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LONDON: Alison Jackson: Private Lies, a celebrity news series from the eponymous photographer, is to premiere in the U.K. on Sky Arts 1 HD on February 26. Jackson captures news stories featuring Colonel Gaddafi, Barack Obama, Cheryl Cole, Simon Cowell, Ryan Giggs, Lady Gaga and more, while delving into celebrity ...

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PREMIUM: Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO Documentary Films, tells TV Real about the relentless pursuit for justice in the Paradise Lost documentaries that led to the release of the West Memphis Three this past summer. The search for the truth is an apt description of Nevins’ approach to filmmaking. ...

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SILVER SPRING: The new seven-part Investigation Discovery series Deadly Sins is to premiere March 3 as part of the channel’s Red Hot Saturdays programming lineup. The series features attorney Darren Kavinoky, a criminal behavior expert who provides professional insight and legal expertise in his analysis of various crime cases. Each ...

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LOS ANGELES/TORONTO: Entertainment One (eOne) has begun production on the documentary series Perfect Storms: Disasters that Changed the World, which is to air in early 2013 on History Television in Canada. The six-part one-hour doc series investigates the largest natural disasters of all time. Stories include the Kanto Earthquake of ...

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MADRID: Cuarzo Producciones, a Banijay Group company, and Germany’s Constantin Entertainment have entered into a long-term co-production pact that sees the two companies working together to produce the first-ever scripted doc series for Spain. The as-yet untitled series will air on Mediaset this spring. A total of 30 episodes are ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C.: On February 12, National Geographic Channel (NGC) is set to broadcast the first U.S. documentary about the headline-making tragedy of the sinking of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia. The doc will give a moment-by-moment account of the events, told primarily through the eyes of those who experienced ...

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MAINZ: ZDF Enterprises is offering the international market the first ZDF in-house documentary shot in 3D, The Huber Brothers. ZDF documented the Bavarian brothers Alexander and Thomas Huber as they free-climbed the route in the Tyrolean Alps in June 2011. The doc aired on the Internet in 3D and in ...

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SÃO PAULO: Globo TV International has sold three documentaries to Telewizja Polska’s TVP Info. The titles sold to TVP Info include 2014: A Dream Under Construction, which shows how Brazil is preparing for the World Cup in 2014, and Carnaval: Streets of Joy, which explores Brazil’s largest street party. The ...

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LONDON: A raft of programming from the Passion Distribution catalogue has been picked up by MTV3 Finland for the male-skewed MAX channel and female-focused AVA service. Included in the package are a number of titles from Scripps Networks International, including Bobby Flay’s Barbecue Addiction, the first two seasons of The ...

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SYDNEY: Australia’s Ben Britton is hosting the week-long Big Cat Week event on Nat Geo Wild, which will feature the doc The Last Lions as its centerpiece. The seven-day programming stunt kicks off on February 26. A series of documentary shorts will air throughout the week, all focused on the ...

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