March 21, 2012
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LONDON: Chello Zone has secured new programming from TVNZ, among others, bulking up its crime offerings for the Zone Reality channel. Following the deals, TVNZ’s documentary series The Investigator is to premiere across all of Zone Reality’s feeds from May. The 12-part series from filmmaker Bryan Bruce looks at some ...
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March 21, 2012
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NEW YORK: Veria Living has formed the new division Veria Living Worldwide under its global expansion initiative. Veria Living Worldwide, which will be headed by Raymond Donahue, the company’s senior VP and head of program sales, will initiate partnerships with broadcasters and websites globally. Its catalogue of 1,100 hours of ...
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March 20, 2012
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NEW YORK: HBO Documentary Films has picked up the domestic TV rights for The Central Park Effect, which will air this summer on the premium cable channel. The doc, an official selection for the SXSW Documentary Feature Competition, is an Other Noises production. It features Chris Cooper, Jonathan Franzen and Starr Saphir, ...
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March 20, 2012
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NEW YORK: A sixth season of Jersey Shore has been ordered by MTV, which will be filming in Seaside Heights, NJ this summer. The fifth season was the number one cable series among the 12-to-34 demo. Adding in DVR playback, the show’s fifth season scored an average 7.4 rating in ...
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March 20, 2012
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LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has picked up the unscripted series Sins & Secrets. Sins & Secrets is produced by Jupiter Entertainment and airs in the U.S. on Discovery ID. The 29-episode, hour-long series profiles notorious crimes that expose the dark underbellies of the communities where they took place. As ...
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March 19, 2012
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LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has picked up the new unscripted crime series Happily Never After. The ten-episode, hour-long series features true crime stories of love gone wrong. Each episode includes interviews and dramatic re-creations that begin at the romantic courtship and end with the sinister events that lead to ...
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March 16, 2012
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ATLANTA: TBS has given the greenlight to the new unscripted competition series King of the Nerds, hosted by two of the stars of the cult movie classic Revenge of the Nerds. Robert Carradine and Curtis Armstrong will lead the eight-episode series, which is slated to premiere in early 2013. The ...
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March 16, 2012
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NEW YORK: In celebration of Earth Day, BBC America is planning to air the original Planet Earth, which will broadcast in the U.S. for the first time in its entirety with its original narrator, Sir David Attenborough. The Planet Earth marathon on BBC America starts April 21 at 6 a.m. and ...
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March 16, 2012
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LONDON: ALL3MEDIA International has secured the international rights from 4Rights and Crackit Productions for the Channel 4 home-makeover show You Deserve This House. The 40-episode, hour-long series, produced by Crackit Productions (Fat Fighters, The Ugly Face of Beauty), is fronted by Amanda Lamb (A Place in the Sun, My Flat ...
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March 16, 2012
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LOS ANGELES: Rive Gauche Television has picked up the unscripted extreme fitness series Operation Osmin, which is to have its international debut at MIPTV. Operation Osmin is produced by Hot Snakes Media and airs in the U.S. on nuvoTV. The 23-episode, hour-long series follows the personal trainer Osmin Hernandez as ...
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