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BBC’s Planets gravitate to China

The Planets finished airing on BBC2 this week

BBC Studios has announced that its landmark factual series The Planets (5×60’) has been sold internationally across five continents, including into China.

Fronted by 1990s popstar turned science wünderkind Professor Brian Cox, the series has been licensed to broadcasters in China (Tencent), Japan (NHK), US (PBS), Canada (BBC Earth), Australia (ABC) and France (France 5).

It has also been picked up in Belgium (VRT), Germany (ZDF Info), Russia (Amedia), Estonia (ETV), Hungary (MTVA), Finland (YLE), Denmark (DR) and Norway (NRK).

The series has also premiered on the BBC Earth channel in Asia (outside China), Middle East, Nordics, Poland, South Africa, Turkey and across most countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

“BBC Studios is rightly world-renowned for its natural history programmes and now with series such as The Planets we are gaining a similar reputation for our science programming,” said Paul Dempsey, president of global markets at BBC Studios.

The news comes after the show finished airing on BBC2 in the UK this week. The series was created as a partnership between BBC Studios and the Open University, and was exec produced by Andrew Cohen.

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