Ahead of Natpe Budapest next week, Sphere Abacus (SA) confirms package deals across a diverse range of scripted and unscripted titles.
Sphere Abacus’ Sales Director, Ros Ali comments, “As our line-up of programming across fiction and factual continues to expand we are seeing even more opportunities to work with our clients in CEE. We’re very pleased to be able to announce these significant sales ahead of Natpe Budapest and look forward to meeting clients old and new at the market this week.”
In the first of the deals brokered by SA Sales Director Ros Ali, TVP Poland has acquired the compelling and exclusive-access documentary "Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster", produced by Renegade Stories and Galafilm Productions, high-end docu-series "Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet" from Soho Studios Productions and Two Rivers Media, Yeti Television’s documentary series "A Royal Residence", Woodcut Media’s history series "Queens that Changed the World", Emmy Award-winning Hardcash Productions’ "Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia", Artemis Productions’ Australian nature series "Ningaloo Nyinggulu", and the ground-breaking series "Secret World of Sound with David Attenborough", produced by Humble Bee. Completing the deal is Honey Bee Media’s two-part biography series "Inside the Mind" which explores the complex lives of Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson, Peninsula Television’s "Kennedy, Sinatra and The Mafia", and Phoenix Television’s "Kate Middleton: A Life in Pictures".
TV2 Media Group in Hungary has acquired "Billy and Dom Eat the World", the travel series from producer Dash Pictures featuring Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings). Meanwhile, CANAL+ has bought documentary "The Jewish Nazi?", a Mint Pictures Production, for distribution in the Netherlands, Czech Republic, and Slovakia; Subotica’s "The Boy That Never Was", starring Colin Morgan (Belfast), Toni O’Rourke (God’s Creatures) and Simon Callow (The Witcher), for the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Hungary; and "The Cuckoo", from Clapperboard Studios, starring Jill Halfpenny (The Holiday) and Lee Ingleby (Inspector George Gently), for the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania.
Sphere Abacus also recently announced sales to international broadcaster Viasat World, of Clapperboard Studios’ true crime drama "Maxine" for distribution via Viasat True Crime in the Baltics, CEE, and CIS (excluding Belarus), and BriteSpark Films’ "Titanic: Secrets of the Shipwreck" for the Baltics, CEE (excluding Poland), CIS (excluding Belarus), and Scandinavia. Also included are FirstLookTV’s six-part history series "Killer Kings", both for Viasat History, and Fredbird Entertainment’s "Aussie Road Train Truckers" for Viasat Explore for distribution in the Baltics, CEE, CIS (excluding Belarus), and Scandinavia.
Other titles being showcased at Natpe 2025 include drama series "The Family Next Door" (6 x one hour), "The Game" (4 x one hour), "Scrublands: Silver" (4 x one hour), "Small Achievable Goals" (8 x half hours), "Safehaven" (10 x one hour), "Ben Fogle’s Race for the Nile" (2 x one hour), "The Forgotten Nazi Occupation" (2 x one hour), "Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour: Australia" (6 x one hour), "Special Forces: Most Daring Missions" (3 x one hour), and "Britain’s Countryside Killers" (10 x one hour).