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Masai Ujiri, vice-chairman and president of the NBA’s Toronto Raptors, has been brought on board to executive produce the Fremantle/Passenger docuseries based on the newly launched Basketball Africa League. Ujiri joins as EP alongside Fisher Stevens (Tiger King) and Akin Omotoso (The Greek Freak), while Emmy-winning…

EXCLUSIVE: Popcornflix, the streaming service owned by Crackle parent Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, has acquired its first original documentary feature, Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman. The colorful portrait (watch the trailer above), explores major 1970s and 1980s…

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson and Archie Gips’ production company Unrealistic Ideas has taken the rights to bestselling author Mark Shaw's non-fiction book, Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Kilgallen and the Ties That Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK…

EXCLUSIVE: Sir Lenny Henry's Banijay-backed indie Douglas Road Productions is to spotlight Caribbean culture in the UK in an upcoming BBC2 arts documentary. Deadline hears production will commence next month in London on the show, which does not yet have a title. Commissioned out of Factual/Arts Director Patrick…

There is a glut of great TV, movies and music to celebrate in 2021. But it’s been a bumpy ride for awards shows, with many canceled, moved or modified in 2020 as the pandemic waxed and waned. In 2021, the schedule seems a little more steady and awards organizations a little more savvy. The winter months could prove…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO announced the upcoming documentary Black And Missing from Emmy Award winners Geeta Gandbhir and Soledad O’Brien that will focus on Black missing persons cases. Black And Missing will premiere on HBO with two back-to-back episodes on Nov. 23 followed by the release of the remaining pair of episodes on…

Sundance Institute's Documentary Film Program has set its latest cohort of 20 films receiving Documentary Fund Grants, doling out a total of $600,000 in unrestricted support to projects in varying stages of production and distribution, including eight in development, eight in production, three in post-production, and…

With Liza Minnelli’s old Cabaret anthem of optimism playing in the background (“Maybe this time I’ll win!”), the trailer for Netflix’s Tiger King 2 documentary sequel series promises all the drama, backstabbing and just plain weirdness that caught viewers’ attention the first time around. The new series, premiering…

DOC NYC gave a boost to 15 Oscar-contending documentaries Tuesday, naming them to its prestigious shortlist of the year's best nonfiction films. Early favorites Flee, Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), The Rescue, Ascension, and Becoming Cousteau made the DOC NYC shortlist, as did Introdu…

EXCLUSIVE: Hostile Planet producer Plimsoll Productions has posted a 65% increase in sales to almost $70M (£50M) over the past year, defying the impact of the pandemic in the natural history space. Deadline understands the firm’s EBITDA has also nearly doubled to around the $14M (£10M) for the year to 31 August…

Amazon Prime Video’s October 2021 schedule features a raft of Alien movies, two Nutty Professors and an extra helping of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Jingle All the Way and its sequel. Prime originals scheduled right around Thanksgiving include season 3 of Hanna, Do, Re & Mi Holiday Special: Merry Nestivus, plus the…

EXCLUSIVE: Gradually, Then Suddenly: The Bankruptcy Of Detroit, directed by Sam Katz and James McGovern, swept the 2021 Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, a three-year-old documentary award that carries a finishing grant of $200,000. The winning entry explores the decline of the American…