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New documentaries on New Order and Duran Duran will premiere back-to-back on Showtime December 27th, with New Order: Decades airing at 7:30 p.m. Et/Pt and Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. Showtime also unveiled trailers for both documentaries.

Directed by Mike Christie, New Order: Decades will serve as part documentary, part concert film, following the band as they prepare to re-stage their 2017 collaborative show with the artist Liam Gillick and a 12-piece synthesizer orchestra, So It Goes. The clip offers a...

Rock bands New Order and Duran Duran will get the documentary treatment on Showtime later this month, the premium cabler announced today. Both films will debut Dec. 27.

See trailers for both documentaries below.

New Order: Decades, part concert and part documentary, will follow the band’s preparations for the re-staging of album So It Goes, a collaboration with artist Liam Gillick and a 12-piece synthesizer orchestra during Manchester International Festival 2017. Mike Christie produces and directs, with Dinah Lord serving as executive producer. The film is a Caravan production for Sky Arts.

Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know is described as a candid look at the band’s career with previously unseen footage and intimate conversations with the original line-up: singer Simon Le Bon, bassist John Taylor, drummer Roger Taylor and keyboardist Nick Rhodes. The film highlights the defining moments in the band’s four decade career and a glimpse at what’s next.

Showtime has picked up a British feature doc about World In Motion rockers New Orders. The CBS-owned premium network has acquired New Order: Decades from White Light Distribution.

The two-hour doc, which is produced by All3Media-owned Caravan, producer of Netflix doc series Killer Ratings. It originally aired on Comcast-owned network Sky Arts.

New Order: Decades, produced and directed by Mike Christie (Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-90), marks 40 years since the band’s first TV appearance. Part concert and part documentary, it follows the band’s preparations as they re-stage their acclaimed collaboration So It Goes with the artist Liam Gillick and the 12-piece synthesiser orchestra that captured the headlines during Manchester International Festival 2017. It features full access to the band and their collaborators including Gillick and art director Peter Saville.

Dinah Lord, Executive Producer and Manging Director of Caravan said, “New Order: Decades offers a...

Showtime has picked up a feature length documentary about iconic British band New Order. Mike Christie (“Hansa Studios: By The Wall 1976-90″) produced and directed “New Order: Decades.” It follows the group’s preparations as they re-stage their collaboration “So It Goes” with the artist Liam Gillick and a 12-piece synthesizer orchestra during the Manchester International Festival.

The filmmakers had full access to the band and their collaborators in the making of the doc. Comcast’s Sky in the U.K. originally commissioned the two-hour film for Sky Arts. It bowed on the channel in September.

“’New Order: Decades’ offers a rare chance to enter the band’s private world, understand the visual philosophy of their aesthetic and design, and witness their collaborative, creative processes first hand,” said Caravan managing director and film exec producer Dinah Lord. “We’re delighted that Showtime’s acquisition of the film means New...

Britpop band Suede is set to be the subject of a major new feature documentary Suede: The Insatiable Ones.

The film is directed by Mike Christie, who has made films including BBC One doc Sir Alex Ferguson: Secrets of Success and BBC/CCTV/Arte co-pro The Art of China.

It was commissioned by European pay-tv giant Sky, which will air it on Sky Arts on November 24.

Suede: The Insatiable Ones comes 25 years after the band, which was formed by Brett Anderson, Matt Osman and Bernard Butler as well as Justine Frischmann, who left to form Elastica, released its debut eponymous album. In the U.S., the band was known as The London Suede.

It features behind the scenes footage of the band across its career, helped by 25 years of footage filmed by drummer Simon Gilbert.

The London-based band broke up in 2002 following the release of A New Morning but...

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London -- ITV expanded its slate of production companies Tuesday, picking up a 25% stake in factual reality producer Carbon Media, creator of such shows as "Jump London" and "The Big Art Project," for an undisclosed amount.

Under terms of the deal, ITV Global Entertainment will exclusively handle Carbon Media's international distribution catalog, which includes such shows as "The Nativity Decoded," which aired on Channel 4 on Christmas Day.

Launched by Mike Christie and Mike Smith in 2004, Carbon Media recently hired former Shine TV executive Steven Wright as joint creative director.

ITV global content managing director Lee Bartlett said the deal will enable the broadcaster to expand its production into new genres.

"This deal fits our strategy for the future which is all about investing in the type of specialist talent that will help us to expand our content production into new areas," Bartlett said.