Still got slots to fill in your 2024/25 schedule? Look no further than this month’s Hot Properties playlist on C21Marketplace, which is brimming over with new drama, factual, formats and comedy.

This month’s Hot Properties playlist highlights 14 new drama and factual titles for buyers to peruse, ranging from legendary sporting achievements and unlikely drug dealers to the secrets of the London Underground and the little-known origins of the modern US state lotteries.

Kicking things off this month is Cineflix Rights’ Last King of The Cross. Inspired by John Ibrahim’s best-selling autobiography charting his rise from poverty-stricken immigrant to Australia’s most infamous nightclub mogul, it is an operatic story of two brothers who organise the street but lose each other along the way. Also in drama comes Fuji Television Network’s My Beloved Flower, which explores the subtle differences that define ‘love’ and ‘friendship’ between a man and a woman.

Then there’s Families Like Ours (StudioCanal), from Academy Award winner Thomas Vinterberg – a gripping family drama about a nation forced to say goodbye to its homeland and a testimony to the will of human beings to survive, to hope and to love.

In the factual and documentary space comes Triumph: Jesse Owens & the Berlin Games (A+E Media Group), executive produced by LeBron James and narrated by Don Cheadle. The series examines runner Jesse Owens’ dedication and triumph at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the face of Nazi ideology about Aryan supremacy. Archival footage and interviews with family, journalists, historians and athletes highlight Owens’ remarkable life and achievements on and off the track.

Then there’s King of Kings – Chasing Edward Jones (Terranoa), which explores an untold page of American and black history. Narrated by Edward Jones’ granddaughter Harriet Marin Jones, the show reveals how a notorious Chicago gangster helped birth the modern Illinois State Lottery.

Railway historians Tim Dunn and Siddy Holloway of the London Transport Museum return to explore more of London’s tube network in season four of Secrets of The London Underground (DCD Rights). With exclusive access to long-abandoned spaces alongside those still used by hundreds of thousands of passengers every day, the duo delve into the history of the stations, the extraordinary people who created them and the dedicated teams that keep them alive.

In Breaking Dad: Britain’s Unlikeliest Drug Dealer (Abacus Media Rights), police raid a luxury London apartment expecting to catch a ruthless criminal mastermind responsible for flooding the capital with crystal meth, only to find Britain’s unlikeliest drugs dealer – a mild-mannered middle-aged coin dealer called Richard Lubbock.

Next up, one of humankind’s most curious and innovative minds is explored in PBS Distribution’s Leonardo da Vinci, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon.

Finally in documentaries we have Wunderland from Autentic Distribution, which takes viewers on a magical journey through the world’s largest miniature wonderland, while Atomic People (Banijay Entertainment) explores the human fallout from the first and last atomic bombs used in war.

Meanwhile, in kids’ entertainment, Windcatcher (Australian Children’s Television Foundation) follows 10-year-old Percy Boy Collins and his eclectic crew of friends as they try to outsmart a gang of bullies and triumph at their school’s athletics carnival, emerging as heroes of their own epic adventure.

In Stan Can (BBC Studios Kids & Family) we meet Stanley, the can-do hamster who’s always happy to help whenever a job needs doing, while Cooking Buddies (Cake) is a fun cooking show presented by 13-year-old Buddy, son of world-renowned celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.

Finally this month, in Don’t Laugh at My Song! (TV Tokyo Corporation), competitors fill their mouths with milk while comedians in bizarre costumes perform absurd songs just to make them laugh. Whoever resists laughing and blurting out the milk longest is declared the winner.

That’s all for September, stay tuned for more Hot Properties in October!

Still got slots to fill in your 2024/25 schedule? Look no further than this month’s Hot Properties playlist on C21Marketplace, which is brimming over with new drama, factual, formats and comedy.

This month’s Hot Properties playlist highlights 14 new drama and factual titles for buyers to peruse, ranging from legendary sporting achievements and unlikely drug dealers to the secrets of the London Underground and the little-known origins of the modern US state lotteries.
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