Three factual production companies have teamed up for a feature documentary about the famous ‘match of the century’ tennis match between Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills during the 1920s, with champion player Martina Navratilova attached to exec produce. UK companies Cornelia Street Productions and Arrow Media, alongside Canada’s Handel Productions, will co-produce the project, titled […]
Canadian pubcaster CBC and Channel 5 in the UK have commissioned a new documentary exploring the mystery of the infamous Egyptian ruler. Searching For Cleopatra is being helmed by Arrow Media, alongside Handel Productions and Rezolution Pictures, and aims to challenge established thinking about the queen, while providing an exclusive look at a recent expedition […]
The Canada Media Fund has outlined terms of new matching fund contributions for co-development and coproduction of television and digital media content with foreign partners. The not-profit organisation, which will deliver C$368 million (US$343.3 million) into projects globally during the 2014-2015 period, has a budget of US$2 million for its new programme. Talking for the first […]
A trio of broadcasters from the UK, US and Canada have co-commissioned a documentary about the impact of the 747 airliner, widely known as the Jumbo Jet. The doc will be known as Jumbo – The Plane That Changed the World on BBC Two in the UK and Discovery Channel in Canada, where it will […]
Discovery Networks Western Europe has ordered Strip the City, a six-part documentary that uses CGI to strip back the surfaces of some of the world’s major cities. The doc series will be coproduced by UK indie Windfall Films (Massive Moves) and its Canadian counterpart Handel Productions (Inside the Titanic). In each episode CGI will be […]
