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Sales round-up: PBS sends ‘Woodstock’ overseas; Gusto sells ‘Crate to Plate’

  PBS strikes raft of deals for Woodstock PBS International has sold a new documentary on Woodstock to international broadcasters including Germany/Austria’s NDR and Australia’s SBS. Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation – which is premiering at next month’s Tribeca Film Festival and marks the 50th anniversary of the iconic US music festival – has been […]

Netflix plots Trump advisor doc

Netflix’s latest original is Get Me Roger Stone, a feature doc about the eponymous political spin doctor. Stone has worked with current US president since the 1980s – he left the election campaign in 2015 but remains a Trump supporter. In a long political career he has also worked under the Nixon and Reagan administrations […]

Power Play: why celebs are becoming execs

As the global media superpowers march into ever more sectors, A-list actors, musicians, fashion gurus and novelists are taking control of television projects. Jesse Whittock reports on the rise of the celebrity superproducer. In the past, the glamorous worlds of film, sport, pop music and fashion looked down their noses at TV from behind the […]