Entertainment One has signed an exclusive international distribution rights deal with Northern Ireland indie production company Alleycats Films.

Brokered by eOne’s acquisions EVP Noel Hedges, the first-look deal will include all premium factual content developed and produced by the Derry-headquartered award-winning prodco for the global market founded by Ed Stobart in 2010.

Initial projects include two new BBC Three series: The Fast and the Farmer-ish (7 x 30 minutes) and yet to-be-released The Big Proud Party Agency (6 x 60 minutes). The first is a competition series in which farmersWales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland with souped-up tractors compete in teams representing Wales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland in a variety of challenges; the latter features LGBTQ+ professional party planners as they organize extravagant special events.

Alleycats Film titles include Tiananmen: The People v The Party for PBS/ARTE, How To Defuse A Bomb for BBC One/Four, and Helluva Tour for Channel 4. The latter was nominated for a Rockie in 2015 at the Banff World Media Festival. At the time, it was the biggest advertiser-funded series in C4’s history, following four Brits driving a pimped-out camper van from the U.K. to Australia.

Previously, eOne partnered with Alleycats Films to distribute the BBC Two docu-series Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez (known internationally as Lost Worlds and Hidden Treasures), which has been sold to more than 60 territories.

Alleycats previously worked with Blue Ant to distribute the 90-minute doc How to Defuse a Bomb, narrated by Liam Neeson.

 Pictured (LtoR): Noel Hedges and Ed Stobart