All3 sells factual into Benelux, Germany

Blink Films’ Monty Don’s Paradise Gardens

MIPTV: Buyers across Benelux and Germany have picked up 350 hours of history, lifestyle and cooking shows in multiple licensing deals with UK-based distributor All3Media International.

German pubcaster ZDF has acquired Lion Television’s landmark three-part series The Great Fire of London: In Real Time, produced for the UK’s Channel 5, while ProSieben has taken season two of All3Media-backed Studio Lambert’s Body Fixers (10×60’).

Meanwhile, Belgian pubcaster VRT has licensed four titles. These include two Lion Television shows, 20 Kids & Counting (1×60’), made for Channel 4, and BBC2 series Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit (4×60’).

The other two are BBC2 shows Employable Me (4×60’, season two), made by All3Media-backed Optomen, and Monty Don’s Paradise Gardens (2×60’), from Blink Films.

The largest deal in Benelux involved Belgium’s Medialaan licensing 114 episodes of factual programming, including Spun Gold TV’s Love Your Garden and My Big Fat Summer; Studio Ramsay’s Gordon Ramsay: 24 Hours to Hell & Back, Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine and Spa Wars; Optomen’s Worst Cooks and Raised Without Rules; and a renewal of Kitchen Nightmares USA.

Fox has also picked up Benelux rights to two culinary shows from Optomen: Heston’s Feast (46 episodes) for the UK’s Channel 4 and Worst Cooks in America, for Food Network in the US.

Other Benelux rights include RTL taking S1-2 of Studio Lambert’s Naked Attraction (15×60’), made for Channel 4, along with two-part special Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine and All3Media-backed Maverick Television’s series Escape.

Discovery has licensed Benelux rights to three North One shows fronted by Guy Martin for Channel 4: one-hour docs Guy Martin – Fastest Man on Two Wheels? and Guy Martin vs The Robot Car; and three seasons of Speed with Guy Martin (11×60’).

Discovery also picked up three Lion Television one-hour copro specials: The Great Wall of China – The Hidden Story, a copro from Channel 4, Smithsonian and Arte; Secrets of China’s Forbidden City, a copro between PBS Nova and Lion TV for Channel 4; and Secrets of the Chinese Chariots – The War Machine that Shaped China, a coproduction for PBS Nova, Arte and Jiangsu Broadcasting Corp.