TVF shops factual to Canada

Bell Media is among the Canadian broadcasters to have acquired a raft of factual content from London-based distributor TVF.

Daniel Nembhard

Bell has taken two crime specials for its Investigation channel: Looking for Mike (1×60’) follows filmmaker Dylan Reibling as he investigates his friend’s mysterious death; while Murder in Paradise (1×60’), which originally aired on Channel 4 in the UK, focuses on the murder of two young backpackers in Thailand.

Elsewhere, French-language pubcaster Radio Canada has picked up two blue-chip miniseries: Wild City with David Attenborough (3×60’) and Oak Tree: Nature’s Greatest Survivor (2×60’).

Zoomer Media, meanwhile, has licensed a slew of lifestyle programming, including the first three seasons of Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages, commissioned by Channel 4, health specials Yogawoman (1×60’) and Detox (2×60’), and a selection of shortform content about superfoods.

In the US, American Public Television has picked up the first two seasons of Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages as well as royal special The Changing Face of the Queen.

TVF’s senior sales, acquisitions and formats executive Daniel Nembhard said: “It can be challenging to place international unscripted content in these territories so we’re extremely pleased to give these fantastic series and specials homes across the US and Canada.”