Paul Heaney


TCB Media Rights boosts legal and rights team, unveils 40-show slate for MIPCOM

TCB Media Rights is heading to next month’s MIPCOM market with a 40-title slate that includes three self-commissioned shows. The Kew Media Group-backed distributor’s top launches in Cannes include TCB Originals such as Curve Media’s How Did They Build That? (8 x 60 minutes); Conscious Life’s How I Created A Cult (3 x 60 minutes); and Like […]

Yesterday lines up Woodcut’s ‘Greatest Palaces’

UKTV has lined up Woodcut Media’s World’s Greatest Palaces for factual channel Yesterday. The multi-channel broadcaster pre-invested in the series, which was also deficit financed by distributor TCB Media Rights. The programme, which will air later this year, investigates the history, engineering feats and pioneering design of some of the world’s biggest palaces and the monarchs […]

TBI Weekly: MIPTV at critical juncture to safeguard its future

MIPTV reached a major turning point this week, with the future of the spring market in its current iteration poised for a significant overhaul amid a growing chorus of incensed distributors.   For a number of years now, the four-day market has been shedding international buyers due to unsavory timing ahead of LA Screenings in […]

TCB hands DCD Rights exec a multi-territory sales role

Distributor TCB Media Rights has appointed Lenneke de Jong to the newly created role of sales manager for Latin America, Benelux and Iberia. She joins from DCD Rights, where she handled a broad spectrum of factual, entertainment and drama programming. Prior to that she worked in production on Spain’s version of The X Factor. TCB Media […]

Passion acquisitions chief moves to TCB

Passion Distribution’s head of acquisitions, Jimmy Humphreys, is moving to rival UK distributor TCB Media Rights. The exec will take on the newly created role of head of acquisitions and coproductions at TCB, which has been staffing up significantly in the past year. Humphreys will report to Paul Heaney, founder and CEO of TCB, and […]

Kew acquires Paul Heaney’s TCB Media Rights

Kew Media Group has struck a deal to buy Paul Heaney’s TCB Media Rights for a cash consideration of £5.6 million (US$7.4 million). TCB will also bag £700,000 in Class B Kew shares as a result of the deal when it closes. Kew will also pay deferred compensation based on adjusted earnings before interest, tax, […]

World’s Worst docs land pre-buys

Network Nine, Channel 5, Sky and RMC Decouverte are among pre-buyers of new documentaries from UK-based distributor TCB Media Rights. Manchest-based Title Role has gone into production on two user-generated factual series, the 6x60mins World’s Worst Flights (aka Flight, Camera, Action) and 6x60mins World’s Wildest Weather, which has gone to Nine in Australia, Sky TV […]

eOne exec switches to TCB post

London-based TCB Media Rights has again expanded its team with the fire of Entertainment One exec Holly Cowdery. She will work on sales in the Benelux, Central and Eastern Europe, and Middle East and North Africa regions. TCB CEO Paul Heaney called Cowdery a “rising star” adding: “She already has solid experience in sales, but […]

TCB adds to sales team

TCB Media Rights has hired Simona Argenti and she will cover Italy, Spain, Latin America and Canada and other territories for the independent distributor. She joins TCB from BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK pubcaster, where she was sales manager. Representation of Italy at TCB will transition from Italian agent and former Mediaset executive […]

TCB dealing out Justice at MIPCOM

TCB Media Rights has struck deals for several of its shows, ahead of launching 30 new projects at MIPCOM later this month. Ahead of the market is has sold History’s Greatest Hoaxes to German channel N24. Produced by UK indie Like a Shot for UKTV, the show looks at the world’s greatest hoaxes. Elsewhere, Sky in […]

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