Three Identical Strangers producer Raw TV has scored its first Netflix commission with a documentary series on a cat killer spurred on by Internet notoriety. The series Don’t F**k With Cats: Hunting An Internet Killer centres on a mysterious man who posts videos online of himself torturing and killing kittens and cats. The film follows […]
All3Media-owned producer Raw has appointed Century Films’ Liesel Evans as its creative director of UK factual. Evans joins from Century, which is behind Channel 4’s Bouncers and Married Behind Bars, BBC Four’s Mumbai High – The Musical and B is for Book and ITV’s Parking Wars. The news comes soon after Raw named Louise Norman […]
Discovery Communications-owned Raw TV has promoted Adam Hawkins to executive VP of US television as the firm builds out its American production business. Hawkins was previously the UK prodco’s senior VP, development. He will now work alongside EVP, US factual Sam Maynard and SVP and executive producer James Bates to grow the business Stateside. Raw’s […]
Discovery Communications has acquired Raw, the UK production firm that makes Discovery’s hit series Gold Rush. US-listed Discovery has previously bought UK prodco Betty. It said the Raw deal would strengthen its programming pipeline and help its continuing effort to generate more content from outside the US. It added that Raw will continue to operate autonomously. […]
