Acorn TV, BritBox and MHZ Choice, scripted content store on ITV | News

Acorn TV, BritBox and MHZ Choice are among the Canadian, US and Lat Am broadcasters and broadcasters receiving a wealth of scripted content from UK commercial broadcaster ITV.

World Productions’ Fifteen-Love, starring Aiden Turner and Ella Lily Hyland, is currently airing in the US and Canada on AMC Networks’ Sundance Now channel.

Additionally, French Canada’s SRC has signed on for the six-episode series, created and written by Hania Elkington (The Innocents, The Essex Serpent) and directed by Eva Riley (Perfect Ten) and Toby MacDonald (Ragdoll).

Meanwhile, AMC Networks’ Acorn TV has secured U.S. premiere rights to the six-episode medical drama Maternal, as well as second-window rights in Canada. This comes after CBC signed a deal for first-window rights to the series last year.

Produced by Silverprint Pictures for ITV, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story was sold to BritBox in the US and Canada. Until I Kill You, produced by World Productions for ITV, was also sold to BritBox in the USA and Hollywood Suite in Canada.

PBS Distribution has expanded rights to crime drama Endeavor (Mammoth Screen for ITV), period drama Victoria starring Jenna Coleman (Mammoth Screen for ITV) and period drama Poldark (Mammoth Screen for BBC).

Additionally, Janus Films and the Criterion Collection have opted to expand rights to a suite of 94 films in the US and Canada, including classic films The 39 Steps, Brief Encounter and The Lady Vanishes.

European dramas set against the backdrop of World War II, Blackwater (Apple Tree Productions for SVT, ARD, RUV, YLE, NRK, DR) and A French Village (Un Village Français Tetra Media Fiction 3 for France) were sold to MHZ Choice. Along with Piste Noire (Macondo Productions for France 2), the second season of the procedural Petra (Cattleya for Sky Italia) and the Italian crime drama Carlo and Malik (Cattleya for Rai Uno).

Brazil’s Globo, meanwhile, produces various dating shows I Kissed A Boy and I Kissed A Girl (TwoFour for BBC Three), An Audience with Kylie Minogue (Lifted Entertainment for ITV) and dating game show Ready to Mingle (for BBC Three). TwoFour) purchased the rights. potatoes for ITV).