Exclusive: Naked Education indie Betty and South African production outfit afrOkaans Film and Television have optioned Israeli format Hungry for Love.
In Israeli network Hot’s show, a group of singletons must follow one rule, in order to eat they must date. Guided by a professional therapist, the contestants participate in the experiment and try and find love through dining.
The format was forged by Zipi Rozenblum and produced by Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures and Bad Boy producer Sipur. Mediawan Rights’ unscripted department is shopping at Mipcom Cannes next week.
All3Media-backed Betty and afroKaans will be hoping the format can be the next big show in their respective nations, having both found success with evergreen hits in the recent past. Betty’s credits include the likes of Channel 4 double Naked Education and The Undateables, while afroKaans is behind the local version of Survivor.
“Hungry for Love is...
In Israeli network Hot’s show, a group of singletons must follow one rule, in order to eat they must date. Guided by a professional therapist, the contestants participate in the experiment and try and find love through dining.
The format was forged by Zipi Rozenblum and produced by Greg Silverman’s Stampede Ventures and Bad Boy producer Sipur. Mediawan Rights’ unscripted department is shopping at Mipcom Cannes next week.
All3Media-backed Betty and afroKaans will be hoping the format can be the next big show in their respective nations, having both found success with evergreen hits in the recent past. Betty’s credits include the likes of Channel 4 double Naked Education and The Undateables, while afroKaans is behind the local version of Survivor.
“Hungry for Love is...
- 10/10/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Channel 4’s former Deputy Programmes Chief Kelly Webb-Lamb has launched a non-scripted production outfit with two former Channel 4 commissioners to create “global formats and ideas of scale.”
Webb-Lamb, who up until recently was the second most senior content person at the Gogglebox network, has opened Mothership Productions with Creative Director Charlotte Desai and Director of Programmes Gilly Greenslade, both of whom worked extensively with her at Channel 4 before she departed last year.
The production outfit looks set to be a key player in the booming British non-scripted TV sector, focusing on big, sellable formats, and said it already has several projects in advanced development while the team is currently pitching to broadcaster and SVoD commissioners.
Webb-Lamb was at Channel 4 for five years and deputy to Chief Content Officer Ian Katz for three, during which time she commissioned the likes of The Circle, Studio Lambert’s format that was subsequently remade for Netflix,...
Webb-Lamb, who up until recently was the second most senior content person at the Gogglebox network, has opened Mothership Productions with Creative Director Charlotte Desai and Director of Programmes Gilly Greenslade, both of whom worked extensively with her at Channel 4 before she departed last year.
The production outfit looks set to be a key player in the booming British non-scripted TV sector, focusing on big, sellable formats, and said it already has several projects in advanced development while the team is currently pitching to broadcaster and SVoD commissioners.
Webb-Lamb was at Channel 4 for five years and deputy to Chief Content Officer Ian Katz for three, during which time she commissioned the likes of The Circle, Studio Lambert’s format that was subsequently remade for Netflix,...
- 8/1/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Former Channel 4 deputy director of programs and head of popular factual Kelly Webb-Lamb has set up a new production company.
Mothership Productions will focus on global formats and “ideas of scale” across the unscripted genres. The new outfit has already hit the ground running with a senior team that includes Charlotte Desai, Gilly Greenslade and Gudren Claire.
“After 25 years in the industry on both sides of the pitching/buying table, it felt like it was time to take the leap and have a go at doing it for myself,” said Webb-Lamb. “I can’t honestly believe I’ve managed to persuade such a brilliant group of women to come along for the ride with me. We are super ambitious — and intend to make some properly great, entertaining, warm and witty programmes — and have a lot of fun.”
Webb-Lamb is one of the U.K. TV industry’s most well-respected executives.
Mothership Productions will focus on global formats and “ideas of scale” across the unscripted genres. The new outfit has already hit the ground running with a senior team that includes Charlotte Desai, Gilly Greenslade and Gudren Claire.
“After 25 years in the industry on both sides of the pitching/buying table, it felt like it was time to take the leap and have a go at doing it for myself,” said Webb-Lamb. “I can’t honestly believe I’ve managed to persuade such a brilliant group of women to come along for the ride with me. We are super ambitious — and intend to make some properly great, entertaining, warm and witty programmes — and have a lot of fun.”
Webb-Lamb is one of the U.K. TV industry’s most well-respected executives.
- 8/1/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Discovery+ has struck a deal with British distributor that will see more than 250 hours of content airing on the platform.
Titles included in the agreement include controversial factual entertainment series Naked Attraction, travelogue Gordon Ramsey on Cocaine and doc series Generation Porn.
It is part of the same arrangement that saw Studio Lambert’s Race Across The World launch on the nascent streaming service as well as a slew of Gordon Ramsay programming including The F Word, Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape, Gordon Ramsay Behind Bars and Gordon Ramsay: Shark Bait.
The deal is a multi-territory agreement and covers the U.S. as well as a number of other countries. Race Across The World, for instance, has been picked up in India, Italy and Spain as well as the States and Naked Attraction is available across Scandinavia, Poland and the Netherlands.
It also includes The Undateables, produced by All3Media’s Betty,...
Titles included in the agreement include controversial factual entertainment series Naked Attraction, travelogue Gordon Ramsey on Cocaine and doc series Generation Porn.
It is part of the same arrangement that saw Studio Lambert’s Race Across The World launch on the nascent streaming service as well as a slew of Gordon Ramsay programming including The F Word, Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape, Gordon Ramsay Behind Bars and Gordon Ramsay: Shark Bait.
The deal is a multi-territory agreement and covers the U.S. as well as a number of other countries. Race Across The World, for instance, has been picked up in India, Italy and Spain as well as the States and Naked Attraction is available across Scandinavia, Poland and the Netherlands.
It also includes The Undateables, produced by All3Media’s Betty,...
- 3/23/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix’s international non-scripted drive continues as the Svod service hires former ITV commissioner Ben Kelly to beef up its London programming team.
Deadline understands that Kelly, who was previously an entertainment commissioner at the British linear broadcaster, is joining as manager of nonfiction series. He will be responsible for ordering global entertainment formats out of the UK. He is expected to join imminently.
He has previously handled shows including the return of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, The X Factor and comedy clip format Zone of Champions from Sacha Baron Cohen’s Spelthorne Community Television. Prior to that he was a producer and showrunner on shows including I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Big Brother and Million Pound Menu.
It is the latest non-scripted hire for Netflix in London; last year, it hired former Channel 4 commissioner Lucy Leveugle, who commissioned series such as The Undateables and Child Genius,...
Deadline understands that Kelly, who was previously an entertainment commissioner at the British linear broadcaster, is joining as manager of nonfiction series. He will be responsible for ordering global entertainment formats out of the UK. He is expected to join imminently.
He has previously handled shows including the return of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, The X Factor and comedy clip format Zone of Champions from Sacha Baron Cohen’s Spelthorne Community Television. Prior to that he was a producer and showrunner on shows including I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Big Brother and Million Pound Menu.
It is the latest non-scripted hire for Netflix in London; last year, it hired former Channel 4 commissioner Lucy Leveugle, who commissioned series such as The Undateables and Child Genius,...
- 9/13/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is continuing to bolster its non-scripted efforts outside of the U.S. after hiring former Channel 4 exec Lucy Leveugle in London.
The Svod service announced that the former interim head of factual entertainment, who commissioned series such as The Undateables and Child Genius, will join Netflix’s unscripted team. She will work under Nathaniel Grouille and Sean Hancock, who are both based in the U.S.
Netflix said that her focus is unscripted content from across Emea and will join in the new year.
Leveugle left the British broadcaster earlier this year, having joined in 2012, where she also oversaw formats including Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds and docs such as Inside the Ku Klux Klan.
It is the latest high-profile hire out of the British capital, after Deadline revealed that former Monkey COO Jason Crosby joined over the summer and Kate Townsend relocated from La to London.
The Svod service announced that the former interim head of factual entertainment, who commissioned series such as The Undateables and Child Genius, will join Netflix’s unscripted team. She will work under Nathaniel Grouille and Sean Hancock, who are both based in the U.S.
Netflix said that her focus is unscripted content from across Emea and will join in the new year.
Leveugle left the British broadcaster earlier this year, having joined in 2012, where she also oversaw formats including Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds and docs such as Inside the Ku Klux Klan.
It is the latest high-profile hire out of the British capital, after Deadline revealed that former Monkey COO Jason Crosby joined over the summer and Kate Townsend relocated from La to London.
- 10/16/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The Imitation Game star has been nominated for his leading role in BBC drama Sherlock.Scroll down for full list of nominations
Benedict Cumberbatch has been nominated for the third time as leading actor in his BBC role of Sherlock. This marks his sixth nomination for this category in his career.
Cumberbatch received a Best Actor Oscar nomination earlier this year for his role as Alan Turing in Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game.
The nominations, announced on Wednesday by actors Freddie Fox and Amanda Abbington, place Cumberbatch in a category alongside three others.
Toby Jones (Harry Potter, Captain America, The Hunger Games) is recognized for his role in Marvellous. The show received two other nominations including Single Drama and Supporting Actress for Gemma Jones.
James Nesbitt (The Hobbit) also received a leading actor nomination for The Missing, in addition to Jason Watkins (The Golden Compass) for his role in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries.
For...
Benedict Cumberbatch has been nominated for the third time as leading actor in his BBC role of Sherlock. This marks his sixth nomination for this category in his career.
Cumberbatch received a Best Actor Oscar nomination earlier this year for his role as Alan Turing in Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game.
The nominations, announced on Wednesday by actors Freddie Fox and Amanda Abbington, place Cumberbatch in a category alongside three others.
Toby Jones (Harry Potter, Captain America, The Hunger Games) is recognized for his role in Marvellous. The show received two other nominations including Single Drama and Supporting Actress for Gemma Jones.
James Nesbitt (The Hobbit) also received a leading actor nomination for The Missing, in addition to Jason Watkins (The Golden Compass) for his role in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries.
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- 4/8/2015
- by mam27@bu.edu (Monica Mendoza)
- ScreenDaily
The Undateables has been renewed for a fifth series.
Channel 4 has confirmed that the popular show will return with five new episodes in 2016.
The fourth series of the show is currently airing on the channel, with the first episode attracting 3.2 million viewers. The episode was also Channel 4's most tweeted about show of the week, with 31,000 posts on the social networking site.
Channel 4's head of factual entertainment Liam Humphreys and factual entertainment commissioning editor Lucy Leveugle have ordered the new episodes.
Leveugle said: "The Undateables is a Channel 4 series through and through, and its universal theme of love continues to see viewers engage with disability. We are all extremely proud of its legacy with proposals and weddings."
Executive producer Kathleen Larkin added: "We are delighted to be making the fifth series of The Undateables and we are extremely proud of the show.
"It provides an...
Channel 4 has confirmed that the popular show will return with five new episodes in 2016.
The fourth series of the show is currently airing on the channel, with the first episode attracting 3.2 million viewers. The episode was also Channel 4's most tweeted about show of the week, with 31,000 posts on the social networking site.
Channel 4's head of factual entertainment Liam Humphreys and factual entertainment commissioning editor Lucy Leveugle have ordered the new episodes.
Leveugle said: "The Undateables is a Channel 4 series through and through, and its universal theme of love continues to see viewers engage with disability. We are all extremely proud of its legacy with proposals and weddings."
Executive producer Kathleen Larkin added: "We are delighted to be making the fifth series of The Undateables and we are extremely proud of the show.
"It provides an...
- 1/26/2015
- Digital Spy
Brent Zillwood and Challis Orme, a couple who met on Channel 4 show The Undateables, have married.
They pair have become the first from the programme to tie the knot.
Zillwood, who suffers from Tourettes, married model Orme in Las Vegas.
The couple had their first date in an Exeter pub. Zillman brought Orme back to the same pub six months later to propose.
Speaking to the The Mirror, Zillwood said: "I had forgotten what it was like to be in relationship when I met Challis. Meeting her was special.
"I loved the fact she enjoyed the whole Tourette's thing which means I can let it out. If I did twitch she just laughed and it kind of worked for me this time."
Orme added: "I love him for lots of reasons. We have exactly the same sense of humour.
"There is nothing I could say which would upset him...
They pair have become the first from the programme to tie the knot.
Zillwood, who suffers from Tourettes, married model Orme in Las Vegas.
The couple had their first date in an Exeter pub. Zillman brought Orme back to the same pub six months later to propose.
Speaking to the The Mirror, Zillwood said: "I had forgotten what it was like to be in relationship when I met Challis. Meeting her was special.
"I loved the fact she enjoyed the whole Tourette's thing which means I can let it out. If I did twitch she just laughed and it kind of worked for me this time."
Orme added: "I love him for lots of reasons. We have exactly the same sense of humour.
"There is nothing I could say which would upset him...
- 1/25/2015
- Digital Spy
Frankie Boyle and Matt Berry are among the stars involved in the BBC's upcoming iPlayer Comedy Shorts.
Reece Shearsmith, Morgana Robinson, Meera Syal and Micky Flanagan will also feature in a number of original one-off shows, to go live from June 1 on iPlayer.
Matt Berry will star in The Lone Wolf, an alternative nature documentary in which he follows wild wolves as they try to hunt a herd of elk.
Bob Mortimer will team up with Frankie Boyle on their Cookery Show special.
Boyle will show the Shooting Stars comic his recipe for Lancashire Hot Pot, but soon meets trouble when the show isn't quite fun or educational enough for the audience.
Shearsmith will star opposite Sally Phillips in the 1930s-set The Case of the High Foot.
Set in Austria, Hilda Stolf (Phillips) visits her doctor (Shearsmith) after suffering from a strange case of 'high foot'.
Foxageddon will star Flanagan and Kerry Goldsmith,...
Reece Shearsmith, Morgana Robinson, Meera Syal and Micky Flanagan will also feature in a number of original one-off shows, to go live from June 1 on iPlayer.
Matt Berry will star in The Lone Wolf, an alternative nature documentary in which he follows wild wolves as they try to hunt a herd of elk.
Bob Mortimer will team up with Frankie Boyle on their Cookery Show special.
Boyle will show the Shooting Stars comic his recipe for Lancashire Hot Pot, but soon meets trouble when the show isn't quite fun or educational enough for the audience.
Shearsmith will star opposite Sally Phillips in the 1930s-set The Case of the High Foot.
Set in Austria, Hilda Stolf (Phillips) visits her doctor (Shearsmith) after suffering from a strange case of 'high foot'.
Foxageddon will star Flanagan and Kerry Goldsmith,...
- 5/14/2014
- Digital Spy
Channel 4 has renewed The Undateables for a fourth series.
The documentary series will return for a new run in 2015. Four new episodes will focus on a new group of singletons searching for love, while it will also look back at previous daters since appearing on the show.
Benefits Street renewed by Channel 4 for second series
The third series of The Undateables averaged 3 million viewers during its run earlier this year.
Channel 4's Factual Entertainment commissioning editor Lucy Leveugle said: "I am delighted that The Undateables is returning for a new series. It has sensitivity, humour and attitude - all key C4 attributes. The consolidated figures show that it has won a special place in viewers' hearts."
Executive producer Sarah Spencer added: "We are incredibly proud of The Undateables' continuing success and are thrilled to be making another series.
"We will be looking to maintain an eye-opening,...
The documentary series will return for a new run in 2015. Four new episodes will focus on a new group of singletons searching for love, while it will also look back at previous daters since appearing on the show.
Benefits Street renewed by Channel 4 for second series
The third series of The Undateables averaged 3 million viewers during its run earlier this year.
Channel 4's Factual Entertainment commissioning editor Lucy Leveugle said: "I am delighted that The Undateables is returning for a new series. It has sensitivity, humour and attitude - all key C4 attributes. The consolidated figures show that it has won a special place in viewers' hearts."
Executive producer Sarah Spencer added: "We are incredibly proud of The Undateables' continuing success and are thrilled to be making another series.
"We will be looking to maintain an eye-opening,...
- 2/12/2014
- Digital Spy
Refresh for latest… Keshet International‘s UK office has hired producer Amelia Hann as head of unscripted programming to oversee a new factual production venture. Hann was most recently executive producer on Channel 4’s The Undateables and her other credits include the BAFTA winning Ross Kemp On Gangs, Wife Swap USA, Baby Bible Bashers, Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars and The Hunt For Britain’s Sex Traffickers. AMC/Sundance Channel Global has made a trio of exec promotions bumping Harold Gronenthal to Evp, programming and operations; Jennie Morris to VP affiliate marketing; and Mark Fareri to director of operations, AMC/Sundance Channel Global. The group has also pacted with Passion Distribution to acquire Push Girls for We tv Asia and with We tv Us for Cyndi Lauper docu-soap Cyndi. Sweden’s Svt, Finland’s Yle and Denmark’s Dr networks have acquired Restless, the adaptation of William Boyd’s spy novel that stars Hayley Atwell,...
- 4/4/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
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