Sky has introduced a slate of 4 upcoming documentaries, together with a movie on social media star-turned prison defendant Andrew Tate, and a collection that leverages the archives of David Frost, one in every of tv’s best interviewers.
Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate & The Darkish Aspect of the Web examines the previous kickboxer who types himself on-line because the “king of poisonous masculinity.” He and his brother Tristan face allegations of human trafficking in Romania, in further to potential sexual misconduct costs within the U.Ok.
“Andrew Tate’s meteoric rise to infamy has provoked international uproar,” notes a launch from Sky, “however the controversial determine can also be a terrifying symptom of the more and more fractured world by which we dwell, propelled by the social media platforms beneath our fingertips.
Andrew Tate
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“Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate & The Darkish Aspect of the Web goes past the headlines to discover how and why somebody with such poisonous views can seize so many tens of millions of younger followers. The movie highlights the darkish affect of social media platforms and the way their carefully-crafted algorithms have formed our world immediately.”
The Andrew Tate doc is a Sandpaper Movies manufacturing commissioned for Sky Documentaries; Liz Mermin directs and Nicky Lessware produces. It’ll debut later this 12 months on Sky Documentaries, the British pay tv channel, and streaming platform NOW, accessible within the U.Ok. and Eire.
David Frost interviews Muhammad Ali
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Additionally set for launch later this 12 months is a six-part docuseries underneath the working title The Frost Tapes, primarily based on groundbreaking interviews performed by the late David Frost. The collection is a Sky Studios manufacturing, co-produced with Paradine Productions and White Horse Pictures, and made in collaboration with Frost’s son, Wilfred.
“Every episode [is] anchored round Frost’s interviews with one key persona, offering a springboard into deeply related topic issues,” Sky says. “Drawing from Frost’s archive of greater than 10,000 era-defining interviews, a lot of which have been misplaced for a technology, the documentary takes viewers on an immersive journey by crucial moments of the late twentieth century through Frost’s private and revealing conversations with the protagonists, with putting parallels to immediately.”
Wilfred Frost mentioned in an announcement, “For the final decade since Dad died I’ve targeted on accumulating extra rights to his interviews and recovering and restoring misplaced footage, ready for the best second and associate to showcase it. That second is now, and in Sky Studios and White Horse Photos I really feel blessed to have higher companions than I might ever have dreamt of. Whereas this collection relies on Dad’s archive of over 10,000 interviews – a lot of which haven’t been seen for many years – it’s not a typical archive present. Each dialog is rigorously chosen to be staggeringly related immediately, and instructed by blockbuster names from The Beatles to Jane Fonda to Muhammad Ali to Richard Nixon.”
Amongst these participating within the collection are Michael Sheen, who portrayed David Frost within the Ron Howard movie Frost/Nixon, in addition to former Prime Minister Tony Blair (performed by Sheen, coincidentally, in The Queen), Liam Neeson, Joanna Lumley, and Khalilah Ali, former spouse of the late heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali.
The Sky slate contains two different tasks: docuseries The Physique Subsequent Door, and the characteristic doc Adam Hills: Foot Fault (scroll for particulars on these).
Poppy Dixon, Sky’s Director of Documentaries and Factual, commented, “These new commissions showcase the breadth of content material we’ve got on the Sky Documentaries channel. With unique archive, unprecedented entry and a deep dive into the untold, we really feel so privileged to be working with a number of the greatest creatives within the trade, to deliver these vital and compelling tales to life.”
Sky made the announcement of the 4 tasks at Sheffield DocFest, the U.Ok.’s main nonfiction movie pageant, which opened on Wednesday (it runs by Monday). Beneath are capsule descriptions of every movie/collection:
The Frost Tapes (w/t)
6 x 45” (launched as 2 x miniseries)
Pulling from an archive of over 10,000 interviews recorded over greater than 50 years, The Frost Tapes (w/t) facilities on era-defining David Frost interviews, unveiling a recent perspective on immediately by the battles of yesterday. Seen by Frost’s eyes, we encounter the mid-to-late twentieth century as a furnace of change and uncertainty that continues to permeate present affairs.
Throughout the collection, Frost’s profession acts as a backbone, as we journey by current historical past through his astonishing rise, with commentary and insights from the household and well-known faces who knew him greatest. Every episode is anchored round Frost’s interviews with one key persona, offering a springboard into deeply related topic issues; from explosive encounters with Muhammad Ali discussing race to a forensic have a look at the notorious Nixon tapes, outtakes and all.
Repeatedly we’ll discover Frost with a front-row seat to a key second in historical past, all the time with a piercing set of questions on the prepared and the straightforward allure to elicit a revealing response.
This archive footage is supplemented by interviews with a unprecedented listing of latest contributors together with Michael Sheen, Liam Neeson, Joanna Lumley, Khalilah Ali and Tony Blair, who assist uncover Frost’s unbelievable life and profession as one of many nation’s most famous tv hosts and journalists.
The Frost Tapes (w/t) is a Sky Studios manufacturing, co-produced with Paradine Productions and White Horse Photos for Sky Documentaries. The Sky Authentic collection is commissioned by Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content material and Poppy Dixon, Director of Documentaries and Factual. Hayley Reynolds is the Commissioning Editor and Ziyaad Desai the Assistant Commissioning Editor. The collection is directed by Matthew Hill, Liz Mermin and Francis Longhurst. Govt Producers are Danielle Peck for Sky Studios, Wilfred Frost for Paradine Productions, and Nigel Sinclair and Cassidy Hartmann for White Horse Photos.
The Physique Subsequent Door
3 x 60”
Produced by All3Media firm RAW (The Tinder Swindler, Three Similar Strangers, and The Man Who Performed With Fireplace), The Physique Subsequent Door is a fascinating three-part documentary collection that explores probably the most weird and surprising true crime tales of the previous decade.
Within the coronary heart of the Welsh Valleys, the quiet village of Beddau is understood for its solidarity and resilience. With round 7,000 residents, it’s a spot the place everybody is aware of one another’s enterprise—or so that they suppose.
In November 2015, this peace is shattered by an astonishing discovery. What begins as a seemingly innocent prank involving a medical skeleton takes a horrifying flip when it’s revealed that the ‘skeleton’ is, the truth is, an actual human physique. The male corpse, meticulously wrapped in over 40 layers of plastic, is discovered within the safe backyard of a quiet residential block.
With no matching DNA, fingerprints, or dental data, the id of the deceased stays a thriller—as if the physique had fallen from the sky. The case poses not only a “whodunnit” but in addition a “who’s it?” The villagers share their bewilderment and horror. Because the information spreads, the locals dwell in concern, pondering there’s a killer on the unfastened.
The police investigation results in the invention of an sudden suspect: a candy outdated neighbour with a hidden previous filled with lies, trauma, and darkish secrets and techniques. What emerges is a gripping and tragic homicide thriller intertwined with a dramatic household saga.
The Physique Subsequent Door takes viewers by this extraordinary narrative, stuffed with unbelievable twists and turns, revealing a fancy case that made headline information and despatched shockwaves from the Welsh Valleys to the suburbs of New Zealand.
The Physique Subsequent Door is a RAW manufacturing commissioned for Sky Documentaries by Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content material, Poppy Dixon, Director of Documentaries and Factual and Tom Barry, Commissioning Editor in affiliation with All3Media Worldwide. The collection is directed by Gareth Johnson and produced by Phelan Glen, Govt Producers are Louise Norman and Keeley Van Dyke for RAW.
Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate & The Darkish Aspect of the Web
1 x 120”
How does a self-professed misogynist grow to be one of many world’s most influential individuals, and stay so even after being charged with rape and human trafficking? Andrew Tate’s meteoric rise to infamy has provoked international uproar, however the controversial determine can also be a terrifying symptom of the more and more fractured world by which we dwell, propelled by the social media platforms beneath our fingertips.
Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate & The Darkish Aspect of the Web goes past the headlines to discover how and why somebody with such poisonous views can seize so many tens of millions of younger followers. The movie highlights the darkish affect of social media platforms and the way their carefully-crafted algorithms have formed our world immediately. The documentary speaks along with his critics and those that know him, together with a number of the architects of the social media algorithms which got here to permit excessive, hateful and misogynistic content material to proliferate – all within the pursuit of revenue for the platforms. In a brand new have a look at the darkish aspect of the web, the movie uncovers the web forces boosting excessive content material and catapulting inflammatory figures like Andrew Tate to worldwide consideration, and the way this content material can spill over into surprising real-world hurt.
Doom Scroll: Andrew Tate & The Darkish Aspect of the Web is a Sandpaper Movies manufacturing commissioned for Sky Documentaries by Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content material, Poppy Dixon, Director of Documentaries and Factual and Tom Barry, Commissioning Editor. Gilberte Phanor is the Assistant Commissioning Editor. The movie is directed by Liz Mermin and produced by Nicky Lessware. Govt Producers are Henry Singer, Susannah Value and Arthur Cary for Sandpaper Movies.
Adam Hills: Foot Fault
1 x 60”
Again when Adam Hills was 18 years outdated he made an uncommon profession choice…he give up his job as knowledgeable tennis coach (and any ambitions of being a professional) to pursue his dream of turning into a rise up comic. He could have determined to ditch his racquet for a microphone, however Adam’s love for tennis has by no means disappeared. The issue is that tennis hasn’t all the time returned the fervour that Adam and 1000’s of different gamers with disabilities have for the sport.
Wheelchair Tennis is now a fixture on the Grand Slams and within the Paralympics, however for gamers with a variety of disabilities like Adam’s, who can’t or don’t need to play their favorite sport in a wheelchair, there’s nonetheless no aggressive illustration within the elite-level tournaments. This Sky Authentic documentary tracks Adam’s international marketing campaign to make some noise a few rising type of the game – Para-Standing Tennis – and its potential as a future Grand Slam and Paralympic occasion.
His journey takes him through a number of the most well-known tennis places on the earth, assembly and taking part in with former Grand Slam winners, in addition to uncovering the obstacles confronted by aspiring tennis gamers with disabilities who need to be included by their sport on the highest stage. Adam additionally will get caught into some severe competitors alongside the way in which, with the intention of attaining his life-long dream of turning into a World Champion. As he says himself, “being a comic is all about having ridiculous concepts, then seeing how far you may take them!”
Adam Hills: Foot Fault is a Noah Media Group manufacturing commissioned for Sky Documentaries by Zai Bennett, Managing Director of Content material, Poppy Dixon, Director of Documentaries and Factual and Tom Barry, Commissioning Editor. The documentary is directed and produced by Emma Everitt. Govt Producers are Richard Makinson and Torquil Jones for Noah Media Group.
