BBC Four has inked deals with DCD Rights and Fremantle to acquire the UK rights to Australian drama series The Secrets She Keeps and French drama The Last Wave, respectively. Both series are expected to air in the channel's Saturday night foreign drama slot later this year. 
DCD Rights has secured UK deals for two new Australian dramas. The international distributor has licensed crime drama My Life Is Murder to UKTV's Alibi channel and four-part drama The Hunting to Channel 5. The deal for My Life Is Murder was negotiated by UKTV's Acquisitions Manager Charlie Charalambous, while Channel 5's Acquisitions Director Anna-Belen Dunlop secured The Hunting for the broadcaster's prime-time schedule. Both series will premiere later this year. 
Independent distributor DCD Rights has hired Passion Distribution executive Phillipa Chuter as Senior Acquisitions Executive, in anticipation of a factual acquisitions push. Chuter will report directly to DCD's Head of Acquisitions Pilar Perez. 
DCD Rights has sold Australian drama 'The Code', which stars Lucy Lawless and Aden Young, to international broadcasters in France, Germany and Canada. 
DCD Rights has lined up a slew of international sales for The Open University’s library of television content. 
International distributor DCD Rights has sold the short-lived ITV series Penn & Teller: Fool Us to Universal Channel in Asia and Prava I Prevodi in the Balkans.