MipTV/Canneseries: Studiocanal Thrillers Sell Widely, AXN Takes ‘Rex’ Franchise, ORF-Enterprise Touts Nature, Insight TV Boosts Science, Technology
variety.comEd Meza @edmezavar Studiocanal has sold two new thrillers from Benelux to international buyers at MipTV in Cannes. The eight-part crime thriller “1985,” produced by Eyeworks for Belgian public broadcasters VRT and RTBF, follows three friends as they move to Brussels and get caught up in the horrifying events of Belgium’s most notorious unsolved crime spree that shocked a generation and left a scar on the entire country.
The series went to SBS Australia; Filmin for Portugal and Spain; Canal+ for France, Czech Republic and Slovakia; TG4 in Ireland; and Free TV in Israel. “The Crash” is a five-part series centering on one of the most controversial aviation disasters and biggest cover-ups in Dutch history.
Produced by Amsterdam-based Big Blue for public broadcaster KRO-NCRV, it sold to SBS Australia, Canal+ in France and, in Belgium, to Disney+ and BeTv.
It also went to MagentaTV/Telekom in Germany; Cosmo in Spain; RTP in Portugal; and Free TV and Cellcom in Israel. Beta Film’s canine cop show big in Japan Japanese pay-tv broadcaster AXN has acquired a number of series from Beta Film, including Canadian canine cop show “Hudson & Rex,” part of the long-running international franchise about a detective and his four-legged partner.
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