PBS & BBC To Inform Disco Story As BBC Unveils Christmas Schedule – Deadline

PBS and the BBC are combining on a landmark documentary collection concerning the rise and fall of disco, whereas the BBC has revealed its Christmas schedule together with new pure historical past commissions.

Disco Inferno: The Sound of the Underground (w/t) is the newest co-commission for the U.S. and British pubcaster and can be produced by BBC Studios.

Exploring disco’s persevering with musical and cultural legacy, the three-parter will “convey the missed pioneers collectively to inform a robust, new revisionist historical past of the disco age,” in line with the BBC.

The present will begin within the Seventies when the pioneering social motion started and transfer by way of the years, showcasing archive footage and tracks from down the many years.

It’s the first revealed fee for Jonathan Rothery, who the BBC employed from Channel 4 as its first Head of Pop Music TV, and Rothery mentioned Disco Inferno will “spotlight many new or untold tales of the style.” Invoice Gardner is the manager in cost and BBC Studios is dealing with world distribution.

Christmas schedule

The doc was revealed on the BBC’s Christmas Social gathering, attended by BBC execs, producers and journalists and that includes a presentation from Chief Content material Officer Charlotte Moore.

As per normal she showcased the BBC’s Christmas schedule together with a duo of unannounced pure historical past exhibits: Snow Canine: Into the Wild, helmed by Gordon Buchanan, and Frozen Planet II: Worlds of Marvel.

The latter, additionally from BBC Studios, will convey collectively the highlights of the current David Attenborough blue chip.

On the scripted slate, a raft of previously-announced big-budget exhibits embrace the return of Comfortable Valley, the Martin Compston-starring Mayflies, a tenth anniversary particular of Jack Whitehall’s Unhealthy Training and the newest adaptation of Robert Galbraith’s Strike titled Troubled Blood.