadcaster ITV has signed a partnership with France’s StudioCanal to provide a slate of content for the premium subscription tier of streaming service ITVX. The content is expected to launch on ITVX Premium this spring.
The deal will see more than 400 films added to the subscription tier of the service, which is available from £5.99 per month, including Paddington, Legend, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Pan’s Labyrinth.
The StudioCanal Presents section will also offer TV series including: Russell T Davies’ dystopian drama Years and Years; all eight series of French procedural Spiral; hip-hop drama All the Way Up; and cult Danish thriller Below the Surface.
