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Every edition, we try and bring you trends on content demand trends within our industry. Vitrina tracks transactions across IP-Development, Production, Distribution, Acquisition and Collaborations from 60+ markets. This gives us the best global scan and understanding of what contents hot and what’s not.
In this edition, besides our usual fare of latest Production Financing, Distribution and Acquisition trends, we have an additional attraction – DOCUMENTARIES! Factual and documentaries have been the new darlings of a host of streamers and licensees. Easy and bite-sized content for viewers, they are also relatively easier to localize and travel far and beyond the original shores they were intended for. In this edition, we look at the latest trends in international documentary productions and acquisitions.
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WEBINAR: Documentaries Content Acquisition Strategies
Missed our webinar? During the webinar we reviewed the most successful Documentary titles as well as ways to acquire hot, trending and high-demand Documentary content. Watch the recording now!
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Examining the BBC’s content catalog for 2023/24 reveals a notable reduction of nearly 1000 hours overall. However, documentary programming has experienced a deliberate surge, commissioned to nearly 2000 hours—second only to drama. This strategic reorientation underscores a discernible global trend, emphasizing networks’ increasing reliance on the potency of documentary storytelling. As the world grapples with uncertainty, the rise of factual narratives reflects not just an evolution in content preferences, but a testament to the enduring allure of real stories in an ever-changing media landscape.
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So which high-impact documentary titles have already shown to be successful in other markets and streaming services?
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Which documentary titles have been chosen by platforms globally? This is one of the powerful indicators tracked by Vitrina to determine high demand and high impact content. We found more than 3200 titles that have been acquired by multiple platforms.
The Green Planet
TV Series | 2022 | 1 Season | TV-PG – English
Documentary
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Expedition with Steve Backshall
TV Series | 2019 | 2 Seasons – English
Documentary
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Top Gear
TV Series | 2002 | 33 Seasons | TV-PG – English Talk · Documentary · Action & Adventure – Returning Series
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Worldwide Reach – 94 Platforms
(Platforms including BBC, CBC, TVNZ, Movistar Plus, PBS and more)
Worldwide Reach – 89 Platforms
(Platforms including Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Tubi, Max and more)
Worldwide Reach – 84 Platforms
Platforms including Prime Video, ABC, Hulu, Crunchyroll
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Every year, many documentaries get licensed, and some companies stand out in this field. Vitrina keeps an eye on these deals as they happen. This way, you can connect with the best in the business to get new documentary titles. If you’re a documentary producer, it’s important to know about these companies.
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Who are the most influential dealmakers in the industry for documentaries?
Vitrina tracks deals, transactions and catalogs across Content IP, Development, Production, Acquisitions and Collaborations. We follow the activities of influential dealmakers across genres, countries, and companies. Understanding key distributors of documentary content is valuable. However, identifying influential dealmakers brings you closer to finalizing deals. Check out top dealmakers picked up by our system. Click on link to know the others
Jonathan Ford
Rachel Job
Jens Richter
Zai Bennett
Lisa Heller
Angela Bates
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Who are the largest acquirers for Anime content? From our daily monitoring of content acquisition deals as well as streamer catalogs, we are able to create lists of the largest buyers for every genre, language and country. For Anime, the three largest buyers are:
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Let’s take a look at some of the most notable titles in documentaries being acquired globally. Starting with trending documentaries, we also look at some of the most acquired titles in recent weeks including a special mention of documentaries featured at the recently concluded MIPCOM 2023 event
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Untold Arctic Wars
TV Series | 2022 | 1 Season – Finnish
Country of origin: Finland
A six-part documentary series about the least known events of World War II. The series reveal a little-known picture and countless unknown details of the events of World War II in the north.
Planet Earth III
TV Series | 2023 | 1 Season
English Documentary – Returning Series
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Journeying to the far reaches of our planet, this eight part series follows some of the world’s most amazing species, telling extraordinary stories that are dramatic, thrilling, funny and sometimes heart-breaking, but always full of hope.
Secrets in the Ice
TV Series | 2020 | 2 Seasons | TV-14
English – Mystery · Documentary – Returning Series
Country of origin: United States of America
Mysterious frozen lakes filled with bones, mummified bodies hanging from inside a glacier, and a 30,000-year-old virus frozen in ice brought back to life in a laboratory.
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Super Surgeons: A Chance at Life
TV Series | 2022 | 1 Season | NR – English
Documentary – Returning Series
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Documentary following pioneering surgeons at Royal Marsden Hospital as they face some of the most complex and challenging oncological cases in the world.
Doctor Who: Unleashed
TV Series | 2023 | 1 Season – English
Documentary – In Production
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Following the same format of Doctor Who: Confidential, Steffan Powell will take you behind the scenes of each episode of BBC’s Doctor Who.
The Circus
TV Series | 2016 | 8 Seasons | TV-14 – English
Documentary – Returning Series
Country of origin: United States of America
Come one, come all to The Circus. This real-time documentary series pulls back the curtain on the current political stories, revealing the intense, inspiring and infuriating stories behind the headlines. Key characters and events are presented in real time, as they are happening.
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The Wonders Of Europe
TV Series | 2023 | 1 Season – English
Documentary Returning Series
Country of origin: France, United Kingdom
THE WONDERS OF EUROPE is a four-part docuseries that tells the story of the people who built some of the biggest and most unique landmarks in Europe.
JFK: The Home Movie That Changed The World
Movie | 2023 | 1h 0m – English Documentary
Country of origin: United Kingdom
JFK: THE HOME MOVIE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD uncovers the fascinating story behind the 26 seconds of home movie that captured everything from start to finish.
Coco Chanel Unbuttoned
Movie | 2023 English Documentary
Country of origin: United Kingdom
The story of original influencer Coco Chanel, whose designs still represent the zenith of female sexuality, style and power.
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WEBINAR: Documentaries Content Acquisition Strategies
Missed our webinar? During the webinar we reviewed the most successful Documentary titles as well as ways to acquire hot, trending and high-demand Documentary content. Watch the recording now!
Our weekly global scan of new Productions getting greenlit/ financed as well as high-demand content and IP being acquired from around the world.
Our “High-Demand Content” lists are based on following dealmakers – thousands of leaders in Content Acquisition for every major and minor streamer, broadcaster and distributor. We follow their actions individually as well as cumulatively to understand global demand. We call this approach “Collective Wisdom of Content Curators“. Read more about our methodology.
Prime Video acquired rights to ‘Give Me Your Eyes’ from Spain based The Mediapro Studio Distribution at the MIPCOM 2023 event
Prime Video picked up streaming rights for Paramporul from AP International. Also, Aha acquired rights to the same title from Kavi Creations
Red Bull Media House licensed ‘Born To Fly’ to 8 networks around Europe
DR Sales signed licensing deals with 8 networks, including BBC and SBS Viceland for ‘Huset’
Beta Film signed licensing deals with 6 Scandinavian networks for currently in-production (produced by Picomedia and Thalie Images) Italian drama ‘La Storia’
All3Media International signed acquisition deals with 8 broadcasters and networks worldwide at the recently concluded MIPCOM 2023 event for ‘The Long Shadow’
South Africa based Primedia Pictures acquired Format Rights to ‘Got Talent’ from Fremantle
JioCinema to adapt ‘Temptation Island’ for India. The recently signed a Format Adaptation deal with Banijay Asia
ITV signed a Format Adaption deal with Banijay Group owned Remarkable Television for ‘The Genius Game United Kingdom’
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WEBINAR:Documentaries Content Acquisition Strategies
Missed our webinar? During the webinar we reviewed the most successful Anime titles internationally as well as ways to acquire hot, trending and high-demand Japanese Animations. Watch the recording now!
