Timeless Drama Channel (TDC) launches in Lebanon
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Joseph O'Halloran
| 03 March 2020

After a period of activity in which it saw success in East Europe for the Turkish offering, SPI/FilmBox has now inked a carriage deal with Lebanese content aggregator Right & Rights (R&R) for the Timeless Drama Channel (TDC).

Created in partnership with Ay Yapım, TDC offers over 600 hours of fresh content including nine globally acclaimed Turkish TV series: Karadayi, Black Money Love, 20 Minutes, Kurt Seyit & Shura, Moms and Mothers, Red Scarf, Five Brothers, The End and The 8th Day. The channel also boasts some of Turkey’s most talented actors and actresses such as International Emmy Award nominee Engin Akyürek, Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Bergüzar Korel, Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Kenan İmirzalıoğlu and Tuba Büyüküstün.

Since its launch in April 2019, TDC has been rapidly increasing its presence across the globe. The channel has reached five million homes in 14 countries in eight months, and plans to double its market penetration in 2020.

The new deal renders R&R the exclusive distributor of the channel to cable platforms in Lebanon, It also marks the launch of TDC on one of the biggest cable operators in the region, Cablevision, in March.

“We are proud to partner with R&R to bring the wonderful world of Turkish dramas to Lebanon,” said Murat Muratoğlu, head of distribution at SPI International commenting on the deal. “Through this partnership, Lebanese viewers will get to watch hundreds of hours of critically-acclaimed Turkish TV series and movies on TDC.”

“R&R… proves again its market leadership through exclusively providing the Lebanese market with this wonderful Turkish drama channel,” added R&R chairman and CEO Bassam Jaber, “We are proud to launch our partnership with SPI/FilmBox and look forward to enriching it by additional channels in the near future.”