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 […]
Norwegian pubcaster NRK, Canada’s AMI, PTS in Taiwan, LTV in Latvia and Proximus in Belgium have all acquired Better Off Dead?, a BBC documentary focusing on assisted suicide. The 1×60′ doc, presented by disability rights activist and actor Liz Carr, was originally commissioned by the UK pubcaster for BBC One […]
Germany’s Koch Media, Italy’s Nexo Digital and Norway’s Film Pa Farta have all bought rock documentary feature Meeting the Beatles in India. Directed by Paul Saltzman and narrated by actor Morgan Freeman, the 1×89’ film revisits 1968 when Saltzman spent time with the fab four on a spiritual retreat under […]
Prima TV in the Czech Republic, AMC in Spain and SBS Australia have picked up a string of titles from UK-based distributor Scorpion TV. Prima has acquired a 32-hour package comprising 22 single documentaries and series including Scorpion’s Search for… ‘art mystery’ strand with titles like The Search for the […]
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, […]
(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 […]
(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. […]
(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 […]
(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 […]
(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 […]