Food and wine-focused digital service Somm TV has announced “Auction Lot 288,” a streaming movie about the world’s most expensive bottle of champagne, which will premiere on July 8.
“Auction Lot 288” will tell the story of the 1874 Perrier-Jouët, which was declared the most expensive champagne at the famed Christie’s of London auction house in both 1888 and 2021. Narrated by wine expert Shakera Jones, the film follows how the bottle was passed along seven generations of cellar masters, survived wars, stock market crashes and pandemics to become one of the rarest in the history of wine. Additionally, commentary from Perrier-Jouët cellar master Séverine Frerson, Christie’s wine auctioneer Charlie Foley, Christie’s head of wines Tim Tiptree will be featured, as well as footage from the 2021 auction.
Somm TV director of creative development Nadine Nettmann and founder/chief creative officer Jason Wise serve as producers.
“We are incredibly excited to share the story of the exceptionally rare,...
“Auction Lot 288” will tell the story of the 1874 Perrier-Jouët, which was declared the most expensive champagne at the famed Christie’s of London auction house in both 1888 and 2021. Narrated by wine expert Shakera Jones, the film follows how the bottle was passed along seven generations of cellar masters, survived wars, stock market crashes and pandemics to become one of the rarest in the history of wine. Additionally, commentary from Perrier-Jouët cellar master Séverine Frerson, Christie’s wine auctioneer Charlie Foley, Christie’s head of wines Tim Tiptree will be featured, as well as footage from the 2021 auction.
Somm TV director of creative development Nadine Nettmann and founder/chief creative officer Jason Wise serve as producers.
“We are incredibly excited to share the story of the exceptionally rare,...
- 7/1/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Animal Planet has ended the 15-year run of Tanked, but claims the ending came naturally and is not related to a recent domestic disturbance involving a host.
“After 15 fantastic seasons, the series came to a natural end late last year,” confirmed Paul Schur, the VP communications/media relations at Animal Planet.
The team from Las Vegas’s Acrylic Tank Manufacturing was the focus of the show, which spotlighted exotic, unusual, colorful and dangerous fish in captivity via elaborate aquariums.
Wayde King and Brett Raymer were the co-hosts, tasked with building the enormous tanks and aquariums for top celebrities, luxury hotels and casinos, and other outlets. Atm builds more than 200 projects each year, according to its website, with tanks ranging from 50 to one million gallons in size.
King and wife Heather were involved in a domestic violence dispute earlier this month, with Heather arrested. She has since filed for divorce.
Tanked...
“After 15 fantastic seasons, the series came to a natural end late last year,” confirmed Paul Schur, the VP communications/media relations at Animal Planet.
The team from Las Vegas’s Acrylic Tank Manufacturing was the focus of the show, which spotlighted exotic, unusual, colorful and dangerous fish in captivity via elaborate aquariums.
Wayde King and Brett Raymer were the co-hosts, tasked with building the enormous tanks and aquariums for top celebrities, luxury hotels and casinos, and other outlets. Atm builds more than 200 projects each year, according to its website, with tanks ranging from 50 to one million gallons in size.
King and wife Heather were involved in a domestic violence dispute earlier this month, with Heather arrested. She has since filed for divorce.
Tanked...
- 3/17/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Discovery Communications has promoted the guy behind Animal Planet’s controversial mermaid documentaries to oversee a newly created Original Content Group for the whole company of networks. As Evp, Charlie Foley will create, write and exec produce scripted content and nonfiction series and formats for all Discovery networks in this country and internationally. He will report to Marjorie Kaplan, group president and General Manager of Animal Planet, Science Channel, and Velocity. Foley’s the guy behind Animal Planet’s highest-rated program ever: Mermaids: The New Evidence, which averaged 3.7 million viewers in its premiere. That was a sequel to the network’s Mermaids: The Body Found, which was no slouch either in the ratings department, averaging 3.6 million viewers in its premiere. The first mermaid “documentary” resulted in so many inquiries to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that the department decided to post something on its websites stating: “No evidence of...
- 6/26/2013
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
And you thought mermaids were all smiley, singing redheads. Nope, according to Charlie Foley's speculative documentary "Mermaids: The Body Found," which aired Memorial Day weekend on Animal Planet, "real" mermaids are more like those scary merfolk from "Harry Potter" than the Disney version.
"Mermaids" suggests that a group of human ancestors evolved to become sea creatures -- some researchers actually subscribe to this theory known as the aquatic ape hypothesis. The movie goes on to "reveal" that when a real mermaid was found alive on a beach (see the creepy clip below), a government cover-up followed to hide the sea creature's existence.
The film is obviously not the real-deal, but people are taking it super-seriously -- even pointing to the fact that the website listed in the trailer, BelieveInMermaids.com, has been seized by the Department of Homeland Security. Yeah, we call shenanigans on that one. It's more likely...
"Mermaids" suggests that a group of human ancestors evolved to become sea creatures -- some researchers actually subscribe to this theory known as the aquatic ape hypothesis. The movie goes on to "reveal" that when a real mermaid was found alive on a beach (see the creepy clip below), a government cover-up followed to hide the sea creature's existence.
The film is obviously not the real-deal, but people are taking it super-seriously -- even pointing to the fact that the website listed in the trailer, BelieveInMermaids.com, has been seized by the Department of Homeland Security. Yeah, we call shenanigans on that one. It's more likely...
- 5/29/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Like Ariel, are mermaids just longing to be part of our world?
If you believe filmmaker Charlie Foley, whose “documentary” Mermaids: The Body Found aired this past weekend on Animal Planet as part of “Monster Week,” then yes.
The speculative documentary (a.k.a. not real. A mermaid is not going to attack you while you nap on the beach, okay?) explored the myth of the underwater princess — but she’s not the sweet-singing Disney version. The CGI mermaids from the film were dead ringers for the scary merpeople from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, or rejects from the set of Avatar.
If you believe filmmaker Charlie Foley, whose “documentary” Mermaids: The Body Found aired this past weekend on Animal Planet as part of “Monster Week,” then yes.
The speculative documentary (a.k.a. not real. A mermaid is not going to attack you while you nap on the beach, okay?) explored the myth of the underwater princess — but she’s not the sweet-singing Disney version. The CGI mermaids from the film were dead ringers for the scary merpeople from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, or rejects from the set of Avatar.
- 5/29/2012
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
The idea of mermaids has tantalized seafarers for millenia, and as part of Monster Week Animal Planet aired Charlie Foley's "speculative documentary" on the watery beasts.
Could mermaids actually exist?
"Mermaids: The Body Found" (Sun., 9 p.m. Et on Animal Planet) posed questions like, what would mermaids look like (let's just say, these CGI mermaids weren't wearing bikini tops made out of sea shells) and how would they reproduce?
The film contained never previously aired footage of what was purported to be a mermaid washed up on a beach in Washington State. Not only was the creature alive, it was far removed from the hair-combing fairytale mermaids of yore, and it seemed pretty pissed.
Check out Charlie Foley's interview with The Huffington Post in which he says the mermaid myth could be rooted in science.
TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing,...
Could mermaids actually exist?
"Mermaids: The Body Found" (Sun., 9 p.m. Et on Animal Planet) posed questions like, what would mermaids look like (let's just say, these CGI mermaids weren't wearing bikini tops made out of sea shells) and how would they reproduce?
The film contained never previously aired footage of what was purported to be a mermaid washed up on a beach in Washington State. Not only was the creature alive, it was far removed from the hair-combing fairytale mermaids of yore, and it seemed pretty pissed.
Check out Charlie Foley's interview with The Huffington Post in which he says the mermaid myth could be rooted in science.
TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing,...
- 5/28/2012
- by Catherine Lawson
- Huffington Post
The idea of mermaids has tantalized seafarers for millenia, and as part of Monster Week on Animal Planet, the network aired Charlie Foley's "speculative documentary" on the aquatic creatures.
Could mermaids actually exist?
"Mermaids: The Body Found" (Sun., 9 p.m. Et on Animal Planet) posed questions like, what would mermaids look like (let's just say, these CGI mermaids weren't wearing bikini tops made out of sea shells) and how would they reproduce?
The film contained never before seen footage of what was purported to be a mermaid washed up on a beach in Washington State. Not only was the creature alive, it was far removed from the hair-combing fairytale mermaids of yore, and it seemed pretty pissed.
Check out Charlie Foley's interview with The Huffington Post in which he says the mermaid myth could be rooted in science.
TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting,...
Could mermaids actually exist?
"Mermaids: The Body Found" (Sun., 9 p.m. Et on Animal Planet) posed questions like, what would mermaids look like (let's just say, these CGI mermaids weren't wearing bikini tops made out of sea shells) and how would they reproduce?
The film contained never before seen footage of what was purported to be a mermaid washed up on a beach in Washington State. Not only was the creature alive, it was far removed from the hair-combing fairytale mermaids of yore, and it seemed pretty pissed.
Check out Charlie Foley's interview with The Huffington Post in which he says the mermaid myth could be rooted in science.
TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting,...
- 5/28/2012
- by Catherine Lawson
- Aol TV.
I have to admit, there’s something about the notion of science entertainment that rubs me the wrong way. Maybe it’s not the entertainment itself, but the venue in which it’s presented. A while back, Animal Planet presented Charlie Foley’s project Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real, and did very well with it. Now Foley and his team are back with a follow-up. Mermaids: The Body Found (premiering Sunday, May 27 at 9pm Et/Pt) is an engrossing two-hour film supposing that a radical, unknown species of marine life bearing human-like attributes had been found in the stomach of a shark, and in [...]...
- 5/18/2012
- by Karl Paloucek
- ChannelGuideMag
Animal Planet is beefing up its development team, promoting network veteran Charlie Foley to the newly created position of senior vp of development and adding unscripted veterans Kurt Tondorf and Andy Berg as vice presidents reporting to Foley. Story: 'Finding Bigfoot' Premieres Strong for Animal Planet Foley joined Animal Planet in 2007 and has been instrumental in the development of the network’s top-rated River Monsters and Whale Wars. Foley will continue to report to Animal Planet president and general manager Marjorie Kaplan. “Charlie’s bold thinking and creative ambition have been key to Animal Planet’s transformation,” said Kaplan in
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- 3/22/2012
- by Marisa Guthrie
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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