David Olusoga, Louis Theroux to Feature at Virtual BBC Studios Showcase 2021

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC and Warner Bros-owned Twenty Twenty have postponed production on David Olusoga’s hit history series A House Through Time as the UK remains in the grips of the coronavirus crisis.

Grounded With Louis Theroux | BBC Sounds RedHanded | redhandedpodcast. comAs we move into Week 759 of lockdown, time is immobile and all-enveloping.

Naman Ramachandran Poh Si Teng, producer of Oscar-nominated documentary short “St. Louis Superman,” has joined the International Documentary Association (IDA) as the new director of the IDA Funds and Enterprise program.Poh will oversee and build IDA’s grants portfolio and serve as a key liaison with the documentary field in the U.S.

Sky is to tread some familiar, award-winning ground with a revisit to the story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster as part of a slate of new documentaries that will premiere on the Comcast-owned pay-TV giant in the UK and Ireland.

A 6-year-old’s weather reports have been putting a smile on the faces of residents of St. Louis, earning him a visit on “The Kelly Clarkson Show”.

BBC Studios, the commercial and production arm of the U.K. public broadcaster BBC, has taken full control of British film and TV banner Clerkenwell Films, upping its stake from 48 percent to 100 percent.

BBC Studios’ Americas unit has hired Paramount Pictures Worldwide executive Dina Vangelisti to the newly-created role of executive vice president of content sales.

Naman Ramachandran BBC Studios has increased its investment in “The End of the F***ing World” producer Clerkenwell Films, becoming an outright owner with a 100% stake.Founded in 1998 by Murray Ferguson, Clerkenwell Films is one of the leading scripted producers in the U.K.

It’s the end of an era at The End Of The F***ing World and Misfits producer Clerkenwell Films, where founder Murray Ferguson is leaving after 23 years and BBC Studios is taking full control of the business.

Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, Sky picks up hundreds of hours of Studiocanal feature film content; Banijay aims to raise domestic abuse awareness; GoQuest Media picks pair of Serbian drama series; Oble finds a home on Viu Middle East for “The Outbreak”; Abacus Media Rights snags Kate Beckinsale-narrated dog show doc; Walter Presents acquires three French Canadian series; and Eccho Rights sends a slate of Korean dramas to upstart Turkish streamer Exxen.Sky and Studiocanal have closed a

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EXCLUSIVE: BBC Studios has been ambitious and wide-ranging in its search for a new chief executive, but after nearly six months of recruiting, sources say that BBC director general Tim Davie is no closer to landing the big name he desires.

As BBC Studios America gets set to enter North America's streaming wars with BBC Select, former TiVO exec Tara Maitra has been named to fill the new role of chief commercial officer. And Jennifer Ball, formerly with Univision and Promax, becomes senior vp of marketing at the BBC's U.S.-based commercial arm.

Naman Ramachandran David Attenborough’s latest gig will be as a hologram that forms part of a U.K.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefBBC Studios’ crime series “Criminal Justice” is to be adapted for local consumption in South Korea. The move follows an agreement between BBC and producer Studio M.

Pa Salieu has been announced as the winner of the BBC Sound Of 2021 poll. The Coventry rapper says that he was spurred on to make music after surviving being shot in the head in 2019.Speaking to the BBC, he says he hopes to give a voice to friends and others who have died, changing public and political perceptions of victims of street violence.