EXCLUSIVE: TF1 Group’s Histoire TV network has boarded European science co-production Scanning History. Under terms of the agreement with New York- and Paris-based producer-distributor Big Media, the channel lands exclusive TV rights in France and French-speaking Africa.
It will also join Germany’s ZDF, AMC Networks in Spain and Prime TV in Czechia on shaping the six-part program’s editorial direction.
Europe’s broadcasters have long bandied together on science and history series that can be expensive but lend themselves to collaboration.
Furthermore, Histoire’s multi-layered deal with Big Media will see the French-language network license finished series Spycraft and Secret Vatican Files: The Pope & the Devil.
Read more on deadline.com