Exclusive: A two-part Netflix documentary from Louis Theroux’s production biz will tell the story of the victims of a prolific UK cyberstalker and how they ultimately helped bring him to justice.
Dropping on Netflix globally on February 21, Can I Tell You A Secret? will tell the harrowing real-life story of the victims of serial cyberstalker Matthew Hardy. Told using testimony from the women, it will detail the terrifying and sustained online harassment they endured and how his crimes tore lives apart.
In January 2022, Hardy was jailed for nine years, the longest sentence ever doled out in the UK for online stalking. The court heard how he would create fake social media accounts before contacting people with the beguiling message, ‘Can I tell you a secret?’ He went on to send messages to victims and their friends and family that sowed discord and created heartache, frequently with horrible consequences.
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Dropping on Netflix globally on February 21, Can I Tell You A Secret? will tell the harrowing real-life story of the victims of serial cyberstalker Matthew Hardy. Told using testimony from the women, it will detail the terrifying and sustained online harassment they endured and how his crimes tore lives apart.
In January 2022, Hardy was jailed for nine years, the longest sentence ever doled out in the UK for online stalking. The court heard how he would create fake social media accounts before contacting people with the beguiling message, ‘Can I tell you a secret?’ He went on to send messages to victims and their friends and family that sowed discord and created heartache, frequently with horrible consequences.
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- 1/24/2024
- by Stewart Clarke
- Deadline Film + TV
Game Show Returns
The British version of the iconic reality TV series “Big Brother,” which first launched 23 years ago, is set to return to ITV screens on Oct. 8. The show is hosted by Aj Odudu and Will Best and produced by Initial, part of Banijay U.K. “Big Brother: The Launch” will air on ITV1, ITV2 and streamer Itvx, while the remainder of the series will be available nightly at 9pm on ITV2 and Itvx, except Saturdays.
“Big Brother” will be followed each night by “Big Brother: Late & Live,” hosted live by Odudu and Best from the site of the Big Brother house in front of a studio audience, where evictees will be interviewed. Following this, “Big Brother: Live Stream” will stream live footage seven nights a week on Itvx.
The Banijay format is popular globally with some 500 seasons of the show having aired around the world in 64 countries and regions.
The British version of the iconic reality TV series “Big Brother,” which first launched 23 years ago, is set to return to ITV screens on Oct. 8. The show is hosted by Aj Odudu and Will Best and produced by Initial, part of Banijay U.K. “Big Brother: The Launch” will air on ITV1, ITV2 and streamer Itvx, while the remainder of the series will be available nightly at 9pm on ITV2 and Itvx, except Saturdays.
“Big Brother” will be followed each night by “Big Brother: Late & Live,” hosted live by Odudu and Best from the site of the Big Brother house in front of a studio audience, where evictees will be interviewed. Following this, “Big Brother: Live Stream” will stream live footage seven nights a week on Itvx.
The Banijay format is popular globally with some 500 seasons of the show having aired around the world in 64 countries and regions.
- 9/25/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran and Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Louis Theroux is not comfortable with the disruptor moniker. He almost recoils at the notion, sitting back in his chair, chewing over the word and its literal, historical and symbolic connotations. “It has become a cliché; it’s definitely a cliché,” he eventually says.
But then comes one of the pensive expressions Theroux is famed for. His eyes fixed behind black-rimmed glasses. A man silently arguing with himself, jostling for clarity of thought. Suddenly, a revelation. Maybe he is a disruptor after all — or at least he once was.
“There’s a sense in which I came along in my presenting work and was a bit of a disruptor,” Theroux decides. “I took elements of conventional presenting and elements of classical vérité filmmaking and combined them.”
His talent in front of the camera was spotted by Michael Moore, who gave him a starring role in NBC’s TV Nation, interrogating...
But then comes one of the pensive expressions Theroux is famed for. His eyes fixed behind black-rimmed glasses. A man silently arguing with himself, jostling for clarity of thought. Suddenly, a revelation. Maybe he is a disruptor after all — or at least he once was.
“There’s a sense in which I came along in my presenting work and was a bit of a disruptor,” Theroux decides. “I took elements of conventional presenting and elements of classical vérité filmmaking and combined them.”
His talent in front of the camera was spotted by Michael Moore, who gave him a starring role in NBC’s TV Nation, interrogating...
- 5/20/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The BBC and CNN are teaming up to mark 20 years since the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
The broadcasters will co-produce the documentary, working titled Columbia: The Final Flight, with production housed at Mindhouse, the company co-founded by Louis Theroux.
The show will tell the story of the 2003 tragedy, in which seven astronauts were killed after Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the Earth’s atmosphere over Texas.
The crew conducted 80 experiments during 16 days in orbit, but their shuttle broke apart after heat-resistant tiles on the left wing were damaged during lift-off from Cape Canaveral.
The BBC and CNN have previously collaborated on Race for the Vaccine, a Wingspan Productions film that took viewers inside efforts to create a Covid vaccine. The BBC also acquired CNN’s Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.
Theroux co-founded Mindhouse with director Nancy Strang and former BBC producer Aaron Fellows. The company is producing documentaries without Theroux presenting,...
The broadcasters will co-produce the documentary, working titled Columbia: The Final Flight, with production housed at Mindhouse, the company co-founded by Louis Theroux.
The show will tell the story of the 2003 tragedy, in which seven astronauts were killed after Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the Earth’s atmosphere over Texas.
The crew conducted 80 experiments during 16 days in orbit, but their shuttle broke apart after heat-resistant tiles on the left wing were damaged during lift-off from Cape Canaveral.
The BBC and CNN have previously collaborated on Race for the Vaccine, a Wingspan Productions film that took viewers inside efforts to create a Covid vaccine. The BBC also acquired CNN’s Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy.
Theroux co-founded Mindhouse with director Nancy Strang and former BBC producer Aaron Fellows. The company is producing documentaries without Theroux presenting,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions is making a premium Sky documentary about the tragic Lockerbie bombings as the celebrated documentarian and his Mindhouse co-founders talk moving into scripted, “leaning into the U.S. market,” future investment and the BBC’s controversial Jimmy Savile drama.
Alongside Co-Founder and Creative Directors Nancy Strang and Arron Fellows, Theroux sat down with Deadline for lunch at Soho House Hotel for a rare interview as the trio’s fledgling production company turns three, following what has been a whirlwind 36 months where they have secured multiple commissions, struck distribution deals, developed meaningful relationships with talent and set their sights Stateside.
Deadline can reveal three-parter Lockerbie, which is described as the “first premium box-set series about the disaster” by Sky and has been commissioned several months after a Sky/Peacock drama on the tragic event that led to the death of almost 300 people and poses unanswered questions to this day.
Alongside Co-Founder and Creative Directors Nancy Strang and Arron Fellows, Theroux sat down with Deadline for lunch at Soho House Hotel for a rare interview as the trio’s fledgling production company turns three, following what has been a whirlwind 36 months where they have secured multiple commissions, struck distribution deals, developed meaningful relationships with talent and set their sights Stateside.
Deadline can reveal three-parter Lockerbie, which is described as the “first premium box-set series about the disaster” by Sky and has been commissioned several months after a Sky/Peacock drama on the tragic event that led to the death of almost 300 people and poses unanswered questions to this day.
- 11/3/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Commission
BBC Factual has commissioned “Zuckerberg” (working title), a three-part BBC Two and BBC iPlayer series aiming to present the definitive account of Mark Zuckerberg and his brainchild, marking the 20th anniversary of Facebook’s founding. On Feb. 4, 2004, a teenage Zuckerberg launched a website to help college students connect with each other, which went on to become Facebook. The social media giant, the parent company of which is now called Meta, is in the process of transforming its vision.
The series, which will have access to key players, insider testimony, personal journals and rare archive material, is made by Mindhouse Productions and was commissioned by Jack Bootle, head of commissioning, science and natural history at the BBC. The executive producer is Mindhouse’s Nancy Strang.
Bootle said: “As the 20th anniversary of Facebook approaches, there’s never been a better time to tell the story of its founder — and to...
BBC Factual has commissioned “Zuckerberg” (working title), a three-part BBC Two and BBC iPlayer series aiming to present the definitive account of Mark Zuckerberg and his brainchild, marking the 20th anniversary of Facebook’s founding. On Feb. 4, 2004, a teenage Zuckerberg launched a website to help college students connect with each other, which went on to become Facebook. The social media giant, the parent company of which is now called Meta, is in the process of transforming its vision.
The series, which will have access to key players, insider testimony, personal journals and rare archive material, is made by Mindhouse Productions and was commissioned by Jack Bootle, head of commissioning, science and natural history at the BBC. The executive producer is Mindhouse’s Nancy Strang.
Bootle said: “As the 20th anniversary of Facebook approaches, there’s never been a better time to tell the story of its founder — and to...
- 7/21/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
‘Clickbait’ Star Phoenix Raei & Hugo Weaving Set For Australian Mystery ‘The Rooster’
Phoenix Raei (Clickbait) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) have been set to star in The Rooster, a mystery-drama written and directed by actor Mark Leonard Winter. The Rooster follows small-town cop Dan (Raei). When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan seeks answers from a volatile hermit (Weaving), who was the last person to see his friend alive. Principal photography has just been completed on Dja Dja Wurrung country in the region of the Hepburn Shire in Victoria, Australia. Producers are Geraldine Hakewill and MahVeen Shahraki for her company Thousand Mile Productions. Executive producers include Susie Montague-Delaney, Patrick James and Michael Kantor. The film will be distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Jonathan Page for Bonsai Films.
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Phoenix Raei (Clickbait) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix) have been set to star in The Rooster, a mystery-drama written and directed by actor Mark Leonard Winter. The Rooster follows small-town cop Dan (Raei). When the body of his oldest friend is found buried in a shallow grave, Dan seeks answers from a volatile hermit (Weaving), who was the last person to see his friend alive. Principal photography has just been completed on Dja Dja Wurrung country in the region of the Hepburn Shire in Victoria, Australia. Producers are Geraldine Hakewill and MahVeen Shahraki for her company Thousand Mile Productions. Executive producers include Susie Montague-Delaney, Patrick James and Michael Kantor. The film will be distributed in Australia and New Zealand by Jonathan Page for Bonsai Films.
BBC Will Never Show Princess Diana Martin Bashir Interview Again, Says Dg
The...
- 7/21/2022
- by Max Goldbart and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions has hired Five Guys A Week producer Label1’s Head of Factual Entertainment to lead the indie’s push into popular factual and co-exec-produce Amazon’s doc on YouTube sensation Ksi.
Barnaby Coughlin will be responsible for developing a slate of popular docs, formats and talent-led content for Theroux’s outfit, which he runs with Arron Fellows and Nancy Strang.
Coughlin will immediately get to work as co-exec-producer on the Amazon 90-minute doc following Ksi, which has begun filming and will be released in 2022.
He joined Label1 from First Dates producer Twenty Twenty and worked on the likes of Channel 4 dating format Five Guys A Week and BBC2’s Inside Chelsea.
Mindhouse, which was founded in 2019, is currently producing BBC2’s Louis Theroux: Forbidden America and a BBC1 doc about fitness guru Joe Wicks’ parents’ battles with mental health addiction.
Coughlin said: “Mindhouse has...
Barnaby Coughlin will be responsible for developing a slate of popular docs, formats and talent-led content for Theroux’s outfit, which he runs with Arron Fellows and Nancy Strang.
Coughlin will immediately get to work as co-exec-producer on the Amazon 90-minute doc following Ksi, which has begun filming and will be released in 2022.
He joined Label1 from First Dates producer Twenty Twenty and worked on the likes of Channel 4 dating format Five Guys A Week and BBC2’s Inside Chelsea.
Mindhouse, which was founded in 2019, is currently producing BBC2’s Louis Theroux: Forbidden America and a BBC1 doc about fitness guru Joe Wicks’ parents’ battles with mental health addiction.
Coughlin said: “Mindhouse has...
- 10/7/2021
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Talent Search
The TV Foundation, an umbrella charity of the Edinburgh TV Festival supported by YouTube and Screen Scotland, is partnering with Louis Theroux on Looking for Louis, a new talent search venture to seek out the next generation of investigative documentary filmmakers. The search is being executed at Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions in partnership with The TV Foundation and Amazon Prime Video and supported by The TriForce Creative Network. Those looking to apply will be required to submit a one-page pitch for a two-minute micro-doc, with a shortlist of 10 selected to make their film, shot on a mobile phone. Six finalists will then be selected to attend and screen their work at Edinburgh, where Theroux and his production company partners Nancy Strang and Arron Fellows will announce the winning film.
TV
Keshet International and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) have closed a scripted deal on a new police procedural,...
The TV Foundation, an umbrella charity of the Edinburgh TV Festival supported by YouTube and Screen Scotland, is partnering with Louis Theroux on Looking for Louis, a new talent search venture to seek out the next generation of investigative documentary filmmakers. The search is being executed at Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions in partnership with The TV Foundation and Amazon Prime Video and supported by The TriForce Creative Network. Those looking to apply will be required to submit a one-page pitch for a two-minute micro-doc, with a shortlist of 10 selected to make their film, shot on a mobile phone. Six finalists will then be selected to attend and screen their work at Edinburgh, where Theroux and his production company partners Nancy Strang and Arron Fellows will announce the winning film.
TV
Keshet International and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS) have closed a scripted deal on a new police procedural,...
- 7/14/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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