Mediaset Secures New Docs from C4i

LONDON, August 27: Italian
broadcaster Mediaset has acquired several human-interest documentaries from C4i
as part of an ongoing output deal.

New titles acquired for
screening later this year on Italia Uno include The Real Superhumans, a feature-length documentary about real people
with super powers, and Half Ton Man,
which is about American who is morbidly obese.

Other programs included
are Aileen—Life And Death of a Serial Killer, a film documenting the trial of Aileen Wuornos,
who was dubbed the world’s first female serial killer; The Real Rainman, which follows the life of the quiet genius Kim
Peek; and Rude Tube, a top 50
countdown of the funniest, rudest and most bizarre Internet clips.

—By Jackie Stewart