Amy Winehouse, Freddie Mercury, John Lennon, Tupac Shakur Documentaries Sell Wide for BBC Studios
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Premium documentary titles featuring iconic musicians including John Lennon, Freddie Mercury, Tupac Shakur and Amy Winehouse have sold widely for BBC Studios.Rogan productions’ feature-length documentary for BBC Two, “Freddie Mercury: The Final Act,” charts the final chapter of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury’s life story.
International sales include the U.S. (The CW Network), Australia (ABC), Greece (COSMOTE TV), France (Arte), MNET and ShowMax across sub-Saharan Africa, Sweden (TV4), Norway (TV2), Denmark (DR), Finland (YLE), Netherlands (NTR), Belgium (VRT), Czech Republic (Czech TV) and Spain (Movistar Plus).Marking the ten-year anniversary of the death of Amy Winehouse last year, Curious Films’ “Reclaiming Amy” has sold to the U.S.
and Canada (BBC Select), Brazil (Globo), Australia (SBS), New Zealand (TVNZ), France (CANAL Plus), Germany (ZDF), MNET and ShowMax across sub–Saharan Africa, Sweden (TV4), Denmark (TV2), Finland (YLE), Netherlands (RTL) and Belgium (VRT).
Produced by the BBC Studios’ Documentary Unit, “A Life In Ten Pictures” re-examines the lives of six famous faces from the recent past — Amy Winehouse, Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, Elizabeth Taylor, Tupac Shakur and Freddie Mercury — through the photographs that have come to define them.
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