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On the heels of acquiring exclusive SVOD rights to Australian comedy Please Like Me, Hulu has picked up the fourth season of the critically praised series for the U.S. The Participant Media original series, which previously aired on Participant’s Pivot network, will debut its fourth season in the U.S. on Hulu early…

EXCLUSIVE: Pivot has given a Season 4 greenlight to Please Like Me, Josh Thomas’ coming-of-age comedy from Australia. Production gets under way this week in Melbourne on the six-episode new season, which will premiere November 10. Creator-writer-director Thomas stars as Josh alongside Thomas Ward, Caitlin Stasey…

2ND UPDATE: Amazon has picked up Season 2 of Fortitude for the U.S. and will stream it later this year. The trailer above is the UK version. UPDATED: Pivot ceased operations in October, so Fortitude obviously won’t be airing there. Season 2 began airing January 26 on Sky Atlantic in the UK and Ireland. PREVIOUSLY, June…

Secret Lives of Americans docuseries is returning on May 20 with a 20-episode second season, the longest-ever for any original series on Participant Media’s Pivot network. The docuseries explores the reasons why ordinary Americans go to great lengths to disguise their closest kept secrets. Each subject self-documents…

EXCLUSIVE: FremantleMedia International has closed a trio of major deals on its London-set drama, Capital. Participant Media's Pivot has acquired rights in the U.S., Shaw has taken Canada, and BBC Worldwide picked up Australia and New Zealand. The tense three-part series adaptation of the bestselling novel by John…

EXCLUSIVE: Brian Knappenberger's Truth And Power screened last week as part of the Berlin Film Festival’s budding Drama Series Days section. Its slot came as non-fiction was included for the first time. Filmbuff began selling the timely series at the EFM, closing an important offshore deal with Israeli broadcaster…

Sky Atlantic and Participant Media's Pivot picked up Season Two of arctic thriller Fortitude last April, ahead of the drama's first season finale. With principal photography now underway in London, a host of new cast members have been added. They include Dennis Quaid, Parminder Nagra (The Blacklist), Michelle Fairley…

Maggie Gyllenhaal is teaming with Participant Media to narrate Truth And Power, a 10-part investigative docuseries executive produced by Brian Knappenberger (The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz), set to premiere on Pivot on January 22. It was announced today as part of Participant Media-owned Pivot’s…

She may be known predominantly for her iconic role as Charlotte York in Sex and the City, but Kristin Davis is far from a Park Avenue princess. In 2013, with no filmmaking experience, she threw herself into Executive Producing her first documentary, Gardeners of Eden, highlighting the danger of imminent elephant…

Participant Media's Pivot and Sky Atlantic have picked up Fortitude for a second season ahead of the drama’s first season finale tonight. "From the first episode, audiences responded to the incredibly rich world Simon Donald created, where nature and civilization collide with catastrophic results," said Kent Rees…

Fred Armisen will host the May 31 Peabody Awards ceremony which, after two decades at the Waldorf, is moving to “Greek revival special-events palace Cipriani Wall Street,” and from from a workday lunchtime to an evening gala that organizers say will include a “made-for-TV red carpet event.” In June, Pivot will…

Participant Media’s Pivot network today unveiled a new slate of original series and announced premiere dates for four series, including Emmy-winning Hit Record On TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. At its upfront in NYC, the network announced it has greenlit a new investigative series executive produced by Brian…