Sky, Fifth Season and Lightbox are combining on a premium documentary series telling the extraordinary story of a group of young women from across the globe who join forces to bring down a predatory Italian policeman.
Based on the hit podcast, Verified, Bad Host: Hunting the Couchsurfing Predator is being produced in association with Scripps. Produced by Simon and Jonathan Chinn’s Lightbox, the project will be one of Fifth Season’s flagship projects at Mipcom Cannes.
Bad Host tells the Tinder Swindler-esque story of how a group of remarkable young women, unbeknownst to each other, were all victims of a predator who lured them to stay with him using Couchsurfing, a website where travellers can find trustworthy hosts to put them up in their homes for free. Tracing each other through the internet, the young women united and battled for six years, often in the face of indifference in their home countries,...
Based on the hit podcast, Verified, Bad Host: Hunting the Couchsurfing Predator is being produced in association with Scripps. Produced by Simon and Jonathan Chinn’s Lightbox, the project will be one of Fifth Season’s flagship projects at Mipcom Cannes.
Bad Host tells the Tinder Swindler-esque story of how a group of remarkable young women, unbeknownst to each other, were all victims of a predator who lured them to stay with him using Couchsurfing, a website where travellers can find trustworthy hosts to put them up in their homes for free. Tracing each other through the internet, the young women united and battled for six years, often in the face of indifference in their home countries,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
“House of Kardashian,” a three-part documentary series exploring the Kardashian-Jenners, will arrive on the U.K.’s Sky Documentaries and streaming service Now this fall.
The series, produced by Fremantle’s 72 Films, aims to challenge what society knows of the Kardashians, exploring their rise, reach and the cost that comes with being some of the most famous women on the planet. It features unseen archival footage and first-hand testimony from some of those within the Kardashian-Jenner inner circle, including Caitlyn Jenner, and also explores the family dynamic, scandal, controversial business deals and personal struggles.
The series was commissioned by Poppy Dixon, director of documentaries and factual at Sky, and Hayley Reynolds, commissioning editor, on behalf of Zai Bennett, MD of content, Sky U.K. and Ireland. “House of Kardashian” is series directed by Katie Hindley and executive produced by Clare Cameron, alongside 72 Films’ creative director John Douglas.
Fremantle is handling international distribution,...
The series, produced by Fremantle’s 72 Films, aims to challenge what society knows of the Kardashians, exploring their rise, reach and the cost that comes with being some of the most famous women on the planet. It features unseen archival footage and first-hand testimony from some of those within the Kardashian-Jenner inner circle, including Caitlyn Jenner, and also explores the family dynamic, scandal, controversial business deals and personal struggles.
The series was commissioned by Poppy Dixon, director of documentaries and factual at Sky, and Hayley Reynolds, commissioning editor, on behalf of Zai Bennett, MD of content, Sky U.K. and Ireland. “House of Kardashian” is series directed by Katie Hindley and executive produced by Clare Cameron, alongside 72 Films’ creative director John Douglas.
Fremantle is handling international distribution,...
- 8/24/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Louis Theroux has unveiled a Sky feature documentary exploring the controversial affair between a married female professor and a non-verbal black man with cerebral palsy, which led to one of the most divisive criminal trials of the 21st century.
As he prepares to deliver tomorrow’s Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart address, Tell Them You Love Me looks set to be one of the most high profile shows so far to come from the celebrated documentarian’s Mindhouse Productions.
Co-produced with U.S. streamer Topic and distributed by Kino Lorber in North America and NBCUniversal internationally, the 100-minute feature follows the astounding events that led to a divisive criminal trial, which is described as a “misunderstood love affair or a tale of sexual assault and predatory behaviour.”
When the pair first meet, Anna Stubblefield is a respected academic and a disability rights advocate; passionate in her belief that the most essential...
As he prepares to deliver tomorrow’s Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart address, Tell Them You Love Me looks set to be one of the most high profile shows so far to come from the celebrated documentarian’s Mindhouse Productions.
Co-produced with U.S. streamer Topic and distributed by Kino Lorber in North America and NBCUniversal internationally, the 100-minute feature follows the astounding events that led to a divisive criminal trial, which is described as a “misunderstood love affair or a tale of sexual assault and predatory behaviour.”
When the pair first meet, Anna Stubblefield is a respected academic and a disability rights advocate; passionate in her belief that the most essential...
- 8/22/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Interview
Former Chancellor and U.K. Prime Ministerial hopeful Rishi Sunak will be interviewed live on Channel 4, the British broadcaster whose privatization he has vowed to go ahead with. Sunak will be interviewed on a special episode of “The Andrew Neil Show” on July 29, after “Channel 4 News.” The program will be made by ITN Productions.
The other remaining candidate for Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, has been invited for an interview but has so far declined to take part. “The invitation remains open,” Channel 4 said.
A peak audience of more than two million people tuned in to the Channel 4 Conservative leadership debate, the first TV debate in the contest to be Britain’s next Prime Minister. Sunak and Truss face off on a TV debate on the BBC on June 25, presented by Sophie Raworth, with analysis from BBC political editor Chris Mason and BBC economics editor Faisal Islam.
Former Chancellor and U.K. Prime Ministerial hopeful Rishi Sunak will be interviewed live on Channel 4, the British broadcaster whose privatization he has vowed to go ahead with. Sunak will be interviewed on a special episode of “The Andrew Neil Show” on July 29, after “Channel 4 News.” The program will be made by ITN Productions.
The other remaining candidate for Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, has been invited for an interview but has so far declined to take part. “The invitation remains open,” Channel 4 said.
A peak audience of more than two million people tuned in to the Channel 4 Conservative leadership debate, the first TV debate in the contest to be Britain’s next Prime Minister. Sunak and Truss face off on a TV debate on the BBC on June 25, presented by Sophie Raworth, with analysis from BBC political editor Chris Mason and BBC economics editor Faisal Islam.
- 7/25/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Republic Film Distribution has acquired the title.
Republic Film Distribution has acquired UK-Ireland rights to Sam Hobkinson’s Sundance 2021 documentary Misha And The Wolves.
The distributor has set an exclusive theatrical release for September 3 across the territory; the film will then be broadcast by BBC Storyville later in the year. Netflix previously acquired US rights on the film.
Misha And The Wolves follows a woman whose Holocaust memoir took the world by storm, before a fallout with her publisher – who turned detective – revealed a deception created to hide a darker truth.
The film is produced by Arts Alliance and MetFilm from the UK,...
Republic Film Distribution has acquired UK-Ireland rights to Sam Hobkinson’s Sundance 2021 documentary Misha And The Wolves.
The distributor has set an exclusive theatrical release for September 3 across the territory; the film will then be broadcast by BBC Storyville later in the year. Netflix previously acquired US rights on the film.
Misha And The Wolves follows a woman whose Holocaust memoir took the world by storm, before a fallout with her publisher – who turned detective – revealed a deception created to hide a darker truth.
The film is produced by Arts Alliance and MetFilm from the UK,...
- 6/2/2021
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Hillary Clinton’s HiddenLight Lands YouTube Series
HiddenLight Productions, the producer set up by Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and Sam Branson, has landed a YouTube Original series. Titled If I Could Tell You Just One Thing, the four-part series will follow British YouTuber Patricia Bright as she holds conversations with inspirational women about the stories and experiences that have shaped their own lives. A pilot episode premiered in 2019, hosted by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and featuring women including Simone Biles and Awkwafina. The UK series is executive produced by Johnny Webb and Nick Betts at HiddenLight.
Sky Hires BBC & Channel 4 Docs Commissioners
Sky has bolstered its documentary team with the addition of commissioning editor Hayley Reynolds and assistant commissioning editor Janine Thomas. Reynolds joins from the BBC, where she has helped oversee docs strand Storyville for the past three years. Thomas arrives at Sky from Channel 4, where she has worked for more than six years,...
HiddenLight Productions, the producer set up by Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and Sam Branson, has landed a YouTube Original series. Titled If I Could Tell You Just One Thing, the four-part series will follow British YouTuber Patricia Bright as she holds conversations with inspirational women about the stories and experiences that have shaped their own lives. A pilot episode premiered in 2019, hosted by Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and featuring women including Simone Biles and Awkwafina. The UK series is executive produced by Johnny Webb and Nick Betts at HiddenLight.
Sky Hires BBC & Channel 4 Docs Commissioners
Sky has bolstered its documentary team with the addition of commissioning editor Hayley Reynolds and assistant commissioning editor Janine Thomas. Reynolds joins from the BBC, where she has helped oversee docs strand Storyville for the past three years. Thomas arrives at Sky from Channel 4, where she has worked for more than six years,...
- 2/3/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix will be the North American streaming home for the Sundance documentary “Misha and the Wolves,” MetFilm Sales was announced on Monday.
In addition, Netflix will debut the film exclusively in North America and several other markets — a licensing deal that was brokered before the Sundance Film Festival.
Also on board to stream the film overseas are BBC Storyville (UK), Zdf Arte (Germany & France), Vpro (the Netherlands), Vrt (Belgium), Svt (Sweden), Dr (Denmark), Nrk (Norway), Yle (Finland), Ruv (Iceland), Movistar+ (Spain), Yes Docu (Israel), Rts (Switzerland), Rtvs (Slovenia), Ert (Greece), and TG4 (Ireland).
“The number of deals attests to the buyers’ appetite for great stories and sophisticated filmmaking that has the power to reach large global audience. We are excited for what lies ahead for this film,” Vesna Cudic, MetFilm Sales said in a statement.
The story follows a woman whose holocaust memoir took the world by storm but who...
In addition, Netflix will debut the film exclusively in North America and several other markets — a licensing deal that was brokered before the Sundance Film Festival.
Also on board to stream the film overseas are BBC Storyville (UK), Zdf Arte (Germany & France), Vpro (the Netherlands), Vrt (Belgium), Svt (Sweden), Dr (Denmark), Nrk (Norway), Yle (Finland), Ruv (Iceland), Movistar+ (Spain), Yes Docu (Israel), Rts (Switzerland), Rtvs (Slovenia), Ert (Greece), and TG4 (Ireland).
“The number of deals attests to the buyers’ appetite for great stories and sophisticated filmmaking that has the power to reach large global audience. We are excited for what lies ahead for this film,” Vesna Cudic, MetFilm Sales said in a statement.
The story follows a woman whose holocaust memoir took the world by storm but who...
- 2/1/2021
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
MetFilms has announced a series of distribution deals for the Holocaust documentary Misha and the Wolves which made its world premiere in the Sundance World Documentary competition on Sunday.
The film, directed by Sam Hobkinson, follows a woman whose Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm. However, a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
Netflix picked up the global SVOD window prior to the festival, and will carry the film exclusively in North America and other markets. The pic will not be one of the streamer’s branded documentaries. In addition, on board are BBC Storyville (UK), Zdf Arte (Germany & France), Vpro (the Netherlands), Vrt (Belgium), Svt (Sweden), Dr (Denmark), Nrk (Norway), Yle (Finland), Ruv (Iceland), Movistar+ (Spain), Yes Docu (Israel), Rts (Switzerland), Rtvs (Slovenia), Ert (Greece), and TG4 (Ireland).
Said Vesna Cudic of MetFilm Sales, “The number of...
The film, directed by Sam Hobkinson, follows a woman whose Holocaust memoir takes the world by storm. However, a fallout with her publisher-turned-detective reveals her story as an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
Netflix picked up the global SVOD window prior to the festival, and will carry the film exclusively in North America and other markets. The pic will not be one of the streamer’s branded documentaries. In addition, on board are BBC Storyville (UK), Zdf Arte (Germany & France), Vpro (the Netherlands), Vrt (Belgium), Svt (Sweden), Dr (Denmark), Nrk (Norway), Yle (Finland), Ruv (Iceland), Movistar+ (Spain), Yes Docu (Israel), Rts (Switzerland), Rtvs (Slovenia), Ert (Greece), and TG4 (Ireland).
Said Vesna Cudic of MetFilm Sales, “The number of...
- 2/1/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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