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EXCLUSIVE: Welcome to Earth producer Nutopia has struck a deal with former Travel Channel and BBC Productions boss Pat Younge to develop a slate of global TV franchises with a focus on diversity and inclusion. Younge and Nutopia will forge shows “rooted in the stories and perspectives of the African and Asian…

Sky has unveiled one of its biggest factual slates yet, greenlighting six shows including documentaries on the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and the Italian 1990 football World Cup, and a royal factual drama told through the eyes of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters. The shows will air across Sky Doc…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: The World According to Jeff Goldblum producer Nutopia is bolstering its executive team in the U.S. with the hire of former Nat Geo executive Geoff Daniels. Daniels, who was previously EVP, Global Unscripted Entertainment at the Disney-owned factual broadcaster, will become EVP, Unscripted Entertainment at…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has given a two-season order to a hybrid docuseries about African Queens, from Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith's Westbrook Studios and Nutopia, with Pinkett Smith set to executive produce. Written by Peres Owino (Bound: Africans vs African-Americans) and NneNne Iwuji (Yellow), the as-yet untitled…

EXCLUSIVE: Jane Root's Nutopia has hired Matt Edmonds, a former executive at Sacha Baron Cohen's production company Spelthorne Community TV, as it ramps up its move to broaden its factual programming slate. Edmonds, who was previously Head of Factual Entertainment at the company, which the Who Is America? star…

Thor star Chris Hemsworth is to front a science series for Nat Geo from the producers behind One Strange Rock. The actor will host Limitless from Jane Root's Nutopia and Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa Pictures. The series will ask questions such as what if aging is not inevitable or what if it's a disease that can be…

Jane Root’s Nutopia (One Strange Rock) and Plan B Entertainment are teaming to bring the Atlas Obscura phenomenon to television in a new premium docuseries. The project marks the first co-production for Nutopia and Plan B, and one of Plan B’s first forays into unscripted TV. Titled Atlas Obscura, the docuseries, which…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO and British broadcaster Channel 4 are exploring the world of Islamic terrorism with their latest feature doc about controversial extremist Jihadi John. The two companies have commissioned a high-end doc from Jane Root's production company Nutopia and director Anthony Wonke, who has made films including S…

Jane Root's Nutopia is doubling down on the life of Jesus – this time for History. The One Strange Rock producer, which previously made Finding Jesus for CNN, has been commissioned by the A+E Networks cabler to make eight-part event Jesus: His Life, which will explore the story of Jesus Christ through the people in…

Meredith Vieira has responded to allegations of sexual misconduct against CBS CEO Les Moonves. Following a TCA panel discussion for her new PBS show The Great American Read, Vieira told Deadline she hasn’t read the New Yorker article detailing the allegations, and didn’t work directly with Moonves so can’t speak to…

One Strange Rock may qualify as one of the most ambitious documentary series ever brought to television. Its purpose, after all, is to tell nothing less than "the story of Earth." "It's not a show just about animals. It's not a show just about people," executive producer Darren Aronofsky tells Deadline. "It's a show…