CBC sails off with BBC lifeboat series

Saving Lives at Sea follows volunteer lifeboat crews around Britain

MIPTV: Canadian public broadcaster CBC has picked up a pair of factual series from Banijay Rights for its Documentary Channel.

CBC has taken The Operatives and Saving Lives at Sea from the distribution arm of France’s Banijay Group.

Saving Lives at Sea (12×60’) is produced by Blast! Films in the UK for BBC2 and follows the army of ordinary people who give up their free time to man more than 200 Royal National Lifeboat Institution stations around the British Isles.

The series has been picked up by Top TV’s Choice Channel in New Zealand, TV2 in Denmark, RTÉ in Ireland and Canalife in Portugal, for its S+ Channel.

The Operatives (10×60’) features an elite team of former commandos who travel the world bringing poachers and environmental criminals to justice.

Produced by AMO Media, The Operatives was first broadcast in the US on Pivot TV and has been sold to Choice Channel, Globosat in Brazil, AMC in Portugal and Spain, Discovery Corporate Services in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Poland, Sony Pictures Television in CEE, Outside Television in the US and Lensmedia in China.