BABY BEAUTY QUEENS WITH PASSION ARE PICKED UP FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE
July 26th, 2010 - Passion Distribution announces a raft of international sales for BABY BEAUTY QUEENS (6x30’). Following the huge success of the one hour special which transmitted on BBC3 last year and won best multichannel performance for its timeslot, this six hour series has already sold into the following territories: Nelonen for Liv, Finland; Fem 3, Hungary; Noga, Israel; TV4, Sweden; Vitaya, Belgium; and LifeStyle YOU, XYZnetworks Australia. BABY BEAUTY QUEENS, the series, premiers on Tuesday 27th July at 8:30pm on BBC3. Produced by Landmark Films, BABY BEAUTY QUEENS (6x30’) delves into the glitzy, ditzy child beauty scene. We meet the school swot who transformed herself, at 13, into Britain’s most crowned child beauty Queen and we see the youngest beauty pageant contestants in Britain - aged just six. Tears and tantrums abound as our young beauties work their way to their ultimate prize whether that is modelling on the catwalk or being crowned queen of the beauty pageant! The 1x60’ special has been acquired by: ABC2, Australia; Teva, France; RTL, Germany; Fem3, Hungary; TVI, Portugal; SF, Switzerland; UKTV Really, UK; BBC America, USA; XYZnetworks, Australia, VMMA, Belgium; TV2, Denmark; Nelonen, Finland; Noga, Israel; TV3, New Zealand; NRK, Norway and TV4, Sweden. Landmark Films is an Oxford based company established by Nick O’Dwyer in January 2002. Landmark has made over seventy hours of high quality television specialising in distinctive, quality, people based documentaries that attract strong audiences and good reviews. Passion Distribution was officially launched by its founder and CEO, Sally Miles, in 2008. This unique, boutique and intimate style international distribution business represents great content and formats on behalf of UK and North American producers and broadcasters. London based Passion Distribution specialises in popular quality programming and formats in genres including Factual Entertainment, Reality, Documentaries, Lifestyle, Game-shows and Comedy. Passion Distribution has exclusive distribution agreements with several broadcasters and production companies including Scripps Networks International, Lifetime and World of Wonder and works with many others both in the UK & US. Having built a catalogue with over 1,500 hours in its first 18months, Passion Distribution is active in pre-selling , finding co-pro partners and deficit funding. Please contact Madeleine Cunnane if you have any questions: maddycunnane@passiondistribution.com
