Beta Film Scores Sales on Italy’s Hit Young Adult Drama ‘The Sea Beyond’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Naples-set young adult series “The Sea Beyond,” which depicts the world of a juvenile jail in the crime-ridden Italian city, is scoring a slew of international sales prompted by its phenomenal ratings on pubcaster RAI. Germany’s Beta Film, which is selling the show about kids behind bars produced by Rome-based Picomedia and RAI Fiction, has inked deals with WarnerMedia Latin America for HBO Max, Sweden’s free-to-air channel TV4, cabler HOT for Israel, and streamer Blu TV in Turkey. The deals mark a rare case of an Italian young adult series traveling abroad. Set in a youth detention center overlooking the… Read Full Article