Passion brings Pests to Cannes

Deadliest Pests Down Under

UK sales firm Passion Distribution is taking a raft of entertainment and lifestyle shows to MipTV next week, including 20-part series Deadliest Pests Down Under.

The half-hour programme follows a group of pest controllers as they spend a punishing summer season in Australia, where they face lethal spiders, snakes and crocodiles.

The show is a coproduction between Passion Distribution and UK broadcaster UKTV and is produced by Popkorn TV.

Other shows on Tinopolis-owned Passion’s slate for the Cannes market include Charlie Luxton’s Homes by the Med (6×60’) and the third season of Charlie Luxton’s Homes by the Sea (6×60’). Both programmes hail from True North Productions for More4 in the UK.

Gay For Play (12×30’), Skin Wars: Fresh Paint (9×60’), the third season of Skin Wars (10×60’), Find It Fix It Flog It (20×60’) and The Great Escapers (25×60’) also feature on Passion’s slate.

Last month, C21 revealed that former Banijay International MD Emmanuelle Namiech had been appointed Passion’s CEO following Sally Miles’ decision to leave the company.