MEDIA RELEASE: Cineflix Rights unveils 2025 London TV Screenings slate
Cineflix Rights has unveiled its London TV Screenings slate of new dramas and factual content, ahead of its buyers’ screening event on 25th February.
Leading the scripted slate is Sunny Nights (8×60’, Jungle Entertainment and Echo Lake Entertainment in association with Cineflix Rights for Stan, Australia) a darkly comedic crime drama directed by Trent O’Donnell (Population 11, Colin from Accounts, No Activity, Hacks) and starring Will Forte (The Last Man on Earth, Bodkin, Saturday Night Live) as a strait-laced American who teams up with his loose cannon sister played by D’Arcy Carden (Nobody Wants This, The Good Place, Barry), to set up a spray tan business in Sydney. The siblings become tangled up in the city’s criminal underworld, and when a ruthless gangster begins to catch up with them, the two must figure out how to stay alive, out of prison, and in the black.
Based on A.A. Dhand’s best-selling novels, Virdee (6×60’, Magical Society for BBC One/BBC iPlayer) is a crime thriller following Harry Virdee (Staz Nair, Rebel Moon), a Bradford cop hunting down a serial killer. The series launched earlier this month on BBC1 with critics praising it as: ‘tremendous, tantalising, action-packed fun’, ‘thrilling, intriguing, and more importantly, incredibly heartwarming, and ‘timely and essential … perfectly judged. Virdee’s a hit not to miss’.
Heart Attack (8×45’, Skybound and ROBOT for Fuji TV, Japan) is a dystopian sci-fi drama “live-action anime” from producers of The Walking Dead. Based on the hit graphic novel created by Mortal Kombat 2’s Shawn Kittelsen and Eric Zawadzki, it stars Kanichiro (Kubi, Last Ninja – Blue Shadow), Toko Miura (Drive My Car, Weathering with You) and Goro Kishtani (Returner, Graveyard of Honor).
New factual titles for 2025 include:
Cape Carnage: Killer Catch (10×60’, McAvoy Media for Seven Network Australia, UKTV, TVNZ) which follows Captain Bruce and the Davey family, who make a living from one of the most dangerous and remote jobs on earth: hand-line fishing in the treacherous waters of northern Australia.
Help! We Bought A Village (Seasons 1-3, 80×60’, True North for Channel 4, UK), follows couples and families as they restore abandoned villages across Europe. Faced with a seemingly impossible task, with the help of locals, these intrepid property developers transform sprawling ruins into beautiful homes and thriving businesses through supersize renovation adventures.
Vanished History (10×60’, Shark Teeth Films for Bell Media, Canada) uses an investigative approach to unlock some of the most enigmatic mysteries of all time, from Cleopatra’s secret crypt and Genghis Khan’s long-lost tomb, to ghost ships, abandoned cities, and missing treasures.
Commando Missions (4×60’, Galaxie Presse for Canal+, France) recounts daring top-secret operations behind enemy lines, as part of the Allies’ bold new strategy to attack Hitler’s Reich from within.
Crime Scene Investigators (13×60’, Cineflix Productions for Discovery, UK and Bell Media, Canada) is a fresh take on the true-crime docudrama where a homicide team pieces together forensic clues into a single, revealing frame. From blood spatter and shell casings to biomarkers and digital fingerprints, every fragment adds to the array of evidence that ultimately reveals the killer.
Vikings: The Empire of the North Sea (6×60’, Pernel Media for Planète+ & C8, France, and TV5 Quebec, Canada) is an immersive journey that propels viewers a thousand years back in time, chronicling the epic rise and fall of history’s first-and-only Viking empire.
Alexander the Great (3×60’, Pernel Media for Planète+ & C8, France, and TV5 Quebec, Canada) showcases the monumental exploits of one of history’s greatest military leaders, retracing his supersize destiny through the eyes of his closest confidant and lifelong friend.
These new titles join returning seasons of hit Channel 4 brands including format Tempting Fortune (Voltage TV and Group M Motion), A New Life in the Sun (True North), and Château DIY (Spark Media Partners).
Tim Mutimer, CEO, Cineflix Rights said: “I’m thrilled to be kicking off the year showcasing a slate including Sunny Nights, our brand new series shepherded by Colin From Accounts showrunner Trent O’Donnell and starring Hollywood A-Listers Will Forte and D’Arcey Carden. We’re also launching our compelling new crime thriller Virdee which is generating impressive audiences and rave reviews for BBC1. Alongside these standout scripted series, we are presenting Channel 4’s Help! I Bought A Village, the perfect stablemate for our growing portfolio of returning franchises. We’ve also got fascinating new series in the Crime, History and Dangerous Jobs spaces. To complete our offering, we’re launching a new season of our hit format Tempting Fortune which has already started its global roll out.”
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