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Transparent TV unveils ‘Trouble with the Tory Party’ for Channel 5
Channel 5 has commissioned Jazz Gowans’ Transparent TV for a two-part series exploring the problems…
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Nat Geo’s Igal Svet boards Discovery
Nat Geo exec Igal Svet is boarding Discovery. Svet has been appointed VP of production…
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ITV rebrands Shiver label as MultiStory Media
ITV Studios has rebranded its production label Shiver as MultiStory Media, as part of a…
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A&E greenlights ‘Biography’ doc specials on Farrah Fawcett, JFK Jr.
A&E has greenlit documentary specials for its rebooted ‘Biography’ banner on Farrah Fawcett and John…
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Flame Distribution scores global sales post-MIPTV
Flame Distribution has secured a raft of international sales on the back of MIPTV. …
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Nat Geo Wild scoops up DRG’s ‘Predator Land’
National Geographic has acquired natural history series Predator Land from DRG for its global Nat…
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Channel 4 commissions Arrow’s ‘Gay Dog And Other Animals’
Channel 4 has commissioned Arrow Pictures for an hour-long film exploring gay behaviour in animals. …
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Ulla Streib joins Tin Roof’s Blink and Outline
Indie investment group Tin Roof Media has hired Ulla Streib in the new role of…
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Hulu takes US rights to Lightbox’s Harvey Weinstein doc
Hulu has paid a seven figure sum for US rights to Untouchable, Lightbox’s feature documentary…
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Nat Geo picks up ‘USS Indianapolis’ doc from Drive
Nat Geo has bought a doc special about the tragic fate of cruiser USS Indianapolis,…
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Red Arrow racks up ‘Slender Man’ sales
Red Arrow Studios International has closed a number of international sales for true crime documentary Slender Man:…
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Scott Brothers Entertainment buys production rights to ‘Property Brothers’ franchise
Scott Brothers Entertainment, the production company owned by Property Brothers’ twin presenters Drew and Jonathan Scott, has bought…
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Crackit readies seven shock docs for 5Star, Channel 5
Crackit Productions has won commissions for seven stand-alone ‘shock docs’ from 5STAR and Channel 5. The…
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Quest Red checks into Full Fat’s ‘Bad Skin Clinic’
Discovery-owned free-to-air channel Quest Red has commissioned Full Fat TV to produce The Bad Skin Clinic….
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Sales round-up: Alfred Haber sells ‘bublé!’, Harbour Rights scores with Discovery
ITV, Nine Network buy’s NBC’s ‘bublé!’ UK broadcaster ITV and Australia’s Nine Network are among…
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Fremantle boards Spring Films’ ‘Cool Daddio’
Fremantle has taken international distribution rights to Spring Films’ new feature documentary Cool Daddio: The Second…
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Exclusive: Sky Arts picks up Travis doc ‘Almost Fashionable’
Sky Arts has acquired an award-winning documentary on Scottish band Travis. The Comcast-owned pay-TV channel…
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BBC Four commissions Rare TV’s ‘The River’
BBC Four has commissioned Rare TV for a feature documentary on Scotland’s longest river. In The…
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All3Media America’s Main Event Media launches podcast arm
All3Media America-owned Main Event Media is launching a podcast division. The United Shades Of America…
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Yesterday lines up Woodcut’s ‘Greatest Palaces’
UKTV has lined up Woodcut Media’s World’s Greatest Palaces for factual channel Yesterday. The multi-channel broadcaster…
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Natural history co-pros unlikely as genre evolves for SVODs
Alastair Fothergill, producer of Netflix’s Our Planet, has warned that SVOD players “will not consider…
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NBC exec to lead unscripted at Matchbox Pictures
NBC exec Dan Munday has been named head of unscripted at Australian prodco Matchbox Pictures….
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Netflix orders seven-part true crime original ‘Killer Ratings’
Netflix has commissioned Caravan Productions and Quicksilver Media for a seven-part series on a Brazilian…
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Channel 4, HBO partner for ‘Jihadi John’ doc
Months following the success of Michael Jackson two-parter Leaving Neverland, Channel 4 and HBO are…
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BBC Three commissions Banijay’s Wonder for fact ent formats
BBC Three has commissioned Banijay Group-owned prodco Wonder for a pair of fact ent series…
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Don’t throw away your shot at quiet markets
Briege Whitehead, head of Australia’s White Spark Pictures, reflects on MIPTV and shares her tips…
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Smithsonian commissions Plimsoll for doc duo on heels of Brazil launch
Smithsonian Channel has commissioned a pair of programmes from Plimsoll Productions focused on South American…
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Fremantle picks up int’l rights to Notre Dame doc
Fremantle has picked up international rights to one-off doc Notre-Dame: In Flames, which features exclusive…
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How BAFTA-nominated directors shot the Royal Wedding, ‘Inside No. 9 Live’
A careful balance of tech innovation and storytelling flexibility are the hallmarks of this year’s…
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Latman named as president of HGTV
Jane Latman has been promoted to president of Discovery’s HGTV channel. Latman was most recently…