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CNN Sets November Premiere Date for The Hunting Ground

November 4, 2015

ATLANTA: The Hunting Ground has been slated for a November 19 debut on CNN in the U.S. with limited commercial interruption. CNN Films’ The Hunting Ground is a feature documentary about sexual assault on American college campuses. It explores the …

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BBC Two Orders Louis Theroux Doc on Jimmy Savile

November 4, 2015

LONDON: BBC Two has commissioned documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux to produce a new film about Jimmy Savile, the popular British presenter revealed to have been a predatory sex offender only after his death. The new production will be a follow-up …

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Frontline Series My Brother’s Bomber Goes Global

November 5, 2015

BOSTON: PBS International has lined up several broadcasters for the three-part Frontline series My Brother’s Bomber, within days of its U.S. premiere. BBC’s Storyville strand (U.K.), SBS (Australia), MBD/Alhurra (the Middle East), DR (Denmark) and Phoenix Satellite (Hong Kong and …

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Nat Geo Goes for Specials on Pope Francis & Challenger Disaster

November 5, 2015

WASHINGTON, D.C.: National Geographic Channel has greenlit two specials for 2016, one on Pope Francis’s pre-Vatican life and another on the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. Rebel Pope, a FOX Telecolombia production, will interweave scripted accounts of …

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ABC’s BattleBots Gets Second Season

November 6, 2015

BURBANK: ABC has given the go-ahead to a second season of its BattleBots revival. The show’s second run will feature new technologies, more destructive bots and even the possibility of drones and flying battlebots. In its first season, the competition …

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Channel 4 Doc to Honor World War II Servicemen

November 6, 2015

LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned Oxford Scientific Films (OSF), in association with Manchester’s North West Film Archive and the Imperial War Museums, to produce the special Calling Blighty (working title), honoring Britain’s servicemen fighting in Burma during World War II. …