Britain's Gay Footballers There are currently around 5000 professional footballers in Britain. But incredibly not a single one of them has come out publicly as gay...
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Episodes: 1 x 1 Hour TX Date: Monday 30th Janurary 2012 on BBC 3
Mankind: The Story of All of Us is a genre defining miniseries for the History Channel. A gripping adventure story about how we built our world...continued
Episodes: 12 x 1 Hour TX Date: Late 2012 on History Channel
Great Britain Our Story is an ambitious series about the history of the British Isles from Stonehenge to World War Two, the Roman occupation to the discovery of penicillin....continued
Episodes: 7 x 1 Hour TX Date:2012 on Sky Atlantic
Jane Root Guardian interview: ‘You have to work for your audience’
The former controller of BBC2 is now producing multimillion-dollar mega-docs – and the occasional feature on Christmas lights
To a casual observer, Jane Root’s 30-year television career seems a classic tale of success. She rose from being a freelance to founding a successful independent producer, then sold out to move to the BBC, encouraged by her [...]
Variety – “History takes Nutopia’s ‘Mankind’”
LONDON — Nutopia, the shingle formed by former Discovery and BBC topper Jane Root, hopes to cement its reputation for ambitious docus aimed at the international market with its new commission for History, whose working title is “Mankind: The Story of All of Us.”
Greenlit by the U.S. web, the 12-hour show will debut later this [...]
Nutopia lands second History Mega-doc (‘Mankind: The Story of All of Us’)
Nutopia’s latest mega-doc will be a 12-hour series for History detailing the building of the Pyramids, the construction of the Great Wall of China and the creation of Easter Island statues.
History said Mankind: The Story of All of Us would be its “most in-depth television series ever” and it is thought the budget runs to [...]