BBC Studios Pounces On ‘Big Cats’ Sales; Channel 4 & SBS Board ‘Mysteries Of…’; WBITVP, Cineflix & Blue Ant Slates — MIPCOM Cannes Briefs

BBC Studios Pounces On ‘Big Cats 24/7’ SalesBBC Studios and PBS’s upcoming natural history show Big Cats 24/7 has landed a host of pre-buyers ahead of MIPCOM Cannes. In China, Bilibili, iQiyi, Tencent, Youku and linear channel CCTV World Geography have bought the BBC Studios Natural History Unit-produced show, along withYLE (Finland), France Televisions (France), Sky Deutschland (Germany) and Movistar Plus+ (Spain). The show will also be available on the BBC Earth channel in Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Romania, Malta, Macedonia, Montenegro,Poland,Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africaand Turkey. In Asia, it will be on BBC Earth and SVOD service BBC Player in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. The six-part series follows the lives of lions, cheetahs and leopards in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, a place described as one of Africa’s last wildernesses. BBC Studios is heading to Cannes with the show and others such as Expedition Kill...