{"id":13074,"date":"2019-07-15T11:33:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tcb-acquires-feature-doc-50m-art-swindle\/"},"modified":"2019-07-15T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T16:26:07","slug":"tcb-acquires-feature-doc-the-50m-art-swindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tcb-acquires-feature-doc-the-50m-art-swindle\/","title":{"rendered":"TCB Acquires Feature Doc The $50m Art Swindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TCB Media Rights has picked up Top Hat Productions\u2019 <em>The $50m Art Swindle<\/em>, signaling the London-based rights-ownership and distribution company\u2019s move into high-end feature-length documentaries.<\/p>\n<p>The 90-minute <em>The $50m Art Swindle<\/em> is centered on rogue New York art dealer Michel Cohen who went on the run after conning the art establishment out of more than $50 million. Eighteen years after the 2000 swindle, filmmaker Vanessa Engle (<em>The Funeral Murders<\/em>) tracked Cohen down and persuaded him to share his story. The doc delves into Cohen\u2019s psyche and shines a light on the underbelly of the international art market. Commissioned by the BBC\u2019s Mark Bell for the <em>Arena<\/em> art strand, <em>The $50m Art Swindle<\/em> is slated to air on BBC Two this summer.<\/p>\n<p>TCB has also commissioned the three-part docuseries <em>How I Created a Cult<\/em> from Conscious Life, developed in conjunction with Spring Films. The series follows Andrew Cohen\u2019s journey from a spiritual leader and enlightenment seeker to the head of a global cult, revealing how he came to subject his followers to life-threatening punishments, mock amputations, brainwashing, extortion and psychological abuse. <em>How I Created a Cult<\/em>\u00a0is drawn from 60 hours of original interviews with students and victims, more than 200 hours of archive footage and a series of interviews with Cohen himself.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Humphrey, head of acquisitions and co-productions at TCB Media Rights, said: \u201cWe certainly don\u2019t want to forget our heartland of factual and factual entertainment; this is our lifeblood and it\u2019s what the buyers know us for. However, with these two shows in particular it allows us to make a less clunky, more obvious move into the premium space. These two projects reflect the polarization of the market that we now see across many platforms, that is, between big-budget \u2018noisy\u2019 and lower budget higher volume. Both areas have to perform quickly however and TCB is set up to flex and exploit the unscripted market and these are two hugely standout, well-crafted stories.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TCB Media Rights has picked up Top Hat Productions\u2019 The $50m Art Swindle, signaling the London-based rights-ownership and distribution company\u2019s move into high-end feature-length documentaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":13075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[3939,184,3940,3941],"class_list":["post-13074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-how-i-created-a-cult","tag-tcb-media-rights","tag-the-50m-art-swindle","tag-top-hat-productions","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TCB Acquires Feature Doc The $50m Art Swindle - TVREAL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tcb-acquires-feature-doc-the-50m-art-swindle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TCB Acquires Feature Doc The $50m Art Swindle - TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"TCB Media Rights has picked up Top Hat Productions\u2019 The $50m Art Swindle, signaling the London-based rights-ownership and distribution company\u2019s move into high-end feature-length documentaries.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tcb-acquires-feature-doc-the-50m-art-swindle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVREAL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-07-15T15:33:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-15T16:26:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/07\/Cohen_Cults-tcb-719.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tcb-acquires-feature-doc-the-50m-art-swindle\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tcb-acquires-feature-doc-the-50m-art-swindle\/\",\"name\":\"TCB Acquires Feature Doc The $50m Art Swindle - TVREAL\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-07-15T15:33:49+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-15T16:26:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tcb-acquires-feature-doc-the-50m-art-swindle\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tcb-acquires-feature-doc-the-50m-art-swindle\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/tcb-acquires-feature-doc-the-50m-art-swindle\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"TCB Acquires Feature Doc The $50m Art Swindle\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/\",\"name\":\"TVREAL\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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