Six months on from launch, having achieved positive results through its growing network of owned and managed channels, as well as a series of global FAST channels, Radar MCN is now spearheading a new Total Distribution strategy for the wider WTFN Group. Under General Manager Derek Dyson, this new strategy means that Radar MCN will […]

Da Vinci, the global, family-first edutainment streamer, has announced a major expansion of its premium programming line-up, with new acquisitions from Beyond Rights – a Banijay Rights company – and Boat Rocker Media. The expanded slate of factual TV shows further strengthens Da Vinci’s commitment to helping millennial and GenZ families learn 21st Century life […]

Beyond Rights has secured new deals with several broadcasters in the UK, resulting in 250+ hours being placed in the territory. A+E Networks UK has acquired Loot (8 x 60), the investigative history series produced by EQ Media Rights that reveals how the trade in stolen antiquities and art has become a major source of […]

Beyond Rights has announced a raft of new deals in Benelux that will see more than 600 hours – mostly comprising long-running property, reality and engineering content – land with broadcasters across the region. SBS in Belgium has acquired a 200-hour package featuring Pooch Perfect Australia, two seasons each of Highway Thru Hell, Heavy Rescue: […]

Beyond Rights has announced that seasoned television executive Steve Jones has joined its London-based team to fill the newly created role, as SVP of development. Jones has worked in the UK and Australia in a range of high-profile positions, including commissioning editor and executive producer, entertainment and factual, at Sky 1; executive producer, factual and […]

Beyond Rights has extended its partnership with unscripted indie Crackit Productions, resulting in the acquisition of five new titles just in time MIPCOM. Key to a Fortune (6 x 60), produced for Channel 4, is a unique new wish fulfilment show, hosted by Jean Johansson, that surprises unsuspecting members of the public with huge, life […]

Beyond Rights has announced that Tara Gaule has joined the team today as VP sales, covering France, CEE, the Middle East and Africa. Tara joins from BBC Studios, where she has spent the past six years licensing unscripted, scripted and kids’ content to a wide range of territories. Prior to that she worked for formats […]

Beyond Rights has confirmed a series of deals for titles from its Spring/Summer programming slate, launched just ahead of MIPTV earlier this year. End of the Rope (6 x 60), an obs-doc/reality series from Big Coat Media about the high-octane world of rope access technicians, was pre-sold to UKTV and has subsequently been sold to […]

Beyond Rights has signed a deal to collaborate with OTTera, a digital content distribution business. The new collaboration will focus on supporting Beyond Rights’ rapidly developing FAST strategy and will see a suite of both branded and IP-lead FAST channels launched around the globe over the coming months. Based in Los Angeles, OTTera is known […]