NATPE Budapest: BBC Studios, AMC Networks Int’l Buy Cineflix Rights Lifestyle, Travel Content
Cineflix Rights has unveiled a raft of lifestyle and travel content sales to broadcasters, including BBC Studios and AMC Networks International, across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region on the eve of NATPE Budapest 2025. Financial details weren’t disclosed but the company said the deals amounted to more than 450 hours of programming.
TV3 Group Baltics has acquired more than 200 hours of content, including seasons 1 and 2 of hit format Tempting Fortune for its channels in Latvia and Lithuania, Property Brothers: Forever Home, An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet, Sue Perkins Into Alaska, Hidden Frontiers Arabia With Reza Pakravan, and Richard Hammond’s Workshop seasons 1-5.
Meanwhile, AMC Networks International Central and Northern Europe acquired Help! We Bought A Village seasons 1-3, Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive & Kids, and Amanda Owen’s Farming Lives for its Spektrum Home channel in Hungary, as well as Château DIY seasons 7 and 8 and Property Brothers: Commitment Issues for its Spektrum Home channels across Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
BBC Studios has bought Richard Hammond’s Workshop season 5 for Poland. And LRT Lithuania has taken Help! We Bought A Village.
“CEE is one of the key international markets for high-volume, high-quality lifestyle content —particularly with big returning franchises in the home renovation genre — as well as travel and food series,” said Lucy Rawson, vp, sales, Benelux, CEE, and Southern Mediterranean at Cineflix Rights. “I’m also pleased to see the continued popularity for our hit international format Tempting Fortune across the region.”
She concluded: “It’s a great time to be heading to NATPE Budapest with a fresh slate of new titles and new seasons of our biggest hits.”
Established in 2002, Cineflix Rights is based in London and is part of the CineflixMedia group of companies, which is led by co-founder and CEO Glen Salzman. Cineflix has a catalogue of more than 7,500 hours of programming.
