Twofour Broadcast’s managing director Melanie Leach will lead the merged Twofour Broadcast-Boom Pictures group, which is hiving off its digital arm into a standalone company. Following Twofour’s merger with Boom last year, the entity has rebranded as Twofour Group, with Leach taking the role of CEO. She will oversee the consolidation of Boom and Twofour, […]
Brazilian satellite channels operator Globosat has bought Urban Secrets, a UK-produced series in which actor Alan Cumming explores the hidden pasts of Britain’s cities. The TwoFour-created travelogue show first broadcast on satcaster Sky Atlantic, and has since sold to the likes of SBS in Australia. Globosat has now acquired it along with doc Home of […]
Twofour rights is bring Alex Polizzi to Cannes to promote its fact-ent series The Hotel Inspector. A year after launch, Anthony Hughes, Twofour Rights’ commercial director says the UK indie’s decision to move into distribution is paying off. “We were doing the math and could see 30% of international sales going into the P+L of […]
The UK’s ITV has commissioned a 2x60mins series in which Prince Harry and wounded servicemen and women will tackle the South Pole, with NBC broadcasting a US version. Harry’s South Pole Heroes will see the British royal and a team of soldiers with life-changing injuries attempt to walk the 335km (208 miles) to Antartica’s South […]
