In The Trades: British TV, Irish Boxers, Argentinian Families, Hollywood Law

Garth Ancier will head BBC Worldwide Americas, based in NYC. He’s done everything: cable programming (Turner), news (CNN), broadcast production (NBC, Fox, the WB), created The Ricki Lake Show and new media (In2TV). He’s expected to help BBC America to develop a signature series, besides raiding the BBC library for shows to remake. Expect PBS to suffer.

Mark Wahlburg and Matt Damon, who look enough alike, will play Irish half-brothers in The Fighter. The script, re-written by Paul Attanasio at this time, focuses on themes of brotherhood and redemption.

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