If you picture a “Lord of the Flies”-style summer camp from the “Great British Bake Off” producers, it might look something like their new reality show for U.K. broadcaster Channel 4, “Kids in the Wild.”
The six-part series from Love Productions and “Love Island” co-producer Motion Content Group is fashioned as a wholesome production that transports a cooped-up pandemic generation “back to an idyllic old-fashioned summer and the carefree abandon of Swallows and Amazons, away from their parents for the first time.”
The show will convene a diverse, 20-member group of 9 to 11 year olds from across the country who will spend part of their summer living in nature, without “the shackles” of adult supervision and rules.
An official description for the show, shared with Variety exclusively, reads: “Empowered to make their own decisions and discover their own resourcefulness, we will ask, ‘Who are the children of Britain in...
The six-part series from Love Productions and “Love Island” co-producer Motion Content Group is fashioned as a wholesome production that transports a cooped-up pandemic generation “back to an idyllic old-fashioned summer and the carefree abandon of Swallows and Amazons, away from their parents for the first time.”
The show will convene a diverse, 20-member group of 9 to 11 year olds from across the country who will spend part of their summer living in nature, without “the shackles” of adult supervision and rules.
An official description for the show, shared with Variety exclusively, reads: “Empowered to make their own decisions and discover their own resourcefulness, we will ask, ‘Who are the children of Britain in...
- 3/30/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Hot docs sell in Park City.
Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media have acquired worldwide rights from CNN Films to Rbg, while Neon scored its fourth deal of the festival, taking North America from Submarine to Three Identical Strangers, and Gunpowder & Sky took Hearts Beat Loud.
Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media picked up worldwide rights including theatrical, home video, Svod, and international television to Rbg, which CNN Films retains for Us broadcast.
Betsy West and Julie Cohen of Storyville Films directed Rbg, which debuted in Doc Premieres on Sunday and chronicles the life and legal legacy of the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Storyville Films and CNN Films produced the film, which chronicles the Supreme Court Justice’s personal and professional battles, her pioneering work for women and minorities, and her decade-long romance with her late husband.
Stacey Wolf, vice-president of business affairs for CNN Worldwide, brokered the deal with John and Eric Sloss of Cinetic Media on behalf...
Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media have acquired worldwide rights from CNN Films to Rbg, while Neon scored its fourth deal of the festival, taking North America from Submarine to Three Identical Strangers, and Gunpowder & Sky took Hearts Beat Loud.
Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media picked up worldwide rights including theatrical, home video, Svod, and international television to Rbg, which CNN Films retains for Us broadcast.
Betsy West and Julie Cohen of Storyville Films directed Rbg, which debuted in Doc Premieres on Sunday and chronicles the life and legal legacy of the Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Storyville Films and CNN Films produced the film, which chronicles the Supreme Court Justice’s personal and professional battles, her pioneering work for women and minorities, and her decade-long romance with her late husband.
Stacey Wolf, vice-president of business affairs for CNN Worldwide, brokered the deal with John and Eric Sloss of Cinetic Media on behalf...
- 1/24/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Neon has acquired the North American rights to Tim Wardle’s “Three Identical Strangers,” which premiered at the 2018 Film Festival. “Three Identical Strangers” tells the story of how three complete strangers make the discovery at age 19 that they are identical triplets separated at birth. The documentary begins with the trio’s reunion in 1980, which catapults them into fame but also sets a chain of events in motion. Raw’s Becky Read and Grace Hughes-Hallett produced along with CNN Films in association with Channel 4. Dimitri Doganis, Amy Entelis, Courtney Sexton, Sara Ramsden, Adam Hawkins and Tom Barry executive produced. Also Read: Neon Takes Domestic...
- 1/24/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
The Secret Life of Four-Year-Olds will examine what goes on in young children's brains for Channel 4.
The one-off documentary will follow ten 4-year-olds and will film as they meet for the very first time in a specially equipped nursery.
They will be monitored by scientists Dr Paul Howard-Jones and Dr Sam Wass, who will observe the children as they grow.
"I have never had the opportunity to listen to the conversations of a group of children of this age group in such an intimate way," Howard-Jones said. "It actually has been a fantastic revelation."
The show's executive producer Teresa Watkins described 4-year-olds as "smart, imaginative, unfettered, unpredictable and funny" and added that they are a "blueprint for our future selves", while Channel 4's Sara Ramsden explained that the documentary works on "several levels".
"There is great drama in the ups and downs of the children as they...
The one-off documentary will follow ten 4-year-olds and will film as they meet for the very first time in a specially equipped nursery.
They will be monitored by scientists Dr Paul Howard-Jones and Dr Sam Wass, who will observe the children as they grow.
"I have never had the opportunity to listen to the conversations of a group of children of this age group in such an intimate way," Howard-Jones said. "It actually has been a fantastic revelation."
The show's executive producer Teresa Watkins described 4-year-olds as "smart, imaginative, unfettered, unpredictable and funny" and added that they are a "blueprint for our future selves", while Channel 4's Sara Ramsden explained that the documentary works on "several levels".
"There is great drama in the ups and downs of the children as they...
- 1/14/2015
- Digital Spy
Rupert Everett is to front a Channel 4 documentary series about the sex industry.
Love for Sale will look into why people buy and sell sex, and is billed as "a bold and highly personal take on 'the world's oldest profession'".
The two-part series will see Everett talking to and meeting prostitutes, from a young rent boy working the backstreets of Tel Aviv, to a single mother in Exeter who loves her work and a high class Brazilian escort who charges her clients £700 per hour.
The actor will also speak to clients, exploring the motivations of the men who use prostitutes, talking to self-confessed sex addicts and a married man who enjoys sexual role-play with a dominatrix.
Meanwhile, Everett will also speak to comedian Russell Brand who talks about his own experiences.
Everett said: "Prostitutes are the world's unacknowledged experts on our most intimate desires."
Channel 4 commissioner Sara Ramsden...
Love for Sale will look into why people buy and sell sex, and is billed as "a bold and highly personal take on 'the world's oldest profession'".
The two-part series will see Everett talking to and meeting prostitutes, from a young rent boy working the backstreets of Tel Aviv, to a single mother in Exeter who loves her work and a high class Brazilian escort who charges her clients £700 per hour.
The actor will also speak to clients, exploring the motivations of the men who use prostitutes, talking to self-confessed sex addicts and a married man who enjoys sexual role-play with a dominatrix.
Meanwhile, Everett will also speak to comedian Russell Brand who talks about his own experiences.
Everett said: "Prostitutes are the world's unacknowledged experts on our most intimate desires."
Channel 4 commissioner Sara Ramsden...
- 4/1/2014
- Digital Spy
Feature-length film that explores late actor's fascination with jewels to air on Channel 4 in the spring
Channel 4 is to tell the definitive story of the late actor Elizabeth Taylor in a feature-length documentary – through the history of her extensive jewellery collection.
The broadcaster is to air the documentary, which explores the actor's life story through some of her most precious jewels, later this spring.
The jewels have recently featured in landmark auctions in New York and London and at her death were valued at more than £100m.
Taylor once declared that jewels were one of the three loves of her life, alongside two of her seven husbands – the producer Mike Todd, who died in 1958, and actor Richard Burton, whom she married twice.
"You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines," she once said.
Channel 4 is to tell the definitive story of the late actor Elizabeth Taylor in a feature-length documentary – through the history of her extensive jewellery collection.
The broadcaster is to air the documentary, which explores the actor's life story through some of her most precious jewels, later this spring.
The jewels have recently featured in landmark auctions in New York and London and at her death were valued at more than £100m.
Taylor once declared that jewels were one of the three loves of her life, alongside two of her seven husbands – the producer Mike Todd, who died in 1958, and actor Richard Burton, whom she married twice.
"You can't cry on a diamond's shoulder, and diamonds won't keep you warm at night, but they're sure fun when the sun shines," she once said.
- 3/1/2012
- by Ben Dowell
- The Guardian - Film News
ABC TV has appointed Sara Ramsden as a factual entertainment consultant.
Following the broadcaster’s recent factual entertainment initiatives with the South Australian Film Corporation and ScreenWest, Ramsden will be running workshops with successful applicants, as well as develop and oversee the commissioning of series from these states.
Ramsden is a former creative director for the factual arm of EndemolUK, channel controller for Sky One, head of events and factual entertainment for Channel 4, and head of science and education for Channel 4. She will start on February 7, and will be working with the ABC until April.
Following the broadcaster’s recent factual entertainment initiatives with the South Australian Film Corporation and ScreenWest, Ramsden will be running workshops with successful applicants, as well as develop and oversee the commissioning of series from these states.
Ramsden is a former creative director for the factual arm of EndemolUK, channel controller for Sky One, head of events and factual entertainment for Channel 4, and head of science and education for Channel 4. She will start on February 7, and will be working with the ABC until April.
- 2/2/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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