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BBC Studios has raided rival ITV Studios for the executive producer of one of its tent-pole brands, Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. Pete Ogden will join the BBC’s commercial production arm in early May as the creative director of entertainment North, having been at ITV Studios for the past eight years. He is…

WME has signed multiple award-winning documentary producers Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn and their Lightbox. Based in Los Angeles and London, the production company is behind such acclaimed recent nonfiction fare as LA92 and Whitney. The Chinn cousins shared an Emmy for the LA92, a look back at the untold stories of…

The brave civilians who took matters into their own hands during the Hurricane Katrina disaster and remain on call for other natural calamities are the subject of a planned Discovery/Lightbox feature-length documentary. Cajun Navy follows a group of men and women formed in 2005 in response to Hurricane Katrina…

Audiences are filing out of the world premiere screening of Kevin Macdonald’s Whitney at the Cannes Film Festival tonight, a new documentary that sheds fresh light on iconic singer Whitney Houston’s tragic and puzzling rise-and-fall story. Interviewing Houston’s closest family and friends, Macdonald made two…

UPDATED, 8:05 AM: Fusion said today that The Traffickers will premiere November 13 with back-to-back episodes starting at 10 PM . PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE: Fusion has set its sights on The Traffickers, an investigative series that follows the illegal trades of precious minerals, counterfeit drugs, endangered species and…

Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald and producer Simon Chinn and his Lightbox Media partner Jonathan Chinn are partnering with producer Lisa Erspamer on a feature documentary about late singer Whitney Houston. Billed as the official documentary, the film will take a revealing look at the life and genius of the…

Lightbox and XBox Studios earned a ton of press this weekend when an excavation crew unearthed hundreds of buried cartridges of Atari‘s 1982 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial video game in a dumpsite in Alamogordo, N.M. The archaeological discovery confirmed a long-held legend in the gaming world that Atari had buried…

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Perkins’ documentary Garnet’s Gold has some serious pedigree — it’s from producer Simon Chinn, who won Best Documentary Feature Oscars for James Marsh’s Man On Wire in 2009 and for Searching For Sugar Man in 2013. Both of those riviting docus scored because of their laser focus on what made their…

The documentary about the notorious Mexican drug lord is particularly timely now that Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been captured after more than a decade on the run. The Legend Of Shorty chronicles the hunt for the near mythical figure who is alternately described as a brilliant business visionary, an amoral and…

Xbox, which has greenlighted its first scripted series, Halo, and its first reality series with the street soccer competition Every Street United, is now entering the documentary arena with a multi-film series about the start of the digital revolution. It hails from Oscar-winning documentary producer Simon Chinn (Man O…