ITV Global unveils ATF slate

UK distributor ITV Global Entertainment is taking musical comedy series Britannia High to Asia Television Forum (ATF) this week.

The 9×60′ series has previously been sold to two pan-regional channels, HBO Latin America and Middle Eastern network MBC, and to two Australian channels, terrestrial Seven and cablenet Nickelodeon. The show will premiere on these networks in 2009.

The show has been something of a ratings disappointment for ITV. Its debut episode pulled only 3.3 million viewers, losing out to Antiques Roadshow, and it has continued to fare badly in the UK’s Sunday night primetime battle.

Also on the distributor’s scripted slate is comedy drama Boy Meets Girl (4×60’/2×90′), starring Martin Freeman (The Office, Love Actually) as a man who is struck by lightning and wakes to find himself trapped in a woman’s body; and a new adaption of Wuthering Heights (2×70′).

ITV Global Entertainment is also taking a range of documentary programming, including the second series of engineering series Big, Bigger, Biggest (10×50′), from Windfall Films for National Geographic Channel and Five.

New to its factual offering is How It Was (6×50′), produced by Creative Differences for National Geographic Channel, which looks at pivotal moments in history.

Rounding off the factual entertainment offering is 4×50′ series Dawn Porter: Extreme Wife, which follows Porter as she looks at extreme ways of getting and being married.

Reality entertainment offerings include The Crunch (8×50′), in which six of the world’s toughest men and women take part in a number of challenges; and gameshow Relentless, available as a format or as a 6×45′ series, which sees contestants asked questions at anytime or any place over a 48-hour period.

ATF runs from today until December 12 in Singapore.