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Scorpion Lands My Five-Year Plan. Announces sales.

My Five-Year Plan, a documentary film about three young women navigating life in China from 2016 to 2023, has been acquired for global distribution by Scorpion TV. Produced by Vilda Bomben Film and directed by Karin Wegsjö, the film had its world premiere at the Göteborg Film Festival in January […]

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Scorpion TV Scores Doc And Factual Sales

Scorpion TV confirmed new sales with terrestrial broadcasters and VoD platforms for its documentary and factual programming. UKTV secured Children’s Ward for the entertainment channel W. The heart-warming series shares stories from one of the busiest children’s wards in Wales. In Germany, ZDF picked up Fake: Searching for Truth in the Age of Misinformation, […]

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Scorpion TV signs multiple representation deals in US, UK

(from rapidtvnews.com, 19/05/2020) – Aiming to meet what it calls ‘surging’ demand London-based independent content distributor Scorpion TV has added a slate of what it calls landmark documentaries to its catalogue following representation deals with four producers of premium factual content in the US and the UK. At the head of […]

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Azoomee explores wildlife with Scorpion

(from c21media.net, 12/12/2019) – VoD platform Azoomee has acquired two children’s wildlife series from distributor Scorpion TV for its subscribers in the UK and the US. Siyaya: Come Wild With Us (26×30′) and Siyaya: Wildest Cape (13×30′), produced by Francois Odendaal Productions in South Africa, will be available on Azoomee. […]

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Scorpion TV spears current affairs docs

(from c21media.net, 22/03/2019) – UK-based distributor Scorpion TV has added current affairs documentaries tackling hate crime, the UK’s black market and the removal of Confederate monuments to its library. Scorpion has picked up Britain: A Year of Hate Crime (1×45′), produced by Century Films for Channel 4, which charts the […]

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Dead Man’s Line is TBI’s Show of the Week

(from tbivision.com, 18/02/2019) – Dead Man’s Line looks well placed to help meet high broadcaster and streamer demand for feature length, true crime documentaries. It’s the story of a shocking kidnapping that gripped the US in 1977, when Tony Kiritsis, who had fallen behind on mortgage payments, took Indianapolis mortgage broker […]

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Scorpion sells music docu-travel series to Globo TV, Spafax

(from rapidtvnews.com, 17/02/2019) – Escalated demand for travel content has seen London-based independent content distributor Scorpion TV announce its first deals for Landmarks Live in Concert featuring world-famous bands performing in iconic venues. The first season of the 7 x 60’ live-music docu-travel series has been sold to Brazil’s TV Globo, as well […]