Former BBC and Studio Lambert exec Gary Hunter has launched Wild Blue Media. FremantleMedia is taking a 25% stake in the company which will focus on creating returnable brands across factual, entertainment and live events. Hunter’s credits include the redesign and relaunch of Top Gear in 2002 which he exec produced for five seasons. He is also an Emmy winner for 2012’s BBC/Nat Geo/Red Bull freefall event documentary Space Dive. UK indies are popping up with increased…...
- 6/1/2016
- Deadline TV
National Geographic Channel is following up its "Space Dive with Felix Baumgartner" and Discovery's "Skywire Live With Nik Wallenda" by showing free climber Alex Honnold free-climbing a skyscraper. The two-hour event, "Live Climb with Alex Honnold," is produced by Sender Films and will air live this fall globally on Ngc. The skyscraper will remain a mystery for security reaons. "I've always loved climbing in all forms and this is an amazing opportunity to push my own climbing into interesting new terrain. I've admired the aesthetics of sky scrapers my whole life; it's...
- 7/24/2013
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Updated: National Geographic Channel is committed to live extreme-event programming. To that end, Nat Geo announced two such projects this morning on the first day of the TCA Summer TV Press Tour. Bob Ballard, aka “the guy who found the Titanic,” will make a dive into an underwater volcano off the coast of Granada. The volcano is so treacherous — a “ticking time bomb,” NatGeo calls it — that no ships are allowed within 10 miles of it, said National Geographic Channels CEO David Lyle. The live dive, Volcano Dive: Live will be telecast Sunday, November 17 and will cap Nat Geo’s celebration of the National Geographic Society’s 125th anniversary. Additionally, rock climber Alex Honnold will climb one of the world’s highest skyscrapers, without a safety line, this fall, the network also announced. The news comes on the heels of Discovery’s recent special in which Nick Wallenda crossed the Little Colorado River Gorge.
- 7/24/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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