BossaNova Media, Paul Heaney’s content creation, funding and distribution company, has licensed several of its most popular titles to broadcasters across Europe. The sales, which total more than 95 hours of premium content, were brokered by head of sales Tatiana Grinkevich.

Sales into CEE have been brisk, with Hearst Networks Romania picking up all five series of one of BossaNova’s most successful factual entertainment titles: Worldmark Films’ Caught on Dashcam, which features mind-boggling road incidents filmed by motorists around the world.

Polsat has also acquired several history titles, including ITN Productions’ one-hour special MH17: The Plane Crash that Shook the World commissioned by Channel 4 to mark the 10th anniversary of the destruction of the Malaysian Airlines flight. MH17 was shot out of the skies over Ukraine in July 2014 by Russian-backed forces, killing all 298 people on board — an act of aggression that foreshadowed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Polsat deal also includes AMS Pictures’ The Infinite Deep: Stories of Lost Submarines (1 x 60/1 x 90 mins) and Perpetual Entertainment’s Greatest Escapes of World War 2 (6 x 60 mins).

Tatiana Grinkevich said: “There’s surging demand across Europe for big, bold, channel-defining crime and history titles but relatively few producers and distributors are able to deliver these shows to the right editorial brief and at the right price. Happily for BossaNova, that’s exactly the space we occupy with our premium documentaries like The Killer Clown, The Flight Attendant Murders and MH17: The Plane Crash that Shook the World. And as these latest deals demonstrate, it seems to be an approach that works for Europe’s buyers.”