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Nat Geo’s Christian Drobnyk Addresses Cancelation Of High-Volume Cable Fare: “We Need To Start To Look At How Those Shows Are Built”


Nat Geo's Christian Drobnyk talked the 'Wicked Tuna' cancelation and acquisitions strategy at Content London.

Nat Geo ‘s acquisitions boss has addressed the axing of high-volume fare like Wicked Tuna and Life Below Zero. With the death of long-running cable dominating chatter at this week’s Content London, Christian Drobnyk said the “economics” of high-volume shows like the exploration of fishermen in Massachusetts needs to be “far more efficient given how much the industry has changed since they were greenlit.” He flagged a number of examples to the Content London audience including Pirates: Behind the Legends and UFOs: Investigating the Unknown, the latter of which is made with Vice.

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