Killing Lincoln


Nat Geo orders first drama series, Aronofsky doc

National Geographic has ordered its first drama series and two big doc projects. The Fox-owned channel operator has recently reorganised its senior management, and today announced the three new landmark shows, which include Blood Ivory (WT), its first scripted series. The show comes out of a new development deal with DNA Films & TV (28 […]

Nat Geo eyes returning drama series

National Geographic Channel production guru Tim Pastore has told MIPDoc delegates the factual network could begin to pilot drama projects, and it is looking at ordering mini- and full-length drama series. Speaking during a keynote talk yesterday, National Geographic Channel’s president of original programming and production Pastore said the ratings and social media response to Nat Geo’s […]

Howard Owens leaving Nat Geo

National Geographic Channels president Howard Owens is leaving the factual channel in June. The Nat Geo boss will leave in June having been in charge of the channel since late 2011. Prior to joining Nat Geo, Owens was at US prodco Reveille and announcing his departure to staff, NGC’s US CEO David Lyle said Owens […]

Discovery Channel gets 3.4 million for Klondike

The Discovery Channel’s first scripted miniseries, Klondike, has delivered solid debut ratings of 3.4 million viewers. The three-part Gold Rush drama premiered on Monday on US cable, and stars Richard Madden (Game of Thrones), Abbie Cornish (Limitless), Tim Roth (Pulp Fiction, Lie to Me) and Sam Shephard (August: Osage County) as fortune hunters in the […]

Epic drama for factual channels

The last decade saw the big factual channels move from documentary led schedules to grids full of factual entertainment and observational docs. History, by commissioning mega-hit miniseries Hatfields and McCoys, has started the next evolution of factual channels and drama is a new battleground among the big networks, reports Stewart Clarke It’s unlikely that the […]

Ridley Scott making Killing Jesus drama for Nat Geo

Ridley Scott’s TV production firm is making a feature length version of upcoming Bill O’Reilly book Killing Jesus for National Geographic Channel. The same partners are also uniting for a show about Kennedy’s Assassination, Killing Kennedy. The projects reunite Fox-owned Nat Geo with Scott and O’Reilly after Killing Lincoln, its first ever scripted show, which […]