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‘Ginny & Georgia’ outfit Critical Content lands Dorsey exec amid development rejig

Critical Content, the US prodco behind Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia and MTV’s Catfish, has hired Dorsey Pictures exec Katie Hash as SVP of development, alongside two other appointments to the team. She will take charge of the development slate at the company, which was acquired by SK Global last year and has also produced titles […]

Critical Content owner SK Global acquired by UK investment firm Centricus

SK Global, the production and finance firm that acquired Catfish producer Critical Content earlier this year, has been bought by UK-based investment outfit Centricus. The acquisition will see SK’s co-CEO’s Charlie Corwin and John Menotti become CEO and chief creative officer respectively, with remits across TV and film. Elsewhere, SK’s founder Sidney Kimmel retains his […]

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ prodco SK Global buys ‘Catfish’ firm Critical Content

Crazy Rich Asians movie producer and financier SK Global has acquired Critical Content, the outfit behind the MTV series Catfish. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though SK Global’s purchase of the company, which was formerly known as Relativity TV, from Anchorage Capital Group, will allow it to enter the unscripted TV production space. […]

‘TINA’ prodco Lightbox rejigs development by hiring Critical Content’s Alexis Gomez-Garcia

TINA prodco Lightbox has appointed former Critical Content and Bunim Murray Productions exec Alexis Gomez-Garcia to work across its unscripted output from LA. Gomez-Garcia becomes VP of development at Lightbox in LA, with Suzanne Lavery upped to become SVP of unscripted at the Simon Chinn and Jonathan Chinn-founded prodco’s London office. Reporting into creative director […]

WarnerMedia’s TBS adapts South Korean social media format for US

WarnerMedia’s US cable network TBS is preparing to launch a local version of a South Korean talent format, with the exec who took The Masked Singer to America attached as exec producer. Celebrity Show-Off is based on MBC’s format My Little Television, which follows contestants as they attempt to claim the highest number of views […]

BET greenlights ‘Copwatch America’ from Renowned Films, Critical Content

Viacom’s BET has commissioned 10-part docu-series Copwatch America from London-LA based prodco Renowned Films and Critical Content. Copwatch America is a high-stakes, controversial dive into the men and women on the front lines fighting police brutality and injustice. This character-centric series gives viewers exclusive access to America’s fearless and distinct copwatch crews across two US […]

Critical Content acquires T Group Productions

Global content studio Critical Content has acquired Jenny Daly’s T Group Productions. T Group, which recently acquired digital house Big Boots Studio and established its own studio T Group Media, will now be rolled into Critical Content Studios, where Daly will become president. As president Daly will oversee the combined management and production slates for […]

Endemol Shine NA taps Critical Content’s Brad Carr

Endemol Shine North America has named veteran studio exec Brad Carr as its senior VP of production. Carr joins Endemol Shine from Critical Content (fka Relativity Television), where he served as senior VP of production on titles such as Home Free (Fox), Trisha’s Southern Kitchen (Food Network) and Lowe Files (A+E). At Endemol Shine he will lead […]

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