"Tempting Fortune"
Cineflix Rights has announced additional sales totaling over 450 hours of lifestyle and travel content to broadcasters across the CEE region, just ahead of NATPE Budapest 2025. Let's take a look at a summary of the main deals below.
TV3 Group Baltics has acquired more than 200 hours of content, including the hit format "Tempting Fortune" (Season 1 & 2, 14x60’, Voltage TV and GroupM Motion Entertainment for Channel 4, UK) for its channels in Latvia and Lithuania. It has also picked up "An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet" (6x60’, Cream Productions for Crave, Canada and Bloomberg, International), "Sue Perkins into Alaska" (3x60’, Chalkboard TV and GroupM Motion Entertainment for Channel 5, UK), "Richard Hammond’s Workshop" (Seasons 1–5, 40x60’, Chimp Productions and Krempelwood for Discovery UK and Eire), "Hidden Frontiers Arabia With Reza Pakravan" (6x60’, A-OK Media House for Discovery, US), and "Property Brothers: Forever Home" (Seasons 1 & 2, 80x60’, Scott Brothers Entertainment for HGTV US and Canada).
AMC Networks International Central and Northern Europe (AMCNI CNE) has acquired "Help! We Bought A Village" (Seasons 1–3, 80x60’, True North for Channel 4, UK), "Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive & Kids" (10x60’, Wise Owl Films for Channel 4, UK), and "Amanda Owen’s Farming Lives" (6x60’, Wise Owl Films for Channel 4, UK) for its Spektrum Home channel in Hungary. It has also secured "Château DIY" (Seasons 7 & 8, 70x60’, Spark Media Partners for Channel 4, UK) and "Property Brothers: Commitment Issues" (working title, 14x60’, Scott Brothers Entertainment for HGTV Canada) for its Spektrum Home channels in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
LRT Lithuania has also acquired "Help! We Bought A Village" (Seasons 1–3, 80x60’, True North for Channel 4, UK). BBC Studios has purchased "Richard Hammond’s Workshop" (Season 5, 8x60’, Chimp Productions and Krempelwood for Discovery UK and Eire) for Poland.
Lucy Rawson, VP Sales for Benelux, CEE, and the Southern Mediterranean at Cineflix Rights, highlighted the importance of the region: "CEE is one of the key international markets for high-volume, high-quality lifestyle content—particularly with big returning franchises in the home renovation genre—as well as travel and food series. I’m also pleased to see the continued popularity for our hit international format "Tempting Fortune" across the region. With these sales following on from a previous raft announced at NEM, it’s a great time to be heading to NATPE Budapest with a fresh slate of new titles and new seasons of our biggest hits," expressed.