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Exclusive: Roku will not proceed with its ambitious jungle reality series Survival From Above but producer Caravan Media is in advanced stage talks with a UK network over taking on the show.

Deadline understands Roku decided against moving forward with the format several weeks ago, though the ad-supported streamer, which operates in the U.S., UK, Canada and Latin America, declined to comment and so did Caravan.

Roku unveiled the lofty eight-parter in June, branding it the first survival competition series set entirely in rainforest treetops, with 10 contestants aiming to be the ‘last person hanging’ while suspended 100 feet off the ground in Guyana, South America. Caravan Co-founder and CEO Dinah Lord was executive producer alongside Rafael Montserrat and Jane McGoldrick, with Kristina Obradovic as Production Consultant and Executive Casting and Talent Producer Charles Pheby also on board.

Caravan was well into pre-production when Roku cancelled, with casting set and several tree-top structures constructed,...

Roku Channel is expanding its slate of original programming with a renewal for its adult-animated comedy “Doomlands” and the greenlight of two new unscripted series, “Survival From Above” and “Lincoln Log Project.”

Created by Josh O’Keefe, “Doomlands” is a workplace comedy that follows the staff of a mobile pub The Oasis as they travel across a post-apocalyptic world. Mark Little and Kayla Lorette voice the main characters Danny Doom and Lhandi, with Ashley Holliday Tavares and Roger Bainbridge rounding out the cast. The series is written by O’Keefe, Little, Lorette and Roger Bainbridge, and O’Keefe directs and co-showruns with Lee Porter. Look Mom! Productions produces the series.

“Survival From Above” and “Lincoln Log Project” are both expected to premiere on Roku in 2023. “Survival From Above” is a competition series set in the rainforests of Guyana, featuring 10 contestants who will compete in challenges that take place on platforms suspended...

Warner Bros International Television Production has appointed Bruno Henriquet to lead its operations in France. Henriquet will be based in Paris, joining the company on June 1 and will report into Ronald Goes, EVP and Head of Wbitvp. Henriquet was most recently Deputy Managing Director in charge of Development at Fremantle France where he was responsible for format adaptations such as Family Feud, Password, and Game Of Talents as well as locally developed programming. Recent original IP creations include All Your Wishes, Battle Of The Judges and The Artisan, along with late-night show The Farmer Wants A Wife: Rewind. Prior to joining Fremantle in 2008, Henriquet spent five years at Studio 89, was Editor in Chief for Morning Live on M6 and worked as a journalist for Canal+.

Channel 4 has commissioned a feature-length documentary from Caravan and Quicksilver Media exploring the origins and growth of the anti-vaccination movement, and its impact on...

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...

Exclusive: The story of Brazilian TV host turned politician Wallace Souza, who was accused of ordering murders in order to bolster ratings of his crime series, is to be made into a seven-part documentary series for Netflix.

The Svod service has ordered Killer Ratings from British factual producers Caravan and Quicksilver. Caravan is the All3Media-backed firm responsible for Nat Geo’s Buried Secrets of the Bible and is run by Dinah Lord, who has won BAFTAs including in 2015 for Grayson Perry: Who Are You?, while Quicksilver is run by Eamonn Matthews, who has won Emmys for series including PBS and BBC’s Outbreak: The Truth About Ebola and PBS and Channel 4’s Undercover Syria.

Souza rose to fame as the host of Canal Livre, a TV show broadcast in Manaus, the remote and lawless city surrounded by jungle in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon. The show...

Nat Geo is heading into space to find new stories about the bible in a big-budget documentary fronted by Lost Treasures of the Maya Snake Kings host Albert Lin.

The factual giant has ordered two-part series The Bible From Space (w/t) from All3Media-backed Caravan.

The documentary will reveal the truth behind the biggest stories from the Old Testament with Lin taking a journey through the Holy Lands and looking at the historical events that might lie behind biblical stories such as the Exodus and the parting of the Red Seas as well as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Lin, who also previously hosted China’s Megatomb Revealed, will travel with a mobile laboratory through the deserts of the Middle East and work with top archaeologists to carry out scientific research, using satellite imagery, multi-spectral analysis, magnetometry, aerial photogrammetry and old-fashioned detective work to find hidden answers.

The...

This season of Doctor Who just isn’t working for me.

This is imho, of course, and Ymmv, but after a great opening episode (The Pilot) I’ve been very disappointed. The stories haven’t excited me, and, more important, the relationship between Pearl Mackie’s Bill Potts and Peter Capaldi’s Doctor doesn’t seem to have moved all that much forward; there isn’t any there there, as Trumpists like to say these days. (Of course I had to get a Trump reference in here. You know me.) It started off great, with hints of something even more brewing.

Why does the Doctor take an interest in the non-matriculated kitchen worker who was attending his lectures? Why did he go out of his way to use the Tardis to go back in the past to take pictures of Bill’s dead mom – of whom she had no memory...

All3Media has come aboard to back UK-based factual TV and film producer Caravan, taking an undisclosed stake in the company. Founded by Dinah Lord and Juliet Singer in 2015, Caravan’s recent credits include Panorama – Britain's Mental Health Crisis and A Royal Wedding: Indian Style. The company is currently in production with shows for Sky Arts, BBC Three and Nhk. Lord previously executive produced at Brook Lapping, Swan Films, Silver River and Pulse Films for the UK and…...

All3Media has come aboard to back UK-based factual TV and film producer Caravan, taking an undisclosed stake in the company. Founded by Dinah Lord and Juliet Singer in 2015, Caravan’s recent credits include Panorama – Britain's Mental Health Crisis and A Royal Wedding: Indian Style. The company is currently in production with shows for Sky Arts, BBC Three and Nhk. Lord previously executive produced at Brook Lapping, Swan Films, Silver River and Pulse Films for the UK and…...

Anna Kendrick is one of the most versatile and brightest actresses in Hollywood today.

The young star got out of the gate in a hurry, earning her first Tony Award nomination before she was even a teenager. About a decade later, Kendrick added an Oscar nomination to her resumé. Her performance in "Up in the Air" opposite George Clooney brought Academy acclaim, but it was ultimately Kendrick's starring turn in "Pitch Perfect" that pushed her into the pop culture spotlight. This holiday season, the actress stars as Cinderella in the film adaptation of "Into the Woods."

From her early Broadway acclaim to her time on the Billboard charts, here are 23 things you probably don't know about Anna Kendrick.

1. Anna Kendrick was born August 9, 1985, in Portland, Maine to Janice Cooke and William K. Kendrick.

2. Her mother is an accountant and her father is a history teacher.

3. She has an older brother,...

Channel 4 will explore the world of Us 'brat camps' in a new documentary.

The channel's latest commission, Extreme Brat Camps, will follow families who have been forced to enrol their children on intervention programmes.

The documentary will try to uncover why the 'brat camp' industry - reportedly worth over $2 billion (£1.2bn) - has become so big in the Us.

Cameras will visit Keith 'Sarge' Gibbs's camp Sarge's Community Base, a weekend military-style base in California, where children as young as 5 years old are sent for behavioural modification.

Extreme Brat Camps will also question the ethics of such camps, with concerns raised about the standards of care and potential abuse, due to a lack of regulation.

The documentary is the latest project from Ten Alps. Dinah Lord is serving as executive producer, with Andrew Parkin on board as director.

It started with (500) Days of Summer.

Kids dispensing advice beyond their years had never bothered me before. In fact, I was kind of drawn to it. I loved Natalie Portman’s Lou Reed-quoting Marty in Beautiful Girls and Virginia Weilder’s conniving Dinah Lord in The Philadelphia Story. And then came Chloe Moretz’s fast-talking, bike-riding 40-year-old in soccer cleats and an 11-year-old’s body, and my world crumbled.

It was too dumb to bear. Just to seal the deal, in 2011, Crazy, Stupid, Love. introduced us to a crazy, stupid romantic with a crush on his babysitter, and I...

A documentary about Rupert Murdoch is to be funded by Screen Austraia, the organisation has revealed.

The taxpayer funded body said that the doco – titled Murdoch – will screen in Sbs and on the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster ITV.

Produced by Electric Pictures, according to the synopsis, the two-part series will be “the definitive account of how one man changed the face of the media and became one of the wealthiest, most powerful and enigmatic figures in the world.”

Electric Pictures was the production company that won a best documentary Aacta award earlier this year for Jandamarra’s War.

Written and directed by Janice Sutherland, Electric’s Andrew Ogilvie and Dinah Lord are producing.

A spokesman for Electric Pictures told Encore: “We won’t be commenting.”

The series is one of six documentaries announced by Screen Australia.

Five of the six already have international sales behind them. Not only will Murdoch screen in the UK,...

Screen Australia will invest $1.9 million across six documentaries including programs which look at the life of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Warumpi Band leader George Rrarramu.

The six programs, which include one from the National Documentary Program and five from the International Program funding programs, will generate $7.3 million in production, according to Screen Australia.

George Rrarramu, the single film chosen from the National Documentary Program, details the legendary Warumpi Band front man and his contribution to Indigenous music. The documentary is written by Lisa Watts and Steven McGregor, who will also direct.

From the International Program, a two-part Sbs and ITV documentary, Murdoch looks into the life of Rupert Murdoch, one of the most powerful figures in the world, and how he has radically impacted today.s media. The Murdoch empire grew from a small Adelaide home base to dominate the world but is currently under threat after a phone hacking scandal in the UK.