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BBC Runners & Riders: Fiona Campbell Tipped To Replace Patrick Holland Permanently As Director Of Factual, Arts And Classical Music
EXCLUSIVE: BBC3 controller Fiona Campbell has been tipped to permanently take on Patrick Holland’s Director of Factual, Arts and Classical Music role, with several internal candidates also thought to be in the running.
Campbell is overseeing Holland’s vast brief temporarily until he moves to Banijay in April and…
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BBC And Screen Scotland Sign Three-Year $4M Partnership To Boost Scottish Production
The BBC and Screen Scotland have renewed a partnership that will see a further £3M ($4M) pumped into the Scottish TV industry over the next three years.
The Memorandum of Understanding will support the production of TV drama, entertainment, scripted comedy, documentary and factual formats on the BBC's network…
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BBC3 Controller Fiona Campbell To Take Interim Charge Of Factual; Patrick Holland To Focus On Special Projects
EXCLUSIVE: With a return to linear just around the corner, BBC3 channel controller Fiona Campbell is to take on Patrick Holland’s Factual, Arts and Classical Music brief temporarily from this week, as the network seeks a Channel Editor to support Campbell.
Holland is departing to Banijay UK to be Executive Chair in…
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“It Really Crept Up On Us”: Nutopia’s Jane Root On Leading An A-List Factual Revolution With Will Smith, Chris Hemsworth and Jeff Goldblum
EXCLUSIVE: What do Will Smith, Chris Hemsworth and Jeff Goldblum have in common? They are driving a revolution in factual programming led by the world’s biggest stars, and this revolution is being steered by one company above all: Jane Root’s Nutopia.
The Washington/London indie’s Co-founder Jane Root has spent recent…
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BBC2 And PBS Greenlight ‘War Of The Worlds’-Style Hybrid Drama/Doc On Alien Life
EXCLUSIVE: BBC2 and PBS have commissioned a War of the Worlds-style hybrid drama/documentary that spotlights a near future in which extra-terrestrial life has been detected.
First Contact will combine real documentary interviews with some of the world’s most foremost scientists alongside a fictionalized narrative…
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BBC 100: David Dimbleby, Konnie Huq, Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse Shows Unveiled
The BBC has commissioned history series from David Dimbleby and Konnie Huq, a Harry Enfield/Paul Whitehouse comedy and a Horrible Histories one-off, along with special episodes of some of its biggest hits, to commemorate its 100th year.
Under the BBC 100 banner, the corporation will air the likes of the former Question…
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Global Networks Swoop For Fremantle South Africa Drama ‘Reyka’; Dixon, David, Jama Join ‘Walk The Line’, BBC To Tell Dolly The Sheep Story – Global Briefs
Global Networks Swoop For Fremantle South Africa Drama ‘Reyka’
Fremantle’s debut South African drama Reyka has sold to UK’s Channel 4, Canada’s CBC, Canal+ in Europe and HBO LatAm. The news comes as BritBox North America prepares to launch the show, which comes from South African network M-Net and Fremantle with…
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Griersons: BBC And Netflix Neck-And-Neck; Bectu To Share Bullying Stories; Ramseys Land BBC2 Show; Kwai Ups Stèphanie Carrère – Global Briefs
Grierson Awards: Netflix And BBC Neck-And-Neck
Netflix was nearly neck-and-neck with the BBC at last night’s Grierson Awards, winning five gongs including for David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet in Best Single Documentary – Domestic. The streamer was only one behind the BBC’s six wins as the pair dominated on a…
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eOne Strikes Distribution Deal With Northern Irish Producer Alleycats Films
Entertainment One (eOne) has struck an exclusive distribution deal with Northern Irish production outfit Alleycats Films.
Under the terms of the deal, which was brokered by Noel Hedges, eOne's Executive Vice President of Acquisitions, the unscripted producer will develop and produce premium content for the global…
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Sir Lenny Henry’s Douglas Road Behind BBC Doc On UK Caribbean Culture
EXCLUSIVE: Sir Lenny Henry's Banijay-backed indie Douglas Road Productions is to spotlight Caribbean culture in the UK in an upcoming BBC2 arts documentary.
Deadline hears production will commence next month in London on the show, which does not yet have a title.
Commissioned out of Factual/Arts Director Patrick…
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