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Argonon’s Leopard takes Mormon Love to Facebook Watch
Facebook Watch has picked up Leopard USA’s Mormon Love, a documentary series that looks at…
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BBC Two orders doc on the Murdoch media empire
BBC Two has commissioned a 3×60-minute social history series from 72 Films, which explores the…
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Cineflix gains global rights to White Boy Rick doc
Cineflix Rights has acquired the worldwide rights to White Boy, a feature-length doc on the…
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Netflix acquires doc on Fyre Festival controversy
Netflix has acquired a documentary film about the unravelling of the Fyre music festival….
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Nat Geo greenlights The Bible From Space from All3’s Caravan
National Geographic has commissioned two-part documentary special The Bible From Space, from UK indie Caravan….
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Hands-on distributors, ad partnerships boost factual co-pros
The world of international factual co-production continues to be rife with delays and competing priorities,…
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C4 greenlights Training Teachers to Kill from Sundog
Channel 4 (C4) Factual has commissioned 60-minute doc Training Teachers to Kill from Sundog Pictures. The…
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Netflix takes Murder Mountain from Lightbox
Simon and Jonathan Chinn’s Lightbox is producing a new six-part documentary series for Netflix that…
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BBC Studios hires Twenty Twenty exec for unscripted development
BBC Studios has appointed Twenty Twenty’s Martha Housden and The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Meghan…
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Netflix goes up against BBC with Attenborough-narrated series
Sir David Attenborough is embarking on his first Netflix original. The British presenter, who has…
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Icon Films readies Malawi Wildlife Rescue for Love Nature
Blue Ant Media and Smithsonian’s Love Nature platform has commissioned Icon Films for a six-part…
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All3Media inks first-look deal with Field Day
All3Media International has signed a multi-year first-look deal with UK indie Field Day Productions. The…
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C4 orders Generation Porn from Story Films
Channel 4 (C4) has ordered landmark documentary trilogy Generation Porn from Story Films, which will explore…
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UKTV pre-buys Woodcut and Forces TV’s Royals on the Frontline
Woodcut Media and Forces TV Productions have teamed for the first time on three-part documentary…
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A+E Networks to launch week-long Crime + Investigation event
A+E Networks is to launch Twisted Faith, its first primetime week-long programming event for Crime…
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Channel 5 commissions obs doc series Code Zero
Channel 5 has commissioned Zinc Media’s Reef Television to produce Code Zero: Police Under Attack (working…
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History to premiere Watergate doc this autumn
History is set to premiere its original documentary Watergate, from Academy Award-winning director Charles Ferguson,…
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HBO teams with Axio for limited doc series
US premium cable network HBO is teaming up with political media company Axio to produce…
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Viceland greenlights US drug crisis doc
Viceland has greenlit a documentary reality series, American Junkie, following America’s current drug crisis. The…
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Sonar partners with Felipe Esparza for comedy-travel series
Sonar Entertainment is developing a new comedy-travel series with comedia Felipe Esparza based on making…
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Netflix announces drama and unscripted launches
Netflix has used the TCAs to announce a number of new series coming to the…
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Netflix picks up Emporium’s World’s Toughest Prisons
Netflix has ordered Emporium Productions Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons, due to premiere this month….
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HBO greenlights diversity doc from Whitney prodco
HBO has greenlit Storm Over Brooklyn, the winning project from the Feature Documentary Initiative created…
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A&E Network unveils launch date for David Cassidy doc
A&E Network is to premiere its original ‘Biography’ documentary special David Cassidy: The Last Session…
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Factual goals: sports titles on the rise
The sports documentary series has returned to the big leagues, as SVOD services order shows…
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AMC Int’l inks distribution deal with VR studio
AMC Networks International Southern Europe has made a deal with Rooftop Immersive Studio to aggregate…
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Show of the week: Working with Weinstein
Due to Harvey Weinstein’s influence, many of the highest profile stories of his sexual behaviour…
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Amazon greenlights Will Ferrell/Adam McKay docuseries
Amazon Prime Video has greenlit an untitled docuseries from Adam McKay (The Big Short), Will…
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Ray Winstone visits Sicily in factual TV debut
British actor Ray Winstone is to front his first ever factual TV series Ray Winstone’s…
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eOne snaps up global rights to Nevins-directed Barbie doc
Entertainment One (eOne) and streaming platform Hulu have announced a deal for the Andrea Nevins-directed…