MIPCOM Deals: Paramount Signs Mid-East Package With beIN Media, Hulu Nabs ‘Critical Incident’
Deal-making has been brisk at the global TV market in Cannes.
A spate of deals out of MIPCOM Cannes this week indicates there is still life in the global TV market.
Paramount Global Content Distribution inked a multi-year volume deal with beIN Media Group, giving the Qatari-owned group exclusive rights to Paramount’s content library, including acclaimed series like Yellowstone, Billions, new offerings such as NCIS: Tony & Ziva and feature films including Bob Marley: One Love and the Transformers and Mission: Impossible franchises, across the Middle East and North Africa for beIN’s premium Pay TV channels and TOD streaming platform. The deal will see the shows carried in English subtitled in Arabic. Paramount has similar agreements in place with the likes of Streamz in Belgium, MultiChoice in Africa, and JioCinema in India.
Disney-owned Hulu, which on Monday announced its acquisition of StudioCanal’s action series Paris Has Fallen, has also snapped up U.S. streaming rights to Critical Incident, an Australian psychological crime thriller from All3Media International. The series, inspired by creator Sarah Bassiuoni’s experiences as a lawyer in Western Sydney’s juvenile justice system, follows a police officer, played by Akshay Khanna, whose routine patrol takes a tragic turn. Zoë Boe and Hunter Page-Lochard co-star. Critical Incident premiered in August in Australia on Stan. Hulu will launch the series later this year as part of its global rollout.
