Channel 4-backed sports producer Whisper Films is moving into entertainment with a partnership with East Media, the nascent indie set up by The Cube producer Nathan Eastwood. Whisper Films, which was set up by Formula 1 racing driver David Coulthard, sports presenter Jake Humphrey and Sunil Patel, has invested in East Media, the company responsible for Channel 4’s motoring format Missing Ignition, which stars racing driver Dario Franchitti and Take That popstar Howard Donald. The move will...
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BBC Studios has scored its second third-party commission this week after UK broadcaster Channel 4 ordered a one-off documentary about a mass of congealed fat and waste clogging up London’s sewers. The independent producer’s Science Unit is making Fatberg Autopsy (w/t), presented by Tool Academy host Rick Edwards and looking at the engineering challenge of removing the massive waste. It comes after BBC Studios scored its first non-BBC commission, a major natural history series The Red...
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