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EXCLUSIVE: Bear Grylls’ production company The Natural Studios, the JV with Banijay, has set Escape From Pretoria director Francis Annan to helm its first scripted movie, a contemporary reworking of The Count Of Monte Cristo. Annan is newly aboard to script and direct the film, which will be set in Afghanistan. As…

Clintons’ HiddenLight Hires ‘For Sama’ EP HiddenLight Productions, the production outfit co-founded by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sam Branson, and Chelsea Clinton, has hired BAFTA and Emmy-winning executive producer Siobhan Sinnerton to the role of creative director and SVP of unscripted. She joins from Channel 4, where…

Adventurer Bear Grylls has signed up for two new Netflix interactive specials, starting on February 16 with Animals on the Loose: A You Vs. Wild. The You vs. Wild franchise is an interactive experience with multiple choices, where a user can direct the course of the story. In Animals on the Loose, for example, you…

EXCLUSIVE: Bear Grylls, star of Netflix's You Vs Wild and Nat Geo's Running Wild With Bear Grylls, is launching a digital network after striking a deal with Team Whistle. The digital media company has partnered with Grylls and his Banijay Group-backed production company The Natural Studios to produce a slate of…

Adventurer and presenter Bear Grylls is developing a present day movie version of The Count Of Monte Cristo, written by Tom Williams (Kajaki). Grylls’ Banijay JV The Natural Studios is teaming up with producers Ben Grass (Twist) and Christophe Charlier (Race) for the film which will focus on the friendship and bitter…

Bear Grylls has teamed with European production group Banijay to launch a new production company. Grylls, star of Netflix's You Vs Wild and Running Wild With Bear Grylls, which aired on NBC before moving to Nat Geo, is launching The Natural Studios with his Bear Grylls Venture partner Delbert Shoopman and Banijay…

Captain Marvel‘s Brie Larson, Free Solo climber Alex Honnold, Dave Bautista, Armie Hammer, Cara Delevingne, Zachary Quinto and a returning Channing Tatum are among the adventurers confirmed dive into Season 5 of Running Wild With Bear Grylls. Nat Geo confirmed Tuesday the cast and that its season premiere is November…

The Crown star Olivia Colman and Andy Harries, the man who shepherded the royal drama to Netflix, have been honored in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. The awards are the most prestigious in the UK. Colman, who recently won an Oscar for her performance in The Favourite, has been handed an CBE for her services to drama…

Fresh from his Netflix interactive series You Vs. Wild, global adventurer Bear Grylls is fronting a one-off British special with Britain's Got Talent judge David Walliams. Grylls is hosting Bear's Mission with David Walliams, an hour-long special for ITV. The show will see the explorer take Walliams out of the…

Should Bear Grylls ski or paraglide down a mountain? Should he run away or fight a wolf? Should he eat that enormous bug or leave it? You get to decide the outcome of those and many other hairy situations in Netflix’s new interactive series You vs. Wild. Watch the first trailer above and check out some new photos…

Following the recent success of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Netflix has set its next interactive series. The Internet network said today that You vs. Wild, an eight-episode interactive family series fronted by survival expert and TV veteran Bear Grylls, will premiere April 10. The streamer had ramped up its efforts in…

Bear Grylls calls National Geographic's Hostile Planet a story that's never been told showing life on the edges and how hard it really is. The six part series delves into the real stars, animals that have adapted to the cruelest evolutionary curveballs. Grylls, who serves as executive producer, host, and narrator of…