LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned Raw TV to produce the documentary film One Punch (working title).
Read More »More Friday Night Tykes for Esquire Network
LOS ANGELES: Esquire Network has given the green light for additional seasons of the American football-themed docuseries Friday Night Tykes and its spin-off, Steel Country.
Read More »Smithsonian Channel Slates Queen Mary Special
NEW YORK: Smithsonian Channel is airing the hour-long special Mighty Ship at War: The Queen Mary next month to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the ocean liner’s maiden voyage.
Read More »Sky Vision Notches Up More Sales for Ross Kemp Title
LONDON: Sky Vision has secured additional sales for the fifth run of the docuseries Ross Kemp Extreme World, with Australia becoming the latest territory to snap up the title.
Read More »A+E Networks UK Orders Ronnie O’Sullivan Series
LONDON: A+E Networks UK has commissioned Rocket Ronnie’s American Hustle, an original series featuring snooker champion Ronnie O’Sullivan, for HISTORY in the U.K.
Read More »Vegas Rat Rods Among Proper Rights’s Factual Sales
TORONTO: Proper Rights has closed deals for its factual content, including the car series Vegas Rat Rods and several Mike Holmes home-reno titles, across Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Read More »ITV Orders Celebrity Home Secrets
LONDON: ITV Studios’s So Television and Sunnyside Productions have been commissioned to produce the factual-entertainment series Celebrity Home Secrets.
Read More »Scripps’s Lifestyle Channels to Roll Out in Israel
LONDON: Scripps Networks Interactive’s lifestyle nets Food Network, Travel Channel and Fine Living are launching in Israel on Cellcom, marking the company’s first channel portfolio deal in the country.
Read More »DCD Rights Taps Passion Exec for New Acquisitions Role
LONDON: DCD Rights has appointed former Passion Distribution exec Philippa Chuter to the newly created role of senior acquisitions executive to lead the company’s drive for factual content.
Read More »Nat Geo WILD Prepping New Cesar Millan Series
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Casting is underway for the upcoming Nat Geo WILD series Cesar and Son (working title), with dog whisperer Cesar Millan and his son Andre in search of canines and their owners to star in the show.
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