TVF titles travel to MENA

ZDF, Arte and Globo copro New Species

BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera are among the broadcasters across the MENA region to have secured factual titles from UK-based distributor TVF International.

Pan-MENA news network BBC Arabic has picked up a package including Attitude Pictures’ award-winning mental health series In My Mind, Me & Eugenics from prodco Furnace, and Prisons Uncovered, which was made by Clover Films for UK broadcaster ITV.

Al Jazeera, meanwhile, has licensed 35 hours of content for its Documentary Channel. Titles include New Species, a ZDF, Arte and Globo copro; Channel News Asia’s two-part docuseries Algorithms: How They Rule Our World; and Coming Clean About Green, an environmental series that first aired on Channel News Asia.

In addition, pay TV broadcaster Discovery Family has picked up seasons one and two of Burning Bright production Raw Recruits, as well as science magazine series Did I Mention Invention? and Choice TV’s The Healthy Food Guide.

Pan-MENA channel Alhurra has acquired two current affairs films from Channel News Asia’s investigative Undercover Asia strand plus standalone history title Partition.

Finally, satellite provider OSN has acquired Apollo’s New Moon, a one-off documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the first manned moon landing.