TruTV has ordered a 10-episode fifth season of its unscripted series Black Gold to air this winter. Produced by Thom Beers' FremantleMedia-owned Original Prods., Black Gold follows roughneck crews in the oil fields of Texas. Black Gold is coming off its most watched season to date —  it averaged 1.6 million viewers in…

‘Black Gold’ Will Open Doha Tribeca Film Festival The premiere of Tarak Ben Ammar’s Black Gold will kick off the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, organizers said today. Backers of the film, billed as the biggest ever produced in the Middle East, also said that James Horner (Titanic, Avatar) had recently completed the…

TruTV, which has been on a ratings upswing, got an additional boost last month when it launched its first high-profile sports franchise, sharing with TNT, TBS and CBS the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship coverage. At its second annual upfront today, the network announced a slew of series renewals and…

Tarak Ben Ammar’s Quinta Communications has brought the Doha Film Institute aboard as a co-producer of Black Gold, the Jean-Jacques Annaud-directed feature that began production in Tunisia on October 18. DFI, making its first foray into a major international feature production, will provide a mix of equity, services…

Warner Bros and Universal are sharing territories on Tunisian entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar's next feature Black Gold. The story revolves around the rivalry between Arabian rulers in the 1930s just as oil is being discovered, and the rise of a young, dynamic leader who unites the various tribes of the desert kingdoms…