Beyond Rights licensed The Costa Concordia: Why She Sank to international broadcasters in new deals.
Produced by ITN Productions for Channel 5 in the U.K., the investigative documentary tells the definitive story of the sinking of the Costa Concordia. The two-hour documentary features exclusive first-person testimony from survivors and rescuers as well as unseen footage, graphic reconstruction, and expert insight.
In Europe, the investigative documentary has been picked up by TF1 in France, Discovery in Italy, TV2 in Norway, SVT in Sweden, RTL in the Netherlands, VTM in Belgium, Ceska TV in the Czech Republic, and WP1 in Poland. In Australia, SBS secured the title.
Holly Cowdery, VP Sales for France and CEEMEA for Beyond Rights, commented, “ITN Productions has an enviable reputation for creating top-quality factual programming. With this new series, it continues to demonstrate its investigative prowess by revealing new information, and cleverly weaves together details on a story that we thought we knew into something fresh and totally gripping.”
She added, “We are delighted that so many broadcasters share our view of this fascinating series and are confident that these early deals will be the first of many.”
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