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UK factuals sold to Nine, SBS, Foxtel.
Nine has now picked up docos on dogs and cats and the 8 part UK factual Weather Gone Viral.
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Nope, no copycatting here….
Nine has picked up UK factuals Dogs in My Home, Love Me Love My Cats, Mega-Yachts and the 8 part series Weather Gone Viral, which features extreme weather phenomena caught on camera. It has also taken the one-off doco Rich Kids of Social Media .
SBS has acquired the one off doco Inside Jaguar: Building the Car that Money Can’t Buy.
Meanwhile Foxtel has-bought Royal Secrets and BBC Worldwide Australia has taken seasons seven to 13 of Traffic Cops for BBC Knowledge.
Source:Â C21
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9 Responses
What a yawn…
9Nine at it again with terrible, low budget programming. When will they do something to bring me back to their primary channel, let alone sub channels.
Nine viewers have now been warned – this is what the bottom of the barrel looks like for the 2016 Big-Bangless network.
I know of a couple of Australian producers/directors who can’t get anyone to back their (admittedly slightly niche) pet projects. One – with multiple award-winning national & international ads to his credit – can’t get any interest, let alone the few 10’s of $k needed, to edit the footage he’s shot over the past few years into a 1 or 2 part 90 minute doco. He’s basically given up, & is releasing it as a string of 10-15 minute shorts – more ‘teaser-style’ than anything else – on YouTube, just so he can see it out there.
The other – who has a string of ads & award-winning corporate videos to his credit – is still hoping against hope that one day someone will show some (any!) interest in his project. Again, it’s at least 75% already shot; it just needs money to finish.
And yet, the networks spend money on crap like this. No wonder they’re both mildly depressed…
Will be writing something on local docos soon. Get them to contact me asap.
I guess these were all free to the networks. I can’t imagine anyone having the gall to charge for them.
Minutes of “must-see” viewing.
“Dogs in My Home, Love Me Love My Cats, Mega-Yachts, Weather Gone Viral, Rich Kids of Social Media.”
No wonder people are switching off TV when SVOD services are the ones providing fresh content and FTA is delivering this sort of fluff..
What an inspiring selection I can hardly wait, not