Keshet Worldwide has commissioned the six-part docuseries “Hitler’s Treasure Hunters” from manufacturing outfit Perpetual Leisure(“Troppo”).  

KI’s second straight-to-series factual order for worldwide distribution, which figures into a brand new Greenlight: Factual & Codecs commissioning initiative, the present facilities Heinrich Himmler’s Das Ahnenerbe, a department of the Nazi SS that sought spiritual relics and high-value worldwide artefacts –  such because the Holy Grail and Thor’s Hammer – in an effort to acquire stable footing within the struggle and advance Aryan supremacy. 

The present’s launch subsequent 12 months is ready to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the loss of life of Hitler and the tip of World Struggle II.

“Keshet Worldwide’s Greenlight: Factual & Codecs initiative is permitting us to discover a totally different method of getting new content material onto TV screens all over the world by responding collaboratively to market wants. Perpetual Leisure’s pitch for ‘Hitler’s Treasure Hunters’ stood out as a result of it provides an interesting and weird aspect observe to historical past’s most notorious villains at a time that is smart for broadcasters, which is why we’re fully-funding it for distribution ourselves,” Kelly Wright, MD of Distribution for Keshet, mentioned in a press release.  

“We’re delighted to be creating this sequence for Keshet Worldwide and audiences all over the world.  At Perpetual we now have a love of making specialist factual documentaries and discovering methods of connecting audiences with historical past. Because the world turns into extra populist and polarized, it’s necessary that we mirror on the teachings that our historical past can train us,” added Brendan Dahill, normal supervisor at Perpetual Leisure.    

“Hitler’s Treasure Hunters” shall be govt produced by Brendan Dahill and David Alrich at Perpetual Leisure alongside Keshet’s Kelly Wright, with director Roger Energy additionally producing the sequence. The deal was brokered by Perpetual Leisure’s London-based distribution companion Jimmy Humphrey of Marmalade Sky TV alongside Keshet’s Anke Stoll. 

The sequence stands as the primary to be commissioned in response to Keshet’s second producer pitch occasion in London final November, the place almost 200 concepts have been submitted and 30 shortlisted initiatives have been offered to an viewers of roughly 50 worldwide consumers.

“All of us have been actually impressed with the standard of the initiatives pitched by the producers at our second pitch final November, and we’re speaking to many broadcasters about a number of extra exhibits that we hope to co-commission from the likes of Curve Media, Flicker Productions and Woodcut Media within the coming months,” Anke Stoll, Keshet’s SVP of acquisitions and co-productions, relayed in a press release.   

Keshet Worldwide shall be asserting the fee at this time as a part of their first Unscripted occasion that runs in tandem with the London TV Screenings. The invitation-only occasion additionally contains an unique preview screening of the pilot episode of “Earthbound,” Ritual Arts’ and Superb Owl’s docuseries narrated and govt produced by Orlando Bloom.