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Lightbox
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News round-up: Prime Video returns ‘The Bad Guy’; Acme & Lightbox team on ‘Mr Doodle’; CBS orders ‘Young Sheldon’ spin-off
Prime Video returns ‘The Bad Guy’ Amazon streamer Prime Video has returned Italian original drama…
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Channel 4 orders Marilyn Manson docuseries from Lightbox
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has commissioned a three-part docuseries about controversial US rock star Marilyn…
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News round-up: Sky snags YouTube hit ‘Super Sema’; Bell details 2023/24 slate & Crave’s AVOD shift; A&E extends ‘Secret Of’
Sky snags YouTube hit Super Sema Sky in the UK has picked up rights to…
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Showtime switches on Lightbox for Phil Spector docuseries
US network Showtime has commissioned a four-part documentary series about music producer Phil Spector and…
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Lightbox & Macaulay Culkin ponder getting old in new documentary
US-based factual producer Lightbox has partnered with former child star Macaulay Culkin on a new…
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Lightbox partners with Warner Music Entertainment for new docs slate
UK- and US-based factual producer Lightbox has partnered with Warner Music Entertainment to finance, develop…
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Netflix moves for Lightbox, Khalabo Ink doc on Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
Netflix is preparing to launch a documentary from Jonathan and Simon Chinn’s prodco Lightbox that…
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‘TINA’ prodco Lightbox rejigs development by hiring Critical Content’s Alexis Gomez-Garcia
TINA prodco Lightbox has appointed former Critical Content and Bunim Murray Productions exec Alexis Gomez-Garcia…
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Jonathan & Simon Chinn’s Lightbox exits C4’s Indie Growth Fund
Simon and Jonathan Chinn’s London and LA-based production company Lightbox is to exit Channel 4’s…
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Nat Geo links with NASA for Lightbox epic ‘Return To the Moon’
US-based National Geographic has ordered a special event series from Simon and Jonathan Chinn’s prodco…
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Sky & Netflix develop separate doc series around Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder
Both Netflix and the UK’s Sky have commissioned separate documentary projects about the 1996 murder…
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Factual round-up: Viking doc in Euro and Oz sales; HBO and Sky snag Diana premiere; Vice Media launches ‘Source Material’
NENT UK secures Euro and Oz sales for Viking doc Broadcasters Rai in Italy, Geo…
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MIPCOM Factual round-up: Sky acquires Yusuf Hawkins doc; Beyond sells 300+ hours to US; Great Pacific asks ‘What If’
Sky acquires HBO’s Yusuf Hawkins doc Sky in the UK has acquired feature documentary Yusuf…
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Lightbox hires Laufer for development
Murder Mountain and Tell Me Who I Am producer Lightbox has appointed Nicole Laufer as…
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A+E’s ‘Miss Scarlet And The Duke’ heads to the US, Canada, Australia
US broadcaster PBS, Seven Network in Australia and CBC in Canada are among broadcasters to…
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Showtime commissions Lightbox for limited docuseries on 6ix9ine
Showtime Documentary Films has commissioned Lightbox for a limited docuseries profiling hip-hop artist Tekashi 6ix9ine,…
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Lightbox scores Netflix Original with feature doc ‘Tell Me Who I Am’
Netflix has commissioned Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn’s Lightbox for a feature doc on memory…
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Dragonfly exec flies to Lightbox to oversee development
US- and UK-based factual producer Lightbox has appointed the director of development at Dragonfly to…
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Bigger, better and celebrity-laden: Is the future of docs sustainable?
As documentaries cutting through on SVODs begin to look glossier and more high-profile by the…
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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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Discovery greenlights Lightbox doc Cajun Navy
Discovery has greenlit a feature-length documentary, Cajun Navy, from Simon (pictured) and Jonathan Chinn’s Lightbox….
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HBO greenlights diversity doc from Whitney prodco
HBO has greenlit Storm Over Brooklyn, the winning project from the Feature Documentary Initiative created…
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Netflix discovers Diagnosis doc series from trio
Netflix has commissioned a new documentary series from Scott Rudin Productions, Lightbox and The New…
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BBC Two plots Harvey Weinstein doc
Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is to be the subject of a feature length doc…
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Ex-Darlow Smithson, Atlantic execs join UK prodco
Former Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) senior exec Ulla Streib Atlantic Productions’ Ruth Roberts are joining…
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Mediaworks names new int’l buyer, VOD chief
New Zealand broadcaster Mediaworks has named a new head of acquisitions, a channel manager for…
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Netflix takes hostage series Captive
Global streamer Netflix has commissioned an eight-episode series exploring delicate hostage situations around the world….
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TV’s Big Questions: what is shaping the world of content?
Platforms, technology and marketing aside, what really drives the international TV industry is content. We…
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BBC Two gets in Vogue
UK terrestrial BBC Two has commissioned an observational documentary about British fashion magazine Vogue as…
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Channel 4 buys into sports indie
UK broadcaster Channel 4 has bought a stake in sports programming-focused indie Whisper Films. Former…
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