Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube has announced a new slate of UK Youtube Originals, with a focus on diversity, sustainability and environmental issues. Launching on the YouTube Originals Channel from June onwards, the company says that the accessibility of its platform “offers opportunities for creators of all demographics from across the UK bypassing traditional media processes”. […]
Hillary Clinton’s HiddenLight Productions has appointed Channel 4 commissioner Siobhan Sinnerton to the newly created role of creative director & SVP of unscripted. Sinnerton was most recently commissioning editor for news & current affairs and immersive content at the UK broadcaster, which she joined in 2010. Her most recent project, For Sama, was nominated for […]
West One to shop star-studded climate change doc UK-based West One International has acquired exclusive international distribution rights to Moving Still Productions’ new climate change documentary, Earth Emergency, narrated by Hollywood star Richard Gere. The 1 x 60-minute film includes contributions from Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and climate change activist Greta Thunberg and […]
Apple TV+ has given a straight-to-series order to Gutsy Women, a docuseries hosted by former US first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and daughter Chelsea Clinton, inspired by their book, The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience. The order comes at the same time that the Clintons announce they have launched HiddenLight […]
