There, they will join existing business documentaries like "American Greed".
It seems to have had some success with business documentaries in the evening; this week, for instance, it is showing episodes of "American Greed" and specials about topics like marijuana.
BBC Brit, which will launch later this year, will be aimed at male viewers and feature "the best of British content from motoring, business, documentaries and adventure to food, music and sport".
BBC Brit will "blend fact with fun, airing best of British content from motoring, business, documentaries and adventure to food, music and sport".
This, from a woman in the business of documentary films, which rely on intrusion — a somewhat disingenuous point.
In "Show Business," the documentary that resulted, she focuses on four musicals ("Avenue Q," "Wicked," "Taboo" and "Caroline, or Change") as they face their first performances, their opening-night reviews and their hopes for Tony awards.
Joel Sucher is director/writer and co-founder of Pacific Street Films and is currently finishing a comic novel, The Insufferable Business of Documentary Filmmaking.
He was briefly acting controller of BBC4 in 2007 before becoming controller of knowledge commissioning – responsible for arts, history, science, business, religion, documentaries and current affairs – in 2008.
In the mid-to-late nineteen-eighties, I was working long hours in and out of the film business (commercials, documentaries, a stint at an ad agency, doing and then teaching word-processing, office-managing), and I wasn't getting to the movies as often as I'd have liked.
A strong contender for the least sexy job title in the entire corporation (Entwistle himself described it as "quite Orwellian"), the knowledge job looks rather more attractive close up, with responsibility for arts, history, science, business, religion, documentaries and current affairs across television and online.
