Bassem Youssef Helming Health Reality Series With Propagate Selling
Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef is launching a reality series in which best friends, couples and family members are flown to a remote exotic island in Abu Dhabi to face their biggest fear: learning to become healthy. Propagate International has launched sales at Mipcom Cannes on The Reset, which will see contestants put through an immersive, medically progressive plant-based wellness program that seems impossible at first, but within days completely changes their minds, bodies, and souls. Each episode follows one couple on their journey as they are pushed outside their comfort zone. Propagate is selling this week and Tom Forman (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) is producing. Youssef is a comedian satirist and former cardiologist who has previously been compared to The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart. He hosted Al Bernameg, a first-of-its-kind political satire show in the Middle East.
Cineflix Rights Strikes ‘Last King of the Cross‘, ‘Reginald the Vampire’ Deals
Cineflix Rights has closed deals for Last King of the Cross, Reginald the Vampire and Sugar as Mipcom Cannes kicks off. The former, a Tim Roth-starrer for Paramount+ in Australia, has sold Season 2 to Sky UK, Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand and Paramount+ Canada. NBC Universal International Networks has acquired Season Two of Reginald the Vampire for France, Iberia, Central and Eastern Europe, German-speaking Europe and the UK, along with Sky (UK), Canada’s Bell Media (Seasons 1&2), and M6’s 6Play streaming platform. Meanwhile, Sugar, a feature thriller inspired by the dramatic real-life story of the ‘Cocaine Cowgirls,’ has sold to Lifetime U.S. and Paramount+ UK. “Alongside working with producers to develop and launch new dramas, building successful scripted franchises is a key part of our strategy,” said Cineflix Rights scripted boss James Durie.
A+E Networks Partners With Seven.One On Multi-Year Deal
A+E Networks has inked a multi-year deal with Seven.One Entertainment Group. The move builds on an existing “strategic content partnership” between the U.S. network and ProSiebenSat.1-owned player. Seven.One will have access to long-running A+E franchises including Pawn Stars, Storage Wars, Forged in Fire and Curse of Oak Island. “The combined leadership of A+E’s Kerstin Gühne and her team in collaboration with our friends at Seven.One Entertainment Group has secured a long-term and promising partnership in Germany, for both companies,” said Patrick Vien, Group Managing Director, International, A+E Networks.
