News brief: Broadcasters buy Weather Channel content

Passion Distribution has sold several shows from The Weather Channel.

Passion reps the cable net’s catalogue and has shopped So You Think You’d Survive? (pictured) to N-TV in Germany and TV2 in Norway.

The series, which looks at how you can survive freak weather incidents, has also been shopped to RMC Decouvertes in France.

N-TV has also picked up The Weather Channel’s Strangest Weather on Earth and Why Planes Crash.