MENTORN SHOWS PUT PASSION IN PARADISE!
25th November 2013 - Passion Distribution is happy to announce sales on a host of new and exciting shows and formats from Mentorn Media. Famed for its great shows, such as AN IDIOT ABROAD, PARADISE HOTEL and WORST DRIVER, Mentorn’s programming continues to prove popular with buyers around the world.
TV3 (Eire) has signed a large package deal for a host of Mentorn shows including, the BBC Three tell-all documentary OSCAR PISTORIUS: WHAT REALLY HAPPENED? (1 x 60’), the Channel 4 shock-doc KATIE: MY BEAUTIFUL FACE (1 x 60’), and the Channel 5 clip-show series WORLD’S SCARIEST (Season 1-3: 12 x 60’).
CRAZY ABOUT ONE DIRECTION (1 x 60’) continues to sell well for Passion, and Norway’s digital platform VGTV is the latest to pick up the Channel 4 fandom documentary. Produced for BBC, EDWARDIAN INSECTS ON FILM (1 x 60’) examines the work of amateur naturalist filmmaker Percy Smith, and recreates some of his most famous work, the show includes a cameo from world renowned naturalist Sir David Attenborough. The documentary has been licenced by SBS (Australia), Chello (Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary), TrueVisions TV (Thailand) and UKTV (UK).
Over 2000 episodes of Mentorn’s hit reality format, PARADISE HOTEL, have been produced in 12 territories and the finished programmes continue to sell globally. Viasat has run a number of local PARADISE HOTEL productions across its Central and Eastern European feed, including the Norwegian, Danish, and the U.S. version and has most recently picked up the first four seasons of PARADISE HOTEL, RUSSIA (Season 1-4: 392 x 30’) for its Latvia feed. Foxtel (Australia) has also checked in with passion, licencing the brand new BBC Three show HOTEL OF MUM AND DAD (6 x 60’).
Other deals include an agreement with OUTTV Media to run all three seasons of the reality series WORK OUT (Season 1-3: 24 x 60’) for Flemish speaking Belgium, Sweden and The Netherlands, and a deal with BBC Worldwide Channels to run Britain’s Worst Driver (Season 1-2: 15 x 30’) across Poland.
