Insect doc lands in Europe, Asia

Broadcasters in Europe and Asia have picked up several Mentorn Media-produced shows from Passion Distribution, including a documentary about a famous naturalist filmmaker.

SBS (Australia), Chello (Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary), TrueVisions TV (Thailand) and UKTV have all acquired Edwardian Insects on Film.

Produced for the BBC, the one-hour show examines the work of amateur naturalist filmmaker Percy Smith and recreates some of his most famous work.

Meanwhile, Irish broadcaster TV3 has picked up BBC3 documentary Oscar Pistorius: What Really Happened? (1×60’), Channel 4 shock doc Katie: My Beautiful Face (1×60’) and seasons one to three of Channel 5 clip show World’s Scariest (12×60’).

In Norway, digital platform VGTV has acquired fandom doc Crazy About One Direction (1×60’).

Finally, Viasat has run a number of local versions of Mentorn reality format Paradise Hotel across its Central and Eastern European feed.

It has most recently picked up the first four seasons of Paradise Hotel Russia (392×30’) for its Latvian feed.