Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment company, has sold multi award-winning CBC/HBO MAX Original comedy series Sort Of Season 1 (8 x 30’) to Netflix in Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
AMR has also secured sales for Deadline, Pulse, H.M. The Queen: A Remarkable Life; Philip: Prince, Husband, Father, Queen Elizabeth: A Lifetime of Service, The Masked Dancer season 2 and Titans of Tech, to Rock Entertainment in Asia, and Line of Duty seasons 1-5 to Pumpkin Film (China Ruyi HK0136) in China.
Pooja Nirmal Kant, Co-Founder and CEO at Still Road Media who brokered the deals for AMR comments, “We are delighted that the multi award-winning drama Sort Of and a number of very relevant and absorbing factual series have been picked up for the Asian market, where we have already had great success selling a range of drama, entertainment and factual programming.”
Sort Of, produced by Sienna Films, a Sphere Media company, with the participation of the Canada Media Fund, is created by Bilal Baig (Acha Bacha) and Fab Filippo (Save Me), who also serve as showrunners and executive producers. The dramatic comedy sees Sabi Mehboob (Baig), a fluid millennial who straddles various identities from sexy bartender at an LGBTQ bookstore/bar, to the youngest child in a large Pakistani family, to the de facto parent of a downtown hipster family.