TVF Int’l dives into Deep Sea Big Tech with record 160-hour Mipcom slate

TVF underwater exploration docuseries Deep Sea Big Tech

Ocean exploration series Deep Sea Big Tech headlines London-based distributor TVF International’s bumper 160-hours slate of factual content for next week’s Mipcom.

The 4×60’ series follows the race to transform the ocean into humanity’s next home. Other science documentaries on the roster include Megafauna: Lost Giants of the Ice Age (3×60’, Grifa Filmes for TV Cultura) and Bloomberg’s Posthuman (4×30’).

TVF will shop current affairs docs Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War (1×70’) and Inside Iran: War & Revolution (1×70’), both from Zandland for ITV’s Exposure strand, alongside Cold Frontier (3×60’, NTRNZ Creative for YLE) and Bloomberg’s long-running series Investigates.

New access specials China and The Iran War and Inside China’s Future Industries are joined by fast-turnaround doc Nepal: After the Flood (1×60’, CNA).

In history, TVF is launching Queen James: Passion, Plots & Power in the Court of King James I (1×60, Waddell Media), Ireland’s Last Witch Trial (1×60’), The Secrets of the Cocaine Mummies (1×60’), Giant Shipwreck Secrets (3 x60’), The Man Who Invented AI (1×60’) Inventions Down Under (8×60’) and CNA’s War at the Gardens (2×60’).

Wildlife titles comprise Wild Central America (2×52’), Thailand: A Day in the Wild (9×60’), Window into the Wild (2×47) and Diving with Great White Sharks (1×50’).

Arts programming includes three ZDF/Arte projects: Cézanne: The Struggle for Modernism (1×60’), Hélène de Beauvoir: The Forgotten Painter (1×60’) and Claes Oldenburg: Larger than Life (1×60’). The distributor has also acquired Endangered Crafts (12×30’), celebrating art heritage and ancient craftsmanship.

TVF’s travel slate features Channel 4’s A Year in Snowdonia (4×60’), Unseen Iraq (4×30’) and Untamed Australia: The Aerial Experience (4 x 60).

Factual entertainment titles on the slate comprise Off Road Rescue (6×60’), a fourth season of Grand Fishing Adventure and License to Drive S2. In new formats, TVF is announcing RTÉ’s The Big Pet Project (13×30’), AMI’s All In: Adrenaline without Limits (8×30’) and BYUtv’s More Than a Crown (6×60’).

TVF’s paranormal offerings are RTÉ’s Lights Above the Lake: Europe’s UFO Hotspot (1×60’) and Haunted Places (4×60’).

Finally, TVF is launching new seasons of Bloomberg’s Peer to Peer (37×30’) and a third of Globoplay’s Life is Precious (7×30’), about living with rare diseases.