BossaNova Media, Paul Heaney’s content creation, funding and distribution company, has licensed several of its most popular titles to broadcasters across Europe. The sales, which total more than 95 hours of premium content, were brokered by head of sales Tatiana Grinkevich.
Tatiana Grinkevich said: “There’s surging demand across Europe for big, bold, channel-defining crime and history titles but relatively few producers and distributors are able to deliver these shows to the right editorial brief and at the right price. Happily for BossaNova, that’s exactly the space we occupy with our premium documentaries like 'The Killer Clown,' 'The Flight Attendant Murders' and 'MH17: The Plane Crash' that Shook the World. And as these latest deals demonstrate, it seems to be an approach that works for Europe’s buyers.”
Sky Germany has picked up a 16-hour true-crime package, headlined by "The Killer Clown: Murder on The Doorstep" (3 x 60 mins) from BAFTA Award-winning UK indie Flicker Productions. The latest BossaNova Original true-crime project revisits a creepy case that gripped the US in the early 1990s — the murder of a young wife and mother on the doorstep of her Florida home by a clown bearing balloons and flowers.
Sky Germany has also acquired season three of Rare TV’s "Cold Case Killers," originally commissioned by the UK’s 5STAR. The 8 x 60 mins series features gripping UK murder investigations that ran cold but were eventually cracked by dedicated and determined detectives. Also headed for Germany are CJZ’s compelling four-part documentary "Con Girl," which chronicles the stranger-than-fiction story of serial con woman Samantha Azzopardi; and "The Ripper Speaks," produced by Content Kings/Green Rock for Channel 5, in which the psychopath dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper talks for the first time about his horrific crimes.
Murder is also a priority for AMC Iberia, which has invested in four of BossaNova’s best-selling true-crime titles, including "Flicker’s The Killer Clown." The deal also covers "The Cannibal Next Door" (1 x 60 mins), originally produced for Channel 5 by Future Studios, which tells the stomach-turning story of Armin Meiwes, who dismembered and ate a man for sexual pleasure; "The Chameleon: The Killing of Ronald Platt" (1 x 60/1 x 90 mins), a twisted tale of murder, money and stolen identities; and BossaNova Original "The Flight Attendant Murders" (4 x 60 mins), again produced by Flicker. The last explores the brutal murders of four flight attendants in Texas during the 1970s and 1980s, and asks whether an innocent man was incarcerated for four decades while a sadistic killer walked free.
Sales into CEE have also been brisk, with Hearst Networks Romania picking up all five series of one of BossaNova’s most successful factual entertainment titles: Worldmark Films’ "Caught on Dashcam," which features mind-boggling road incidents filmed by motorists around the world.
Polsat has also acquired several history titles, including ITN Productions’ one-hour special "MH17: The Plane Crash" that Shook the World commissioned by Channel 4 to mark the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the Malaysian Airlines flight. MH17 was shot out of the skies over Ukraine in July 2014 by Russian-backed forces, killing all 298 people on board — an act of aggression that foreshadowed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Polsat deal also includes AMS Pictures’ "The Infinite Deep: Stories of Lost Submarines" (1 x 60/1 x 90 mins) and Perpetual Entertainment’s "Greatest Escapes of World War 2" (6 x 60 mins).
Related News
