Broadcasters Turn to Documentary Series and Factual Shows to Inform, Inspire and Entertain

Scott Brown was presented with a special gift by fans as he gears up for his final match against Rangers. The legendary skipper has agreed a deal to join Aberdeen in a player-coach role at the end of the season, bringing to an end his trophy-laden Parkhead career.

Naman Ramachandran The nascent Basketball Africa League (BAL), a partnership between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), is set to get its own documentary series.Fremantle, “True Detective” executive producer Richard Brown and sports marketing company Infront have teamed with the BAL to produce an original documentary series telling the story of its launch and inaugural season.

It’s been one hell of a year for comedian Tommy Tiernan, who stole the show every Saturday night on RTÉ during his iconic talk show run.

Back in December, Marvel’s Kevin Feige revealed during a presentation they would be moving forward with a new Disney+ series focusing on the young hero Riri Williams, aka Ironheart, with actress Dominique Thorne set in the role. The comic book heroine is a child genius that becomes an MIT student at age 15 and reverse-engineer’s Iron Man’s armor.

EXCLUSIVE: Evelyn Braxton, the matriarch of long-running reality series Braxton Family Values, is cooking up a new show.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has ordered a documentary series about NASCAR Cup Series driver Darrell “Bubba” Wallace.The series is currently in production and will follow Wallace behind the scenes of the 2021 NASCAR season as he competes for the newly formed 23XI Racing team, which was created by Wallace, Michael Jordan, and Denny Hamlin. Wallace is currently the only Black driver at the top level of the sport.

After a hattrick of ratings wins, Tommy Tiernan was relegated back to second place in the talk-show race as the Late Late Show emerged victorious this week.

Tommy Tiernan has been a mainstay on our television screens every weekend over the last few months with his hit chat show. While the comedian quizzes his guests on their lives, the funnyman keeps his own private life close to his chest.

Viewers were blown away by the powerful final episode of The Tommy Tiernan Show and fans praised the show for highlighting the ‘brilliance of Irish women’ week after week.

Marta Balaga Watch Docs Belarus director and activist Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska was arrested in Minsk on April 5, alongside other human rights defenders Natallya Trenina, Yuliya Semenchanka, Hanna Sakalouskaya and Volha Shapakouskaya.The arrest reportedly followed a COVID-19 exhibition co-organized by Hatsura-Yavorska. Entitled “Machine is Breathing, and I Am Not,” the exhibit focused on the struggles of local health workers and their patients amid the COVID-19 crisis.

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The Tommy Tiernan Show is coming to an end after being one of the most successful shows on Irish telly this year. The show was extended for almost two extra months but it is finally time to say goodbye.

David Beckham has confirmed that his production company Studio 99 is developing an intimate series about his life inside and outside of soccer after he was inspired by hit sports documentaries including The Last Dance.

EXCLUSIVE: Kelly Marie Tran has come aboard as an executive producer on Summertime, reuniting her with her Raya and the Last Dragon director Carlos López Estrada on his spoken-word poetry feature film that world premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Good Deed Entertainment has distribution rights to the pic, which will now get a July 9 release date in select Los Angeles and New York movie theaters before expanding a week later.

EXCLUSIVE: Trine Dyrholm, Meera Syal and Celyn Jones have joined the cast of indie pic The Almond And The Seahorse, which is now underway in the UK.

Kieran Tierney will miss the next four to six weeks with a knee injury, his club Arsenal have confirmed. The left-back was forced off in the recent loss to Liverpool with manager Mikel Arteta calling it a potentially “serious” issue.

Tommy Tiernan is on a roll as his chat show records another record ratings week and trumps the Late Late Show for the third week.

Naman Ramachandran Paper Entertainment, co-producer of the second season of Apple TV Plus hit series “Tehran,” has hired Caroline Amer as development executive.London-based Paper Entertainment was founded by industry executive Julien Leroux in January to develop, finance and produce global television content.

Kanye West has reportedly been sold to Netflix in a multi-million dollar deal.As first reported by Billboard, the multi-part project will feature never-before-seen footage of West, and will explore his extensive music and fashion careers, his failed and legally questionable presidential campaign in 2020, and the death of his mother, Donda.While Billboard puts the sale at £21.7million (US $30million), a source told Variety that figure is inaccurate.