TGC GE adds Sweden and African formats to its premium content offer

TGC Global Entertainment (TGC GE), has closed format acquisition deals with Swedish public broadcaster SVT for three formats and African Bafot Studios for "The Big Family Dream." Cecilia Ingebrigtsen, TGC GE’s sales and acquisitions agent for Europe and the Nordics, has licensed the worldwide rights to three of SVT’s latest formats, "The Lost Games", which revisits 12 defunct Olympic sports, from poetry recital through dueling with pistols to high jump from a standing start; Quiz show "Immigrants for Swedes" (IFS) which puts Swedish culture in the hot seat. The title is a wordplay on the acronym for Sweden’s SFI introductory language programme for immigrants. However, instead of incomers, three native-born Swedes take part in a hilarious true-or-false guessing game about Swedish life hosted by culturally diverse celebrities. Finally, TGC GE has acquired SVT’s "Smash the Wall", a David-and-Goliath quiz in which heroic contestants challenge a ‘wall’ of five celebrities.

Cecilia Ingebrigtsen said: “'Immigrants for Swedes', 'Smash the Wall' and 'The Lost Games' are all SVT-produced formats and all three have proven themselves with Swedish viewers. As a result, I’m confident they’ll perform equally well for global audiences. I’ve worked with SVT in the past and I hope that relationship will continue into the future. I’m looking forward to adding many more great SVT formats to our format slate.”

Bafot Studios’ "The Big Family Dream" is the first Africa-originated format to find a home in TGC GE’s growing catalogue of international IP. Now in its third season on the Africa Magic Family platform and NTA Nigeria — Africa’s largest TV network — the format is billed as a “financial literacy game show” in which16 families go head-to-head to see who can save the most — and win a life-changing prize, from a kitchen make-over to a dream house. The deal was brokered by Roxanne Pompa, who is now acting as a sales and acquisitions agent for the distributor, concentrating on Latin America and U.S. Spanish language.

Pompa was most recently Vice President, International Formats for Paramount Global Content Distribution and previously at CBS and will now join the roster of TGC GE’s international sales agents - Cecilia Ingebrigtsen, Jess Khanom and Rosemond Perdue with Grace O’Doherty, based in the US as director of development.