Exclusive: Homeland star Mandy Patinkin is fronting a podcast about the history of German Jews in the 1930s.
Exile is the Emmy and Tony Award-winners first foray into podcasts and the first six episodes will launch next week, followed by another six in 2023.
Produced by Antica Productions and the Leo Baeck Institute, the 12-parter will tell the stories of Jews in Germany in the 1930s, when Nazi rule led millions to be killed and many more to flee.
Patinkin is a refugee advocate who has worked as an ambassador with the likes of the International Rescue Committee. The critically-acclaimed Broadway performer’s credits include Homeland, Criminal Minds and The Princess Bride.
“I am fortunate to be part of Exile, to tell the extraordinary stories of these individuals, their noble lives and journey,” said Patinkin. “It is important to tell their stories at this time…for hope, inspiration and humanity all over the world.
Exile is the Emmy and Tony Award-winners first foray into podcasts and the first six episodes will launch next week, followed by another six in 2023.
Produced by Antica Productions and the Leo Baeck Institute, the 12-parter will tell the stories of Jews in Germany in the 1930s, when Nazi rule led millions to be killed and many more to flee.
Patinkin is a refugee advocate who has worked as an ambassador with the likes of the International Rescue Committee. The critically-acclaimed Broadway performer’s credits include Homeland, Criminal Minds and The Princess Bride.
“I am fortunate to be part of Exile, to tell the extraordinary stories of these individuals, their noble lives and journey,” said Patinkin. “It is important to tell their stories at this time…for hope, inspiration and humanity all over the world.
- 10/26/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Canadian producer Antica Productions has partnered with media organization Postmedia Network to create podcasts and TV shows from journalism, setting debut project True Crime Byline.
Postmedia’s aim is to turn its journalism into factual podcasts as well as looking at scripted and non-scripted TV and film further down the line. Kathleen Goldhar will oversee the partnership on behalf of Antica with Chris Gallipeau, Director of Audio and Video, and Andrea Hill, Director of Verticals, at Postmedia.
Debut project True Crime Byline will be hosted and exec produced by Goldhar, who will invite journalists on to the show to speak about cases that have impacted the way they see the world.
Antica, which was founded by Stuart Coxe in 2008 and has made podcasts including Highly Legal with Jay Baruchel and The Revisionaries, recently took minority investment in Telltale, the nascent transatlantic indie formed by UK industry veteran Jago Lee...
Postmedia’s aim is to turn its journalism into factual podcasts as well as looking at scripted and non-scripted TV and film further down the line. Kathleen Goldhar will oversee the partnership on behalf of Antica with Chris Gallipeau, Director of Audio and Video, and Andrea Hill, Director of Verticals, at Postmedia.
Debut project True Crime Byline will be hosted and exec produced by Goldhar, who will invite journalists on to the show to speak about cases that have impacted the way they see the world.
Antica, which was founded by Stuart Coxe in 2008 and has made podcasts including Highly Legal with Jay Baruchel and The Revisionaries, recently took minority investment in Telltale, the nascent transatlantic indie formed by UK industry veteran Jago Lee...
- 6/29/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Anonymous Content is aggressively bolstering its unscripted television slate with a slew of new projects including music, sports, cooking, dating and documentary series.
The company has unveiled an unscripted and non-fiction development slate featuring seven projects. It comes after the hire of former NBCUniversal exec Jessica Grimshaw as SVP of Unscripted Films, Television and Podcasts last April.
Projects include The Balloon World Cup, based on a real-life contest organized by Barcelona legend Gerard Piqué, medical scam series Death Brokers, Deepfake Dating, an adaptation of food book Gastro Obscura, Lance Bangs’ music series I Don’t Belong Here, Billie Jd Porter’s It’s Different for Girls and a project about Factitious Disease Disorder (full details below).
Dawn Olmstead, David Levine and Grimshaw will executive produce the projects for Anonymous Content.
“We’re working with a world class group of directors, producers and journalists to develop unscripted projects around compelling characters,...
The company has unveiled an unscripted and non-fiction development slate featuring seven projects. It comes after the hire of former NBCUniversal exec Jessica Grimshaw as SVP of Unscripted Films, Television and Podcasts last April.
Projects include The Balloon World Cup, based on a real-life contest organized by Barcelona legend Gerard Piqué, medical scam series Death Brokers, Deepfake Dating, an adaptation of food book Gastro Obscura, Lance Bangs’ music series I Don’t Belong Here, Billie Jd Porter’s It’s Different for Girls and a project about Factitious Disease Disorder (full details below).
Dawn Olmstead, David Levine and Grimshaw will executive produce the projects for Anonymous Content.
“We’re working with a world class group of directors, producers and journalists to develop unscripted projects around compelling characters,...
- 4/20/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Grants
The International Documentary Association (IDA) will award grants totalling $105,000 to five films through its Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund on the theme, “Challenging White Supremacy.”
The films are “Aanikoobijigan”; “Brigidy Bram: The Life and Mind of Kendal Hanna”; “Home Is Somewhere Else”; “The Quiet Part” (working title); and “Yintah”.
In addition, filmmakers Ilse Fernandez (“Exodus Stories”) and Sundance winner Rintu Thomas (“Writing with Fire”), will receive IDA’s Logan Elevate Grants of $25,000 each.
Highlighting IDA’s support for diversity, among the Pare Lorentz grants, one project is directed and/or produced by a non-binary filmmaker and four are directed and/or produced by a woman. Four have a Bipoc director and/or producer and four directors and/or producers identify as LGBTQ+.
Since 2011, IDA has provided over $5.9 million in grants through its documentary funds.
Festival
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan. 26 – Feb. 6) has revealed the first confirmed titles for its 51st edition,...
The International Documentary Association (IDA) will award grants totalling $105,000 to five films through its Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund on the theme, “Challenging White Supremacy.”
The films are “Aanikoobijigan”; “Brigidy Bram: The Life and Mind of Kendal Hanna”; “Home Is Somewhere Else”; “The Quiet Part” (working title); and “Yintah”.
In addition, filmmakers Ilse Fernandez (“Exodus Stories”) and Sundance winner Rintu Thomas (“Writing with Fire”), will receive IDA’s Logan Elevate Grants of $25,000 each.
Highlighting IDA’s support for diversity, among the Pare Lorentz grants, one project is directed and/or produced by a non-binary filmmaker and four are directed and/or produced by a woman. Four have a Bipoc director and/or producer and four directors and/or producers identify as LGBTQ+.
Since 2011, IDA has provided over $5.9 million in grants through its documentary funds.
Festival
The International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan. 26 – Feb. 6) has revealed the first confirmed titles for its 51st edition,...
- 11/3/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: UK production industry veteran Jago Lee has joined forces with former Goldman Sachs banker John Fothergill to launch a transatlantic ‘audio-first’ factual production company focusing on turning podcasts into boxset TV.
Nerd TV founder Lee and Fothergill have opened Telltale, which is unveiled with a first-look agreement with The Revisionaries TV and podcast producer Antica Productions as part of an equity investment from the Toronto HQ’d studio.
The company, which is taking an ‘audio-first’ approach and focusing its launch slate on crime, history and adventure, said its development strategy is heavily informed by the expansion of longform narrative podcast and the trend of converting such series into boxset TV. Red Arrow President James Baker is chairing Telltale’s board.
Lee said: “We love telling complex, characterful, original stories and we know these are treasured by audience. They’re also, of course, the most challenging series to develop straight into the TV market.
Nerd TV founder Lee and Fothergill have opened Telltale, which is unveiled with a first-look agreement with The Revisionaries TV and podcast producer Antica Productions as part of an equity investment from the Toronto HQ’d studio.
The company, which is taking an ‘audio-first’ approach and focusing its launch slate on crime, history and adventure, said its development strategy is heavily informed by the expansion of longform narrative podcast and the trend of converting such series into boxset TV. Red Arrow President James Baker is chairing Telltale’s board.
Lee said: “We love telling complex, characterful, original stories and we know these are treasured by audience. They’re also, of course, the most challenging series to develop straight into the TV market.
- 11/3/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
John Farrar has succeeded long-time Barcroft exec Alex Morris as chief creative officer of U.K. specialist factual producers Barcroft Studios.
Farrar was formerly creative director at Barcroft, the TV and digital video division of Future plc, and will also continue to lead Future Studios. Future acquired Barcroft for $30 million in 2019.
Morris is departing Barcroft after 13 years to pursue new opportunities.
Katie O’Reilly, previously Barcroft Studios’ finance director, has been appointed operations director and will report into Future plc COO Claire MacLellan.
Barcroft specializes in producing documentary for TV and streaming platforms, and hit shows include “Extreme Love” for WEtv, “My Body My Rules” for Channel 4, “Hip Hop Vs. Trump” for BET, “24hr Party Pensioners” for Channel 5 and “Mind Yourself” for Snapchat.
Farrar joined Barcroft Studios in 2019 from Nerd TV, the production business he co-founded with Jago Lee and Charlie Parsons in 2010, and which was bought by Red Arrow Studios in 2012. Since joining Barcroft Studios,...
Farrar was formerly creative director at Barcroft, the TV and digital video division of Future plc, and will also continue to lead Future Studios. Future acquired Barcroft for $30 million in 2019.
Morris is departing Barcroft after 13 years to pursue new opportunities.
Katie O’Reilly, previously Barcroft Studios’ finance director, has been appointed operations director and will report into Future plc COO Claire MacLellan.
Barcroft specializes in producing documentary for TV and streaming platforms, and hit shows include “Extreme Love” for WEtv, “My Body My Rules” for Channel 4, “Hip Hop Vs. Trump” for BET, “24hr Party Pensioners” for Channel 5 and “Mind Yourself” for Snapchat.
Farrar joined Barcroft Studios in 2019 from Nerd TV, the production business he co-founded with Jago Lee and Charlie Parsons in 2010, and which was bought by Red Arrow Studios in 2012. Since joining Barcroft Studios,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
John Farrar, whose credits include “The Imposter,” has joined U.K. producer and digital content specialist Barcroft Studios. The company has also upped two senior staffers, with Alex Morris elevated to chief creative officer and Caspar Norman to chief operating officer.
The new recruit joins Barcroft from Nerd TV, the U.K. shingle he co-founded with Jago Lee and Charlie Parsons in 2010, and which was bought by Red Arrow Studios in 2012.
At Barcroft, Farrar will be creative director. The indie has a strong track record in short and mid-form content which it plays on its own Barcroft TV, and third-party online channels and platforms, attracting hundreds of millions of views. It has also moved into long-form content and Farrar is tasked with maximizing the company’s long form output and growing the number of external commissions.
As Nerd TV’s creative director, Farrar was behind shows including “12-Year-Old Lifer” for U.
The new recruit joins Barcroft from Nerd TV, the U.K. shingle he co-founded with Jago Lee and Charlie Parsons in 2010, and which was bought by Red Arrow Studios in 2012.
At Barcroft, Farrar will be creative director. The indie has a strong track record in short and mid-form content which it plays on its own Barcroft TV, and third-party online channels and platforms, attracting hundreds of millions of views. It has also moved into long-form content and Farrar is tasked with maximizing the company’s long form output and growing the number of external commissions.
As Nerd TV’s creative director, Farrar was behind shows including “12-Year-Old Lifer” for U.
- 6/24/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Viceland is exploring How To Rob A Bank in an eight-part drama-documentary series from Blue Ant-backed British producer Antenna Pictures.
The youth-skewing broadcaster will launch the series on its linear network and streaming platforms later this year.
The show will look at how ordinary Americans, including teachers, lawyers, college students, and soldiers, are committing bank robberies with fourteen attacks happening each day. The series will lead with the perspective and testimony of some of these surprising criminals.
Each episode of the hour-long show will tell a different story with reconstructions and answer how the robbers committed their crimes and why. It is currently in production.
Antenna Pictures is based in London and since its launch in 2016, the Jago Lee-run company has produced series including The Sidemen Show for Youtube Premium, a co-production with Blue Ant Digital Studios, Orangutan Jungle School and Is Love Racist? for Channel 4.
In addition to the commission,...
The youth-skewing broadcaster will launch the series on its linear network and streaming platforms later this year.
The show will look at how ordinary Americans, including teachers, lawyers, college students, and soldiers, are committing bank robberies with fourteen attacks happening each day. The series will lead with the perspective and testimony of some of these surprising criminals.
Each episode of the hour-long show will tell a different story with reconstructions and answer how the robbers committed their crimes and why. It is currently in production.
Antenna Pictures is based in London and since its launch in 2016, the Jago Lee-run company has produced series including The Sidemen Show for Youtube Premium, a co-production with Blue Ant Digital Studios, Orangutan Jungle School and Is Love Racist? for Channel 4.
In addition to the commission,...
- 4/24/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
YouTube has released the first trailer for its forthcoming celeb-laden reality challenge format The Sidemen Show, which will go live on its premium service on June 18.
As revealed by Deadline last month, the show, which is produced by Blue Ant Digital Studios in association with Antenna Pictures, features stars such as Dancing with the Stars winner Nicole Scherzinger, The Island’s Bear Grylls and British comedian Jack Whitehall.
Shot around the world, the show is a stunt, challenge format. Each episode will see the Sidemen, a group of young YouTubers that pal around playing computer games and winding each other up, challenged to perform a different task alongside a celebrity guest. I hear episodes were filmed in locations including the UK, Marrakech, Russia and Austria.
The Sidemen Show is executive produced by Dan Lubetkin, Jago Lee, Austin Long and James Tooley. Craig Pickles serves as Series Director. Chris Lore is Series Producer.
As revealed by Deadline last month, the show, which is produced by Blue Ant Digital Studios in association with Antenna Pictures, features stars such as Dancing with the Stars winner Nicole Scherzinger, The Island’s Bear Grylls and British comedian Jack Whitehall.
Shot around the world, the show is a stunt, challenge format. Each episode will see the Sidemen, a group of young YouTubers that pal around playing computer games and winding each other up, challenged to perform a different task alongside a celebrity guest. I hear episodes were filmed in locations including the UK, Marrakech, Russia and Austria.
The Sidemen Show is executive produced by Dan Lubetkin, Jago Lee, Austin Long and James Tooley. Craig Pickles serves as Series Director. Chris Lore is Series Producer.
- 6/2/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dancing with the Stars winner Nicole Scherzinger, The Island’s Bear Grylls and British comedian Jack Whitehall are among the celebrities appearing alongside viral stars The Sidemen in a YouTube Red series – one of the digital platform’s most high-profile orders from a UK production company.
I understand that the Svod service is launching The Sidemen Show from Blue Ant-backed Antenna Pictures, which is run by former Nerd TV chief Jago Lee, and Blue Ant Digital Studios, later this year.
The Sidemen Show is a seven-part series, with episodes of 30 minutes each. Shot around the world, the show is a stunt, challenge format. Each episode will see the Sidemen, a group of young YouTubers that pal around playing computer games and winding each other up, challenged to perform a different task alongside a celebrity guest. I hear episodes were filmed in locations including the UK, Marrakech, Russia and Austria.
I understand that the Svod service is launching The Sidemen Show from Blue Ant-backed Antenna Pictures, which is run by former Nerd TV chief Jago Lee, and Blue Ant Digital Studios, later this year.
The Sidemen Show is a seven-part series, with episodes of 30 minutes each. Shot around the world, the show is a stunt, challenge format. Each episode will see the Sidemen, a group of young YouTubers that pal around playing computer games and winding each other up, challenged to perform a different task alongside a celebrity guest. I hear episodes were filmed in locations including the UK, Marrakech, Russia and Austria.
- 5/3/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Fyi has greenlit six one-hour episodes of new culinary series Midnight Feast and has ordered two hour-long pilots, Say It To My Face and Reverse Course. Set at New York’s Chelsea Market, Midnight Feast is hosted by chef, restaurateur and TV personality Spike Mendelsohn. Each episode will feature three chefs who are given free rein to use any ingredient found in the famous food hall to execute judged dishes. By the end of the night, the winner walks away with a cash prize – while the losers walk away paying their own tabs. Say It To My Face gives chefs and restaurant owners a chance to defend themselves before their toughest online critics, and Reverse Course”follows chef and restaurateur, Sam Talbot, as he takes the farm-to-table concept to the extreme and tells the story of food like no one else has – in reverse, It begins with the final meal and works backwards,...
- 4/30/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Ahead of its July debut, A+E's upcoming lifestyle network Fyi has picked up a pair of pilots. The cable network -- a joint venture of Disney-abc Television Group and Hearst Corp. -- has added hourlong unscripted entries You're the One and Marry Me … Today. Story: A+E Rebrands Bio as Lifestyle Network Fyi You're the One hails from Nerd TV and Jago Lee, John Farrar and Sarah Lazenby and follows men and women as they travel the globe in search of a lost love. Through social and mass media, communities around the world are mobilized to engage in the hunt, with
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- 4/14/2014
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A+E Networks‘ new lifestyle channel Fyi has picked up two hourlong unscripted pilots as it ramps up for its July 7 launch. You’re The One (working title), hosted by journalist and documentarian Cherry Healey, follows men and women as they embark on a mission to find a lost love. Through social and mass media, communities around the world are mobilized to engage in the hunt, leading up to the final face-to-face meeting. Marry Me … Today (working title) is described as a breakthrough wedding concept for the modern generation. The show partners with website The Knot to follow an ambitious groom-to-be as he surprises his girlfriend with a proposal, engagement and marriage all in one day, using his girlfriend’s online wish list to plan and execute her fantasy wedding. You’re The One is produced for Fyi by Nerd TV. Jago Lee, John Farrar and Sarah Lazenby are executive producing for Nerd TV.
- 4/14/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
British independent production company Nerd TV specializes in documentaries and non-scripted entertainment. Its La-based operation will open this month following commissions from Own, Discovery and A+E. The office will be managed by Nerd co-founder and creative director John Farrar and will focus on creating high-end non-scripted series for U.S. channels. Nerd is developing three pilots for three undisclosed networks, including its first factual entertainment series and a presenter-led documentary with former street boss for the New York mob, Lou Ferrante. That is a separate show to the five-part hourlong series Inside The Gangsters’ Code, which Ferrante fronted and which went out on the Discovery Channel in 217 countries this past February. Nerd is also producing 10-part series Dogfellas, which is set in a dog grooming parlor run by former notorious mobster James “Head” Giuliani. A+E also picked up Nerd’s 12 Year Old Lifer, a documentary that recently aired on UK broadcaster Channel 4,...
- 11/12/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Berlin – Red Arrow Entertainment Group, the production subsidiary of Euro broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1, has taken a majority stake in two independent production companies: Brit shingle Nerd TV and Israeli group July August Productions. Nerd TV was set up in 2010 by Brit TV execs Jago Lee and John Farrar with start-up capital from Survivor creator Charlie Parsons. Nerd’s focus is on factual entertainment and factual formats. The group has a major order in place with Discovery Networks and has development deals in the U.S., the U.K., Germany and France. July August, which produces both formats, scripted
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- 5/10/2012
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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