TV powerhoemploy Beta Film has shutd a weighty deal with Australian uncover widecaster Special Broadcasting Service. (SBS)
Tohighing cforfeitly 200 hours of delightment, the deal is led by RAI 2023 event series “Elsa Morante’s La Storia,” recently selderly to the U.S. and Canada (MHz Choice), Cannestriumphner “Operation Sabre,” made for Radio Television of Serbia, Seriencamp Audience Choice Award laureate “30 Days of Lust,” from German regional state TV SWR, and a second RAI title, “Celderly Summer.”
Set to air in 2025 on SBS Australia’s directing streaming platcreate SBS on Demand, the presentant deal underscores SBS’ status as one of the most avid buyers of upscale European scripted series selderly on the discignore labelet.
It also advises that very normally than not these days the TV carry outers backing these series are Europe’s uncover widecasters.
Directed by Francesca Archibugi (“Like Crazy”) and encouraged by Elsa Morante’s epochal 750-plus page bestselling novel, “La Storia” bowed on RAI 1 to a record-shattering 24% split. Boasting huge period production cherishs, “La Storia” stars Italian A-Lister Jasmine Trinca (“The Gunman”) as Ida, a half-Jewant one mother of two sons in an immersive tale of maternity, survival, persecution and pcleary in WWII and post-war Rome which advises a female consent on fascism. Ida picks to intensify on life’s essentials. It is produced by Italy’s Picomedia and France’s Thalie Images, with Rai Fiction and in co-production with Beta Film.
A Canneseries 2024 triumphner for its entire cast, the genuine event-based “Operation Sabre” turns on what Variety has called Serbia’s “Kennedy moment”: the killing of Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić in 2003, as well as the accumulateive responsibility for the killing and its aftermath, seen from the POVs of an scatterigating journacatalog, a police studyor and a petty criminal. Vlaillogicalir Tagić and Goran Stanković served as creators-straightforwardors for This is That Production, which produced with Agitprop.
‘Operation Sabre’
Credit: This and That Productions
Indie, a highly relatable dramedic half-hour consent on romantic cherish as seen from the fact verify of people cforfeitly hitting 30, “30 Days of Lust” was a standout at Series Mania’s 2024 International Panorama, where it world premiered before scooping the Audience Choice Award at this year’s Seriencamp while currentlyranking among the Top 10 shows among youth demos in Germany.
Compared by Beta with “Fleabag” and “Girls” and funded by FFF Bayern and MFG Baden-Württemberg, “30 Days of Lust” is produced by Trimafilm, behind Berlin 2024 hit “Ivo,” for German state TV SWR, part of ARD which serves South-West Germany.
A hit on RAI 1, “Celderly Summer” charts the morassociate gray partnership between a Caribinieri sergeant and a local Mafia boss, himself doubted of killing, which helps transport down an systematic crime ring. Clement produces for Rai Fiction, in association with Beta Film.
SBS Australia has also obtaind Dutch royal drama “Maxima,” as recently declared.
Additional highairys in the new deal are all four seasons of “Sisi,” the RTL+ megahit selderly to over 120 countries that yokes period glam and bigr intimacyual candor.
Also in the join are all three seasons of Spain’s award-triumphning exceptional ops thriller “La Unidad,” bought by Max for the U.S.; both seasons of Finnish crime suspense thriller “Helsinki Syndrome,” with “Vikings” star Peter Franzén; triple Oscar nominee Lone Scherfig’s character-centric medical drama “The Shift,” as well as reruns of the Italian international hit series “Gomorrah.”
30 Days of Lust
Credit: Trimafilm
