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ABC Commercial reaches agreement with Acorn TV

September 24, 2019 10.47 Europe/London By Robert Briel

ABC Commercial has reached a new distribution agreement with North American streaming service Acorn TV for a raft of ABC television content for their Australian and New Zealand offering.

The agreement lists a number of Australia’s locally produced titles including Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries – starring Essie Davis, the ABC drama Jack Irish starring Guy Pearce and Australian comedy series, A Moody Christmas and The Moody’s.

The deal will also see British comedy drama Kingdom starring English actor/comedian and writer Stephen Fry and black comedy Shameless and made for television film, Churchill’s Secret.

“ABC Commercial has been a partner of Acorn TV from their launch in 2018” said Jessica Ellis, Head of Content Sales and Distribution, ABC Commercial.

“ABC content resonates with Acorn’s core audience, so we are extremely happy to build on our partnership and see more of the ABC’s world-class list of content already successfully streaming on the Acorn TV platform.”

“After our success in introducing several major Australian series to our audiences in North America, Acorn TV is thrilled to work with ABC Commercial to add more first-rate Australian and British content to our subscribers in Australia and New Zealand.” said Don Klees, SVP of Acorn Programming for RLJ Entertainment.

Adding to the list is a diverse slate of British viewing including Being Human, Black Books, Criminal Justice, Doc Martin, Father Ted, Detectorists, Land Girls, The Level and Peep Show. All ABC content in this agreement will be available to stream in September and October.

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Filed Under: Newsline, On Demand/VOD, OTT, TV Tagged With: ABC Commercial, Acorn TV, Australia, US Edited: 24 September 2019 10:47

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