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CNN has announced a new documentary HQ Trivia – produced by Left/Right – during Warner Bros' presentation at this year's Upfronts. HQ Trivia, directed by Salima Koroma (Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street), will examine the mobile game show…

Kinetic Content has acquired the rights to forthcoming Sci-Fi comedic novella BadAsstronauts by Grady Hendrix to adapt into a television series, with Aperture Entertainment. BadAsstronauts is about ordinary Americans trying to accomplish an extraordinary, very stupid, and also extremely dangerous…

44 Blue Productions' feature documentary Vice Versa: Fear of a Black Quarterback has been nominated for the Sports Emmy Award for outstanding long documentary. Fear of a Black Quarterback features former NFL quarterbacks including Donovan McNabb, Warren Moon, Akili Smith,…

Realscreen, the trade magazine for the non-scripted TV industry, has published its annual Global 100 list of top factual and non-scripted TV producers. The list, which is now in its 15th year, is compiled by polling broadcast and streaming execs,…

Red Arrow Studios International has scored its first wave of deals for the radical new social experiment format My New Mystery Job, in which participants, looking for a life change, sign up for a brand new job…without knowing what it…

Red Arrow Studios International has secured a raft of deals for two of its premium drama titles Blackout – Tomorrow is Too Late (6 x 45’) and Departure (12 x 45’). The ambitious international thriller Blackout – Tomorrow is Too…

Married at First Sight UK, produced by CPL Productions for E4, has been nominated in the reality and constructed factual category at this year's BAFTA Awards. Following a record-breaking run last Autumn, Married at First Sight UK is set to…

Two Red Arrow Studios International formats have reached the final of the 2021 international format awards, following online voting by a panel of the world’s leading format commissioners, buyers and producers. Over 200 formats were entered from across the globe…

ABC in the US has ordered a new unscripted series Claim to Fame from Kinetic Content. Hosted by Kevin and Frankie Jonas, the show will see celebrity relatives go undercover to compete for a cash prize. Claim to Fame will…

Netflix has renewed Kinetic Content unscripted series Love Is Blind for two more seasons — taking the show through its fifth installment. The streamer has also picked up a second run of the soon-to-premiere reality show The Ultimatum that will…