17 March 2014

Explorer Ed Stafford will attempt to survive in some of the world’s most remote places in his latest extreme survival series for the Discovery Channel.

Endemol-owned indie Tigress Productions has been commissioned by Discovery Networks International to make Marooned, in which Stafford is catapulted into locations including the Gran Sebana mountains of Venezuela and the dangerous Okovango Delta in Botswana with no means of shelter or food, and 10 days in which to succeed against the odds.

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14 November 2013

Pete Lawrence, Head of BBC Features Production, will join Endemol-owned Tigress Productions as Creative Director in 2014.

Claire Urquhart, former Head of BBC Features Development, Pan UK, has joined Tigress as Head of Development.

Their appointments are part of a new initiative to further expand Tigress’s output by adding a portfolio of innovative features and factual entertainment programming to the company’s growing slate of specialist factual, wildlife and adventure series.

The expansion strategy is being driven by Dick Colthurst, Managing Director of Tigress Productions, and overseen by Colette Foster, Joint Managing Director of Remarkable Television.

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12 June 2013

He is known as the king who gave up his throne for love, but now a new and unexpected side of Edward VIII has emerged: the pioneering conservationist who fought to save the wildlife of Africa.

Film footage – some of it shot by Edward and which has never been seen in public has been unearthed in the royal archives and shows the then Prince of Wales on his first safari in 1928.

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12 June 2013

Sex, royals, intrigue, charging rhinos — the story of Edward VIII’s 1930 African safari has everything that Hollywood craves.

With Hugh Jackman as the Prince of Wales and Keira Knightley as his tomboyish lover, Toodles, any film of it would be a certain hit. But even Hollywood can’t conjure up what made Edward VIII: The Lion King (C4) so extraordinary: close-up footage of big game on the attack, filmed by Edward himself with suicidal daring.

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