National Geographic and SBS pick up factual from Autentic Distribution

Go Button Media and Autentic’s Colossal Machines

National Geographic and Australia’s SBS are among the international broadcasters to have acquired factual content from Germany’s Autentic Distribution.

Disney-owned Nat Geo has pre-bought Colossal Machines (6×45’), a six-parter about mechanics produced by Go Button Media and Autentic.

The science series will be available on National Geographic worldwide except in German-speaking territories, where it will be offered on Spiegel Geschichte and ServusTV, and the US.

Meanwhile, SBS has picked up Druids – The Mystery of Celtic Priests (1×52’) and China’s New Silk Road – From Yiwu to Madrid (1×52’), while nature and wildlife doc Survival of the Fittest in the Alps (1×52’), History of Speed (4×52’) and Life from Space (2×52’) were sold to SRF Switzerland.

Finally, France’s RMC Découverte has bought both seasons of the factual entertainment series Stone Men (12×45’) as well as season two of What Went Wrong (6×52’).

Stone Men is produced by Italian prodco GiUMa Produzioni for Discovery Italy and What Went Wrong is from Autentic and Millstream Films.