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Discovery Channel US is increasing staffing in the UK to source up to 20 new high-end documentary films per year to fill a new history strand on the channel, called Nearly History.
Jane Root, the former BBC2 controller who is now executive vp and general manager of Discovery Channel in the US, told C21 that she will soon be appointing a development exec to work in the London office under Peter Lovering, vp of production and development. Together the duo will source programming to fill the new strand, which launches in mid-2006.
"We will be looking for up to 20 films per year about recent history; the last 20 years, maybe a bit further back. Recent history ?that the big thing for us now. (We want) big, immersive, in-the-moment docs, told in an energized, exciting way," Root said.
"The strand is about story telling, something really big told in almost a minute-by-minute kind of way." She said US as well as international events were on the wish list, and said projects already under way included pieces about the assassination of John Lennon in 1980 and the Waco siege in 1993.
She also mentioned the death of Curt Cobain, 9/11 and the rise of the internet as examples of what the Nearly History strand would cover. Root's upcoming The Flight That Fought Back, about the struggle with hijackers on 9/11's Flight 93, was also offered as an example of the "immediacy" required for the strand.
"We're launching Nearly History in the middle of next year and we'll need a lot of films, so now's the time to get proposals in," she said, adding that UK indies could expect "good BBC2 budgets" for any commissions.
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