Off The Fence's factual content is high demanded in Germany

Off The Fence (OTF) reports buoyant sales into Germany, with demand particularly strong for its new slate of specialist factual. Stefanie Fischer, OTF’s managing director of sales, said: “German viewers love a diverse range of informative and entertaining factual and demand world-class quality — which just about sums up OTF’s own approach. OTF's slate is well aligned with the booming German market and there's a lot more to come.”

Servus TV and GEO Televison (part of the RTL Television) have acquired "Giants", an epic five-part series about the planet’s largest creatures, past and present. NDR has snapped up the 90-minute documentary "Blue Carbon," produced by Make Waves Media and HHMI Tangled Bank Studios in partnership with OTF and CNN. Directed by Nicolas Brown ("The Serengeti Rules") and exec produced by Fernando Meirelles ("City of God"), the film unpacks the science around the newly discovered power of the ocean to absorb significantly more carbon from the atmosphere than trees.

ZDF ARTE and ORF, meanwhile, have both acquired one of OTF’s most popular history documentaries, "Queens of Ancient Egypt" (3x60), produced by Tile Films for Curiosity Stream and OTF Studios. The series tells the stories of three largely forgotten but incredible Egyptian queens, who became standard-bearers for their gender long before the modern era. ZDF ARTE has also bought "Last Horns of Africa" (1x90) from White Spark Pictures, Banovich Studios and Cross Border Productions. The gripping film follows two heroic conservation specialists as they battle to bring down South Africa’s rhino-poaching syndicates.

Feature documentary "Unearthed Ancient Murder Mysteries" (6x60), produced by OTF Studios for Curiosity has been licensed by ZDFinfo and A+E Networks Germany, as part of the extended partnership with OTF. The series that looks at iconic epochs and cultures to re-tell the stories of infamous and little-known murders from a fresh perspective has also been acquired by A+E Networks UK to premiere on Sky HISTORY, AMC and Viasat.

Interest has been building in OTF Studios series "Nature’s Ultimate Survivors" (5x60), which been licensed by ZDF 3sat. The series, which explores the extraordinary abilities that creatures need to survive in the wild, also features on the launch slate of US-based FAST channel Xumo Play’s Free Nature and Wildlife channel.