TCB acquires BriteSpark primetime shows for MIP TV slate
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| 03 April 2019

London-based rights-ownership and distribution company TCB Media Rights has acquired new Channel 4 series Banged Up from Argonon-owned BriteSpark Films which will be part of the vanguard of its MIPTV offer.

The 3 x 60’ series follows eight of the most troubled — and troublesome — teenagers in the UK to Florida, where a tough-justice incarceration programme is said to have been achieving astonishing results. The show is described as being packed with drama and conflict, raw emotion and painful insights. In the words of BriteSpark co-founder and executive producer, Nick Godwin: “It’s never been more important to look at new ways of keeping at-risk youngsters out of prison and out of the cemetery.”

Banged Up joins other BriteSpark shows on TCB Media Rights’ MIPTV slate which comprises 36 new titles and 220 hours of new content.. These include Massive Engineering Mistakes (10 x 60 mins), produced in association with TCB for Science Channel and Quest. The series, which remembers the construction calamities, epic fails and near misses that the world’s engineers would rather forget, was recently acquired by Discovery Science in the US, Discovery and Odisea in Spain, Discovery UK, Viasat for CEE and the Nordics, and Sky TV in New Zealand.

Commenting on the MIP TV offer, TCB Media founder and CEO Paul Heaney said: “There are many ways to try and cut through all of the other competing content out there, as a platform for the consumer or as TCB selling stuff to the market...we like shows that are pragmatic and commercial and go for the ratings jugulars....we hope our absurdly diverse slate for this half of 2019 will give us a long tail of interested buyers and returning series.”