Israeli nets snag TVF shows Israeli networks including YES Docu have picked up a raft of shows from factual distributor TVF International. YES Docu has acquired BBC Studio’s Keith Haring: Street Art Boy (1 x 59-minutes), which explores the celebrated street artist’s life in 1980s New York, and access doc David Foster: Off The Record (1 […]
Covid delays UK’s Got Talent UK commercial broadcaster ITV has been forced to delay production on entertainment format Britain’s Got Talent following the country’s latest Covid outbreak. The 15th season of the show, from Fremantle and Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment, had been scheduled to start filming in late January but ITV said production had been […]
Discovery goes Wild with Talos Discovery has commissioned a new reality series, 100 Days Wild, from New York-based Talos Films, following a group of five people as they try to survive an Alaskan winter in a nomadic lifestyle. The group, all strangers, have 100 days to learn to work together to hunt, gather, and build […]
Parade expands unscripted slate UK and Singapore-based distributor Parade Media has added 40 unscripted shows to its catalogue, including five factual documentary launches. The 1 x 60-minute Koala Rescue, from Essential Media, follows workers at the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital on the eastern seaboard of Australia, who rescued, treated and rehabilitated the koalas who survived […]
Red Arrow sells Beat The Channel Banijay Group’s Dlo/Magnolia in Spain and Endemol Shine Group in Portugal are among companies to have picked up rights to entertainment format Beat The Channel from Red Arrow Studios International (RASI). The format, which sees two popular presenters get the chance to win a 15-minute live broadcast slot, has […]
UK-based Parade Media has appointed former Keo Films CEO Debbie Manners to its board of directors. Manners spent almost two decades at the BBC working across commercial and business divisions, and was also chief operating officer at BBC Studios. She also headed up factual specialist Keo and was chief operating officer at Hat Trick Productions, […]
Australia’s Nine Network is partnering with UKTV’s natural history channel Eden on docuseries Outback Vet. The 4 x 60-minute doc series was commissioned by Nine Network – which will title the show Desert Vet for the Australian market – with pre-investment from UKTV. The programme will be produced by Everyday Gourmet producer Parade and digital prodco Projucer, which have a […]
