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SYDNEY: Modern Times Group (MTG) has acquired the factual series Status: Vacant from Escapade Media, to air on the Viasat History channel across Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.

SYDNEY: Nick Saxon, singer/songwriter and host of Nat Geo's World Traveller, has been lined up to present the new factual series Status: Vacant, from the Escapade Media catalogue.

As the new international TV and film sales agent turns 1, it has secured world rights including format rights to Showrunner Production’s original concept.

With last night’s unveiling of the MiamiFF32 poster as an image from Miami’s history (Orson Welles in Miami Beach 1943), MiamiFF revealed today the first title of the 2015 Festival’s official selection – another shot of vintage Miami: The Lost Aviator, by Australian filmmaker Andrew Lancaster.

The story of Bill Lancaster is a fascinating one. Having never heard of his daring adventures across the world I came into ‘The Lost Aviator’ completely cold, expecting something of a dry re-telling of an old school British aviator who got into some scrapes.

An Australian documentary on the life of adventurer Bill Lancaster is set to make its world premiere at the London Film Festival.

SYDNEY: Discovery Kids has acquired the sixth season of Kitchen Whiz, a cooking show aimed at children, for broadcast on the channel's pan-Asia feeds.

Discovery Kids has acquired series 6 of Kitchen Whiz, Channel Nine’s cooking show for kids aged 8-12 years.

WHEN a French Foreign Legion patrol stumbled across the wreckage of an aircraft in the Sahara Desert in 1962 a 29-year-old mystery was finally solved.

Escapade Media has picked up the worldwide rights for the feature documentary The Lost Aviator.