Exclusive: Tell Them You Love Me explores the story of a controversial affair between Anna Stubblefield, a white university professor, and Derrick Johnson, a non-verbal Black man with cerebral palsy. Stubblefield claimed she and Johnson had fallen in love, but when his family found out about their intimate relationship, she was arrested, and in 2015 stood trial facing charges of aggravated sexual assault.
Ahead of the film bowing on Sky, filmmaker Nick August-Perna sat down with Deadline, alongside Louis Theroux and Arron Fellows, who produced through their Mindhouse banner. The trio spoke about bringing such a multi-faceted story to the screen, capturing both sides authentically, and why festivals just didn’t get it.
“It’s not often that a story comes along that has so many equal parts that are tugging at each other very forcefully, whether it be race or disability or gender,” August-Perna says about the feature documentary.
There...
Ahead of the film bowing on Sky, filmmaker Nick August-Perna sat down with Deadline, alongside Louis Theroux and Arron Fellows, who produced through their Mindhouse banner. The trio spoke about bringing such a multi-faceted story to the screen, capturing both sides authentically, and why festivals just didn’t get it.
“It’s not often that a story comes along that has so many equal parts that are tugging at each other very forcefully, whether it be race or disability or gender,” August-Perna says about the feature documentary.
There...
- 1/29/2024
- by Stewart Clarke
- Deadline Film + TV
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.
The...
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.
The...
- 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 profiled Joe Exotic before he became the self-styled Tiger King of world renown — and now the British documentarian is returning to Oklahoma to investigate how Joseph Maldonado-Passage became a media phenomenon after his Netflix series.
Produced by Theroux’s production outfit Mindhouse Productions, Louis Theroux: The Cult of Joe Exotic (working title) will reflect on unseen footage from his 10-year-old documentary America’s Most Dangerous Pets. Theroux also meets the team trying to get Exotic out of prison and those closest to him, some of whom have never spoken on camera before.
Theroux said: “This is one of those quintessentially American stories, taking place in the heartland of Oklahoma, with a cast of characters almost too colourful and larger-than-life to be believed. I spent eight or nine days filming at the park back in 2011, over the course of three separate visits. I’d forgotten how much we shot...
Produced by Theroux’s production outfit Mindhouse Productions, Louis Theroux: The Cult of Joe Exotic (working title) will reflect on unseen footage from his 10-year-old documentary America’s Most Dangerous Pets. Theroux also meets the team trying to get Exotic out of prison and those closest to him, some of whom have never spoken on camera before.
Theroux said: “This is one of those quintessentially American stories, taking place in the heartland of Oklahoma, with a cast of characters almost too colourful and larger-than-life to be believed. I spent eight or nine days filming at the park back in 2011, over the course of three separate visits. I’d forgotten how much we shot...
- 3/17/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Louis Theroux is to reflect on his 25-year body of work in a four-part BBC Two series, which represents the first television commission for his company Mindhouse Productions.
Louis Theroux: Life On The Edge (working title) will feature interviews with Theroux and conversations between the filmmaker and some of his most notable contributors.
Theroux said: “For years I’ve wanted to go back and make sense of the programmes I’ve made, find out what happened to some of the contributors, update their stories, and see what all these many hours of making TV might add up to. Lockdown gave me the time and space to do this.
“It’s been a strange and fascinating couple of months working on this, and especially fun to dig through old episodes of Weird Weekends – programmes I made in the mid-nineties, when the world was a very different place. I’m really proud...
Louis Theroux: Life On The Edge (working title) will feature interviews with Theroux and conversations between the filmmaker and some of his most notable contributors.
Theroux said: “For years I’ve wanted to go back and make sense of the programmes I’ve made, find out what happened to some of the contributors, update their stories, and see what all these many hours of making TV might add up to. Lockdown gave me the time and space to do this.
“It’s been a strange and fascinating couple of months working on this, and especially fun to dig through old episodes of Weird Weekends – programmes I made in the mid-nineties, when the world was a very different place. I’m really proud...
- 7/21/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
One of Louis Theroux’s first acts since leaving the BBC last year is to sign a first-look deal with — the BBC.
Deadline revealed last October that the cult British documentary maker had set up Mindhouse Productions, and now the company has announced that it will use BBC Studios as its exclusive distribution partner for the next two years in exchange for development funding.
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Theroux established Mindhouse with his executive producer Arron Fellows and his wife, the TV director Nancy Strang. In doing so, he ended a contractual relationship with the BBC that spanned more than two decades.
Mindhouse aims to make thought-provoking documentaries both with and without Theroux in front of the camera.
Deadline revealed last October that the cult British documentary maker had set up Mindhouse Productions, and now the company has announced that it will use BBC Studios as its exclusive distribution partner for the next two years in exchange for development funding.
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Theroux established Mindhouse with his executive producer Arron Fellows and his wife, the TV director Nancy Strang. In doing so, he ended a contractual relationship with the BBC that spanned more than two decades.
Mindhouse aims to make thought-provoking documentaries both with and without Theroux in front of the camera.
- 4/17/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
British documentary maker Louis Theroux's production company, Mindhouse Productions, has secured a first-look distribution deal with BBC Studios.
The arrangement marks a return for Theroux (My Scientology Movie), who left the BBC's commercial arm just last year to set up the independent banner alongside his executive producer Arron Fellows and TV director Nancy Strang, with the aim of to tackling thought-provoking and complex subjects, some with Theroux attached onscreen.
At the time, Netflix and Amazon were being eyed as potential suitors for Theroux, who has a two decade-plus history on British screens, famously spending time with the ...
The arrangement marks a return for Theroux (My Scientology Movie), who left the BBC's commercial arm just last year to set up the independent banner alongside his executive producer Arron Fellows and TV director Nancy Strang, with the aim of to tackling thought-provoking and complex subjects, some with Theroux attached onscreen.
At the time, Netflix and Amazon were being eyed as potential suitors for Theroux, who has a two decade-plus history on British screens, famously spending time with the ...
- 4/17/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Louis Theroux, the cult British documentary maker behind the 2015 film My Scientology Movie, has parted ways with BBC Studios to set up his own production company.
Deadline can reveal that Theroux has established Mindhouse Productions alongside his executive producer Arron Fellows, ending a contractual relationship with the BBC that spans more than two decades.
Theroux and Fellows each own 40% of the newly incorporated company, while Theroux’s wife, TV director Nancy Strang, owns the remaining 20% and is also named as a director.
Theroux got his break in TV through Bowling for Columbine director Michael Moore on TV Nation and went solo for the first time with the BBC on Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends in 1998.
He has worked with the public broadcaster ever since, famously spending time with the likes of Jimmy Savile, the late British TV presenter accused of raping children, and getting under the skin of major U.
Deadline can reveal that Theroux has established Mindhouse Productions alongside his executive producer Arron Fellows, ending a contractual relationship with the BBC that spans more than two decades.
Theroux and Fellows each own 40% of the newly incorporated company, while Theroux’s wife, TV director Nancy Strang, owns the remaining 20% and is also named as a director.
Theroux got his break in TV through Bowling for Columbine director Michael Moore on TV Nation and went solo for the first time with the BBC on Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends in 1998.
He has worked with the public broadcaster ever since, famously spending time with the likes of Jimmy Savile, the late British TV presenter accused of raping children, and getting under the skin of major U.
- 10/23/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Theroux is setting up the new outfit with BBC Studios executive Arron Fellows.
Louis Theroux, the documentary filmmaker and long-time habitué of the BBC, is understood to be forming an independent company when his current deal with the UK broadcaster ends, sparking a bidding war between Amazon and Netflix.
Theroux is setting up the new outfit with BBC Studios executive Arron Fellows. The news has sparked a bidding war between the two big Us streamers, both of which are keen to lock Theroux’s new company down to a production deal.
Insiders told Screen that while Amazon has offered a...
Louis Theroux, the documentary filmmaker and long-time habitué of the BBC, is understood to be forming an independent company when his current deal with the UK broadcaster ends, sparking a bidding war between Amazon and Netflix.
Theroux is setting up the new outfit with BBC Studios executive Arron Fellows. The news has sparked a bidding war between the two big Us streamers, both of which are keen to lock Theroux’s new company down to a production deal.
Insiders told Screen that while Amazon has offered a...
- 7/26/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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