GRB shops factual

GRB Entertainment’s BBQ Pitmasters

Australian pay TV operator Foxtel and Kinosvet in the Czech Republic and Slovakia are among the broadcasters to have acquired factual and lifestyle content from US distributor GRB Entertainment.

Kinosvet has taken Investigation Discovery’s true-crime series FBI: Criminal Pursuit, taking viewers inside some of the FBI’s most powerful cases.

Foxtel, along with Game TV in Canada, has acquired the newest season of long-running competition cooking series BBQ Pitmasters, which was originally produced by Original Productions for TLC and later Destination America in the US.

Foxtel has also acquired four other shows for Australia and New Zealand: 2 Fat 2 Fly, which follows a small-town food truck business; Twister Tales of My 9 to 5, about workplace crime stories; season three of paranormal investigation show Monsters & Mysteries; and The Mona Lisa Code, which looks at the story behind Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece.