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Cineflix International continues success with Mayday
January 01, 2004
January, 2004 : Cineflix International Ltd, the London-based international television distribution arm of Canadian production company Cineflix has announced the latest deal for the Cineflix series, Mayday, to the SEVEN NETWORK in Australia.
The Seven Network acquisition marks yet another significant sale for the 6×60 series, which has already been pre-sold to UK broadcaster Five; to France 5; and to Discovery and Canal D in Canada.
Several U.S. broadcasters have also expressed an interest in the series and a significant global deal is in the pipeline.
Mayday delves into the science behind the causes of recent air crashes, employing dramatic recreation to evoke the tense moments of flights in peril. Swissair Flight 111, which ended in tragedy off the coast of Newfoundland in 1998; United Airlines Flight 811 near Honolulu, where a 747 cargo door blew off creating a fatal hole in the fuselage; and the Air Transat emergency landing in the Azores are some of the gripping Mayday flights.
Budgeted at $2.9 million CDN the series is still shooting interviews on location internationally and reenactments in studio in Toronto. A Canada-France-UK co-production between Cineflix, Galaxie Presse in France and Media Production Services in the U.K., Mayday’s first broadcast window is slated for Fall 2003.
