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NATAS has responded to a request by more than 150 entertainment industry leaders to take back the 2024 News & Documentary Emmy nomination for Bisan Atef Owda. Owda, along with the media outlet AJ+, is nominated in the Outstanding Hard News Feature Story Short Form category for It's Bisan From Gaza an…

HBO on Tuesday announced that Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos, a two-part documentary on the premium cabler’s iconic mob drama The Sopranos and the visionary behind it, will premiere on September 7. The two parts will air consecutively, beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on the 7th, and will also be…

EXCLUSIVE: Blockchain streamer Vabble has launched a transaction on-demand service, kicking it off with a three-part docuseries from a crypto accelerator. Founder community Alliance is behind the TVOD service’s debut show, Minimum Viable Product, which provides an insight into the accelerator’s MVP…

Boyzone’s Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Shane Lynch and Michael Graham are to take part in their first joint interviews for three decades in a Sky doc about one of the most successful boy bands of all time in Britain. Boyzone [working title] will reveal the personal experiences of the band members, who…

Maciek Hamela's Oscar-shortlisted documentary In the Rearview arrives on video on demand platforms this weekend — a compelling portrait of Ukrainian civilians fleeing for their lives in the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion. The Polish-born Hamela is both filmmaker and, in a real sense a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired U.S. and Latin American rights to State of Silence (Estado de Silencio), Santiago Maza's documentary on the perilous threat facing investigative journalists in Mexico. Actor-activist Diego Luna executive produced the film which made its world premiere at Tribeca…

Picturehouse has acquired North American rights to Porcelain War, winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. The film directed by Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev will be released in theaters throughout North America in the fall, in advance of an expected Oscar…

EXCLUSIVE: Country music star Hardy is teaming up with Grammy-nominated songwriter Ben Johnson and writer/producer Dave Alan Johnson to executive produce the new docuseries Music Row, currently in production in Nashville. The indie project follows successful songwriters and artists in country music…

EXCLUSIVE: Daughters, the award-winning Netflix documentary set behind the walls of a Washington DC prison, will serve as the closing night selection of a new film festival taking place at California's San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. The film, winner of the Festival Favorite Award as well as the…

EXCLUSIVE: It may sound hard to believe, but John Lennon and Yoko Ono became daytime talk show hosts more than 50 years ago – the Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson or Drew Barrymore of their time. For one week only. The new documentary Daytime Revolution, directed by Erik Nelson, chronicles that pop…

EXCLUSIVE: Going Varsity in Mariachi has landed its biggest gig yet: the documentary about high school musicians in South Texas will debut on Netflix before the end of the month. Under a licensing agreement, the film directed by Sam Osborn and Alejandra Vasquez will become available to Netflix…

Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV may have exposed the ugly underbelly of ’90s kids TV, but good things have come from the documentary series that’s up for Best Documentary at this year’s Emmy Awards. In Deadline’s conversation with the executive producers and participants of the Investigation…