Poland stocks up at Sky Vision

Polish broadcasters have picked up 600 hours of documentaries, clip shows and factual entertainment content from Sky Vision, including lifestyle series Great Escape.

Polsat has acquired the 104×30’ series, which hails from a partnership between Sky’s UK-based distribution arm and US prodco Bellum Entertainment.

The programme explores some of the most extreme and luxurious hotels, hostels, campsites and other accommodation worldwide.

Polsat has also picked up documentaries Churchill’s Toyshop (1×60′) and Diana vs The Queen (1×60’); and clip shows People Behaving Badly (104×30’), Kids Do the Craziest Things (104×30’), Animals Unleashed (104×30’) and What Went Down (104×30’).

Meanwhile, TVN has secured documentaries Danger: Teen Bingers (1×60’) and Beijing Billionaires (1×60′), which follows the Chinese super-rich living in Britain.

The broadcaster has also acquired lifestyle series Who’d be a Billionaire (6×60′) and fly-on-the-wall show The Holidaymakers (8×60’).

Pubcaster TVP has taken award-winning documentary Children on the Frontline (1×60′), filmed by Anthony Wonke and co-director Marcel Mettelsiefen. It has also picked up documentaries Hitler’s Lost Soldier (1×60′), Hitler and the Occult (1×60′) and Escape from the Secret Sect (1×60’).

Other recent Sky Vision sales include deals with Canal+, which bought miniseries The Baboon King (3×60′) and Returning the Wild (3×60’).

Planete+, which belongs to Canal+, also picked up The Kennedy Files (10×60’), while the BBC acquired Sky Vision’s new clip show Crazy Wheels (10×30’) as well as season five of Ross Kemp’s Extreme World (5×60′) and the second run of science series Xploration Nation: Earth 2050 (30×30′).