PASSION DISTRIBUTION'S TITLES HOT DOWN UNDER
May 31st, 2012 - Passion Distribution continues to achieve success in both Australia and New Zealand with a host of multi-title deals finalised to a range of broadcasters. These most recent deals further highlight the steady stream of sales that the distributor has concluded so far this year making it the second largest revenue earning territory for Passion. Australian digital channel 7 TWO secured a licence for all five seasons of Reef Television's antique valuation show, DEALERS: PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS (128 x 60’), while Nine’s FDTT channel GEM picked up the UK producers fifth season of SUN, SEA & BARGAIN SPOTTING (25 x 60’). The network also licensed Landmark Films' wonderfully eccentric WEEKEND ARISTOCRATS (6 x 60’). National Geographic Channel Australia picked up a variety of shows for both Australia and New Zealand, ranging from the hard-hitting topics of OUR AMERICA WITH LISA LING season 1 (6 x 60’), which tackles some of the most shocking and controversial issues in U.S. society in this series of specials, to the creative culinary talents of mobile food vendors in EAT STREET season 1(13 x 30’). National Geographic Channel Australia also secured the rights to LIFEGUARD! (13 x 30’), an exhilarating look at the everyday lives of the heroic beach rescuers of Southern California. New Zealand channel, Top TV, has secured a raft of titles that focus primarily on home & property content from Scripps Networks International, which Passion holds the international licensing rights for. These titles include multiple seasons from the big brand CRASHERS series including, BATH CRASHERS seasons 1-6 (78 x 30’), HOUSE CRASHERS seasons 1-7 (91 x 30’), YARD CRASHERS seasons 1-9 (117 x 30’) and seasons 1 & 2 of ROOM CRASHERS (26 x 30’). Other titles acquired by Top TV within the lifestyle genre included, MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACTOR seasons 1 & 2 (26 x 30’), Design Star season 6 (10 x 60’), DEAR GENEVIEVE season 1 & 2 (26 x 30’), CARTER CAN season 1 & 2 (26 x 30’) and HOME STRANGE HOME (1 x 60’), which looks at some of the most weird and wacky constructions that people call home. Top TV also licensed OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s, WHY NOT? WITH SHANIA TWAIN (6 x 60’) and CRISTINA FERRARE’S BIG BOWL OF LOVE (20 x 30’), as well as UKTV’s, NO ORDINARY PARTY (8 x 60’). NO ORDINARY PARTY is a perfect series for international schedules in the year that Britain invites the globe to party to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics. Produced by Firecracker Films.
