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Nat Geo goes to UK producers for brain shows

National Geographic Channels International has ordered a new series and four special about the human mind from a range of UK producers. Brain Games has been a big hit for Nat Geo in the US, where the launch of the second season garnered 1.5 million viewers. Ahead of the season two launch internationally later this […]

Executive moves at wellness firm Veria

Zee-backed health and wellbeing TV firm Veria has upped a key programming executive and hired a National Geographic exec to run its programming sales operation. Raymond Donahue has been promoted from senior VP of programming sales to chief revenue officer. In his new role, Donahue will oversee ad sales, programming sales and business development. Subhash […]

Ridley Scott making Killing Jesus drama for Nat Geo

Ridley Scott’s TV production firm is making a feature length version of upcoming Bill O’Reilly book Killing Jesus for National Geographic Channel. The same partners are also uniting for a show about Kennedy’s Assassination, Killing Kennedy. The projects reunite Fox-owned Nat Geo with Scott and O’Reilly after Killing Lincoln, its first ever scripted show, which […]

Nat Geo orders Okies vs. Aliens

National Geographic is teaming with Shark Teeth Films to make a pilot of a new reality series about pest exterminators in the US deep south. Okies vs. Aliens follows Bobby Sparks Jr. and Sr. and their crew of inventive outdoorsmen turned nuisance control experts as they travel across Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. Production starts on […]

Latin Media Leaders: Powwow

MOST INFLUENTIAL PRODUCTION COMPANY POWWOW LA, Miami and Buenos Aires-based producer Powwow bridges the Latin and international markets and had a standout 2012, making a new Cesar  Millan series, inking a programming pact with Telemundo and shopping a scripted format to a US broadcast network. CEO Daniel Gutman talks to TBI about the company’s stellar […]

Latin Media Leaders: Fox’s Billion-Dollar Man

MOST INFLUENTIAL INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE HERNAN LOPEZ, PRESIDENT AND CEO, FOX INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS Hernan Lopez is Fox International Channels billion-dollar man. Having worked at Canal 9 and Cablevision in Argentina, he joined Fox in 1997, becoming general manager of Fox Latin America in 2000. Since then he has risen up the ranks and now runs Fox’s […]

Broadcasters jump at Felix Baumgartner doc

A raft of international broadcasters have acquired Space Dive, the one-off documentary about Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking skydive. The documentary is distributed by BBC Worldwide. It has shopped it to Belgium (VRT), Denmark (DR), Finland (YLE), Germany (RTL), Holland (VPRO), France (France 4), Russia (Russia 2), Norway (NRK), Singapore (Channel News Asia), Korea (Chosun), Poland (TVP), […]

Tom Hanks comes on board Nat Geo’s Killing Lincoln

Tom Hanks has come on board National Geographic Channel’s Scott Free Production series Killing Lincoln. The Oscar winning actor, who has starred in films including Saving Private Ryan and The Da Vinci Code, will narrate the two hour television mini-series. Killing Lincoln is the last television series to feature Tony Scott as executive producer after […]

ZDFE picks up Nat Geo’s Rocket City Rednecks

International distributor ZDF Enterprises has taken global sales rights to Nat Geo factual series Rocket City Rednecks. The show, which was produced inhouse by the company’s own production division, has already aired in the United States and will be launched for international broadcasters at MIPCOM. ZDF Enterprises, the commercial arm of the German public broadcaster, […]

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