SBS, Channel 4 and TV2 Denmark buy into Britespark’s Days that Shocked the World

Days that Shocked the World looks at tragedies such as the Challenger disaster

MIPCOM: SBS in Australia, Channel 4 in the UK and Denmark’s TV2 have all invested in Days that Shocked the World, the latest series to be generated through BossaNova Media’s Development Day pitching programme.

BossaNova, the London-based content creation, funding and distribution company, has announced presales of the series, which is produced by UK factual specialist BriteSpark Films (part of Argonon Group), to three global broadcasters on the first day of Mipcom.

The show revisits the worst disasters of the last 40 years, retelling each history-defining moment through eye-witness testimony and archive footage in one- or two-parters around each anniversary. The series was originally pitched to broadcasters at BossaNova’s 2024 Development Day.

The catastrophic events explored in Days that Shocked the World include the disintegration of the Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986 (1×60’); the Chernobyl meltdown the same year, which remains the world’s worst nuclear accident (2×60’); and the ‘crash that killed Concorde’ in 2000, when Air France Flight 4590 crashed and exploded shortly after take-off, killing 113 people (1×60’).