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BIZ PBS comes to the UK / 8 YouTube lines up 100 niche channels / 9 John Smithson debuts new column for realscreen / 10 Changes at Nat Geo Channels U.S., Channel 4 and Discovery / 10 Charlotte Cook heads to Hot Docs / 11 Chris Palmer on how to beat stress / 11
INGENIOUS Werner Herzog gazes Into the Abyss / 13
IDEAS & EXECUTION Vietnam in HD brings more of the “living room war” to light / 19 Documenting the Arab Spring / 22 Snapshots from realscreen’s Branded Entertainment Forum / 26
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A chat with the man behind the needle at TLC's Miami Ink and NY Ink
VFX/Animation Three projects that bring flash to factual / 29 Science Focus New specialist science prodcos; Ridley Scott profiles sci-fi legends; NHK explores The Cosmic Shore with live space station broadcasts / 33
FORMAT FOCUS Sheldon Lazarus unveils Rize / 41
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History's Vietnam in HD aims to give a vets-eyeview of the Vietnam War.
WERNER HERZOG DOCUMENTS DEATH ROW IN INTO THE ABYSS NHK EXPLORES THE COSMIC SHORE
Famed director Werner Herzog trains his impenetrable gaze on Death Row inmates in his latest, Into the Abyss: A Tale of Death, A Tale of Life, a coproduction of Skellig Rock, Creative Differences, Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film.
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Physicist Brian Greene and PBS 'Nova' show viewers The Fabric of the Cosmos.
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