LA-based Leopard USA is looking to find more Cash in the Attic.
The prodco has announced they are planning to give the long-running series a full refresh for 2021, va HGTV. Hosted by journalist Courtney Tezeno, the series has aired in more than 160 countries around the world – each episode featuring the story of gems and fortunes hidden in people’s attics. The original series ran to nearly 600 episodes across 18 series on the BBC, with the U.S. version airing on HGTV.
The new series is executive produced by Lindsay Schwartz and James Burstall, and the showrunner is Gabe Cunningham.
Joining Tezeno are experienced appraisers that include New Yorker Elyse Luray, who brings auction expertise built up over a lifetime to the series; collector Jean David Michel, who has turned his passion for comics into a career; and king of vintage, Marvin Jules.
Woman Shares Her Life in a Cold War Bunker Where the Whole Town Live
On 4/30/21 at 9:43 AM EDT
A woman has shared an insight into her life in one of the U.S. s strangest towns, where nearly all the residents live in just one building.
Jenessa is one of the 318 permanent inhabitants of Whittier, Alaska, where temperatures drop to 10.8°F (-12°C) in winter.
She s been uploading numerous explainers, tours and Q&A sessions to her TikTok page, messy.nessy, after interest spiked in her living situation.
The resident, who says I live in one of the strangest towns, shared a video which went viral, racking up more than 11 million views.
The original Pooch Perfect is hosted by Rebel Wilson
London-based distributor Beyond Rights has unveiled a slate of more than 200 hours of unscripted and kids’ content for spring 2021, including Australian dog-grooming format Pooch Perfect.
Originally produced by Beyond for Seven Network in Australia, 8×60’ series Pooch Perfect was adapted for BBC1 in the UK earlier this year.
Beyond has also partnered with several third-party prodcos for the first time to bring multiple new titles to its slate, following its merger with TCB Media Rights last year.
These include Saved & Remade (15×60’), which was produced for the UK’s BBC2 by Glasgow-based Red Sky Productions. In the format, craft experts use their skills to repurpose neglected items.
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| 15 February 2021
In keeping with a 2021 that has begun with a raft of deals, producer/distributor Beyond Rights has closed a number of deals for some of its popular, long-running engineering series, as well as for newer acquisitions in the genre, recently introduced to the market.
At the head of the slate is series two of Massive Engineering Mistakes (12 x 60’), which examines epic fails and builder blunders from construction projects around the globe and which has now been licensed to Canada’s Blue Ant Media – which also acquired series one at the same time – as well as RTHK in Hong Kong, Discovery in Italy and Canal Plus in France and French speaking territories. Producers BriteSpark Films, part of the Argonon group, recently announced that series three and four, co-produced with Beyond Rights, have been commissioned by Science Channel in the US.