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Brook Lapping wins US docudra
Brook Lapping wins US docudra.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n RNS Number : 6280Y Ten Alps PLC 09 July 2008 \n \n\n\n\n\nPress Release \n\n\n9 July 2008\n\n\n\n\n \nTen Alps Plc\n('Ten Alps' or 'the Company')\nTen Alps subsidiary Brook Lapping wins US docudrama commissions\nTen Alps Plc, the factual media company, announces that its documentary production company Brook Lapping Productions has won commissions for three ambitious feature documentaries from American TV channel Discovery US. \n 9-11 Inside the Pentagon, a 90 minute documentary for this year's 9-11 anniversary, will re-live events inside the home of the US military during the attack on the building on September 11th 2001. It will be produced and directed by David Alter.\nJaws 1916 is a 90 minute drama-based documentary for Discovery's 'Shark Week' in 2009. It tells the story of a series of shark attacks off a small New Jersey coastal town in the summer of 1916. This was America's first experience of serial shark attacks and inspired Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws'. The programme will be produced and directed by Richard Bedser. \nShark Frenzy describes a series of bloody shark attacks that gripped the American news media and drove thousands off the beaches during the summer of 2001. The hour long film, also for Shark Week 2009, will be produced and directed by David Alter.\nThe commissions were alluded to but not detailed in Ten Alps' June results statement.\nPhil Craig is Executive Producer for all three films. He was also Executive Producer of Brook Lapping's previous successful commissions from Discovery US. These include The Flight That Fought Back, about flight UA93, the 9/11 flight that crashed before reaching its target (also shown in the UK on Five). This was Discovery's highest rated programme for five years and their third highest rated programme ever. Another Craig/Brook Lapping success was Ocean of Fear for Shark Week 2007 (broadcast in the UK by Channel 4). This gave Discovery its highest-rated premiere Shark Week episode f...