All3Media International


All3Media calculating international launch for Algorithm

All3Media International is set to launch new gameshow Algorithm internationally after its commission by Ireland’s TV3. The free-to-air broadcaster has said it will launch the new 10x60mins show next spring, and All3 will handle sales of the format and finished series. Billed as a man versus machine contest as players take on a computer – […]

Discovery, Foxtel get new arrival with Spun Gold series

Discovery in Europe and Latin America and Foxtel in Australia have picked up pregnancy and parenting unscripted series Nine Months Later. The 6x60mins observational doc is produced by UK indie Spun Gold with Bellota Productions and originally went out on UK pay TV channel Sky Living. Conceived by two new mums, Nine Months Later follows […]

Ramsay has final Kitchen Nightmares

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay has brought his restaurant-in-trouble series Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares to an end after 10 years on Channel 4 in the UK. The show, which comes from All3Media’s Optomen Television and Ramsay’s One Potato Two Potato, first broadcast in 2004 and has spawned 123 episodes and a successful American remake for Fox, Kitchen […]

All3Media posts profit ahead of takeover

All3Media Holdings, the parent company that houses All3Media and its production companies, posted turnover of £507.6 million and EBITA of £60.5 million for the year to August 31, 2013. This compares with with £473 million and £64.1 million the previous year. All3 said the earnings figure reflected investments in digital producer Little Dot Studios and […]

Landmark German deal for All3’s Hinterland

ARD has acquired Hinterland, marking the German public broadcaster’s first acquisition of a UK drama for primetime in several years, TBI understands. The buzzy noir detective series is shot in Welsh and English and produced by Welsh indie Fiction Factory. Shot in Wales it aired on Welsh pubcaster S4C, which originally commissioned the show, last […]

Zodiak poaches All3Media digital boss

Zodiak Media’s sales division has poaches senior digital exec Gary Woolf from rival All3Media International. Woolf has been appointed to the newly created position of head of digital, business development and insight at Zodiak Rights. He joins from All3’s global unit, where he was senior VP, digital and business development. In this role, he had […]

Content crunch – the fight for rights

As the pace of consolidation quickens, competition for rights is fiercer than ever. Stewart Clarke talks to distributors about the changing face of the business and how, in the hyper competitive world of TV, they are gaining access to content. First-look deals, overall deals, development deals, output deals, umbrella deals and pod deals: all are […]

Netflix US buys Welsh drama series

Netflix has acquired Welsh drama series Hinterland for its North American streaming service. The cop drama, which is shot on Welsh and English, is distributed by All3Media International, which cut the Netflix deal. The eight-part show will be available to stream in the US and Canada following the agreement. The series is produced by Welsh […]

Europe’s most valuable formats

The UK is the most lucrative formats market in Europe, while TF1 is the leading broadcaster and Money Drop and Come Dine with Me are the most successful formats in the region, according to new research. Endemol, ITV and FremantleMedia, meanwhile, are Europe’s most successful formats distributors. Knowing the value of your content is a […]

MIPTV 2014: All3Media brings talent-led factual to MIPTV

All3Media International is bringing 41 hours of factual entertainment programming from UK indie Spun Gold to MIPTV. Among the shows will be talent-led series such as Off the Beaten Track, fronted by British daytime TV host Christine Bleakley and Jennifer Saunders: Back in the Saddle, which features the eponymous Absolutely Fabulous star. Ob docs such […]