Global Screen sells series and movies at MipTV 2012

MUMBAI: Global Screen, the sales & distribution joint venture by Telepool and Bavaria Media, has enjoyed massive sales success during the television trade event MipTV in Cannes, France.

The company‘s head of sales Sonia Mehandjiyska said, "The demand for our programmes remains unabated, especially in our key territories Italy, Spain and France. There we sell to all major free TV and pay TV channels."

The new season of RTL?s crime series ‘Alarm for Cobra 11‘ had already been sold to Italy, Spain, France and Belgium but now will also hit the screens in India, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Turkey, South Korea and even in Senegal.

New episodes of the telenovela ‘Storm Of Love‘ were purchased by Mediaset in Italy as well as channels in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania. Danish TV 2 Charlie secured the rights to a package of three series produced for German public broadcaster ARD: ‘For Heaven?s Sake‘, ‘Beauty And The Judge‘ and ‘Circle Of Life‘.

In the field of television movies, the RTL event ‘The Hunt For The Amber Room‘ follows in the footsteps of its two predecessors ‘The Spear of Destiny‘ and ‘The Charlemagne Code‘, which were both highly anticipated by international audiences. After already having sold ?Amber Room? to Italy, Spain and France prior to MipTV, Global Screen has now completed presales with channels in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Japan and China. The crime movie cycle ‘Vares‘, having enjoyed enormous success with theatrical release in its native Finland, has been sold to the US and Brazil.

Further Global Screen deals at MipTV 2012 were completed for ‘Finest Fairy Tales‘, comprising 26 films based on stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. These were sold to France (TF 1) as well as Italy, Brazil, Benelux, Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia. Another family entertainment programme, ‘The Wonderful Adventures of Nils‘, went to Latvia, Poland and the Netherlands. The documentary, ‘The Cologne Cathedral‘, will find its way to the United States, where it was licensed to National Geographic, while ‘Bulb Fiction‘ has been sold to Spain (TV3) and VRT in Belgium.