Foxtel acquires BBC Worldwide ANZ package

Foxtel’s The History Channel has acquired a package of factual content from BBC Worldwide ANZ that includes a number of  WW1 programs to commemorate the centenary of the conflict.

 The announcement:

A recent deal has seen Foxtel’s The History Channel acquire over 66 hours of factual content from BBC Worldwide ANZ. The package includes a number of titles which will have their Australian premiere on the channel, along with a raft of WW1 programming to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the start of the First World War.

The Australian premiere titles in the package include Royal Cousins at War, a two part series that looks at the role played by the three monarchs, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and King George V of England. The Greatest Knight, tells the fascinating story of William Marshal, the world’s greatest Knight. In a career that spanned half a century, this English soldier and statesman served some of Christendom’s greatest leaders.  Plantagenets, explores one of Europe’s most dysfunctional yet longest ruling global dynasties.  With wicked uncles and duplicitous queens, the history of the Plantagenet dynasty is one of a powerful, yet feuding family. Finally, Kennedy’s Suicide Bomber is a shocking documentary that tells the story of Richard Paul Pavlick, a man who came within seconds of killing JFK three years prior to his assassination, in an attempt that could also have killed everyone else within 400 meters.