Story of the Month
BBC VISION MEETS FIERCE OPPOSITION
BBC VISION: new director Tim Davie shares strategy // Worldscreen
BBC BESIEGED: Under relentless fire from rightwing // London Review of Books
GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS: Key to BBC’s future // TBI Vision
BBC CHAIR: Ultra-conservative candidate is knocked // Deadline
DISCOURS INAUGURAL choc pour le boss de la BBC // Les Echos (FR/EN)
BBC STUDIOS Showcase Goes Virtual for 2021 // Variety
BBC STUDIOS Showcase Goes Virtual for 2021 // Variety
“My Yorkshire Farm”
Production & Viewing
NETFLIX DOWN UNDER: First Aussie commission explores underwater micro-worlds // Screen Australia
DAWN PORTER’S JOHN LEWIS doc screened by 60 top U.S. cultural orgs // WaPo
ALEX GIBNEY pre-election doc covers White House’s COVID failures // Indiewire
FACEBOOK: Why the rightwing has a massive advantage // Politico
REDFORD CENTER: announces grants for 22 docs // Realscreen
MORE TIGER KING: Carole Baskin develops series for ITV’s ThinkFactory // NYT
KARDASHIAN GAME-CHANGERS: How ‘Keeping Up…’ Changed Everything // NYT
HBO MAX greenlights series on Beauty industry // Realscreen
ABC GREENLIGHTS series in evergreen “911” sub-genre // THR
VR DOC EMMY: 2nd win for Lynette Wallworth – for “Awavena” VRROOM
NATURAL HISTORY REPORT: Trends from the commissioners // RealScreen
YORKSHIRE FARM: tops UK viewing for upstart C5 // Farmer’s Weekly
LOVING LAND & COUNTRY: Ratings in COVID. Top 100 UK Factual // DocBusiness.com
Netflix’s Reed Hastings: 400 Mn subs by 2026
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons © Max Threlfall
Channels & Platforms: Boom vs Extinction
BUILDING NETFLIX: Reed Hastings, From B student to billionaire // The Age
NETFLIX DOMINATES: More than 400 million global streaming subscribers by 2026 // Lightshed (Login)
DISCOVERY VALUATION: Revenue growth turns negative // Seeking Alpha
EUROPA STREAMER TARGETS LATAM : European programs featured // TBI
CINEMA INDUSTRY FACES EXTINCTION : Top filmmakers lobby Congress // THR
Craig Foster in “My Octopus Teacher”
My Podcasts
SELLING NETFLIX “MY OCTOPUS TEACHER”. A podcast with EP / distributor Ellen Windemuth
DISTRIBUTING DISCOVERY’S “APOCALYPSE ’45” in COVID. Abramorama’s COO Karol Martesko-Fenster
Really worth reading
FACEBOOK: Why the rightwing has a massive advantage // Politico
FACEBOOK: Balancing anti-Semitism with opposition to Israeli policies // Counterpunch
SILICON VALLEY: “DISRUPTION” is a hi-tech buzzword for a “con” // Guardian
THE APPRENTICE: How Reality-TV handed Trump a $427 Million lifeline… // NY Times
… and delivered the loyal viewer / voters who drove his win in 2016 // DocBusiness.com
