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  • Discovery looks to leverage value of the football World Cup

    MUMBAI: One of the biggest sporting spectacles of this year the 2006 football World Cup takes place in Germany later this year.
    Discovery India, which airs specials related to current events has signed a deal with BBC Worldwide for a series that offers a historical perspective on how the tournament evolved.
    More Than a Game: The Story of the World Cup is a six part 50 minute series. It is a collaboration between BBC Worldwide and football’s governing body Fifa.
    It features a combination of Official World Cup Fifa film archive, new interviews with great players and previously unknown ‘behind the scenes’ moments in World Cup history. These were filmed exclusively for the series.
    The special series will trace the World Cup story from 1930 to 2002. It will feature the stories of countries and teams including defending champions Brazil, Italy, Argentina, Germany, France, Holland and England.
    Deals for the show have also been sewn up in Europe with TV2 Denmark, TV2 Norway and HRT Croatia. In the Middle-East Art has picked up the show. BBC Worldwide says that it has found that the series is attracting the interest of sports departments and documentary units alike. This it says has been fundamental as one of its key strengths is its network of contacts both in the documentary market and the sports TV market.

  • BVITV, HRT Croatia sign multi-year licensing agreement

    BVITV, HRT Croatia sign multi-year licensing agreement

    MUMBAI: Building on its long-term relationship with the Croatian public broadcaster HRT, Buena Vista International Television (BVITV) has concluded a new multi-genre, Multi-year agreement with the broadcaster for the licensing of features, live action series, animated series and a new Disney branded timeslot. This has been announced by BVITV vice president, sales EMEA Alison Homewood at MIPCOM in Cannes.
     

    With this agreement, HRT will broadcast a Disney branded timeslot for the first time, which will run once a week from January 2005. The show will showcase a selection of Disney animation, such as Disney’s Aladdin: The Series and Disney’s Timon & Pumbaa.

     
    First-run features in the package will include the M Night Shyamalan thriller Signs, Bringing Down the House, with Steve Martin and Queen Latifah, the family comedy Snow Dogs, and the 2002 action-adventure The Count of Monte Cristo. Repeat feature titles include the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Armageddon, Con Air, and Enemy of the State.

    In addition, HRT has licensed season three of the international hit series Alias, Scrubs and According to Jim, plus year two of the comedy series 8 Simple Rules. HRT will also start broadcasting the hit comedy My Wife and Kids, starring Damon Wayans, for the first time.

    This agreement was negotiated for BVITV by Rory Buckley, senior sales executive, Central and Eastern Europe.

    Homewood said, ‘We are pleased to be working again with HRT, with whom we have a long term association, in developing their channel’s programming. With this agreement HRT will receive a great new driver of younger audiences in the form of the new Disney branded show, and also a broad selection of hit live action programming for older age groups.”