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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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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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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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WE tv re-ups distribution deal with Off The Fence
AMC Networks-owned cable channel WE tv has re-upped an exclusive distribution deal with global unscripted…
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BBC Studios, ZDF strike strategic content partnership
BBC Studios and Germany’s ZDF have struck a strategic partnership to develop and co-produce a…
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BBC Studios, Cosmote SVOD deal signals post-Discovery licensing plans
BBC Studios has struck a premium factual SVOD deal with Greek telco OTE’s pay-TV service…
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Oxford Scientific Films hires BBC alum as exec producer
Oxford Scientific Films (OSF), part of the ITV Studios-owned Boom Cymru group, has appointed BBC…
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Apple hires A+E’s Molly Thompson to head documentaries
Apple has hired A+E Networks veteran Molly Thompson as its head of documentaries. Thompson founded…
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MIPTV: The Big Deals
TBI looks at the top deals struck out of Cannes at last week’s MIPTV market….
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Discovery, Science Channel commission ‘Uncharted’ from Karga Seven
Discovery and Science Channel in the US have commissioned Uncharted from Karga Seven Pictures –…
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TBI Weekly: MIPTV at critical juncture to safeguard its future
MIPTV reached a major turning point this week, with the future of the spring market…
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Disney + unveils unscripted slate as it preps SVOD pitch to investors
Disney has unveiled a robust unscripted slate for its Disney + service ahead of revealing…
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Exclusive: Amazon taps TF1 exec to head up unscripted in France
Amazon has hired TF1’s non-scripted development manager Thomas Dubois to head up unscripted in France….
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BBC commissions Werner Herzog doc on travel icon
BBC Arts has commissioned a new Werner Herzog documentary Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce…