Asian nets go through Looking Glass

ATF: Japanese pubcaster NHK has picked up a trio of factual projects, including a doc about the Harvey Weinstein scandal, from Australia-based distributor Looking Glass International.

Harvey Weinstein

The deals, announced by Looking Glass at ATF in Singapore this week, will see crime docudrama Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal air in Japan. The show was produced by Entertain Me in the UK.

Factual specialist Looking Glass has also sold The Asian Pitch-winning projects Travelling Talkies and 24th Street (both 1×60’) to the pubcaster for its international broadcasting service NHK World.

Travelling Talkies follows Anup Jagdale as he struggles to keep alive the age-old tradition of travelling cinema, while 24th Street offers an original twist on story of modernising China, focusing on an unlicensed ramshackle restaurant that opened at the heart of major construction projects in Hangzhou’s 24th Street.

Hong Kong based ICT company PCCW has acquired a package of 57 hours, including Adele: Someone Like You (1×60’) and Amy Winehouse: The Final Goodbye (1×60’), both produced by Entertain Me, and series Silent Screams (4×60’), produced by Make Productions for Channel News Asia.

In addition, AETN-18 India has acquired history and science series Deep Time History (3×60’) and Digits (3×60’), produced by Flight 33 Productions for factual streamer Curiosity Stream.