Tag: Fox Reality

  • Fox Reality inks deal with Zig Zag Productions for ‘My Bare Lady’

    Fox Reality inks deal with Zig Zag Productions for ‘My Bare Lady’

    MUMBAI: Fox Reality has entered into a deal with US/UK co-production with Zig Zag Productions. The new Fox Reality original, My Bare Lady is a series of three, one-hour shows slated to air on the US cable and satellite network in the latter half of 2006.
    The series will follow top US female porn stars who want to see if they can give leading British thespians a run for their money.

    Many adult film stars think they can act, but can they make it in the refined and stuffy world of an English acting school? My Bare Lady is a reality series in which viewers find out if four female US adult stars can make it as legitimate actors in a matter of weeks, informs an official release.
    After a casting call in Los Angeles, an established British theatre director will select his performers. He will bring them to London and put them through an intensive three week transformation. It shows what happens when you take a group of American porn stars and thrust them on stage in London’s famous theatre-land to perform a classic play.

    Fox Reality CEO & general manager David Lyle said, “We look forward to working with this great British production company and creating an ambitious docu-soap. And it is a wonderful concept to have a production that shoots on both sides of the Atlantic, highlighting a humorous and all-too-real culture clash.”

    “Zig Zag is very excited about this new and irreverent series for Fox Reality,” said Zig Zag managing director Danny Fenton. “We are really pleased to be making one of the first original commissions for the channel and appreciate their boldness and distinct new flavor. It typifies the freshness of Fox Reality to seize on an idea likeMy Bare Lady.”

  • Fox Reality acquires shows from outside the US

    Fox Reality acquires shows from outside the US

    CANNES: Fox Reality channel has announced a slate of new acquisitions at MipTV, taking on programs from the BBC, Endemol, Sony Pictures Television International and Eyeworks Distribution.

    Fox Reality CEO and GM David Lyle said, “We like to be innovative and introduce some classics and some of the most irreverent and entertaining reality shows from outside the U.S. to domestic audiences for whom these shows are new experiences.”

    From the BBC, the channel has secured five seasons of Castaway, seasons one and two of Driving School and three episodes of The Bronx Crime & Justice. Driving School follows a number of would-be drivers as they prepare to take their driving tests. In Castaway, a number of Britons are stranded on the remote Scottish Island of Taransay in the Hebrides. The Bronx Crime & Justice offers a look into the New York legal system.

    Through Endemol, Fox Reality has secured the rights to the controversial dating show There’s Something About Miriam, and with SPTI, it has taken the broadcast rights to the British (three seasons) and Australian (one season) of Dragon’s Den.
    And from Eyeworks, the channel acquired the ten-episode adventure reality Going Straight.