The Studio Hamburg Production Group subsidiary hopes to expand its portfolio, which currently includes "Against Angst" and "Colleagues," among other titles.
The network invested in 35% of the company to strengthen its production and distribution role in North America, and increase production/content opportunities.
ZDF Enterprises and its wholly owned subsidiary, Off the Fence, have closed a major volume deal with UKTV, one of Britain’s largest commercial broadcasters, for two of its specialist factual channels, Eden and Yesterday.
RTL, a unit of publishing group Bertelsmann, could be exploring the sale of its Belgian subsidiary for around 300 million euros ($355 million) and had hired JP Morgan as an adviser.