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The Diana Interview: The Truth Behind the Scandal — a follow-up to Blink Films’ Diana: The Truth Behind the Interview, which aired in October of last year — for May 29. The follow-up, also from London-based Blink, comes as the BBC is facing great scrutiny for its journalistic practices in the wake of an inquiry led by retired British judge Lord Dyson, which determined there was a “covering up” regarding how then-BBC journalist Martin Bashir obtained an interview with Princess Diana f...

th anniversary of hip hop music into a multi-year, cross-platform programming initiative called Hip Hop 50, in collaboration with entertainment company Mass Appeal. Hip Hop 50 will span unscripted series and features, podcasts and digital shorts by and about some of the most well-known names in the genre. The initiative is driven by Mass Appeal partner Nasir “Nas” Jones and chief creative officer and partner Sacha Jenkins, who was writer, director and producer of the Emmy and Peabody-nomi...

A+E’s History is slating Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America, to air June 19, or Juneteenth, the date commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Executive produced and narrated by NBA legend and social justice advocate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (pictured), and Deborah Morales of Iconomy Multi-Media & Entertainment, the one-hour doc looks at the impact key movements throughout U.S. history have had in shaping the country’s society, laws and culture. T...

UK broadcaster Sky will restructure its acquisitions teams to centralize its U.K., Italian and German teams into one central hub. The new acquisitions hub was announced on Thursday (May 20), and ...

LA-based Leopard USA is looking to find more Cash in the Attic. The prodco has announced they are planning to give the long-running series a full refresh for 2021, va HGTV. Hosted by journalist Courtney Tezeno, the series has aired in more than 160 countries around the world – each episode featuring the story of gems and fortunes hidden in people’s attics. The original series ran to nearly 600 episodes across 18 series on the BBC, with the U.S. version airing on HGTV. The new series is exec...

AFI Docs names Dawn Porter as 2021 Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree AFI Docs, the American Film Institute’s documentary film festival, has named filmmaker Dawn Porter as its 2021 Charles Guggenheim Symposium honoree. This year’s virtual symposium will include a free screening of Dawn ... May 20, 2021 AFI Docs, the American Film In...

European producer/distributor Off the Fence has appointed a new head of natural history to its staff. Debbie Hinnigan, formerly with the BBC, will lead the company’s natural history production team, which creates content in the genre for a wide range of international broadcasters and platforms including National Geographic, Discovery, Love Nature, ZDF and Arte. Hinnigan has worked in television for more than 25 years. She started in news and current affairs at the BBC in London, before workin...

The Legend of the Underground, a 90-minute feature doc that examines systemic discrimination in Nigeria. In 2013, Nigeria enacted the anti-LGBTQ law, the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill (SSMPA), and in the years since, it has been used to harass, imprison, extort and commit violence against anyone seen as not conforming to Nigerian societal and cultural norms. In August of 2018, 57 men who attended a party in Lagos, Nigeria were rounded up by police, arrested and forced in front of news ca...

BBC Factual has announced a two-part series from London’s Expectation Entertainment called Ed Balls: Care in Crisis, investigating the dire state of long-term care homes in the UK. The series will air on BBC Two and iPlayer. Balls (pictured), an economist and former politician, recently had to move his own mother into a care home, and was appalled with the state of the facility. “The crisis in social care is deepening,” Balls said. “We need to work together to sort it now. Because my m...

Discovery, WarnerMedia confirm merger; David Zaslav to lead company In a move that will significantly redraw the entertainment media landscape, Discovery Inc. and AT&T’s WarnerMedia have unveiled plans to merge and “create a premier, standalone global entertainment company.” The deal ... May 17, 2021 In a move that will significantly...