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TV News: Former MTV execs behind football docuseries — Current TV has ordered nine half-hour episodes of docuseries “4th and Forever,” from a producing team that includes former MTV Networks honchos Brian Graden and Lois Curren.

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Current TV goes for it on ’4th and Forever’

TV News: Redubs New Zealand’s Documentary net BBC Knowledge — BBC Worldwide will relaunch New Zealand’s Documentary Channel as BBC Knowledge in March as it continues to roll out its international webs.

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Name switch for BBC network

TV News: Discovery orders ‘Assailant,’ ‘Kennedy Detail’ — Renegade 83, the shingle behind Discovery’s “Man, Woman, Wild,” has landed two more projects at the cabler.

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Renegade lands cable projects

TV News: HBO looks for subjects that are out of the ordinary — It’s a Friday afternoon, and HBO Documentary Films president Sheila Nevins stares at a pile of 21 DVDs containing docus that she’ll divvy up among her five colleagues to watch over the weekend.

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Nevins always looking for top docs

The Cove is definitely the best documentary I’ve seen in years, although it’s perhaps better classified as a real-life thriller; it’s both entertaining and important.

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Must-watch The Cove airs on Animal Planet, spin-off series follows former Flipper trainer

TV News: Best known for ‘Roots,’ ‘Making of the President’ — David L. Wolper, the prolific producer who spearheaded such landmark TV programs as “Roots,” “The Making of the President 1960″ and Jacques Cousteau’s early specials, has died. He was 82.

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Producer David L. Wolper dies

If Memorial Day marks the start of summer and Labor Day is the end of summer, then July 4 is pretty much mid-summer. And it’s July already. Holy crap.

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Next week: SYTYCD changes up its format after weekend shows take a break for the 4th

Tonight at 10 p.m. ET, ABC debuts another documentary reality series set in a hospital, kind of like a real-life Grey’s Anatomy, except not stupid.

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Like Hopkins, ABC’s Boston Med is a real-life reality series following doctors

Next week, I’m taking Alain de Botton’s advice (via Kottke) and giving my mind a break, unplugging from the world for a few days. Although this coincides with the press heading to Nicaragua to cover Survivor’s first three days, I’m not going there, but instead just taking a little vacation.

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Next week: Top Chef’s back, the Discovery Channel turns 25, and I take a little break