M-Net (DStv 101) has snapped up the broadcasting rights to Babylon Berlin for South Africa and the rest of Africa.
M-Net also acquired the Danish relationship drama, Ride Upon the Storm, from StudioCanal.
Babylon Berlin, the most expensive non-English TV drama made to date, is based on Volker Kutcher's novels and is set during 1929.
The German period drama, distributed by Beta Films, follows a young police inspector Gereon Rath (Volker Bruch) who's been transferred from Cologne to Berlin to solve a case and who quickly finds himself caught up in a web of corruption, organised crime and political extremism.
The aspiring police inspector Charlotte Ritter (Liv Lisa Fries) tries to help him while as a feminist she has dreams of becoming the first female homicide detective in the history of the Berlin Police force.
Babylon Berlin has two seasons spanning 16 episodes.
