International broadcasters have acquired blue-chip wildlife documentaries filmed in China and Japan from UK-based distributor TVF International.

Having pre-sold China’s Wild Secrets (5×45′) to WDR/Arte in Europe, TVF has since sold the series to Asharq Discovery in the Middle East, NHK in Japan, Viasat in Europe, DR in Denmark and Ceska Televize in the Czech Republic.

Produced by Chinese video-sharing platform bili bili and TVF International, the Sir Stephen Fry-narrated series explores China’s hidden wildlife havens.

Japan’s Wild Side (2×52′), produced by Tokyovision and TVF, meanwhile, has been sold to Nat Geo EMEA, RTVE in Spain, Canal+ Polska and Ceska Televise.

Elsewhere, Movistar Plus+ in Spain has acquired a documentary marking the 40th anniversary of the explosion of Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in April.

The Spanish streamer has pre-bought Escape From Chernobyl: 48 Hours that Changed the World (1×47’/1×68′), which was commissioned by Channel 4 in the UK and SBS in Australia and produced by Like a Shot Entertainment.

Poppy McAlister, managing director of TVF, attended last week’s World Congress of Science and Factual Producers (WCSFP) in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.

McAlister said: “We’ve seen particularly strong momentum across our natural history and specialist factual slate this year.

“Securing these key deals was an exciting achievement, in a market where cooperation between producers and distributors is increasingly important when bringing ambitious projects like China’s Wild Secrets and Japan’s Wild Side to life.”

The distributor also sold ZDF/Arte’s Inside Britain’s National Parks (4×52′), which explores the biodiversity of Britain’s national parks and the incredible effort taken to keep them running, to the BBC.

In science, TVF has licensed The Ozempic Effect: Beyond the Waistline (1×54′), commissioned by CBC in Canada and produced by Paul Kemp Productions, to SBS in Australia and Movistar Plus+ among others, and the BBC-commissioned Secrets of the Brain with Jim Al-Khalili (2×59′) to Arte, UR in Sweden and FTV Prima in the Czech Republic.

France TV’s Ulysses: From Myth to Science (2×48’/1×60’/1×90′), which follows palaeontologists and archaeologists investigating the truth behind the 3,000-year-old legend The Odyssey, has been sold to ZDF in Germany, SVT in Sweden, Sky New Zealand, Movistar Plus+ and Ceska Televize.

The distributor also sold Like a Shot Entertainment’s 24 Hours That Changed the World (2×47′), which counts down the crucial 24 hours before the surrenders of Germany and Japan in WWII, to buyers including Viasat and FTV Prima.

Also in history, the distributor sold Great British Train Journeys From Above (4×47′), the anniversary special tracing 200 years of train travel, to Channel 4, SBS, SVT, Ceska Televize, AMC Networks, and Polsat, and Nordic copro Untold Arctic Wars: The Cold War (6×52′) from SVT, DR, RUV, YLE and NRK, to RTL Germany, SBS Australia, and FTV Prima.