INSIGHT TV’s The Ride Life With Sung Kang Accelerates With Global Sales
Featuring Fast & Furious Star Sung Kang, the Series Brings Car Communities to Life Across the Globe
January 21, 2025
(21st January 2025 – Amsterdam) – INSIGHT TV, channel operator and content distributor announces a raft of international sales for its highly anticipated auto, docu-series The Ride Life with Sung Kang (6x44').
The series, featuring Fast & Furious star Sung Kang, has been picked up by major broadcasters from around the globe, cementing a huge, universal appeal for cars and the reasons why we love them.
An Insight TV, Beach House Pictures, Bros Studio, and Raison D’Etre Stories co-pro, the six-part series takes viewers on a captivating journey into the world’s coolest car communities, exploring their origins, the cultures and the bonds they create. From London cabbies to Tokyo racers, to gearheads in Warsaw, and Seoul, Sung Kang seamlessly fits into these worlds and shares an authentic and genuine experience with viewers.
The following broadcasters acquired The Ride Life with Sung Kang:
- SBS (Australia)
- Warner Bros. Discovery (Southeast Asia, Taiwan, & Hong Kong)
- TVNZ (New Zealand)
- MBC (Middle East)
- Fuse Media (USA & India)
- Digi Romania (Romania)
- NOW TV (Hong Kong)
Sam Thompson, Global VP of Content Sales at Insight TV
"The global response to The Ride Life with Sung Kang has been huge! Sung is a legitimate star and fan favourite of major studio productions, and his love for cars shines through every episode. These deals highlight Insight TV’s reach into global markets and the show’s universal appeal. It’s a celebration of car culture and community, a new take on automotive storytelling."
The Ride Life with Sung Kang will premiere globally in 2025 on partner platforms and then across Insight TV’s global network, reaching over 400 million households in 56 countries.
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For more information, please contact Darren Newman, Global Marketing and Communications Manager.
About INSIGHT TV
Insight TV is the leading Millennial and Gen-Z global broadcaster, distributor, and channel operator, and is available on over 182 platforms, across 56 Countries, in 12 languages. Focussed on real life, story-driven content across multiple genres and verticals. Insight TV aims to inspire and represent global audiences with a universal appeal. With offices in Amsterdam, New York, LA, London, Dubai, and Beijing, Insight TV has a global reach, influence and resources. Insight TV’s linear flagship channels include: INULTRA (4K UHD) and INPLUS (HD). as well as a suite of digital channels that include, INFAST (Lifestyle), INTROUBLE (Action & Sports), INWONDER (Science & Technology), INWILD (Nature & Wildlife co-venture with Off the Fence), and INTRAVEL (Travel & Lifestyle). Insight TV partners and works with the biggest brands and media in the world including: Red Bull, BBC, G2, Vice, BT Sport, Monster, Vans, Samsung, LG, and others to co-produce series filmed around the world. All content is filmed in vivid 4K UHD HDR and is available both in 4K UHD and HD to MVPDs, OTT, and mobile video platforms and our SVOD platform, IN.TV, that can be seen at watch.insight.tv. Global Marketing & Communications Manager, Insight TV, Darren Newman
About Beach House Pictures
Founded in 2005 by producers Donovan Chan and Jocelyn Little, Beach House Pictures is headquartered in Singapore and is one of Asia’s largest independent TV & Film production companies, with a base in China and partners across Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan and India. BHP is a unique multi-cultural and multi-genre expert that has found commercial success in different key markets from the US to Asia. It specialises in creating and co-financing original IP across scripted, factual, unscripted and branded programming for regional and international platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime and Warner Bros Discovery, including Chinese platforms such as Youku, Bilibili and Tencent, producing popular premium shows such as Emmy® nominated Netflix lifestyle series MIND YOUR MANNERS (Netflix), Netflix Global Top 5 true crime doc MISSING: THE LUCIE BLACKMAN CASE, Netflix S.E.A. Top 10 scripted series MR MIDNIGHT, Netflix Korea Top 5 true crime series THE RAINCOAT KILLER, the Grierson Awards nominated science series EVOLVE (Curiosity, Amazon Prime), the exciting new exploration series LIFT THE ICE (Curiosity), highly rated wildlife drama OTTER DYNASTY (Max/Discovery+, Love Nature) and long-running franchises MASTERCHEF SINGAPORE (MediaCorp), BAKE OFF JAPAN (Amazon Prime), ED STAFFORD: FIRST MAN OUT (Discovery+, Bilibili) and WILD CITY with DAVID ATTENBOROUGH (Netflix, Sky, BBC America). BHP is in development on a premium Asian scripted action series CLEOPATRA WONG and has new scripted development deals with Canal+, Studiocanal, Viu and Amazon Prime. An ultimate blend of the best of East and West, BHP is currently repped by Anonymous Content.
About Bros Studio
Bros Studio is a Korean American talent management and content production media and entertainment company. In development are both scripted and non-scripted shows featuring top talent from both Korea and abroad. Bros' talent roster includes high profile Hollywood talent, Academy award winning directors, and up and coming talent in Korea. Based in Seoul and Los Angeles, Bros' emphasis is on cross border content, acting as a bridge between Korea & Hollywood and the rest of the world. The company is founded by four co-founders, Jae Man Choi, Kevin Lee, Joseph Jang, and Liana Kim. all who bring a wealth of experience in both talent management and content production.
About Raison D'Etre Stories
Raison D'Etre Stories is filmmaker / actor Sung Kang's production company. His producing partner Brian Yang has had extensive experience producing narrative and documentary films (Snakehead - 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, Linsanity - 2013 Sundance Film Festival), episodic, and podcast content inside the US and across Asia. As a company, their first feature film was Kang's directorial debut called Shaky Shivers, a horror-comedy which was an homage to 80s horror films Kang grew up on. Raison has recently launched a podcast called Car Stories With Sung Kang And Emelia Hartford on the iHeartRadio platform this fall.