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It’s easy to get lost with all the news coming out of Cannes this weekend. Variety has gathered six stories that might have passed you by, or only just been officially annonced.

“Magnus” Notches Hat Trick

Indie U.K. distributor Hat Trick International has secured international rights to fantasy-laced police drama “Magnus.” Described to Variety by series producer Anders Tangen as “Inspector Clouseau Meets Stranger Things,” the series follows doofus detective Magnus Udredal, demoted through the ranks down to janitor, who is drafted by a Central Unit special investigator in league with U.S. military intelligence to solve the murder of a girl and disappearance of Norway’s most famous actor. The series is produced by Norway’s Nrk and Tangen’s Viafilm, behind Netflix hits “Lilyhammer” and “Norsemen.” As they did with “Norsemen,” the series was shot in both Norwegian and English.

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The special “In Memoriam” segment on the 2018 Emmy Awards ceremony was tearful as beloved television legends Steven Bochco, Anthony Bourdain, Robert Guillaume, Monty Hall, John Mahoney, Jim Nabors, Charlotte Rae, Burt Reynolds, Neil Simon and Craig Zadan were part of the annual tribute.

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But who was missing from the memoriam this time? Some of those surprising omissions included:

Marty Allen (actor/comedian)

Peter Baldwin (director)

Brent Briscoe (actor)

Dushon Monique Brown (actor)

Frank Buxton (writer/director)

Joseph Campanella (actor)

Olivia Cole (actor)

Vic Damone (actor/singer)

Bradford Dillman (actor)

Roy Dotrice (actor)

John Dunsworth (actor)

Harlan Ellison (writer)

Nanette Fabray (actor)

Dominic Frontiere (composer)

Michael Gershman (cinematographer)

Billy Graham (host)

Vanessa Greene (producer)

Doug Grindstaff (sound editor)

John Hillerman (actor)

Rance Howard (actor)

Tab Hunter (actor)

Earle Hyman (actor)

Anne Jeffreys (actor)

Margot Kidder (actor)

Louise Latham...

FremantleMedia North America has moved Rick Glankler to president of commercial operations, following the announcement that it would move out of the kids and family entertainment space. In the newly-created role, Glankler will help identify potential investment opportunities, and mergers and acquisitions targets; shepherd licensing, sponsorship and branded content deals and partnerships; lead the company’s marketing and communications functions; and oversee Fremantle’s digital efforts, including the vintage game show digital multicast network Buzzr. Effective immediately, he will report to FremantleMedia North America CEO Jennifer Mullin. Also Read: David Lyle, Former Head of Nat Geo and Fremantle, Dies at 67 Glankler previously served as...

Prominent TV executive David Lyle passed away today at his Los Angeles home after a tough, long fought battle with cancer. He was 67. Lyle, respected and well liked by his peers, has been a fixture in the U.S. unscripted business for almost two decades with stints as president of FremantleMedia North America and CEO of National Geographic Channels. Throughout his career, he fought for indie producers, most recently via trade associations PactUS and Npact, and was a…...

David Lyle, former head of National Geographic Channels and FremantleMedia North America, died Thursday at 67 after battling cancer. His passing was confirmed by Propagate Content co-ceo Howard Owens, who worked with Lyle at NatGeo. Lyle was the first president of entertainment of Fremantle USA, and his successes there included the launch of “American Idol” on Fox. Also Read: This Is Everything Ryan Seacrest Does in a Week (Photos) He took over as CEO of NatGeo in 2010 and was behind such series as “Wicked Tuna,” “Life Below Zero” and the “Killing” franchise that included “Killing Kennedy” and “Killing Lincoln.” NatGeo picked up.

“O.J.: Made in America,” which just landed an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, isn’t just a win for Espn or its producers. It’s perhaps an even bigger victory for unscripted TV.

The Academy Awards may consider “O.J.” a film, but it’s truly a TV show, and its success is a good example of how the unscripted world is finally breaking out of its long malaise. The success of docuseries like “The Jinx” and “Making a Murderer,” and recent reality entries like A&E’s “Leah Remini: Scientology & the Aftermath,” Showtime’s “The Circus,” CNN’s “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell,” Netflix’s “Chef’s Table” and many more has helped showcase how diverse and wide-ranging unscripted TV can really be.

Read More: Oscars 2017: Best Documentary Shortlist Announced, Led by ‘O.J.: Made in America,’ ‘Cameraperson’ and ‘Weiner’

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PactUS, the TV and content producers' company launched earlier this month with former Nat Geo Channel CEO David Lyle at the helm, has tapped veteran reality TV executive producer Matt Gould as Evp. He will rep the group on the East Coast. Gould will work with Lyle on strengthening the newly formed company and generating awareness about PactUS and its services. This comes after most recently serving as Evp of Zig Zag Productions, where he led business and programming…...

PactUS, the TV and content producers' company launched earlier this month with former Nat Geo Channel CEO David Lyle at the helm, has tapped veteran reality TV executive producer Matt Gould as Evp. He will rep the group on the East Coast. Gould will work with Lyle on strengthening the newly formed company and generating awareness about PactUS and its services. This comes after most recently serving as Evp of Zig Zag Productions, where he led business and programming…...

TV veteran David Lyle has been named inaugural president of the new television and content producers’ trade association.

Lyle most recently served as CEO of National Geographic Channel and will help PactUS represent members’ interests in the evolving landscape.

The executive is tasked with establishing offices in Los Angeles and New York, hiring staff and finding business and legal representatives to provide free information and advice to PactUS’ growing membership base.

“It’s a privilege to lend a voice to the thriving independent production community here in the Us – a group I love – at a time when the broadcasting and digital industries are becoming global in reach and ambition,” said Lyle.

National Geographic Channel is making some consolidation changes. The network, a joint venture of Fox Cable Networks and National Geographic, has shuttered its West Coast office in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. All five employees have been offered relocation packages as Nat Geo looks to build a stronger presence in New York with its office there and in Washington, D.C. The change comes nearly eight months after Nat Geo CEO David Lyle stepped down from his post and Courteney Monroe took over the position, and five months after Tim Pastore was promoted to president of original programming.

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In a move that Fox Networks Group says complements its previously announced restructuring of its business and legal affairs team, it has named Clara Kim Evp Business and Legal Affairs for National Geographic Channels and National Geographic Channels International. She will be based in Nat Geo’s Washington DC offices and will report to Fng Evp and General Counsel Rita Tuzon. In the newly created position, Kim will work with Courteney Monroe, newly-upped CEO of National Geographic Channels U.S., and Ward Platt, CEO of National Geographic Channels International and COO of Fox International Channels and will be responsible for business and legal affairs pertaining to National Geographic Channels’ domestic and international businesses. Kim will oversee a business and legal affairs group charged with negotiating programming, development, acquisition and production agreements for both the U.S. and international channels and also will be responsible for the business and legal aspects of U.

This story first appeared in the May 2 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. When David Lyle and Howard T. Owens joined National Geographic Channels in late 2011, as CEO and president, respectively, their mandate was to make the 21st Century Fox property a force in the cable landscape -- not just another middle-of-the-road reality-show hub. At first, viewers responded. After just a year sharing the helm of Nat Geo, ratings surged to 12-year highs (up 29 percent in its targeted adults 25-to-54 demo). But as the full scope of their aggressive slate started

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Veteran News Corp executive David Hill has been named chairman of National Geographic Channels Group and David Lyle is departing as the Us CEO.

This shake-up follows Monday.s announcement that Howard Owens, the president of the division, is leaving in June.

The timing is curious because the Nat Geo Channels are posting record profits and some of their shows are enjoying their highest -ever ratings in the Us.

Us media reports indicated Owens and Lyle had clashed with the top brass at the National Geographic Society, which co-owns the channels with Fox Networks.

Lyle is being replaced by Courteney Monroe, who had served as chief marketing officer. In his three years as CEO, the Washington-based Ngc launched franchise series including Brain Games, Wicked Tuna, Inside Combat Rescue and Life Below Zero, and its first ventures into scripted programming with Seal Team Six, telemovies Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy, and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey,...

Courteney Monroe has been named CEO and David Hill chairman of National Geographic Channels U.S. They replace David Lyle, who is stepping down. The changes come a day after Howard Owens announced he would step down as chairman at the company, a joint venture between Fox Cable Networks and National Geographic. Also read: National Geographic Channels President Howard T. Owens Stepping Down Monroe (pictured), who has served as chief marketing officer for National Geographic Channels’ domestic networks since joining the company in January 2012, will become CEO on May 1. She will report to the Board of Directors of the National Geographic Channels,...

Gary E. Knell, President and CEO of the National Geographic Society, and Peter Rice, Chairman and CEO of Fox Networks Group, today completed the sweeping changes at the top of the National Geographic Channels that started yesterday with the announcement that the channels’ president Howard Owens will be leaving in June. “Today, the worst kept secret is over — I am taking my leave as CEO of National Geographic Channels,” David Lyle, who had served as National Geographic Channels CEO since 2011, wrote in an internal memo (read it in full below the post.). “I am exhilarated but somewhat saddened also.” Lyle will be replaced by a marketing executive, Courteney Monroe, who has served as Chief Marketing Officer for National Geographic Channels’ domestic networks since 2012 and is now being upped to CEO. She will report to the Board of Directors of the National Geographic Channels. Additionally, David Hill, Senior Evp of 21st...

National Geographic Channels U.S. will undergo a complete management makeover that includes a new CEO and the installation of 21st Century Fox senior executive vp David Hill as board chairman. David Lyle is stepping down as CEO of Nat Geo, a joint venture of Fox Cable Networks and National Geographic. Courteney Monroe, who has served as chief marketing officer for National Geographic Channels’ domestic networks since joining the company in January 2012, has been promoted to CEO effective May 1. The moves come one day after Howard Owens said he would step down in June as president after three

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Howard Owens will step down as President of National Geographic Channels U.S. in June after two and a half years on the job. “Our President and my friend Howard Owens is moving on – flying out the window of National Geographic and into the free world of independent production,” National Geographic Channels U.S. CEO David Lyle said this morning in a memo to staff informing them of the move (Full memo after the jump). Owens joined the channel in late 2011, replacing Steve Schiffman. He launched such series as Wicked Tuna, Brain Games, Ultimate Survival Alaska, Life Below Zero, The Legend Of Mick Dodge and Inside Combat Rescue. He also introduced scripted programming to the channel with the highly rated Killing franchise: Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy and the upcoming Killing Jesus, as well as event programming with Seal Team Six and The ’80s: The Decade That Made Us to Ngc.

As the president of alternative programming at Fox, Mike Darnell developed a well-earned reputation as a showman with a wicked mind. "I usually like to take a pitch and twist it into something more evil or more dangerous," says Darnell, who was once called "Fox's Point Man For Perversity" by the New York Times.

Darnell, the man behind some of the most notorious reality series and specials on television over the past two decades, left Fox at the end of July. He's now moving on to Warner Bros. Television Group as president of unscripted and alternative TV.

It's the end of an era for Fox, which meets reporters at the Television Critics Association press tour on Thursday without Darnell for the first time in decades. Network execs are still mulling Darnell's replacement. (Among names that have been rumored for the job: National Geographic Channels CEO David Lyle and president Howard T. Owens; Sharon Levy,...

Alec Baldwin will be the on-air host for National Geographic’s weekly “Night of Exploration” programming block, the network announced today.

Baldwin will anchor programs that celebrate the “spirit of exploration,” kicking off with Crossing the Ice, a two-hour special that follows two Australian adventurers as they attempt to become the first to tackle the journey from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, completely unassisted. Other upcoming episodes include Mystery Bear of the Arctic and Secrets of the Lost Gold.

“Alec has the perfect combination of energy and gravitas that we think our Night of Exploration viewers will love,...

National Geographic has allegedly cut a clip of Mitt Romney out of the film "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden," in which the Republican presidential candidate appears to oppose the idea of American forces killing bin Laden without approval from Pakistan.

The Huffington Post has exclusively obtained the original clip from the film, which includes the cut Romney soundbite. Romney's statement on bin Laden occurred during a debate on Aug. 5, 2007. "I think Barack Obama is confused as to who are our friends and who are our enemies," Romney says in the clip, before saying he believes it is incorrect to go into a nation working with the U.S. and "potentially bring out a unilateral attack."

In an interview with The New York Times, National Geographic President Howard T. Owens acknowledged that the Romney quote had been cut from the film and said the channel "wouldn't air [the film] if it was propaganda.

National Geographic has allegedly cut a clip of Mitt Romney out of the film "Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden," in which the Republican presidential candidate appears to oppose the idea of American forces killing bin Laden without approval from Pakistan.

The Huffington Post has exclusively obtained the original clip from the film, which includes the cut Romney soundbite. Romney's statement on bin Laden occurred during a debate on Aug. 5, 2007. "I think Barack Obama is confused as to who are our friends and who are our enemies," Romney says in the clip, before saying he believes it is incorrect to go into a nation working with the U.S. and "potentially bring out a unilateral attack."

In an interview with The New York Times, National Geographic President Howard T. Owens acknowledged that the Romney quote had been cut from the film and said the channel "wouldn't air [the film] if it was propaganda.

David Lyle has been the CEO of National Geographic Channels for less than a year, and he has been unabashedly shaking off the "dusty and academic" cobwebs associated with the brand. Most recently that involves a headlong plunge into reality programming with "American Gypsies," a series that takes you inside Romany culture with the Johns family, whose encounters generally dissolve into shouting matches when they're not throwing punches. Lyle was grilled on the newfangled National Geographic by Sharon Waxman. The show debuts on Tuesday night. "American Gypsies" is definitely different programming...

(Washington, D.C. — May 21, 2012) Geoff Daniels has been elevated to executive vice president and general manager of Nat Geo Wild, as announced today by David Lyle, chief executive officer, National Geographic Channels Us and Global Programming, and Howard T. Owens, president of National Geographic Channels Us, to whom Daniels will report. Daniels had served as senior vice president of the network and led its launch in March 2010. Over the past two years, Daniels has overseen commissioning of more than 150 hours of original series, specials and events for broadcast on Wild globally, furthering the network’s commitment to provide extraordinary wildlife programming that inspires people to care about the planet. Under Daniels’ leadership, Nat Geo Wild has been one of TV’s fastest growing networks, driven by the success of Big Cat Week, breakout series such as The Incredible Doctor Pol and Cesar Millan’s The Dog Whisperer. Nat Geo Wild...