Independent producer Atlantic has hired two new execs and promoted another. Ian Syder (left) has joined the British prodco as head of production and Emily Smith (below right) as director of marketing, while Mike Davis has been upped to associate creative director. Syder started out in unscripted, working on Big Brother and Deal or No […]
British prodco Atlantic has shopped several of its David Attenborough series to international broadcasters. The UK indie has made several specials and series with the veteran naturalist and presenter, and has struck new deals for several of these projects. French pubcaster France Télévisions has picked up animals-in-flight series David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies. The […]
UK producer Atlantic has set up Alchemy VR, a virtual reality studio with its visual effects studio Zoo, which will make immersive content for platforms including Oculus Rift and Sony Morpheus virtual reality systems. The new prodco will make factual content and is already working on its first virtual reality show, an unnamed project fronted […]
UK pay TV platform BSkyB has ordered a pair of 3D docs fronted by natural history broadcaster David Attenborough. One-off doc David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Adventure and two-parter Conquest of the Skies will both be made by Colossus Productions, the joint venture production company set up by Sky 3D and UK indie Atlantic. David […]
