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All3Media sports label 3 Rock hires Adam Kay as content director

All3Media’s UK sports label 3 Rock Productions has hired Adam Kay to the newly created position of director of content. Kay joins the senior team at 3 Rock following a stint at All3Media sibling Aurora Media Worldwide, reporting to MD Keith Doyle, and working closely with founders Craig Doyle and Brian O’Driscoll. In his new […]

Exclusive: Prime Video preps ‘The Grand Tour’ return, with UK trio pitching

Amazon Prime Video has enlisted three UK-based production companies to pitch new versions of The Grand Tour as the streamer looks to extend the show, TBI understands. The Grand Tour has been a flagship for Prime Video since its launch in 2016, with former Top Gear trio Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May presenting […]

RedBird IMI to buy All3Media in deal valued at $1.45bn

US investment firm RedBird IMI has agreed to acquire All3Media from Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Liberty Global, in a deal that values the company at £1.15bn ($1.45bn). Confirmation of the acquisition comes six weeks after news first broke that the Jeff Zucker-led firm was leading the race to acquire All3. It follows a convoluted […]

Banijay hires All3Media alum Hannah Griffiths as head of adaptations

Banijay has hired All3Media alum Hannah Griffiths as its first head of adaptations. Griffiths is tasked with finding IP across all mediums that the production-distribution giant’s scripted labels can adapt and joins having been the first head of literary acquisitions at All3, which she joined in 2016. Before that she worked for companies including Faber […]

Optomen bolsters senior team for fact-ent & reality push

All3Media-owned prodco Optomen has made a number of senior hires promotions as it looks to develop more talent-led series, factual entertainment formats and reality shows. The company has upped Great British Menu and Versus exec producer Sarah Eglin to creative director of the Birmingham office, while head of development, Eliana Capitani, has been named director […]

Jeff Zucker’s RedBird IMI leading race to buy All3Media in $1.26bn deal

Jeff Zucker’s US investment firm RedBird IMI is leading the race to acquire All3Media in a deal valued at around £1bn ($1.26bn). The Financial Times reports that RedBird IMI is in advanced talks with All3 and could start exclusive negotiations before Christmas, although sources have suggested to TBI that timing would be tight. RedBird’s emergence […]

Netflix extends gameshow ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ into second season

Netflix has ordered a second season of high-profile gameshow, Squid Game: The Challenge. The show, whose first season is set to end this month, features 456 characters playing the games from the series in a bid to win a top prize of $4.56m. It was first unveiled last year and is produced by All3media’s Studio […]

BBC extends Dutch format remake ‘The Traitors’ ahead of second season launch

The UK’s BBC has greenlit a third run of hit format The Traitors, ahead of the launch of its second season. The psychological reality competition show sees 22 strangers play the ultimate game of detection, backstabbing and trust, in the hope of winning up to £120,000 ($146,000). The BBC claimed that the first season of […]

‘No Escape’ prodco New Pictures recruits Vertigo Films’ Sandra Shuttleworth as head of production

New Pictures, the All3Media-backed UK prodco behind The Long Shadow and No Escape, has hired Vertigo Films’ Sandra Shuttleworth as head of production. Shuttleworth will be responsible for leading New Pictures’ production management teams and will work alongside co-founder and CEO Willow Grylls and COO Lisa Selway on overall business strategy. She replaces Emily Russell, […]

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