Ahead of NATPE Budapest, Toronto-headquartered Blue Ant Studios has confirmed sales of over 270 hours of content to broadcasters and platforms across the CEE region, with crime and mystery titles dominating the slate.

The aerial investigative series Mysteries from Above (Saloon Media, 30 x 60 min.), which offers airborne surveys strange geological occurrences, unique manmade structures, curious creatures and vanished civilizations, proved a popular title across territories, being licensed by Croatia’s HRT, FTV Prima in the Czech Republic, Digi Romania and Lithuania’s LRT.

Poland was a particularly active sales territory, beginning with the licensing of a trio of titles to Canal+: Our Toughest Cases (Woodcut Media, 6 x 60 min.); Night Stalker: Terror in a Small Town (Joined Up Films, 3 x 60 min. / 2 x 90 min. / 1 x 120 min.), which chronicles the longest-running manhunt for a serial killer in Australian history; and Predator: Catching the Black Cab Rapist (October Films, 1 x 60 min.), detailing the case of the UK’s most prolific serial rapist.

CBS Reality, meanwhile, acquired Big Little Crimes (Brown Bob Productions, 10 x 60 min. / 30 x 30 min.), which covers the stories of beat cops who discover crucial pieces of evidence that lead to the arrests of major criminals; and season two of Killers: Caught on Camera (back2back, 20 x 60 min.).

International broadcaster Viasat World picked up three titles for its Polish channel Viasat True Crime, comprising season eight of the long-running surveillance-footage spotlight See No Evil (pictured, 20 x 60 min.), from Arrow Media and Saloon Media; Playboy Bunny Murder (Future Studios & Soho Studios, 2 x 60 min.), which revisits the deaths of four young women against the glamorous backdrop of London’s Playboy Club in the 1970s; and Blue Ant Studios’ own Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies (3 x 60 min.), featuring firsthand testimony from Anthony a decade after she became a tabloid fixture following her acquittal for the murder of her daughter.

Rounding out the Polish sales, Dox TV acquired another Blue Ant Studios original, Evil by Design: Surviving Nygård (3 x 60 min.); Mafia Killers with Colin McLaren (Bedlam Productions, 6 x 60 min.); season one of Undercover: Fighting the Fraudsters (Curve Media, 10 x 60 min.); and Madeleine McCann: Investigating the Prime Suspect (ScreenDog Productions, 3 x 60 min.), following the first active TV investigation into the German pedophile Christian B since he became the prime suspect in the 2007 abduction of three-year-old Madeleine McCann.

MRT in North Macedonia was another buyer for Playboy Bunny Murder, which it acquired along with the cryptography series Cracking the Code (Blink Films, 8 x 60 min.) and The Real Spies Among Friends (Wingspan Productions, 1 x 60 min.), a doc companion to the hit drama series A Spy Among Friends that covers the notorious Kim Philby case.

Finally, Lithuania’s Delfi has picked up Cops on the Rock (Rare TV, 10 x 60 min.), which covers the work of Gibraltar’s police and customs forces; and Women on the Force (Flint TV & Lambent Productions, 16 x 60 min.), about the frontline women officers of the West Yorkshire Police force.

This article first appeared in Realscreen.

Image courtesy of Blue Ant Studio.