Articles Tagged ‘National Geographic Channel’
Nat Geo picks up “Highway Thru Hell”
TVThe U.S. cable network has picked up Great Pacific Media’s unscripted series about a Canadian highway rescue team (pictured) from Beyond Distribution.
Nat Geo Channel hires Brooke Runnette
PEOPLE NEWS / TVNational Geographic Channel in the U.S. has hired former Discovery exec and ‘Shark Week’ EP Brooke Runnette (pictured) to be its VP of development and special projects, based in Washington DC.
Nat Geo, Towers look “Inside the Afghanistan War”
TVNational Geographic Channel U.S. is set to examine the war in Afghanistan from the point of view of American soldiers, in Inside the Afghanistan War (pictured), premiering November 5.
Hunnicutt, Woodard exit Nat Geo
PEOPLE NEWS / TVNational Geographic Channel’s senior VP of global development and production Bridget Whalen Hunnicutt (pictured) and VP of development and production Kim Woodard have both left the U.S. network, realscreen has learned.
Nat Geo moves into scripted with “Seal Team Six”
FILM / TVSeal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden, distributed by The Weinstein Company and inspired by the events behind the takedown of the al-Qaeda leader, will have its world premiere on National Geographic Channel in the U.S. on November 4.
Radarscreen 2012: U.S. networks (part two)
RADARSCREENProgramming execs from National Geographic, Oxygen, PBS’s ‘POV’, Spike, Sundance Channel, TLC and more sound off on the content they’re looking for in the second part of our Global Pitch Guide’s look at U.S. networks.
Renewals round-up: “Big Brother,” “Love Games,” “Drugs Inc.”
TVCBS’s perennial ratings winner Big Brother (pictured), Oxygen’s dating competition Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too, and Nat Geo Channel’s crime series Drugs Inc. are among the programs returning for new seasons.
Nat Geo hires Siegel, ups Sadofsky
PEOPLE NEWS / TVIn a series of hires and moves, National Geographic Channel has hired Noel Siegel as SVP of production and development, upped Lynn Sadofsky to VP of that department, and brought on Robert Palumbo as an EP.
Renewals round-up: “Push Girls,” “Bar Rescue,” “Companions”
TVPush Girls, Sundance Channel’s docusoap about four wheelchair-bound friends navigating life in Los Angeles, is among the reality series to receive renewal notices this week.
Nat Geo sets airdate for Firecracker’s “Family Guns”
TVThe series, originally titled Jersey Combat, follows the action within New Jersey-based International Military Antiques, a family-owned military warehouse. (Pictured: series stars Christian and Alex Cranmer)
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Realscreen Summit 2013 - History development and programming VP Julian Hobbs