Superights lands more deals for Home Sweet Rome!

BBC, ARD, RAI and Family Channel have joined HBO Max as commissioners on the coming-of-age musical comedy, which is slated to launch on HBO Max in the US later this year.
January 31, 2023

Superights—the sales division of French prodco Superprod—has locked in more broadcast deals for upcoming tween sitcom Home Sweet Rome!.

Family Channel (Canada) and RAI (Italy) have co-ordered the series in a Canadian-Italian treaty agreement. 

BBC and ARD (Germany) have also picked up the series. HBO Max and Cartoon Network picked up the series in 2022. The broadcaster’s will air the live-action series after it premieres on WildBrain’s Family Channel in Canada later this year. 

Toronto-based First Generation Films (Pinecone & Pony) and Superprod’s Red Monk Studio (Nadia) in Italy are co-producing Home Sweet Rome!, which features original music in each of its 30-minute episodes. 

The concept centers around a 13-year-old American girl who moves to Rome with her dad and stepmother (an Italian pop star). On top of adapting to a different culture, Lucy is also trying to maintain a long-distance friendship with her BFF back in the States.

Home Sweet Rome! went into development in 2021 and is based on a concept by Hannah Montana creator Michael Poryes. It just wrapped filming this week and is currently in post-production. 

Poryes is on board as an executive producer with showrunners Matt Huether and Courtney Walker, Red Monk’s Pedro Citaristi, First Generation’s Christina Piovesan and Superprod’s Jérémie Fajner, Clément Calvet, Doug Schwalbe and Riccardo Neri.

Correction February 1: This story originally incorrectly referred to the deals as pre-sales, when Family Channel and RAI commissioned the series. Kidscreen regrets this error. 

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