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Oxygen to premiere “Brooklyn 11223″
TVThe Ish Entertainment-produced reality series (pictured) promises to bring drama to a Brooklyn zip code best known as the setting for the film Saturday Night Fever.
Southern Star names Janeen Faithfull as CEO
PEOPLE NEWS / TVThe veteran Australian TV exec, most recently the head of content and rights management at Australian broadcaster Seven Network, will replace outgoing Southern Star CEO Rory Callaghan, who unexpectedly resigned from the role last month.
Oscars 2012: Marshall Curry on “If A Tree Falls”
FILMSecond-time Oscar nominee Marshall Curry talks to realscreen about his eco-terrorism doc, If A Tree Falls: The Story of the Earth Liberation Front (pictured), a film he calls his most challenging to date.
Mike Morley leaves Sony Pictures Television
PEOPLE NEWS / TVAfter three years, Sony Pictures Television’s EVP and chief creative officer for international production has decided to leave the company to pursue “a fresh challenge.”
Science greenlights “Oddities” spin-off
TVThe Discovery-owned cable network’s reality series about curiosities and collectables is heading to the West Coast with an edition set in San Francisco.
Oxygen greenlights “Teen Weddings” and “Thrift Wars” pilots
TVThe two pilots are among the first to be announced since the arrival of Rod Aissa, the female-skewing cable net’s new SVP, original programming and development.
Hot Docs’ Doc Ignite lights up “Time Machine”
DIGITAL / FILMDirector Jay Cheel’s How To Build A Time Machine (pictured) is the first project to seek financing using Canadian film festival Hot Docs’ new crowdfunding platform, Doc Ignite.
C4 picks up “Black Cab Sessions USA”
TVThe American edition of the musical travelogue show features exclusive performances by artists such as Wanda Jackson and Jack White (pictured) in the back of a black London taxicab.
Picture Box picks up Bravo!’s “Way Off Broadway”
TVProduced by Montreal’s Apartment 11 Productions, the docu-series (pictured) follows 12 amateur performers as they stage a production of The Wizard of Oz with help from dancer and theater director Sarina Condello.
Zig Zag, “National Enquirer” producing Whitney Houston doc
TVThe one-off TV special marks the first fruits of a partnership between the two firms – first unveiled during the Realscreen Summit – and promises to give viewers a “harrowing” account of the late pop diva’s battle with drug addiction.
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Factual Entertainment Forum 2011 - Howard Lee, SVP production & development at TLC, appearing on the “Non-Scripted Network Stars” panel at Realscreen’s Factual Entertainment Forum.