TVF Int’l bringing 100 new hours to Mipcom, including Escape From Chernobyl doc

Jordan Pinto, 9 October 2025
From C21

London-based factual distributor TVF International will unveil a slate of more than 100 hours of new factual content at Mipcom, including Channel 4 and SBS documentary Escape From Chernobyl: 48 Hours That Changed the World and Sky History’s Second World War doc The Last Burma Star.

Escape From Chernobyl, produced by Like a Shot Entertainment, commemorates 40 years since the nuclear disaster, while The Last Burma Star pays tribute to Burmese veterans who fought alongside British and Commonwealth forces in Burma.

The company will also be shopping a range of Asian titles, including Asia’s Ancient Civilisations from Singaporean public broadcaster CNA and Si Thep: Ancient Civilisation of the Sun God from ThaiPBS.

Other titles on the slate include The Ozempic Effect: Beyond the Waistline for Canadian pubcaster CBC, Confessions of a Brain Surgeon for the BBC and Hooked: The Science of Addiction for RTÉ.

In lifestyle, new series include Great British Train Journeys From Above (Channel 4) and Saving Britain’s Country Houses with Penelope Keith (Channel 4) following homeowners preserving historic estates, while in food TVF is shopping Lunch With Us (CNA), which takes viewers inside the lunchtime rush in restaurants across Asia, and Not Your Butter Chicken (CBC) about the South Asian food scene in North America.

The distributor’s factual entertainment slate features Canadian road rescue series Off Road Rescue (Telus) while the true-crime slate includes Australian Crime Stories: The Investigators which follows investigators reliving the toughest cases of their careers.