CANNES, France — wedotv , the global free ad-supported streaming network, is partnering with Germany’s ZDF Studios , to create and distribute a FAST channel dedicated to just one title: landmark South African drama series “Legacy.”
ZDF Studios already represents the series globally outside , bringing it to market at 2023’s Mipcom .
As many companies turn to YouTube to build IP, then approach streaming services with masses of data on the result, the single IP channel – wedotv: Legacy — now created and distributed by wedotv – shows companies approaching IP the other way round. First released in 2020 on South Africa’s M-Net, a division of MultiChoice, and now a Canal Plus company, the thriller about how a family tears itself apart in a succession battle built a huge fandom in South Af