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Sony unveils ‘Six Degrees’ for AXN channel

Oct. 11, 2007

Hollywood Reporter
By Elizabeth Guider

CANNES — The business at MIPCOM is not only about selling finished product and not only about supplying content to foreign broadcasters. It’s also about commissioning new shows sometimes for one’s own foreign offshoots.

Sony, which like most of the Hollywood majors, has invested in a number of foreign program channels, unveiled Wednesday a reality format called “Six Degrees of X” for its global AXN action channel. (more…)

Studios bring U.S. shows to Mipcom - New fall series hope for overseas interest

Oct. 8, 2007

Variety
By Stuart Levine

Now that U.S. audiences have demonstrated which new TV shows they find most appealing, the Hollywood studios are ready to whet the appetite of global buyers as well.

The 23rd Mipcom opens today in Cannes with a healthy 12,500-plus participants on hand to buy and sell. Studios will be looking to add more product to the lineups of top broadcasters around the world that feature plenty of Yank programming, including heavyweights such as TF1 in France, RTL in Germany and Five in the U.K. (more…)

Matter of ‘Degrees’ at SPTI

Oct. 5, 2007

Hollywood Reporter
By Steve Brennan

The networks group of Sony Pictures Television International has commissioned the reality format “Six Degrees of X” as a series for its worldwide AXN channel while also launching the multiplatform series as a new format for broadcasters at MIPCOM.

The series, to be announced at the market, initially was greenlighted as a pilot this year, part of an overall development agreement between SPTI’s networks group and Los Angeles-based production company Base Camp Films. This marks the first series commission under the pact. (more…)

Beatty tapped as Director of Development

Jan. 6, 2007

Base Camp Films has announced the promotion of Whitney Beatty to the position of Director of Development. Beatty got her start at the William Morris Agency prior to joining Base Camp Films in April of 2006. She holds a MFA in film production from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where her film “Last Chair” was named the winner of the prestigious west coast DGA Student Film Award and was screened at the Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival. The Director of Development position is integral to the infrastructure of Base Camp, responsibilities will weigh heavily toward creative development and brainstorming of projects, overseeing the overall development calendar and building and managing creative relationships as well as charting market trends for BCF to develop into.

Sony Int’l Sets Up Base Camp

Dec. 15, 2006

Reality production house Base Camp Films has signed a year-long deal with Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI) for format development and series production across all of Sony’s international TV operations.

Base Camp principals Brady Connell and Jim Jusko will exec produce on projects developed under the deal. Company will also adapt formats acquired overseas by SPTI for sale stateside.

Sony Press Release

“No Boundaries” Marathon Airs on Fox Reality Channel

Aug. 1, 2006

“No Boundaries has a physical intensity most of the competition lacks….the best unwatched reality show since CBS’s ‘The Amazing Race’.”

-Tom Long, Detroit Free Press

Five years after it began airing on The WB, the first season of “No Boundaries” returns to the airwaves again on the Fox Reality Channel August 6, 2006. Although the series was not renewed, the first season has a cult following… all 13 episodes aired three times back in 2002 on OLN, and the series aired once before on the new Fox Reality Channel. (more…)

Base Camp Jams with GSN and AOL

June 1, 2006

Base Camp Films will produce the Worldwide Web Games Championship television special for GSN and SkillJam Technologies. Together with Worldwinner, a subsidiary of FUN Technologies Inc., SkillJam is one of the world’s leading providers of online games competitions - they comprise a collective audience of 27 million online games. The competition will give away $1,000,000 to the best “casual gamer” in the tournament. (more…)

Base Camp Gets ‘Gift’ from SciFi

March 3, 2006

2006 is shaping up to be a present-filled year for Base Camp Films. In addition to their partnerships with Imagine Television on Fox’s announced X-Quest, owners Brady Connell and Jim Jusko will Executive Produce and showrun SciFi Channel’s The Gift, a reality series that gives ordinary people a chance to develop their psychic skills. Base Camp will co-produce with Tony Krantz’s Flame TV. (more…)

Electronic Arts Asks for Bonus from Base Camp

Jan. 10, 2006

Electronic Arts’ 10th anniversary release of their successful Command & Conquer series will include a full 90 minutes of specialized content on a second bonus DVD. Reality production company Base Camp Films was contracted to produce the material, which includes interviews with Louis Castle, the creator of the Command & Conquer franchise and founder of Westwood Studios. (more…)

American Red Cross working with Base Camp Films to Document Activities of the Hurricane Disaster Workers

Sept. 15, 2005

For the first time in its history, the American Red Cross has allowed crews to embed with its volunteers and staff as it conducts the largest natural disaster response it has ever faced. Base Camp Films has joined disaster workers in the hardest hit areas of New Orleans, and also the Red Cross Alert Team in southern Florida as they prepare for Hurricane Wilma. (more…)