MIPCOM Day 1 Deals Recap: David Suchet Series Sells; Beta Sets Globo Co-Pro; BBC Studios Takes ‘Solar System’ Global’; Korea’s ‘Queen Of Tears’ Turkey Remake; Tsunami Doc Deals
deadline.comBritBox Signs UK Programs From Sphere Abacus Best-of-British streamer BritBox has bought a package of programs from Sphere Abacus, the UK-based sales house making its debut at MIPCOM in its current guise.
Package contains Travels With Agatha Christie with Sir David Suchet from Soho Studios and Two Rivers Media. Suchet is currently on the ground with Sphere Abacus in Cannes, as our report earlier today noted.
Also acquired by BritBox are Jon and Lucy’s Odd Couples, The Murder of Sandra Rivett, Breaking Dad: Britain’s Unlikeliest Drug Dealer, Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple (aka Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Suspense), Diana: The Interview That Shook the World and Susan Hill’s The Small Hand: A Ghost Story (1 x 94’) produced by Awesome and Two Rivers Media.
BritBox takes rights for the U.S. and Canada. Beta Sets Globo Co-Pro ‘Discipline Germany’s Beta Film and Brazilian content giant Grupo Globo are developing crime drama Discipline (working title), as a multi-year pact between the companies begins.
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