CITVC develops international content slate
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Rebecca Hawkes
| 22 November 2018

State-owned content aggregator China International Television Corporation (CITVC) has imported more than 100 international films, TV series and documentaries this year, its executive vice president has announced.

Acquisitions include TV Azteca’s Mexican family drama A Love to Remember, Bangkok Broadcasting & TV’s Thai drama Reckless Bride, and Irish film Solo from UFA Fiction Production.

Alone, a documentary from A+E Networks in the U.S., was promoted in China with an interactive event about exploration and survival skills held at Tsinghua University, prior to broadcast on CCTV10.

“CITVC continues to strengthen its communication with international producers and distributors, and to cooperate extensively in program importation, the development of intellectual property, and the localization of overseas programs in line with the tastes of Chinese audiences,” said Jianing Shen, EVP, CITVC.

“In the context of the integrated development of the film and television culture; networking in China and elsewhere, and with the informatisation and globalisation of the media industry, we hope to further deepen our cooperation with overseas counterparts and to jointly promote our coordinated efforts,” he added.

Since 1997, the China Media Group subsidiary CITVC has successfully imported more than 5,000 episodes from over 600 programs from Hong Kong and Taiwan, and from 50 countries including the US, Canada, Venezuela, UK, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Australia, India, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Japan, and Korea.

Recent TV series acquisitions include The Little Nyonya from Singapore, Kohi Apna Sa from India, and Dyesebel from Philippines. Films from Europe which have been imported by the Chinese enterprise in 2018 include The Legend of 1900 (pictured); Law, Order & Murder; and La Lettre.