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Sphere Abacus secures 159+ hours of programming sales following ATF

December 16, 2025

Sphere Abacus’ sales agent for Asia, Pooja Nirmal Kant, confirms a raft of sales following a successful week at ATF.
Among the vast package of titles, Now TV (Hong Kong) has acquired Doubters To Believers: Liverpool FC – Klopp’s Era (4 x one hour), Gunpowder Siege (3 x one hour), Harrods: The Rise and Fall of a British Institution (1 x one hour), What Really Happened? American Independence (6 x one hour), Escape from Kabul (1 x 90’), This is Joan Collins (1 x 90’), King of Lies: Football’s Greatest Con (1 x 90’), Special Forces: Most Daring Missions (3 x one hour), Terror on Long Island (3 x one hour), The Trouble with Mr. Doodle (1 x 90’), Twitter: Breaking the Bird (1 x 75’), Leaving Neverland (2 x two hours) and Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson (1 x one hour).
Brite Now (Thailand) has secured Operation: Sharklift (1 x one hour), How Not To Get Cancer (4 x one hour), A Mild Touch Of Cancer (1 x one hour), Trauma Room One (8 x one hour), Top Guns: Inside The RAF – Series 1 and 2 (12 x one hour), Costco: Is It Really Worth It? (1 x one hour), Costco At Christmas (1 x one hour), How To Paint The Mona Lisa (1 x one hour), Yellowstone Supervolcano (2 x one hour) and Work On The Wild Side (20 x 1 hour).
HK Television Entertainment Company Limited (Hong Kong) has bought Travels with Agatha Christie & Sir David Suchet (5 x one hour), Alan Cumming’s Most Luxurious Train Journeys: Scotland (4 x one hour), Gary Barlow’s Wine Tour: South Africa (5 x one hour), Billy and Dom Eat the World (8 x one hour), The Real Serpent: Investigating a Serial Killer (3 x one hour), The Murderous Scissor Sisters (3 x one hour) and Vanished: The Lucie Blackman Mystery (2 x one hour).
Life in Colour With David Attenborough (2 x one hour) and Antarctica From Above (1 x 90’) will be aired on Mediacorp (Singapore), with CNC Media (South Korea) taking Top Guns: Inside the RAF Season 2 (6 x one hour).
ROCK Networks (Pan Asia) has acquired Alan Cumming’s Most Luxurious Train Journeys: Scotland (4 x one hour), Barbie Uncovered: A Dream House Divided (1 x 90’), Fantastic Friends Seasons 1 and 2 (14 x one hour), The Masked Singer Seasons 6 and 7, (16 x one hour), Scrublands (4 x one hour) and, as already announced, Scrublands: Silver (4 x one hour).
 
Additionally, sales have been agreed with AK Entertainment (South Korea) for Special Forces: Most Daring Missions (3 x one hour) and Kate Humble’s Coastal Britain Seasons 1 and 2 (14 x one hour); Alliance Media Group Limited (China) – Secret World of Sound With David Attenborough (3 x one hour); Phoenix Satellite Television Company Limited (China (excluding Taiwan), Brunei, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore) – Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin (2 x one hour) and Edu TV channel (Mongolia) and Warner Bros. Discovery (Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea) – Genghis Khan: The Secret History Of The Mongols (6 x one hour).
Still Road Media’s co-founder and CEO Pooja Nirmal Kant, who brokered the deals on behalf of Sphere Abacus, commented: “Buyers across Asia have engaged enthusiastically with titles across every genre, underscoring the strength of Sphere Abacus’ curated catalogue and its alignment with evolving audience needs. We’re delighted to see both new premium titles and established brands gaining strong traction, reinforcing the value of our long-term partnerships throughout the region.”
Jonathan Ford, Managing Director, Sphere Abacus, added: “We’re delighted to have secured strong sales across all content genres at ATF.  It’s gratifying to see our ever-expanding portfolio of high-quality programming from a growing roster of leading producers continues to strike a chord with buyers across Asia for their viewers.”

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