CBC Gem takes on Warrior Women

Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong’o was made for Channel 4

Canadian pubcaster CBC has picked up six factual titles including a doc about West Africa’s Agoji warrior women for its streaming service CBC Gem from UK-based Cineflix Rights.

CBC has acquired Warrior Women with Lupita Nyong’o (1×60’), which follows the Oscar-winning actor as she uncovers the truth behind the Agoji, who helped to inspire the Dora Milaje characters in Marvel movie Black Panther.

The doc was originally produced by Sandstone Global Productions for Channel 4 in the UK.

CBC also picked up season one of My Big Family Farm (4×60’), which chronicles the adventures of hill shepherds Amanda and Clive Owen as they raise their nine children – and more than 1,000 sheep – on one of the most remote farms in the UK.

The show was commissioned by ViacomCBS-owned UK terrestrial Channel 5 from Renegade Pictures and Motion Content Group.

The pubcaster has also bagged marine biology series Legends of the Deep (3×60’), from Cineflix Productions and INE Entertainment for Discovery Science in the US, and the second season of My Family & the Galapagos (7×60’), made by Seadog Productions and Motion Content Group for Channel 4.

Additionally, CBC has taken S1 of A+E Networks’ Homicide: Hours to Kill, which follows investigators as they piece together events during the final 24 hours of a murder victim’s life to solve the crime, alongside ITV’s The Queen’s Green Planet (1×60’), a standalone doc on Queen Elizabeth II’s initiative to build a global network of protected forests.

Lucinda Gergley-Garner, senior VP of sales, North America and German-speaking territories at Cineflix Rights, said: “I’m delighted to be continuing our longstanding relationship with CBC with these latest sales. These titles represent some of the recent highlights from our factual line-up of programming and I’m confident they will appeal to Canadian audiences.”