Beyond Rights has announced a series of promotions across the business. James Mathews has been promoted from head of business affairs, legal and operations into the newly created position of chief operating officer, while finance director Mike Ibberson will become CFO. James and Mike will work ever more closely with CEO David Smyth to ensure […]
Ahead of its participation in the virtual MIP China event, starting tomorrow, Beyond Rights has announced the closure of several new deals for factual and kids’ content in the territory. Following its acquisition of Turbozaurs from the Beyond Rights catalogue, Youku, the streaming platform of Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group, has now picked up […]
Beyond Rights has announced a series of new deals in Germany, with five key broadcasters in the territory acquiring a wide range of factual content. Sky Deutschland has acquired a package of close to 100 hours, led by Elizabeth (8 x 60), the topical royal biography series that spans the 70-year reign of the British […]
Beyond Rights has announced a number of changes to its sales team, spearheaded by the appointment of Kate Stevenson as VP sales, covering France, CEE, the Middle East and Africa. Stevenson joins the team later in June, after completing a fixed-term contract at Aardman. She started her television career at Sky and then went on […]
Beyond Rights has placed a series of factual and kids’ programming packages, totalling 1,000 hours, with major broadcasters in Australia and New Zealand. Foxtel has taken packages for its A&E, History and Fox Docos channels. A&E will be airing new seasons of shows such as Highway Thru Hell (series 9 & 10: 36 x 60) […]
Beyond Rights has closed two pan-territory deals in Latin America – one with NBCUniversal, the other with Discovery. NBCUniversal Latin America has acquired 129 hours of true crime content, featuring the titles Confessions of a Serial Killer, Murder Made Me Famous, Fatal Vows and Inside Crime. The Discovery Latin America package totals 93 hours with […]
Beyond Rights and millennial focused digital channels provider Insight TV have entered into a partnership, which will see the launch of Beyond branded blocks on Insight TV’s science and technology focused InWonder channel. Initially, the Beyond branded blocks, which will play at weekends in primetime, will comprise content drawn from Beyond Rights’s catalogue of science […]
Beyond Rights has revealed its new content slate for MIPTV, introducing a wide range of unscripted content from a variety of different genres, and numerous returning seasons of popular and well-established programme brands. In total, the business is launching more than 180 new unscripted hours into the international market at this time. Leading the new […]
Beyond Rights has announced that Sarah Bickley has been promoted to head of sales and will step into the new role on April 1st, to lead the team at MIPTV. In addition, Joanna Rowley, who has acted as a part-time consultant for the past three months, will be joining the business on a permanent basis […]
Beyond Rights has secured new deals with five Italian broadcasters, resulting in 518 hours being placed in the territory. La7 has acquired the topical documentary The Prince and the Paedophile (1 x 60), BriteSpark Films’ investigation into the friendship between Prince Andrew and American multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. As well as documenting their relationship, it also […]