Exclusive: The race to replace Ralph Lee at the helm of BBC Studios Productions is underway, with the studio signaling its ambition by approaching some of the UK’s top unscripted executives.
Lee will step down as the CEO of BBC Studios Productions next month after a six-year stint to “pursue a new challenge” but Deadline is told that headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates is already scoping out successors.
The successful candidate will run a production unit that contributed heavily to BBC Studios’ £1.6B ($2B) content revenue last year, overseeing hits including Good Omens, Strictly Come Dancing, and David Attenborough’s natural history tentpoles.
Deadline understands that Russell Reynolds has held tentative early conversations with potential candidates including Stv Studios managing director David Mortimer, ITV Studios unscripted director Angela Jain and Karl Warner, Channel 4’s outgoing head of youth and digital.
Fatima Salaria, who previously ran The Apprentice producer Naked,...
Lee will step down as the CEO of BBC Studios Productions next month after a six-year stint to “pursue a new challenge” but Deadline is told that headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates is already scoping out successors.
The successful candidate will run a production unit that contributed heavily to BBC Studios’ £1.6B ($2B) content revenue last year, overseeing hits including Good Omens, Strictly Come Dancing, and David Attenborough’s natural history tentpoles.
Deadline understands that Russell Reynolds has held tentative early conversations with potential candidates including Stv Studios managing director David Mortimer, ITV Studios unscripted director Angela Jain and Karl Warner, Channel 4’s outgoing head of youth and digital.
Fatima Salaria, who previously ran The Apprentice producer Naked,...
- 3/14/2024
- by Max Goldbart and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Peacock is developing a pilot for a raunchy social experiment format titled Sex in the Dark.
Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation is behind the pilot, which joins a number of Peacock shows on its unscripted development slate. The pilot was filmed late last year, we understand.
The show’s logline describes Sex in the Dark as a “radical new social experiment” and centers on one single person who is blindfolded or left completely in darkness as they embark on “intimacy tests” to judge their connection, chemistry and attraction with a number of different suitors.
After each round, one suitor will be eliminated. The show culminates in a final night in complete darkness, as the singleton bed-hops with the remaining suitors to see if smell, touch, physical connection and energy is all you need to fall in love.
Amy Dallmeyer, Ben Wicks and Lucy Palmer are EPs on the series from Expectation,...
Clarkson’s Farm producer Expectation is behind the pilot, which joins a number of Peacock shows on its unscripted development slate. The pilot was filmed late last year, we understand.
The show’s logline describes Sex in the Dark as a “radical new social experiment” and centers on one single person who is blindfolded or left completely in darkness as they embark on “intimacy tests” to judge their connection, chemistry and attraction with a number of different suitors.
After each round, one suitor will be eliminated. The show culminates in a final night in complete darkness, as the singleton bed-hops with the remaining suitors to see if smell, touch, physical connection and energy is all you need to fall in love.
Amy Dallmeyer, Ben Wicks and Lucy Palmer are EPs on the series from Expectation,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Former Objective MD Joins King of Sunshine
Exclusive: Paul Sandler, a former MD of Peep Show and The Cube producer Objective Media Group, has joined the entertainment indie run by former BBC commissioner Sohail Shah. Sandler joins King of Sunshine Productions as a Non-Exec Director and will help run the outfit, which has produced ITV’s Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime and Britain’s Favourite Detective, while recently picking up the rights to Sharna Jackson kids novel High-Rise Mystery. Sandler became Objective Productions (now Objective Media Group) MD in 2005 shortly before the outfit was acquired by All3Media and held the role for 10 years, overseeing a period of growth with shows such as hit Channel 4 cult comedy Peep Show, Derren Brown and ITV gameshow format The Cube. In 2015, he became COO of three ITV Studios-backed labels under the Cats on the Roof banner, labels that are now being wound...
Exclusive: Paul Sandler, a former MD of Peep Show and The Cube producer Objective Media Group, has joined the entertainment indie run by former BBC commissioner Sohail Shah. Sandler joins King of Sunshine Productions as a Non-Exec Director and will help run the outfit, which has produced ITV’s Agatha & Poirot: Partners in Crime and Britain’s Favourite Detective, while recently picking up the rights to Sharna Jackson kids novel High-Rise Mystery. Sandler became Objective Productions (now Objective Media Group) MD in 2005 shortly before the outfit was acquired by All3Media and held the role for 10 years, overseeing a period of growth with shows such as hit Channel 4 cult comedy Peep Show, Derren Brown and ITV gameshow format The Cube. In 2015, he became COO of three ITV Studios-backed labels under the Cats on the Roof banner, labels that are now being wound...
- 1/13/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Expectation, the British production company behind series such as David Schwimmer comedy Intelligence and Amazon’s Clarkson’s Farm, has posted its first profit since launching in 2017.
This comes despite the Covid-19 pandemic “severely disrupting” a number of its productions.
The company, which was set up by former Endemol chief Tim Hincks and ex-ITV content chief Peter Fincham, posted a profit of £438,145 in the twelve months to 31 March 2021, a significant improvement on the £2.9M loss that it incurred in the previous year.
This profit was posted from revenues of £34.8M, a 23% increase from the prior year’s figure of £28.3M.
The directors of the company, in its financial statements to Companies House, said that they were “delighted” with the results, during what it called a “difficult” year.
“The group’s upward trajectory continues, having reached profit in its fourth year of trading as originally planned; when we signed the 2020 accounts last year,...
This comes despite the Covid-19 pandemic “severely disrupting” a number of its productions.
The company, which was set up by former Endemol chief Tim Hincks and ex-ITV content chief Peter Fincham, posted a profit of £438,145 in the twelve months to 31 March 2021, a significant improvement on the £2.9M loss that it incurred in the previous year.
This profit was posted from revenues of £34.8M, a 23% increase from the prior year’s figure of £28.3M.
The directors of the company, in its financial statements to Companies House, said that they were “delighted” with the results, during what it called a “difficult” year.
“The group’s upward trajectory continues, having reached profit in its fourth year of trading as originally planned; when we signed the 2020 accounts last year,...
- 9/3/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is bolstering its global entertainment formats team, hiring “The Circle” exec producer Daisy Lilley to work out of its London office, Variety has confirmed.
Lilley has joined Netflix as a manager in its London-based operation, working closely with former ITV commissioner Ben Kelly.
She reports in to Sean Hancock, Netflix’s U.S.-based director of unscripted originals, and will be responsible for ordering global entertainment formats out of the U.K.
Netflix has stepped up its commissioning of entertainment formats out of the U.K., and recently enjoyed success with “Too Hot to Handle,” a reality dating competition produced by Fremantle-owned U.K. entertainment label Talkback. On May 18, Netlfix also launched “The Big Flower Fight,” produced by the U.K.’s MultiStory Media.
Netflix has also commissioned U.S., Brazilian and French versions of Studio Lambert format “The Circle,” which Lilley developed and then executive produced.
In October,...
Lilley has joined Netflix as a manager in its London-based operation, working closely with former ITV commissioner Ben Kelly.
She reports in to Sean Hancock, Netflix’s U.S.-based director of unscripted originals, and will be responsible for ordering global entertainment formats out of the U.K.
Netflix has stepped up its commissioning of entertainment formats out of the U.K., and recently enjoyed success with “Too Hot to Handle,” a reality dating competition produced by Fremantle-owned U.K. entertainment label Talkback. On May 18, Netlfix also launched “The Big Flower Fight,” produced by the U.K.’s MultiStory Media.
Netflix has also commissioned U.S., Brazilian and French versions of Studio Lambert format “The Circle,” which Lilley developed and then executive produced.
In October,...
- 5/26/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix is continuing its push for UK-originated entertainment formats after hiring The Circle exec producer Daisy Lilley in its non-fiction team.
Lilley has joined the streamer as a manager in its London-based division, reporting to Sean Hancock, its U.S-based director of unscripted originals. She will work closely with former ITV commissioner Ben Kelly, who Deadline revealed last year had joined in a similar role.
She will be responsible for ordering global entertainment formats out of the UK.
The hire comes as its latest UK-developed entertainment show, Too Hot To Handle, a reality dating competition produced by Fremantle’s Talkback, launched on the service last month.
Netflix’s own U.S. take on The Circle, the British format produced by Studio Lambert and Motion Content Group, launched on the service in January with Brazilian and French adaptations as well.
Lilley was one of the exec producers of The Circle for All3Media-backed Studio Lambert.
Lilley has joined the streamer as a manager in its London-based division, reporting to Sean Hancock, its U.S-based director of unscripted originals. She will work closely with former ITV commissioner Ben Kelly, who Deadline revealed last year had joined in a similar role.
She will be responsible for ordering global entertainment formats out of the UK.
The hire comes as its latest UK-developed entertainment show, Too Hot To Handle, a reality dating competition produced by Fremantle’s Talkback, launched on the service last month.
Netflix’s own U.S. take on The Circle, the British format produced by Studio Lambert and Motion Content Group, launched on the service in January with Brazilian and French adaptations as well.
Lilley was one of the exec producers of The Circle for All3Media-backed Studio Lambert.
- 5/26/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sky has handed renewals to a slew of scripted series including David Schwimmer’s Intelligence, Robert Carlyle political drama Cobra and Joseph Gilgun’s comedy drama Brassic.
Intelligence, which launches on Sky One, has been handed a second season ahead of its first season air on February 21. Friends star Schwimmer plays a power-hungry, maverick Nsa agent who joins an inept and tactless computer analyst, played by Nick Mohammed, within the UK’s Gchq. Created and written by Mohammed, Intelligence is produced by Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham’s Expectation. The second, six-part season was renewed by Jon Mountague, Sky Studios’ Director of Comedy and Zai Bennett, Sky’s Managing Director of Content.
Schwimmer said, “I am thrilled to continue to pretend to be important to National Security.” Mohammed added, “I couldn’t be more delighted about setting off alarm bells inside Gchq all over again.”
Robert Carlyle’s political drama...
Intelligence, which launches on Sky One, has been handed a second season ahead of its first season air on February 21. Friends star Schwimmer plays a power-hungry, maverick Nsa agent who joins an inept and tactless computer analyst, played by Nick Mohammed, within the UK’s Gchq. Created and written by Mohammed, Intelligence is produced by Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham’s Expectation. The second, six-part season was renewed by Jon Mountague, Sky Studios’ Director of Comedy and Zai Bennett, Sky’s Managing Director of Content.
Schwimmer said, “I am thrilled to continue to pretend to be important to National Security.” Mohammed added, “I couldn’t be more delighted about setting off alarm bells inside Gchq all over again.”
Robert Carlyle’s political drama...
- 2/12/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Channel 4 has stoked anger in the British television industry after swapping producers on its tentpole election night show without a formal competitive process.
The British broadcaster announced last month that BBC Studios-backed Expectation will co-produce its Alternative Election Night on December 12, the day Britain heads to the polls in a crunch vote that could determine the country’s future relationship with the EU.
The decision to hand Expectation the Alternative Election Night, a live election results show with an entertainment twist, meant that Endemol Shine Group outfit Zeppotron was sidelined after originally creating the format in 2010 and having produced it on three separate occasions since the turn of the decade.
Two sources told Deadline that the decision was made without a formal competitive pitching process and that Channel 4 has had to go back to Zeppotron to request key production materials to maintain the show’s consistency. Channel...
The British broadcaster announced last month that BBC Studios-backed Expectation will co-produce its Alternative Election Night on December 12, the day Britain heads to the polls in a crunch vote that could determine the country’s future relationship with the EU.
The decision to hand Expectation the Alternative Election Night, a live election results show with an entertainment twist, meant that Endemol Shine Group outfit Zeppotron was sidelined after originally creating the format in 2010 and having produced it on three separate occasions since the turn of the decade.
Two sources told Deadline that the decision was made without a formal competitive pitching process and that Channel 4 has had to go back to Zeppotron to request key production materials to maintain the show’s consistency. Channel...
- 12/2/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC is exploring the rise of Tony Blair’s New Labour movement and the triple murder of a family in a Telford blaze as part of its latest documentary orders.
BBC Two has given a greenlight to a five-part series about former British Prime Minister Blair’s political party, which dominated the late 90s and early 2000s. New Labour (w/t), which is produced by BBC Studios, will look at how Blair and his colleagues including Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson, Alastair Campbell, John Prescott took control of the Labour Party before becoming elected.
It will chart their leadership of the country through a tumultuous period of war and peace, terror and national trauma and exploring their controversial political legacy and the powerful personalities and emotional fault lines that ran through their years in charge in Britain.
It comes on the back of the success of Thatcher: A Very British Revolution.
BBC Two has given a greenlight to a five-part series about former British Prime Minister Blair’s political party, which dominated the late 90s and early 2000s. New Labour (w/t), which is produced by BBC Studios, will look at how Blair and his colleagues including Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson, Alastair Campbell, John Prescott took control of the Labour Party before becoming elected.
It will chart their leadership of the country through a tumultuous period of war and peace, terror and national trauma and exploring their controversial political legacy and the powerful personalities and emotional fault lines that ran through their years in charge in Britain.
It comes on the back of the success of Thatcher: A Very British Revolution.
- 10/29/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
FilmNation Entertainment and Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) have appointed Kirstie Macdonald as head of the companies’ new UK-based TV joint venture.
Operating under the FilmNation brand, the company will develop, produce and finance premium scripted television content. Macdonald will act as creative director and will take up her position in November, when she will begin to assemble a team.
Macdonald joins from her role as Creative Director, Drama at Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks’ production company Expectation, where she will continue to oversee the launch of BBC series Guilt ahead of her move. Macdonald was previously at ITV Studios-owned World Productions where she worked on BBC series Line Of Duty and the Bafta-winning Channel 4 series The Fear.
The joint-venture between FilmNation and Nent Group was announced in January this year. The companies plan to leverage existing talent relationships to build a slate of TV. Nent Group will...
Operating under the FilmNation brand, the company will develop, produce and finance premium scripted television content. Macdonald will act as creative director and will take up her position in November, when she will begin to assemble a team.
Macdonald joins from her role as Creative Director, Drama at Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks’ production company Expectation, where she will continue to oversee the launch of BBC series Guilt ahead of her move. Macdonald was previously at ITV Studios-owned World Productions where she worked on BBC series Line Of Duty and the Bafta-winning Channel 4 series The Fear.
The joint-venture between FilmNation and Nent Group was announced in January this year. The companies plan to leverage existing talent relationships to build a slate of TV. Nent Group will...
- 9/25/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
FilmNation's newly launched U.K. television joint venture with the Nordic Entertainment Group has found its head.
Kirstie Macdonald has been named creative director of the outfit, first announced in January, joining from Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks' production company Expectation, where she was creative director, drama.
Prior to Expectation, Macdonald worked the ITV Studios-owned World Productions (makers of hit drama Bodyguard) on shows including Line of Duty, Save Me, Outlaws and The Fear.
In her new role, Macdonald will lead the joint venture’s U.K. team and be responsible for building the company’s production slate. She will ...
Kirstie Macdonald has been named creative director of the outfit, first announced in January, joining from Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks' production company Expectation, where she was creative director, drama.
Prior to Expectation, Macdonald worked the ITV Studios-owned World Productions (makers of hit drama Bodyguard) on shows including Line of Duty, Save Me, Outlaws and The Fear.
In her new role, Macdonald will lead the joint venture’s U.K. team and be responsible for building the company’s production slate. She will ...
- 9/25/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Exclusive: Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is set for another small-screen remake with The Girl writer Gwyneth Hughes developing an adaptation with British producer Expectation.
Deadline understands that the BBC Studios-backed producer, which is run by former Endemol Shine chief Tim Hincks and ex-ITV content boss Peter Fincham, is in the early stages of developing the project.
Hughes is best known for the 2012 HBO/BBC movie The Girl, which starred Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren and explored Alfred Hitchcock’s obsession with the actress. She also recently adapted William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair into a seven-part Olivia Cooke-fronted series for ITV and Amazon, and is currently working on two-part drama Honour starring Keeley Hawes for ITV.
Anna Karenina, first published in 1878, is a complex story with dozens of major characters. It tells the story of the eponymous lead, who has an affair with a dashing cavalry...
Deadline understands that the BBC Studios-backed producer, which is run by former Endemol Shine chief Tim Hincks and ex-ITV content boss Peter Fincham, is in the early stages of developing the project.
Hughes is best known for the 2012 HBO/BBC movie The Girl, which starred Sienna Miller as Tippi Hedren and explored Alfred Hitchcock’s obsession with the actress. She also recently adapted William Makepeace Thackeray’s Vanity Fair into a seven-part Olivia Cooke-fronted series for ITV and Amazon, and is currently working on two-part drama Honour starring Keeley Hawes for ITV.
Anna Karenina, first published in 1878, is a complex story with dozens of major characters. It tells the story of the eponymous lead, who has an affair with a dashing cavalry...
- 7/3/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Streaming giant chief executive to make rare UK appearance at Cambridge.
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings will deliver the international keynote at September’s Royal Television Society (Rts) Cambridge Convention.
Hastings rarely speaks in the UK but in recent months Netflix has shown a propensity to further involve itself with the sector and chief content officer Ted Sarandos recently said the SVoD giant is looking to “physically” set up here.
Rts chief executive Theresa Wise said Hastings had been a “transformative figure in the global TV industry”.
Other speakers lined up for the biannual event include last month’s Broadcast guest editor Lenny Henry,...
Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings will deliver the international keynote at September’s Royal Television Society (Rts) Cambridge Convention.
Hastings rarely speaks in the UK but in recent months Netflix has shown a propensity to further involve itself with the sector and chief content officer Ted Sarandos recently said the SVoD giant is looking to “physically” set up here.
Rts chief executive Theresa Wise said Hastings had been a “transformative figure in the global TV industry”.
Other speakers lined up for the biannual event include last month’s Broadcast guest editor Lenny Henry,...
- 6/27/2019
- by Max Goldbart Broadcast
- ScreenDaily
Something to Live For, Richard Roper’s forthcoming book about loneliness in a big city, is being adapted into a TV drama after Expectation optioned the novel.
Expectation, which is run by former Endemol boss Tim Hincks and ex-ITV content chief Peter Fincham, is now in the process of developing the adaptation via Creative Director of Drama Kirstie Macdonald.
It is the company’s latest scripted move and comes after it scored a David Schwimmer-fronted comedy, Intelligence, with Sky, and BBC drama Guilt starring Mark Bonnar.
The book is set to be published in the UK by Orion in June, while Putnam’s has acquired the book rights for the U.S. The deal was struck by Jonathan Sissons at Peters Fraser & Dunlop (Pfd) on behalf of Laura Williams at Greene & Heaton.
Something to Live For is a heart-warming and bittersweet story that explores the particular...
Expectation, which is run by former Endemol boss Tim Hincks and ex-ITV content chief Peter Fincham, is now in the process of developing the adaptation via Creative Director of Drama Kirstie Macdonald.
It is the company’s latest scripted move and comes after it scored a David Schwimmer-fronted comedy, Intelligence, with Sky, and BBC drama Guilt starring Mark Bonnar.
The book is set to be published in the UK by Orion in June, while Putnam’s has acquired the book rights for the U.S. The deal was struck by Jonathan Sissons at Peters Fraser & Dunlop (Pfd) on behalf of Laura Williams at Greene & Heaton.
Something to Live For is a heart-warming and bittersweet story that explores the particular...
- 5/15/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Chrisley Knows Best producer Maverick Television has hired How Clean is Your House and Four Rooms exec Hannah Brownhill as Creative Director.
This follows the departure of Emily Dollman to Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks’ Expectation Entertainment.
Brownhill will take up the role at the All3Media indie in May, reporting to Maverick’s Chief Executive Officer, Simon Knight. She joins from Warner Bros-owned Renegade Pictures, where she was Director of Development. At Renegade, she worked on its factual entertainment slate including development projects for Channel 4, BBC and UKTV’s W, while at Fremantle-owned Boundless Productions, she worked on series Would Like to Meet, House Doctor, How Clean is Your House, Four Rooms and Great British Railway Journeys as well as The Week the Landlords Moved In, An Hour To Save A Life, Worlds Toughest Jobs, House Doctor Returns and Secrets In My Family.
Maverick produces series including Operation...
This follows the departure of Emily Dollman to Peter Fincham and Tim Hincks’ Expectation Entertainment.
Brownhill will take up the role at the All3Media indie in May, reporting to Maverick’s Chief Executive Officer, Simon Knight. She joins from Warner Bros-owned Renegade Pictures, where she was Director of Development. At Renegade, she worked on its factual entertainment slate including development projects for Channel 4, BBC and UKTV’s W, while at Fremantle-owned Boundless Productions, she worked on series Would Like to Meet, House Doctor, How Clean is Your House, Four Rooms and Great British Railway Journeys as well as The Week the Landlords Moved In, An Hour To Save A Life, Worlds Toughest Jobs, House Doctor Returns and Secrets In My Family.
Maverick produces series including Operation...
- 4/17/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Expectation Entertainment has not only met expectations but exceeded them in the two years since it was set up, but given the track-record of its co-CEOs perhaps this should not be such a surprise.
The company, led by Peter Fincham, formerly controller of BBC One and director of television at ITV, and Tim Hincks, latterly president of Endemol Shine Group, is making 13 series this year, spread across all genres, with more set to follow.
Its series include “The Big Narstie Show,” a chat-show hosted by a grime artist, ordered by Channel 4, “Superkids: Breaking Away from Care,” a documentary series about kids in care who take part in a public performance, again ordered by Channel 4, a coming-of-age sitcom about a gay school-kid, “In My Skin,” produced for the BBC, and cookery challenge show “The Brigade,” another BBC show.
Speaking Sunday at MipFormats, which runs as an appetizer to this week...
The company, led by Peter Fincham, formerly controller of BBC One and director of television at ITV, and Tim Hincks, latterly president of Endemol Shine Group, is making 13 series this year, spread across all genres, with more set to follow.
Its series include “The Big Narstie Show,” a chat-show hosted by a grime artist, ordered by Channel 4, “Superkids: Breaking Away from Care,” a documentary series about kids in care who take part in a public performance, again ordered by Channel 4, a coming-of-age sitcom about a gay school-kid, “In My Skin,” produced for the BBC, and cookery challenge show “The Brigade,” another BBC show.
Speaking Sunday at MipFormats, which runs as an appetizer to this week...
- 4/8/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Game of Thrones star Jamie Sives and Catastrophe star Mark Bonnar are to front a four-part dark crime caper for the BBC.
Guilt, written by Eric, Ernie And Me writer Neil Forsyth, will be the first drama for BBC Scotland’s new digital channel and will then air on BBC Two.
Sives, who starred as Jory Cassel in the HBO drama, and Bonnar play two disparate Scottish brothers Max and Jake who, while driving home from a wedding together one night, accidentally run over and kill an old man on a darkened street. After making the panicked decision to cover their tracks, the brothers seem to get away with their crime. However, as neighbours and relatives of the dead man begin to suspect his death wasn’t as innocent as it initially seemed, the brothers find their lives rapidly falling apart, as their actions begin to catch up with them.
Guilt, written by Eric, Ernie And Me writer Neil Forsyth, will be the first drama for BBC Scotland’s new digital channel and will then air on BBC Two.
Sives, who starred as Jory Cassel in the HBO drama, and Bonnar play two disparate Scottish brothers Max and Jake who, while driving home from a wedding together one night, accidentally run over and kill an old man on a darkened street. After making the panicked decision to cover their tracks, the brothers seem to get away with their crime. However, as neighbours and relatives of the dead man begin to suspect his death wasn’t as innocent as it initially seemed, the brothers find their lives rapidly falling apart, as their actions begin to catch up with them.
- 1/22/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham’s Expectation Bolsters Factual With Hire Of Maverick Exec Emily Dollman
Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham’s UK production company Expectation is bolstering its factual division with the hire of Maverick TV’s Emily Dollman.
Dollman has been appointed Head of Development at the BBC Studios-backed production group’s factual division. She was previously Head of Development at All3Media-owned Maverick.
She will join the team run by Colin Barr and Amy Flanagan, which also includes senior executive producers Ruth Kelly and Dominique Foster.
Dollman’s previous credits include Channel 4’s Escape and Tried and Tasted as well as forthcoming ITV doc series The Ritz. She has also worked on shows such as The Apprentice, The Voice and The Audience.
Expectation Factual Creative Director, Factual and Factual Drama Colin Barr said, “Emily has all the cross genre instincts and abilities that a company like Expectation needs. She’s as comfortable with concept as she is editorial and her energy...
Dollman has been appointed Head of Development at the BBC Studios-backed production group’s factual division. She was previously Head of Development at All3Media-owned Maverick.
She will join the team run by Colin Barr and Amy Flanagan, which also includes senior executive producers Ruth Kelly and Dominique Foster.
Dollman’s previous credits include Channel 4’s Escape and Tried and Tasted as well as forthcoming ITV doc series The Ritz. She has also worked on shows such as The Apprentice, The Voice and The Audience.
Expectation Factual Creative Director, Factual and Factual Drama Colin Barr said, “Emily has all the cross genre instincts and abilities that a company like Expectation needs. She’s as comfortable with concept as she is editorial and her energy...
- 11/23/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Former Big Brother boss Nick Samwell Smith has left Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham’s Expectation.
I hear Samwell Smith, who was Creative Director of Entertainment at the BBC Studios-backed business, left quietly over the last few months.
Samwell Smith was one of the company’s first hires when it launched at the start of last year. He worked alongside Nick Mather, who was also Creative Director, Entertainment, and was responsible for exec producing Channel 5 travelogue Dale’s Florida Fly Drive. Prior to joining Expectation, Samwell Smith was Managing Director of Endemol Shine-owned Initial, which he joined in 1997 before becoming Creative Director in 2006 and MD in 2013. In addition to producing 15 seasons of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother, Samwell Smith also produced series including Fame Academy, Total Wipeout, Your Face Sounds Familiar, Dating In The Dark and 101 Ways To Leave A Gameshow.
An Expectation spokeswoman told Deadline,...
I hear Samwell Smith, who was Creative Director of Entertainment at the BBC Studios-backed business, left quietly over the last few months.
Samwell Smith was one of the company’s first hires when it launched at the start of last year. He worked alongside Nick Mather, who was also Creative Director, Entertainment, and was responsible for exec producing Channel 5 travelogue Dale’s Florida Fly Drive. Prior to joining Expectation, Samwell Smith was Managing Director of Endemol Shine-owned Initial, which he joined in 1997 before becoming Creative Director in 2006 and MD in 2013. In addition to producing 15 seasons of Big Brother and Celebrity Big Brother, Samwell Smith also produced series including Fame Academy, Total Wipeout, Your Face Sounds Familiar, Dating In The Dark and 101 Ways To Leave A Gameshow.
An Expectation spokeswoman told Deadline,...
- 11/12/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham’s Expectation has scored a pilot for an entertainment series hosted by Alan Carr for pay-tv giant Sky.
This comes months after his exclusive golden handcuffs deal with rival broadcaster Channel 4 ended.
The performer, who has hosted series including The Friday Night Project and Chatty Man, is hosting Alan Carr’s Telly Pilot for Sky. I hear it’s being considered for Sky One.
The show will feature Carr giving his own take on the week’s television with a range of sketches and stand-up monologues.
Deadline understands that the show is being overseen by Expectation’s Head of Comedy Entertainment Ben Wicks, who has previously worked with Carr on Specstacular.
The non-tx pilot, which is being filmed on October 12, is Carr’s first for the pay-tv broadcaster. His C4 handcuffs deal ended earlier this year after the launch of I Don’t...
This comes months after his exclusive golden handcuffs deal with rival broadcaster Channel 4 ended.
The performer, who has hosted series including The Friday Night Project and Chatty Man, is hosting Alan Carr’s Telly Pilot for Sky. I hear it’s being considered for Sky One.
The show will feature Carr giving his own take on the week’s television with a range of sketches and stand-up monologues.
Deadline understands that the show is being overseen by Expectation’s Head of Comedy Entertainment Ben Wicks, who has previously worked with Carr on Specstacular.
The non-tx pilot, which is being filmed on October 12, is Carr’s first for the pay-tv broadcaster. His C4 handcuffs deal ended earlier this year after the launch of I Don’t...
- 9/27/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
ITV Chief Executive Carolyn McCall was always going to face the elephant in the room over its interest in Endemol Shine during the Royal Television Society’s London conference. Especially as she was being interviewed on stage by former Esg President Tim Hincks.
However, unsurprisingly McCall avoided revealing all when asked for details about the British commercial broadcaster’s move to pay somewhere between $2B-$3B for the MasterChef and Black Mirror producer.
“That’s speculation and we never comment on that,” she said. “The most important thing for us is that we can organically grow Studios and whatever we looked at from now on would have to be financially disciplined.
“We’re incredibly disciplined about any acquisition we make, small or large.”
It emerged over the weekend that ITV had officially entered the bidding process – six months after Deadline first revealed interest.
Later in the day, Endemol Shine Chief...
However, unsurprisingly McCall avoided revealing all when asked for details about the British commercial broadcaster’s move to pay somewhere between $2B-$3B for the MasterChef and Black Mirror producer.
“That’s speculation and we never comment on that,” she said. “The most important thing for us is that we can organically grow Studios and whatever we looked at from now on would have to be financially disciplined.
“We’re incredibly disciplined about any acquisition we make, small or large.”
It emerged over the weekend that ITV had officially entered the bidding process – six months after Deadline first revealed interest.
Later in the day, Endemol Shine Chief...
- 9/18/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
British broadcaster Channel 4 is doubling down on grime with a three-part documentary series set in Blackpool, handing The Big Narstie Show a second season and giving Narstie’s co-host Mo Gilligan his own series.
The network revealed its latest slate of youth-skewing shows at the Edinburgh International TV Festival.
It’s Grime Up North (w/t), which is produced by BBC Studios, follows the lives of a group of young MCs on the Blackpool grime scene. It will follow artists such as Little T (aka Josh Tate), Sophie Aspin and Millie B as well as a group of others striving for a break. The doc series was ordered by Channel 4’s Formats Commissioning Editor Lee McMurray and departing Head of Formats Dom Bird. The series is produced by BBC Studios’ Auntie Productions, whose Creative Directors are Sam Bickley and Samantha Anstiss. The executive producer is Kat Lennox and series producer is Danny Fildes.
The network revealed its latest slate of youth-skewing shows at the Edinburgh International TV Festival.
It’s Grime Up North (w/t), which is produced by BBC Studios, follows the lives of a group of young MCs on the Blackpool grime scene. It will follow artists such as Little T (aka Josh Tate), Sophie Aspin and Millie B as well as a group of others striving for a break. The doc series was ordered by Channel 4’s Formats Commissioning Editor Lee McMurray and departing Head of Formats Dom Bird. The series is produced by BBC Studios’ Auntie Productions, whose Creative Directors are Sam Bickley and Samantha Anstiss. The executive producer is Kat Lennox and series producer is Danny Fildes.
- 8/21/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
BBC Studios is searching for a new content chief after the British public broadcaster’s production unit handed Chief Creative Officer Mark Linsey a new role.
Linsey will take charge of its portfolio of production company relationships across the whole sector, managing partnerships with indies and BBC Studios Production. He will also oversee BBC Studios’ new Content Partnerships team, which is formed of Scripted Portfolio Director Liam Keelan, Unscripted Portfolio Director Mark Reynolds and a new exec who will lead editorial strategy for content and platforms.
The company will hire a new Director of Content, who will steer the editorial strategy for BBC Studios Production in the UK. The new exec will work closely alongside Anna Mallett, MD, Production, who will have overall accountability for BBC Studios Production’s Business and Operations, as well as International Production & Formats.
BBC Studios owns stakes in indies including Killing Eve producer Sid Gentle...
Linsey will take charge of its portfolio of production company relationships across the whole sector, managing partnerships with indies and BBC Studios Production. He will also oversee BBC Studios’ new Content Partnerships team, which is formed of Scripted Portfolio Director Liam Keelan, Unscripted Portfolio Director Mark Reynolds and a new exec who will lead editorial strategy for content and platforms.
The company will hire a new Director of Content, who will steer the editorial strategy for BBC Studios Production in the UK. The new exec will work closely alongside Anna Mallett, MD, Production, who will have overall accountability for BBC Studios Production’s Business and Operations, as well as International Production & Formats.
BBC Studios owns stakes in indies including Killing Eve producer Sid Gentle...
- 7/23/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Apple is bolstering its content business outside of the United States with former BBC Films chief Joe Oppenheimer becoming its second major hire in the UK.
Oppenheimer is joining the company in London as a creative executive on the international creative development team, reporting to Jay Hunt, creative director, Europe, the former Channel programming boss who joined in January. He will work with Hunt to source programming internationally.
It comes hot on the heels of Apple’s first global order; last month it gave a 10-episode straight-to-series order to an English adaptation of the popular French short-form series Calls, which will be co-produced by Canal+.
Oppenheimer was most recently Acting Head of BBC Films, having spent 19 years at the British public broadcaster. He left in December, having spent time before the acting head role as Christine Langan’s number two at the division. He was an executive producer on Palme d’Or winner I,...
Oppenheimer is joining the company in London as a creative executive on the international creative development team, reporting to Jay Hunt, creative director, Europe, the former Channel programming boss who joined in January. He will work with Hunt to source programming internationally.
It comes hot on the heels of Apple’s first global order; last month it gave a 10-episode straight-to-series order to an English adaptation of the popular French short-form series Calls, which will be co-produced by Canal+.
Oppenheimer was most recently Acting Head of BBC Films, having spent 19 years at the British public broadcaster. He left in December, having spent time before the acting head role as Christine Langan’s number two at the division. He was an executive producer on Palme d’Or winner I,...
- 7/3/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
A David Tennant-fronted comedy drama, a multi-character sitcom from the writer of Paddington 2, a comedy crime thriller featuring Episodes’ Daisy Haggard and a raft of new talent form part of the BBC’s latest comedy drive.
The British public broadcaster has unveiled its new slate of comedies across its channels BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four. This comes as BBC comedy chief Shane Allen tells Deadline that by making shows that are quintessentially British, they are increasingly traveling to the U.S. and internationally without the need to be remade.
On BBC One, Paddington 2’s Simon Farnaby and his colleagues behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland are producing Ghosts, a multi-character sitcom. Farnaby, Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are working with Monumental Television on the six-part horror comedy, which follows a group of restless spirits squabbling in a crumbling country house.
The British public broadcaster has unveiled its new slate of comedies across its channels BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four. This comes as BBC comedy chief Shane Allen tells Deadline that by making shows that are quintessentially British, they are increasingly traveling to the U.S. and internationally without the need to be remade.
On BBC One, Paddington 2’s Simon Farnaby and his colleagues behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland are producing Ghosts, a multi-character sitcom. Farnaby, Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are working with Monumental Television on the six-part horror comedy, which follows a group of restless spirits squabbling in a crumbling country house.
- 6/19/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Expectation Entertainment, the British production company run by Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham, has moved into podcasting with a David Bowie series led by the former Endemol Shine President himself.
Hincks is co-hosting Stalking Time For The Moon Boys with British comedian David Baddiel. The show, which is named after a lyric from The Bewlay Brothers, a track from Bowie’s 1971 record Hunky Dory, sees the two self-confessed Bowie nerds chatting about Thin White Duke.
Hincks, who has often made the television industry laugh with his own brand of stand-up on the conference scene, said, “There’s no such thing as too much information when it comes to David Bowie and if you don’t believe that, you definitely should not be listening to this [podcast].”
Fantasy Football League star Baddiel, who recently fronted documentary The Trouble with Dad, about his father’s dementia, added, “It’s really just a thing...
Hincks is co-hosting Stalking Time For The Moon Boys with British comedian David Baddiel. The show, which is named after a lyric from The Bewlay Brothers, a track from Bowie’s 1971 record Hunky Dory, sees the two self-confessed Bowie nerds chatting about Thin White Duke.
Hincks, who has often made the television industry laugh with his own brand of stand-up on the conference scene, said, “There’s no such thing as too much information when it comes to David Bowie and if you don’t believe that, you definitely should not be listening to this [podcast].”
Fantasy Football League star Baddiel, who recently fronted documentary The Trouble with Dad, about his father’s dementia, added, “It’s really just a thing...
- 6/6/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
British broadcaster Channel 4 is doubling down on comedy after handing the genre a £10M (Us$13.4M) budget boost and scoring a number of projects involving Catastrophe creator Sharon Horgan.
Horgan will star and exec produce Happy Af (w/t), a comedy about trying to find happiness. Created by Aisling Bea, who is set to star in Amy Poehler’s forthcoming NBC comedy I Feel Bad, the series stars her as Aine, who is trying to pull her life back together after a nervous breakdown. Horgan, who produces through her Merman banner, also stars as her sister Shona.
Horgan is also producing Next Week’s News, a TV pilot from Deborah Frances-White, the creator of The Guilty Feminist podcast. The 45-minute show will be based in a studio, overseen by a female-led production team, with followers encouraged to speak out on a range of issues. Merman, which is run by...
Horgan will star and exec produce Happy Af (w/t), a comedy about trying to find happiness. Created by Aisling Bea, who is set to star in Amy Poehler’s forthcoming NBC comedy I Feel Bad, the series stars her as Aine, who is trying to pull her life back together after a nervous breakdown. Horgan, who produces through her Merman banner, also stars as her sister Shona.
Horgan is also producing Next Week’s News, a TV pilot from Deborah Frances-White, the creator of The Guilty Feminist podcast. The 45-minute show will be based in a studio, overseen by a female-led production team, with followers encouraged to speak out on a range of issues. Merman, which is run by...
- 5/16/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Projects from Riz Ahmed, David Harewood and The Fall creator Allan Cubitt lead an ambitious line-up of new commissions from BBC Two. The British public broadcaster has unveiled a huge slate of shows for its second channel ranging from high-end dramas and comedies through to documentary series.
In drama, it has ordered Englistan, created by The Night Of star Riz Ahmed. The nine-part series, which is produced by BBC Studios Drama London and Ahmed’s own Left Handed Films, is the story of three generations of a British Pakistani families as they pursue their dreams over four tumultuous decades, navigating shifting circumstances and evolving loyalties. The drama will re-frame recent British history, and shine a light on the forces that have remade British society what it is today. It will be exec produced by Ahmed, Esther Springer, Hilary Salmon and Lucy Richer.
The Fall creator Cubitt is adapting Eugene McCabe...
In drama, it has ordered Englistan, created by The Night Of star Riz Ahmed. The nine-part series, which is produced by BBC Studios Drama London and Ahmed’s own Left Handed Films, is the story of three generations of a British Pakistani families as they pursue their dreams over four tumultuous decades, navigating shifting circumstances and evolving loyalties. The drama will re-frame recent British history, and shine a light on the forces that have remade British society what it is today. It will be exec produced by Ahmed, Esther Springer, Hilary Salmon and Lucy Richer.
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- 4/30/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Move over Strictly Come Dancing, there's a younger, cooler kid in town. The BBC is developing its latest Saturday night entertainment format, a dance competition from Tim Hincks' and Peter Fincham's Expectation. I hear the indie, which the former Endemol Group President and ITV Director of Television established in 2016, is working on Drop The Beat for primetime BBC1. The production company, which is backed by BBC Worldwide, is currently piloting the project…...
- 2/15/2018
- Deadline TV
BBC Worldwide content chief Helen Jackson, who lead the company's aggressive production acquisition drive, is to leave the business as it merges with BBC Studios. Jackson, who was responsible for acquiring stakes in British production companies including Tim Hincks and Peter Fincham's Expectation Entertainment and War and Peace producer Lookout Point, is to leave the company after 31 years. She will remain with the recently rebranded BBC Studios business through 2018…...
- 1/19/2018
- Deadline TV
CBS Studios International has set new offshore deals for its All Access Good Wife spinoff, The Good Fight. India's Zee Entertainment has taken pay-tv rights while HBO Nordic will begin streaming all 10 episodes of the first season on June 1 in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Created by Robert and Michelle King, The Good Fight stars Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo, Rose Leslie and Delroy Lindo and picks up one year after the events of The Good Wife finale. Tim Hincks…...
- 4/27/2017
- Deadline
CBS Studios International has set new offshore deals for its All Access Good Wife spinoff, The Good Fight. India's Zee Entertainment has taken pay-tv rights while HBO Nordic will begin streaming all 10 episodes of the first season on June 1 in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Created by Robert and Michelle King, The Good Fight stars Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo, Rose Leslie and Delroy Lindo and picks up one year after the events of The Good Wife finale. Tim Hincks…...
- 4/27/2017
- Deadline TV
Former Edemol Shine Group President Tim Hincks and ex-itv Director of Television Peter Fincham have officially launched UK-based indie Expectation. The multi-genre start-up, which was mooted at the end of last year, will work across scripted and non-scripted programming. It has now laid out six departments with a roster of creative executives in key positions. Expectation also has the backing of BBC Worldwide which has taken a 24.9% stake. This is a big addition to the UK…...
- 2/16/2017
- Deadline TV
Endemol Shine Group CEO Sophie Turner Laing sat for an international keynote at Natpe in Miami this morning and made it clear she’s pleased the past year is over. The production and distribution giant is the result of a merger of Endemol, Shine and Core Media which has gone through a period of integration in the last 12 months or so and will see the departure of some key executives including President Tim Hincks. Turner Laing addressed the growing pains of the merger…...
- 1/21/2016
- Deadline TV
In the latest executive departure from Endemol Shine Group, finance chief Edwin van Es is prepping to leave this summer. Van Es was appointed to his role in the merged company in late 2014 after a decade at Endemol, and oversaw the integration of Endemol, Shine and Core Media over the past year. The news follows recent word that Endemol Shine Group President Tim Hincks will exit later this year. Other execs to have moved on since the companies joined forces include co-ceo…...
- 1/20/2016
- Deadline TV
Tim Hincks is departing his role as president of Endemol Shine Group. A 17-year veteran of the production company, Hincks will step down officially later this year. “The last 17 years have been an incredible and exhilarating ride,” Hincks said in a statement. “Playing my part in helping build a world class content creation company across so many countries, genres and platforms has been an honour and a privilege. And working with unrivaled creative teams across the world has been a quite ridiculous amount of fun. But it really is time for a new adventure.” Also Read: Endemol Shine Promotes Julie Holland.
- 1/11/2016
- by Daniel Holloway
- The Wrap
After 17 years with the company, Endemol Shine Group President Tim Hincks announced he has decided to step down from his role and will leave later this year. "The last 17 years have been an incredible and exhilarating ride,” said Hincks. “Playing my part in helping build a world class content creation company across so many countries, genres and platforms has been an honour and a privilege. And working with unrivalled creative teams across the world has been a quite…...
- 1/11/2016
- Deadline TV
Cris Abrego and Charlie Corwin have been named co-chairmen and co-CEOs of the North American leg for the new joint venture that will combine Endemol, Shine Group and Core Media. The duo will spearhead the day-to-day operations while continuing to report to boss Tim Hincks, who on Monday was named president of the upcoming global multiplatform contend provider. Peter Hurwitz will oversee Core Media as its president. Earlier on Tuesday, it was revealed that Shine America CEO Rich Ross is leaving that post to become president of the Discovery Channel. Shine Group CEO Alex Mahon will undertake day-to-day responsibilities for Shine America.
- 10/28/2014
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Rich Ross is leaving his post as CEO of Shine America, almost two years to the day that he was selected to succeed Carl Fennessy in the role, an individual with knowledge of the situation told TheWrap. See photos: 16 of Anne Sweeney's Disney-abc Hits and Misses (Photos) Ross, who was previously at Nickelodeon, FX Networks and Disney, was hand-selected by Shine founder Elisabeth Murdoch in fall 2012 to begin in January 2013. He is expected to accept a top programming job at Discovery Communications, according to reports. Also read: Endemol Prez Tim Hincks Tapped as President of New Shine-Core-Endemol Group Shine...
- 10/28/2014
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Rich Ross is moving on. The longtime Disney executive is leaving his more recent home at Shine America amid a corporate restructuring that has Shine merging with Apollo Global Management's Core Media and Endemol, according to an informed source. The leadership team of the newly formed 21st Century Fox entity includes former BSkyB head Sophie Turner Laing and Endemol's Tim Hincks, who were recently appointed CEO and president, respectively. Ross' departure comes nearly two months after Core chief Marc Graboff departed. Read more Shine's Rich Ross on his Return to TV — and What Happened at Disney (Q&A) Ross was hired in late 2012
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- 10/28/2014
- by Lacey Rose
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tim Hincks has been named president of the new Endemol, Shine Group and Core Media joint venture. In the role, the London-based Hincks (pictured above) will report to Sophie Turner Laing, CEO of the global multi-platform content provider. The duo will develop and grow the creative and strategic direction of the new company, and will have specific responsibility for the U.K. and U.S. Hincks first joined Endemol in 1999; he was appointed president of the group in 2012. Also read: 21st Century Fox, Apollo Finalize Deal Combining Endemol, Shine Group and Core Media 21st Century Fox and Apollo recently announced a final agreement to.
- 10/27/2014
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
There's a new player in the multi-channel network landscape. Endemol, a global production company that runs some of the most popular reality programs and game shows on TV, has raised a $30 million funding round and launched Endemol Beyond, a network that builds off the company's existing digital operations. Endemol is best known for producing TV programs like Deal or No Deal, Big Brother, and Wipeout, but it is no stranger to the web. It has produced content for platforms like YouTube, AOL, and Myspace, and currently claims more than 100 online channels to its name. These channels, many of which are centered in foreign markets such as Germany, will form the core of the new Endemol Beyond venture. “Endemol is more than just a great television company; we're a global content creator across all platforms, and we want to further invest in our own creativity and IP to stay innovative," said Endemol Group President Tim Hincks.
- 11/13/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
The new unit will be led by Georg Ramme, who has been building the independent TV production giant's German digital video hub.
London – Independent TV production firm Endemol on Wednesday unveiled an initiative to accelerate the growth of its premium digital video business worldwide.
The company behind such TV hit formats as Big Brother, Wipeout and Deal or No Deal is launching Endemol Beyond, which will house its international and local digital channels offered across online video platforms, including YouTube, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Dailymotion and others.
The company will initially invest up to $40 million (30 million euros) in Endemol Beyond, which will spend money on original productions and talent, select third-party programming and international brand partnerships. Its channels will be themed by genres, including entertainment, film, comedy, fashion and more.
The goal is to accelerate the expansion of Endemol's existing digital video hubs in the U.S., U.K.,Germany, France,...
London – Independent TV production firm Endemol on Wednesday unveiled an initiative to accelerate the growth of its premium digital video business worldwide.
The company behind such TV hit formats as Big Brother, Wipeout and Deal or No Deal is launching Endemol Beyond, which will house its international and local digital channels offered across online video platforms, including YouTube, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Dailymotion and others.
The company will initially invest up to $40 million (30 million euros) in Endemol Beyond, which will spend money on original productions and talent, select third-party programming and international brand partnerships. Its channels will be themed by genres, including entertainment, film, comedy, fashion and more.
The goal is to accelerate the expansion of Endemol's existing digital video hubs in the U.S., U.K.,Germany, France,...
- 11/13/2013
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The president of Endemol, the company behind Big Brother, has stated that he hopes the show can air for more than 50 years.
Tim Hincks, president of Endemol Group, made the comments during an interview with The Guardian.
Hincks stated that Endemol "should be aiming" for the reality show, which returns to Channel 5 later this month, to continue beyond 50 years.
Of Big Brother, Hincks said: "It's been around 13 years, which is longer than The Beatles. Can it be around longer than The Rolling Stones [who celebrated their 50th anniversary this year]? We should be aiming for that."
The producer also stated that the reality programme "remains utterly central" to what the company does.
Big Brother 2013, hosted by Emma Willis, will have a 'Secrets and Lies' theme, and will launch on Thursday, June 13 at 9pm on Channel 5.
Watch a trailer for the new series below:...
Tim Hincks, president of Endemol Group, made the comments during an interview with The Guardian.
Hincks stated that Endemol "should be aiming" for the reality show, which returns to Channel 5 later this month, to continue beyond 50 years.
Of Big Brother, Hincks said: "It's been around 13 years, which is longer than The Beatles. Can it be around longer than The Rolling Stones [who celebrated their 50th anniversary this year]? We should be aiming for that."
The producer also stated that the reality programme "remains utterly central" to what the company does.
Big Brother 2013, hosted by Emma Willis, will have a 'Secrets and Lies' theme, and will launch on Thursday, June 13 at 9pm on Channel 5.
Watch a trailer for the new series below:...
- 6/6/2013
- Digital Spy
Along with an emphasis on cross-border series, among the takeaways from this week’s Mip-tv market was the increased merging of technology and content. Of the 4,000 acquisition execs in town, 800 were VOD and digital buyers – a 30% jump on last year. Cinedigm did a digital/VOD deal for more than 1,000 episodes of TV shows from Australia’s ABC which CEO Chris McGurk said reflected the “ever-growing importance of efficient, cost-effective delivery of digital content worldwide.” YouTube was part of the discussion. Tim Hincks, president of Dutch giant Endemol, which has over 100 YouTube channels, said the company will soon launch a new Fear Factor channel, effectively reviving the brand in the U.S. But he stressed that “It’s not how much you’ve got, it’s what you do with them. It’s tying them together and marketing to the consumers and YouTubers on the different channels.” But BSkyB managing director of content,...
- 4/12/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Reporting from Cannes The annual Mip-tv market, and its sister Mipcom, keep getting more interesting as star power grows and what’s on offer takes on an increasingly global feel. At October’s Mipcom, Kevin Spacey was in Cannes to support Netflix’s House Of Cards; Jane Campion presented BBC/Sundance Channel series Top Of The Lake; Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys were here for The Americans and even Harvey Weinstein turned up in support of The Weinstein Co.’s push into international TV sales. Mip-tv, which kicks off in earnest on Monday, will draw such speakers as BBC controller Ben Stephenson, eOne’s Darren Throop, Da Vinci’s Demons creator David S. Goyer, CSI franchise creator Anthony Zuiker, Homeland exec producers Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff, Endemol’s Tim Hincks and Discovery chief David Zaslav. Shine America CEO Rich Ross is also in town. At these international markets, there...
- 4/7/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Big Brother producer Endemol has made changes to its senior management structure including naming former international operations managing director, Martha Brass, as the group’s COO. The news comes on the heels of the abrupt departure last week of Endemol Group COO and Endemol France CEO Virginie Calmels. Here’s the press release: Endemol, the world’s largest independent production company, today announced that the Management Board, comprising CEO Just Spee and President Tim Hincks, has appointed a new Management Committee to focus on overseeing and supporting the business on a day-to-day basis. Martha Brass, formerly Managing Director of International Operations, joins the Management Committee as the Group’s Chief Operating Officer. Brass will continue to oversee emerging markets whilst taking operational responsibility for additional territories including Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe. Edwin van Es, formerly Group Finance Director, joins the Management Committee as Chief Financial Officer, overseeing all...
- 1/22/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
London -- Independent TV production powerhouse Endemol Group said Tuesday that it has named Martha Brass COO and Edwin van Es CFO. Endemol CEO Just Spee and president Tim Hincks have appointed them to a new management committee that will “focus on overseeing and supporting the business on a day-to-day basis,” the company added. Boudewijn Beusmans, global head of legal and corporate secretary, will also join the committee. All its members report to Spee. Brass was formerly managing director of international operations and will continue to oversee emerging markets for the company, while also taking on direct operational
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- 1/22/2013
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
London - TV producer Endemol Group said Friday it has promoted Endemol U.K. CEO Tim Hincks to the post of president. It has also promoted Virginie Calmels, chairman and CEO of its France unit, to the role of COO. They will report to CEO Just Spee who took over the company's day-to-day management in April. Endemol's hit formats include Big Brother, Deal or No Deal, Wipeout and The Money Drop. Its growing drama portfolio includes Hell on Wheels and Hot in Cleveland. The company, which has faced financial pressures that last year led to a bid from Time
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- 5/11/2012
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Endemol's chief exec Tim Hincks has promised a "really fresh" series of Big Brother on Channel 5, claiming that the new run would tell "the best stories we've ever told". Hinks spoke at a press launch yesterday, where he claimed that Channel 5's investment in the show had re-energised the Big Brother brand. "There's a really fresh feel about this Big Brother. What Big Brother is about is characters and stories. You will of course all judge when we're on top form again on Thursday, but I think we've got a great bunch of housemates," he said. "People have speculated about whether it's new or classic Big Brother, but the fact is that we'll tell some of the best stories we've ever told. It will be glamorous and occasionally sexy, I'm told." He later added that the show's tone would be "celebratory, (more)...
- 8/16/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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