An Australian version of the UK reality show I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! will film in a jungle location in Africa. The format puts minor celebrities in a ‘remote’ jungle camp where they complete trials for privileges and are gradually voted off until one is crowned the winner.
Two rival US senators spent a week filming TV special Rival Survival in the Marshall Islands in the western Pacific Ocean. Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, joined Martin Heinrich, a Democrat from New Mexico, for the Discovery Channel shoot on the uninhabited island of Eru.
California may have to fight to keep CBS chat programme The Late Late Show filming in Los Angeles when long-time host Craig Ferguson leaves later this year. British actor and performer James Corden has been named as Ferguson’s successor but a filming location hasn’t yet been confirmed.
Austrian capital Vienna has enjoyed a production boost in recent months hosting very different feature films. Tom Cruise brought Mission: Impossible 5 to the city for a short stunt-filled shoot in August and drama Woman in Gold recreated the German invasion of World War II.
The Cape Film Commission in South Africa will meet with the government later this month to discuss concerns about planned work visa changes. A new visa system is scheduled to be formally launched in October that could cause complications for international shows like Homeland.
Actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone is set to return to Louisiana to film the fifth movie in his Rambo action franchise. It will be the first entry to shoot in the state, although Stallone himself has worked there extensively on the Expendables franchise and other action films.
Disney will film in a retrofitted warehouse space near Boston, Massachusetts, for its true-life rescue drama The Finest Hours. Set in 1952, the film will recount the tale of a dramatic Coast Guard rescue operation that was launched when oil tankers collided off Cape Cod.
David Attenborough is set to film a new documentary for the BBC about Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Atlantic Productions will produce David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef, which will mark the presenter’s return to the Reef he first visited for a documentary series in 1957.