NOVEMBERNOVEMBER / DECEMBER 1313 SCIENCE IN FOCUS How the Particle Fever team made a physics thriller US $7.95 USD Canada $8.95 CDN Int’l $9.95 USD G<ID@KEF%+*-* 9L==8CF#EP L%J%GFJK8><G8@; 8LKF ALSO: INSIDE THE SQUARE | CRAFTING GLOBAL CONTENT GIJIKJK; A PUBLICATION OF BRUNICO COMMUNICATIONS LTD. RRealscreenealscreen Cover.inddCover.indd 3 006/11/136/11/13 112:182:18 PPMM COUNTING CARS® ©2013 A&E Television Networks, LLC. All rights reserved. 1530-14-A. reserved. All rights LLC. Networks, Television A&E ©2013 RODEO GIRLS™ DANCE MOMS® DUCK DYNASTY® ALWAYS ENTERTAINING The most original entertainment lives on our networks. THE LEGEND OF SHELBY THE SWAMP MAN™ PROJECT RUNWAY RRS.23977.AE.inddS.23977.AE.indd 1 008/11/138/11/13 22:28:28 PPMM contents november / december 13 BBC Worldwide’s Million Dollar Intern is moving 13 internationally. BIZ 19 Brands, producers and networks converge on BCON Expo; exec shuffl es at NBCU cable nets ................................9 Director Jehane Noujaim’s doc The Square, recently acquired by Netfl ix, enjoyed two world premieres. AUDIENCE & STRATEGY Crafting global content for international network groups ..................13 “A lot of programs these IDEAS AND EXECUTION Behind the scenes of The Square ........................................................19 days are about celebs going on a ‘life journey,’ SPECIAL REPORT cryin’ at the end of it… SCIENCE FOCUS An exploration of four scintillating science-based projects .................24 This is not that sort of FORMAT FOCUS program.” 30 Syfy going live with Opposite Worlds ..................................................28 AND ONE MORE THING NOVEMBERNOVEMBER / DECEMBER 1313 on the cover F***in’ hell, it’s Karl Pilkington! .........................................................30 Design fi rm MK12 collaborated with SCIENCE the fi lmmakers of the feature doc IN FOCUS Particle Fever to help explain particle How the Particle Fever team made a physics thriller theory via stunning animations. US $7.95 USD (Image courtesy MK12 and The Canada $8.95 CDN Int’l $9.95 USD G<ID@KEF%+*-* 9L==8CF#EP L%J%GFJK8><G8@; 8LKF ALSO: INSIDE THE SQUARE | CRAFTING GLOBAL CONTENT GIJIKJK; A PUBLICATION OF BRUNICO COMMUNICATIONS LTD. Ebeling Group) Realscreen Cover.indd 3 06/11/13 12:18 PM 003 CContents.inddontents.indd 003003 008/11/138/11/13 22:23:23 PPMM November + December 13 Volume 17, Issue 2 My science Realscreen is published 5 times a year by Brunico Communications Ltd., 100- 366 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 1R9 shame Tel. 416-408-2300 Fax 416-408-0870 www.realscreen.com VP & Publisher Claire Macdonald [email protected] Editor and Content Director Barry Walsh [email protected] have a confession to make, and it’s not something I’m proud of. But Associate Editor Adam Benzine [email protected] given that this issue of realscreen is headed to the World Congress of Staff Writer Kelly Anderson [email protected] I Science and Factual Producers in beautiful Montreal, I feel the timing Contributors Chris Palmer, Kevin Ritchie, John Smithson is appropriate to get this 1,000-pound weight off of my sagging shoulders. Associate Publisher Melissa Giddens [email protected] Deep breath… here goes. Account Manager Lisa Faktor [email protected] Marketing & Publishing Coordinator Aimee Ross [email protected] As a high school student, I lasted one day – one measly 45-minute period – in Creative Manager Andrew Glowala [email protected] my Grade 11 physics class. 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