CEE is an important and growing market for Cineflix Rights, with strong demand for both scripted and factual content.
Cineflix Rights has closed multiple deals with Central and Eastern European broadcasters and streamers for factual and scripted content ahead of NEM Dubrovnik.
CANAL+ Polska S.A has bought a number of lifestyle brands for its Canal+ Domo channel in Poland, including Top of the Block (40×30’, Scott Brothers Entertainment for HGTV Canada), Don’t Hate Your House with the Property Brothers (14×60’, Scott Brothers Entertainment for HGTV US and Canada), and Help! We Bought A Village (Season 1, 20×60’, True North for Channel 4 UK).
CANAL+ Luxemburg S.À R.L. has acquired a multi‑regional license for Last King of The Cross (Seasons 1&2, 18×60’, HELIUM for Paramount+, Australia) across Czech Republic, Slovakia, Benelux and Romania. The platform has also bought factual titles Billionaire Boys Club (4×60’, CNN Original Productions US), for Czech Republic and Slovakia and Kobe: The Making of a Legend (3×60’, CNN Original Productions US) for its channels across Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania.
Viasat World has bought Kill/Switch (10×60’, Law&Crime Productions for Law&Crime Network, US) and On Trial: The Idaho College Killer (1×60’, Law&Crime Productions for Tubi, US) for Viasat True Crime channel across CEE.
Czech TV has acquired Can Dogs Talk? (1×60’, Idéacom International and Big Wave productions for CBC English Canada, Radio-Canada, PBS Nova US, and Arte France and Germany); Rome Underground (1×60’, Idéacom International, MyMax Edutainment), and Artline Films for Radio-Canada, Télé-Québec, France Télévisions, Histoire TV France, Hearst Network Italia, and NHK Japan; and Alexander the Great: Legendary Conqueror (3×60’, Pernel Media for Canal + Group France and TV5 Quebec).
BBC Poland has bought Vanished History (10×60’, Shark Teeth Films for Bell Media Canada) and Recording Evil (3×60’, Totseret Ha’Aretz Productions for KAN 11 Israel).
AMC Global Media Central Europe also acquired Don’t Hate Your House with the Property Brothers (14×60’, Scott Brothers Entertainment for HGTV US and Canada) for its Spektrum Home channel across Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.
Pickbox has bought three Christmas TV movies Undercover Holiday, ’Twas the date Before Christmas, and Trading Up Christmas (all 1×90’, Cineflix for Hallmark Channel US) for their channels across Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria.
Lucy Rawson, VP, Sales, German-speaking Europe, CEEMEA, and Southern Mediterranean, Cineflix Rights who brokered the deals and will be attending NEM said: “CEE is an important and growing market for Cineflix Rights, with strong demand for both scripted and factual content from our existing partners at broadcasters and streamers, as well as the new platforms and genre channels which are launching across the region. I’m pleased to be heading into NEM off the back of multiple sales of some of our newest titles from our slate, along with the latest seasons of our hit franchises to showcase to buyers.”
