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Global content producer and distributor Keshet International (KI) is today announcing sales for its docu-reality show Bad Habits, Holy Orders in numerous territories, including selling the finished tape to Hulu in the United States and licensing the format to Discovery in Italy.
Originally produced by Crackit Productions for Channel 5 in the UK, the 4x45’ docu-reality series sees a Catholic convent take in five raucous, selfie-obsessed party girls in a bid to show them a more spiritual path. Bad Habits, Holy Orders follows the party-loving girls through their almighty experience.

In the United States, KI has just completed a deal with Hulu that sees the American subscription video on-demand service acquire the exclusive VOD rights for the finished tape of this authentic, insightful and warmly humorous reality series.

While in Italy, KI has also recently completed a deal to license the format of Bad Habits, Holy Orders to Discovery, with Fremantle commissioned locally to produce the 4x45’ Italian adaptation entitled Ti Spedisco In Convento (I Send You To Convent ) for Discovery’s streaming platform and its Real Time channel. Filming is scheduled to take place before the end of this year.

KI has already licensed the format to NPO in the Netherlands and SBS in Belgium, where local adaptations have already been produced and broadcast. Featuring five young Belgian women, including a club dancer, social influencer and high school drop-out, SBS’s six-part Oh My God! premiered strongly on Channel Vijf (5) to positive reviews, increasing ratings and share above slot average and connecting well with its target audience of young women.

KI has also sold the finished tape of Bad Habits, Holy Orders to SBS in Belgium; DR in Denmark; Nelonen Media in Finland; Discovery in Italy; NPO in the Netherlands - for its Christian channel EO; TVN in Poland; and TVNZ in New Zealand; with other finished tape deals in negotiation.

Keren Shahar, COO & President of Distribution for KI, says, “Bad Habits, Holy Orders is compelling viewing in any language because the transformational journey the girls and the nuns go on together is both warm and authentic. Edgy and entertaining series like this one from Crackit Productions are proving particularly popular with factual buyers around the world right now, both as finished tape and as a format.”

Elaine Hackett, creative director at Crackit Productions, says: “Bad Habits is full of authenticity, warmth and charm and gives these young women a chance to explore what really matters in life. It was a privilege to be granted access to the Catholic Church and the nuns were amazing, funny and very knowledgeable. I’m sure audiences in all these territories will love the show and the fact that it offers a window into a very different world.”