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National Geographic
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AMC, Nat Geo explore Baby Animals in the Wild
AMC Networks International in Spain and National Geographic in Latin America and Asia have acquired…
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Nat Geo orders ‘human herd’ series
National Geographic Channel has ordered Mygrations, a fact-ent series in which a ‘human herd’ follow…
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Nat Geo poaches scripted boss from Endemol Shine
National Geographic’s channels division has hired Endemol Shine Studios exec Carolyn G. Bernstein as executive…
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Nat Geo shakes up management as Fox takes over
21st Century Fox has completed its deal to take control of National Geographic and rejigged…
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Sky channels launch on Snapchat
UK satcaster Sky has launched two content channels on the new Snapchat Discover platform for…
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Snapchat signs up TV partners for Discover launch
Mobile messaging service Snapchat has partnered with a host of major TV broadcasters and publishers…
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Fox strikes Nat Geo deal with China’s Tencent
Fox International Channels has agreed a deal with Chinese online video site Tencent, which will…
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Sky Deutschland counters Netflix with OTT
Pay TV operator Sky Deutschland has launched an OTT TV service, Sky Online, that will…
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Nat Geo and PBS producer joins NHNZ
NHNZ has brought on veteran producer, director and writer Sue Houghton who will work on…
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House of Cards writer making doc special for Nat Geo
Beau Willimon, the writer of Netflix’s House of Cards, is making a one-off doc for…
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Nat Geo bets on Bulloch Family Ranch
National Geographic has taken EMEA and Australian rights to reality series Bulloch Family Ranch. The…
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Nat Geo orders tribe survival series
National Geographic has ordered Survive the Tribe, a six part series for its US and…
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Discovery freaks out with mind control series
Discovery Networks International has ordered The Mind Control Freaks, a ten-part fact-ent series from All3Media’s…
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Schechter launches New York prodco
Paranormal State producer Betsy Schechter has launched her own production company with a slate of…
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Fox channels does content deal with ‘Middle East Netflix’
Fox International Channels has agreed a deal with icflix, the OTT operator that has been…
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Major international lift-off for Fox’s Cosmos
Fox plans to give a day-and-date launch to its upcoming factual series Cosmos: A Spacetime…
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Discovery Channel gets 3.4 million for Klondike
The Discovery Channel’s first scripted miniseries, Klondike, has delivered solid debut ratings of 3.4 million…
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Comment: Are newspaper giants the new pay TV channels?
The news back in September that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had bought the iconic Washington…
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News brief: Animal Planet orders Alaskan Gold Diggers
Discovery’s Animal Planet has ordered Alaskan Gold Diggers, a six-part about a California mum and…
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TV2, 365 reveal It’s Love, Actually
Broadcasters in Denmark and Iceland have acquired straight-to-series format remakes of Sky Vision-distributed factual entertainment…
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Discovery cited as the biggest TV channel in Europe
The Discovery Channel is the network with the widest distribution in Europe, according to new…
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Twofour Arabia staffs up with trio of hires
Twofour Arabia has bolstered its ranks with three new staff joining the Abu Dhabi-based division…
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Nat Geo Wild for Earth Touch titles
National Geographic has acquired a package of content from factual producer and distributor Earth Touch….
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Nat Geo preps reboot of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
National Geographic Channels International will launch a modernised version of iconic space series Cosmos across…
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OWN buys Kate and Wills Royal Baby doc
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has acquired one-off doc William, Kate and the Royal Baby, as…
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Magine accelerates expansion plans with $19m injection
Magine has secured $19 million in extra funding from Swedish and international investors and said…
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Haslingden tunes up a new super indie
Until September last year, David Haslingden was Fox’s top channels executive, running its US and…
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Discovery appoints Foley original content boss
Factual channel operator Discovery has appointed Charlie Foley executive VP of its freshly-minted Original Content…
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National Geographic snaps up Power’s croc docs
UK-based distributor Power has sold a pair of crocodile documentaries to National Geographic Channels International….
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Magine expands with German launch
Cloud-based TV operator Magine has launched in beta in Germany, its first European expansion since…