BBC Studios has licensed over 1500 hours of content to clients across Central & Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa it announced at MIPTV 2019.

Across Central and Eastern Europe, key agreements include over 50 hours of premium drama and comedy titles licensed to HBO Europe for its pay TV and SVOD services. Titles included the fifth series of multi-award-winning Luther, Tom Rob-Smith's MotherFatherSon starring Richard Gere, Press,written by Mike Barlett (Doctor Foster), Rose d'Or award-winner Friday Night Dinner (S1-5) and the critically acclaimed anthology Inside no.9 (S4).

In Russia, KinoPoisk (Yandex) picked up the rights to air the new series of Doctor Who (S11) starring Jodie Whittaker as the thirteenth Doctor, Pure, a brilliantly funny, emotive series about finding friends and learning how to love, BAFTA award-winning Doctor Foster (S1&2) and Les Miserables starring Dominic West, whilst free-to-air channel Che TV has licensed almost 40 hours of premium factual content including Forces of Nature, 24 Hours on Earth and Atlantis: The Evidence.

Elsewhere, over 200 hours of natural history, drama, and documentary series were licensed to MTVA in Hungary. Titles include blue-chip natural history series Blue Planet II, Planet Earth II and Frozen Planet, and Andrew Davies' bold adaptation of literary masterpiece Les Miserables. In the Czech Republic, Czech TV and Prima each picked up around 200 hours of content. Czech TV took a mixture of factual, drama and children's titles including Dynasties from BBC Studios natural history unit, family drama The Durrells (S1-3) and BAFTA award-winning preschool series Hey Duggee. Meanwhile Prima picked up light crime series Shakespeare and Hathaway, Blue Planet II and Top Gear.

Polish broadcaster TVP has licensed a mixed genre package of over 230 hours including MacMafia, starring James Norton, and Earth from Space for TVP1 and Rituals to TVP Historia, whilst Polsat picked up over 30 hours of factual entertainment series including Obsessed with My Body for its Polsat Café channel and Round Planet for Polsat documentary.

In the Mediterranean region, BBC Studios has agreed a factual SVOD package with Cosmote in Greece. The deal includes over 250 hours of premium factual titles designed to complement the schedule for the BBC Earth linear channel which is also available through the operator. Key titles include Astronauts: Toughest Job in the Universe, Where the Wild Men Are With Ben Fogle and Life Below Zero.

Turkish public broadcaster TRT has licensed over 50 hours of natural history and arts programming for their TRT Documentary and TRT2 channels. TRT documentary will air BBC Studio's latest landmark natural history series Dynasties alongside Spy in the Wild and titles from the Natural World strand, whilst Treasures of Ancient Egypt and Secret Cities will play out on recently launched channel TRT2.

Grant Welland, Executive Vice President for CEMA, BBC Studios said: "At a time when there is greater competition than ever before for audiences, customers across CEMA are increasingly turning to BBC Studios to deliver stand-out, distinctive content that will set them apart from their competitors. With series like The Mallorca Files, The Planets and new Top Gear coming soon, BBC Studios is well placed to provide the very best of British creativity that has global appeal."